Vol. 65, No. 12 • Monday, Feb. 13, 2012

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SHE MADE IT TO HOLLYWOOD:WILL HER STAR KEEP RISING?Palomar student Kristi Krause tore up her American Idol auditions... but what will she do next?

HOW TO MAKE YOUR IDOL DEBUT

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“Make sure to stay true to yourself, always. I’ve always told myself know who you are in the beginning and stay that same person. Of course your going to gain knowledge and experience but always remain true to yourself, it’s probably one of the biggest things. I went into it know what kind of style I sing and who I am as a person, but was a long for the ride. So I would say if you’re going to American Idol and you end up getting far, but have fun with it.”

“I’d say work hard, because I don’t think some people realize what they’re getting themselves into when they try out for American Idol. You have to work your butt off. It is the hardest but the quickest way to get noticed in the music business. Always remember if your going to try out for a show and go that route, you have to work at it not just let it come to you. But that goes for dreams just in general, if you want something that bad you have to work at it. “

“Practice, practice until you have everything down. Practice in front of your family, friends, dog, anyone you can. Try to get any experience on stage and in front of people before you go in front of the judges. If you get too nervous, you could blow the whole thing. Have confidence in yourself, because when you’re on the stage the judges don’t want to see that you’re nervous they want to see that you’re ready to sing and do your best.”

KELLI MILLERTHE TELESCOPE

Kristi Krause may appear to be an ordinary college freshman, but there are two things setting her apart from her Palomar peers; a powerful voice and a golden ticket to Hollywood.

The 18-year-old Rancho Ber-nardo native will take part on Fox’s 11th season of American Idol.

Krause sang Ella Fitzgerald’s “Summer Time” and received the so-called “golden ticket” to move on to the Hollywood round of audi-tions from judges Jennifer Lopez, Randy Jackson and Steven Tyler during the preliminary San Diego auditions.

“Being in front of the judges was an experience of a lifetime,” Krause said. “But when I got that ticket, I was even more excited!”

The second round of auditions takes place in Hollywood and con-sists of an intense week-long round of various solo and group auditions in front of the same three judges.

Krause previously auditioned for American Idol in 2010, but was cut shortly into the second round of auditions in Hollywood. This season, Krause made it into Holly-wood week again.

“This year is definitely better than last time, I had fewer nerves inside me than last year,” Krause said. “Of course you’re going to get some butterflies but overall I was just ready this time, ready to show the judges my song and what I’ve got.”

Krause obviously made enough of an impact on the judges to join the 300 other contestants in Holly-wood for further auditions.

TURN TO IDOL ON PAgE 7

DAvID LEONARDTHE TELESCOPE

Palomar’s budgetary nightmare isn’t likely to end soon, administra-tors said at a special meeting on Feb. 3.

The college could sustain the deepest cuts yet over the next two years if a tax-hike plan put forward by Calif. Gov. Jerry Brown fails to gain wide support, Palomar Presi-dent Robert Deegan told a group of faculty members, administrators and classified staffers.

Nearly $5 million in promised money could be slashed from the college budget over the next two semesters if voters defeat Brown’s tax plan in November. The tax measure calls for a statewide half-cent sales tax increase and a boost in income taxes for households taking in over $250,000.

TURN TO BUDgET ON PAgE 7

IAN HANNERTHE TELESCOPE

Palomar will host a seminar on the ideals of the Occupy Move-ment and how it relates to youth and students.

The meeting is slated for 2 p.m. on Feb. 28 in MD-157 and will be led by Palomar professor Philip de Barros. De Barros will be joined by guest speakers Eva David, Occupy San Diego organizer, and William Leslie, part-time philosophy pro-fessor. “This is an attempt to get people to openly discuss the move-ment,” de Barros said.

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DIRECTION First audition at PETCO Park in front of Idol producers and 10,000 people

Two more auditions in front of Idol producers and head man Nigel Lythgoe

Auditions continue in Hollywood for a week-long process including group and solo auditions.

Kristi’s San Diego audition airs on Fox on Jan. 22. Recieves “golden ticket” to continue on to the Hollywood round.

Hollywood Week auditions air Feb. 8, 9, 15 and 16 on Fox. Kristi’s fate is decided on air.

Two days of auditions, one taped, before Idol executive producers and eventually Idol celebrity judges aboard the U.S.S. Midway in San Diego Harbor.

2 • NEWS Monday, Feb. 13, 2012

THIS WEEK INSTUDENT GOVERNMENTBY JOEL RAMOS

ASG AllocAteS $400 for BlAck HiStory MontH event

The Associated Student Government voted to approve $400 for the Black Student Union Black History Month 80s and 90s themed cel-ebration, which will take place Feb. 16.

