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Walk raises heels, voices against violence

By Alison Graef

agraef@student.alamo.edu

Chants of “One in five is too many!” and “The absence of ‘no’ is not consent!” were heard April 11 on the walkway between Flethcher and Oppenheimer.

About 140 students, faculty, staff and community members participated in the third annual Walk a Mile in Her Shoes march to raise awareness of rape, sexual assault and gender violence toward women.

The march is hosted annually by Services for

See WALK, Page 11

Scobee celebrates Fiesta with space mission

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$83M to be spent on SAC if bond election successful

The Ranger wins multiple awards at journalism convention Brianna Rodrigue

Lab simulates social works scenerios

Board encourages male student success The board of trustees charged the community with increasing graduation rates for men.

By Zachary-Taylor Wright zwright9@student.alamo.edu

Biology sophomores Jennifer Ybarra and Melissa Lara, kinesiology sophomore Jaqueline Carranza and pre-nursing sophomore Maria Chavez on team Women Warriors, work together to flip a 315-pound tire at the

Backyard Beast Monday at the tennis courts. The Women Warriors ended with a time of 39 minutes 44 seconds, which beat another female team, the Pinkies, with a time of 45 minutes. Deandra Gonzalez

The board of trustees and college presidents proposed solutions to the underwhelming number of degrees and certificates awarded to male students in the district during the Student Success Committee meeting April 11 in Killen Center.

The board’s discussion was in response to a presentation about Northwest Vista College’s performance made by college President Ric Baser, which shows 1,591 degrees and certificates were awarded to male students and 2,088 to female students

See MALE, Page 11

Son’s death demonstrates need for diabetes testing

By Sasha D. Robinson sac-ranger@alamo.edu

Retired Counselor Gloria L. Jones and her husband, Jim Jones, who are both Type 2 diabetics, lost their son, Jibri Omari Jones, to Type 1 diabetes, or diabetic ketoacidosis.

Their daughter, Dr. Matari Jones Gunter, lecturer at Texas State University, who is also diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes, wanted to share the experience to help others.

In an interview at the Jones’ residence April 4, the family talked about the loss of Jibri Jones Nov. 22 at age 37 and how a simple blood test could have saved his life.

Jibri did not have any symptoms of being diabetic.

“We want everyone to know that knowledge is power,” said Gunter, a former public relations director at St. Philip’s College.

“We want to share it with everyone so it would not happen to everyone else.”

The family asks everyone to get their blood sugar checked and for men to go to the doctor once a year for an annual physical.

“If we can share that with friends and family to let them know that this is what we learned from this, then we feel we did Jibri right, and his death was not in vain,” Gunter said.

Jibri Jones, who lived in Austin, was to come home for

Thanksgiving, but the family could not reach him the weekend before.

When Gloria Jones called her son, he did not answer the phone.

“We called Friday and Saturday,” Gloria Jones said.

“There was no answer and went straight to voicemail.”

The family then called the apartment complex where he lived, but was told the family would need to call the Austin Police Department to perform a welfare check. Police found him deceased Nov. 22.

An autopsy came back negative for alcohol or drugs, but the toxicology report confirmed he had DKA or Type 1 diabetes.

Jibri Jones went home from work Nov. 17 because he was not feeling well.

“The hardest part dealing with it, was that he died alone,” Gloria Jones said.

According to diabetes.org, DKA is a serious condition that can lead to a diabetic coma sleeplike state.

It can be caused by hyperglycemia.

DKA usually develops slowly but when vomiting occurs, this life-threatening condition can develop in hours.

DKA is dangerous and serious, and if people find any symptoms, they should contact a health care

See DIABETES, Page 11

Irene Salazar, engineering sophomore and electrical lead, puts on a show for professors March 27 east of Candler. Salazar and teammates from the SAC Motorsport team were test-driving their hydrogen-powered race car before they leave for Detroit for the Shell Eco-marathon April 27-30. Brianna Rodrigue

Race car gathers momentum approaching competition Coverage of the Shell Eco-marathon to come on www.theranger.org.

By James Dusek

jdusek3@student.alamo.edu

When the hydrogen-powered race car sped down the walkway between Scobee Education Center and Candler Physical Education Center, cheers and applause bubbled up in little pockets of the gathering team members, advisers and student onlookers.

Driver Irene Salazar made a U-turn in front of Gonzales Hall and sped down the path toward Lot 21.

It finally moves.

After 18 months of work, the student-created hydrogen fuel cell car is nearing completion and will compete in the Shell Eco-marathon April 27-30 in Detroit.

The car will be officially unveiled in an event at 6 p.m. Thursday at Scobee Education Center.

Salazar, an engineering sophomore and one of the car’s two drivers, emerged from the vehicle.

She had just driven a car that she’d spent the past year and a half of her life working on. The fuel cell she tested, the motor control she programmed — it all worked.

“It was good. It was nice,” she

said. “It feels like driving an actual car.”

Over spring break, the team mounted the $13,000 hydrogen fuel cell to the back of the car’s steel frame and, with some modifications, affixed the steering mechanism from a recumbent bicycle to the front.

All the car needs is a plastic shell and it’ll be ready for competition.

Though the team aims to place in the competition, the members say there’s more to be gained than a trophy.

“I see this as a huge stepping

See RACE CAR, Page 11

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Game on Marine biology sophomore Nathan Wilson aims for the back of pre-nursing freshman Jacob Dulaniy with a foam sword April 6 during a live action role-playing sword fight. The Gaming Society had a booth in the mall with a variety of video games and sword fighting. Members challenged each other in sword fighting to move up in a challenge system. The Gaming Society meets 3-6 p.m. every Tuesday in Room 301C in the community engagement annex. Anyone can join the society. For more information about the club, visit scgs.online. Brianna Rodrigue

Set up

Liberal arts sophomore Tiaira Carter sets the ball for special education freshman Clarissa Garcia in this college’s game against the University of the Incarnate Word Cardinals Saturday in the UIW gymnasium.

The Rangers lost the game, 25-11 on the last match. Zaeva Mercado

Carry that weight

Physical therapy freshman Ryan Paulson squats with 385 pounds April 10 during kinesiology Professor Medin Barreira’s weight training class. Fire science sophomore Frank Lucio and Barreira spot Paulson during his squats. Barreira’s class also worked on deadlifts, military presses, bench presses, incline flyers and barbell curls. Brianna Rodrigue

Talking drums

Chief Kofi Asare, African United salesman, plays a drum from East Africa in front of engineering sophomores Amar Hamami and Chafik Goumeziane April 12 in the mall. Asare has been selling East African cultural items for 10 years, such as jewelry, drums and animal figures that have individual meanings. Brianna Rodrigue

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SAC Deadline: Last day to withdraw from 16-week spring courses.

Call 210-212-5266.

NLC Workshop: Emotional Intelligence in the Workplace 8-9:30 a.m. in Room 210 of student commons. Call 210-4865404.

PAC Event: FAFSA Wednesday 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. in Room 102 of Palomino. Call 210-486-3000.

SAC Event: Earth Week Palo Alto College @ SAC/Eco Centro Sustainability Series art exhibit: “Found Objects” Lunch and Learn 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in Eco Centro. Call 210-486-0417.

SAC Event: Career and job fair 11 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Fiesta Room of Loftin. Bring a resume. Call 210486-1500.

SAC Event: Puppy Day 10 a.m.-1 p.m. in the mall. Call 210-4860125.

SAC Event: Pollinator Party Earth Week 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in Eco Centro. Call 210-486-0417.

SAC Meeting: Campus Activities Board 1-2 p.m. in Room 150 of Loftin. Call 210-486-0125.

NVC Meeting: General Book Club 2-3:30 p.m. in Room 211 of Juniper. Call 210-486-4010.

Meeting: Men’s Soccer Club 3:30-5 p.m. on the soccer field by the recreation wellness center at UTSA. Call 210-458-7566.

SAC Event: Fiesta hat decorating 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the craft room of Loftin. Call 210-486-0125.

PAC Event: Working Writer’s Series: Barbara R. Gonzales 10:30 a.m.-noon in Room 101 of Ozuna.

Call 210-486-3125.

SAC Event: U.S. Green Building Council South Texas Region April luncheon for Earth Week 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. in Eco Centro. Call 210-486-0417.

SAC Event: Olympic-style boxing 9-11 a.m. in the mall. Call 210486-0125.

Event: Playdates: Let’s Fiesta 10-10:45 a.m. for 2- to 4-yearolds at San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 W. Jones. Free admission for children. Call 210-978-8100.

NVC Event: Alcohol Awareness Day 10 a.m.-2 p.m. on lawn of Cypress. Call 210-486-4009.

SAC Event: 3-point shootout 2-4 p.m. in Gym 2 of Candler. Call 210-486-0125.

Meeting: American Red Cross volunteering opportunities. 5:306:30 p.m. in Willow Room of university center at UTSA. Call 832296-6164.

Event: Open badminton 3-6 p.m. in Rowdy Court of recreation wellness center at UTSA. Call 210458-6464.

Event: Symphony orchestra concert 7:30-9 p.m. in Room 114 of Dicke/Smith at Trinity University.

Call 210-999-8212.

SAC Event: Earth Week Importance of Healthy Soil and Organic Landscapes 6 p.m. in Eco Centro. Call 210-486-0417.

PAC Event: Staff Council scholarship fundraiser 11 a.m.-2 p.m. in the courtyard. Call 210-4863125.

Event: Art to Lunch 12:30-1 p.m. at San Antonio Museum of Art, 200 W. Jones. Call 210-9788100.

Event: Meditation and spirituality 5:30-7 p.m. in Willow Room of the university center north at UTSA. Call 956-337-2583.

