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THE RANGEROccupiers more than
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FINAL EXAM SCHEDULE 2
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A forum of free voices serving San Antonio College since 1926
Vol. 86 Issue 9 Single copies free Nov. 14, 2011
Illustration by Alexandra Nelipa
The Ranger 2 • Nov. 14, 2011 Calendar
Today
Deadline: Submissions for Nov. 21 print
issue, The Ranger’s last for the fall.
SAC Transfer: UTSA 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
on first floor of Chance. Continues 12:30
p.m.-3 p.m. by appointment in transfer
center. Continues Nov. 23 and Nov. 28.
Call 210-486-0864.
SAC Meeting: Student Government
Association noon in faculty and staff
lounge of Loftin. Call 210-486-0125.
SAC Meeting: Campus Activities Board
4 p.m. in faculty and staff lounge of Loftin.
Call 210-486-0125.
Tuesday
SAC Transfer: St. Mary’s University
8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on first floor of
Chance. Continues Wednesday, Nov. 29
and Nov. 30. Call 210-486-0864.
SAC Lecture: “International Students and
Scholars” by Dr. William Davey 10 a.m.-noon
in Room 120 of visual arts. Call 210-485-
0076.
SAC Meeting: Campus Crusade for Christ
1:30 p.m. in Room 113 of chemistry and geol-
ogy. Continues Tuesdays. Call 210-486-1233.
SAC Event: Documentation Workshop:
Citing Sources Correctly 2 p.m. in the
writing center in Room 203 of Gonzales.
Continues Nov. 29. Call 210-486-1433.
SAC Transfer: University of the
Incarnate Word 3:30 p.m.-6 p.m. on first
floor of Chance. Continues 9 a.m.-12:30
p.m. Nov. 30. Call 210-486-0864.
SAC Music: Early Music Ensemble 7:30
p.m.-8:30 p.m. in theater in McCreless.
Call 210-486-0255.
Wednesday
SAC Transfer: Texas A&M University
9 a.m.-noon on first floor of Chance. Call
210-486-0864.
SAC Event: South Texas Blood and
Tissue Center blood drive 9 a.m.-2 p.m.
in mall. Continues Thursday and 9 a.m.-4
p.m. Nov. 30 and Dec. 1. Call 210-347-
0808.
SAC Event: Sixth annual Fashion Show
by office of student life noon in Fiesta
Room of Loftin. Call 210-486-0128.
SAC Meeting: Black Student Alliance
12:30 p.m. in Room 613 of Moody.
Continues Wednesday. Call 210-486-
0593.
SAC Meeting: Psi Beta 3 p.m. in Room
642 of Moody. Continues Wednesdays.
Call 210-486-1264 or email rross41@
alamo.edu.
SAC Meeting: Gay and Lesbian
Association 3 p.m. in Room 644 of Moody.
Call 210-486-0673.
SAC Meeting: Society for Advancement
of Chicanos and Native Americans
in Science 3:30 p.m. in MESA Center.
Continues Wednesday. Call 210-486-0342
or email [email protected].
Thursday
SAC Transfer: Our Lady of the Lake
University 9 a.m.-3 p.m. on first floor of
Chance. Continues Nov. 22. Call 210-
486-0864.
SAC Event: Coping and Stress
Management by office of student life 11
a.m. in Loftin. Call 210-486-0125.
SAC Event: How to Integrate Quotations
Successfully in Your Writing 2 p.m. in the
writing center in Room 203 of Gonzales.
Call 210-486-1433.
SAC Meeting: Students United for the
DREAM Act 4:30 p.m. in Room 103 of
Gonzales. Continues Thursdays. Call 210-
683-5879.
SAC Performance: “Hamlet” directed
by Paula Rodriguez 7:30 p.m. in audito-
rium of McAllister. $2 with Alamo Colleges
ID. $8-$10 others. Continues Friday,
Saturday and 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Call 210-
486-0255.
Friday
SAC Meeting: Onstage Drama Club
noon in Room 226 of McCreless. Continues
Fridays. Call 210-486-0492.
SAC Event: Coffee Open Mic Night by
Cheshyre Cheese Club 6 p.m.-9 p.m. in
Loftin. Call 210-486-0125.
SAC Event: “The Little Star that Could”
6:30 p.m., “Secret Lives of Stars” 7:45 p.m.
and “Extreme Planets” 9 p.m. in Scobee
Planetarium. $2 with Alamo Colleges ID,
and children 4-17. Others $3-$5. Continues
Fridays. Call 210-486-0100.
Saturday
SPC Performance: Resurrection Blues
8 p.m. in Watson. $5 with Alamo Colleges
ID, $10 general admission. Continues
Sunday and 2:30 p.m. Monday. Call 210-
486-2205.
