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This week SGA applications due April 18
Futuristic novels reflect elements of society today, professors say.
April 18 is the deadline for students to submit candidate packets to run for Student Government Association for the 2012-13 academic year. Students must turn them in by 4:30 p.m. in the office of student life in Room 260 of Loftin Student Center. Online voting will begin April 30 and end May 4 for president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and four commissioners. Terms begin Sept. 1 and continue through Aug. 31, 2013. Mark Bigelow, assistant coordinator of leadership and activities, said April 2 about five students have applied. For more information, call SGA adviser Tiffany Cox at 210-4860835. Faith Duarte
Drop deadline Friday Friday is the deadline for students to drop classes with a W. Students must ask the instructor to withdraw them electronically. Students are allowed six drops for the duration of the undergraduate academic career. Time-ticketed registration for Maymester, Summer 1, Summer 2 and eight-week summer semesters begins today for students with 46 or more credit hours, Wednesday for students with 31 or more, Thursday for those with 16 or more and Friday for students with at least one credit hour. Registration opens to all students April 16. For more information, call the admission and records office at 210-486-0600. Faith Duarte
Board committees meet Tuesday The Alamo Colleges board of trustees will conduct committee meetings at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday in Room 101 of Killen Center, 201 W. Sheridan. To view the agenda, visit alamo.edu and click About Us, Board of Trustees, Meeting Agenda and Click here to access board meeting agendas. Joshua Fechter
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Kinesiology and dance Chair Bill Richardson takes a dip in the dunk tank during Health Fest Wednesday east of Candler. He and fellow kinesiology faculty members took turns at the dunk-
ing booth. Students were encouraged to participate in healthful activities, such as self-defense and body-fat testing. See story on Page 10. Victoria Drumming
Candidate says he promotes decision-making at ‘front lines’ District 5 candidate Ramiro Nava acknowledges individuality of colleges. A candidate in the District 5 race said as a trustee Many AAUP members questioned Nava on topof the Edgewood Independent School District, he ics that the board of trustees has dealt with, includleft much of the decision-making district rebranding, faculty salary increases, By JACOB ing to the “front line,” teachers the 95 percent vote of no-confidence in Leslie and BELTRAN who knew their schools and communication between the board and faculty. what they needed. English Professor Alex Bernal said the curricujbeltran24@student. “The faculty needs a 70- to lum has been homogenized in favor of branding. alamo.edu 80-percent say-so in the col“We know we’re not all the same, but when lege decisions,” he said. we’re homogenized, we’re saying that we’re all the Communicating with faculty and ensuring they same,” he said. are at the forefront of college deciNava said students pick a colsions was the major concern memlege because of a specific speA candidate forum for bers of the American Association cialty, and it should stay that way. District 5 is set for 2 of University Professors brought English Chair Mike Burton said p.m. Tuesday in the Thursday to Ramiro Nava, candithe board’s theory of education is Lago Vista Room of date for District 5 Alamo Colleges that the best minds create the best Cypress at Northwest board of trustees. courses and each college has anyVista College. Nava served two four-year one teach each course the same. terms on the Edgewood board as a “It becomes like a conveyer belt,” regular trustee 2000-2002 and was board president Burton said. “That really flies in the face of good 2002-2008. Nava ran for re-election a third time in education where the teachers are making decisions.” 2008 but was defeated. Nava said students make the choice to attend a “I saw it as it was an opportunity I had,” Nava college to get more out of their education. “Students said. “I did what I could with it and moved on.” do make the conscious choice whether to come to Nava said District 5 trustee Roberto Zarate’s San Antonio College … Palo Alto or … Northwest stint in the Edgewood district did not overlap Vista based on the programs that are being with Nava’s tenure. Nava said with schools being offered,” he said. rebuilt, the board was able to close old campuses, Burton said, “So to get quality, we’re getting and “recapture” a couple million dollars to give standardization.” employees raises and keep moving forward. English Professor Juanita Luna-Lawhn said the Nava is an elementary school principal at Neil board wants the Alamo Colleges to train a workArmstrong Elementary and a student at University force, but that many students are being trained as of Texas at San Antonio awaiting acceptance to followers and not as leaders. the UTSA doctoral program to specialize in educaSee CANDIDATE, Page 4 tional leadership.
