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Vol. 64 No. 14 Feb. 3, 1989
Playboy talk sparks controversy
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Financial aid
Honors
breaks bank
No money available until mid-March
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Club status debated
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Rodolfo Gonzalez
Climbing new heights
By Thomas A. Porter
News Editor
"Looking at our country's obsession with health, to
eat and not exercise, you would get sick. The concept of
By Rob Barron
Staff Writer
walking away from the Lord and are not following the
way of Biblical Christianity in hardly any form."
Armstrong said this is. not the first controversy she
has faced as director of student activities. Armstrong
$1.3 million in credited accounts and
released funds.
Other scholarship and grant funds,
funding will be sent in two weeks.
Meanwhile, Valdez explained the
home and living away from home
and paying child care.
With thischange came an increase
been paid, but she confirmed the
club has not notified the office of
By Jose Zuniga
Managing Editor
By Jose Zuniga
Managing Editor
lies" was criticized as "trite."
Douglas' message was that students not compromise
their values on their way to achieving success.
"We have to be willing to take risks," Armstrong said.
"Even if it means bearing the brunt of others' disap-
All five students voted unanimously on Petersen.
Armstrong's choice was Eric Dickerson who lectures on
plained.
For students living at home the
average rose to $565. Students liv-
ing child care, the average rose to
$1,065.
"This is a considerable increase in
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The BlackStudent Union remains
on probation this week, despite
claims by a club member and a fac-
ulty adviser the $1,051.20 debt the
organization incurred last semester
has been paid.
"The group is still on probation-
program
.set for fall
SupervisorPat VargusofVarmicon Roofing climbs the outer edges of the building. Construction
a long ladder to work on the roof of ..McAllister add renovation will continue through 1989 as
Fine Arts Center. The company made repairs to part of a $41 million improvement program.
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education at the college-age level regarding AIDS."
Armstrong hopes the lecture will encourage those
who "fool around" to use condoms.
"The campus health center falls under my responsi- We are helping young women to become responsible."
that is to handle emergencies only,"
Valdez said. "All funds have been
depleted and the reason is to pay
Pell Grant monies that we owe."
The increase in demand comes
after a congressional ruling last year
that revamped the categories of
students eligible for federal aid,
adding a new one, and a new scale
determining the amount of aid each
level is allotted, he said.
In the past, the district determined arrive until mid-March and that a
eligibility and paymentbased strictly second tape requesting additional
on the number of hours a student
took, the index number on financial
aid review of income and three pay financial aid office has borrowed
$900,000 from district funds, which
was distributed in the Jan. 24 and
Feb. 1 disbursement periods. As of
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Armstrong also said Wednesday
she needs a list of students with
However, Armstrong said she has debts outstanding to the club.
received no written documentation
from Dupree or any other person
associated with the organization.
Dupree declined comment, say-
ing, "The issue is closed."
The group faced the debt after a
fund-raiser last semester which left
the club owing $709.20 to Valley would not allow them to re-register
Brook Farms for cookies and $342 to at San Antonio College or to transfer
L.S. Heath for candy. their records to another school after
Dr. Earl Wright, vice president of leaving here.
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board last semester.
These five students attended a conference in Houston
this, or it is safe to do this; when it shouldn't be done at where several talents performed before more than 600
all. Sex in the Bible belongs in the marriage setting college and university members of the National Asso-
betwecn the man and the woman. It doesn't belong ciation for Campus Activities.
anywhere else. Anywhere else, it's a sin. Immorality
always has consequences that follow it.
"Many years ago this country was based on Christian alcohol and drug abuse.
Petersen has appeared on the "Phil Donahue Show"
and "Late Night With David Letterman."
"Students still owing money will
receive call cards asking them to
come see me.
"Those students who do not will
face disciplinary action," she said.
Such action could consist of a
hold on the students records which
student services, said Wednesday
the situation with the BSU remained
the same.
The organization cannot meet or
have any activities unless the events
are approved by student activities.
The club was notified Nov. 13 of
the suspension.
Cheryl Brown, the BSU's supervi-
, sor of fund-raisers, said Monday in
ary status," Kathy Armstrong, di- a telephone interview the debt had
rector of student activities, said 1
Wednesday in an interview.
Armstrong said the club's faculty student activities,
adviser, Jacqueline Dupree, has told
her the debt is paid.
The Ranger
San Antonio College, San Antonio, Texas
Implemctation of an honors pro-
gram for the Alamo Community
College District is on its way to be-
coming reality in September with
recommendations awaiting ap-
proval from this college's vice presi-
dents and the Academic Affairs
Council.
The program, proposed by Chan-
cellor Ivory D. Nelson in February
1988, is aimed at allowing students
with financial problems to benefit
from an honors program in a two-
year college.
Proposed is a complete two-year
honors degree program for San
# Antonio College where all courses
would be honors and students
admitted into the program would
be awarded full scholarships and
books.
In an interview Wednesday, Presi-
dent Max Castillo said the goal of
the program is to target above-aver-
age students who do not have high
enough SAT or ACT scores to be
awarded four-ycar scholarships,at
other senior institutions.
"The purpose would be to attract
students who aren't already ab-
sorbed into the senior institutions,
those with SAT scores of 1,200-1,300.