Nov. 21
SAC Music: Choral Concert 7:30 p.m.
in auditorium of McAllister. Call 210-
486-0255.
Nov. 22
SAC Event: Maid Cafe by the Japanese
Club 8 a.m.-2 p.m. in Fiesta Room of
Loftin. Call 210-486-0965.
SAC Event: Strategies and Tools for
21st Century Researching 2 p.m. in writ-
ing center in Room 203 of Gonzales. Call
210-486-1433.
SAC Music: Jazz Ensemble Concert 7:30
p.m. in auditorium of McAllister. Call 210-
486-0255.
Calendar Legend
SAC: San Antonio CollegeNVC: Northwest Vista CollegeSPC: St. Philip’s CollegeSWC: Southwest CampusPAC: Palo Alto CollegeNLC: Northeast Lakeview CollegeAC: Alamo Colleges
For coverage in Calendar, call 210-486-1773
or e-mail [email protected] two weeks in advance.
Fall, Flex 2 Final Exam Schedule
Monday, Dec. 5(MWF and MW)
Class Time 7 a.m. 7 a.m.-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, Dec. 6(TR)
Class Time8 a.m. 8 a.m.-10:30 a.m.10:50 a.m. 10:50 a.m.-1:20 p.m.1 p.m. 1:40 p.m.-4:10 p.m.1:40 p.m. 1:40 p.m.-4:10 p.m.
Wednesday, Dec. 7(MWF and MW)
Class Time8 a.m. 8 a.m.-10:30 a.m.11 a.m. 11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.2 p.m. 2 p.m.-4:30 p.m.2:25 p.m. 2:25 p.m.-4:55 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 8(TR)
Class Time6:30 a.m. 6:30 a.m.-9 a.m.9:25 a.m. 9:25 a.m.-11:55 p.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.
Friday, Dec. 9(MWF)
Class Time9 a.m. 9 a.m.-11:30Noon noon-2:30 p.m.
Note: Final exams for evening and weekend classes are given during class hours. Department chairs can schedule final exam dates that do not conform to this schedule.
Spring registration Students currently enrolled in courses at the Alamo Colleges
will be allowed to register based on the number of hours they have accumulated. New students and transfer students, regardless of hours earned, must wait until
registration opens to all students.
• Today-Tuesday for students with 46 or more hours
• Wednesday for students with 31-45 hours
• Thursday for students with 16-29 hours
• Friday for students with 1-15 hours
• Nov. 21 for all students
The Ranger Nov. 14, 2011 • 3News
By Joshua Fechter
Raising the $1 per-semester-
hour student activity fee at this
college was suggested at Tuesday’s
College Council meeting as part of
a discussion about funding college
sports programs.
Dr. Robert Vela, vice president
of student affairs, suggested rais-
ing the fee to $2 per semester hour.
However, the college cannot raise
the fee unless the Alamo Colleges
board approves raising it for all five
colleges in the district.
In April, the board reaffirmed
district policy that forbids using
operational funds and instead
requires student activity fee funds
and privately raised funds to sup-
port recreational sports teams.
The student activity fee is cur-
rently $1 per semester hour and
raises about $400,000 annually at
this college. This college currently
has five sports programs — men’s
and women’s soccer, boxing, wom-
en’s softball and men’s
baseball. Student life
could not provide their
cost by press time.
Jacob Wong,
Student Government
Association president,
suggested a separate
fee for sports pro-
grams.
Vela said the col-
lege cannot add a fee
unless every college
does so.
President Robert Zeigler said
he does not think there would be
objections at the district level to
raising the student activity fee.
“We can’t do it here unless we
do it everywhere,” he said.
In an interview Wednesday,
Zeigler said he asked SGA to survey
students here and at the other col-
leges about raising the
fee. During the meet-
ing, Wong said he sent
an email to student life
directors at the other
colleges in summer,
but he received only
one response three
months later.
Zeigler said he has
raised increasing the
fee in district meet-
ings, but the decision
ultimately lies with students.
In a phone interview
Wednesday, student life Director
Jorge Posadas said the committee’s
rationale for wanting to raise the
fee is rising costs and inflation,
which according to usinflationcal-
culator.com, is 3.9 percent.
Posadas said he presides over
Student Activity Fee Committee
meetings but does not have the
authority to make suggestions to
the committee. He said the com-
mittee has recommended raising
the fee each year since it began in
2006 and sent that recommenda-
tion to the president.
Although the committee deter-
mines the expenditure of student
activity funds, its meetings are
closed to the public.
