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Who me?
(See Lebanese, Page 3)
Campus opinion split over absence proposal
cumstances are present students can
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students to fill the classes,” he said.
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San Antonio, Texas
Sept. 17,1982
Little does Richard O’Bregon, student here,
know that he has been selected this week’s
mystery date. All It takes to be a mystery date is
to be in the right place at the right time.
By Margaret Brown
Staff Writer
By David Deatherage
News Editor
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were cities, including Sidon, Damas-
cus, Saadiyat, Baruk, Ain Zhalta, Jez-
zin, Hasbaya, Nabatiye and Beirut.
Many civilian lives were lost in the
war in Lebanon. Early reports out of
Sidon claimed 10,000 civilians killed,
but later reports have lowered the I
number considerably to around 500.
(although more lives may be lost
because of the continued bombing by
Israel of Syrian missile posts in the
Bekaa Valley and the continued
fighting in West Beirut).
The conflict is not just a military
one, though; the conflict is an emo-
tional one. It does not end with the
Israelis and the Palestinians either,
but reaches out to include all of the
Middle East, the world, and primarily
the Lebanese.
Altiti tried to explain the Palestinian
position by giving some history on the
situation.
‘‘They (the PLO) can’t give up
because of the revolution representing
the Palestinians. President Nasser
(Gamal, Egyptian president before An-
war Sadat) called the revolution of the
Palestinian people the honest revolu-
tion.
“We (Palestinians) need someone to
represent us (PLO). When you have a
land, you have everything; can do
whatever you want. Everyone in the 1
world would agree that the PLO stood
fast these past 75 days.
“In 1948, Palestine ceased to exist as
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or a death in the family.
“1 would like to think if people are
mature enough and paying money
they would want to come to class,"
the biology chairman said.
Shumate agree, “I don’t think the
policy now Would preclude some le-
niency. It is not mandatory to drop
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The death of Lebanon’s President-'
elect Bashir Gemayel Tuesday will not
kill the spirit of his rightist Phalange they find
of school for missing classes if his
work remains .at an acceptable level."
Many of those polled voiced con-
cern that students with legitimate ex-
cuses for absences may suffer because
of the new policy.
John Mascorrb, freshman engineer- miss more than three weeks and not
ing major, said, “People who really
need the absences will be dropped
from classes and will lose out on their
time and money.”
Brenda Pacheco, secretary of the
Student Representative Commissions,
said students sometimes have other
priorities to attend to which may
cause them to miss school.
“The faculty forgets that students
have other things to do. They have
their families and jobs to think about,"
she said.
The four professors agreed the new
policy would be like the old in that it
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Fifteen of 20 students polled said
they disagree with a proposal by the
Faculty Senate to reduce the number
of allowed absences for students.
Students are allowed nine absences
for Monday-Wednesday-Friday
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tian Gemayel is the power in Lebanon.
, “Bashir Gemayel is dead, but they
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each one of us there is a new Bashir
Gemayel, and we are proud to be this.
Lebanon is ours, not anybody else’s.
“The next president may not be a
Phalangist by party, but he will be a
Phalangist by spirit; we are the
power,” he said.
Khaled Altiti,
. sophomore electrical engineering ma-
jor, said the death of Gemayel will
make it easy for Israel to put its own
government in Lebanon. Lebanon, at least 25 places were
“The Israelis will plant their foot in bombed, and of the 25r at least nine
Lebanon. They want a puppet govern-
ment. Ignoring the Palestinian right is
not the solution for peace in Lebanon.
“Now there will be a lot of fighting
in Lebanon; they will never achieve
peace," he said.
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classes and six absences Tuesday-
Thursday classes. The senate’s pro-
posal would reduce these numbers
from nine to six and from six to four.
Four professors interviewed here
said the new policy would be aimed at
those students who abuse the system
by missing the maximum number of
allowed absences without valid
reasons.
The four interviewed were Michael
Looney, chemistry professor and
Faculty Senate chairman; Lewis Fox,
economics chairman and chairman of
the Department Chairman's Assem-
bly; Joe Harber, biology chairman;
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Vol. 57, No. 2
ficulty in passing. There is a high cor-
relation between high absences and
failure.”
