The Ranger, Feb. 19, 2018

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The student advocacy center will distribute free clothing for men, women and children during its spring cleaning event 8:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Feb. 21 in the mall.

The center is in Room 323 of Chance Academic Center, and offers students, faculty and staff in need free clothing, food and personal care

products.

The center is stocked through donations and is open 8 a.m.-7 p.m.

Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

Friday and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. the first Saturday of each month.

Contributions can be dropped off in Room 323 of Chance Academic Center.

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EFC pushes equal pay for lab, lecture hours Committee ranks district next to last in lab hour pay.

By Kimberly Caballero

kcaballero3@student.alamo.edu

Executive Faculty Council continues to advocate for lab hours taught by faculty to count as full workload units.

A lecture semester credit hour counts as one workload unit toward the weekly workload requirement, while a lab hour counts as a 0.667 workload unit.

A workload for a full-time faculty member is 15 units.

“Due to the uniqueness of the various programs, a faculty member’s workload may consist of one or various combinations of courses, laboratories and compensation for non-instructional work assignments above and beyond normal faculty service to the department, college or college district,” states Alamo Colleges Policy D.5.1.2.

EFC is a districtwide group that reviews faculty issues and determines when an ad hoc committee is needed.

After an ad hoc committee reviews

the issue, EFC gathers the findings and presents a recommendation to Presidents and Vice Chancellors Council, known as PVC, before going before the board of trustees with a recommendation.

At a Feb. 9 meeting, EFC agreed on a recommendation requesting an increase in the amount lab hours count toward total workload units.

The recommendation consisted of a slide presentation reviewing topics such as a list of lab-loading ratio comparisons among community colleges and the lab-loading recommendation as well as a memo with further details.

Alamo Colleges ranked second to last on the list, ahead of El Paso Community College with a 0.60 workload unit per lab and behind Houston Community College and Austin Community College with 0.75 or higher for workload unit per lab hour.

EFC will present the recommendation to increase the lab workload unit at the Feb. 26 PVC meeting before presenting it March 6 to the board of trustees.

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Mortuary science freshman Mark Zaragoza and real estate freshman Michael Stockford sing along to “Livin’ on a Prayer” by Bon

Sinkin Eco Centro readies art exhibit, celebrates SA300 The center will showcase art from college students.

By Frank Piedra

sac-ranger@alamo.edu

San Antonio is celebrating its 300th year and Sinkin Eco Centro is participating by paying homage to San Pedro Springs with an exhibit “Art of the Sacred Texas Springs.”

Keeping the focus on natural environmentalism, Eco Centro will display a variety of media, such as paintings, drawings, poetry and photography inspired by Texas’ springs.

The exhibit will run March 23-April 22, and student artists may contribute artwork.

Students wishing to submit to the exhibit must do so by March 1.

Submissions are limited to students attending college in this city.

“This is the first year of the ‘Art of the Sacred Texas Springs’ exhibit,” said Dyhanara Rios, webmaster for the exhibit. “It is a yearlong series, and several events will be in San Antonio, Austin, San Marcos, Wimberley and New Braunfels.

“In each city, there is a springs site. Firstly, the springs are important because of the environmental significance and the species living there. The indigenous cultures and people near these environments are celebrating by creating art influenced by the springs and other water sources here in Texas.”

However, the springs and environmentalism are not the only focal points of the exhibit.

“We have different ways to celebrate the springs,” Rios said. “We want to give students the opportunity to show their work, and by getting involved in this project, they will learn environmental significance along the way.”

The opening reception will be at Eco

Centro, which will be followed by a pilgrimage to San Pedro Springs Park.

“There will be a Native American healing chant for the springs,” administrative coordinator Ariana Fuentes said.

“We are partnering with different organizations in the cities mentioned who are also putting on their own events throughout 2018. We expect to keep growing with the city since community response has been highly positive.”

Performing the healing chants will be members of the Coahuiltecan native tribe.

They are indigenous to the area.

According to the Eco Centro website, the center is a LEED certified community outreach institution for environmental sustainability.

LEED stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design.

It is a certification program focused on new, commercial building projects and relates to green and environmental sustainability.

It is operated by this college and funded by a U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Hispanic Serving Institutions Assisting Communities grant.

