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Vol. 57 No. 20
San Antonio, Texas
March 18, 1983
portunity for input,” Moore said in a telephone in-
terview. “And the advisory council’s rate of agree-
ment with the paper is 6.4 on a 7.0 scale.”
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the student activities commission.
Six members will attend the state
convention of the Texas Junior Col-
lege Student Government Associa-
tion this weekend in Houston. Atten-
ding are Frank Burns, president;
Cooke; Joe Guerrero, student services
commission chairman; Louis Dedon,
instruction and curriculum commis-
sion chairman; Tanja Wade, campus
operations commissioner; and Bar-
bara Snyder, public relations com-
mission chairman.
Cooke said the weekend is mainly
for idea-sharing between different
student governments in the state.
By Connie Juvan-Savoy
Staff Writer
The college district boundaries
should be expanded to the Bexar
“Also, with the new system, the
notes should be more readily
available for the students. Consider-
ing they (the notetakers) are only
working for 50 minutes but get paid
for an hour’s work, taking the time
to drop off notes at the end of the
day can’t be that big of a problem.
“I support the new system,” he
said.
The SRC meets at 12:30 p.m. every
Tuesday in the Bluebonnet Room of
LSC. Anyone interested in joining
SRC should go by the student ac-
tivities office in LSC to pick up an
application. •
By Vincent McCleary
News Editor
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Cooke reported on a contact he
had March 9 with Delia Swiger, sup-
port services assistant for handicap-
ped student services, and said he
supported the new system for
notetakers regarding their work.
This semester, the notetakers are
required to turn in their work every
day compared to the old system
when notetakers turned in work
weekly.
“The idea is that notetakers are to
turn in notes at the end of each day
so they (handicapped student ser-
vices) can make sure the notetaker
is doing a good job.
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Ricky Garza, freshman architecture major,
cruises down San Pedro Avenue using an
unusual mode of transportation. Garza
says he usually takes a quick spin after his
presented for revision and approval to a Master
Plan Community Advisory Council composed of 25
members from the community at large as well as
to the board’s planning and policy committee and present status for the district’s future; and 3)
services for everyone,” he said.
One student said she favors expan-
a large number of students who cur- ding only to the city limits because
physics class. His transportation is
economically sound; no gas, no license, no
insurance. Garza, like many students, are
glad that spring break begins today.
trends; 2) community economic and social
priorities; 3) college enrollment potential; 4) needs The final paper on strategic issues is a summary
and characteristics of the district’s students and of the data and responses to the previous papers,
faculty; and 5) financial resources and alternatives, and an identification of the strategic issues that
Each of the five papers has previously been emerged during the course of the work. The paper
consists of three parts: 1) a summary of the pre-
sent status of the community and the college
district; 2) a discussion of the implications of the
) a sec-
tion outlining strategic issues which require action
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A position paper containing strategic recommen-
dations for the future of the district will be
presented to the district’s board of trustees at 7
p.m. Monday in Room 301 of Moody Learning
Center.
The paper also outlines a proposed sequence of
events for their implementation.
If approved by the board, the position paper will
become policy. The proposed resolution to approve
the position paper also authorizes district
Chancellor Byron McClenney and the appropriate
committees of the board of trustees to take the
steps necessary to implement the recommenda-
tions delineated in the position paper.
Titled “Strategic Issues: Priorities for the Future,”
the paper summarizes five previous papers com-
piled by McClenney and Kay Moore, assistant to
the chancellor. The papers drew upon data from
the 1980 federal census, the city department of
planning, a report from the Texas 2000 Commis-
sion on the future of the state and enrollment
demographics from the college district.
Using these data, McClenney and Moore
developed the five papers addressed to the topics
Amy La Presto, a former student here, paid a surprise St.
Patrick’s Day visit Thursday to an English 601B class
taught by her sister, Marjorie Wells.
ty but outside the district boun-
daries and have to pay higher
fees.”e
Requests
diminish
for aid
Although the college receives as
much financial aid as in the past, ap-
plications for financial aid by
students has decreased, Roland Car-
rillo, director of financial aid, said.
“We haven’t seen a drop in dollars.
We continue to receive as much or
more (financial aid) as in the past,”
he said.
Federal programs for students at
this college include Pell Grants, Col-
lege Work Study Program,
Guaranteed Student Loans and Sup-
plemental Educational Opportunity
Grants.
There has been a drop in the
number of students applying for Pell
Grants this year as compared to last
year, and the Pell Grant is probably
the best measuring stick for the
overall financial aid situation, Car-
rillo said.
He attributes the drop in applica-
tions for financial aid to the publici-
ty surrounding proposed cuts in the
federal education budget.
, But in a lame duck session of the
last Congress, a continuing resolu-
tion was passed providing funding
for all federal programs for students
through 1984, he said.
“There has been much confusion
about the future of financial aid pro-
grams in Washington. The coming
year promises more than adequate
funding for our students.
“The important thing here is the
criteria have not changed. It must be
that people just aren’t applying for
them like they used to.
“People are beginning to feel that
the dollars just aren’t there,” he
said.
