The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, April 18, 2008 Page: 3 of 35
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Spring/Flex 2
Final Exam
Schedule
Note: Final exams
for classes that do not
conform to the class
schedule will be set by
department chairs.
Miguel
Lopez
help desk
assistant
Housekeeping attendant Frank Solis mops the area in front of
the cafeteria. The contract Custom Foods has with the district to
operate out of Loftin expires May 16.
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The attorney general of Texas has denied
The Ranger’s freedom of information request
to reveal the identity of the female student
who claimed she was raped in February 2007.
The Ranger reported Feb. 23, 2007, that a
female student claimed she was assaulted by
a knife-yielding white male who dragged her
into a van and sexually assaulted her.
In the Sept. 14 issue of The Ranger,
Deborah Martin, public information officer
at this college,-said the student recanted her
story June 29.
In the same article, Chief Don Adams, of
the district’s department of public safety, said
the investigation concluded that the student
was never raped and decided to recant.
In that story, Adams said the department
did not seek to file criminal charges against
the student and decided to leave the issue
alone despite it having wasted the district’s
resources.
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Wednesday, May 7
(MWF or MW)
Class Exam
8 a.m. 8 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
11 a.m. 1 1 a.m.-l :30 p.m.
2 p.m. 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.
2:25 p.m. 2:25 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
a false report is a Class B misdemeanor. It is
punishable by a fine not to exceed $2,000 and
or 180 days in jail.
When The Ranger requested the incident
report from the department in September, the
department furnished a sanitized version of
the report in which the student’s name and
any information revealing her identity were
redacted.
Sexual crimes victims may under the pro-
tection of the law, on the national and state
level, have the right to prevent their identity
from being revealed to the public through offi-
cial documents.
The Ranger filed a freedom of informa-
tion request with the district’s department of
public safety, arguing that because no sexual
offense was committed, the student’s identity
should be revealed.
The department turned the case over to
the district’s office of legal affairs, which in
turn sent a letter to the office of the attorney
general of Texas requesting his opinion on the
matter.
On Dec. 3, the attorney general’s office
responded saying that the student’s iden-
tity should still be concealed because Section
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from disclosure “information to be considered
confidential by - law, either constitutional,
statutory, or by judicial decision,” and that
this section encompasses the doctrine of com-
mon law privacy.
According to the response letter, common
law privacy protects information under two
circumstances, if the information contains
highly embarrassing or intimate facts, the
publication of which would be highly objec-
tionable to a reasonable person, or that the
information is of no legitimate concern to the
public.
On April 7, this reporter contacted the
press office of the attorney general of Texas,
and spoke with a public information officer
who kept referring this reporter to the sent let-
ter; he would not disclose his last name.
On April 10, Hadassah M. Schloss, cost
rules administrator in the Open Records
Division of the attorney general’s office, said
the only alternative left for The Ranger was to
sue the district department of public safety in
a Bexar County court for the release of that
information and hope to win the case.
No academic action has been taken against
the student, said Emma Mendiola, interim
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Spring cleaning has come early this year for the
district’s faculty and students.
An important update was released to each of the
college’s stating that a new e-mail mailbox capacity
limit will be set into motion.
Those with pre-existing accounts will receive a
notification entailing that
the size capacity of the
e-mail is almost going to
be reached and for them
to remedy the situation as
soon as possible.
The district help desk
has already drawn up
solutions for the e-mail
box capacity limits.
Frequent e-mail main-
tenance is primarily the
best solution because
a frequent visit allows
the user to read, save
and delete messages
without having to keep
large amounts of useless
e-mail. ,
Another option was to
have the local college’s
information and technolo-
gies departments archive
e-mails through Microsoft
Outlook, while deleting
the other useless e-mails.
When attempting to send e-mail, a notice stating
that “the message could not be delivered because
the recipient’s mailbox is full” pops up to inform the
sender of the situation.
