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The Second Front
The Ranger/3
March 8,1991
Student parking lot still dark after three months
long to remedy."
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Maintenance building to get second facelift since 1989
different things to many different
on the third floor of Koehler Cul-
then assistant director of design and have it completed before spring
Castillo to discuss resolution with Nelson
Women’s center to celebrate 10th
if it is not defined in writing.
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Student Center in 1984.
the original committee.
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be a way to designate the chair as the hiring
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But he said the resolution is "better than
President, chancellor
to discuss changing
hiring process wording
Thursday.
Dye said Tuesday the six light poles to be
used.
Pellek said he did not know of any
duplications of the 1989 remodeling
By Angela Alcala
Assistant News Editor
procedures will assure chairmen a role in
hiring.
Dye said 3 D/M is responsible for the
delay.
"This assignment was the responsibility
of 3 D/M," Dye said. "On Oct. 8 when we
inspected the lot, we said lights need to be
put up immediately so students could use
the lot and we could close others for con-
struction."
Dye said Castillo plans to exert pressure
on 3 D/M officials to get Lot J lighted as
soon as possible.
Castillo said Monday he met with Gene
Rutherford, vice president of 3 D/ M Thurs-
day, for a report on the project delay.
Lt. Terrie Hoffman of the district depart-
ment of public safety said Thursday that
installed at the lot do not fit the light bases
built when the lots were paved.
He said the bases were built to accommo-
date 30-foot poles but that 40-foot poles
were intended for the lot. Adaptors will be
installed to make the poles fit, he said.
By Belinda Blancarte
Assistant News Editor
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which is teaching."
The Faculty Senate does not be-
lieve such an evaluation will be ac-
curate, Byerly said in an interview
after the meeting.
"The basic objection the faculty
members have about merit pay is
that basically we are a teaching in-
stitution where the teaching process
is difficult if not impossible to
evaluate," Byerly said.
In other business, the senate dis-
cussed lack of departmental funds
for supplies.
"The point that stuck out very
clearly was that many departments
don't have enough money for ma-
terials," Byerly said.
Biology Professor Ellen Brennan
used one of her classes as an example
of the lack of funds.
She asked students to contribute
$2.50 for computer paper for a di-
etary analysis they must keep be-
cause the department could not af-
ford paper.
"This is the kind of thing where
we aren't getting support from the
administration," Brennan said. "It's
part of what'^ required for teaching
a certain course."
Senate decides to poll
faculty on merit pay
moving employees who work ex-
Educator cites
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> come close to spending" $7,000.
He said he is remodeling and
"shuffling around" offices to pre-
pare them for three assistant direc-
tors to be hired.
warehouse before the conversion.
Don Johnson, director of physical
plant in 1989, said Horace Allison, late January and he would like to
The poles were salvaged from other con-J
struction sites. The bases were built by V. K.
Knowlton Paving Co. Inc.
"The bases don't all fit the light stan- foot patrols check the lots at night. She also
dards," Dye said. "But it shouldn't take too said mobile patrols frequent the lots more
'' than usual because of the lack of lighting.
By Angela Alcala
Assistant News Editor
The maintenance building at 201
W. Dewey Place is being remodeled
for the second time in two years.
Vice Chancellor Ronald Jonas ap-
proved $7,000 for the project.
Jack Pellek, director of facilities,
said Monday he has spent $863 on
the project and he "probably won't
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Faculty Senate Chairman Bill Byerly said
the resolution is not what he hoped it would
"It's not what we wanted," he said Tues-
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systems department, said the chairman's
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the arts and sciences and occupational, tech- cide if the assembly should continue.
Castillo refused to recognize the assem-
bly Feb. 6 when Friedrich requested a
meeting of the chairman's assembly with
the deans. Castillo told the deans the as-
sembly was not a recognized entity.
The sandblasting is part of an $85,000
bat elimination project by Gorman Mois-
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By Angela Alcala
Assistant News Editor
The women's center will celebrate its
10th anniversary with a program, open
house and reception from 10 a.m. to noon
Wednesday.
The celebration will commemorate the
opening of the center March 13, 1981,
said Dr. Adelina Silva, director and co-
founder of the center.
The celebration will begin with a wel-
come by President Max Castillo.
City Councilmember Maria Berriozabal
will read a proclamation from Mayor Lila
Cockrell declaring March 11-15 San An-
tonio College Women's Center Week.
Three hundred multicolored balloons
will be released at 10:30 a.m. between
Moody Learning Center and Fletcher
Administration Center.
