The Collegian (Hurst, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 13, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 3, 2008 Page: 3 of 14
fourteen pages : ill. ; page 23 x 14 in. Scanned from physical pages.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
News
The Collegian
December 3, 2008 • page 3
more
Names
Events
Davis
Registration
(continued from page 1)
Dec. 4 NW Campus sign lan-
Dec. 7
Dec. 8 - Dec. 13
Dec. 13
Dec. 14
r
Dec. 15 - Jan. 3
Jan. 3
Jan. 4
Jan. 5 - Jan. 10
Jan.10
Jan. 11
Jan. 12- Jan. 20
Jan. 20
Jan. 21
After Jan. 20
Shaw
2 It
©2007. Paid for by the United States Army. All rights reserved.
& & <3
1
Registration
Nov. 15 - Dec. 6
Payment Due
Dec. 6
TCC students and facul-
ty gathered Nov. 20 in the NE
; Campus Galley to “lunch ’n
learn” about overcoming weight-
, loss plateaus.
, Stacy Lueking, NE Campus
, health and physical education
, instructor, presented ways to
, increase metabolism and lose
, weight without the added frustra-
tion.
, “Your body is like a parent,”
. she said.
, “It becomes concerned when
.. you try to lose weight, so it natu-
, rally conserves calories.”
Lueking opened the presenta-
, tion by breaking everyday caloric
, expenditure into four categories:
, thermic effect of food, occupa-
required paperwork completed 20
days before the start of the spring
semester. To ensure services are
available, students should apply
as early as possible, but late ap-
plicants will be accepted. For
more information, contact DSS
on NW Campus at 817-515-7790;
NE Campus at 817-515-6333; SE
Campus at 817-515-3521; and
South at 817-515-4896.
Today Free HIV/syphilis testing
10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the NE health
center (NSTU 1704). These tests
are confidential. Call 817-515-
6056 for an appointment, but
walk-ins are welcome. Test results
will be available in one week.
Dec. 5 The NE Campus health
and physical education department
presents The Anywhere Workout
12:30-1:15 p.m. in NHPE 2105.
The interactive session will dem-
onstrate how to exercise while
traveling. For more information,
contact Stacy Lueking at 817-
515-6958.
witnessed Shaw’s love toward her daughter
first hand.
“Their relationship is one of the most
beautiful love stories I have witnessed,” said
Schrantz, SE sociology assistant professor.
“She collected hearts. She certainly touched
many.”
Story remembered a quote about Benjamin
Franklin that he “was a man who knew his
own mind and knew the words to speak it.”
He thought the same thing could be said about
Shaw.
“Some people have that gift of character
that puts people at ease, draws them to that
person and opens the doors of communica-
tion,” Story said. “It’s a special trait that can’t
be taught or learned but is evident in our best
teachers. Dr. Shaw has that gift.”
Surviving are her daughter of Fort Worth;
her parents, Judith and Carlos Diaz of New
York; her brother and sister-in-law, Carlos and
Cheryl Diaz of Michigan.
The memorial service is 3 p.m. today at
Broadway Baptist Church in Fort Worth.
Dec. 4 Susan Adams, assistant
professor of counseling and de-
velopment at UNT, presents
Grief and the Holidays 1-4 p.m.
in College Hall (NCAB 1111)
on NE Campus. She will speak
about overcoming holiday grief,
remembering special people who
have died and understanding the
grieving process. The event is
free with a light lunch included.
For more information, call Paula
Vastine at 817-515-6456.
Today Students and faculty look-
ing for unique. Christmas gifts can
stop in front of the NW Campus
Bookstore 10 a.m.-5 p.m. The
pottery classes will sell bowls,
pitchers, teapots, mugs, plates,
wall art and much more at reason-
able prices.