While Lions Gate Entertainment Corp. geared up its hype machine for the March release of the film adaptation of “The Hunger Games,” Suzanne Collins’ best-selling dystopian novel of teens pitted against one other By JOSHUA in a government-sanctioned FECHTER televised death match, the anniversary of the publicajfechter @student. tion of an essential dystopian alamo.edu novel quietly passed. First published in February 1932, Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World” depicts The World State, a homogenous world government, in 2540 A.D. Resources are plentiful because the government forbids the global population from exceeding 2 billion. Rather than governing through brute force, the population is kept docile by increasing availability of material goods, drugs and sex. Dr. Thomas Billimek, psychology and sociology chair, said the novel depicts human behavior accurately in that people tend to respond positively to “the carrot,” or incentive, rather than “the stick,” which represents force. “There’s complacency when the carrot is present,” Billimek said. “When needs are being met, one tends to forget about anything other than that.” In the novel, individuality is discouraged. The slogan “everyone belongs to everyone else” is repeated throughout, signifying conformity to societal norms. Billimek said at the time the novel was published, the world was witnessing the rise of communism and fascism in Europe. “The value of the individual was made subservient to the good of the state,” he said. Dystopian novels often function as cautionary tales, taking unsavory elements of society to a logical end to create a vision of future society. English Professor Jane Focht-Hansen said she is more concerned with the world becoming more like the one depicted in Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale.” The novel describes the Republic of Gilead, a theocratic regime that has overthrown the U.S. government where men unabashedly oppress women, through the eyes of a handmaid whose only purpose is to bear children. Almost all women are homebound, and forbidden from reading or making decisions. Focht-Hansen likened this to the political debate surrounding birth control and abortion. On March 1, the U.S. Senate voted to defeat a measure that would have exempted religious institutions that object to contraception from providing free contraception coverage to workers in their insurance policies. In May, the Texas Legislature passed H.B. 15, a bill that requires women to undergo a vaginal probe ultrasound before seeking an abortion. The bill does not specify a vaginal probe, although opponents say that is required to get the sounds the doctor is supposed to provide for the patient to hear. The bill was designed to discourage women from seeking abortions. “I don’t think a group should be marginalized for making a medical choice,” FochtHansen said. “When men who don’t have those gonads to make these decisions start making them for women, I’m quite disturbed.”
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Calendar For coverage in Calendar, call 210-486-1773 or email sac-ranger@alamo.edu two weeks in advance. Today Deadline: Submissions for April 16 print issue, The Ranger’s last for the spring. SAC Advising: Prairie View A&M University 9 a.m.-noon and 5 p.m.-7 p.m. on the first floor of Chance. Call 210-486-0864. SAC Meeting: Student Government Association noon-1 p.m. in health promotions office in Room 150 of Loftin. Call 210-486-0125.
sponsored by the department of kinesiology and dance at 9 a.m. in the racquetball courts. Call 210-486-1029. SAC Men’s Baseball: SAC vs. University of Texas at Austin 10 a.m.noon and 2:30 p.m.-4:30 p.m. at Mission County Park, 6030 Padre. Continues 10a.m.-noon April 15. Call 210-486-0126. April 16 SAC Advising: Texas A&M University at Corpus Christi 10 a.m.-noon on first floor of Chance. Call 210-486-0864.
Tuesday Awareness: “One Day Without Shoes” sponsored by TOMS Shoes. Visit www. onedaywithoutshoes.com.
SAC Event: Karaoke sponsored by the office of student life 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in Fiesta Room of Loftin. Call 210-4860126.
SAC Event: Texas Filmmakers’ Production Fund opportunities for student filmmakers by Austin Film Society at 6 p.m. in Room 101 of Longwith. Call 210-486-1367.
SAC Event: Leadership “Listening” sponsored by the office of student life 2 p.m.-3 p.m. in craft room of Loftin. Continues April 19. Call 210-4860126.
SAC Performance: Faculty recital sponsored by the department of fine arts at 7:30 p.m. in auditorium of McAllister. Call 210-486-0255.
SAC Advising: University of the Incarnate Word 3:30 p.m.-6 p.m. on first floor of Chance. Call 210-486-0864.
Wednesday SAC Advising: Texas A&M University 9 a.m.-noon on first floor of Chance. Call 210-486-0864.
Liberal arts sophomore Jesse Guevara moves a limestone lithograph Tuesday that has been prepared for storage with a gum arabic seal in visual arts. Guevara created the airplane etching for Adjunct Ty Wilcox’s printmaking 1 class. Ingrid Wilgen
Krystal Solano, radio-television-film sophomore, registers to vote Tuesday at SAC the Vote, in the Fiesta Room of Loftin. The event sponsored by Students United for the Dream Act, encourages students to vote in upcoming elections. Voter registration must be filed by April 12 to be eligible to vote in the May 12 election. Ingrid Wilgen
SAC Performance: Honors recital sponsored by the department of fine arts 7:30 p.m. in auditorium of McAllister. Call 210-486-0255. April 17
SAC Meeting: Gay Allied Lesbian Association at 3 p.m. in Room 612/613 of Moody. Continues Wednesdays. Call 210-486-0673. SAC Advising: University of Texas at San Antonio 9 a.m.-11:30 a.m. on first floor of Chance and 12:30 p.m.-3 p.m. by appointment in the transfer center in early college programs. Call 210-4860864.
SAC Event: Speak Out sponsored by the fine arts department 3 p.m.-5 p.m. in classrooms in McAllister and theater in McCreless. Call 210-486-0255. SAC Performance: Early Music Ensemble sponsored by the department of fine arts at 7:30 p.m. in auditorium of McAllister. Call 210-486-0255. April 18
SAC Contest: Money Matters series “Dress for Success 4 Less” sponsored by the office of student life 11 a.m.-noon in Fiesta Room of Loftin. Call 210-486-0126. SAC Advising: St. Mary’s University 4 p.m.-6 p.m. on first floor of Chance. Call 210-486-0864.