Money for the event was allocated out of the ASG’s Monetary Request Fund which before the motion was passed had $7,700. BSU President Evan Wells said that the mon-ey would be used to cover the cost of food ($200) for those in attendance and for T-shirts ($200).

During open discussion of the motion Sen. Sina Azartash asked how much money had already been granted to BSU in the past fiscal year, Sen. Rocky Brady, who is also the ASG financial liaison, said the club has already re-ceived $1,200 for a canopy as well as $60 for a banner and gifts for the talent show the club co-sponsored in the Fall of 2011 with X-treme Talent, a break dancing club at Palomar.

“This is going to go a long way and this event will help support the diversity on campus here at Palomar,” Sen. Greg Torres said during his Inter-Club Council Chairper-son’s report regarding the club’s activity at Palomar.

The expected turnout for the Black His-tory Month celebration is 50 to 60 students, according to President Wells. After further discussion the board voted unanimously to allocate the $400.

“I think it is money well spent,” Sen. Az-artash said.

The Architecture Club at Palomar request-ed $450 from the Associated Student Govern-ment at the Feb. 1 meeting for its trip to Palm Springs at the end of the month.

Architecture Club President Andrew Sadera said the money would be used for transportation to and from Palm Springs. The trip will take place on Feb. 25 during Palm Spring’s Modernism Week. Students interested in going may buy tickets for $10 at the club’s regularly scheduled meetings 11 a.m. Thursdays in Room IT-3.

During the open discussion, Sen. Rocky Brady asked President Sadera how many students he was expecting to go on the trip. The club has only 10 core members according to President Sadera, but at past Architecture Club events Sadera said they have maxed-out room occupancies.

“We’re still relatively a new club and we have kind of a low morale. We think this trip will bring folks more together,” President Sadera said. “We open the invitation (to the trip) to all architecture classes as well as inte-rior design classes.”

Before the vote took place. Sen. Greg Tor-res suggested that the club could make good use of the money.

“The Architecture Club has been extreme-ly active this semester, thus far,” Sen. Greg Torres, and Inter-Club Council Chairperson, said during his ICC Report. “It is my recom-mendation that the ASG support this trip as to how this may bolster the club’s member-ship as well as morale.”

At the end of discussion the board voted unanimously to grant up to $450 for their field trip.

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APRIL TESTERMANTHE TELESCOPE

Construction on Palomar’s new planetarium, two years in the making, is finally winding down with the announcement of its grand opening on March 9, followed by its opening to the general public on March 16.

The former planetarium was built in 1965 and served Palo-mar for 43 years before being demolished to make way for the new MD building. For a long time it was the only planetari-um in North County, serving the county’s K-12 school children in addition to the public.

Astronomy professors Mark Lane and Jim Pesavento began meeting with architects and consultants in 2007.

“We outlined what we en-visioned the new planetarium should be - a jewel for the cam-pus that would attract visitors from the community, and a place where we could educate the people about the wonders of our universe using excit-ing, immersive, digital dis-plays,” Lane wrote in his con-struction blog.

The administration broke ground on May 26, 2010. The planetarium, including its state-of-the-art equipment, cost about $8 million. All funds were provided by the money from Prop M.

“The equipment ranges from audio (speakers, amplifiers, etc.) to presentation control equipment,” Lane wrote.

In the weeks approaching

the opening, workers will be focusing on a “punch list”, or a concise compilation of minor issues the building needs fixed, such as any electrical work.

When guests walk in, they will be greeted by displays in the lobby. The theater however, is the main attraction. Seating up to 142 people, guests can learn about astronomy. The theater provides live as well as recorded footage of the night sky. After each showing, visitors have the option of “stargazing” through telescopes set up by the plan-etarium staff.

“It draws people to the cam-pus who want to learn more about astronomy; our role is to be a community presence and the planetarium is our con-nection to the community,” Lane said.

The building and the revenue it generates are considered to be non-profit, meaning the money made will be purely enough to maintain the planetarium and won’t be making anyone rich-er. The funds generated by the small admission fee will be used for maintenance, equipment and the purchasing of the films presented in the theater.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays the planetarium will be re-served for classroom field trips. The planetarium will be open to the general public every Friday evening for around $7. Student, military, and senior citizen dis-counts will be given.

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APRIL TESTERMANTHE TELESCOPE

On Jan. 23, the U.S. Supreme Court unani-mously ruled that it is a violation of the Fourth Amendment to place a GPS tracker on a vehicle without first obtaining a search warrant.