NVC Event: “A Collaborative Creation” 8-10 p.m. in the Black Box in Palmetto. Admission $8, military/seniors $5 and students $3. Call 210- 486-4824.

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SAC Event: Last day to withdraw for Start 2 14-week session. Call 210-212-5266.

April 22 SAC Event: City of San Antonio Earth Day Celebrates free event at Woodlawn Lake for Earth Week.

Call 210-486-0417.

NVC Workshop: Career prep 8-11 a.m. in Room 101A of Mountain Laurel. Bring résumé.

Call 210-486-4009.

SAC Event: Eco Centro Third BEartday Earth week celebration 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at Eco Centro. Call 210-486-0417.

SAC Event: Planetarium shows 6-9:30 p.m. at Scobee. Students and staff ID $2, adults $5 and children 4-17 $4. Call 210-486-0100.

Event: Tiger women’s tennis 6-10 p.m. at Butch-Newman Tennis Center at Trinity University. Visit Trinitytigers.com.

SAC Event: Fiesta de la Tierra 6:30-8:30 p.m. in Scobee. $20 advance tickets. Call 210-4860100.

April 27 SAC Event: Last day to pick up cap and gowns 5 p.m. in admissions office in Room 216 of Fletcher. Call 210-212-5266.

April 28 ACCD Closure: Colleges closed for Battle of Flowers parade.

April 30 SAC Event: Student Government Association candidate forum noon1 p.m. in Fiesta Room of Loftin.

Online voting will continue through May 4. Call 210-486-0133.

May 13 SAC Event: Doors open at 9 a.m. for commencement in Freeman Coliseum, 3201 E. Houston St. Call 210-212-5266.

For coverage in People, call 210-486-1773 or e-mail sac-ranger@alamo.edu two weeks in advance.

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Three advanced photography courses discontinued Journalism electives will expand to include photography courses.

By Elena Longoria

sac-ranger@alamo.edu

Starting next semester, students will no longer be able to enroll in three advanced photography courses: PHOT 2373, Perceptual Design; PHOT 1372, Portrait Photography; and PHOT 2372, Commercial Photography.

However, students still can take basic photography courses COMM 1318 and 1319, Photography 1 and 2; two photo journalism courses COMM 1316 and COMM 1317, News Photo 1 and 2; and a course in Photoshop, COMM 2324, Practicum in Electronic Media Photography program Coordinator James “Buzz” McBride said the change comes because the advanced courses no longer transfer to four-year universities.

“The state coordinating board will not fund unique needs courses that do not transfer to a four-year university to satisfy the course work,” he said in an interview March 3. The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is in charge of strategies and plans on tuitions and programs for colleges in Texas.

Universities such as Sam Houston and Texas A&MCommerce offered these courses in their photography pro-

Commericial photography Adjunct Scott Vallance helps computer science sophomore Philip Taele photograph his model, photography sophomore Lauryn Guerra, for product assignments in the studio March 8. Three photography classes from the photography program will end after this semester. Renee Talamantes gram in the 1980s, McBride said. The universities switched their photography approach to a fine arts program, resulting in these three classes no longer being accepted.

After the board decided not to fund these classes, the college did a three-year teach out of the Associate of Arts, Concentration in Photography, degree, which allowed this

college to teach the classes for three more years without state funding. This allowed students to complete that degree.

“You end the program; you don’t just chop it off,” McBride said. The advanced courses allowed students to get more experience at a higher level and were considered specialty courses in the photography program.

Journalism program Coordinator Marianne Odom said the program has proposed expanding the Journalism Field of Study electives for the associate of arts degree to include a sequence of courses for photography students that will transfer as part of a bachelor’s degree in communications.

The College Curriculum Committee has approved the proposal, and it is at the district level.

If the District Curriculum Committee approves the change, the expanded degree option will begin in the fall.

McBride says students who want to take advanced photography courses can go to Austin Community College for a two-year photography program “if they are able to relocate.”

Another alternative is Southwest School of Art, which offers a photography program with community courses similar to the courses that will be dropped here.

For more information, call 210-224-1848 or visit swschool. org. For Austin Community College, call 512-353-2019.

For this college’s photography program, call 210-486-1766.

Students must complete ‘Haven’ to register for 2018 Alamo Colleges pushed back the deadline for the online training about sexual violence.

By Maria Gardner

sac-ranger@alamo.edu

The deadline for completing Part 1 of “Haven: Understanding Sexual Assault” online training has been extended until Nov. 1, Title IX Director Jacob-Aidan Martinez said in an interview April 7.

Under Title IX, this college is mandated by law to take proactive measures to prevent sexual violence.

The “Haven” program would help meet that requirement, Martinez said. The online program for students covers stalking, sexual assault, dating and domestic violence and

is estimated to take 45 minutes to complete, Martinez said.

First-time college students, transfer students, returning students and transient students are required to complete this online program, Martinez said.

A returning student is defined as someone who has left the college for a year and now is going back to school, Martinez said.

A transient student is someone who attends and considers another college or university to be their home school and wants to take classes at this college to transfer for credit in their home institution, Martinez said.

If students don’t complete the module by Nov. 1, a hold will be placed on their registration for spring 2018, Martinez said.

Class registration for spring 2018 is

planned to open Nov. 15, Patricia Parma, district director of student success initiatives, said in an interview March 28.

Originally the deadline for completing the program was April 1.

There were going to be too many students who were going to receive holds on their registration for not completing the program, Martinez said.

It takes 24 hours for the hold to be removed after students complete the online training.

Originally, the pool of students included first-time college students, transfer students and returning students, Martinez said.

Out of those 5,364 students, only 23 percent completed the program, he said.

Students required to complete “Haven”

Students get help coping with disabilities through DSS

By Jakoby West

sac-ranger@alamo.edu

Students face many challenges at this college — studying for a midterm, balancing work and school or trying to find a parking spot.

For some students, unseen obstacles that come with having a learning disability are added to the challenges of being a student.

Nursing sophomore Haley Huizarlopez has dyslexia, which adds difficulty when interpreting words, letters, and other symbols, but she is finding ways to overcome her disability.

“If I’m sitting there trying to get everything that is on the board written down, I’m missing what (the professor) is saying, so now I just record the lectures,” Huizarlopez said in an interview March 2.

“I’m able to listen to them when I’m in my car or when I’m working out or whatnot,” she said.

She also is able to use disability support services offered at this campus to minimize the effects of her disability such as taking tests in a quiet and less crowded lab.

“When I go to take a test, my dyslexia is very heightened, so by going to DSS and having these accommodations, it helps tremendously,” she said.

A total of 599 students used disability support services in fall 2016, Delia De Luna, senior generalist of student success, said in an interview Jan. 30.

Students must show proof of a documented disability before being able to

use those services and can do so by making an appointment at the office on the first floor of Moody Learning Center.

Besides labs, the office also offers access to larger computer monitors and color-coded keyboards, De Luna said.

Marketing freshman Ramon Gomez has attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, or ADHD. He first heard about DSS through a student development course and decided to use the services offered by the office to be the first in his family to go to college.

Gomez didn’t even know he had ADHD until he was diagnosed by a physician, but he was able to cope with his disability and also be the first in his family to graduate high school.

“It affects my learning,” he said. “It’s been 20 years since high school, but I wanted to come back and learn more.

I knew I was behind some of the other people out there.”

Mickey Kelley, a radio-televisionbroadcasting freshman, uses the services to mediate dyslexia and ADHD. “The subject that I have the biggest issue with still is mathematics so having the ability to be able to take my classes in there and be able to get assistance has been a big help,” he said.

While this college offers many services to help students with disabilities, not all of their issues can be accommodated by the services they offer.

“I ended up taking some of my science courses at Northeast Lakeview College. I was going to take them here, but because

of my disability I felt like I was treated in a different way,” Huizarlopez said.

She declined to discuss specifics for publication, but said that the staff of disability support services are major supporters of the pursuit of higher education for students with disabilities.

“Our biggest ally is DSS. They fight for us. They go to bat for us. They were always like ‘You have the drive, you have the push, you go for it. You have everything. You can do this,’” she said.

She sees her disability as a weakness but also views it as a strength.

“I double-check and triple-check everything I do,” she said. “Just because you have a disability, it doesn’t make you unintelligent. If you look at history, there have been many very intelligent people who have had a disability. You just have to approach things in a different way.”

Kelley said his disabilities used to affect him when he was younger when he thought about pursuing certain career fields and which college courses to take, but he doesn’t see them as much of a hindrance now that he fully understands what his disabilities are.

“I barely even notice it in my day-today life. It’s just something that I’ve kind of always had and always will have,” he said.

“I’ve gotten really good at reading.

I take a lot of English literature classes now,” he said.

His advice to others with disabilities is to not let them affect them and realize that they can do anything with support.

will find the program under the student tab in ACES. There is an alternative to completing “Haven” for students who find the material difficult to complete, Martinez said.

So far, three students at this college have requested the alternative.

“We don’t want to re-victimize someone, so they can opt out of the program,” Parma said.

Martinez said he’s concerned students may not attempt the program if they know there is an alternative.

“We want to build a culture of respect,” Parma said.

Students can reach Martinez to find out about the alternative to the “Haven” training at 210-486-0926.

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Over-capacity NVC seeks voter approval Capital Improvement Project to relieve some areas at Northwest Vista in critical need.

By Nicole Bautista

sac-ranger@alamo.edu

Northwest Vista College resides in one of the fastest growing areas in Bexar County, where 40 percent of homes that have been built in the last 10 years are within the college’s service area, said Northwest Vista President Ric Baser.

