The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, February 5, 1988 Page: 1 of 10
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San Antonio College
Vol. 63 No. 14
NOONTIME
SHOPPE-ING
San Antonio, Texas
Feb. 5, 1988
Basketball season has begun!
Turn to page 9 for game
coverage and more info.
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By Kristin Fertitta
Staff Writer
By Patrick Bean
Managing Editor
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and Dye.
After looking at applications and
references, the committee selected respective reports, a final report will
reviewed the fee statements from the
firms and narrowed the list to three
finalists.
These finalists were presented to
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an analysis of the con-
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All incoming freshmen will be re-
quired to take a diagnostic exam
beginning in the fall 1989 semester
to determine their proficiency in
reading, writing and mathematics.
The test is a result of House Bill
2182 passed by the Texas Legislature
in 1987.
All entering freshmen, transfer
He started there while he was in
high school and stayed through
college.
“I had a good boss. He only hired
college students because he could
depend on them. He was good to
us, and we were good to him.”
Looney still exchanges Christmas
cards with him.
After one year of teaching at the
then brand-new John Jay High
School, Looney returned to this
campus as an instructor. He has
been here 19 years.
He’s comfortable here—as com-
fortable as the jeans and boots that
make up his usual attire.
“I like the people—the students
and my colleagues.”
His interaction with colleagues is
high. As a faculty senator, Looney
is a member of three college com-
mittees, their district counterparts
and a fourth district committee—
the salary committee.
Shumate describes Looney as
willing to stand up to the faculty on
a lot of issues. His relaxed de-
meanor belies a tenacity of spirit
needed for such struggles.
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the fact sheets of the master plan
ditional $500,000 to the firm if high day. “The team wanted a briefing on
any major changes we felt were
necessary.”
Castillo said 3D/I would present a
report to each college president
showing the feasibility of various
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statewide.
Raul Murguia, English professor,
and David Sanchez, mathematics
professor, are on the content ad-
visory committee, which will for-
mulate the test.
Serving on the regional forum
which will review the test, are Alice
Davis, counselor; Ruben Flores, dean
of extended services; Katheryne In-
gle, reading professor; June
McManus, English professor; and
Ricardo Salinas and Walker Hunt,
mathematics professors.
English Professor Ignacio Orozco is
a member of the bias review panel,
which checks the test for ethnic and
gender biases.
The test will be administered here
beginning in the spring 1989 to give
students a chance to see what the
test entails and in what areas they
need to improve before the fall
semester, Shumate said.
Shumate said the college has not
yet determined the logistics of ad-
ministering the test.
“When something is mandated, it
always causes problems. This is a
positive but traumatic action that’s
going to take some getting used to.”
Shumate anticipates a decrease in
enrollment soon after the test
becomes mandatory.®
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semester hours and students enter-
ing a teacher education program will
be required to take the test, Dr. Ken-
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“Everytime somebody wants
something done they call Mr.
Looney because they know it’ll get
done,” she said.
He served as president of the
Texas Junior College Teachers
Association in 1985-86.
“That’s the year we got the
crunch.”
Money was the important issue
that year, as in most, he said. One
of his duties with the organization
was authorizing legal aid for
members.
This semester Looney is serving
as an intern to Dr. Lewis Goerner,
dean of arts and sciences, despite
some conflict in Faculty Senate
over faculty resources being used
by the administration.
“I have no problem with spen-
ding a little bit of money—and
that’s all I get—for solving pro-
blems that exist,” Looney said.
He said he spends about the
same amount of time and gets paid
the same amount he would get for
teaching a three-hour overload.
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Projects Editor
“Make sure all the solids are
dissolved,” chemistry Professor
Mike Looney admonished a stu-
dent who botched a laboratory
experiment.
Though straightforward in his in-
structions, he turns from the stu-
dent and his lab partner joking
about their possible future medical
careers.