The results of this decision don’t exactly set a precedent, nor do they affect the average per-son, but according to Palomar political science professor Joseph Limer, it may affect the way the government and law enforcement handle certain cases, especially those dealing with technology.

“We want to be more public with who we are,” Limer said. “But the consequences are lowered ex-pectations of privacy.”

The test case was Antoine Jones, who was sus-pected of drug trafficking and sentenced to life in prison based on evidence obtained through a GPS tracker. Police had placed an unwarranted GPS device on a car registered to Jones’ wife. The gov-ernment initially obtained a search warrant that permitted the police to place a GPS device on the vehicle within 10 days in the District of Columbia, but it had been placed on the 11th day in Mary-land. The vehicle was then tracked for an addi-tional 28 days.

The Fourth Amendment states that it is “the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” Any evidence obtained without a warrant may not be used in court, even if it would lead to a conviction.

To try to avoid a violation, the district court had omitted data retrieved from the device while the vehicle was parked at the Jones’ residence. However, data obtained while the vehicle was on public streets was deemed applicable. Despite the evidence, Jones’ conviction was overturned.

Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, Antonin Scalia wrote the opinion of the Court published on Jan. 23.

“It is important to be clear about what occurred in this case: The government physically occupied private property for the purpose of obtaining in-formation,” Scalia wrote. “We have no doubt that such a physical intrusion would have been consid-ered a ‘search’ within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment when it was adopted.”

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New planetarium to open in March

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VOICES OF REASON

President Obama is right to put more pressure on colleges and universities as well as the states to make a college education more af-fordable.

A nation that keeps telling its children they need more than a high school diploma to succeed in this increasingly high-tech world shouldn’t make it so hard for them to pay for college.

Obama wants to boost the Per-kins federal loan program from $1 billion to $8 billion and change the formula for how the money is distributed. Colleges that fail to reduce costs will lose federal aid, an aggressive incentive for the schools to find practical ways to reduce the cost of an education.

The president’s plan also calls for a $1 billion grant competition that would reward states that keep college costs down. An ad-ditional $55 million would be ear-marked to help colleges find ways to increase their productivity.

The plan, which was well re-ceived by students at the Univer-sity of Michigan, where Obama outlined the proposal in a speech last week, would reduce some student-loan interest rates, which have increased in recent years. It would also provide more work-study opportunities for students who need jobs to help them pay their college expenses.

Obama’s approach will go a long way toward helping students from low-income families who value a college education but lack the financial resources to make it a reality. The sticker price of a col-lege education, and the likelihood of being in debt for years, discour-ages many students from going to college. It is a major reason others never finish.

Under Obama’s plan, col-leges will be required to create a “scorecard” that provides infor-mation about a school’s cost, its graduation rates, and the likely future earnings of its graduates. That type of practical information can help students make more in-formed decisions about which col-lege to attend.

Important details, including exactly how Obama expects to pay for the plan when Congress is cutting spending, haven’t been re-vealed. The proposal drew a tepid response from Republicans op-posed to any new spending.

Colleges and universities have also expressed misgivings about some parts of the plan while ac-knowledging the value of others. Obama put them on notice that raising tuition can’t be the sole an-swer to meeting their budgets. But with 40 states cutting education funding last year, he knows the schools need more help.

It shouldn’t be so hard for the state legislatures or Congress to understand how much harm they are doing by failing to adequately fund education. They need to keep in mind the price tag for a poorly educated generation.

MCT CAMPuS

Petition pushes for free tuition at California universities

GIO NIETOThE TELESCoPE

The rising cost for college is prohibiting college students from getting their degrees.

Imagine attending a CSU or a UC for free.

Students from Oakland High School and Life Academy High School are spearheading a ballot initiative that would remove tu-ition and fees at Universities of California and California State Universities.

The students formed College for California to try to make col-lege degrees more affordable to undergraduates. This ballot initiative has come at the per-fect time for college students in California, because in the past five years UC fees were raised by $5,700 and UCU fees were in-creased by $2,900 according to collegeforcalifornia.org.

These students have received approval from the state of Cali-fornia to begin gathering signa-tures for their proposal.

If this initiative gets on the ballot, it would insist on elimi-nating tuition and fees for all California residents who are full-time students at the UC and CSU schools if they meet certain conditions.

The initiative would allocate new revenue to pay up to four years of tuition and fees for full-

time, undergraduate residents who maintain a minimum 2.7 GPA or perform 70 hours of an-nual community service.

But this initiative would be funded by increasing the state income tax rate from 9.3 percent to 10 percent for individuals making over $250,000 and to 11 percent for individuals making greater than $500,000.