“This federal grant assists with the integration of Hispanic-serving communities around them,” Eco Centro Director Meredith Miller said.

The center’s mission is to provide education, outreach and understanding to the progress and practice of sustainability, Rios said.

All art inquiries should be directed to sac-ecocentro@alamo.edu or by visiting Eco Centro at 1802 N. Main Ave. Additional information can be found at www.sacredtexassprings.com

Jovi with a fake microphone at the Student Government Charity Ball Feb. 9 in Gym 2 of Candler. Lorena Torres Romero

Bachelor’s degree could be by 2019 Nursing program has faculty, facilities and hospital partnerships.

By Kimberly Caballero

kcaballero3@student.alamo.edu

Students could work toward earning a Bachelor of Science in nursing from this college as early as 2019.

College Council discussed at a Feb. 13 meeting the future implementation of the degree program.

With the degree being offered at a community college, students have the opportunity to obtain a bachelor’s degree at a community college rate.

Other perks include keeping the same network of friends and professors throughout the four-year education.

The 85th Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 2118 in June.

The bill “authorizes public junior colleges that meet specific requirements to offer baccalaureate degree programs,” according to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board website.

The Alamo Colleges are permitted three programs across the district to offer a bachelor’s degree, President Robert Vela said in a Feb. 13 interview.

A public junior college can offer a bachelor’s degree in no more than three programs at a time, according to the Coordinating Board’s draft, S.B. 2118 proposed rules, on their website.

This college, as well as St. Philip’s, is planning to implement a four-year program.

Once the college completes the application process, it must receive “approval from the Coordinating Board to offer the program, and also receive approval from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges to award baccalaureate degrees,” according to the Coordinating Board’s website.

A lot of factors went into deciding which programs would offer a bachelor’s degree, Vela said.

He said implementing the Bachelor of Science in nursing would be easy because the state-of-the-art facility, and the qualified faculty and the partnerships with hospitals have already been established through

President Robert Vela leads the College Council meeting Feb. 9 in visual arts. Vela discussed the possibility of this college awarding a Bachelor of Science in nursing in 2019.

Lorena Torres Romero the nursing program.

“If you had to start from scratch — if you had no nursing program — I could only imagine what that cost would be, and it would not be beneficial to start a program like that from scratch. It’s too expensive.

But we already have the infrastructure here,” Vela said.

Another guideline is junior colleges “must not unnecessarily duplicate a program at another institution,” according to the Coordinating Board’s slideshow, Baccalaureate Degree Programs at Public Junior Colleges, on their website.

Local colleges offering B.S.N. degrees include the University of Texas at San Antonio and University of the Incarnate Word.

The third slot has yet to be filled, but Vela said he would like this college’s American Sign Language program to occupy it.

According to a July 20 Ranger article, Vela said this college would pursue only the nursing degree program if the district was limited to three bachelor programs.

Vela hopes to see the Bachelor of Science in nursing offered in the near future.

“I personally want this implemented fall 2019 or spring 2020 at the earliest. I could see it potentially, if we have some hiccups along the way, maybe fall 2020,” Vela said.

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It will cost the district about $6.7 million to reach a 1:1 workload unit to lab hours ratio across the Alamo Colleges.

EFC hopes PVC will approve the recommendation so they can form a subcommittee of chief financial advisers to help determine how to funel the $6.7 million, can be funded.

“The hope is that if (PVC) accepts the recommendation ... there will be a subgroup of the people who wrote this recommendation, along with the chief financial officers of the colleges ... to figure out where that money’s going to come from or what the most feasible course of action would be,” said Dianna Torres Lee, Executive Faculty Council faculty fellow, in a Feb. 12 phone interview.

A survey sent to faculty across the Alamo Colleges in the fall asked faculty to share ways lab loading has affected them.

Many concerns presented in the survey were faculty’s ability to be available to students because of how time-consuming lab hours are.

“Students frequently state that both faculty are unavailable for any one-on-one tutoring, and they feel particularly guilty by taking up any of our time,” one faculty member said in the survey.

Faculty also stated the lab hour workload unit boils down to unequal pay for faculty.

“Laboratory preparation, grading, and execution for [program] courses has always been at least as time consuming as lecture preparation, grading and execution. In fact, if you consider the risk/hazard factor of laboratory and the stress associated with maintaining a safe environment, laboratory pay should be greater than lecture pay,” a faculty member said.