“Over the next 10 years, as many as 80,000 additional population are expected within this area,” Baser said.

If the Alamo Colleges’ Capital Improvement Project bond proposal is passed during the upcoming Bexar County election May 6, there will be $450 million distributed throughout the Alamo Colleges.

Northwest Vista would receive $69 million from this bond, with which it would build a $30 million STEM center of excellence and a $26 million parking garage and welcome center. The existing Cypress Campus Center would receive $10 million in renovations, along with the physical plant, which would receive $3 million in renovations.

After the college’s development proposal was submitted to district, the citizens advisory board committee came to NVC. Baser said he was allowed to provide

a PowerPoint presentation and talk from the student enrollment standpoint, what its projected growth is in the area and how they would accommodate the growth.

A three-level 55,000-square-feet STEM center of excellence will house general sciences, such as physics, biology, chemistry, geology and several life and natural sciences programs, a primary focus of the proposed funds.

“The STEM area is one of the areas in which we have a critical deficiency in classroom facility and lab facility,” Baser said.

STEM classes and labs are currently spread between two buildings.

The campus only holds 12 labs — two chemistry, five biology, one physics, one geology and three for anatomy and physiology, Richard Chamblin, natural and physical sciences chair, said.

“We are maxed out on some of our laboratory space, especially during prime times,” Chamblin said. “It has helped that we do hybrid courses and online courses, but we still need face-to-face and lecture and lab space.”

This college was built for 14,000 students; NVC crossed that enrollment number in 2010, Baser said.

“Currently, we serve about 18,000 students; about 15,000 are on the campus.”

With all these students, come parking issues.

“Parking is a major issue,” Baser said.

If students get here between 9 a.m-1 p.m.,

Lakeview prioritizes science, technology proposed projects

By James Dusek

jdusek3@student.alamo.edu

Northeast Lakeview College has three projects in the proposed Capital Improvement Project bond plan: a new science building, technology center of excellence and improvements to the college’s physical plant.

The science and technology buildings may be combined into one to reduce costs, but that’s still undecided, said Lakeview President Veronica Garcia. She said the projects were chosen after research into the area surrounding Lakeview.

“My understanding is they’ve done some environmental scans. They’ve looked at our population — we’re mostly a transfer college — and they identified what programs would be more successful at our institution,” Garcia said. “Definitely, we have a lot of high, strong science and math in our area.”

If Lakeview earns its accreditation, the technology building will be used in part to house workforce and technology programs. Lakeview’s accreditation will be undecided, and until the college is accredited, it is unable to offer workforce programs.

The college’s accreditation is expected to be decided at the December board meeting of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.

William Fanning, dean of professional and technical education at Northeast Lakeview, said the details of the technical building will depend upon the programs the college ultimately decides to offer. “We don’t know what the outcome of the exploration is yet, so we don’t know the programs that we will focus on,” Fanning said.

Fanning and Garcia described the college’s attitude toward workforce programs as “exploratory.” They said they are unable to plan for the programs until the college is accredited.

Garcia said the agency’s February visit was promising as it did not find any major issues that might affect accreditation.

Kathleen Labus, director of public relations at the college, said the space might be used for academic programs, which she said would be needed as enrollment increases. “We’re still anticipating growth on our end,” Labus said. “And the buildings are needed to support that growth.”

A Jan. 10 presentation to trustees presented Northeast Lakeview’s 2015 full-time student equivalent enrollment as 3,932, and projected 32.3 percent growth to 5,202 by 2025.

Full-time student equivalent enrollment uses the total credit hours being taken at the college divided by 12 to find the number of full-time students the college could be serving. A report from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board reported 3,332 students at Northeast Lakeview and projected more conservative growth. The report used actual enrollment.

Science Chair Neil McCrary did not respond to multiple requests for comment on the state of Lakeview’s facilities.

it is about a 45-minute search for a parking spot, Baser said.

“I do see a lot of illegal parking for lastminute students who are desperate to find a spot,” Chamblin said.

A four-level parking garage will offer an additional 600 parking spots to relieve some pressure.

“I will lose about 85 parking spots, but there are about 750 spots that I will gain,” Baser said.

The first floor of this parking garage will house a welcome center, which will hold all student success support services, which “would be our one-stop center,” Baser said, “which would include our admissions, enrollment and support services for students enrolling.”

If approved, this would be the first building to be built, with construction possibly to start in fall 2017.

Currently, all student success support services are housed in the Cypress Center.

“When the welcome center is built along with the parking garage, all of those student success folks would be moving from the Cypress Center into that one-stop center associated with the parking garage. That opens up the Cypress Center to be renovated as classroom space and lab space,” Baser said.

There are currently nine student support labs that are spread out all over the campus,

and Baser would like to have those all in one location.

“Whether it is SLAC lab or science and technology, whether it is writing and English labs or one of our speech labs — to be able to access that in a single site.”

The Cypress Center also will be focused on culture.

“It will be our Cultural Center of Excellence, which would include our Mexican- American study programs, our anthropology programs, and then some general additional classroom space,” Baser said With the addition of these buildings, there is a need for the campus’s physical plant to undergo renovations as well.

“The issue that we have, is that when you build additional facilities, you have to have additional support for those — electric, water, and so on — to support the growth of additional facilities,” Baser said.

Alamo Colleges last passed a bond issue 12 years ago.

“The growth is out here,” Baser said “I know that the population will be there, it will just be how I serve them — whether it’s in a classroom face-to-face, or if I am going to use some other delivery methodology to serve those. We will serve those students one way or another.”

Early voting is April 24-May 2.

Election day is May 6.

Palo Alto to build, renovate if voters agree in bond election College plans to offer new programs such as nursing, dental hygiene and health care administration.

By Emily Garcia

egarcia1009@student.alamo.edu

The Capital Improvement Project bond proposal offers $66 million to Palo Alto College for renovations and construction of new buildings.

The proposed buildings to be renovated include the center of excellence-health care technology building, the natatorium, the gym and science labs.

Proposed new buildings are the manufacturing center and public service building, the student engagement and welcome center as well as more buildings in the physical plant center.

The manufacturing center and public service building would serve as a joint purpose instructional building, said Dr. Mike Flores, president of Palo Alto College.

Courses that would be taught in this building include advanced manufacturing, energy technology, teaching, criminal justice and social sciences, Flores said.

It would cost $30 million for the manufacturing center and public service center to be built.

“The building would be anywhere from 60,000 to 70,000 square feet, and would be one of the largest buildings on campus,” Flores said.

The building would provide hands-on labs, mock courtrooms for criminal justice courses and model classrooms for teaching programs.

“The proposed buildings will allow us to better prepare a talented pool of students to fill these in-demand positions,” said Dr. Beatriz Joseph, vice president of college services.

Flores said the student engagement and welcome center would be

built to facilitate incoming students, and hold offices for advising, testing, admissions and financial aid, which are currently in the Palomino Center.

“The center is a fairly tight space, and the college has really outgrown that space,” Flores said.

The Palomino Center would become the center of excellencehealth care technology building after the advising, admissions, and financial aid offices move.

The center of excellence-health care technology would serve as an instructional building for programs such as health care administration, dental hygiene and nursing.

The new health care administration program will start Aug. 17.

The dental hygiene program would provide the only associate degree in the San Antonio metropolitan area, Flores said.

Palo Alto would like to become a satellite site for an associate degree in nursing.

“So we would have a SAC nursing program at PAC,” Flores said.

The natatorium and gym, now known as the aquatic and athletic center, is almost 30 years old and is jointly operated by the city, Flores said.

Possible renovations include replacing the roof and making improvements to the interior and exterior of the natatorium, Flores said.

Cost of renovations for the natatorium from the bond would be $5.8 million, along with another $5.3 million from the city, Flores said.

Renovations being considered for the gym are replacing the roof, improving gym interior and improving classrooms in the gym, Flores said.

“It’s a big building so there are faculty offices, classrooms and workout areas so we would also renovate those,” Flores said.

The science labs in Brazos Hall are under consideration for remodeling

as well.

“So, we would renovate the labs and actually look at adding additional labs to Brazos,” Flores said.

Palo Alto would need additional labs because of the new nursing and dental hygiene programs, Flores said.

Flores could not say what specific renovations need to be made in the labs because a walk-through of the building has not been done yet.

Administration has just started doing walk-throughs last week, where they assessed whether renovations should be done to San Jacinto Hall.

San Jacinto Hall also has science labs.

“We will be doing a walk-through of Brazos because we want to add additional labs, so we would see what renovations need to be made to those labs and how that would relate after May if the bond goes through,” Flores said.

The physical plant will have new buildings added to the facility.

“We would need additional capacity for electricity, plumbing and heating water. So to provide these utilities, we would need to do an expansion of the plant,” Flores said.

Improving the physical plant would benefit the college by supporting an expanded physical infrastructure of the campus, which would allow the college to meet student and community needs, Joseph said.

“The current physical plant building is only sufficient to support the existing blueprint of the college campus,” Joseph said.

Early voting for the bond begins April 24 and ends May 2.

Election day is May 6.

For more information about the bond election, call the Bexar County Elections Department at 210-3358683.

Palo Alto College can be reached at 210-486-3000.

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Putting theory into practice Members of Northwest Vista fine arts faculty display art pieces.

By Austin P. Taylor sac-ranger@alamo.edu

While doing a residency at the Red Lodge Clay Center last year in Montana, Paul Northway, art professor at Northwest Vista College, found inspiration for his ceramic art piece “Adam and Eve Decide Not to Live in Sin Anymore,” which is currently on exhibit at Northwest Vista.

He was watching TV news and decided to focus on the social issues of today, while offering his own satirical twist.