Albert Mireles, post commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 76, displays a proclamation declaring March 30 as Welcome Home Vietnam Veterans Day. In 2004, the date was determined by Congressional proclamation to honor members of the armed forces who returned from service to face widespread protests over the war. Ingrid Wilgen
SAC Event: Doubles pingpong tournament sponsored by the office of student life 1 p.m.-3 p.m. in Bailey’s Cyber Café in Loftin. Call 210-486-0126. SAC Event: Office of Student Life awards banquet 6 p.m.-9 p.m. in the round in Loftin. Call 210-486-0126.
Thursday April 19 SAC Advising: Texas State University BAAS degree 10:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. in Room 117 of early college programs. Call 210-486-0864. SAC Event: Mortal Kombat tournament 1 p.m.-3 p.m. in Bailey’s Cyber Café in Loftin. Call 210-486-0126. SAC Meeting: “The Media and You” presented by Marianne Odom to Presidents Roundtable at 2 p.m. in the craft room of Loftin. Call 210-486-0125. SAC Meeting: Students United for the Dream Act 4 p.m.-5:30 p.m. in Room 103 of Gonzales. Continues Thursdays. Call 210-683-5879. Saturday SAC Event: Racquetball tournament
SAC Event: Fredstock with artists Ruben V, J. Meridian, Terri Hendrix, Mob Barley, The Inhalers and Friends Like Us sponsored by music business program noon-6 p.m. in Lot 7 at Main and Courtland. Call 210-486-1380. SAC Event: Yu-Gi-Oh tournament sponsored by the office of student life 1 p.m.-3 p.m. in craft room of Loftin. Call 210-486-0126. SAC Event: Leadership “Listening” sponsored by the office of student life 2 p.m.-3 p.m. in craft room of Loftin. Continues April 19. Call 210-486-0126. SAC Performance: Guitar Ensemble sponsored by the department of fine arts at 7:30 p.m. in auditorium of McAllister. Call 210-486-0255.
Biomedical sophomore Rene De La Fuente gets a rub down from massage therapist Ella Nuñez on Spa Day Wednesday in Loftin before he attends a fencing exposition. Nuñez explained her technique is to use her fingertips instead of her elbows to allow the client to feel more relaxed pressure. Janell Arnold
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‘Angry Birds’ game comes alive at MAES Science Extravaganza MAES members host Memorial High School students. Students used a 5-foot slingshot to fling kick balls and tennis balls at a wall of cardboard boxes to knock down boxes. This real-life version of the popular smart phone app, By OSITA “Angry Birds,” was OMESIETE part of Science Extravaganza sac-ranger@alamo.edu March 30. The Society of Mexican-American Engineers and Scientists hosted Memorial High School students to get familiar with engineering concepts on the west side of the nursing complex. The event aims to do so by introducing as well as inspiring students to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics through STEM-based workshops and laboratory experiments. It’s a new experience for the Memorial High School students who have the chance to sit down with college students for exposure to many educational options. MAES is a national organization whose purpose is to increase participation of minorities in technical and scientific fields. The organization provides networking and a nurturing environment for members to develop leadership, communication, management and technical skills. MAES has chapters at colleges across the country, and each chapter hosts extravaganzas annually. Science Extravaganzas encourage college students to promote interest in STEM
fields among high school and middle school students. Mike Acosta, national president of MAES and an electrical engineer at University of Texas at El Paso, came to San Antonio for the college event. “The earlier in age students learn about college, the better prepared they will be for their future,” he said. MAES chapters at universities nationwide, such as Harvard and Purdue, coordinate extravaganzas with sponsors, including the U.S. Navy and Time Warner Cable. MAES members also mentor younger students in preparation for college. “The most successful thing that happened today was getting through to three people and convincing one student to go to college,” Lillian Martinez, president of the MAES chapter at this college and civil engineering sophomore, said. Memorial High School was the only school invited to participate in this year’s extravaganza. The MAES chapter at the University of Texas at San Antonio joined this college’s chapter to produce the event. “It was nice to coordinate with SAC to hold a great event this year,” Adan Sanchez, mechanical engineering junior and president of the UTSA MAES chapter, said. Martinez said she can assist with arrangements for high schools or middle schools interested in attending an extravaganza. For more information, call Martinez at 210-845-9768.