Looney grossly caricatures a com-
monplace experiment mistake,
“ 'Oh, I just left his heart in the
sink.’ ”
Kidding aside, Looney is serious
about his students. “They’re all
equal. The time they’re evaluated
by me is at the end of the semester.
They all deserve the same amount
of my time.”
The time he gives to students
could be what motivates many to
keep in touch with him.
“I see students that I’ve had as
long ago as my first year of
teaching,” he said.
Fellow chemistry Professor San-
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interview.
The test will not be used to deter-
mine entrance into this college, he
said.
“The uses of this test are twofold.
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in courses that correspond with their
abilities. Second, it will be used to
determine if a student is qualified to
do upper division work,’’Shumate
said.
Nine faculty members from this
college are on various committees to
create the test, which will be used
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Brent Camann how to safely remove a hot test tube in a Chemistry
II class experiment. Looney received his associate degree here then
transferred to St. Mary's University for his bachelor's degree.
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campus Tuesday after completing classes. Rain and San Antonians winter will continue. background and back up,” Dye said.
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dra Shumate has known Looney
since he was a student here in
1965. Though he was not one of her
students, she remembers he
wanted to sign up for one of her
classes.
“He’s a very hard worker.
Students seem to like him very
much,” she said.
Though his father was from
Texas, Looney grew up in Boston
where his mother lived.
When he was 11, the family mov-
ed to Texas.
After his graduation from this
college with an associate of science
degree in chemistry, Looney went
to St. Mary’s University where he
earned his B.A. in chemistry in
1969.
He continued at the university
and earned his master’s degree in
chemistry in 1971.
“I worked my way through,” he
said. “I paid for my education up
front.”
At the time St. Mary’s charged
$25 per semester hour and
Looney’s job in a small grocery
store kept him in school.
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The firm met with the three college
any of the architectural or Castillo, last week to discuss possi-
they will receive a fee for those ser-
vices. Their contact is purely for pro-
ject management.”
The ACCD will pay 3D/I $2.25
million over the four years. A provi-
“In other words, not only do we
have the resources of their services
in San Antonio, but we have a very
have their scheduling their
estimators, all of the computer
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The Alamo Community College
District hired in December a project
management consultant firm to
oversee capital improvement
projects.
Financing for the projects will
come from the district’s $85 million
bond issue approved in September.
Dr. Jim Dye, acting vice chancellor
for administration, said the board of
trustees hired 3D/International, a
Houston-based project management
firm.
Representatives from the firm will
oversee some 41 construction pro-
jects until 1992, the district’s target
date for completion of the projects.
The district will spend about $41
million of the $85 million on this
campus.
Gary Boyd, senior vice president of
3D/I, will act as program manager for
the group of six 3D/I employees
working with the ACCD.
“3D/I is principally an architec-
tural and engineering firm. They
have done work here in San Antonio
both in project management, ar- _________________f____________
chitecture, engineering and interior large backup in Houston. So they
design,” Dye said. have their scheduling
“They also have a division that’s < ‘ ~
just project management, and that’s backup and experience, too.
the side we’ll be working with. ____2.____________o_
“They will not be doing any of the presidents, including Dr. Max
design or any of the architectural or Castillo, last week to discuss possi-
engineering types of services where ble changes in the master plan. Such
changes could include construction
of a three-floor garage instead of a
two-floor structure, Castillo said.
“We spent the meetings going over
sion allows the district to pay an ad- very carefully,” Castillo said Mon-
inflation occurs, Dye said.
3D/I was chosen from eight ap-
plicants after review by a selection
committee, composed of the
district’s three college presidents, o ____ __________v
the three Faculty Senate presidents changes in the master plan this
1 " . week.
After the presidents review their
four firms. The committee then be submitted by 3D/I to the board of
trustees Feb. 16, Dye said.
The chairmen from each of this
campus’ 15 user committees will
form a college advisory commitee.
Chancellor Ivory Nelson and the This committee will meet periodica-
ly with and make suggestions to
3D/I.
Castillo said the user committees
should become active this week.®
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