Today NE Campus ceramics stu-
dents will sell pottery 10 a.m.-2
p.m. in the Student Center across
from the career and employment
center. Shoppers will have a va-
riety of pieces to choose from for
early holiday purchases.
guage interpreting program and
communications department
will host Signing Santa, an an-
nual community event for deaf
and hard-of-hearing children
from local school districts. The
day includes skating, face paint-
ing, crafts, signing stories, a tal-
ent show and a visit from Santa.
The event is 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at the
Holiday Skatium in Haltom City.
For more information, contact
817-515-7762.
to 75 percent of caloric expendi-
ture.
Lueking gave the audience
tips for boosting metabolism, such
as not skipping meals and eating
smaller, more frequent meals as
this will not only boost metabolic
rate but also curb cravings and
expand energy.
“Do you know how many
times sumo wrestlers eat a day?”
she asked. “Once — and their
goal is to gain weight. We don’t
want that.”
Lueking emphasized starting
small to avoid getting burned out
too soon and giving up by doing
things like cutting out sodas or
adding more fruits and vegetables
to the diet.
Weight loss can only be
maintained if it is a result of a
lifestyle change, she said.
Today-Dec. 4 NW Campus com-
munications department pres-
ents the Third. Annual Speech
Department Competition.
Students registered for the com-
petition will compete for two
scholarships 2-5 p.m. today and
noon-2 p.m. Dec. 4 in WSTU
1303.
By APRIL FULLER
reporter
(continued from page 1)
Tarrant County chapter of the Susan G. Komen
Breast Cancer Foundation.
> Macaulay recounted how Shaw would con-
tinue to teach and participate in organizations
- even after painful chemotherapy treatments.
“I will remember Ana as not just someone
- who worked to survive cancer, but someone
who worked to live despite cancer,” Macaulay
said.
■ “She would say it’s a chronic disease and
many people live with chronic diseases that are
more painful and with no possibility of a cure.
- That’s living despite cancer.”
1 Dr. Shaw was devoted to her students and
served on many District committees to enrich
• Tarrant County College for them. Her dedica-
• tion was recognized in 2002 when she was
1 the recipient of the Chancellor’s Award for
Exemplary Teaching.
Dr. Pauline Griffith, professor in South’s
English department, said Shaw’s ability to
laugh at herself showed when Griffith ran
• Shaw as a candidate for office in the Texas
Community College Teachers Association.
Today-Jan. 20 Students seeking
services form the disability sup-
port office are advised to have the
Dec. 13 The TCC Veterans Club
is sponsoring Honoring our
Veterans at Christmas. Club
members will provide baked
goods and present them to vet-
erans at the Dallas VA Hospital
at 4500 S. Lancaster. Volunteers
can meet in NACB 1213 at 10:30
a.m. or at the Dallas VA Hospital
at 2 p.m. For more information,
contact Lisa Uhlir at 817-515-
6928 or Linda Hatfield at 682-
521-7715.
Judge sides with TCC
three-year contract with the college
expired. The board voted to give
him a new contract with $325,000
annually, a $30,000 raise in salary.
Meeker and Rutledge argued
in the lawsuit that the board had
not given adequate notice regard-
ing discussion of the chancellor’s
contract as outlined by law. State
law says that any hiring of chief
executives must be made public
and give at least 21 days notice.
A trial date for the lawsuit has
not been set as of this time.
— Chris Webb
“She was good-natured enough to wear
a yellow suit and let me give out bananas and
fliers that said ‘Vote for Anabanana,”’ Griffith
said. “She was a lady with a great sense of
humor who could laugh at herself while doing
a 110 percent job at whatever was asked of
her.”
South Campus history assistant professor
Larry Story described her as intelligent and
insightful.
“I would read and think about a topic for
weeks and then try it out on her to see what I
knew,” Story said.
“In about 10 minutes, she not only under-
stood everything I understood but had pointed
out some things I had missed.”
“What none of this addresses, of course, is
what a good person she was — kind, generous
and witty. People just liked her and gravitated
to her.”
