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Feb. 9, 2007
Volume 81, Issue 14
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Employees hope pay request
won’t fall on deaf ears.
Staff Council plans to ask the board of
trustees for a raise — again.
At the Feb. 6 meeting, members were
outraged that the presidents of the col-
leges and other top administrators were
given raises effective immediately.
The council approached the board in
April to ask for a 6 percent increase in
wages. They presented a compensation
No students in their right mind would
willingly take an extra hour of math, but
what if it meant better grades?
That’s what the math department is
hoping for.
Starting fall 2007, the math department
will make all MATH 0302, Elementary
Algebra, sections four hours long — three
class hours and one lab hour.
The only exception will be Internet
courses.
If the department sees an extreme
"a in students passing MATH 0302,
they will make all math classes four
hours long, said Dr. Said Fariabi, chair of
mathematics and computer science.
Last semester, the math department
offered nine courses that increased the
regular class time by one hour.
The one extra hour is a lab that allows
students to complete their homework or
ask for extra help from their instructor.
The math department collected and
compared the productive grade rate of
the four-hour courses to the three-hour
courses. Productive grade rate refers to
a grade of C or better in a class, Fariabi
said.
A MATH 0301, Intro to Algebra, course
with the extra lab hour finished with a 41
percent productive grade rate, while the
“Where did this money come from?”
De Luna asked.
Velma Willard, college information
technologies office supervisor, suggested
same class without the extra lab hour,
taught by the same teacher, had a 21
percent productive grade rate.
A section of MATH 0302 with the
extra hour had a 47 percent produc-
tive grade rate, and the three-hour class
taught by the same teacher had a 33
percent productive grade rate.
While most math classes with the
extra hour are producing a higher pro-
ductive grade rate, a section of MATH
0303, Intermediate Algebra, with the
extra hour had a 51 percent productive
grade rate, and the regular three-hour
section taught by the same teacher had a
56 percent productive grade rate.
"It depends, but overall, four-hour
courses are doing better,” Fariabi said.
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study, explaining where the money could
be taken from, but in the end, the acting
chancellor, Dr. Daniel Derrico, and the
board approved only a 4 percent increase
for employees.
Delia De Luna, Staff Council presi-
dent, said she did not know how Derrico
and the board arrived at a 4 percent fig- same rate,
ure and that the council was not shown
any supporting evidence.
“I believe we should all be compen-
sated for our abilities,” De Luna said at
Tuesday’s meeting.
There was concern among council
Carlton Douglas “Chuck D” Ridenhour,
social activist and legendary hip hop
artist, spoke Jan. 31 about Martin
Luther King Jr.
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Students were urged to think
for themselves, become world citi-
zens and be active in what they
believe in to honor the tradition of
Martin Luther King Jr. on Jan 31.
The speaker,
Chuck D, lead
vocalist of the
influential hip-
hop band Public
Enemy, lectured
to about 1,000
college students
from around the
area.
The hourlong
“vibe session”
sponsored by
the City of San
Antonio MLK
Jr. Commission
was in Laurie
Auditorium
at Trinity
University.
After taking
the podium to a
standing ovation
of whistling and
energetic stu-
dents, the rapper, dressed in all
black and wearing a New York
baseball cap, urged everyone to
relax before launching into his
speech.
“Minds are the real estate of
the new millennium," Chuck D
said, warning everyone that “our
government thinks they have your
heart,” and will come after those
minds next.
In the spirit of the event, Chuck
D spoke of Martin Luther King
Jr., reminding everyone that his-
tory has made the reverend “seem
softer” and that he had more
than just one "I have a dream”
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members that pay raises for staff did
not take effect until the following fiscal
year, but administration pay .raises were
immediate.
Administrator raises varied from
about $200.to $27,000 to bring all the
presidents and vice chancellors to the
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People
spected them and aspired to do
what the heroes had done.
"Real people do real things,”
Chuck D said.
But later in history, heroes were
corrupted, “’71 and ’72 replaced
the real person with concoctions of
corporations, “ he said, “and it was
during that time that Martin Luther
King was replaced with Shaft as a
role model.”
Corporations rely on reducing
people to consumers,” he said,
which makes it even more vital to
"have control of your own mind.”
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Study shows four-hour math
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speech.
“Age 26, he’s a doctor. He has
it moving.”
He added that he respects those
in college because they have taken
a longer view of the world, and
being a student makes them look
at what is impor-
tant to them.
Chuck D said
King was “hard-
core love, hard-
core commit-
ment, hardcore
mission.”
There was
a time, he said,
that real people
and real heroes
were on the walls
of America.
Portraits of
leaders such
as Booker T.
Washington,
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