Another faculty member held no reservation in their feedback.

“Besides being immoral, unfair and getting paid less for the most dangerous part of our job, I don’t know what else.”

The lab hour policy dates back at least 15 years, said Cynthia Katz, St. Philip’s College’s Faculty Senate president and math professor, in a Feb. 9 interview.

Katz has not taught a lab for several years because she is focusing on Faculty Senate and United Faculty Senates, but she recalled how difficult it was to teach labs at a lower workload unit.

United Faculty Senates is the new name of the Super Senate.

“It’s like doing a homework assignment and your teacher ripping off the bottom one-third of it, and saying, ‘No, I’m not going to take that. I’m just going to take the top two-thirds.’ It’s frustrating. I’m going to use the word demoralizing,” Katz said.

Ashanti Burleson, 15, and Geneva Pardo, 16, laugh with their friends on the Himalaya coaster, a thrill ride that speeds around in a circle and then goes backward Feb. 10 at the 69th annual San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo. Solomon A. Wilson

Above: Frank Aguirre, owner of Ranch 4 Bar A in Hereford, hires Derrick Drury and Cody Mayfield from Medina County to trim Ryker, a baby bull who will compete in the open show. They trim the baby bull to make him look as stout as possible for competition. A trim cost $75-$100 per head of cattle. Jonathon Rudd

McNay presents voices of African-Americans Alamo Colleges students get free admission but must buy tickets to two exhibits.

By Jeff Riley

sac-ranger@alamo.edu

“Something to Say: 100 Years of African American Art” was unveiled Feb. 7 at the McNay Art Museum with a members-only viewing.

The exhibit is one of four exhibits of African-American art the museum will present through May 6.

“Something to Say” opened to the public Feb. 8 and serves as the first major overview of modern and contemporary art presented by the McNay, according to a pamphlet.

Art collectors Harmon and Harriet Kelley contributed the majority of the artwork from their personal collection.

Other loans are from the collections of Guillermo Nicolas and Jim Foster, John and Freda Facey, and the McNay’s own collection.

Artists featured in the exhibit include Charles Alston, Elizabeth Catlett, Norman Lewis and Kehinde Wiley.

“Something to Say” coincides with three other exhibits featuring art of African-Americans over the last 100 years. Exhibits “30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection” and “Haiti’s Revolution in Art: Jacob Lawrence’s Toussaint L’Ouverture Series” also opened Feb 8.

“4 Texans: The Next Chapter” is set to open March 1.

“We want people to know that there is great art out there made by African-Americans,” Harmon Kelley said. “It’s wonderful to have our collection with the McNay because they have such a wide audience and are very credible.”

McNay Director Richard Aste also shared his thoughts on the significance of the exhibit. “The McNay is in the business of truth and beauty, and with this exhibit, we’re telling the true history of modern and contemporary art,” he said. “African-American art and artists have always been there, but museums neglected to tell their stories.”

Alamo College students with a student ID receive free general admission to the McNay but will be charged a $10 special exhibition fee for “Something to Say” and “30 Americans.”

The McNay, 6000 N. New Braunfels Ave., is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 10 a.m.–9 p.m. Thursday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturday and noon–5 p.m. Sunday.

For information, call 210-824-536.

Left: Addison Verostko, 20 months, pets a pygmy goat in the petting zoo Feb. 10 at the rodeo. Parents Philip and Amanda Verostko said they’ve been coming for six years, but it was Addison’s first time. Deandra Gonzalez Right: Adeline Rimpel, 22 months old,and Aaron Rimpel pets Dancer Feb. 10 at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo. Dancer is a 950-pound leopard appaloosa and rides on a drill team. Brianna Rodrigue Below: Four potbellied pigs representing four universities race by cheering onlookers Feb. 10 at the rodeo.