“I see my work as a playful attempt to look at the rash decisions we’ve made as a society,” Northway said.

The fine arts department of Northwest Vista is hosting an art exhibition featuring the works of its faculty members, including Northway’s “Adam and Eve” piece. The showing, which is open to the public, runs through April 24 in the lobby of the Palmetto Center for the Arts.

Rachael Bower — an art instructor who has contributed some of her own work — is curating the exhibition, which opened March 27.

“I’ve been working here since 2013, and I can’t remember another faculty show happening since then,” Bower said.

Bower has contributed three pieces to the exhibition. She’s showing a series of acrylic

paintings that express the conflict between the desire for security and the desire to venture into the unknown.

Bower takes pleasure in showing students what their instructors have been working on.

“We teach them day in and day out,” Bower said. “We teach them all kinds of theory, but they rarely get to see what we’re working on.”

The exhibition shows the unique visions of 12 faculty members from fine arts.

One of the larger works — a vase-like object that’s about the size of a standard mini-fridge — was created by Diana Kersey, a full-time adjunct.

A professional potter, Kersey created two large ceramic vessels. The pieces do not have a formal title. They share similarities with the common wicker basket, except these vessels are much larger and the holes in the design are intentional.

“These are transitional pieces for me,” Kersey said. “Trying to define them with a title didn’t feel right.”

By transitional, she means they’re unlike anything she’s made.

“I wanted to take what I’ve learned from my past and see where it’s going to take me in the future,” Kersey said.

Northway’s “Adam and Eve” piece also blends the past and the future. It is part of a series meant to satirize biblical themes of marriage by juxtaposing them with modern issues.

In the ceramic piece, Adam and Eve have

Paul Northway’s “Eve builds her last sandcastle before Eden is lost to the sea.” Brianna Rodrigue undergone a modern wedding ceremony, and neither of them seems particularly excited about it.

Northway’s other works focus on issues such as climate change and immigration.

“History is filled with stories of mass migration,” Northway said. “I wanted to examine the causes whether they be water, food or climate change.

According to Northway, the student

response to his work has been pleasant.

“Some of them walk up to me and say they got a good chuckle out of the pieces,” Northway said.

The exhibition can be viewed at the Palmetto Center of the Arts 7 a.m.-7 p.m.

Monday-Thursday, 7 a.m.-5 p.m. Fridays and 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday.

For more information, call Bower at 210486-4761 or email rbower3@alamo.edu.

Traveling government class to be renewed

By Alison Graef

sac-ranger@alamo.edu

Government Professor WandaLee Smith’s Lectures on Location class, GOVT 2306, met April 6 on the Bexar County Courthouse steps to observe a murder case. Smith and five students sat in on the proceedings of the 144th Judicial District Court as evidence and testimonies were presented to the jury.

Lectures on Location is a pilot class Smith pioneered this semester. She is excited that the class has been approved for next fall, and students will be able to register for it under GOVT 2306.120 and GOVT 2306.121.

Smith’s approach to teaching government was already known as unique. She pre-records her lectures for students to watch before coming to class and expects students to be well-prepared before walking through her door. In class, students test their knowledge of

the material by competing for extra-credit points at the board by answering timed questions.

With Lectures on Location, Smith takes her interactive approach to learning a level higher.

The class learns material before visiting a government location to tour and see government in action.

After, the class meets in an onlocation conference room to review what they have learned.

The 144th Judicial District Court was the fifth class visit.

Smith said one of the main purposes of visiting the courthouse was to help students understand the five levels of government (national, state, county, city, special district) and three branches of government (executive, legislative, judicial), which Smith said students often confuse.

The class previously visited the courthouse to run a mock session of the Commissioners Court, a

confusing misnomer, because the court is a legislative body, not a judicial court.

“These same students were here, right next door, in the Commissioners Court,” Smith said.

“The Commissioners Court’s job is to create law. Today the class came to the same building, but this time they went to the branch that is interpreting law.”

Seeing both branches helps students to internalize the difference between the judicial and legislative branches, Smith said.

Smith said it is important for students to know what jobs judges serve in and which judges are elected. She said being informed helps students to be involved in elections, which is crucial for democracy. “If you are not participating in elections, then only a few people are voting,” Smith said. “And they choose who is interpreting the law.”

Juliette Moke, coordinator for

the Bexar County Heritage and Parks Department, said she has never seen a class like Smith’s and is excited to see a class in which students see the inner workings of the courthouse. She hopes that the experience kindles an interest in and understanding of the judicial system in students.

“I think she’s spearheading efforts for not only the students, but the public even, to get a better understanding of government,” Moke said. “To observe a jury trial, you go in there and see the roles that each person plays in the courtroom and each one of those are significant.”

Environmental science freshman Brian Bower said he knew very little about Texas government before taking Smith’s class. He said he now feels like a more informed voter and is glad to better understand the court system.

“I like that she requires partici-

pation in class,” Bower said. “You have to know the material beforehand because she singles you out, and being singled out makes you want to prepare.”

“I think it’s beneficial,” education sophomore Allison Marsh said.

“She has high expectations for you and if you don’t meet them, then you don’t pass.”

Marsh said she would like to see elements of Smith’s model applied to science and math classes.

Bower said he is glad to learn about the local judicial system and the functions of civil and criminal courts.

“People don’t know what their rights are or what the laws are,” Bower said. “They might commit a low-level crime and not even know it was a crime, and in civil courts, it’s important to know your rights.”

To learn more about Lectures on Location, email Smith at wsmith@ alamo.edu.

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By Wally Perez

sac-ranger@alamo.edu

Scobee Education Center will host a Fiesta-themed simulated space mission in celebration of the city’s annual event 6:30-8:30 p.m. April 21 at the center.

The center created Fiesta de la Tierra and simulated space missions similar to it because of interest from people who are curious about what goes on in the Challenger center.

Typically, the center is open for children, and most of the usage comes from school field trips, center Director Rick Varner said April 12.

The event typically falls into the same time period as Earth Day, so the mission pays homage to that.

Tickets are $20 and cover the mission, food and drink, a Fiesta medal and a planetarium show that ends the night.

Mexican botanas and non-alcoholic drinks will be included.

“There’s a high fascination for people who don’t get to go in there (Challenger center)… they want to see what it’s like, what the kids do there,” Varner said.

“It’s a cool, immersive experience.”

Varner said there were inquiries when the center first opened about how adults would get to partici-

pate in these missions. surrounding you.”

Varner said simulated missions shouldn’t be just One of the main differences is there is science for kids, but grown-ups, too. and engineering involved.

The center offers public missions like this one Varner said in the past they’ve had mariachi and a Valentine’s Day-themed one in February. guitarists come out, but don’t plan on it this year In the simulated missions, participants take on because the mission doesn’t receive the same turnthe roles of mission control and astronauts. out as the Valentine’s mission.

In each mission, problemsolving sce“As it is, it’s like they get the mission for $5 when you narios occur where paradd the medal, food and shows,” Varner said. ticipants are required to Those who participate in the misdo some quick thinking sion will receive the limited edition under certain conditions.

2017 Scobee Education Center Fiesta “We’ve had some peomedal. The medal commemorates ple who’ve come to every the Challenger STS-51L crew. mission we’ve had,” Varner On Jan. 28, 1986, the said about the popularity NASA Space Shuttle of the missions. orbiter Challenger The missions bring exploded 73 seconds in children who get after liftoff because of a their parents to come component failure, claimback with them after they’ve ing the lives of all seven been here with their school. astronauts on board.

“Once they do it, they enjoy it — Additionally, the medal the experience. It’s a fun, cool, different showcases the three Challenger thing,” Varner said.

Learning Center missions “It’s like a dinner theater where you launching at Scobee and highlights solve a murder mystery,” he said. “It’s immerthe first total solar eclipse visible from sive, you’re playing a role … there aren’t actors James Dusek the continental United States in nearly 40

A day to celebrate culture St. Philip’s to host festival with first rib cook-off.

By Sasha D. Robinson sac-ranger@alamo.edu

St. Philip’s College will host its annual Culturefest 10 a.m.-6 p.m., April 27 at the college.

Culturefest will include rides, food, a craft show, car show and cultural information booths.

“It is a festival that celebrates all things San Antonio and celebrates the culture of all the people in San Antonio,” said Angela McPherson Williams, director of student life activities.

People are encouraged to wear their cultural attire.

St. Philip’s has hosted the event every year since 1995.

Culturefest is an official Fiesta event that celebrates the rich history of San Antonio and cultural influences of St. Philip’s College as one of San Antonio’s most historically distinguished and ethnically diverse institutions of higher education.

DJ Future-Sounds will play a variety of music and will accept requests for songs.

St. Philip’s has added the rib cook-off to the event with celebrity judges like comedian Cleto Rodriguez; Chef Bully, winner of

Spike TV’s Frankenfood; Sonny Knox, SKANKSKA USA building manager; David Uminski, Prince of the River Walk and SPC culinary faculty; and Speedy Gonzalez, vice president of operations for Red McCombs.

The rib cook-off will have student judges such as Mr. St. Philip’s John D. Martin; Ms. St. Philip’s Jalisa Rivera; Katrina King, Spirit and Pride crew President; and Angelia Jacobs, Student Government Association president.

The event offers a variety of food booths featuring shrimp and chicken kabobs, turkey legs, corn on the cob, mangonadas, Cajun, fried fish, funnel cakes, puffy tacos, fajitas, snow cones and much more.

There also will be an open house on campus during the event where more than 950 high school students can learn more about St. Philip’s College.

The event is open to everyone and a shuttle service will be available from Southwest Campus to the MLK campus.

Shuttle services will pick up and drop off in front of Building 1 at Southwest Center every 30 minutes.