The full text on the initiative is at www.collegeforcalifornia.org.

College for California is try-ing to get voters to sign their petition for free tuition. They believe the key to a stronger fu-ture for individuals and for the overall economy is education.

And it is.Highly-educated workers

are more likely to be employed and have higher incomes than less educated workers, thus the more educated workers will pay more in taxes.

The Public Policy Institute of California estimates that by 2025 there will be a deficit of a million college-educated work-ers in California. The only way to prove this wrong is if the state is able to substantially increase rates of college enrollment and increase the rate of graduation.

In spite of the obvious need for more educated workers, Cal-ifornia’s students are finding it difficult to afford college at all,

let alone higher fees.Passing this initiative would

substantially increase access to college for the younger genera-tion. This idea of free tuition, under certain conditions, will restore our economy.

Only California voters are eli-gible to sign the College for Cali-fornia petition. College for Cali-fornia needs to reach a total of more than 800,000 signature to put this initiative on this year’s ballot.

Students, teachers and Cali-fornians should read this pro-posal the students of Oakland High School and life Academy High School are trying to pass, because it can change the way we live in California.

Although the economy is slowly getting better and the unemployment rate is drop-ping slowly, California has the highest unemployment rate in the nation. California is worse off than all of the other states. Voting makes all the difference, so please consider going to the College for California website, print the petition, sign it and then send it in. Also, encourage friends and relatives to print and sign the petition for the good of us all.

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A man stands with empty pockets and no money in sight. Students say they can relate. • Photo illustration courtesy wordpress.com

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Yes, we all know ‘that’ kid

There is one in every class. You know the kind; when he or she starts speaking the whole class groans, and even the teacher’s face starts to show signs of exas-peration. Yes, we mean “that” kid.

“That” kid asks so many ques-tions and speaks so much that the teacher almost never gets through all the planned material for the class. He or she ask about 6 mil-lion questions, regardless of the fact that it is the same subject that the class has been covering for the last 20 minutes.

Usually, each class only has one “that” kid, but sometimes we get really lucky and there are two or three. We get to watch as all of them compete to ask their press-ing questions. The best part about that is, “that” kid is usually pretty quick to answer everyone else’s questions - completed by their in-terruption of the actual teacher’s explanation.

They never miss a class, even when deathly ill. They always ar-rive 30 minutes early. They sit in the front row. The professor knows their name by the second week of class. Usually, they’re the cause of the class having to stay the entire amount of class time.

Every once in a while, they do something that takes the title of “that” kid to a whole new level. The entire class subsequently looks around with exasperated expressions that say, “Is this dude serious right now?”

We all know that we’re not go-ing to change “that” kid; in fact, we don’t want to change any of them. They are our source for en-tertainment at times when class is less than entertaining. The next time “that” kid speaks up in class, think of us and you will probably laugh a little bit longer.

*The notes for this week’s col-umn were actually taken during our classes while we were observ-ing “that” kid in action.*

4 • OPINION Monday, Feb. 13, 2012

Internet pirates wage war against

Mike Peterson THE TELESCOPE

In our age of free, accessible informa-tion, Internet piracy is a controversial subject.

It’s mostly troubling to record labels and other forms of big, media-owning business-es, who have declared a “War on Piracy,” seeking to stamp out illegal distribution of their copyrighted material.

However these big businesses, along with the federal government, have resorted to measures that are on the drastic side.

This “War on Piracy” culminated in the creation of two bills, SOPA (Stop On-line Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act), that sought to put an end to the massive amounts of money that Hollywood was los-ing due to Internet piracy.

Eventually, these two bills quickly be-came subject to a lot of media exposure be-

fore there was to be a vote on them.Protests organized by popular sites such

as Google and Craigslist influenced nega-tive support to SOPA and PIPA. Countless numbers of people saw the bills as a gate-way to censoring the Internet.

What became known globally as SOPA Protest Day became the largest digital pro-test ever orchestrated.

After hearing the cries of thousands, Congress decided to delay the voting on both of these bills. By sheer force of will, In-ternet activists everywhere achieved their first major victory: halting SOPA and PIPA in their tracks.

However, directly after Congress decid-ed to put a hold on these bills, the federal government cracked down on Megaupload, a massively popular, file-sharing site, seiz-ing the domain on grounds of “Conspiracy to Commit Racketeering” and “Conspiracy to Commit Money Laundering,” among other charges, according to a government notice posted on the site itself.

Since then, several other sites have ei-ther been taken down or asked to remove

all copyrighted content.Clearly Congress had no need to push

so hard for anti-piracy bills when the fed-eral government already has the power to seize sites in violation of copyright infringe-ment laws. It paints not only Congress, but the entertainment industry as a whole, in a bad light.

