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The Collegian
SERVING THE TARRANT COUNTY COLLEGE DISTRICT
Volume 16 • Issue 15
Wednesday, February 11,2004
Cafeterias plan
special menus
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PTK chapters seek aid in finding qualified membership
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PTK advisers
NE class teaches
African traditions
in music...pg. 6
......Rain
Cloudy/wind
Fri., Feb. 13.
Sat, Feb. 14
Community colleges
have earned
national respect...pg. 3
469/309
619/359
Partly cloudy
Partly cloudy
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Musical HONK!
opens season
on NW Campus...pg. 7
find them.”
Phi Theta Kappa is not a fra-
ternity; it is an international honor
their academic achievement.
. Students with a G.P.A. of 3.5
Sun., Feb. 15.
Mon., Feb. 16
629/389
449/379
in the last 12 hours of credit class-
es and an overall G.P.A. of 3.0 are
qualified to join.
Students must be currently en-
rolled for at least three credit
hours. Members say membership
looks great on any job or universi-
ty application.
Scholarships open only to
PTK members are the best reason
for students to join Phi Theta
Kappa, Blagg said.
Transfer scholarships are
available to more than 500 colleges
and universities.
“We are definitely going to
push the scholarships,” Blagg said.
“There is a lot out there.”
Plans on the NW Campus in-
clude flyers with an application on
the back available throughout the
campus.
Advisers hope to go through
the dean’s and honors list in an ef-
fort to find qualified students.
Hooters waitresses
fight society's
misconceptions...pg. 8
Mostly sunny
Partly cloudy
Wed., Feb. 11 ..... 449/299.
Thurs., Feb. 12 .... 419/259
Former TCC student
receives recognition
for first novel...pg. 5
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South Campus
Jean De Schweinitz
817-515-4752
NE Campus
Dee Dee Rodgers
817-515-6626
SE Campus
Robert McKizzie
817-515-3583
NW Campus
Lori Blagg
817-515-7236
rector of admissions and records,
said.
Jackson explained that work is
being done on the software, but
other more critical tasks such as
grades must take precedence over
PTK rosters.
“Hopefully sometime within
the next year,” Jackson said about
a roster time frame.
The software problem could
prove disastrous to the Phi Tau
Chapter of PTK on the NE Cam-
pus, PTK officers believe.
“It’s really going to hurt us,”
Lori Dickinson, NE chapter presi-
dent, said. “Our chapter has five-
star status, which is the highest
level of achievement a chapter can
make.”
Dickinson explained the chap-
ter has to increase membership by
10 percent above the previous year.
The old system provided the
chapter with up to 1,200 names of
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To join, students must submit
an application, an unofficial tran-
script and dues of $75.
An induction ceremony, while
not required, is a chance for recog-
nition of academic accomplish-
ments.
NE Campus orientation is
scheduled Thursday, Feb. 19, at 5
p.m. and Friday, Feb. 20, at 12:30
p.m. in the NSTU Center Comer.
NW Campus orientation is in
early March, but has no set date.
Induction is tentatively scheduled
for April 16.
Students'who believe they
qualify for PTK can contact their
campus adviser for more informa-
tion.
On South, call Jean De
Schweinitz at 817-515-4752, and
on NE call Dee Dee Rodgers at
817-515-6626. On NW call Lori
Blagg at 817-515-7236; on SE call
Robert McKizzie at 817-515-3583.
dents will have a real meal instead of junk
food from the vending machines.
“We’ll offer items like chicken sand-
wiches, burgers and cold sandwiches,” he
said.
Patricia Johnson, South Campus man-
ager, started in January.
“As of now, the only advertising we
have is our menu board located outside our
building,” she said.
Johnson said she plans to meet with
her director to discuss other marketing
ideas.
South will offer a Soul Food buffet
Tuesday, Feb. 19, for Black History
Month. The menu will include black-eyed
peas, hot wings, combread and other items
as well.
“We will also be holding an open
forum later in the semester for faculty and
students. We want people to come in and
tell us what kind of items and changes they
would like to see,” she said.
NE Campus cafeteria staff plans to ex-
pand its reach to students across the cam-
pus.
