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Month events determined, but Vela estimated that about four stu- philosophy department - as officials attempted to
Hispanic Heritage events con- ' A verbal altercation among four to 15 students dents were initially involved and up to 15 students sort out what had happened.
tinue Lth expjlions of civil b that began around noon Wednesday in the lobby on could have participated. It s more of tryi g p P 1 geth
“XX "Pot and secular the first floor of Oppenheimer Academic Center and Vela would not say what the code of conduct er," Vela told The Ranger Wednesday after the inci
en8"55y and ZZh moved outside the building is under investigation violation was, but he said there was no physical dent. "Any time there's a code of conduct violation.
Civil engineer Hernan by college officials and district police. altercation. we address it very swiftly.
Jaramillo will lecture from 11 Dr. Robert Vela, vice president of student affairs "With any verbal altercation, it could be abusive "The police are investigating that to see who
am 11-50 am Wednesday in and interim vice president of academic affairs, said language, to threats, to intimidation. It could be a exactly was involved. Vela said.
X 2 Xe" Led Thursday that two students have been given "inter- whoie array of things," Vela said. He said no arrests were made Wednesday, but
hea conter im disciplinary action" and College officials and Although officials would not give details on the "that doesn’t mean through the course of the inves-
Richard Arredondo commu- the Alamo Colleges Police Department continue to verbal altercation, about 10 police officers. includ- ligation that arrests wont be ma e.
nication desian r'n oord_ investigate the incident, ing Chief Don Adams, responded to the call, and President Robert Zeigler issued a statement to
nator will present "Rediscovering More individuals could receive disciplinary action police officers blocked entrances to the first floor students and employees by email Thursday con
Mexican Religious Art” from pending the outcome of the investigation. Vela said, of Oppenheimer to everyone but students on their firming disciplinary action and the ongoing inves-
IepmpursdayinThe investigation is expected to take a week. way to class. tigation.
the craft room of Lorin Student "I suspect that there will be more, but we need to Vela and Manuel Flores, student conduct officer, To report any suspicious activity on campus, call
dents really make sure that the investigation and the facts also responded to the situation, the 24-hour police dispatch at 210-485-0099. For
Xal artist Vincent Valdez will are there before we begin the disciplinary process Maricela Ramon, lab technician in the foreign non-emergencies, call the police at 210-485-0099.
present his works from 6:30p.m. on others,” he said. “Sometimes, we have to act languages lab, said Wednesday she was told by Riley Stephens and Carlos Ferrand contributed
7:30 p.m. Thursday in McNay Art immediately as a result of the situation.” campus police to clear the first floor of the building. to this story.
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m Committee to preserve fee money for students
40-minute play about Latina iden-
, from 9am 9-50 a m Oct 8 in By JENNIFER LUNA she’ll do a bang-up job. She’s in a than students who did not, thus the The April 16 issue of The Ranger
Mecremmssthedten. ' ' sac-rangerealamo-odu line of improvement to the director, I proposal was denied. mported that djebiadge. fiscal year
The final event will be a con- After two cancellations, the mean, because she’s the dean of stu- ”I want more conversation than 2012mcluded$100,000fortwoassis-
cert by Pop Pistol from noon-l:30 Student Activity Fee Committee man- dent affairs.” decisions,” Zeigler said about the pro- tant coordinators.
p.m. Oct. 9 in the Fiesta Room of aged to meet Tuesday afternoon. Zeigler continued, What we posal. e proposed.b g
Loftin.It was the committee’s first meet- decided to do was to make a change Since committee meetings were cal year 2013 added an addition
For more information, call ing since the director of student life in the committee’s leadership, restart opened to the public in November, $110,000 for those two assistant coor-
English Professor Patricia Portales resigned as chair this summer, and appoint a new chair and start little discussion preceded votes. dinators and two associate directors
at 210-486-0681. "We just wanted to meet to reboot thinking in terms with the commit- Zeigler explained how the com- for student life.
David Espinoza and regroup and give you our ideas tee to work with Ms. Mendiola, but mittee is empowered to make recom- That budget was based on a
_________________of a go-forward direction,” Dr. Robert in general, parameters that we are mendations and to have those recom- request to double the student activity
Zeigler, college president, said in interested in, is trying to approve pro- mendations seriously considered. If fee to $2 per semester hour. There was
opening the meeting in the presi- posals that will have the most bang for the committee recommends some- no increase because all five colleges
dent’s conference room in Fletcher the buck —in terms of having a broad thing and the president rejects the could not agree on the increase to
Administration Center. student impact.” committee’s recommendation, the propose it to district trustees.
Cancellations were caused by a An example of a proposal that was committee has the right to appeal it Tuesday, Zeigler continued, We
lack of a quorum for the committee rejected for not fitting that description with the board. no longer are able to do construction
@THERANGERSAC offour employees and five students. was installing a Steinbach piano in “I’m also interested in trying to with the fee money. I dont know if
Zeigler introduced the new chair Loftin, which Zeigler said would cost preserve as much money as we can we’ve ever been legally able, but we’ve
of the committee, Emma Mendiola, roughly $70,000-$80,000. for student activities and not spend done it, but now we can’t, so those
x dean of student affairs. She replaces The committee decided that a 'as much as we’ve been spending on expenditures can no longer occur, but
SCAN student life Director Jorge Posadas. piano for Loftin would be nice, but personnel ... " Zeigler said. “I think we can spend money on equipment.
THEMANGER "I’ve asked Ms. Mendiola to be the percentage of students who know we are spending about $100,000 on
m the chair, and we’ve all talked, and how to play were substantially lower personnel.”
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