In fact, these recent actions may even help to foster sympathy toward file-sharing sites and hacker groups among Internet users.

Many people were upset about the sei-zure of Megaupload. One particular organi-zation, a group of hackers and Internet ac-tivists called “Anonymous,” expressed their disapproval of the act by shutting down the FBI and Justice Department websites for several hours.

The website for Universal Music Group, one of the largest multi-national music companies and one of the “Big Four” record labels, was also shut down, according to a message sent out by members of Anony-mous themselves.

While trying to make an example out of

Megaupload, Anonymous made an exam-ple of the FBI and Justice Department. The message stated was clear: there are a lot of powerful people out there who don’t want to see the end to freedom on the Internet.

Whether you agree with their motives or not, Anonymous and their supporters do have a point.

On one side, piracy is by no means an acceptable way to obtain copyrighted ma-terial. On the other side, a complete eradi-cation of piracy is next to impossible in an Internet model as free as our own.

In fact, it’s beginning to seem like the only way to end Internet piracy is to begin implementing laws that do censor parts of the Internet. And to Internet users, censor-ship is something that is more unacceptable than piracy.

In the end, if the entertainment industry wants to eradicate Internet piracy without upsetting Internet users everywhere, it is going to have to rethink its strategy.

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new professors needed to keep up with student demandJessiCA BrooksTHE TELESCOPE

Palomar needs to increase the number of faculty, with more fo-cus on recruiting young professors with new methods of teaching.

One of Palomar Administra-tion’s many goals is to recruit and hire a faculty and staff that meet the needs of current and future students. According to a Palo-mar’s fact book in 2009-10, there were 283 full-time faculty staff members and 861 part-time staff members at Palomar.

Staff and faculty must have been overwhelmed at the num-

ber of students enrolled in lecture courses.

According to american-school-search.com, Palomar has 46 per-cent student retention rate. To add more to this statistic, on the same website it says that the student to faculty ratio at Palomar is 51 to 1.

There is a need for more teach-ers in order to improve focus on students’ individual needs. A high student to teacher ratio mean less focus on the students.

Palomar enrolls approximately 30,000 full-time and part-time students. With that said, only 227 students transferred to UC schools, and only 770 students

transferred to a CSU in 2009 ac-cording, to California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office.

Students ultimately have rated Palomar’s current active profes-sors an average of 3.45 out of 5.0 on ratemyprofessor.com.

The number of full-time faculty aged 50 years old and over contin-ues to increase as the years pass. Of the 283 full-time faculty in Fall 2009, 65 percent were well over 50 years old, according to the Palo-mar Community College District Staffing Master Plan 2016.

Hiring a young staff and faculty at Palomar may create an affinity between teachers and students; that can improve transfer rates and graduation rates as well. New teaching techniques from a young faculty may also increase the like-lihood that students will attend class regularly.

Based on the method of teach-ing, some teachers still haven’t adapted to Palomar’s online re-source for student-teacher com-munication called Blackboard. Blackboard is essential to the stu-dents’ grades. However, the ma-jority of Palomar’s staff and fac-ulty are still older.

Palomar is an affordable com-munity college. Students should advocate for more faculty to be recruited and hired at Palo-mar in order to sustain the high success rate.

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The official seals for the Department of justice and the national Intellectual Property rights Coordination Center appear on megaupload.com’s homepage along with a list of the official charges the website faces concerning copyright infrigment, racketeering and money laundering. Courtesy of megaupload.com.

An elderly professor gives a lecture to a class. Statistics show 65 percent of full time professors are older than 50. • Photo courtesy of bkmarcus.com

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Editorial Cartoon by Dylan Horrocks. • Courtesy of commons.wikimedia.org

Johnny Cupcakes brand draws a sweet crowd

Emma maliszEwski THE TELESCOPE

John Earle, of the iconic Johnny Cupcakes brand, shared his recipe for success at Palomar Col-lege recently.

Earle’s lecture at Palomar specifically focused on his creative approach to starting a business with little to no start-up money or resources. He also gave advice on how to utilize the web and retail space to their full potential. He stressed the importance of art, graphic design and creative packaging, all of which were detail-oriented aspects that have given his brand longevity for over 10 years.

The audience consisted of Palomar students, teach-ers and followers of the brand who came from as far as Fontana, Calif. to see him. “There were 200 people who signed in, plus additional attendees who didn’t sign in,” Lillian Payn academic technology coordina-tor said in an email. “Besides the MD-157 auditorium where Johnny Earle spoke, which filled immediately, we had four overflow rooms that transmitted a simul-taneous webcast of Johnny’s presentation.”