Above, Memorial High School students used a 5-foot slingshot to launch balls at empty cardboard boxes in a real-life version of the “Angry Birds” game March 30 on the west side of the nursing complex. Osita Omesiete
Left, members of the Society of MexicanAmerican Engineers and Scientists at this college and UTSA joined in creating a Science Extravaganza for Memorial High School students to promote careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Osita Omesiete
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Gateway to College victim of record-keeping PAC program continues while this college focuses on Travis Early College High School. The Gateway to College program, which helps at-risk high school students, has ended at this college because of a difference in aligning processes with the Texas Education Agency. The program allows students ages 16-20 By FAITH to complete coursework toward a high school DUARTE diploma and associate degree at no cost to students. fduarte3 @stu“We believed in the program very much,” dent.alamo.edu Dr. Jessica Howard, vice president of academic affairs, said. However, she said, there was a difference in requirements for reporting attendance between the program and the agency. “Because we have academic freedom, because we’re a college where students are not required to be there like in high school, we report attendance differently,” Howard said. She said while TEA requires rigid reporting, the Gateway program is flexible because it is an alternative high school setting where students also attend college classes. “If it were (only) high school, you would absolutely have to take roll at 10 a.m. every day, or whatever the snapshot period is,” Howard said. She said while school districts report attendance records to TEA, professors’ attendance reporting techniques vary. “For instance, I’m the vice president of academic affairs, but I don’t get attendance reports from our instructors,” she said. “It’s not something we do or have typically done. But in a high school, that would be mandatory.” She said because it was difficult to run the program, the college decided to focus its interest in serving high school students through Travis Early College High School and dual-credit courses. President Robert Zeigler told The Ranger March 28 he made the decision to end the program in fall 2010. Howard said the school districts that supplied students included Alamo Heights, North East, Northside and San Antonio. “There was a smattering from around the area,” she said. Howard said Nancy Cobb, former Gateway to College director and dean of P-16 initiatives for this college, left in October
2010 because she accepted a job offer as an administrator to the Gateway to College program in Portland, Ore. Though the program ran without a dean, Howard said Director Maryellen Mills was hired in January 2011 to run the program until the end of the fall semester. Howard said hundreds of students went through the program, and most of them received diplomas upon completion. “It was a successful program,” she said. Howard said Gateway to College programs run independently among schools, and Palo Alto College offers one. “It was an individual call,” she said. “And PAC doesn’t have an early college high school, so I think this is their big high school effort.” “Everything is dependent on the partners (the school districts),” Andrea Flores, corporate liaison for nursing and continuing education and former project director for Gateway at this college, told The Ranger Tuesday. Howard said Wednesday TEA pays school attendance dollars per student, and a portion of that funding went to the Gateway program. She said there was a conflict in reporting attendance records between the program and the school districts the program served. “We gave attendance records to the high school that were different than what the high school normally turns in (to TEA),” Howard said Wednesday. “We decided that we would probably be better just to concentrate on our early college high school,” she said. Founded in 2000 at Portland Community College in Portland, Ore., the program now operates at 35 colleges in 20 states. Four are in Texas. Abel Gonzales, Gateway to College director at Palo Alto, said he has not seen an increase in students from the program because of closing the program at this college, but said he has received phone calls from former Gateway students from this college. “There’s one less option for students,” he said. For more information on the program at Palo Alto, call Gonzales at 210-486-3170.
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From CANDIDATE, Page 1 Jerry Townsend, media communications full-time adjunct, said it has been several years and there has not been another survey of confidence in the chancellor after the 2009 vote that showed a 90-plus percent vote of no confidence. “Never before has there been a vote of no-confidence in a chancellor,” he said. Nava asked why there was such a large vote of no confidence. In response, chapter members volunteered a number of Leslie’s decisions, such as covering the college seal with the Alamo Colleges logo on the college monument west of Gonzales and McCreless halls without even notifying the president. Librarian Stephen Dingman said Leslie should have considered the consequences of proposing a $116 million district headquarters at Playland Park during an economic recession. “I didn’t see any school districts that were trying out plans to spend $116 million,” he said. Townsend said three years later, there has not been any action taken by the board of trustees to show they care what the faculty thinks. He said much of the board’s action comes from discussion that happens before the actual board meetings. AAUP members agreed that much of board action is rubber-stamping ideas. Dingman said faculty receives most of its information from The Ranger and not from the board itself. He said students should not have to use the Freedom of Information Act to get information from the board. Nava responded saying that there must be open communication. “I know you’re asking why do I want to do this for the Alamo Colleges,” Nava said. “I will tell you that I’m a graduate of the Alamo Colleges.” His announcement was met with applause from AAUP members. “San Antonio College did prepare me for the demands of a university. That transition to UTSA, I was prepared.” Nava said. He said that having someone new on the board might give it a new perspective on its decision-making. “I’ve done a little bit of homework. I know that a few of them are very conservative,” Nava said. “A few of them don’t want to listen. They don’t want to open up, but maybe what they need is a new mind.” “Not only am I an educator and a father, I’m a student as well,” he said.
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From DYSTOPIA, Page 1 Focht-Hansen said when governmental bodies limit individual choice, they “sentence” citizens to a reality they cannot control. “From what I’ve read, that’s called tyranny,” she said. She said medical decisions should not be politicized and that political candidates who do will pay at the polls. Some dystopian novels manage to sway public opinion and policy. English Professor Mekonnen Haile said many prominent U.S. politicians follow the philosophy of author Ayn Rand as outlined in her novel, “Atlas Shrugged.” In “Atlas Shrugged,” society’s most productive citizens opt to disappear from society rather than paying higher taxes or complying with government regulations. The novel outlines Rand’s philosophy of objectivism, which rejects altruism and states that individuals’ only purpose is to seek their own happiness. Haile said this philosophy advocates social Darwinism, which seeks to apply Darwinian evolution to society, which he described as a “vicious ethos.” He said those who follow objectivist philosophy believe that the rest of society prevents them from achieving their full potential. “They think the rest of us are stupid zombies walking around Wal-Mart buying bleached flour,” Haile said. “The fact of the matter is that they need us.” Haile said if the Alamo Colleges board of trustees revokes tenure and the academic freedom that goes with it, professors will no longer be able to discuss topics such as the ones outlined in dystopian novels. “There’s the irony for you,” he said.