For information, call Williams at 210-486-2135 or email awilliams284@alamo.edu.

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Those who are interested bu event may purchase the medal fro During the event, two partici Scobee Education Center Fiesta k is usually for the children particip “Last year, it was a very fu The children got their picture ta crown,” Varner said.

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The center runs a micronau dren in pre-K to second grade.

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To end the night, all partic chance to view an optional 9 “Dynamic Earth” and extreme program.

To register, visit www.alamo ra17/. For more information on planetarium shows, call 210-486

Viva Fiesta safely

By J. Del Valle

sac-ranger@alamo.edu

With Fiesta starting April 20, San Antonians get to enjoy festivities including musical performances, parades, and food and drink booths while embracing the city.

Here are some safety tips to consider when exploring downtown San Antonio this Fiesta.

• Stay hydrated • Travel in groups • Have a spot to meet up with friends or family if separated in crowds • Travel as light as possible • Don’t overindulge • Know where the first-aid/ security tent is.

Source: Janae Johnson, coordinator of college risk management

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Food, drink, a planetarium show and a Fiesta medal are included.

The city of San Antonio encourages citizens to not drink and drive; here are some alternatives for transportation to Fiesta events.

• Have a designated driver • VIA offers special event fares. Pick-up times will run until 11:30 p.m.

• Plan a drop-off and/or pickup service with Uber or Lyft • Call family or friends to drop off and/or pick up “I take VIA during Fiesta,” said math Instructor Steve Ochoa.

“I also always recommend wearing comfortable shoes.”

Check out all the events lined up for this year at www.fiesta-sa.org.

Fare for VIA park and ride services for Fiesta is $1.25 one-way or $2.50 round-trip with student reduced fare card. $2.50 one-way or $5 round-trip without student reduced fare card. www.viainfo.net/SpecialEvents/FiestaService.aspx

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Conference to highlight art, culture Fiesta event will feature local and international speakers.

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For more than two decades, this college has hosted the Multicultural Conference, an annual gathering of faculty, staff, students and scholars to discuss literature and issues surrounding multiculturalism.

The conference is April 24-27 and will open with a live dance performance at 6:30 p.m. in Koehler Cultural Center.

The dancers, in a routine choreographed for the event, will begin outside the house and work their way inside.

The conference is four days of speakers — writers, artists, musicians and other creatives and intellectuals — discussing issues of multiculturalism.

“Everything is designed to open people’s eyes to new possibilities,” English Professor Claudio San Miguel said.

The college also will host a luncheon as part of the conference at 12:30 p.m. April 24 in Koehler. At $15 per person, the luncheon is the only part of the conference that is not free.

The luncheon will feature a talk by artist, musician and filmmaker Daniela Riojas.

As he described Riojas’s work, San Miguel excitedly pointed around the room at three large works of her art hanging on his walls.

This year’s keynote speaker is Henriette Mutegwaraba, a survivor of the Rwandan genocide, who will speak about her experience surviving and losing her family in the killings.

San Miguel has coordinated the event for the past four years, and said speakers like Mutegwaraba give students important perspectives on what’s going on in

the world and their place in it.

The conference is an official Fiesta event, and attendees will receive a medal featuring art by Cruz Ortiz, a local artist and one of Miguel’s former students.

Past medals have featured artists such as Alex Rubio and Riojas.

This year’s theme is “As above, so below.”

“The idea was that somehow, the larger world is parallel to the most minute things that take place here,” Miguel said.

English Professor Juanita Luna Lawhn founded the conference at this college more than two decades ago and organized it until 2001.

She said one of her goals in founding the conference was to introduce faculty to multicultural works in the hopes they would incorporate the works into their curriculums.

“To change the curriculum, faculty members have to buy into it,” Lawhn said. “You can’t force them. They have to make a decision that they want these topics to be in their curriculum.”

She said incorporating cultural perspectives into classrooms was and still is important to her.

“Particularly now, the need to have a multicultural curriculum is urgent,” Lawhn said.

San Miguel said these days, the focus of the conference is more on reaching students than faculty.

He described introducing students to events and history around the world as “an extension of our highest ideals.”

Lawhn said the conference also introduces students to elements of their own cultures they may not have known about.

“Our students come in with very little knowledge, if any at all, about their own literature, about their own literary, cultural heritage,” she said.

Lawhn said multiculturalism is valuable to students because it connects them to themselves, their heritages and one another.

She pointed to a print of a painting hanging on her wall, a piece named “Las Dos Fridas” by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo.

In the image, the artist is painted twice, one figure in a white, European-style dress and the other in an earth-toned Tehuana dress. The two figures are bound together by a vein, wrapping around their bodies, necks and arms, eventually connecting to each of their hearts.

“The blood among us,” she said, “it just doesn’t stop.”

“It’s like a web. I think lots of times, we want to put things in ‘us versus them,’ when really, it’s only one line of blood. If we can understand that, maybe we can become more humane or we can understand our own humanity.”

For more information on the conference, call Claudia Flores at 210-486-0649.

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By Grace Reyes

sac-ranger@alamo.edu

The music business program will host its annual Fredstock concert at noon April 23 in Lot 7 at Courtland Place and North Main Avenue.

The free festival will feature local bands such as Los #3 Dinners, Austin Forrest, Bob Charles, Mitch Webb and the Swindles, and Bombasta.

Along with the bands, there will be vendors, a wide variety of food trucks and even some of the college’s organizations promoting their clubs, music business Coordinator Donnie Meals said.

“The more, the merrier,” he said.

The Fiesta San Antonio Commission will review the festival the day of the event to see if Fredstock meets the criteria to become an official part of Fiesta.

“Usually, it pans out and they are approved. The application is stringent, and the site visit is just to view the event itself,” Amy Shaw, executive director of the Fiesta San Antonio Commission, said.

The music business program at this college has organized Fredstock since 2010.

One of the requirements for being part of Fiesta San Antonio is to have held the event for at least two years. Events are eligible to be reviewed the third year, Shaw said.

Meals discussed what needed to be submitted to the Fiesta San Antonio Commission to be a Fiesta event.

“We had to tell them about our history,

who was involved. We had to basically give them a general overview of what Fredstock is about,” he said.

Although Fredstock has been around for more than two years, the event was not ready to be a Fiesta event.

“I wanted to feel comfortable with it. I understand what I’m teaching, but managing an event is quite a daunting task,” Meals said.

Meals teaches MUSB 1371, Live Sound for Music Business, and MUSB 1305, Survey of the Music Business, classes while fulltime Adjunct Julie Good teaches MUSB 2450, Commercial Music Project, and MUSB 2301, Music Marketing. Students in these classes run the event.

“I, as an instructor, guide them and teach them, but bottom line, they are the ones working sound, getting vendors and all the aspects of setting up a large-scale concert,” Meals said.

Fredstock was named after the late Fred Weiss, who founded the music business program at this college. He was a professor in the radio-television-broadcasting program for more than 20 years.

“It’s a chance for students to get hands-on experience on how to put together a music festival,” Jacob Peirce, assistant director of KSYM, said.

Before Peirce became assistant director, he was a music business student, and he helped put together Fredstock for two years.

“I did the promotional side of it one year, and the next year I did sound,” he said.

Peirce said the music business program

wants to take part in one of the city’s biggest traditions: Fiesta San Antonio.

“It’s exciting. There’s way more exposure,” he said. “It boosts the promotional efforts that are already there.”

“I would like the event to pay for itself certainly,” Meals said. “But I don’t want it to lose its charm by becoming a money-making event.”

Each music business class has its own job to do.

Students in the live sound class are in control of technical support.

“We are going to set up all the live sound systems, PA systems and all the things involved in that,” Alfredo “Ricco” Gonzales, music business sophomore, said.

“I’m looking forward to learning how to use this equipment so I can continue doing what I love, which is music,” Gonzales said.

For more information, call Meals at 210-486-

1367. To be a vendor, sponsor or food truck at the event, visit www.fredstocksatx.com/ contact/.

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Speak up when it matters The chance to make a $450 million decision is coming up.

Burn the date May 6 into your mind.

It’s the day of the Bexar County general election and your opportunity to speak your voice.

In addition to mayoral, city council and other bond elections, the ballot includes the Alamo Community College District Capital Improvement Plan bond.

The district is requesting $450 million to renovate and build facilities across all of the colleges and construct new regional centers.

Do you trust the Alamo Community College District to represent your best interests in their use of your tax dollars?

Earlier this year, the board earmarked $60 million in revenue funds to construct a new district support office at 2222 N. Alamo St. That money could have been used to improve the campuses, but the board instead decided to spend it on the administration and let campus improvements take a backseat, leaving the decision to hang on whether the bond passes.

District officials say these projects are needed because current facilities are old and insufficient, and they say enrollment at the colleges will soon

exceed their capacities.

They have not yet presented the public with definitive numbers for college enrollments or capacities to back these claims, and they project large percent increases in enrollment by 2025.

Enrollment numbers and projections published by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board are much more conservative.

The district is able to raise property tax rates to fund the bond, but says it does not expect a raise to be necessary.

The specific projects and the amounts that go toward them can be found on www.theranger.org.

Regardless of your leaning, we ask only for your participation in what we hold to be a critically important decision.

If you have any regard for democracy, if you believe in a society controlled by its many rather than its few, we urge you to vote May 6.

Or better yet, get your vote out of the way during early voting between April 24 and May 2.

Students: The issuance of this bond affects you by constructing and renovating campus buildings.

Classes may be disrupted or moved to accommodate construction.

If or when the projects are completed, you may have access to edu-

cational resources and programs you otherwise wouldn’t.