After the three-hour lecture on Feb. 1, Earle spent an additional three hours on campus answering questions, talking to students, taking pictures and selling t-shirts.

“He really puts a face to the message, to keep work-ing hard and doing what you love,” fashion student Ursula Vernis said.

At only 29 years old, Earle has already made a name for himself within the industry.

“I have used Johnny Cupcakes as a case study for years in my graphics classes,” Payn said. “The stu-dents identify with his youth, so they are open to listening to his inspirational and entertaining mes-sage as to how to be successful in their business and career goals.”

Named America’s No. 1 Young Entrepreneur of 2008 by Business Week magazine, Earle has inspired audiences all over the world with his business model, “Do what you love and the financial success will follow.”

“John is inspiring, he proves you can do it, too,” fashion student Kelsey Winslow said.

Earle’s goal to create a “unique experience” is the combination of many small elements that all tie into his overall theme. His stores are referred to as baker-ies, they are designed to look like kitchens and the clothes are displayed like pastries.

It’s this kind of creativity that enabled the Johnny Cupcakes brand to thrive without any form of tradi-tional advertising, Earle told the group.

“When something is different and worth talking about, word of mouth spreads and your customers become your brand ambassadors,” Earle said.

Another important aspect of the Johnny Cupcakes brand is its exclusivity. The Johnny Cupcakes brand apparel is only sold at the four Earle’s stores or online. Additionally Earle only prints a few hundred of each design, and then retires the shirt completely, making each item a collector’s piece.

“People want what they don’t think everyone else has,” Earle said.

Earle’s lecture proved to be priceless advice for students trying to get into the fashion in-dustry. Graphic design student Daniel Perez is a faithful Johnny Cupcakes fan.

“As someone who is trying to start a clothing line, I found his insight helpful and inter-esting, he’s a really dope guy,” Perez said.

Earle showed entrepreneur-ial skills at an early age. Be-ing raised in Massachusetts by unhappy, full-time, working parents, Earle said he swore to never find himself in such a fate. Starting off with the quint-essential lemonade stand, the business-savvy youngster then went on to sell whoopee cush-ions, inching powder and candy to his fellow classmates.

According to INC 500, John-ny Cupcakes produced $4 mil-lion in revenue in 2010.

In high school, Earle had an internship with a screen print-ing store and learned to make shirts for his friends and band mates. While working at New-bury Comics, Earle wore a t-shirt with nickname Johnny Cupcakes on it.

After the outpouring of positive feedback, Earle never stopped making the beloved designs and strives everyday to find new ways to “re-invent the t-shirt.”

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STEPHEN KECKTHE TELESCOPE

Local mountain temperatures are heating up, sending snow-boarders elsewhere.

With the worst mountain weather conditions California has seen in recent years, ski resorts are open, but many Palomar students are turn-ing to local skate parks and beaches to get their extreme sport fix.

Mountain High resort in Wrightwood, Calif. is a com-mon destination for many Palomar students. But due to warmer temperatures, Wrightwood has only re-ceived about 18 inches of snow compared to last year’s 70 inches, according to wrightwoodweather.com.

“Personally, I would rather go surfing right now than snowboarding,” student Keenan Murray said.

Palomar student Natalie Viescas has been riding her bike all winter to get exercise while she patiently waits for the snow to make its way onto local mountains.

Other students said they are more eager to spend their money on a movie ticket than a lift ticket right now.

“Gas is expensive, and the snow is no good so why waste the money with these conditions be-

ing how they are?” student Chase Sessions said.

Even with the horrible condi-tions some are still hopeful.

Many are anticipating the

snowfall that traditionally arrives along with it. Mt. High employee Sandy Backs said she is trying to

stay positive.“It’s been great for the weath-

er pattern that’s been given,” Backs said. “But the crowd this season is small; everyone is go-

ing to the beach. It has been too hot.”

Backs added that in the morning the snow is groomed and packed hard, and throughout the day it loosens up due to riders on the mountain. That loose snow melts during the day and freez-es again at night, causing ice on the slopes.

Ice is the worst thing any rider can run into because the edges of the board don’t cut into it, causing a rider to slip and fall.

With ice on the slopes, any man-made snow blown over it does not stick to the ground be-cause the ice is too cold. Once the snow touches the ice, it instantly ices over again.

“When the weather decides to act like it has recently, the only people you find on the moun-tain are the beginners

that don’t know any bet-ter than to wait for better

conditions,” Murray said.