District hires director of ‘ideas’ Senate mulls advising plan that assigns each faculty 60 students. Chair Dawn Elmore-McCrary announced during Wednesday’s Faculty Senate meeting that the district has hired a director of “Alamo ideas” to tend a suggestion box and to aggressively pursue ideas submitted to By ALMA LINDA save money. MANZANARES “How about not have a director of Alamo amanzanares6 ideas?” fine arts Chair @student.alamo.edu Jeff Hunt said. “Does that person have a secretary and a clerk to help push the paperwork for him?” Barbara Knotts, director of creative multimedia, asked. “This is his official job title?” Librarian Celita DeArmond said. “OK, the chancellor is just punking us.” “Ashton Kutcher will be at the next board meeting,” theater Instructor Ronald Watson said referring to the show “Punk’d.” The district has been in a hiring chill since summer 2010, and retirement incentives have encouraged 176 employees to retire in summer 2011 and January, decreasing the number of fulltime employees at the colleges. In other news, Dehlia Wallis, Faculty Senate secretary and student development professor, said training groups will focus on arts and sciences departments to prepare faculty members for a collegewide advising plan that will go into effect in the fall. She said arts and sciences departments are the focus because professional and technical education departments have procedures for advising. “PTE can participate if they want, but the nine arts and science departments will be going
through training,” Wallis said. She said there would be three phases of training. The first group will show faculty how to advise using the degree plans for their department as well as liberal arts degrees. “That will be the goal — that every faculty member can advise on the liberal arts degree plan and the degree plan for their departments,” she said. Wallis said a second group will discuss tips for good academic advising and the last group will train faculty on Alamo GPS, Banner and Web Extender. Alamo GPS, originally named DegreeWorks, was implemented in November to provide academic advising, degree auditing and transfer credit evaluation. Wallis said President Robert Zeigler said that each faculty member will be assigned about 60 students to advise. “So those departments that don’t have the high number of majors, say as some others, those departments will be assigned more liberal arts majors,” she said. Wallis said details are being worked out assigning advisees, but it seems like department chairs will keep numbers consistent among faculty. English Chair Mike Burton questioned if other colleges in the district are doing something similar. Wallis said they are not, but district is directing this. “SAC is just trying to get out in front of this so that we have something in place that we can live with and was created by us, rather than someone else coming and saying, ‘This is how you’re doing it,’” she said. Burton said he thought a constructive sug-
gestion was that faculty could pull students from their classes “It would seem to be less of a burden than having to meet 60 strangers,” he said. Wallis said a group was looking at the suggestion. Wallis said Banner access would be given to faculty to remove advising holds for students who need to register. “That’s a mistake,” Psychology Chair Thomas Billimek said. “We’re going to be flooded; I can just see this. The week before registration starts we’re going to have 60 students outside of our doors trying to get access to registration. It’s not going to happen.” Wallis said although faculty would be allowed to remove some holds, they would not be allowed to remove all. Billimek said. “Banner is all or none. We were told time and time again that Banner is a system that does not allow any type of compartmentalization.” Counselor Steve Samet said that if students have academic holds, faculty need to notify counselors. “If you remove it, we’re dead,” he said. “We just lost our key person that tracks all this so it’s ridiculous because we’re not getting to rehire anybody. These wonderful hiring freezes. Maybe we can get this director of Alamo ideas to come out and help with this stuff.” Linda Lowman, early childhood studies professor, asked how faculty are expected to juggle all their responsibilities, such as preparing new classes, being Faculty Senate members and now advising. Wallis said, “Basically what we were told was this is going to happen, you’re going to do it and this will be the priority. So, any meetings or anything else goes (by) the wayside to faculty advising.”
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All events are free and open to the public. Some events may change; for any updates and the full schedule of events, visit www.ollusa.edu/LitFest. 411 S.W. 24th Street San Antonio, TX 78207 210-434-6711 The 2012 Literary Festival is made possible in part by a grant from Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and from the Shield-Ayres Foundation. The High School Outreach Day and the Literary Journal Online are funded with a grant from the Richard and Joyce Harris Sapience Foundation. The appearance of Judith Ortiz Cofer has been made possible in part by a grant from the Russell Hill Rogers Fund for the Arts.
Theater sophomore John Belcher, portraying Rudolpho, dances with theater sophomore Jovi Lee Gonzales as Catherine Bridge” continues at 7:30 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2:30 p.m. April 15. Troy Renteria
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Staff Council seeks volunteers Council and Faculty Senate collect donations for NIOSAC. Staff Council is looking for volunteers to participate in a fiesta-themed parade for “Night in Old San Antonio at Chandler,” or NIOSAC 4 p.m.-8:30 p.m. Friday at Morningside By ALMA LINDA Ministries at MANZANARES Chandler Estates, 137 W. French Place. amanzanares6 NIOSAC is an @student.alamo.edu annual Fiesta event for Morningside Ministries at Chandler Estates, a senior assisted-living and retirement community. Staff Council President Enrique Castillo said the council is looking for 30 volunteers to decorate 30 wheelchairs and participate in accompanying residents in the parade. Castillo, an enrollment specialist, said he is asking students, faculty or staff to stay until 6:30 p.m. to volunteer. A petting zoo and numerous games will be available at the event. He said the project is the council’s service learning project that he decided to resurrect because the council had not participated in one in awhile. Castillo said Staff Council’s tradition has been to donate school supplies and Christmas gifts to needy schools. In August, the council gave school supplies collected during a back-to-
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school drive to children of San Antonio Independent School District’s Austin Academy. In November, the council distributed the names of 90 children to faculty and staff members, who provided holiday gifts for children of Austin Academy. “This year, I said, well, we should do something for the elderly also,” he said. Faculty Senate is working with the council to collect donations such as decorations, bird food, plants, costume jewelry and nonslip socks, Castillo said. He said the council is asking for decorations such as streamers, papier mâché and construction paper. Residents who tend the garden at the estates ask for vegetable seeds and plants such as herbs and spices. Castillo said the donations, such as the nonslip socks, will be distributed on an as-needed basis to residents; therefore, the council does not have a set goal. Donations are needed before Friday. For more information, call Castillo at 210-486-0641.