Seven of those students who oppose
the reduction in absences said they
thought because students pay for their
classes, they should have the option to
miss classes if they want to.
Thelma Zaldivar, sophomore com-
munications major said, “If you pay
for them (classes), you should be
responsible for attending classes and
if you don’t then it’s your money lost."
Gary Smith, a sophomore with an
undecided major, said because
students are paying the bill for their
classes they should not be told how
often they must attend class.
“I feel I’ve paid for a service, and
that I should be able to use that service
as I see fit.
“A student shouldn’t be kicked out
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computers. I returned to San Antonio,
started taking refresher courses in
data processing here and in 1980
graduated with an associate’s degree
in computer programming," he said.
“The State Commission for the
Blind was a tremendous assistance in
helping and providing the special
equipment necessary. The faculty
here are extremely helpful, and the in-
structors here are very willing to go
out of their way to help. That’s really
important,” he added.
A friend who saw an ad told him
about the opportunity to instruct here,
Mady said.
During last year Mady, with Hopie,
gave lectures on data processing and
taught during the summer session.
This fall is Mady’s first semester as a
full-time instructor.
“The rest of the faculty in data pro-
cessing have been extremely helpful
to me. It’s a good feeling to know your
fellow workers are behind you," he
said.
Currently, Mady is using a talking
terminal for working with the com-
puters here. He has requested a ter-
minal in Nail Technical Center that
will print Braille, he said.
“We’ll have a printer in a few weeks
with Braille output. This will be more
for my teaching, getting my notes in
readable form, notes for general infor-
mation and reference, right at my
finger tips," he said.
Mady is involved in other activities
and commitments to helping the
blind:
"I told the handicapped student ser-
vices if they have any students who
want to discuss the computer world,
visually impaired or otherwise, I’d be
glad to talk with that person.
"The main thing is they (the visually
impaired) are often not informed.
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McClenney said many hurdles re-*
main to clear before implementing
such a program.
“It is conceivable to me the college
and the school districts would want
accreditation with the Southern
Association of Colleges and Schools.
That would entail clearance with the
commission on colleges and the com-
mission on elementary and secondary
schools.
“In legal hurdles it would be getting
an OK with the Texas Education
Agency,” McClenney said.
Cisneros’ interest is in the economic
development of the community which
includes preparing people for produc-
tive employment, McClenney said.
“Community colleges are the big-
gest trainers of high technology, and
we’re responsible to the community to
develop it further,” McClenney said.
“I’m interested because I believe in-
dustry would be able and willing to
equip one school with state-of-the-art
facilities.
“At least we would want to ar-
ticulate with the high school pro-
gram,” McClenney said.
The program would be for high
school juniors and seniors, the
chancellor said.
"If the technology part develops
later, that would be all the better,”
McClenney said.
The mayor's idea has been to
develop technical courses like
engineering technology, which would
need more study before becoming a
part of the school program, McClen-
ney said.
A presentation on the high
technology high school will be given
at the board of trustees meeting Mon-
day, McClenney said.a
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and Dr. Kenneth Shumate, chemistry
chairman Harber and Shumate are
former assembly chairman.
Looney said, “I think the absence
policy here is definitely too liberal.
“The problem with it is that many
students abuse the school’s absence
policy.”
Looney said when he tells his
students they are allowed nine
absences in their M-W-F classes they
believe this means they can miss nine
classes.
"If a student misses three weeks of
class, he or she won’t do well in the
course. He or she will make either a D
or an F,” he said.
Fox, who recommended the reduc-
tion at a spring Faculty Senate
meeting, agreed, “If a student misses
three weeks, he would have great dif-
Lebanese says idea
of Gemayel lives on
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be dropped.
“Faculty members are human be-
ings, and we do have compassion,” he attend class on a regular basis,
said. said.
Harber said the policy should not Those five students who favor the
penalize those students who miss senate’s proposal reinforce Shumate’s
classes for valid reasons such a illness belief.
Miaja Evans, sophomore business
major, said, “Students miss work and
at the end of the semester end up
dropping.” she said.