Posadas said this college’s large
size means its student activity
needs are greater. “If you have a
family of one, you don’t need as
much money, but if you have a
family of 14, you kind of need a
lot more to support that family,”
he said.
Student activity fee increase discussed
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4 • Nov. 14, 2011 The RangerPeople
International studies sophomore Matthew Rodriguez used a mixer and Game Boy to create an unnamed musical composition during SAC’s Got Talent show Wednesday in Loftin. Rodriguez won first place, winning two screen passes to the movie “Jack and Jill” and an iPod Nano. Ingrid Wilgen
Walter Soliez, biol-ogy sophomore at St. Philip’s College, guards as liberal arts freshman Christopher Sanchez and psychol-ogy freshman Carlos Abel-Mata take advan-tage of recreational hours for the pool in Candler. The hours are 1:15 p.m to 3:15 p.m Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Casandra Gonzales
Physician assistant sophomore Cassie Rangel creates a paint-ing characterizing abstract and non-representational artistic techniques Tuesday in visual arts. Rangel created the piece in preparation for an ARTS 2317, Painting 1, class. Ingrid Wilgen
Business freshman Annette Marie and political science sopho-more Elijah Sullivan meet Wednesday in the mall west of Moody. Sullivan said of the weather, “I love it. It’s hoodie weather.” According to the National Weather Service, the temperature at noon was 64 and wind speed was 15 mph. Ingrid Wilgen
The Ranger Nov. 14, 2011 • 5News
Occupy movement only beginning, political science professor says
By J. AlmendArez
For about two months, protesters have gathered at Wall Street in New
York City to protest corporate greed — or something.
Their intentions were not clear to the average American or the
media outlets they depend on or even to all the
people protesting. Despite
the muddled message
to the public, Occupy
movements have
sprung into
e x i s t e n c e
throughout
the coun-
try, includ-
ing in San Antonio. According
to OccupyTogether.org, there
are 1,582 Occupy movements
across the world, and The
New York Times numbers this
Day 59.
The movements in America
are often likened to the civil
rights, gay rights, women’s rights
and antiwar efforts of the 1960s,
which created a coun-
ter culture of hippies,
politicos and baby
boomers. Political
science Professor
Fernando Piñón,
said lack of organiza-
tion at the beginning of
a movement is normal.
In 1965, Piñón
marched with the
United Farm
Workers
and has
r a l l i e d
f o r
Chicano rights since the late ’60s,
graduating with a degree in jour-
nalism and political science from
the University of North Texas in
1967. He said, in the ’60s and early
’70s, Martin Luther King Jr. and
César Chávez emerged as lead-
ers because they were activists
and dem-
onstrators
a l o n g s i d e
their peers.
They natu-
rally wore lead-
ership roles,
which enabled
them to speak
with their peers and to officials.
“Eventually, you had a face for the
movement,” he said and predicted some-
thing similar will happen with the Occupy
movement. In fact, the Occupy Wall Street’s new
governance body, the Spokes Council, met for the
first time on Day 53.
Piñon said the idea in the ‘60s was, “If the state
were to change, then maybe society will change.”
The Occupy movement, however, is not against
the state. According to various Occupy websites,
the movements’ focus is big business and the gov-
ernment’s failure to regulate big business.
The Occupy Wall Street website states that the
movement “empowers real people to create real
change from the bottom up. We want to see a gen-
eral assembly in every backyard, on every street corner
because we don’t need Wall Street and we don’t need
politicians to build a better society.”
Specific Occupy demonstrations throughout the
world have varied demands because needs vary by loca-
tion.
But, Piñón said many movements stem from a gen-
eral dissatisfaction with liberty.
He said liberty can be referred to as negative and positive liberty.
Negative liberty is freedom not inhibited by an outside factor. Positive
liberty takes into account internal forces that become inhibiting to liber-
ties. For instance, Piñón said all people can apply to Harvard University,
but considering expenses and inequality in public school systems, many
people cannot attend. “Can you really do it?” he asked. “What good does
it do, then?”
He predicts the occupiers will, in time, begin to register people to vote
and ensure their issues are on ballots.
“Actually synthesizing people to the importance of the vote,”
he said, is the key to change.Illustration by Alexandra Nelipa
The veteran activist participated in United Farm Workers and Chicano rights movements.
Upcoming events areNov. 17 Occupy Wall Street
Mass Day of Action andDec. 10 Global Day of Action.
For more information and to find a movement and
other resources, go to www.occupytogether.org.
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The Ranger Nov. 14, 2011 • 7News
By Stefania Malacrida
“Students shouldn’t use their personal
emails at this college,” said Bridget Torres, asso-
ciate director of residency and reports, during
Employee Development Day Oct. 26.