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‘A View from the Bridge’ American dream with a twist The play addresses immigration concerns and familial relationships in 1950s Brooklyn. “A View from the Bridge” by Into the household come two of Arthur Miller, a tragedy set in Beatrice’s cousins from Italy who the 1950s, continues at 7:30 p.m. entered the country illegally to find Thursday-Saturday and 2:30 p.m. work on the waterfront. Sunday in Eddie’s love for his niece turns By SILVIA the audito obsession when the younger of torium of the Italian brothers, Rodolpho, and MILLAN Mc A l l i s t e r Catherine strike up a friendship sac-ranger@alamo.edu Fine Arts that blooms into romance. Center. Soon, Eddie’s conflicted feelTheater Instructor Charles ings lead him to betray his family’s Falcon said the play illustrates trust, and in a desperate attempt “parallels to our current reality” to split them up before they can concerning immimarry, he betrays gration, which both cousins to Admission is is still at the the immigration $2 with an Alamo Colleges ID, $8 for forefront of the authorities. high school and other American psyche. “It’s a great colleges’ students This is what show,” theater with IDS and $10 drew him to direct freshman Gerardo general admission. the play, he said. Solis said. “I love The two-act how it’s executed. play takes place in A very serious play Brooklyn and is narrated by Eddie always needs some comedic in it Alfieri, a local lawyer who tells as well.” the story of longshoreman Eddie Solis plays Mike, a longshore Carbone, who lives in the Red Hook man and friend of Eddie’s, who section of Brooklyn with his wife, brings the comedic side of the play. Beatrice, and her orphaned niece For more information, call Catherine, who they have brought Falcon at 210-486-0486 or the fine up as their own daughter. arts department at 210-486-0255.
Music Professor Terry Muska directs the Guitar Ensemble. Upcoming recitals include a Faculty Concert Tuesday, Honors Recital April 16, Early Music Ensemble April 17 and Guitar Ensemble April 19 at 7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of McAllister. File Photo
Student pageant idea stalls CAB president attributes postponement to “matter of timing.” The kingdom will have to go without a ruling couple at least until fall, the office of student life says. Mr. & Miss SAC, a pageant for students, is postponed, By FAITH Mark Bigelow, assistant DUARTE coordinator of leadership and activities and fduarte3 @student. adviser for the Campus alamo.edu Activities Board, told The Ranger March 20. “Logistically, finding the location to do it was a big thing,” he said. Bigelow said Thursday, “As far as we got was to contact McAllister to see if there was space, and there was never space.” According to OrgSync, a campus network student life uses for its own and club activities, the Campus Activities Board is a student-run and student-funded organization dedicated to providing diverse entertainment to students, faculty and staff. Bigelow said Thursday the event was posted on OrgSync “probably in the summer.” The event was scheduled for 6 p.m.-
10 p.m. March 30 in the auditorium of McAllister Fine Arts Center. As of 12:15 p.m. March 20, the event still appeared on the website. Bigelow told The Ranger Tuesday the event was an idea that was tossed around, but could not recall if it was brought up at a specific CAB meeting. “It never went off the ground,” Bigelow said. “Nothing was ever done with it.” In a reply to an email request for an interview, James Riebeling, speech communication sophomore and CAB president, said: “In regards to the Mr. & Miss SAC competition, it was just a matter of timing. We would have loved to have done it and it was a great opportunity, it was just a timing and logistics cause.” “Hopefully, it’s something we can do in the fall,” Bigelow said March 20. The Campus Activities Board meets 4 p.m. Mondays in the health promotions office in Room 150 of Loftin Student Center. For more information, call Bigelow at 210-486-0134.