Nora Baladez, a freshman with an
undecided major, said, “I think
because it’s a college you should have
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He is a new instructor in data pro-
cessing, with a four-legged partner as
a teaching aid. He likes to teach with
his partner, listen to music and play
baseball.
Also, he’s blind.
But being blind isn’t a handicap by
Mike Mady’s standards. No, being
blind is more a matter of adjustment
— the unsighted person and the
sighted person adjusting to each
other, Mady said.
“I don’t consider my blindness a
problem, but it might be a shock to
some students who haven’t en-
countered a blind instructor before.
My main objective is to relax students,
break the ice, let them know it’s really
not a problem. Once this is done,
everything proceeds smoothly,” Mady
said.
To help with that adjustment,
Mady’s partner, a dog named Hopie,
walks him to and from classes.
“Hopie lies in front of my desk. I tell
students she does not bite — unless
she catches someone cheating on a
test,” he quipped.
Mady graduated in 1968 from Texas
Tech University in Lubbock with a
bachelor’s degree in sociology and a
minor in mathematics.
After Texas Tech, he attended a
nine-month, 1,020-hour course in
computer programming at Lear-
Siegler Institute in Oklahoma,
After four years as an electronic
data processor with the Pentex Co. in
Amarillo, Mady went into the food
business.
"I ran a cafeteria in a small
manufacturing company in Amarillo.
I was manager and operator in charge
______________________ ,of ordering inventory, cashiering and
Photo by Theresia Brosch hiring cooks,
"Then I decided to go back into
Afif Khrais, Palestinian sophomore
architecture major, agreed with
Altiti’s opinion that Israel will instill’
its. own government.
“I don’t think Israel will leave until
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Party, a Lebanese student said here work for them,” he said.
Wednesday. The Israel-Palestinian conflict is a
Pierre Azzi, sophomore business longstanding one which has existed
major, who said he is a Phalangist, for as many as 34 years when the
said the party of the Maronite Chris- British colony of Palestine was taken
over by the Jews and became Israel.
On June 6, Israel invaded Lebanon
body, not a spirit, because in with the said intent of establishing a
25-mile buffer zone in southern
Lebanon to put itself out of the range
of Palestine Liberation Organization
rockets which were sporadically fired
into Israel.
Israel did not stop after 25 miles, but
pushed on until it got to Beirut, the
Palestinian capital of Lebanon, and bombed West
Beirut where the PLO headquarters
were.
During Israel’s push through
Lebanon, at least 25 places
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would leave to it the professor’s students now after three weeks of
discretion on whether or not to drop a missed classes. “It’s left to a pro-
student for excessive absences. fessor's discretion.” Shumate said he
Looney said, “The current absence believes the new policy would en-
policy is such that if extenuating cir- courage students to attend classes.
“The change would call it to the stu-
dent’s attention quicker that they’re
falling behind and that they may face
an unsuccessful situation if they don’t
he
At the request of Mayor Henry
Cisneros, the Alamo Community Col-
lege District has been asked to serve as
the administrative unit for a high
technology high school, Chancellor
Byron McClenney said Wednesday.
“We’re talking about college
preparatory in the disciplines of
chemistry, mathematics, physics and
computer sciences, with the idea be-
ing this would become a magnet pro-
gram for students of all the indepen-
dent school districts in Bexar Coun-
ty,” McClenney said.
“The purpose would be to prepare
students for college studies in
engineering sciences.
. “The basic idea is to see if it is feasi-
ble for the college district to become
the administrative unit for a magnet
school,” McClenney said.
“If developed we would develop
contracts with the school districts for
students in these disciplines
(mathematics, chemistry, computer
science and physics),” McClenney
said.
“The idea has a lot of merit because
it would be providing a service to the
school districts.
“It would have benefits for us and
other school districts because we are
already strong in these areas,” Mc-
Clenney said.
"The magnet school would be a cen-
tralized program offering specialized
programs that could not be offered in
each of the school districts,” McClen-
ney said.
"The problem for the school
districts is recruiting faculty in these
areas (math, chemistry, computer
h . sciences and physics). And if they
i) could, there would not be enough
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