“Oklahoma Sooners” came in first, winning the grand prize of Oreo treats while “Texas A&M” placed second with third and fourth going to “Texas Longhorns” and “Texas Tech Red Raiders” respectively. Josh Garcia

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Sixteen-year-old Sierra Woods is having trouble with her heifer, Up in Smoke, who rears up in the cattle barn of the San Antonio Live Stock and Rodeo. She says she has only had him and her other heifer, Bullet, for two weeks and had not had a chance to properly train. She won two ribbons, one in sixth place for Up in Smoke in Best of Breed and with Bullet, second place for Best of Show. S.M. HuronDixon

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Above: Isabelle Guevara, a student of Pegg Training and Boarding Stables, rides 15-year-old Arabian horse Khricket in native costume Feb. 10 inside the Horse Discovery. Josh Garcia

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Preschool teacher Crista Buckaloo and 3-year-old Colt Buckaloo look at a butterfly Feb. 10 at the Butterfly Encounter exhibit in the Texas Wildlife Expo at the San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo. This was Colt’s second time attending the rodeo. Brianna Rodrigue

Left: Kaitlyn Coronado, 7, picks up a monarch butterfly Feb. 10 at the rodeo. Deandra Gonzalez

Unusual animals interact with rodeo attendees Butterflies, skunks and snakes await vistors to the rodeo grounds.

By Sarah F. Morgan sac-ranger@alamo.edu

Visitors to the 69th annual San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo may encounter animals beyond the traditional bucking horses and bulls, calves in the arena and pigs and goats in the petting zoo.

At Horse Discovery, two beautiful Arabian show horses, half-sisters Khricket and Kiss Me Kate, were being groomed meticulously by their caretakers.

These equine beauties were not bred to buck but to stun the audiences with their finesse and graceful, dance-like movements, said Jeanene Pegg, specialist in Arabian horses and owner of Pegg Training and Boarding Stables, in an interview.

Isabelle Guevara, a horse-riding student of Pegg’s, rode Kiss Me Kate in costume and Carolyn Patrick, another horse-riding student, showed off Khricket’s canter in English

dressage in an hourlong show on horse discovery.

Khricket and Kiss Me Kate are no ordinary pedigree either.

They are granddaughters of Khemosabi, one of the greatest Arabian stallions in America, Pegg said.

She said Arabian show horses are the best cared for of all the horses at the stock show and rodeo.

“This is not a picnic,” she said about taking the horses to the grounds.

“It puts stress on them to be in a tiny stable for three weeks. They’re used to being out in a field.”

Pegg hopes to promote Arabian horses to fellow horse lovers and inspire the next generation of riders.

She boards Arabian horses and gives riding lessons.

In the Butterfly Encounter in the Wildlife Expo, hundreds of monarchs and painted ladies fluttered around admiring children’s heads.

The Lurie family has displayed more than 300 butterflies across the country for five years; Each butterfly has a lifespan of no more than 30 days.

Mike Waschek, an adult member of Texas 4-H, chaperoned his daughter Jessie, 9; Hope Berry, 11; and Grace Bettencourt, 12, throughout the exhibit.

The girls are also members of Texas 4-H, a youth volunteer organization celebrating Youth Day at the stock show and rodeo.

Youth Day was Feb. 10, where the youth members of 4-H; FFA, a national organization formerly known as Future Farmers of America; and Family, Career and Community Leaders of America come together to showcase their organizations on the grounds.

They held out foam paint brushes dipped in sugar in hopes of luring a butterfly with a meal.

“The 4 H’s stand for ‘head, heart, hands, and health, ’” Hope said.

Texas 4-H and the National FFA Organization will also host events such as calf

scrambling and the Agricultural Science Fair at the stock show this year.

The Wildlife Expo exhibits a myriad of wildlife native to Texas, including prairie dogs, armadillos and opossums.

At Zoomagination, Michael Magaw from the Texas Zoo draped a blue indigo snake around his arms and neck while his partner, Jesse Salinas, cradled Diego, a furry striped skunk, who was “disarmed” so he couldn’t spray his pungent odor.

The Texas Zoo is a nonprofit organization in Victoria that focuses on educating and entertaining people by connecting them to Texas wildlife.

The Texas Zoo often houses protected species, such as the blue indigo snake, that were kept as pets illegally, Magaw said.

The 69th San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo will continue through Feb. 25. Grounds admissions are $10 for a daily ticket and $20 for a season pass.

For information and a schedule of events, go to www.sarodeo.com.

Rodeo presents educational experiences Exhibit provides agricultural scholarship opportunities for farmers of tomorrow.