According to Derek Perkins, manager,
the staff will set up a short order station
across campus near the Academic Class-
room Building for students and faculty
who do not normally visit the cafeteria be-
cause of its location.
“We also want to set up a photo board.
We will go around and take pictures of stu-
dents in the cafe. When the students find
their picture on the board, they will get a
free lunch that day,” Perkins said.
According to Perkins, the board will
most likely start at the end of February.
Atkins-style meals will also be avail-
able near the end of February on NE to ac-
commodate people who are on low-carb
diets.
Other areas also may change in NE
Campus cafeteria, Perkins said.
“We do have some things we would
like to see done in the cafe,” he said, “We
would like to see the stations rearranged as
well as add more seating. I’d like the cafe
to look more like a bistro.”
Since ECI is still new on TCC cam-
puses, managers want to remind students
changes will be happening.
“All four campuses have not had their
grand opening yet,” Camper said.
Perkins added, “ We want people to
come in. We are a lot different from
Weber. We have better food and a friend-
lier atmosphere now.”
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students each semester.
Personal letters to each student
inviting them to join PTK were
sent out, and from this mailing
came an average of 200 interested
students.
The NE Campus chapter is
also in the top 100 chapters in the
world, and this status could also be
in jeopardy.
“We could lose our five-star
status,” Dickinson said. “We could
be kicked out of the top 100.”
Plans on NE include an-
nouncements by members in class
and cooperation from instructors.
The PTK adviser has sent let-
ters to the faculty to be read to the
classes.
Posters and flyers are being
posted along with an extraction of
names from the dean’s list.
“A lot of students don’t realize society that recognizes students for
they qualify,” Dickinson said. “We
are going to do the best we can to
new promotions
by Rawly Bransom
editor-in-chief
After relying on junk food and cold
sandwiches from the Bookstore last se-
mester, TCC students are ready for
changes.
TCC’s new food service provider is
promising just that.
“I think we opened in October, and
this is just February,” Louis Camper, man-
ager of the NW cafeteria, said. “I think we
are getting a good start.”
Weber, the company that ran the cafe-
terias before, filed bankruptcy at the end of
the 2003 Spring semester, and the cafete-
rias stayed closed until Educational Cater-
ing Inc. (ECI) opened up the cafeterias one
at a time last October.
Each campus has its own cafe, manag-
er, signature style and method of operation.
Kerry Wiggs, manager of the SE
Campus cafeteria, said the SE main plan as
of now is providing box lunches, catering
for campus events and providing breakfast
for students and faculty.
“On Wednesdays, we have Mexican
food day, and through February for Black
History Month, we will be having soul
food on Fridays,” he said.
The soul food menu will include items
such as fried catfish, green beans, collared
greens, pecan pie and sweet potato pie.
According to Camper, NW cafeteria
plans to invite its vendors to give out free
samples, promotional items and informa-
tion about the food and items they offer.
“When we do this, we will set up the
event in the dining area so everyone can
get to it,” he said.
Camper is also planning other ven-
tures to increase availability and marketing
for the cafeteria. One idea when the
weather begins to warm up is to set up a
barbecue outside.
“I have a large barbecue pit that is on
a trailer. We want to bring it up here when
the weather gets nicer and cook hamburg-
ers and other things for students to enjoy,”
he said.
Another idea is to have call out orders
available to night students.
“A lot of our aeronautic students, who
have night classes, don’t have time to
come in. They come to class straight from
work and only get 15-minute breaks,” he
said.
The idea is to allow those students to
call in an order, which staff will then deliv-
er during those breaks. Therefore, the stu-
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by Diana De Leon
managing editor
Phi Theta Kappa districtwide
needs help finding those students
who qualify for the honor society.
The new administrative soft-
ware system does not provide a
roster, and PTK will have to get
creative to find students who quali-
fy-
“A lot of people might be
missed,” Lori Blagg, math instruc-
tor and PTK adviser on NW Cam-
pus, said.
The old system could provide
PTK advisers with a roster of po-
tential new members every semes-
ter.
The administrative software
Colleague, purchased from Datatel
cannot yet do tasks that Legacy,
the old system, could do, such as
name and address lists.
“We are not unaware of the
PTK problem,” Cathie Jackson, di-
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