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LEXY PEREZTHE TELESCOPE

If you are dedicated to get-ting in shape this year, but bored with typical gym machines and classes, there is a new fitness craze that promises anyone can “dance their way to fitness:”

Zumba.Whether you’ve heard people

raving about it or you saw the word on the gym schedule, Zum-ba is popping up everywhere.

The obsession has struck a chord with people of all ages, in-cluding Palomar students.

“I tried Zumba because I love dancing, music and fitness, and it seemed to combine everything I liked...Zumba is most definitely a dance party,” said Palomar stu-dent Taylor Pinegar.

What was described as a “happy accident” to Zumba in-structors, the dance craze began 10 years ago, when a Colombian aerobics instructor Beto Perez realized he forgot the usual music he intended to teach his students. Having only Salsa and Merengue tapes in his backpack, Perez improvised and urged his class to “let the music move their bodies,” according to Zumba.com.

Hence, the start of a new way to exercise.

Perez dedicated himself to making his idea popular world-wide. With help from his moth-er, Perez brought the new fitness class to Miami. Then Zumba began to hit the scene with a myriad of infomercials and ex-ercise DVDs.

“Zumba is like a whole new level; everyone is in such a good mood and you’re basically just there to have fun,” Palomar dance student Jocelyn Medina said, talking about her experi-ence with Zumba after being en-couraged by her dance teacher to

try something different.Three years ago, instructor

Cindy Chavez, 33, was a nor-mal student in love with danc-ing. After being encouraged by her friend, Chavez finally took a Zumba class.

“I took my first Zumba class and immediately fell in love with the music,” Chavez said. “I took it for a year, and then became ad-dicted. I had to go everyday.”

Realizing her new passion, Chavez decided to become an in-structor. Signing up on Zumba.com and participating in a certi-fication workshop for 10 hours, Chavez became officially certi-fied in 2010.

Now after teaching for a year and a half at Chuze Fitness in Es-condido and 24 Hour Fitness in San Marcos and Vista, Chavez finds great joy in teaching and loves how an increasing num-ber of people find the same joy as she has.

“I love it when I see new, first-time students and they’re just smiling ear to ear even when they don’t know what they’re do-ing, but they’re moving and hav-ing fun,” Chavez said.

The all-over body workout combines different styles of dances, ranging from salsa, Me-rengue, cumbia, hip hop and even belly dancing.

“There are a lot of people that don’t like the gym or exercising, but Zumba makes you forget that you’re even working out,” Pin-egar said.

Although Zumba is exercise based on combining dancing and fitness, you don’t have to be a good dancer to participate.

“Nobody is watching you. It’s not a dance class,” Chavez said. “Just move however makes you feel natural and like you’re get-ting a good workout. It’s okay to laugh at yourself.”

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NEWS • 7the telescope

“The day of reckoning is coming,” Deegan said. “We’ve got to plan for that now.”

A multi-million-dollar cut could force administrators to cancel up to 350 sec-tions in Spring 2013 to save $1 million, Deegan said. Schedule reductions prob-ably wouldn’t be that dramatic in just one semester, he said.

College administrators said they’re al-ready struggling to make ends meet this semester after more than $2.5 million was cut from Palomar’s budget in Decem-ber. The cuts were triggered under a plan passed by the legislature last year that required massive chunks of education spending be eliminated if revenue targets weren’t met.

The college’s interim vice president of finances Joe Newmyer, said administra-tors were readying new and old budget-ary acrobatics to keep Palomar bank ac-counts in the black.

A “stricter” hiring freeze would be in-stituted for all positions the law didn’t re-quire be filled, he said, and discretionary funds--used to pay for office supplies and minor expenses--would see deeper cuts.

At least 96 positions remain vacant as of this semester, including a deficit of 33 professors and 46 classified staff mem-bers, according to college documents. That represents the leanest Palomar workforce in memory, Newmyer said.

One plan put forward by Newmyer would have revenues from parking tick-ets written by campus police officers dumped directly into the general fund, which pays for a range of things includ-ing staffing and maintenance. Those tick-

et funds are currently used by the police department for upgrades to equipment and by the facilities department for park-ing-lot upkeep.

“Next year is going to be tough even if the revenue stays the same,” Newmyer said. “And if there’s a cut, it’s going to be tougher.”

Shannon Lienhart, president of the Palomar faculty union, said the college had long complained of tight budgets and asked for spending cuts, even in good times.

“I have been doing this for many years, and I never remember them coming in and saying we’re in pretty good shape,” Lienhart said. “I take all of this with a little bit of a grain of salt.”

Still, if big cuts are on the horizon, Lienhart said top administrators should take hits to their pay and benefits before rank-and-file staff members.

