The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 1990 Page: 1 of 10
This newspaper is part of the collection entitled: The Ranger and was provided to The Portal to Texas History by the San Antonio College.
- Highlighting
- Highlighting On/Off
- Color:
- Adjust Image
- Rotate Left
- Rotate Right
- Brightness, Contrast, etc. (Experimental)
- Cropping Tool
- Download Sizes
- Preview all sizes/dimensions or...
- Download Thumbnail
- Download Small
- Download Medium
- Download Large
- High Resolution Files
- IIIF Image JSON
- IIIF Image URL
- Accessibility
- View Extracted Text
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
The Ranger
Spring registration frustration mounts
2,062
2,003
1,845
1,818
1,874
1,846
Russian begins anew in SA
/
♦
See Russian page 2
Physical plant shake-up; Jetta fired
I
■ I
Vice Chancellor Ronald Jonas
appealed the decision. He is sus-
engineer, although he is not regis-
)
Volume 65, No. 13, Jan. 26, 1990
San Antonio College, San Antonio, Texas
Late/extended registration
I*
other bump up."
Chancellor Ivory Nelson and Dr.
Stephen Mitchell, St. Philip's Col-
Water pipes burst
during December
cold snap?
Lv
By John Hunt
News Editor
The 12th of July is a date Iosif
Korostyshevsky will never forget.
The half-century-old man with a
weathered face and receding wiry
hair, says the date with reverence.
July 12, 1989, is when the com-
puter drafting freshman left his
hometown of Kiev in the Soviet
Union to immigrate to the United
States.
That move was a decade in the
making. He is a local example of
the fresh air blowing through
Moscow with Premier Mikhail
Gorbachev's glasnost policies, in-
cluding relaxed restrictions on
emigration.
Korostyshevsky applied for per-
mission to emigrate from the So-
viet Union in 1979, then under the
leadership of Leonid Brezhnev.
"The government would not let
me go to the USA for 10 years," he
said, "until Gorbachev changed
things politically. Ten years I
waited for this moment."
But he does not dwell on the
past.
"I'd rather talk about new life in
the USA," he said.
Iosif settled in San Antonio be-
cause his sister-in-law had lived in
this city since 1979.
His whole family—wife Marga-
rita, daughter Alla, son-in-law Pe-
ter and grandson Dima—now
By Victor Morton
Senior News Editor
i
By Karen Littleton
Editor
Call your Waler Board
Accounts Adjustment
Division at 225-7461,
or send to:
City Water Board
P.O. Box 2449
San Antonio TX 78298
(200 told
to return
on Jan. 16)
lives in San Antonio.
"We are refugees, and the gov-
ernment helps us," he said. "It
pays our tuition here."
"A refugee is a man who has
nothing," he said.
"He can't bring his money. He
can't bring his business. Only the
clothes he has," the refugee said,
smiling as he tugged on the suit
jacket he wore over his casual shirt.
His English is laced with a thick
Russian accent and long pauses to
think of what English word best
expresses his Russian thoughts.
"I had studied English in Rus-
sia," he said. "I did not have prac-
tice. When I came to the USA, I
cannot understand people and
people cannot understand me. It's
not good to learn English in Rus-
sia. After school, you cannot prac-
tice."
Besides the language, the first
difference he noticed between the
United States and the Soviet Union
is freedom.
"Here, people tell what they
want; they do what they want," he
said.
Although he said he is not reli-
gious, the immigrant also noticed
people going to church, an act that
must be hidden in the Soviet Un-
ion.
"If you tell others you go to
church, they will give you a very
bad time," he said.
Korostyshevsky appreciated the
Overruns
upset two
trustees
By Karen Littleton
Editor
/
/
/
Two head to New Orleans after winning ticket lottery to see 49ers and Broncos in Super Bowl/ see page 9
F JR
Jr J
I
lr
2,022
_____b818 »,»45 1.846 L874 |
Nov. 27 Nov. 28 Nov. 29 Nov. 30 Dec. 4 Dec. 5 Dec. 6 Dec. 7 Jan. .8 Jan. 9 Jan. 10
Freshman marketing major Tara Conrad waited four
hours to have a five-minute talk with a counselor.
"I expected the wait because I'd been here before,"
she said. "It was exactly the same last semester."
Sophomore business major George Digonis dis-
cussed the lines on Jan.10 at 5:30 p.m.