By Dillon Holloway

dholloway12@student.alamo.edu

The 69th annual San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo is underway and promises to immerse visitors in a full cowboy experience.

In addition to pony rides and pig races, there are educational activities for children and the young at heart to enjoy.

The Innovation Station is making its second appearance at the annual event.

In a big, black tent protected from the wind and cold, drizzly skies, Innovation Station boasts activities involving science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics.

Activities include a dinosaur fossil excavating sandpit, a giant lightbright board and microscopes to examine materials.

Brian Fitzgerald, chief front officer and co-founder of Innovation Station, said the station isn’t just for kids.

“It’s a hands-on immersive experience for kids of all ages, 1-100,” he said. “As long as you’re a kid at heart and have curiosity, well, that’s what

we’re all about.”

Fitzgerald said the Innovation Station team selects activities based on what they discover at science museums around the country.

“We’re igniting the imagination.

We’re encouraging them to explore, build and maybe pick this as a future career,” he said.

Fitzgerald said one of the goals of his team is to give children from rural and inner-city communities the opportunity to experience a variety of scientific information.

Another exhibit, the Little Buckaroo Farms, is devoted to teaching the importance of agriculture to children.

The Little Buckaroo Farms is a series of exhibits sponsored by H-E-B. Leslie Butterworth, a volunteer with Bexar County Master Gardeners, said the program teaches children where eggs, vegetables and fruits come from.

Sales from products sold at the exhibit go toward agricultural scholarships for children and teenagers, Butterworth said.

Things were abuzz at beekeeper Gary Rankin’s booth, where rodeo-

goers got an up-close encounter with about 5,000 European honey bees as they buzzed about inside a small wooden and glass observation hive.

Rankin, representing the Alamo Area Beekeepers Association, said the group’s goal is to educate the public on the necessity of bees and help keep the population stable.

“There’s a lot involved in the beekeeping industry,” he said. “I keep a few hundred hives myself.”

The association helps raise bees to replenish hives lost to disease and pesticides, Rankin said.

At the booth, Rankin sold locally sourced and manufactured honey, beeswax lip balm, beeswax soap and lotion made from powdered honey and beeswax.

Rankin said all proceeds from products at the exhibit are used to buy tools for teenagers who want to start beekeeping.

The tools include a bee-suit, beehive, gloves and smoker, Rankin said.

“100 percent, it’s all for the kids,” he said.

Rankin said his company, The Bee Place, offers one-day training sessions on how to properly handle and care for bees.

Rakin Maredia, 11, plays with a plasma globe Feb. 11 inside the Innovation Station at the rodeo. Sasha D. Robinson The class costs $50 and lasts about four hours, he said. People 18 years of age and younger may attend free.

Rankin said he became involved in beekeeping at a young age thanks to his uncles, Dan and Jimmy Rankin, who were also beekeepers.

“It’s in the DNA,” he said. “And, like most people, I’m addicted to this liquid gold so it’s worth getting stung over every now and then.”

For more information on the Innovation Station, visit www. yourinnovationstation.com.

More on The Bee Place and class information can be found at www. thebeeplace.com.

The San Antonio Stock Show and Rodeo runs through Feb. 24.

General admission for unlimited access to the rodeo grounds and carnival is $20.

Visit www.sarodeo.com for ticket information and a schedule.

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Refusing to talk to students is no help The public deserves information; the employees of this district should provide it.

At the Feb. 7 men’s basketball game, Paul Lede, the coordinator of student success in student life at St. Philip’s College, refused to give The Ranger any information on the Tigers’ roster.

Being told that someone doesn’t want to talk to us is not uncommon.

After all, no one is under any obligation to talk to us.

Many of the people we interview, such as district trustees, have information they’d rather keep under lock and key.

While being stonewalled is frustrating, the board’s reasons for doing it are never personal.

For instance, when the board refused to say who they interviewed for the chancellor position, we were at least told this was to protect the people who had applied from any punitive measures they might face if their current employers knew they were looking elsewhere.

Lede gave The Ranger no reason for refusing to talk to us or for refusing to promote the students he is supposed to support.

Instead, our reporter had to get the information on the Tigers’ roster from the score keeper’s sheet.

If employees of the district refuse to promote their students’ successes, they’re not serving anyone.