“If cuts have to be made, then we are committed to making sure those cuts get shared fairly and equally across the board,” Lienhart said.

In an odd twist, Deegan said the col-lege may have an unlikely benefactor that could help staunch the fiscal wound: so-cial networking giant Facebook.

The Silicon Valley company, a thorn in the side of many professors wor-ried about students tuning out during lectures, is expected to sell $5 billion in stock, generating new tax revenues for the state. dleonard@the-telescope.com @davidleonardii

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A power outage shuttered multiple buildings on Palomar’s San Marcos campus Feb. 6.

Lights went dark across the campus about 3:15 p.m. after an underground utility line was dam-aged, according to Kelley Hudson-MacIssac, col-lege facilities director.

The college’s emergency plan was in effect, she said, and administrators were called in to the presi-dent’s office to discuss the situation.

Power was restored at 4:25 p.m. after San Di-ego Gas & Electric Company employees were dis-patched to look into the campus-wide failure.

Had power not been reestablished, the college’s Informacast system would have called out through the schools phone with information and night class cancellations, according to Laura Gropen, Palomar spokeswoman. The system was designed to run separately from the main power grid and stay up in the event of a blackout.

Judy Carter, interim dean for social and behav-ioral sciences, was checking elevators and class-

rooms in the Multi-Disciplinary to ensure students and staff weren’t trapped inside.

She said her primary job was to “make sure there’s nobody screaming in the elevator.”

Hudson said a power outage could wreck havoc on college systems.

Computers would have to be shut off by techni-cians before their battery back-up systems ran out of power, potentially causing file system errors, Hudson said.

A Snack Shack employee who didn’t give her name turned students away and said the store was closed due to the power outage. The employee said she was giving change to a customer when the pow-er went out.

The library was closed and evacuated within 15 minutes of the outage.

Palomar student Daniel May, a former Telescope photographer, said he called friends in Escondido to find out if the power outage extended outside Palomar’s campus. Escondido was unaffected.

According to Gropen, however, certain areas of San Marcos were also affected by the outage.

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electrical failure leaves campus in the dark “The judges were lovely, even

more so in person, and they really liked the fact that I had a bluesy, soulful sound,” Krause said. “They said I need to stick with the jazzy tone of my voice.”

If it turns out that American Idol is once again not in the cards for Krause, she says that music al-ways will be.

“I’m going to continue play-ing shows locally and work on my CD,” Krause said. “I really want to focus more on writing my own music.”

Krause, who plays the guitar and piano is working towards completing her first CD. She also sings at numerous coffee shops and hotels in the San Diego area as well as performing in school musicals and at local events.

Krause even wrote a song for murdered teenager, Chelsea King.

“My dad has always told me to find a way to make your music have a purpose, and it can help others,” Krause said. “I never knew Chelsea, but I got the inspi-ration and sat down on my piano and wrote the song.”

Krause’s song “Angel Forever”

was played locally over the radio, and eventually caught the ears of King’s parents who asked Krause to perform the song at a 5K run in honor of their daughter and their charity, the Chelsea’s Light Foun-dation, in 2010.

“It’s great experiencing what a song can do for others that has an actual purpose,” Krause said.

Krause started singing at the age of four and hasn’t stopped yet; even with a major health con-dition she eagerly has continued to follow her dreams.

Krause was diagnosed at an early age with a mild case of To-urette’s, but with her family’s sup-port and a love of music, she re-mains positive.

“Through music, I was able to escape all of the hardships I was going through,” Krause said. “When I’m on stage my Tourette’s goes away, and I want to inspire others that it’s okay to be differ-ent; it’s actually a good thing.”

To learn more about Kristi Krause, visit her webpage at kris-tikrause.net.

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Fri., Feb. 17Softball

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Sat., Feb. 18Baseball

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Tue., Feb. 21Men’s Tennis

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PALOMAR HOSTS FIVE MATCHES ON FEB. 3TOP: Rhett Turvey of Palomar men’s swim team at the Waterman Festival Pentathlon.• Kristen Campbell/Telescope. MIDDLE LEFT: Palomar baseball player Julian Esquibel throws the season opener, pitching the first six innings against Santa Ana at Myers Field. • Deb Hellman/Telescope. BOTTOM LEFT: Men’s basketball player Drew Allen shoots the ball while being defended by San Diego City College’s Kyle Anderson at the Dome. • Russell White/Telescope. BOTTOM RIGHT: Palomar point guard Mariah Bennett is fouled by an Imperial Valley defender at the Dome. • Russell White/Telescope. MIDDLE RIGHT: Palomar softball player Raea Tanielu safely steals second base. • Deb Hellman/Telescope