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College revises fee structure
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Trustees request cut in administration
Abduction, attempt
Hiring changes
►Blowin’ the leaves
Greg Sartin
bring charges
of unfairness
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By Laura Jesse
Spring break closings
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Honors Week
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Gonzalez
By Darren W. Abate
Flex 2 drop date
See Employee, page 2
See Policy, page 2
Dedication brings new name, logo
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By Laura Jesse
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Antonio
College
Development day teaches
advances in technology
► WhO: Faculty Senate proposes
new fees, adjustments.
By Robert Crowe
> What: Faculty, staff learn
educational benefits of Internet.
k WhO: Former fine arts
student designs logo for
stationery, business cards.
> What: Trustee complains that
procedures hurt minorities, create
uneven playing field.
► WhO: Rindfiiss complains
streamlining request
from September ignored.
By Laura Jesse
Day, evening and weekend classes will not meet
Monday through March 23 for spring break. Classes will
resume March 24.
Day, evening and weekend classes also will be dismissed
and district offices will close March 28-30 for Good
Friday and Easter.
College and district offices will be closed Thursday
through March 23 for spring break.
The library in Moody Learning Center will be closed
Monday through March 23 and March 28-30.
Saturday is the last day to drop a Flex 2 class for partial
tuition reimbursement.
Drops must be processed by 12:30 p.m. Saturday in the
office of admissions and records in Room 201 of Fletcher
Administration Center.
Students who drop after Saturday will receive a grade of
W in the class and will not receive a tuition refund.
The Beta Nu chapter of Phi Theta Kappa will initiate
members in a candlelight ceremony April 2 during
\ this college’s Honors Week.
y The campus honor society will welcome
members at a ceremony at 7 p.m. in the Fiesta
Room of Loftin Student Center.
Other Honors Week activities include a
ceremony at 6 p.m. April 1 in the auditorium
of McAllister Fine Arts Center.
Dr. John Hammond, public relations
director, said this ceremony will honor
2,657 students with a grade-point-average of 3.5
or higher.
Groundskeepers Ramon Vasquez and Rudy Cruz blow leaves into a pile in front of the nursing education building.
Vasquez has worked at this college for three years and Cruz has worked here for six years. The leaves are bagged and
hauled to a dumpster near the motor pool, 1727 N. Main Ave. Oak leaves are especially abundant at this time of year.
Four design firms were asked to submit
bids for the design before Christmas break.
The firms were Mary Owens Design Stu-
dio, Dalmatian Advertising, Bradford Lawton
geted $375,000 in the 1994-95 budget for estimated fees
to be collected. Zeigler said that only $128,013 of the
$375,000 budgeted for lab supplies and general expenses
was necessary to operate labs.
The $247,361 balance went to fund department labs
and programs that did not levy fees to students.
In many cases, fees have been collected, but departments
have not seen a 100 percent return on those fee revenues.
Many returns did not amount to 50 percent of total
fees collected.
The committee is working to make sure departments
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The new logo for this college was officially
unveiled Thursday during a ceremony to
name Chance Academic Center.
The logo, designed by Mary Owens, a
former student at this college, will be used
on official college stationery, business cards,
advertising and a few signs around campus,
public relations Director John Hammond
said Wednesday.
This college’s fee structure committee, chaired by
computer information systems technologies Professor
Rocky Conrad, is recommending changes in the lab fee
structure for the next academic year.
Conrad and other committee members were ap-
pointed by Zeigler.
The committee has been investigating since last spring
SAN ANTONIO
COLLEGE
Students can research, learn page design, communicate
through e-mail and prepare themselves for the world by us-
ing the services the Internet provides, Dr. Charlotte Wolf,
director of the instructional innovation center, said Tuesday
at Employee Development Day.
While students were dismissed from day classes, employ-
ees were learning about web page design and use, Internet
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Stationery is ordered during the summer
to last the next year, so the logo probably will
not be seen on stationery until the fall,
Hammond said.