The Alamo Colleges adopted a policy in May
2011 that says the alamo.edu account, accessi-
ble through ACES, is the only official electronic
method for communication.
So, what should a teacher do when students
still use their personal accounts?
As an unofficial and temporary solution,
Torres suggested faculty should reply once, but
remind students of their alamo.edu addresses
and encourage them to use those.
However, what should professors do if stu-
dents continue to use a personal email or if
a professor does not receive a reply to email
addressed to an alamo.edu account because
students do not check them?
The college district does not have an answer.
The new email policy was proposed by the
department of student success to ensure stu-
dents receive official district communication
and do not run the risk of missing important
notifications.
The policy reads, “The emails are sent to
students with the full expectation that students
receive and read emails in a timely fashion.”
However, teachers say students still mas-
sively use personal accounts because ACES is
not always available and the district does not
offer smartphone applications to make access
quicker and simpler.
District legal counsel Retha Karnes said the
colleges should get together and release a uni-
fied response on what to do in case students use
personal email. Karnes said the use of personal
accounts is not a legal issue but an administra-
tive and educational one.
“It is not illegal to use one’s personal email to
communicate with teachers,” she said.
Karnes said the legal issue relates to the con-
tent of emails, which are educational records
and per the Family Educational Rights and
Privacy Act, cannot be disclosed to the public.
“All written communication — not oral com-
munication — between faculty and students is
an educational record and is, therefore, confi-
dential,” Karnes said.
By Stefania Malacrida
At the beginning of each semester, profes-
sors typically ask students to give their con-
tact information like their emails — a simple,
innocent operation to better stay in touch with
them. Well, if that paper runs around the class,
“that is a big ‘no, no’ in terms of privacy issues,”
said Bridget Torres, associate director of resi-
dency and reports.
Torres held a session during Employee
Development Day Oct. 26 about FERPA, the
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act.
She said faculty may collect students’ infor-
mation, such as personal emails, telephone
numbers, schedules and working hours, but
they may not disclose that information to other
students who are not employees.
Educational records are stored in Banner
and are accessible to all school officials, such
as instructors, staff, committees and the board
of trustees.
The U.S. Congress passed FERPA in 1974.
The legislation controls how public educational
institutions handle students’ information.
The law distinguishes between two types of
student data: directory information and edu-
cational records. Both types of information are
registered in Banner and are considered the stu-
dent’s property. However, the institution must
handle them differently.
Public directory information includes a stu-
dent’s name, dates of attendance, enrollment
status, if they are enrolled part-time or full-
time, classification, major, previous institutions
attended, degree awards and academic honors.
The Banner system places a hold in directory
information automatically for students who are
minors and erases it when they come of age.
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Students required to use alamo.edu email
8 • The Ranger Premiere
By Diana Palomo
Eight thousand students who
attended this college from last year
qualified on the basis of grade-point
average for recognition in the annual
honors ceremony.
Doors will open at 6 p.m. and
the ceremony begins at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday in the about 1,000-seat
auditorium of McAllister Fine Arts
Center.
Students who would like to receive
a certificate on stage must check in
between 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. with vol-
unteers in the foyer so certificates can
be prepared for the ceremony.
The certificate states the honor
was received in fall 2010 or spring
2011 or both. Eligible students were
notified by email.
Before the ceremony, the Student
Jazz Combo will perform for about
20 minutes.
Honor students are limited to two
guests, and reserved seating is not
allowed because of the limited space
in the auditorium.
Certificates will be presented
in alphabetical order. Students are
asked to remain for the entire cere-
mony, which is expected to last about
1 1/2 hours.
Crumpets Restaurant and Bakery
will provide cookies and punch for
a reception following the ceremony.
To be eligible, students must
have:
• a cumulative 2.0 GPA to meet
academic standards,
• a non-cumulative GPA of 3.5-3.9
for Honors,
• and a 4.0 GPA for President’s
Honors.
Certificates honor full-time stu-
dents enrolled in 12 hours and part-
time students enrolled in a minimum
of six college-credit.
Julie Cooper, public information
officer, said students should have
dedication in studying hard to have
good grades because their future
employers look at how well they did
in class.
Dr. Robert Zeigler, college
president; Jacob Wong, Student
Government Association president
and psychology sophomore; and
Carlos Castaneda, Phi Theta Kappa
president and senior at Travis Early
College High School, will present
remarks.
Dr. Dawn Elmore McCrary, English
professor, and Dr. Paul Wilson, social
sciences chair, also will address the
Honors Ceremony.
If students do not attend the cere-
mony, they can pick up the certificate
9 a.m.-4 p.m. beginning Nov. 21 in
Room 313, the public relations office,
in Fletcher Administration Center.