"There was one line going all the way to the street
(San Pedro Avenue) and another going all the way to
I
Lbl
w
Construction despite the $279,000
See board page 2
Johnson has
been absent on medical leave on
and off since Dec. 4.
These changes in employment
status occurred after The Ranger
reported Dec. 1 Jetta did not have
the academic credentials needed to
*• fulfill the advertised position of
assistant utilities director.
’ - Dickerson said the reasons for
trical engineering technology from Jetta's dismissal cannot be dis-
Texas Southern University.
District officials also repeatedly
cussed during the appeal process. <
District policy allows terminated Johnson said he had helped write
had referred to Jetta as a registered employees to appeal their tormina- the job description for Jetta's posi-
tion and pays them full salary until tion.
1,277
Jan.11
Source: Phyllis McCarley, Admissions and Records
thing needs to be done to assist those who want to
register early.
"I think we should have a system where early-regis-
tration students get preferential treatment," he said.
McCarley said slow computer response time also
contributed to the lines.
"When you have to access a number of different
screens to register a student, then it does take a long
time to do it," she said.
McCarley said the three colleges in the ACCD share
the same computer system.
"All three were vying for the same computer time
and it is a problem," she said.
See Registration page 2
Alamo Community College Dis- ‘
| trict ends Aug. 31.
II
hi
I
ill
Lea
Illi
i.
x
A
-
■
I
I
Your annual water bill
is averaged during the GJ
3 winter months, so if
a pipe leak caused you
to use additional water, i $
it's important that you j S
notify the Water Board
soon. Jfc
help he received at registration
here, although even English-
speaking non-refugees can associ-
ate with the difficulties he had.
"I want to tell everyone thank
you," he said. "Thank all the per-
sonnel at San Antonio College in
registration for helping me and my
family.
"When I came to register, I didn't
know what to do—what door do I
go to, what line do I stand in," he
continued, "But they held my
hand and showed me everything.
They are very good people in this
city."
But the emigre has had a hard
time finding a job.
"Because now is a difficult time
in San Antonio with construction, I
cannot find myself a job," Korosty-
shevsky said. "I decided to study
computer drafting. Maybe that is
my future profession."
Korostyshevsky had built air
conditioning and ventilators in the
Soviet Union.
He said he is also somewhat
handicapped by the comparative
backwardness of Soviet industry.
"In Russia, you can only hand
draft. I could not draft on a ma-
chine."
He had more difficulty finding a
job in the Soviet Union.
Korostyshevsky said after ap-
her frustrations about her registration experience.
"I was here yesterday from 4 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. They
said to come back tomorrow. I never got into the
building," she said.
McCarley wants to develop a system to stop students
from missing their designated registration day.
"People who missed their day are putting extra pres-
sure on those people who are there on their day," she
said. "We may have to set up two or three days as open
days of registration that are not tied to specific letters."
Solutions include forcing students who miss their
designated registration day wait until late registration
and raising the $10 late registration fee, she said.
Dr. Jim Lucchelli, counselor/coordinator of the
counseling and guidance center, also believes some-
r 1
he job status of three key
employees overseeing the
district's capital improve-
ments program has changed, and
the chancellor has issued a memo
tightening hiring practices.
Eric Jetta, assistant director of
utilities, was recommended for ter-
mination Dec.l5fromhis$45,885-a-
year job, James Dickerson, human
resources employment manager,
said Jan. 18.
District architect Horace Allison
resigned his $34,929-a-year posi-
tion effective Jan. 19.
k
L
On-campus registration
2/500
*>z
Q
4-*
2,000
GJ '
*2
c
1,500
tn
£3
£ 1,000
Enrollment at this college dropped from 21,801 in the
spring of 1989 to 21,330 this semester, according to a
preliminary figures issued by Phyllis McCarley, direc-
tor of admissions and records.
All figures are preliminary because the final counts
will not be tallied until the census date Monday.
St. Philip's College has registered 5,804 and 5,540 of
those have paid as of deadline. The college registered
* 5,864 in the spring of 1989.
Palo Alto College's preliminary registration figure is
4,302 with 3,860 of those paid as of deadline. Last
spring the college had a gross registration of 4,092 and
an actual registration figure of 3,746.
McCarley said registration here went as expected.
"We knew we were going to have a lot of lines, but
there just wasn't any way to avoid that," she said. "Our
student body tends to procrastinate, and therefore,
they don't come in when we have a set time in Decem-
ber. They wait until January."