Throughout Shaw’s illness, her chief con-
cern was always for her daughter, Megan.
Theresa Schrantz had been a friend and
colleague of Shaw’s for nearly 20 years. She
registering if they are on academic suspension or probation, owe business
* services various fees or try to register for a class for which they have not
met the prerequisites. This is why counselors stress early advisement so
much, Harvey said.
An on-call academic advisor for TCC since 2006, Harvey also helps
in the SE Campus counseling center, where, she said, traffic this year has
‘ been pretty normal. She also said many teachers have brought their entire
classes to try to prevent the long lines the South Campus counseling cen-
ter has experienced.
“We are strongly pushing for students to take proactive measures
such as early advisement and testing,” she said.
Not meeting payment deadline can create problems for students,
Spencer said. Students who miss the first payment deadline are automati-
cally dropped from the classes for which they registered.
Spring registration runs through Jan. 20.
Students can set up a payment plan through the FACTS payment
system with a $25 fee. To create a payment plan, students need to log in
to Web Advisor and click on the payment options link.
Students can pay tuition online with debit or credit cards or in person
at the business services office, which will close Dec. 13-Jan. 4.
Spencer said the best thing for students to do after registering is log
out, then log back in and print the schedule and fee statement to verify
their selections. He said errors can and will happen.
“We wor^ with students when mistakes happen,” he said. “If they
♦ contact us within a day, we’ll usually work with them.”
(continued from page 1)
confidence that maybe I was cut out for college
and maybe that was something that I could do
on a four-year degree plan.”
TCC provided her with a foundation on
which to build her scholastic career.
“One of the very important things it did
was it helped me establish a GPA that I was
then able to take to TCU and achieve a scholar-
ship from,” Davis said.
With her scholarship, she attended Texas
' Christian University from 1986 to 1990 and
• graduated first in her class. She was the first in
* her family to graduate college.
Her excellence in school and unique back-
-* ground then helped her get into Harvard Law
' School.
“They want people with backgrounds like
_ mine,” she said. “They want culturally diverse
and economically diverse backgrounds so that
people come together and learn as much from
each other as they learn from the program it-
self, from the teachers themselves.”
Davis graduated with honors from Harvard
in 1993.
A few years later, she ran for city council
and lost. But she was not discouraged and won
the following election.
She served on the Fort Worth City Council
from 1999 to 2007 as the District 9 representa-
" five.
A judge ruled that Chancellor
Leonardo de la Garza can stay in
his job while an open meetings
lawsuit against him and the TCC
District proceeded.
Tarrant County residents Larry
Meeker and Brian Rutledge, repre-
sented by Harold Hammett, were
seeking to prevent de la Garza
from continuing in his position as
chancellor while the lawsuit filed
against him was ongoing.
De la Garza had his contract as
chancellor renewed by the board of
trustees in June when his previous
She initially ran for the office because she
wasn’t satisfied with what she was doing.
“When I was in law school, I had volun-
teered at a legal services center for a couple
of years, and it was very meaningful helping
people who really, really needed and appreci-
ated that help,” she said. “And I felt like I was
making a difference in people’s lives, and the
City Council seemed to be a place that would
offer me the opportunity to do that again.”
After serving on the City Council for eight
and a half years, Davis decided to run for state
senate against incumbent Kim Brimer.
Brimer is a veteran politician with two
decades of experience under his belt, but Davis
thought he was lacking in a few areas.
“I felt like we had been missing someone
who really connected with the constituency,
who was really there at the state level repre-
senting the people back home,” she said.
Apparently, the people agreed with her.
Davis won the election with 49.9 percent
of the vote.
She will stay connected with voters through
a strategy she used during her City Council
tenure. Davis kept in touch with the constitu-
ents in her district by appointing neighborhood
leaders who kept her abreast of their concerns.