To have the certificate mailed,
email name and address with honors
certificate on the subject line to sac-
[email protected]. Expect to wait four to
six weeks.
For more information, call the
public relations office at 210-486-
0881.
By alma linDa manzanares
Staff Council distributed the names of 90 children
Nov. 4 to faculty and staff members, who will provide
holiday gifts for children of San Antonio Independent
School District’s Austin Academy. The exchange was in
the employee lounge in Loftin Student Center.
Each red angel hanging from the decorated holiday
tree contained a child’s first name, grade level and an
interest, said Enrique Castillo, who is Staff Council presi-
dent and an enrollment specialist.
Austin Academy teachers select-
ed five boys and five girls from each
grade from kindergarten through eighth
whose names were tied to the angel tree,
academy secretary Sally Rodriguez said.
“Some of these kids don’t get a
Christmas at all,” Rodriguez said. “Their
parents are unemployed, and they face
many hardships. They are excited to get
a little something.”
In the past, the college’s Angel Tree
Project has been sponsored by both the
women’s center and the counseling cen-
ter.
Staff Council decided to continue
giving to the children at Austin Academy, which also
recevied school supplies collected during a back-to-
school drive in August, Castillo said
Rodriguez said the school supplies were donated to
Eligible students were notified by ACES.
Honors go to about 8,000
Campus ‘angels’ spread joy to Austin Academy children
The honors ceremony begins at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday in
McAllister Fine Arts Center. If students cannot attend,
pick up the certificate 9 a.m.-4 p.m. beginning Nov. 21 in the public relations office in
Room 313 of Fletcher.
A ceremony honors students for academic achievement Nov. 4, 2010, in McAllister. File Photo
Nov. 14, 2011 • 9Premiere
By AlmA lindA mAnzAnAres
Staff Council distributed the names of 90 children
Nov. 4 to faculty and staff members, who will provide
holiday gifts for children of San Antonio Independent
School District’s Austin Academy. The exchange was in
the employee lounge in Loftin Student Center.
Each red angel hanging from the decorated holiday
tree contained a child’s first name, grade level and an
interest, said Enrique Castillo, who is Staff Council presi-
dent and an enrollment specialist.
Austin Academy teachers select-
ed five boys and five girls from each
grade from kindergarten through eighth
whose names were tied to the angel tree,
academy secretary Sally Rodriguez said.
“Some of these kids don’t get a
Christmas at all,” Rodriguez said. “Their
parents are unemployed, and they face
many hardships. They are excited to get
a little something.”
In the past, the college’s Angel Tree
Project has been sponsored by both the
women’s center and the counseling cen-
ter.
Staff Council decided to continue
giving to the children at Austin Academy, which also
recevied school supplies collected during a back-to-
school drive in August, Castillo said
Rodriguez said the school supplies were donated to
the children who showed up without supplies on the
first day of school.
Castillo thought 90 angels would be too many, but
after they were all picked up, he still had volunteers
wanting to donate money.
“SAC has a caring heart to unfortu-
nate kids,” Castillo said.
Gifts priced between $15-$20 should
be turned in before Dec. 5 to Paul
Sanchez, senior secretary for the English
department, in Room 123 of Gonzales
Hall; assistant bursar Michelle Gable in
Room 201 of Fletcher Administration
Center; and clerk Cynthia Cruz in the
continuing education registration office
in Room 202 of Fletcher; or continu-
ing education specialist Anelia Luna in
Room 227 of the academic instruction
center, Castillo said.
Gifts will be presented at 2 p.m. Dec.
9 at Austin Academy, Castillo said.
Money and gifts can be donated by calling Castillo
at 210-486-0641 or Staff Council Treasurer Jackie
Hernandez at 210-486-1409.
A “Christmas around the world” door decorating contest will occur Dec. 15.
Doors should be completed by Dec. 12. An email with information about
applications will be distributed soon.
By Jennifer CoronAdo
College radio station KSYM 90.1 FM will host its 14th annual
Alternative to Hunger fundraiser 6 p.m.–11
p.m. Friday at Beethoven Maennerchor, 422
Pereida St.
Each year, the radio station secures a
free venue for the event and selects a local
nonprofit to help by filling its pantry.
Bob Flores, a media communications
department staffer, has attended the event every year and said stu-
dents try to find the smallest, most-in-need beneficiary.
“After realizing the impact of it, we were able to make it bigger
and better (each year),” Flores said.
For the second consecutive year, all proceeds will benefit
Boysville, a home for boys and girls.
Volunteer disc jockey Victoria Acevedo said KSYM decided to
help Boysville for a second year because they were easy to work
with and there was still a need.