The size capacity for employees e-mail is capped
at 250 MB while students are allocated 50 MB of
space.
Employees will receive a notification when 200
MB of space is reached. When 225 MB is reached,
a “Prohibit Send” message will be displayed in the
account. When the limit of 255 MB is reached, a
“Prohibit Send and Receive” message will be dis-
played on the accounts.
Similar to the regulations for employees, students
who reach 40 MB will receive a warning message of
their mailbox nearing maximum capacity. A “Prohibit
Send” message at 45 MB and a “Prohibit Send and
Receive” for those who hit maximum capacity of 50
MB.
Miguel Lopez, district help desk assistant, said,
“Students and teachers should be concerned about
this serious issue. Many of the students and a few of
the faculty use their mailboxes as a financial exten-
sion of themselves. Financial aid, tuition statements
and billing information are just a few things people
tend to save to their mailboxes without knowing it.”
For more information, call 220:1616 or e-mail the
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District food service contract expires; cafeteria could close for summer
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The office of student life and its director, Jorge
Posadas, were up for a performance and efficiency
review April 16.
The Unit Review Committee, which has 13
members and is headed by astronomy Professor
David Wood, reviewed the office.
Wood has been the chairman of this committee
for four years.
He said every department, or unit as he called
it, goes through an evaluation and a review every
five years to make sure the department is on track
in accomplishing its goals.
Wood said the meeting Wednesday included
most of the committee members, including Emma
Mendiola, interim dean of student affairs, Posadas
and Executive Vice President Kristine Clark.
Wood said a unit may get one of four statuses:
good, which means the unit is functioning properly;
fair, which means the unit has minor problems that
are easily fixed; conditional, meaning the commit-
tee is missing something to conduct its review of
the unit because the unit did not submit it; critical,
which means the unit has serious problems and
implies that the unit is in tough shape.
“The unit does its own internal audit, then the
report comes to the committee, and the committee
writes its opinion and decides on a status,” Wood
said.
“After the meeting, the committee would write
a draft for the decision and submit it to the vice
president, who decides what to do.”
The cafeteria in Loftin Student Center may look differ-
ent to students in the fall semester, along with all cafete-
rias within the Alamo Community College District.
The Custom Foods contract with the district expires
May 16, which put the cafeteria contracts up for bid this
summer.
This also means that students taking summer classes
or participating in summer programs may have to go
elsewhere for lunch.
Although the new contract has yet to be awarded,
options for a food service vendor for the summer semes-
ter are being looked into by James McLaughlin, vice
chancellor of.administration.
“The contract was coming to an end, so it was a mat-
ter of opening the contract up for bid,” Thomas Billimek,
psychology chair and chair of the district Food Service
Committee, said.
The district Food Service Committee is in charge of
finding a new. vendor to provide food services for district
colleges in the fall semester, Billimek said.
“The current vendor could reapply. The contract is
up this year so it’s just a matter of negotiating a new
contract,” Billimek said.
However, McLaughlin, said that the current vendor
has decided not to submit a proposal for the contract.
The deadline for new bids was April 11, with three
proposals for the contract made to the district, Linda
O’Nave, director of acquisitions and administrative ser-
vices for the district, said in an e-mail.
The contents of the proposals are confidential until
they are evaluated and the awards process for the contract
is complete, O’Nave said.
The committee evaluates each proposal based on
fairness, reasonableness of fees, reputation of the vendor,
quality of service, the ability of the vendor to provide
services throughout the district and die extent to which
Wood said the meeting functions like an open
hearing where the unit director and committee
members discuss the committee’s decision.
“It also gives the unit chair the chance to
respond to some of the questions,” Wood added.
“We look at what this unit has done in the last
five years.
“If they have done what the committee has
recommended in the previous review, great. If not,
then we start asking questions,” Wood said.
Recently, several of the campus’ club members
have complained about their denial of requests for
funding by the Student Activity Fee Committee, an
entity of student life, for no legitimate reason.