Pell Grant applications are
available in the financial aid office
for the 1983-1984 school year now,
Carrillo said.
The financial aid office is located
in Room 314 of Fletcher Administra-
tion Center. It is open from 8 a.m. to
1 p.m. Monday-Thursday and 8 a.m.
to 4 p.m. Friday. •
Aid delay
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Approximately 5,000 students here
are affected by a delay in financial
[ aid money disbursement.
Financial aid checks were to be
distributed March 16, but the U.S.
Office of Education has not com-
1 pleted approval for the financial aid
office here to disburse the money.
1 Diana Perez, financial aid
, counselor, explained the delay.
“A quarterly report was submitted
in October requesting an allocation
for $2.8 million. The Office of Educa-
tion felt we wouldn’t need it, and
they approved $2.5 million. We had
to submit an ad hoc report in
February because we thought we
would not have enough money. We
asked for an increase from $2.5
million to $3.1 million.
“They are approving an allocation
for $2.9 million because they feel we
are not spending at that level ($3.1
million) and don’t have the number
of recipients,” Perez said.
“We are waiting for an allocation
letter from the Office of Education.”
The financial aid office sent a re-
quest to Dr. Byron McClenney,
district chancellor, asking if the
district could put up enough money
to cover the second disbursement.
McClenney said he directed the
college administration to determine
the amount of money available here
and to distribute all available funds
either in partial payment or on a
financial-need basis.
“We don’t have the authority to
issue money beyond that,” he said.
Perez said she does not know
when the full amount of money will
be available. •
The Student Representative Com-
missions is circulating a survey for
student opinion on the board of
trustees decision to turn off the light
atop Moody Learning Center.
After a recommendation from the
board building committee which
called the sign “commercial,” the
board of trustees voted Jan. 17 to
turn off the sign.
Michael Cooke, campus operations
commission chairman, said the SRC
will circulate the survey the week of
March 28 after beginning circulation
this week. Cooke said the sign is a
symbol of pride for students, and he
the school, and we think having the
contact of talking with the students
will be helpful.
“We will conduct the survey this
week, and the following week after
spring break. It will say: ‘Do you
want the light behind the sign on top
of MLC on or off?’ Students will
answer yes or no and provide their
student I.D. numbers. If we want to
make it (the survey) into a petition,
we will be able to because we will
have the I.D. numbers,” he said.
In other business, the SRC voted in
a new member at Tuesday’s
meeting. Don Pasola will serve on
to the board members on an individual basis. 1
“The plan has been through a lengthy process and containing a proposed sequence of events for
in which all the board members have had an op- taking action.
The sequence of events calls for building two
students. It’s packed enough as it
is,” Christina Perales, business
technology major, said.
Jackie Reeves, nursing student,
said it would depend on how much
taxes would have to be paid.
“I’m looking for a home outside
the city, and I wouldn’t want to pay
additional taxes,” she said.
Another student said he would be
satisfied with expanding to the city
boundaries. “Looking at my own
situation, I would be in favor of ex-
should have that opportunity. Coun- panding citywide. I live inside the ci-
ty residents would be better off in
the long run because if people could
come here and get a good education,
said the survey may be turned in to
petition form to be presented to
administrators.
“It is not a petition. It is a survey
to see if students want the light
behind the sign to be turned back
on.
“This school is lacking in school
pride, and it is obvious in the way
students treat the campus. If there
is one thing on this campus that will
make the students proud, then we
should make sure we keep it.
“This survey will give us some idea
of what the students want. One of
our goals is to try to foster pride in
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they could qualify for better jobs,”
she said.
Joe Adams, freshman undeclared
major, thinks expanding to the
county would be good so the com-
County line rather than to the city munity college district could be a
limits, 42 of 50 students surveyed Bexar County community project,
think. “Eventually the city is going to en-
Four students would prefer expan- compass the whole county anyway,”
ding to the city limits and four Adams said. “Expanding the boun-
students had no opinion. daries is a good idea, but those peo-
A major reason the district wants pie (county residents) aren’t going to
to expand is to create a larger tax want to pay for it.”
base, which in turn would increase
revenue for the district.
If the district expanded to the city boundaries should be expanded to
limits, its tax base would increase by the county because of city growth,
about one third, while if it went “San Antonio is growing so much.
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“San Antonio is growing so much,
countywide the tax base would People who live outside the city take
almost double, but county residents full advantage of what the city offers,
would be faced with an additional It (expansion) would provide equal
tax burden.
Boundary expansion would allow
rently live outside the district to pay this school already has enough
lower in-district fees. students.
Twenty-five of the 42 students who “Expanding to the county would
favor expanding to the county line probably bring in too many
live inside the district boundaries.
“It would be nice to include the
whole county. People who live out-
side the district can afford to pay the
taxes, I think. I hope the right deci-
sion is made,” Greg Zoll, freshman
physical education major, said.
Barbara Mazer, sophomore
humanities major, said she is in
favor of expanding county wide,
especially if it will enable more peo-
ple to attend this college.
“People who want to come here
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