Faculty and staff: You are the gears in a vast, bureaucratic education machine.

You faithfully work day and night to produce the highest quality education experience you can for students.

Consider if this bond affects that goal. Consider if your administration’s goals align with yours.

Will this money produce a better experience for students, and if so, at what cost?

Consider the specific projects the district intends to fund with the bond. Are they the best use of funds for students?

Taxpayers: Will this bond lead to a more productive, thriving, intelligent Bexar County?

Make no mistake: You matter, and you don’t have to be an expert on policy to be qualified to have a say.

Many powerful interests would have you believe your voice is worthless. They’d have you think you’re better off at home while their friends and cronies vote for them.

This is not a decision to be made by the powerful.

It is ours.

It belongs to those who study and sweat in Bexar County and deserve to be represented.

Hard work deserves good pay Why is the chancellor paid to be on his phone?

The chancellor, vice chancellor and associate vice chancellors are all part of the top 10 highest paid positions at district offices.

These 10 employees only represent 1.8 percent of faculty, staff and administrators but are earning 3.6 percent of the entire staffing budget.

The staffing budget for this college was $33,319,036 for all 550 faculty and staff.

Chancellor Bruce Leslie earns the

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Leslie gets paid nearly as much as the president of the United States to be on his phone during events, as he showed during a commencement ceremony last year.

The chancellor, vice chancellors and associate vice chancellors are the ultimate leaders of the colleges, but what about the faculty and staff who put in the work every day, pushing for this college to be successful?

Faculty and staff are the ones teaching and helping students to

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Although most faculty, staff and administrators received a salary increase between 4 percent and 7.1 percent, 4 percent of a vice chancellor’s salary is disproportionate to 7 percent of a faculty salary.

The vice chancellors received a $5,982 raise from fiscal year 2015 to fiscal year 2016, and a $10,270 raise from fiscal year 2016 to fiscal year 2017.

The district needs to narrow the pay gap betweeen administrators and faculty, and start adequately compensating educators.

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Why art is important, even if you are not an artist

I am a 44-year-old sophomore and photography major. I am a mother, an activist, a daughter, a wife and a photographer, but my defining and lifesaving calling came from Viewpoint a role in the community

by Kristel as an artist.

Orta Puente I was born and raised in this city that I love so sac-ranger@ student.alamo.edu much, and building my community is my life’s work. My first awards as a professional in a career have all been in the last three years of my life working as an installation artist.

Those small accomplishments gave me the courage to walk back into school here after 17 years. For someone who was used to failure, being successful is something I never dreamed I could do. It is humbling and terrifying.

Art saved my life, gave me direction and made me realize my displaced ideas had a home. I was not crazy, and I was not stupid, and others are way smarter, but I believed I had something to say.

I began in the San Antonio art world as a photographer about seven years ago. I got involved in an annual art show called “The Color of Blind” for the visually impaired and special needs community by Trina Bacon.

Often when you visit an art show or museum, you are not allowed to touch any of the art.

“The Color of Blind” makes sure that every piece in the show is touchable or has a sensory element to it.

I stood with overwhelming emotion the first time I experienced a visually impaired little boy touching a mermaid sculpture.

He told his mom as he touched a real mermaid, they had to take her home because he loved her.

Today that mermaid lives at his house courtesy of the sculptor.

In that moment, I knew I belonged helping people who are often left out of the art world. I took all the insane ideas in my head and tried my hand at being an installation and conceptual artist, with “The Color of Blind” and creator Trina Bacon giving me my

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The Future is Love art gallery at Jive Refried has work of students featured as political statements.

To see more, visit www.stylelushtv.com. Kristel Orta Puente first opportunity.

I believed from the time I was a small child that being an artist was unachievable for me because I had no idea how to draw or paint. All I had were ideas and no way to express them.

The most exposure I had to art was attempting to draw in grade school, making projects with construction paper for holidays and painting.

It would be over 30 years before I learned exactly who Frida was. It wasn’t until high school I had a real art teacher who had a film camera. Intimidated by having to buy my own camera, which I could not afford, I never took her photography class. I stayed in fascination of the camera, the darkroom and her.

Years later, I picked up a digital camera when my daughter was born.

I was terrified I’d break it, but I began to take photos of her, my muse. It would be another 13 years, and a career change before I’d discover I was good at taking pictures.

And another five before I was in my first art show.

Today, I have devoted my professional career to advocating for art, making art and contributing to my community.

I used to wonder what might have been different if I had been exposed to more art

Kristel Orta Puente, co-curator of “The Color of Blind,” gives a visually impaired UTSA student a tour of the artwork at the 2015 show at Brick Marketplace. Francisco Vara Orta as a child.

I have seen firsthand the impact art can have on the most lost and forgotten members of our community. Art is storytelling.

Whether you choose to tell your story, or the stories of those who cannot speak, creating is liberating.

Without finding this form of expression, I would most likely not be on this planet. I create because I need it for survival and sanity.

It grounds me and gives order to the chaos in my head.

I want everyone who is lost or struggling to go out and try creating something. Take a sewing class, go to an art show, go to an artist talk, buy a camera and dare to document what you see and feel on a daily basis.

Continuing to take art out of schools, defunding art programs and marginalizing the members of our community who would benefit the most from artistic expression are barbaric.

Our state Legislature continues to eliminate the avenues of expression and attempts to silence the storytellers calling attention to the distorted interpretation of what has value in a capitalist-driven educational system to

promote science-based programs.

Our national government can slash the already emaciated budgets of art and music programs nationwide with the swipe of a pen.

Any scientist or anthropologist will tell you the greatness of every society we study in history is judged by the quality and sophistication of their art.

You can crunch data and carbon-date a bone, but you only get the emotion and essence of what great civilizations of the past valued by the artistic expressions they left behind.

Should we continue on this path, and if an anthropologist of the future wants to study any objects of beauty we in the United States of America have left behind, most likely it will be buried deep in stacks of petrified standardized test scores and TEKS binders.

The treasure will be suffocated by simpleminded good intentions and likely be a singular gloriously precise machine-sculpted plaque of declared ambition with the words “Educating the creativity out of children since 1980 — Department of Education.”

Email letters to sac-ranger@alamo.edu. Include full name, telephone number, classification and major or title, college and Banner ID. For more information, call 210-486-1773.

Board should invest in impoverished areas Editor: I’m writing in regard to the article “Board of trustees unable to compromise on bond projects” published Dec. 20.

The animosity needs to end among board members.

To be unable to decide on referendums that will improve students’ and faculty’s quality of life is disappointing.

I was drawn into District 1 trustee Joe Alderete’s comments about the “biggest hindrance to education is poverty.”

I couldn’t agree more that the priority of education takes a backseat in impoverished communities.

In 2015, a San Antonio ISD study showed 93 percent of the total population lived in an economically disadvantaged home.

With this, the SAT scores were marginally above 1,000.

While the board members continue to argue bond allocations, is anyone considering the limited paths these students settle for?

Administration should put the money back into venture programs.

Do more than just grants and scholarships. Give the students GPA and attendance incentives during

their tenure with Alamo Colleges.

Conduct a census to see if students’ parents would benefit from college courses.

Offer parents a free career workshop if their child is enrolled.

Find corporate sponsors to partner with.

Propose a program where the employer will pay for financially disadvantaged students’ tuition if they maintain a GPA and fulfill employment hours.

Consider hiring more instructors and professors to gives students an opportunity to register with a schedule that meets their needs.

Doing this will show San Antonio what is valuable to Alamo Colleges.

Education is valuable.

Luis Bernal Digital Video and Cinema Production Sophomore

Hire more full-time professors Editor: I found your article “Poor grade rates can hurt teachers” by Emily Garcia published April 10 interesting.

I found this article interesting because I am getting ready to graduate from SAC in May with honors.

It has not been an easy road to

keep a high GPA. I have found that the majority of my professors have been adjunct professors.

This is a problem, Alamo Colleges. These professors only get paid for their time in the classroom.

These professors do not want to work for free so they are taking shortcuts. Due to the time restraints, professors just use the PowerPoints given to them by the publisher of the book.

In turn, all they really do is summarize the chapters. When it comes to writing papers, or taking a test, it is hard to know what to study for.

The professors should get paid for their time in class and should be paid for their work done outside of the classroom.

It takes many hours to grade papers, prepare for class and to reply to emails and questions for students.

You can put the blame on the student and the professors, but the true problem is that Alamo Colleges do not want to hire full-time employees.

If the Alamo Colleges hired more full-time professors, you would see an increase in higher grades, better rating on the professors and an overall higher graduation rate.

Leslie Ellis Liberal Arts Sophomore

Friends, responsibilities can affect grades Editor: The article “ Poor grade rates can hurt teachers” published April 10 really takes my attention.

I can personally relate to the article, being that I am a current student at SAC. The article says that the reason students do not succeed in courses is due to procrastination, lack of funds, study space, time management and poor study habits.

I believe that a lot of these problems are linked with one another, and can affect one physically, mentally and emotionally.

Students come to school to gain an education for their futures.

However, school can be very expensive and cause numerous amounts of stress.

When you are in college, it is necessary to have a computer, housing and transportation.

With all of the expenses school requires, students tend to get stressed out and start working.

This is where time management comes into play. Managing school full time and a full-time job takes lots of energy and time.

Students do not want to fail courses intentionally.

When students first come to school and have to multitask many responsibilities, they can get mentally and physically drained. This is when procrastination starts, leading to bad study habits.

From experience, I know that being involved in and communicating with peers in the same major really helps motivate students to learn.

Therefore, when a student is consuming all of their time at work to makes ends meet, it doesn’t leave much time for them to interact with others on campus to motivate them to keep going.