In an article published in The Ranger Nov. 9,
Kinesiology Club President Veronica Perez said the
club’s request for funding in the amount of $3,477
to attend a seminar was declined by the Student
Activity Fee Committee. Perez said the club’s
request was denied because of lax participation in
student life events and activities.
Posadas said the club could participate by show-
ing up for events sponsored by student life, like
movie night, for example.
Another controversial issue with student life
is the closed meetings of the Student Activity Fee
Committee, a committee that decides how to spend
the student activity fee. Students pay $1 per credit
hour for the student activity fee.
Wood said the committee is well aware of all
controversies surrounding student life and the fee
committee and will put that into consideration
when evaluating student life.
“ (Public input) is not codified in the process and
the committee’s guidelines handbook,” he said.
Wood said the committee’s ruling will be avail-
able before the end of the semester at the reserve
desk at the library.
they meet district needs as well as past history with the
district, Billimek said.
The committee aniticipates taking recommendations
before the board of trustees in May or July.
“The idea was that whoever gets the proposal will
have the opportunity to do any refurbishing, painting
and minor repairs so that come fall they are operational,”
Billimek said.
However, the closing of the cafeteria means that no
food service will be provided to students over the sum-
. mer.
“SAC events with respect to students and faculty will
have to go to local restaurants,” Billimek said.
Other events on campus over the summer, such
as University of Texas at San Antonio’s Pre-freshman
Engineering Program or PREP, will have to find alternative
solutions to feed students taking part in the program.
“I’ve had correspondence with the PREP program
at UTSA, and food service will be provided by outside
sources if food services are not available on campus,”
Billimek said. “It wasn’t going to be an issue, but they
needed to know. As long as they knew ahead of time they
could make appropriate arrangements.”
In the past, the program was able to provide lunch
free of charge through the cafeteria by utilizing a grant
from the state government that provided money for
student lunches for economically disadvantaged chil-
dren, similar to the free lunch program available in K-12
schools.
“We work with Texas Health and Human Services
that provide a grant for free lunches for students,” Rudy
Reyna, coordinator for the program, said. “More than 50
percent of the kids in the program come from economi-
cally disadvantaged backgrounds, so our program quali-
fied for the free lunch program.”
At the moment, the program is looking into catering
services and if they are able to pay for them using the
grant money.
ACCD to cap
e-mail capacity
The district help desk configures
a way to clean up faculty
and student e-mail accounts.
Evening and
Weekend
Note: All evening and
weekend classes exam times
will be scheduled by the
instructor from May 5-11.
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Friday, May 9 (MWF)
Class Exam
9 a.m. .9 a.m.-l 1:30 a.m.
Noon Noon-2:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 8 (TR)
Class Exam
6:30 a.m. 6:30 a.m.-9 a.m.
9:25 a.m. 9:25 a.m.-l 1:55 a.m.
12:15 p.m. 12:15 p.m.-2:45 p.m.
3:05 p.m. 3:05 p.m.-5:35 p.m.
Office of student life up for five-year review
Review results will be available at
reserve desk in library
before semester ends. .
Attorney general denies Ranger's request to reveal identity
Student's claim was recanted, but the
identity was still concealed.
"Financial aid,
tuition statements
and billing
information
are just a few
things people
tend to save to
their mailboxes
without knowing
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Day Classes
Monday, May 5
(MWF or MW)
Class Exam
7 a.m. 7-9:30 a.m.
10 a.m. 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
1 p.m. 1 p.m.-3:30 p.m.
3:50 p.m. 3:50 p.m.-6:20 p.m.
Tuesday, May 6 (TR)
Class Exam
8 a.m. 8 a.m.-10:30 a.m.
10:50a.m. 10:50 a.m.-l :20 p.m.
1 p.m. 1:40 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
1:40 p.m.l :40 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
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