Acevedo found the children’s home while reading a news story
about the home struggling because of a lack
of donations.
The event will feature live music from
local artists Blackbird Sing at 7 p.m., Eddie
and the All-Nighters at 8 p.m., Los #3
Dinners at 9 p.m., and stand-up comedy
with Carlton Zeus at 10 p.m.
Last year’s event raised $1,519.43 in cash, 33 turkeys, 1,286 cans
of food, 92 boxes of dry food and 13 containers of baby formula.
Flores said, “It doesn’t matter if it’s a big donation or a small one,
it all makes a difference.”
For more information on Boysville, visit www.boysvilletexas.
org. For more information on KSYM, call 210-486-1373 or email
Campus ‘angels’ spread joy to Austin Academy children
KSYM hosts 14th Alternative to Hunger
The Angel Tree Project donates gifts to Austin A c a d e m y s t u d e n t s . Alex Solis
“Some of these kids don’t get a Christmas at all.”Sally Rodriguez Austin Academy secretary
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communication between students
and employees about classes, aca-
demic matters and all counseling
and advising that an employee, as
an educator, may confer.
According to the district’s email
policy, email communication
between students and instructors
should always be related to col-
lege activities and is an education
record.
A violation of FERPA occurs if
any educational record leaves the
college.
However, the basic prob-
lem remains how to encourage
students to develop the habit of
checking alamo.edu accounts on a
regular basis, Karnes said.
If the district expects students
to check their ACES emails, Karnes
said, the five colleges should devel-
op a common, unique strategy to
promote it.
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Alamo Colleges, directory infor-
mation is hidden in Banner and
labeled “confidential.”
All other personal data is con-
sidered part of a student’s educa-
tional record. Educational records,
which include but are not limited
to a student’s date of birth, grades,
telephone number, personal
email, transcripts and class sched-
ules, are confidential and cannot
be disclosed.
“We never disclose a student’s
grades, not even to a parent, nor do
we say where a student is on cer-
tain days and hours,” Torres said.
Educational records include all
content that a student emails to a
professor.
Any essay, exercise, conversa-
tion and piece of communication,
if related to academic activities, is
confidential and cannot leave the
college — even if they use a per-
sonal email.
College officials may disclose
educational records without per-
mission in emergency situations
such as, for example, if a student
has suddenly a health problem and
needs a relative or friend to come
and pick him or her up, and if a
parent or a legal guardian requires
it and submits a tax disclosure
form that proves the student is
dependent. Other than that, “we
never reveal where a student is on
campus,” Torres said.
“A person asking for informa-
tion could be a stalker or a dis-
gruntled boyfriend or girlfriend,”
she said.
Torres, who has worked at this
college for 30 years, said, “I have
seen many things happen during
my career.”
CONT. FROM PAGE 7
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Just over a year ago, a man
allegedly raped his girlfriend.
She filed a police report, but
he was never prosecuted because
there was no evidence linking him
to the crime. A classic case of he-
said, she-said.
She described her experience
at the police department as mor-
tifying. Police asked her to recount
the rape in an open lobby of the
station. Her father confirmed her
experience.
She has been to counseling to
cope with the trauma of rape and
was angered to find that the sev-
enth largest U.S. city has only one
rape crisis center.
The center is in the David Coy
Building in Building 2, Suite 201 off
of U.S. Highway 90 West, just a few
miles from where she was raped.
Even going to the center, having
to drive by the neighborhood where
she was raped, was traumatizing
for her. So, she started an organiza-
tion to allow rape survivors to con-
nect to each other and to encourage
people to fight for a change involv-
ing how men are prosecuted for
rape and how women are treated
when reporting a rape.
She rallies women to distribute
fliers and share their experiences.
The details of her story were
not published in The Ranger last
spring though originally slated to
run as a cover story with color pho-
tos. That story may never appear in
print anywhere.
Despite removing the alleged
rapist’s identifying information,
The Ranger could have been com-
mitting libel to print it.
Libel is defined as a false
statement, written or broadcast,
which causes a person to be pub-
licly hated, held in contempt or
ridicule; be shunned or avoided;
or injure themselves, their busi-
ness or profession. The three ele-
ments necessary for libel to occur
are identification, defamation and
publication.
Publishing the rape survivor’s
name or photo could result in iden-
tification because anybody who
knew the two had dated might be
able to identify the alleged rapist.
Because he was not prosecuted
or found guilty in a court of law,
there is no proof the rape took
place; therefore, he could claim
defamation if the story were pub-
lished. Not running the story saved
The Ranger from a potential libel
suit; however, the story about a
topic often left in the pitch black
underworld was again ignored.