Guests may tour the center in Annex A
from 10:30 a.m. to noon.
Special honoreers are Professor Emeri-
tus Maxine Sigman, former assistant di-
rector of counseling who helped establish
the center as a volunteer, and Dr. David
Semrad, director of the Methodist Stu-
dent Center.
The center was housed in the Method- r r „
ist Student Center at 102 Belknap Place former director of student activities. Silva'
until it moved to Room 301 of Loftin Sigman and Semrad are also members of
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President Max Castillo said Monday he
would talk to Chancellor Ivory Nelson about
a resolution sent by the joint chair's council
requesting the rewording of hiring proce-
dures.
The resolution requests rewording which
would define the role of chairmen in hiring.
But Castillo said he did not know when he
would talk with the chancellor.
He said he approved the resolution with a
"minor change" in the last paragraph.
The change calls for the dean to discuss
candidates with the department chairman
before submitting a recommendation.
The original resolution said chairmen
would convey to the dean their recommen-
dation.
Castillo said a change was needed because
the original wording suggested the chair-
man would recommend one candidate as
opposed to several.
He said the resolution clarified the role of
the chairman in hiring while still maintain-
ing the dean as hiring supervisor.
The senate will meet with Presi-
dent Max Castillo April 17 at the
same place.
By Jennifer Hartley
Staff Writer
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But Pellek said the remodeling merit pay in general,
would not effect the district's plans.
"Anything done here has no effect
on that," Pellek said. "We are not
going to do anything so exotic that
request of the council.
The council is one of eight regional
councils of the coordinating board
responsible for the review of all out-
’ of-di strict and off-campus course
offerings. The council also discusses
community college issues.
A report of the regional council's
meeting will be presented at a state
board meeting in April.
Dr. James Dye, chairman of the
council for 1990-91 and assistant to
President Max Castillo, will prepare
and present the report.
Seventeen colleges were repre-
sented and each gave a report of
their out-of-district, off-campus
/ course and telecourse offerings and
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about the money, but she told them
to consider it a lab fee.
"I told students that if they want
to complain, complain, but this is
the way it is," she said. "If the school
isn't going to pay, the students have
to."
The senate also discussed the
"committee for the mundane but
important" led by David
Mrizek,chairman of theater and
communication, which brings cus-
todial needs to the attention of the
president, facilities manager and the
custodial department.
"You take pride in the place you
work because it looks good and feels
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a defmititon of merit pay on the Mrizek said. "To get anything done,
. we have t0 make noise as a faculty,
„ , The word merit pay means many as a unit."
the building will be unusable." different things to many different The next senate meeting is Anril 3
During the remodeling Pellek is people," Byerly said. "What thepoll On the third floor ofKolhler Cul-
, - . - is attempting to get at is a gut reac- tural Center, 310 W. Ashby Place.
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stairs. Other employees will have reward faculty members based on
offices upstairs, he said. an evaluation on their major job
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The Faculty Senate at this college
voted Wednesday to poll the faculty
on whether they support or oppose
merit pay.
"I think we need to put this issue
to rest and have a poll, merit pay:
yes or no," Mary Ann DeArmond,
chairman of reading and education,
said.
English Professor Ignacio Orozco
moved that the faculty be polled as
to whether they support merit pay.
The poll will be a secret ballot
reading "merit pay: yes or no" and
have space for comments.
The senate set the week of March
25 as a tentative date for distribution
of the ballots.
The senate began studying merit
pay and methods to improve
teaching quality after an Aug. 9
memorandum from Chancellor
Ivory Nelson asked the senate to
develop measures and standards of
proposal to establish pay increases
for faculty based on merit.
"I have tried very hard to convince
him that a majority of the faculty “ Breman^idZiudentscomplained
opposes merit pay, Chairman Bill - - -
Freshman fine arts major Sonia Garcia molds the ics class during lab time March 1. The rhino is her Byerty said an interview after the
hindquarter of her clay rhinocerous for a ceram- figurative project for the class. meeting.
The senate established a blue rib-
--bon committee Oct. 3 led by chem-
istry Professor Bill Miller, former
senate chariman, to research the
merit pay issue.