McCarley referred to the registration process Nov. 27
to Dec. 7, which allowed students to register in an
alphabetized sequence. Late registration was sched-
uled from Jan. 8 to Jan. 11 and extended to Jan. 16.
Students who missed their designated registration the library," he said.
date could register after 3 p.m. any day afterward. Undecided sophomore Rhonda Hindes believed
Freshman nursing major Jeannette Gonzalez said registration went smoothly.
the wait was ridiculous. "Currently enrolled registration went well as long as
"Wednesday, I waited from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. just you listened for them to say '15 hours or more,' " she
to see a counselor. They told us the line was too long to said.
register and to come back tomorrow," she said. Business sophomore Janeen, Whiteside expressed
If H
If I
' I
w
■ J
I
Don Johnson, physical plant di- Horace Allison Eric Jetta
The ad called for a bachelor's tered to practice engineering,
degree in electrical or mechanical
r
Jetta told The Ranger Nov. 27 he Jetta retained legal counsel and
had a degree ip electrical engineer- appealed the decision. He is sus-
ing. The diploma Jetta showed The pended with pay pending the out-
Ranger, however, was for a degree come of the hearing,
in technology with a major in elec- DIG------- —Id --------
rector, announced his resignation
“ Dec. 18. His resignation cites Aug.
31 or earlier as his last day. His
$57,240 annual contract with the engineering.
■ /
■ .CV
/
fd /
■
■ 1
B
_
/
___
Bryce Harper
Iosif Korostyshevsky immigrated to the United States in July.
■■K
HP
I
*
I 'G ®
J
f
■■■ Jg
wn
I
The vice chairman of the board of
trustees, Dr. Doug Harlan, voiced
discontent Jan. 16 with the latest
cost overrun in the district's capital
improvements program by voting
against a $2.2 million renovation at
St. Philip's College Southwest cam-
pus.
Trustee Richard Gonzalez also
voted against the project during a
meeting of the Alamo Community
College District board of trustees.
The project is the interior renova-
tion of Bqilding No. 3020 on the
Southwest campus of St. Philip's
College.
Originally budgeted at
$1,940,096, the low bid of $2.2 mil-
lion was made by Templeton Con-
struction of San Angelo.
The $279,000 overrun was for
epoxy flooring, floor tile, plaster
wall finishing, suspended ceilings
and kitchen equipment.
Mitchell said the Southwest cam-
pus was without a cafeteria or eat-
ing place. Morrison's Custom Food
Service, which has a contract with
the district for food services here,
helped plan the food service facility
at the Southwest campus.
The capital improvements pro-
gram, which was approved by vot-
ers in 1987, went from $85 million to
$97 million in October 1988.
The master plan used for the
bond issue approved by voters in
1987 omitted the infrastructure,
resulting in the $12 million overrun.
Regarding the latest overrun of
$279,000 Harlan said, "We are well
Jetta previously worked for over the 10 percent of projections
Lamar University in Beaumont and that most recent projection is a
where his official title was uni ver- bump up for a recent bump up,
sity engineer. Johnson was his boss which was a bump up for yet an-
at Lamar.
Allison also was an employee
under Johnson at Lamar.
"Allison's resignation was proba- lege president, recommended the
bly due to stress," Chancellor Ivory board award the job to Templeton
Nelson said Jan.16.
Allison, a licensed architect who
was paid an annual salary $10,956
less than Jetta, had credentials ap-
propriate to those required in the
ACCD's advertised position.
"We lost a very dedicated, hard-
working employee when Allison
quit," Nelson said.
nnn lohnsnn On Dec. 15, the chancellor issued
* a memo to vice chancellors, presi-
a decision is made by the adjudica- dents, vice presidents, directors
tive committee appointed to hear and department chairmen.
recommended Jetta's resignation, their appeal, Dickerson said. The memo said final applicants
Chancellor Ivory Nelson said 36 for employment within the ACCD
members make up the district's must provide official copies of di-
adjudicative board. The members plomas, certificates or transcripts
are from a cross section of district before an offer for employment can
employees. be made.
Jetta was chosen over 50 other "Looking at personnel policies
applicants and hired in May 1989. and procedures, you sometimes
find ways to tighten up and im-
prove the way things are done,"
Nelson said Jan. 19. ■
I
■■
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Matching Search Results
View five places within this issue that match your search.Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
San Antonio College. The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 13, Ed. 1 Friday, January 26, 1990, newspaper, January 26, 1990; San Antonio, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1350578/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting San Antonio College.