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Design Group and Jason Roberts and Asso-
ciates.
They were recommended by a variety of
people as outstanding design firms in the
city,” Hammond said.
Owens said she worked on it for a long
time, but the design was actually completed
rather quickly.
The cost of the design concept and prod- .
ucts was $1,721, Hammond said.
A logo contest was announced in March
1996 that would have awarded a $300 schol-
arship to a student. The contest was aban-
doned, however, because no logos were re-
ceived by the president’s office that were
deemed acceptable.
Everyone arrived promptly at a project meeting
Tuesday to discuss renovation of Moody Learning Center.
Everyone except project manager Louis Kreusel
(pronounced CRY-sell).
The meeting was started with discussion about an
electrical problem on the seventh floor of Moody.
About 10 minutes later, while the others debated
solutions, Kreusel rushed in and took his seat.
After a silent pause, architect Jim Whitehead said,
“Well, hello there, Mr. Crisis, I mean Mr. Kreusel,” while
the rest of the contractors and supervisors chuckled in
amusement.
“I try to make every minute of every meeting, but
sometimes I get stuck behind and I’m late,” Kreusel said.
He didn’t say if he had been delayed by ... a crisis.
Michael A. De Leon
Two trustees of the Alamo Community College District
have requested the chancellor streamline the administration
and present a proposal for eliminating nonessential positions
at district and the four colleges, according to a March 8 let-
ter that was sent to all the trustees.
The letter, from trustee James Rindfuss to board Chair-
man Donald McClure, states the board discussed streamlin-
ing administration during the board’s annual retreat in Sep-
tember, but to date nothing has been done.
Rindfuss states in the letter that trustee Eloisa Vasquez
brought this to the attention of the rest of the board mem-
bers and he supports her in trying to put the item on the
agenda for the March board meeting.
The proposed agenda items from Rindfuss are:
• Approval of the elimination of all positions currently avail-
the structure of lab fees assessed by academic and oc-
cupational and technical departments.
When interior President Robert Zeigler was vice presi-
dent last spring, he asked department chairpersons and
program coordinators to submit recommendations to
make fee collections fair.
The committee has sent recommendations to depart-
ment chairs who are to make fee structure changes simi-
lar to what the committee has prescribed, Conrad said.
“The committee recommended fee amounts for depart-
ments, but is not requiring those amounts,” Conrad said.
“The fees recommended will probably take that rate.”
In a 1995 memo, Zeigler stated the college was bud-
search engines, e-mail and ways these can be implemented in
education.
Wolf gave a presentation on the “information superhigh-
way” and how it has changed learning and teaching proce-
dures at this college.
By using the Internet, people can search the world for in-
formation and enrich the quality of their lives, she said.
With the onset of distance learning, this college has the
potential to increase enrollment, but enrollment could de-
crease because of the ease of access to other learning institu-
tions, Wolf said.
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A Hispanic trustee Tuesday objected to proposed changes
in the district’s hiring procedures which he believes would
be less advantageous to minorities and noted the proposal
had the support of five Anglo trustees.
Trustee Richard Gonzalez told the policy and long-range
planning committee of the Alamo Community College Dis-
trict board that it was obvious the proposed changes in hir-
ing were coming from the “white members of the board.”
• He referred to Committee Chairperson Kenneth Shumate
and trustees Brian Fox, George Killen, Gene Sprague and James
Rindfuss.
Tension rose after Shumate introduced an agenda item
which would change the hiring procedures to policy.
The committee approved two procedures but did not ap-
prove changing them to policy.
The procedures would require a department chairperson
to conduct interviews and background checks on applicants
and forward the name of one candidate through “usual ad-
ministrative channels to the presi-
dent.”
If the recommended candidate
were rejected by administrators,
the second change would require
the administrator to discuss the rea-
sons with the chairperson and the
chairperson would then be re-
quired to recommend a second
candidate from the pool of appli-
cants.