And the appealing part is offering
high achieving students the finan-
cial opportunity that otherwise they
would be lacking and perhaps would
deter them from continuing into
higher education," Castillo said.
Because Palo Alto and St. Philip's
colleges are not large enough to
establish a complete program, they
would be assigned only some hon-
ors programs and partial scholar-
ships would be awarded.
Essential to the board of trustees'
decision to pursue the program in
February 1988 were the admission
requirements which Nelson had
recommended.
The chancellor had suggested a
requirement of SAT 1,200 or ACT 26
for this college's program and SAT
1,000 or ACT 24 for St. Philip's or
Palo Alto.
In that meeting, Castillo opposed
the use of test scores as the only
criterion used for admission into the
program, saying admission should
be based on a combination of infor-
mation including high school grade-
point average and class standing.
This college's honors committee,
chaired by English Professor Raul S.
Murguia, met during the summer
and fall to consider recommenda-
tions from faculty and department
chairmen.
The results of a report sent to
Castillo indicate the committee, as
well as many faculty members and
department chairmen, believe the
program is costly in money and
personnel and that additional per-
See Honors, page 2
As of Jan. 27, this college's finan- in the average awards, Valdez ex-
cial aid office is out of money.
The office's financial straits mean
long lists of students may have to
wait until mid-March for grant ingaway from home were awarded
money if they receive the funds at an average of $765 and for those
all, Guadalupe Valdez, director of living away from home and provid-
financial aid, said Monday in an
interview.
The office has disbursed more than
$2.8 million in the Pell Grant Pro- the amount of money demanded by
gram since last semester, more than our students. So far (this semester)
the total of funds spent last year, he 3,400 students have qualified for Pell
said. as opposed to 4,100 in all of last
"We only have $15,000 left and year," Valdez said.
The director added more than
1,200 files are being reviewed and
many more students are in the
computer system seeking Pell grants.
The director has sent a computer
tape to the Department of Educa-
tion to document the demand here
and is awaiting authorization for
more funds.
The director said a response from
the department is not expected to
scale factors—living in-district, liv-
ing out of the district and living out
of state.
The average award per semester Feb. 1, the college released about
for full-time students under these $1.3 million in credited accounts and
requirements was from $555 to $585.
Under the new methods, the U.S.
Department of Education approved $369,000, have been transferred to
changing the pay scale factors to
living at home, living away from See Grants, page 8
peared and was criticized because his views were too
"one-sided."
And bringing Donna Douglas who played Ellie-Mae
ment said, "All of this is just a sign of the decadent Clampet on the television^how "The Beverly Hjllbil-
contraceptives condition of the country."
"From what I got from reading (Petersen's) poster is
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E. Clark, director of campus ministries at this college watch out for these other sexually transmitted diseases.
andatTrinityUniversity.Clarkisalsodirectorofcampus That shouldn't be the object at all, we ought to be
instilling Christian values into these people," Dana proval."
said. Armstrong stressed having Petersen was the choice
Dana does not promote making condoms available of five members of the 16-mcmber campus activities
activities for the archdiocese of San Antonio.
"This is not to say sexuality is bad—that's not what
However, Armstrong said the message of sexual we're saying. It is morally irresponsible—itgetspcople
responsibility which Petersen brings to college students sick. Not only because of Al DS, but because of venereal because such distribution condones sexual immorality.
"Making condoms available is saying it is OK to do
fives to abortion.
"This is not like offering condoms at SAC," Clark
said. "We arc in no way saying it is OK to get pregnant.
bility," Armstrong said. "From a Christian standpoint, Clark stressed offering the service is still under consid- recalled when Ralph Nader, consumer advocate, ap-
for us not to provide a (condom) service is tantamount eration.
to taking a gun and holding it to students' heads and One professor who questions the appearance of Pe-
pulling the trigger. That doesn't mean we will reach tersen, Sumner Dana of the biological sciences depart-
every student. Not every student chooses to go that i
way. Some religions believe in no
whatsoever.
"Sleeping around is unhealthy," said Sister Deborah he is promoting safe sex, how to avoid AIDS and how to
values. And the shift has been totally away from that.
This is just a symptom of the times where we are
Playboy adviser James R.
Petersen will lecture at
11 a.m. Feb. 14 in the Fiesta
Room of Loftin Student Cen-
ter on "Love and Sex."
Kathy Armstrong,director
of student activities, said
Petersen's appearance has
created some criticism. Crit-
ics associate the Playboy
name with sexual immoral- James R. Petersen
ity and the exploitation of
women, she said.
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throughout the country overrides the negative stigma diseases,
attached to Playboy.
"We are not promoting sex but education," Arm-
strong said. "Christian values do not promote sex be- self-discipline is good. Your body is good. You ought to
yond thegroundsofmarriage,butrmnotriaivcendugh treat it with respect. The Catholic stance is not nega-
te think everybody thinks the same way I do. five."
"WesimplyhavetobecomcawareoftheAIDSspread. Clark said the Catholic Student Center has consid-
With the lecture of U.S. Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett cred starting a free pregnancy test as a way to draw
Koop in San Antonio last week, there is a great need for young women to the center to inform them of alterna-
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