According to the Rape, Abuse
and Incest National Network, two-
thirds of sexual assaults are com-
mitted by someone known to the
victim, and 38 percent of rapes are
perpetrated by an acquaintance.
The FBI states 84,767 forc-
ible rapes were reported to law
enforcement in 2010, a 5 percent
drop from 2009.
However, the National Center
for Victims of Crime estimates
that 45 percent of rapes were not
reported in 2009.
Rape is defined by the FBI as
“the carnal knowledge of a female,
forcibly and against her will.” The
definition was penned more than
80 years ago.
These statistics are available to
anyone with access to a comput-
er and a search engine; however,
the story of a rape that offers vital
insight into relationships, trust,
healing and courage is not.
Rape, recovery, formation of support group still in dark
The Ranger 12 • Nov. 14, 2011 Editorial
At a student leadership forum Oct. 27 at Northeast Lakeview College, Chancellor Bruce Leslie told a student aspiring to become a college professor that although the number of adjunct professors is increasing nationally, the student shouldn’t worry about finding a job after graduation.
Leslie said many adjuncts in this dis-trict make a living teaching as adjuncts at several colleges and universities within the city and that hopefully, “one of those institutions” will offer them health insur-ance.
Of course! Who doesn’t want to crisscross town through traffic daily just to get to another low-paying, high demand, benefitless job, or drive to a neighboring city two days a week to teach?
Who doesn’t want to learn three grading systems, three university systems, cash three pay checks and pay for three parking passes?
Complaints about $50 permits pale in comparison to UTSA ($150-$750) and Texas State University-San Marcos ($75 to $250).
The Alamo Colleges does not offer adjuncts health care as part of their employment contract.
The adjunct faculty at this college is increasing, while the number of courses being taught is decreasing.
As is tradition at this college, the increase in adjuncts was done in the name of cost-cutting.
How about cutting from the top down? According to the Texas Tribune, which
has a database of salaries of public employees, 157 people working for this district have six-figure salaries.
How many full-time faculty members could that pay?
How many courses might that open to students?
While many faculty members started their teaching careers as adjuncts, as Leslie pointed out, they at least had a good chance of becoming full-time faculty.
Graduates of the 21st century do not have that opti-mism.
The Bureau of Labor Statistics, which updates Texas’ employment rates monthly, listed the unemployment of 20- to 24-year-olds, as of October, at 14 percent.
Today’s generation is doomed to linger in a limbo of career uncertainty for a long time, so choose your career path wisely.
Aspiring professors bewareJuan Carlos Campos
A student leadership forum at this college is at 1:30 p.m. Dec. 1 in the faculty and staff lounge. For more information,
call 210-485-0792.
The Ranger Nov. 14, 2011 • 13Editorial
Along with the stress of everyday life, our bodies have to process the foods we eat, which can be difficult if we eat nothing but take-out to accom-modate busy schedules.
Unfortunately, fast food is so pro-cessed and lacking in healthy nutri-ents that it can slow down the body, making a busy day much more dif-ficult to handle.
Instead of letting a busy schedule decide what you eat, take at least 10 minutes to snack on fruits and veg-etables or include them in your meals, which can give you an added boost to better deal with the stresses of daily life.
Websites such as Fatsecret.com as well as similar free apps found on Android phones and iPhones offer a platform to keep track of personal statistics such as caloric intake, food content and minutes of exercise.
Apps are available to help with gro-cery lists where your healthy planning must start.
They display nutritional facts about your purchases or the places you eat.
Take the extra minutes to grab a healthy snack to stow in your back-pack each morning and then to sit still while you eat and enjoy it.
Do it now or regret it later.
At the Alamo Colleges board of trustees’ Oct. 25 meeting, District 8 trustee Gary Beitzel said, “There seems to be inequity in that it takes more to fire tenured (faculty) than nontenured (faculty.)” District 9 trust-ee James Rindfuss agreed, stating, “That’s the real problem.”
Trustees view tenure as a road-block to “accountability” for decadent professors who do not contribute to student success. Trustees want to be able to fire faculty for any or no reason without using the extensive proce-dure for dismissing tenured faculty they approved in 2009.
Despite this warped view of accountability, the board remains accountable only to dismal voter turnout. Trustees serve six-year terms so if the public winds up with a trust-ee they do not like, they must wait six years to oust them. During that time, trustees may pass whatever policies they wish, no matter how they affect the colleges, students, faculty or staff. They are not accountable.
Time and again, trustees dismiss employee input as extraneous instead of considering the voices of experi-ence.
Trustees certainly aren’t account-able to faculty: after they heard tes-
timony from Faculty Senate Chair Dawn Elmore-McCrary asking them to maintain the 2.5 percent ORP sup-plement, a committee voted to end the supplement and take the matter to the full board.