While the proposals are similar
to the current procedure approved
in February 1996, the district ear-
lier required chairpersons to recommend an unranked pool
of candidates from which the college presidents chose whom
to hire.
Gonzalez, who is not a member of the committee, said he
thought the board was trying to make hiring less level and
equitable.
able for appointments as of the end of the ’96-97 fiscal year.
• Approval of the creation of positions as recommended
by the chancellor for the term of the ’97-98 fiscal year.
• Approval of the chancellor’s recommended appointments
to approved positions for ’97-98.
Rindfuss said Thursday these agenda items would allow
Chancellor Robert Ramsay to recreate the organizational
structure of the administration as he sees fit and submit his
recommendations for the positions needed.
For an item to be on the agenda for a board meeting, three
trustees must submit it to the chairman at least 10 working
days before the meeting, which was Tuesday.
“Whether it gets on the agenda or not I don’t know,”
Rindfuss said in a telephone interview.
“We have vice presidents, directors, deans and the list goes
on,” Rindfuss said. “It’s spread out like tentacles on an octopus.
I don’t know why we have such disparity in all the positions.”
Rindfuss drew an example using this college’s, St. Philip’s
and Palo Alto colleges’ administration.
This college has one vice president, Palo Alto has three
vice presidents and St. Philip’s has two vice presidents,
Rindfuss said.
“Why do the colleges with about 7,500 students on each
campus have more vice presidents than SAC which has 22,000
students?” Rindfuss said.
“Either Mr. Zeigler is way overworked or the others don’t
have enough to do.”
He referred to Dr. Robert Zeigler, who is serving as in-
terim president and vice president.
Ramsay, who has not seen the letter, said Thursday the pro-
posed agenda items from Rindfuss sounds as if all positions will
be eliminated and “that means firing all the administrators.”
“We’re going to streamline the organizational chart,”
Ramsay said, adding positions will be eliminated if there is a
vacancy in the position and the position is not essential.
As of Thursday, Ramsay said McClure had not asked him
to put the item on the agenda.
McClure, however, said Thursday Ramsay will present his
recommendation for the organizational structure at the March
25 board meeting.
“I appreciate the desire to streamline and get rid of unnec-
essary positions,” McClure said. “But I don’t agree with the
language of the proposed items.
“We’re not going to necessarily just cut people.”
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A 30-year-old woman on campus to inquire about
enrolling was abducted from this campus at gunpoint
Thursday morning by two men, she reported to San
Antonio police.
In a similar incident, a female St. Philip’s student
reported an attempted abduction Monday from a parking
lot at that college.
Beth Ann Hall, 30, reported she was kidnapped from
this campus at 8:20 a.m. Thursday at gunpoint by two
men and forced to drive her car to the East Side.
She was returning to her car parked near Fletcher
Administration Center when the men forced her into her
car, the report states. They told her they would not hurt
her if she followed their instructions, she reported.
While she drove, they slapped her and pulled her hair.
After they told her to stop the vehicle, they used a key to
carve obscenities into her left forearm and a gang symbol
into her right forearm, and threatened her life, she told
police.
They left her and the car at Porter Street and South
New Braunfels Avenue, and fled in a vehicle with three
other men.
She was treated by Emergency Medical Service for
multiple abrasions on her arms.
She told police she believed the abduction was an act of
retaliation.
Capt. James Egan of the district department of public
safety said campus police were not notified of the
incident.
In the earlier incident, two men attempted to abduct a
female student at 12:50 p.m. Monday in Lot 9 of St.
Philip’s College at the corner of South Mittman and
Nevada streets, Lt. Raul Cadena of the district department
of public safety said. j
Campus police would not release the incident* report or
give the name of the student.
“There is no mention of abduction on the report,”
Capt. James Egan of the district department of public
safety said Tuesday.
Two men drove up beside the woman while she was
walking through the parking lot, he said.
One of the men attempted to grab the woman and force
her into the car, but she was able to run away, he said.
The only description of the assailants’ vehicle is a red,
four-door sedan, he said.
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