I believe that you are who you hang around with.

If students spend more time with others who are eager to learn, they will be motivated and make that time to study with others and get their work done.

In today’s society, outside influences play a huge role in our lives whether they come from social media, peers, teachers or books.

All students have the ability to succeed. Getting students back on track through motivation will help fix many of the problems happening in class. This will also help resolve teacher ratings and reviews.

Samantha Alvarez Communications Sophomore

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Counselor addresses misconceptions about sexual assault

By Maria Gardner

sac-ranger@alamo.edu

To prevent sexual violence, it’s important to understand the myths surrounding rape, a former clinical director of the Rape Crisis Center said April 5 in Loftin Student Center.

One in five women and one in seven men have been sexually assaulted, Lucy K. Ziegler said during a presentation for Sexual Assault Awareness Month hosted

by SAC Cares and the counseling department.

An estimated 40 students listened to Ziegler, who was the clinical director for the Rape Crisis Center for 10 years. She also is a licensed professional counselor.

“It’s the victim’s fault” is the biggest myth about sexual assault, she said.

Victims are never at fault no matter what they wore, how much they drank or how late they were out, she said.

This is a myth the person committing the violation tells their victim to put the shame and blame onto the victim, Ziegler said.

There are four circumstances in which a person cannot give consent: • Under the threat of physical violence, intimidation or coercion.

• If unconscious, unaware, asleep or mentally incapacitated.

• If under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

• If under the legal age of 17 in Texas.

She says another myth is that perpetrators are sex-crazed maniacs.

“The truth is rape is not about

sex but about power and control, taking over someone’s body,” she said.

Most cases of sexual assault involve a person the survivor knows, Ziegler said.

This can cause even more pain and trauma for the victim, she said.

Another myth is that women report rape for revenge, Ziegler said.

An estimated 2-8 percent of reported sexual assaults are false, according to a study by National Sexual Violence Resource published in 2009.

The majority of sexual assault crimes are not reported for fear of not being believed and being blamed for the crime, Ziegler said.

“They are going through a lot of suffering before they tell someone,” she said.

She said victims of sexual

assault suffer from anxiety and fear, and this can turn into depression.

“The trauma can affect the physical biology of the victim and put them off balance,” Ziegler said.

There are resources on and off campus for survivors to get the support they need, she said.

The Rape Crisis Center sponsors a 24-hour hotline with advocates who support survivors in every state of their recovery, such as being present at the hospital when the survivor is having a rape kit done or when reporting to the police, Ziegler said.

The center also provides free counseling.

On campus, there are resources as well.

At the SAC Cares Office, located in Room 101 of the nursing complex, Title IX Director Jacob-Aidan

Martinez serves as a liaison connecting students to resources here and in the community.

The counseling center on the first floor of Moody Learning Center also provides free counseling. To make an appointment to see a counselor, call 210-486-1620.

Hours are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

She said it is everyone’s responsibility to take care of each other and support survivors.

“It’s like throwing a rock in a pond: The ripples affect everyone,” Ziegler said. A flier created by the SAC Cares office reads: “Prevention starts with challenging victim-blaming and believing survivors when they disclose.

Each of us is essential in challenging harmful attitudes and the societal acceptance of rape.”

Candidates encourage millennials to show up at polls Voter drive registered 407 Alamo Colleges students.

By Bismarck D. Andino sac-ranger@alamo.edu

About 300 people, mainly college students, learned about the mayoral and city council candidates’ policy agendas during San Antonio Night Live, where candidates demonstrated their sense of humor April 1 at Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex.

The event included a policy pizza segment, where a slice of paper pizza symbolized the city of San Antonio.

Each candidate chose four “toppings,” or policy issues, to customize their pizza. Issues included transportation, infrastructure, education, housing and health.

During the talent segment, mayoral candidate Manuel Medina danced cumbia with host Molly Cox, while opponent Ron Nirenberg sang and dedicated the song “All My Loving” by The Beatles, to his wife.

Tristan Garcia, computer science sophomore at the University of Texas at San Antonio, said he learned about this event through a classroom presentation when Mobilize Organize Vote Empower San Antonio did a voter registration drive at UTSA. Sixty students from his class registered that day.

“I think it’s a great thing what they’re doing. I like that they are nonpartisan and that they’re not here to sell the Democratic Party over the Republican Party,” Garcia said.

He also said candidates found common

ground on what needs to be addressed citywide. However, he believes this city needs to focus on public school funding and the cost for college, especially with today’s tuition, housing, textbooks and other expenses.

According to H. Drew Galloway, MOVE San Antonio executive director, this can be in part due to the lack of participation from millennials, people born between 1982 and 2004.

“The average age of a citizen in San Antonio is 34 years old and the average age of voters in 2015 was 63,” Galloway said. “If we want them to talk about the stuff that we care about and talk our issues, we have to get involved and we have to vote.”

Nirenberg said millennials should get involved with this city and demand accountability and solutions for public transportation, safety, jobs and the economy.

“Young people in this community are disenfranchising themselves when they don’t go and vote.” he said. “The reason why that’s important is because young people have the most to lose through bad policy. The more young people stay away from the polls, the worse our city would get.

“We need them to be at the polls to make their voices heard or all of those policies will be ignored,” Nirenberg said.

Medina has seen a steady participation from millennials at local elections. However, he hopes for massive participation like in November during the presidential election.

“This generation of Americans are the future architects, engineers, doctors and why

Mayoral candidate Ron Nirenberg takes a group selfie before reading tweets from the Hot Seat segment with opponent Manuel Medina using the #Sanl17 April 1 at Brick at Blue Star Arts Complex. About 300 people, mainly college students, attended. Bismarck D. Andino not the next mayor of the city of San Antonio,” he said. “Young people, 18 to 30-year-olds are going to make the difference.

“If they do that in May, then they are going to see candidates like myself, more of us, talking about minimum wage, about making sure that we have affordable housing, and that we have issues addressed that directly impact the lives of young people in San Antonio,” Medina said.

In 2016, MOVE registered 8,568 students across San Antonio, including this college.

Two weeks ago, they registered 407 young people in six hours at the Alamo Colleges during Voter Registration Day, he said.

Madison Porras, MOVE San Antonio intern, registered students at this college.

“We have a big presence on all the campuses, especially at SAC, and we actually have a very good relationship with SGA,” Porras said. “They’re all deputized to register people to vote … they are very passionate about it, and we are very passionate about being at all the Alamo Colleges.”

Galloway also reminded students to take advantage of their telephone capabilities by texting MOVE to 57711 to receive automatic text reminders of when it is time to vote.

Early voting starts April 24 and continues through May 2, and election day is May 6.

ASL program one step closer to bachelor’s degree Texas Legislature could vote on a proposal from this college.

By J. Carbajal

sac-ranger@alamo.edu

The American Sign Language and interpreting program is continuing to seek approval for a bachelor of applied arts and sciences program.

The Texas Legislature has to approve a community college offering a bachelor’s degree.

Lauri Metcalf, chair of languages, American Sign Language and interpreting, turned in the proposal to President Robert Vela March 3, she said in an email March 28 after a March 21 interview.

The Texas Legislature will determine the outcome of this proposal at the end of the legislative session in late May. Bachelor programs in community colleges provide a costeffective option for a higher degree to a wider range of students, according to the Education Commission of the States.

However, there is concern that four-year degrees could cause negative competition between community colleges and local universities.

To obtain approval for a new program, an institution must prove that it is not a duplication of another university’s program in the area and that there is no possibility for collaboration with a four-year university, according to the ECS. The Education Commission of the States, or ECS, gathers and disseminates information on state education policies, and is found at www.ecs.org.

The ASL program has no current articulation agreement with any universities that offer a bachelor’s degree in interpreting because universities have no more hours than the college’s program offers, Metcalf said March 21.

Austin Community College currently offers an Associate of Applied Science in American Sign Language and interpreter training.

This college offers an Associate of Arts with optional electives in American Sign Language and two Associate of Applied Science degrees. One is in deaf support specialist and the other is interpreter training.

The goal of the current interpreter training program is state-level certification. A bachelor’s degree is not required, but the B.A.A.S. would give interpreting students 30 additional hours to be better prepared for the certification test,

Metcalf said.

“It’s very hard to expect a student to learn the language, and not just at a conversation level, but at that level of proficiency to interpret and then to learn that complicated process of interpreting, in those seven semesters. The pass rate at the state level is very low because it’s a difficult test,” Metcalf said. Students must pass the Texas Board for Evaluation of Interpreters test to complete the A.A.S. degree in interpreting and attain state level certification.

There are different levels of certification, each with a corresponding test. The Test of English Proficiency has a 60 percent pass rate, the Basic test has 39 percent, the Advanced has 29 percent and the Master test 50 percent, according to the BEI page on the health and human services website.

The fire science program is also in the early stages of attaining a bachelor’s program. States have allowed community colleges to award bachelor’s degrees as early as the 1990s, to meet a growing need for employees with bachelor’s degrees in the workplace, according to the ECS. There are three Texas community colleges that offer bachelor programs, South Texas College in McAllen, Midland College and Brazosport College, according to the San Antonio Express-News.

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Sandra Nickelberry, president of the Non-traditional Students Club and vice president of SAC Community Cats, leads the march chanting “One in five is too many!” and “The absence of ‘no’ is not consent!” Brianna Rodrigue

WALK from Page 1 Women and Non-Traditional Students (SWANS) in April for Sexual Assault Awareness Month, a nationally designated month for raising awareness about sexual violence and educating people on how to prevent it.

About 35 men donned stilettos, pumps and wedges to walk from the mall east of Moody Learning Center to the empowerment center.