However, discussing failure is also

necessary sometimes.

When a team loses, we recognize it can be hard to discuss that loss with the media.

However, it is generally practiced across all sports.

Openly discussing your team’s failures is sportsmanlike.

We learn from our failures. Speaking about them helps us avoid them in the future.

Simply refusing to speak because you didn’t like last week’s news is petulant.

If anyone takes issue with how The Ranger covered a previous event, meeting or story, we hope they would be willing to address it with us.

We are students, and while our advisers do ensure our articles are good enough to be read by the public, there are nuances we can’t always account for.

While we can ensure we never make any bold comments that aren’t grounded in fact, it is impossible to account for how our readers will interpret our work.

We should be clear; we never intentionaly write negative materials about any people or organizations.

Talking to us gives the students you represent a voice in their greater college community. They deserve that much.

So if you ever take issue with something we write, please contact us. We want to learn from our mistakes.

Call us at 210-486-1773, email sacranger@alamo.edu or write a letter at www.theranger.org/letters-to-the-editor/.

Amanda Graef

Board fails at transparency in chancellor search Alamo Colleges community should have a voice in the selection.

The “transparency” trustees claim to observe during the chancellor search is more like a titanium vault than a thin veil. The few elite are allowed, but no “average Joes.”

The only candidate revealed to the public was the Palo Alto College president because he had been selected finalist for the position. No other candidates were made available for public feedback or questioning.

What is the board of trustees afraid true transparency will induce?

Is the board afraid to hear the voices of the thousands of students spending a large amount of their time and money at the Alamo Colleges?

Or are they trying to squelch the faculty and staff?

Any of those parties could disagree

with the trustees’ idea of the best candidate. If that were the case, the board should want to know that.

Students could support the board’s chosen finalist, which is equally as important to take into consideration.

Was the goal to select a candidate who best suits the trustees’ interests, with little concern for other stakeholders’ opinions? One should hope not.

It is crucial for students and employees across the Alamo Colleges to offer input on chancellor candidates because the actions of the new chancellor affect them.

Ideally, after the board boils down the applicants, students and employees would hear the candidates speak about how they plan to approach the role of chancellor.

We have a finalist, now listen to the Alamo Colleges community. You have to wait 21 days anyway.

ONLINE NOW www.theranger.org Adjunct Faculty Council discusses proposals on pay

Early childhood center full; newcomers can join waiting list

By Andrea Moreno

By Austin P. Taylor This college’s Adjunct Faculty Council met in Gonzales Hall to discuss plans to adjust a 2015 proposed pay plan.

Adjunct pay is dependent on an adjunct’s level of education. An adjunct with a master’s degree will earn more than an adjunct with a bachelor’s degree.

The council is exploring the possibility of a three-tiered system, but tier significance has yet to be determined.

The council believes pay determined by time at the college is fairer than education-based pay.

STAFF Editor Alison Graef Managing Editor Kimberly Caballero News Editor Shamona Wali Sports Editor Dillon Holloway Calendar Editor Sasha D. Robinson Staff Writers Alfred Allen, Kathya Anguiano, Blanca Granados, Katya Harmel, Thomas Macias, Sergio Medina, Andrea Moreno, Sarah F. Morgan, Frank Piedra, Jeff Riley, Alexis Terrazas, Kenneth L. Williams, Maya R. Williams, Victoria L. Zamora

For people looking for child care, the early childhood center is available to students, faculty

and staff at this college as well as the community.

The center takes applications for fall starting mid-April

to the end of June, which can be downloaded from the college website, Coordinator Claudia Gonzalez said Feb. 12.

Speech program encourages students to attend workshops

By Katya Harmel The Adjunct Faculty Council met Feb. 7 in Gonzales to discuss plans to alter adjunct pay. They will be reviewing adjunct pay at other community colleges in Texas. Brianna Rodrigue

Visuals Editor V. Finster

All students and community members are welcome to join speech workshops on improving communication skills.

Speech Instructor Justin Blacklock will present “Say it with Style,” a workshop focusing on ways

speakers can engage an audience 3-4 p.m. Feb. 28 in Room 203 of McAllister Fine Arts Center.

Guest speaker workshops are scheduled March 27 and April 11, but speakers are not announced.

Blacklock said the chosen speakers will be former students.

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