The district has a policy for remov-ing tenured faculty, but where’s the policy for removing board members?
Who are they accountable to?
DegreeWorks, a degree auditing software integrated with Banner, will be available today to provide academic advising, degree audit-ing and transfer credit evaluations, according to the Sungard Higher Education website.
The software will show course-work needed to complete a degree.
Or students can keep up with this by printing a degree plan at http://legacy.alamo.edu/sac/csd/grad/html/associate_degree_forms.htm.
But as the college is moving to a paperless system, the software was purchased last spring for $151,000.
But that wasn’t enough. The dis-trict is considering purchasing an upgrade from DegreeWorks 4.0 to 4.9.
That means more money wasted on unnecessary software.
Kudos for trying to “go green.”With a tech-savvy generation and
budget constraints, it makes sense to move everything online, but it would definitely cost less for stu-dents to just print out a copy of the degree plan (or copy it to a flash drive to stay green).
But let’s face it: This is not rocket science. If you can read, you can decipher a degree plan.
Students used to get a walk-through of a degree plan with an adviser. All their questions could quickly be answered. Software can’t do that.
Katherine Beaumont, recruit-er and adviser at the center for academic transitions at Palo Alto College, said the software would not eliminate the need for counselors or advisers.
She’s right. Just because informa-tion is available doesn’t mean stu-dents will avail themselves of it.
If district officials think this light-weight piece of software is going to fill the void left by reassigning coun-selors to save money, they really have no idea who our students are and what they really need.
Refresh with fruit, veggies
Board unaccountable DegreeWorksa big waste
Trustees discuss assistant radiography pro-fessor Angela Wilson’s tenure contract at a board meeting Oct. 25. Wilson did not receive tenure after receiving a Stage 3 final warning for not following procedure when removing radiology students from a facility after students complained of sexual harass-ment there. Two other co-workers received the same warning, but remained employed because they are tenured, prompting trustees to attempt to fix the tenure “problem.” Riley Stephens
The Ranger14 • Nov. 14, 2011
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Nov. 14, 2011 • 16The Ranger News
College gains OK for on-campus embalmings
A training mannequin lays in the newly renovated embalming lab in Room 236 of Nail. The mortuary science department can now allow stu-dents to complete 10 required embalming procedures on campus. Casandra Gonzales
By RoBeRt Medina
The Texas Occupations Code, Chapter 651,
previously stated a funeral home could not be
located on tax-exempt property.
Petition efforts by mortuary science faculty
at this college resulted in a change in that law
as long as the tax-exempt property is in an
institution of higher learning with an accredited
mortuary science program.
To get the law revised, mortuary science
Chair Felix Gonzales and some of his faculty
members approached state Sen. Leticia Van De
Putte and District 120 state Rep. Mike Villarreal
to sponsor legislation to change the wording
preventing the department from establishing a
facility on campus to meet lab needs.
The first and most pressing concern for the
mortuary science department is to be able to
provide embalming services.
Mortuary science students must complete
10 procedures for an associate of applied sci-
ence degree.
Thanks to the change in state law, the
University of Texas Health Science Center at
San Antonio is in the process of establishing a
partnership with the department
here allowing them to provide all
of the embalming services for the
State Anatomical Board.
The Alamo Colleges legal depart-
ment is in the process of approving
a memorandum of understanding
between the Alamo Colleges on
behalf of San Antonio College mor-
tuary science department and the
center.
The memorandum will allow mortuary sci-
ence students to embalm bodies donated to the
State Anatomical Board for scientific research.
The embalming lab in Room 236 of Nail
Technical offers students an opportunity to
embalm bodies without having to leave cam-
pus.
To participate in embalming labs at the
present, students commute to funeral homes
around the city.
If students cannot complete 10 labs before
the end of the semester, they receive a grade
of “I” for incomplete until the requirement is
fulfilled.
Although an on-campus funeral home may
provide students with an opportu-
nity to further practice their craft,
Gonzales said, “That’s a dream, and
it would be more than unrealistic
of me to expect that that’s going to
happen any time soon.”
Gonzales also said the best they
could do for right now is use a facil-
ity that could be adapted, but there’s
also the consideration of personnel,
liabilities and more.
“Even though we are licensed to that kind
of function, we’re not in a position to where
we could do it to people’s satisfaction. So why
would we want to start off not satisfying peo-
ple?”
The department is awaiting approval from
the Alamo Colleges legal department to begin
working.
For more information on mortuary science,
call student services assistant Cynthia Escatel at
210-486-1137.
State law now allows the mortuary science department to operate
a funeral home on campus.
Felix Gonzales