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No new cameras In the 2003 documentary film “The Mindscape of Alan Moore,” the writer said he decided to use the imagery of security cameras mounted on every street corner to properly convey the idea of a fascist police state in his 1980s comic book series, “V For Vendetta.” The idea was to subtly depict a country run by an oppressive government and populated by fearful, law-abiding citizens. On April 2, The Ranger reported in “Camera system in Loftin on hold” that the office of student life, at the request of Student Government Association, was pursuing installation of a camera system, ranging from $6,000 to $18,000, to monitor Loftin Student Center. Two camera systems already monitor it: Cameras throughout send a feed to the district’s surveillance system overseen by the district police, and a system inside the cafeteria sends footage to food vendor Selrico Services. In the article, student life Director Jorge Posadas said cameras are “a subtle way to remind students, ‘here are some of the rules.’” Not only is adding an additional camera system a waste of money, it sends the message that students cannot be trusted to behave
appropriately. Furthermore, adding cameras operates under the phony logic that cameras deter crime. Cameras already installed in Loftin did not prevent a man from robbing two students in the men’s room Dec. 7, 2010. Vigilant citizens and law enforcement officials, not surveillance, prevent crime. If student life wishes to remind students to behave, post student life staff to patrol Loftin. The presence of an authority figure will have more impact than a plastic and glass box. Posadas said, “Our student population grew up with Virginia Tech, 9/11. They grew up with metal detectors in high schools and elementary schools and middle schools, so they grew up with a different sense of safety going through the public school system than we did.” Greater security in Loftin would enhance the myth that security and an open, democratic society are corollaries in the minds of students. They need to learn to look out for themselves, not depend on others to keep them safe. Ultimately, responsibility for catching criminals and preventing crime does not lie with the office of student life or SGA. The public invests that responsibility in law enforcement.
Fat chance at 2nd try Every hour, high schools across the state lose 13 students as dropouts, according to the Intercultural Development Research assessment. At-risk high school students from Alamo Heights, North East, Northside and San Antonio districts have been bailed on by this college because of confusion about attendance and because it’s “difficult” to run the program. The hundreds of students who have taken advantage of a second chance to earn a diploma will have to go elsewhere to complete coursework because this college’s Gateway to College program ended last semester. What message does this send to at-risk youths?
It shows them that another entity meant to help, nurture and teach them to succeed was not important after all. Their high schools, parents and society have almost given up on them. These teens are likely to give up on themselves. This college’s neglect may prove to be the last straw, and they will be lost for life. Where will these students go? What will they do? It may only lead to more people stuck at low-wage jobs unable to better themselves or turning to crime for instant gratification. Giving up on these teens allows the cycle of poverty to continue for another generation, which according to city-data.org, already consumes 19.5 percent of this city’s population.
Corrections “Library loses databases” March 5 should have read: The library does not purchase textbooks and plans to spend $135,000 for general circulation books.
In “‘Golden Ass’ looks at prostitution, sex acts” March 26, Julia Barbosa Landois was misquoted. She said, “I can understand why somebody will become a sex worker.” Also, her Blue Star exhibit did not include a live sex act.
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Education is for me and my son I’m 20 years old. I am enrolled in nine hours this spring, and I’m an aspiring journalist. I work about 20 hours a week, and I have an 8-month-old son who is the light of my life. My day-to-day life for the past eight months has been a constant battle for pursuing some type of higher education. “It’s your fault,” people say. “You did this to yourself!” I can hear my mother’s Viewpoint by Jennifer Luna voice ringing in my head, “You made your bed, now lie in it.” Not to make my mother sound horrid — she’s been great support in helping me achieve my education goals. But really, why add more bags under my eyes from lack of sleep? It’s that glimmer of hope I feel learning something at school. It feels like a door that has been closed in your face before, then opens slightly for your entrance. It feels like I’m one step closer to reaching some higher version of myself. Being a young parent, you are often dismissed as a stereotype — a stereotype with 11 kids running around the welfare office, trying
to squeeze every penny out of the government, while driving a 2013 Lexus with 24-inch spinning rims. I know, because everyone looked at me that way when I passed along the news I was pregnant. The anticipation was that I was a young, soon-to-be parent subjected to failure in the eyes of society. In reality, my life does not involve 11 children or hassling with the welfare office, or a Lexus, either, for that matter. Nonetheless, the chaos of reality in trying to provide for a child and being a parent only motivates me more to stay in school. I feel there is something better that will come from an education. Although studying is much harder now — I squeeze in about 20 minutes of studying at home during my son’s naps. During an interview Wednesday, a teacher said she had learned it was OK to be selfish with your education. She explained how it helps your family, but, most important, it is for you. Thus, I know something better will come from my education. and I’m determined to stay in school to achieve a higher version of myself, and become a better person for my son.
Wearing hijab honors Allah Someone touches my hijab, or head covering, while I study in the library, and then asks, “Why do you cover yourself? You’re beautiful.” I was confused. As I regained myself, I explained that wearing the hijab was prescribed by Allah, the Muslim God in the Quran. I am a Muslim woman in my early 20s and a student of this college. Islam means “submit to Viewpoint Allah”; therefore, Muslims by Ivie S. surrender and submit to the Okungbowa will of Allah. He is our priority, the one we worship and who we ask for help. The Quran is the holy book in which Allah sent revelations to the Prophet Muhammad — peace and blessing of Allah be upon him — through the angel Gabriel. After saying the Prophet’s name, Muslims always say, “Peace and blessings of Allah be upon him.” According to the website “Islamic Question and Answer” at www.islamqa.info/en, Al-Ahzaab 33:59 in the English translation of the Quran reads: “O Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks (veils) all over their bodies (i.e. screen themselves completely except the eyes or one eye to see the way). That will be better, that they should be known (as free respectable women) so as not to be annoyed. And Allah is ever oft‑forgiving, most merciful.” Whether you practice Judaism, Christianity or Islam, wouldn’t you follow the commandment of God? We follow our religion because we know God will guide our lives in the right direction. Then we must ask ourselves, who knows better? Is it you or is it God? It’s God, the creator of the Earth.