“As the old saying goes, ‘You can’t understand another’s experience until you walk a mile in their shoes,’” said Helen Vera, director of SWANS, at the pre-march gathering in the Fiesta Room of Loftin Student Center.

“This is a fun event that helps us to talk about something that sometimes is difficult to talk about.”

Dahlia Patron, American Sign Language sophomore, shows Anthony Franklin, business and kinesiology sophomore, a bedazzled wedge he could wear for the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes march Tuesday, but the shoe didn’t fit. Students, faculty and staff wore heels they either reserved through the college, borrowed from family members or bought at a store to join the march to stop rape, sexual assault and gender violence. Brianna Rodrigue

Liberal arts freshman Matthew Rodarte’s heel breaks 50 yards from the empowerment center. Brianna Rodrigue Richard Farias, interim dean of student success, spoke about the prevalence of sexual assault against

women and men in the U.S. and the importance of erasing the stigma against victims.

Farias said he knows women and girls who have experienced sexual assault and said victims should not suffer in silence.

One in five women enrolled in college is a victim of rape or attempted rape, according to a survey conducted by the Association of American Universities in 2015.

“I can’t imagine the number of men and women who I and all of us probably meet on a daily basis who are silent victims,” Farias said.

Bexar County District Attorney Nico LaHood served as grand mar-

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When cells do not get the glucose they need for energy, the body begins to burn fat for energy, which produces ketones.

“If you love somebody, tell them,” Jones said.

“Don’t think they will be here tomorrow or think they will be there next week. No matter who it is going to be — friend, children, church member, just tell them.”

Gunter misses her brother but is grateful he lived a full life.

“When a friend of mine was murdered when I was in college, someone said the born day and the death day is one thing,” she said.

“It is in between the dash that tells the story. Jibri lived a full life. He went to Belize, swam with the dolphins. He met Stan Lee, Danny Glover, and the cast of The original ‘Star Trek’ besides William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. He met his heroes and that is awesome,” she said.

“Jibri is in the best movie theater in the world, sitting next to the best filmmaker having the best space adventure of a life time,” Gunter said.

block toward things that I want to design later on,” Eben Pfeil, engineering graduate and mechanical lead, said.

Pfeil said the project is an opportunity to gain hands-on experience that he can’t get in a classroom.The team has ordered the plastic sheeting for the shell and plans to install it by Wednesday.

Seeing the car move is more than an engineering accomplishment to the group.

For them, it’s the culmination of countless hours of intense work and worry. It’s their passion manifested.

“It felt like a weight came off my shoulders,” Dominic Ochoa, engineering sophomore and project lead, said. “This is my baby, this project. I don’t know — to finally see that huge milestone happen, it’s like a weight came off of my shoulders.”

Ochoa said the team didn’t encounter any major issues with the driving mechanisms. They did, however, encounter a

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The presentation shows the growing disparity in success rates between male and female students between 2010 and 2016.

District 1 trustee Joe Alderete suggested dual credit programs could reach male students early before their minds are “warped in the wrong direction.”

District 6 trustee Gene Sprague agreed with Alderete and said pre-advising male students before they enroll in the district could be beneficial.

“I can’t tell you how many young men I’ve talked to that just dropped out,” Sprague said. “They basically say, ‘Well, you know. School is just not my

shal for the march.

LaHood said it is important to support people who have been victimized and not label them. He said when victims become defined by labels, they begin to believe they cannot overcome negative circumstances.

Walk a Mile in Her Shoes is a worldwide event that started in 2001 at Strength United in Los Angeles. Today marchers around the globe participate.

“Aw, man!” exclaimed liberal arts freshman Matthew Rodarte as the glittery black heel of his black and pink wedges snapped off 50 yards from the empowerment cen-

Irene Salazar, engineering sophomore and electrical lead, takes off her helmet after a test drive.

She is one of two drivers who will compete at the Shell Eco-marathon in Detroit. Brianna Rodrigue financial issue in the beginning of March when a school credit card belonging to Corina Canizales, natural sciences unit

thing. I didn’t like the studying.

I didn’t like the whatever.’”

Sprague said some of these students are not aware of the possibilities offered by colleges in the district, using as an example a student who was interested in gaming who was unaware of Northwest Vista College’s game development programs.

District 3 trustee Anna Bustamante said the opportunities provided by the Alamo Colleges District are regularly announced at Southside High School, where she teaches.

Sprague disputed Bustamante’s claim.

“We are not strong in that area, in what some people call pre-advising, where I can send somebody to one of our colleg-

ter. “Can you believe that? I was doing really good, too!”

Broken but not “de-feet-ed,” Rodarte walked the last leg of the march with the support of a friend.

At the empowerment center, he was honored with the Highest Heel award for having the highest heels in the march.

Jacob-Aidan Martinez, director of student conduct, walked with purpose and style this year. He said he participated in last year’s march last-minute, so he ended up in painfully uncomfortable heels. This year, he arrived early and scored a better-fitting pair. He was honored with the Best Walk award.

assistant, received $1,900 in fraudulent charges.

Canizales purchased parts and resources for the group, and though the misatke is resolved and the charges refunded, the club’s funds were limited for over a week.

“There’s always been the thought of ‘what if something like that happens,’” Ochoa said, gesturing to a whiteboard detailing now frighteningly low funds.

The group also receives funding and support from sponsors such as Intercon Carriers and Peripheral Vascular Associates of San Antonio.

Most recently, the group received a $5,000 donation from Detroit Metro Convention and Visitors Bureau.

Individuals can also donate to the project through the donate button at www. alamo.edu/foundation and specifying “San Antonio College Motorsport” as the recipient, or at www.crowdrise.com/sacmotorsportteam.

Ric Baser, Northwest Vista College president, says the fall 2016 student profile showed 55 percent of students were females and 45 percent were males. Brianna Rodrigue es and have someone sit down and go through the possibilities,” Sprague said. “You can say we have it. I’ve tested it out, and I don’t think we do.”

Baser said all Alamo Colleges have male initiatives

because the economy impacts male students more than female students.

“If there are $25 per hour jobs out there, we lose them,” Baser said.

Baser said working with early college high school and dual credit students to encourage male student enrollment is difficult because they only have the students for a portion of their education, before handing them off to the high schools.

District 5 trustee Roberto Zarate said the disparity in gender enrollment needs to be a city and workforce employment priority.

Zarate said the district couldn’t provide a solution on its own.

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Trusting unconscious

By J. Del Valle

sac-ranger@alamo.edu

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ames Brandenburg is a diplomate in analytical psychology (dream analysis) with training from Centrum Institute in Bethanien, Switzerland. He also has four other degrees he has earned throughout his career. Brandenburg has been a counselor since 1988 and with this college since 2004.

Brandenburg talked about the background and the founders of dream analysis.

Carl Gustav Jung, who was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology, founded the Union Institute in Zürich, Switzerland, in the late 1940s. He died in 1961, but his work influenced many fields in medicine and science.

Mother Marie-Louise Van Franz, a Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar who specialized in fairy tales and mythology, was Jung’s right hand. She was a student under Jung.

When Jung died, she carried on the leadership role.

“I have been studying dreams for years and one of the sources to study dreams is in Switzerland,” Brandenburg said. Jung and Van Franz collaborated on the outline of studies for students because they would have to live in Switzerland for four to six years. They wanted a training institute that people could go to a few times a year to study and then work with a dream analyst in their home country.

Van Franz founded the Research and Training Center in Depth Psychology in 1995.

“The program is very difficult to get accepted into and once accepted, it is very intense; it takes about eight years to complete the program,” Brandenburg said. “I myself was able to complete in 4 1/2 years.”

Brandenburg said it’s a very in-depth program.

“It’s like a Ph.D. program because you need to provide a thesis and defend it, write interim essays and take diploma exams,” Brandenburg said.

According to the method of dream analysis, Brandenburg said people experience the unconscious through dreams, projections, waking fantasies, mental illnesses and synchronicity.

“Working with the unconscious, most people don’t know

Counselor James Brandenburg, who is a diplomate in dream analysis, poses for a light painting photo. J. Del Valle that it’s everything that we don’t know in consciousness,” Brandenburg said.

“Dreams are not for everybody. They are symbolic,” Brandenburg said. “It can solve issues so people can move on with their life or it can take years to analyze a dream.”

Brandenburg went to a presentation on dream analysis that eventually led to joining a group, and from there he had his first one-on-one with a dream analyst and got hooked.

Brandenburg has a private practice that has been open since 1992 where he counsels and has one-on-one sessions with patients on dreams.

Brandenburg was a teacher before he was a counselor. He has taught German, English and theater, and he always had students and people come to him with their problems.

“Dreams have different levels,” Brandenburg said.

“Dreams have five cycles a night and 90 minutes in each dream.”

However, he said, “Most people don’t pay attention to their dreams.”

Brandenburg sees five patients a week for dream analysis at his practice and nine to 10 students a week at this college.

It has been so useful for Brandenburg that he uses it for his practice and as a counselor.

“It has changed my life. I have learned to trust the unconscious and how it communicates,” Brandenburg said.

“Students who want to track their dreams should write them down every day; some people keep a notebook by their bed,” Brandenburg said. “They should write down as much detail as they can remember.”

Colors represent meanings in a dream and in reality. For instance: Blue — coldness, calm, depth, detachment, peace and tranquility.

Red — passion, creative, feminine.

Yellow — light, human consciousness, moon and stars.

Green — nature, renewal, growth.

Purple — royalty, blends of red and blue bringing opposites together.

“There is art in remembering your dreams. You have to work at it. You have to write them down, and a dream analyst can help with the symbols and the interpretations,” Brandenburg said.