The senate rejected the idea of
merit pay as it was first proposed
break March 18-22. after an investigation showed the
The maintenance building will be system failed in other institutions.
relocated at Maverick and Evergreen "The chancellor has an idea that
streets in 1994, according to plans the majority of the faculty supports
for Phase No. 3 of the capital im- merit pay," Byerly said. "Webelieve
provements program. the majority of the faculty opposes
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The senate decided not to include
definititon of merit pay on the
7 The South Texas Regional Higher
Education Council needs to work
on ways to improve the transfer of
credits from community colleges to
universities, a coordinating board
representative said Feb. 28.
Dr. Gloria Ann Lopez, represen-
tative of the Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board, said at a council
meeting at Palo Alto College the
i transferring classes is one of several
‘ issues the board will work on at the
reauest of the council.
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"It affirms the dean as the hiring supervi-
sor and shows the chair has a critical role in
the process," Castillo said.
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would be concerned about their role in hiring day. "I, personally, still feel there needs to
if it is not defined in writing. 1 j ' '
David Mrizek, chairman of theater and supervisor."
communication, wrote the resolution be- But he said the resolution is "better than
cause he believes a rewording of hiring nothing."
The chancellor changed the hiring super-
visor from department chairman to division
Mrizek said Tuesday he hopes the chan- dean July 2.
cellor will make a decision about the reso- Nelson said he made the change to give
lution before March 22, which is the close of the administration a greater involvement in
advertising for district tenure-track faculty hiring.
positions. 'J’he Faculty Senate sent a proposal to
He said he is optimistic about the Nelson Jan. 16 asking him to rescind his
chancellor s decision. decision. The chairman's assembly reorga-
"I can't see what the problem would be if nized in November, after being dormant for
Dr.Castillofeelscomfortablewithit,"Mrizek eight years, to co-author the proposal with
said. "Since the president approved it, I the Faculty Senate.
havea feeling—and that's all it is—thatthe Nelson responded with a Feb. 6 memo
chancellor will go along with it." stating, "It was decided that the dean will
"But we shall all wait with baited breath," remain the hiring supervisor."
he said. Dr. John Friedrich, assembly chairman
The resolution passed at a council meet- and chairman of the computer information
ing set up by the deans Feb. 15. systems department, said the chairman's
Chairmen from academic departments in assembly would meet to let members de-
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nology and continuing education attended
the Feb. 15 meeting.
Two chairmen abstained from the vote
while the some 30 others supported the
move.
By Adrian C. Zamarron
Managing Editor
Student parking Lot J remains in the dark
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Dr. Adelina Silva
The center moved to Annex A between
Loftin Student Center and Fletcher Ad-
ministration Center in 1986.
Members of the original steering com-
mittee for the center also will be recog-
nized.
They are Dr. Jim Walls, human devel-
opment coordinator; Manuel Flores, di-
rector of counseling and services for spe-
cial populations; and Larry Adamson,
Moody main west entrance to close for sandblasting
Studentsand faculty must enter Moody entrance on the west side facing San Pedro through the entrance on the first floor of
Learning Center through a side entrance Avenue will close Monday, Tuesday and the north side of the building facing
next week to avoid a rain of sand from bat Wednesday. The closing will ensure the Fletcher Administration Center,
eradication crews. safety of people entering the building 'T’1-------• •-
Dr. James Dye, assistant to President while crews sandblast that wall, he said, bat elimination project by Gorman Mois-
Max Castillo, said Thursday MLC's main Dye said people should enter MLC ture Protection of San Antonio.
An assistant director for design construction, needed the shower,
and construction, an assistant direc- In 1989 remodeling the 1,500-
tor of maintenance and an assistant square-foot area cost between $9,000
director for support services will be to $10,000. The improvements in-
hired, he said. eluded four offices, a workroom and
The project include remodeling a restroom with the shower stall,
restrooms and removing a $160 fi- Pellek said in the six months he
berglass shower, he said. has worked at the maintenance
The shower was installed in No- building, the shower has not been
vember of 1989 after the first floor of
the building was modified to create
offices for district employees.
The district used the building as a project and said the project "is not a
warehouse before the conversion. big job."
He said the remodeling began in
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four months after it opened despite a prom-
ise by college and construction officials to
light it by the end of February.
Lot J, located on the south side of campus
behind and to the west of the Baptist Stu-
dent Center, at Maverick Street and West
Park Avenue opened about 380 parking
spaces in late November.
College officials and officials at 3 D/M, ^js WGek.
the management firm for this district's $97 ^at was one of the wheels that turned
f million capital improvements program, have quickly once pressure was applied," Dr.
/ blamed faulty construction and City Public James Dye, assistant to the president, said
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CPS, however, began connecting the bases
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