I wear my hijab in the heart first, then outside. Hijab is my faith in the creator, my faith in my maker who will guide me in the right direction. Then I perform the act prescribed by God, drawing the veil over myself. I wear a hijab to preserve modesty from the outside world. I don’t wear my hijab at home in the presence of women, my brother, father, grandfather and husband. For example, in my household, my mother, my brother, sisters and father are present, and I am allowed to take off my hijab. But if my brother invites a friend and my sister invites her husband, my mother, my sister and I will have to cover ourselves because of my brothers’ friend. If only my sister’s husband is present, my sister would not have to wear hijab, just my mother and I, even though he is married into the family. I am not any less because I wear a hijab. In the last sermon of the Prophet Muhammad — peace and blessing of Allah be upon him — on IslamiCity.com, the hadith, or his documented sayings and doings, reads: “All mankind is from Adam and Eve, an Arab has no superiority over a non-Arab nor a non-Arab has any superiority over an Arab; also a white has no superiority over black nor a black has any superiority over white except by piety and good action.” I still answer questions because I realize people are curious. The questions I receive are probably what I would ask while learning about another culture or wonder while reading a book on other cultures. Women are beautiful, and showing it through our devotion to Allah through modesty makes us more beautiful. It’s better to ask — this is what brings tolerance.
Letter Understanding representation rules Editor: My name is Sarah Rodriguez, and I am vice president of Students United for the DREAM Act (SUDA). Recently, there was a petition sent out with my signature and SUDA’s name attached at the end. I feel there are no proper words to describe my sincerest of apologies toward this matter, meaning I am rescinding the signature. The name of SUDA and the ties SUDA has
with The Ranger have been jeopardized, and I am at fault. My explanation is that having been a new officer at the time of signing, I honestly did not know the consequences of such actions. I understand now the action of signing SUDA’s name is not a matter to take lightheartedly, but a matter that should be taken with full seriousness, the utmost clarity of mind, and the full support of the organization. Sarah Rodriguez Biology and Mathematics Sophomore
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Self-defense Instructor Medin Barreira teaches liberal arts sophomore Isaac Gonzales and criminal justice sophomore Rosie MacDonald to use self-defense techniques during Health Fest Wednesday in Gym 2 of Candler. Victoria Drumming
Health Fest instructs on staying healthy, fit More than 53 booths educated the public about healthy lifestyles. The kinesiology and dance department and Wellness Committee sponsored Health Fest Wednesday. Chris Dillon, kinesiology instructor and wellness coordinator, By SILVIA said, “It’s believed this MILLAN is one of the biggest health expos around sac-ranger@alamo.edu the city.” More than 53 booths offered services to the community such as free health screenings, massages and balanced diets. Glucose testing was popular among the booths, helping the attendees gather their right numbers and offering services to the ones that were out of the normal range. Adam Macneill, civil engineering sophomore, has his Lydia Kelly, bicycle and pedestrian transbody mass index taken by kinesiology sophomore portation planner from the San Antonio and Eyan Evans in Gym 1 Wednesday during the kinesiology department’s Health Fest. Riley Stephens Bexar Metropolitan Planning Organization, gave information about becoming green and healthy with bicycles. old daughter throws better than that.” “Riding a bicycle to school is not only a way Brooks has been coordinator of the expo of helping the environment but helps your for more than 10 years, and for the past two health as well,” she said. years, assistant coordinator. My Fit Foods gave out Demonstrations of kinesilean turkey chili samples and ology classes included boot “Riding a coupons for a free meal at its camp, Latin cardio, selfbicycle to school locations at the Quarry and defense, cardio kickboxing, is not only a way Stone Oak, trying to motivate spin bike, fencing and dance of helping the attendees to eat fit and live fit. expressions. environment but “Dunk your Professor” “It’s awesome. I try to visit helps your health was one of the favorite activievery booth to get as much as well.” ties outside Candler Physical information as I can,” nursLydia Kelly, Education Center. ing sophomore Jacob De La Liberal arts sophomore Garza said. transportation Rocky Ortiz and physics freshThe expo has been the first planner man Joshua Martinez were Wednesday of April for at least among the lucky ones to dunk 15 years, educating students kinesiology Instructor Dawn Brooks. and the public about healthy lifestyles. Brooks, trying to persuade the students to For more information about Health Fest dunk her, made intimidating comments like or kinesiology classes, call Dillon at 210- 486“You can throw better than that; your 2-week1025 or email cdillon@alamo.edu.
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Flex BC boxer Daniel Rodriguez prepares for a match against kinesiology sophomore Brandon Batres by saying a prayer. Eloy Hillburn III
Coach Hector Ramos prepares kinesiology sophomore Brandon Batres for his bout against Flex BC boxer Daniel Rodriguez March 30 in the mall. Eloy Hillburn III
Team Alcoser boxer Joel Montalvo connects with a punishing left uppercut in his match against engineering sophomore Hyrum Hilario. The bout continued for three rounds. Hilario ultimately won. Eloy Hillburn III
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