She plans to continue listening by bringing
her communication strategies to the state level
Overexercise was something
else Lueking said to avoid. The
body reacts to exercise when it
is at rest, so it is important to not
overexercise because it could
lower the metabolic rate.
Mary Alice Smith, associate
professor of management, attend-
ed the seminar for her own per-
sonal interest and said she found
it very informative.
“I just didn’t think working
out too much was even possible,”
she said.
This was the third weight loss
seminar conducted by Lueking,
and she encourages all students
and faculty members to attend the
fourth, The Anywhere Workout,
Dec. 5.
For more information, con-
tact Lueking at 817-515-6958 or
e-mail stacy.lueking@tccd.edu.
At time of registration*
* Unpaid schedules subject to deletion.
Students should check their CampusCruiser e-mail accounts because
that’s what TCC personnel use to communicate, Spencer said.
Spencer, who also teaches business and management courses on
South Campus, said that the distance learning online classes fill up the
quickest. He became a court-appointed mediator by taking online classes
while he was in graduate school. He said they offer convenient flexibility,
but they require more work, making it easier to fall behind.
Spencer said that he was pleased with enrollment thus far and that
South Campus might need to add more classes in the future if it keeps
growing. He also said campus personnel need to find ways to make regis-
tration better and encourages students to offer their constructive criticism.
_
i.....;.......
[U.S.flRMY |
ARMY STRONG:
Seminar discusses losing holiday weight
Boost metabolism bg eating smaller meals more ofterg instructor sags
I ■
Registration Schedule
Deletion date
tional lifestyle, exercise and rest-
ing metabolic rate. Each category
represents a percentage of the cal-
ories a person bums.
The thermic effect of food
refers to the amount of calories
burned when food is digested —
10 percent of caloric expenditure,
Lueking said.
“Now don’t go and eat a
bunch to lose weight,” she said,
drawing a laugh from the audi-
ence.
Occupational lifestyle is day-
to-day activity—only 15 percent
of a person’s caloric expenditure.
Lueking said exercise varied the
most, with 5 to 40 percent total
caloric expenditure depending on
the intensity of the workout.
The resting metabolic rate
is the amount of calories a body
needs to survive, and it equals 60
- 'SFNl
1 1
TCC-South - Call 817-346-8066 / TCC-Southeast - 817-473-3062
TCC-Northwest - 817-735-4493 / TCC-Northeast - 817-428-4072
BELIEVING IN YOURSELF IS STRONG.
ACHIEVING WHAT YOU NEVER
BELIEVED POSSIBLE IS ARMY STRONG.
5 There’s strong. And then there’s Army Strong.
There is no limit to the things you caTlearn from
one of over 150 career opportunities available to you
in the Army. You can also receive money for college.
To find but more, visit your local recruiter, log on to
gdarmy.com or call 1-800-USA-ARMY.
IF/
r 1
through a committee of leaders from the areas
she represents and town hall meetings.
Her community college roots and under-
standing of the sometimes difficult financial
situations community college students face will
continue to help her at this new level in her
public servant career.
“For me, personally of course, having
come through the community college system,
understanding how valuable it is, I will work
very hard to make sure that we fund it well and
continue to provide that opportunity to as many
families as we can,” she said.
One concern she means to address is the
problem students face at the beginning of every
semester: how they’re going to pay for books.
“Particularly at our community college
level, I think we need to be thinking creatively
about how we can help cover the shortfall in
the cost of those textbooks and what families
are able to afford,” she said.
For now, as she did 24 years ago, Davis is
learning.
“The Senate operates very uniquely. It will
be very different than my previous government
experience,” she said. “I’m planning to spend
a lot of time listening before I begin talking
and, hopefully, will learn enough about it to be
effective on some issues that I think are really
crucial right now.”
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
The Collegian (Hurst, Tex.), Vol. 21, No. 13, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 3, 2008, newspaper, December 3, 2008; Hurst, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1310460/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room.