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November 7, 1986 / The Ranger / 2
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Increase
Funds
President's List
Dean's List
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Students making either
the President’s List or
the Dean’s List earned
their grades while
enrolled for a minimum
of 12 semester hours
Harper, Christie L.
Harrell, Kristine M.
Harrell, Susan R.
Hauser, Marylynn
Hayes, Melinda L.
Hays, Kathleen M.
Hines, Susan D.
Hodge, Penny
Hoog, John J.
Hooker, Curtis E.
Houston, John D.
Infeld, Paul
Inigo, Jose L.
Ishee, Michael E.
James, Veronika
January, Myron R.
Jensen, Maria A.
Johnson, Angela A.
Johnson, Beverly G.
Junco, Carol A.
Keen, Lydia I.
Keller, Janis L.
Klaus, Glenn E.
Klimek, Tina R.
Knapick, Lucy
Korn, Melissa A.
Kraus, Andrew G.
Kroschewsky, Marilyn A.
Kurash, John J.
Lamont, Barbara J.
Lane, Mary F.
Lang, Douglas P.
Langlinais, Stephen A.
Lara, Jose A.
Leach, Carl G.
Leal, Belinda Z.
Lehman, Mariana A.
Lim, Boon P.
Ling, Lori S.
Lopez, Cruz
Lowell, Patrizia M.
Lozano, Leonel S.
Lucas, Scott
Martin, Charles D.
Martinez, Eduardo
Martinez, Miguel A.
Mauer, Patsy J.
McFarlin, Nancy H.
McGee, Vivian G.
McManemy, Kathryn S.
McNulty, Constance S.
Meals, Judith V.
Meier, Aaron R.
Mendoza, Georgina
Moreno, Renee A.
Morere, Michelle G.
Muniz, Joel D.
Narazaki, Keita
Navarro, Rudolph
Newman, Gloria D.
Nixon, Jerry
Norford, Harry B.
O’Connor, Kevin N.
Offield, Alan B.
Patterson, Gary K.
Phemister, Robert D.
Pina, Terry L.
Pollari, Linda I.
Radentz, Leslie M.
Ramsook, Judy
Reeves, Jeffrey A.
Reiutz, Caroline R.
Rhyan, Earnest W. Ill
Rice, Ruth R.
Risor, Robert M.
Roberts, Valatie L.
Robinson, Ralph W.
Robledo, Maria T.
Rodriguez, Guadalupe B.
Rosanno, Paul D.
Ruess, Geralyn R.
Salinas, Valerio E. J.
Sanz, Laurie A.
Schneiderhan, Jayne M.
Schwarz, Linda S.
Seele, Nancy A.
Smith, Johnny L.
Smith, Robert E.
Solbrig, Keith W.
Somawardana, Sisira W. K.
Sparks, Charline R.
Stark, Mary J.
Stroebele, Shirley N.
Sullivan, Susan G.
Swanson, Richard M.
Taaffe, George R.
Takigawa, Asako
Terry, Kathleen H.
Thompson, Gary R.
Thompson, Lois M.
Thorne, Truela D.
Trump, Mary Anne
Tucker, Jennifer M.
Tung, George C.
Valdez, Marcela M.
Vaughn, Jeffrey A.
Vera, Jesse Anthony
Voigt, Teresa P.
Wegert, Preston H.
Wheeler, Roger W.
Wieczkowski, Tomasz
Williams, Stanley
Woods, Charles E.
Wratten, Marian
Wright, Sharon S.
Yee, Christina N.
Yi, Jung J.
Youngblood, Billie J.
Yu, Choi H.
Zamarripa, Eva
Zapiain, Fernando J.
Ruiz, Jesse P.
Sampson, Linda J.
Sandler, Denise L.
Seneviratne, Rosmal
Siniff, Brian G.
Small, Rodger A.
Smith, Larissa S.
Sparks, Billy F.
Suddhisanont, Atcharaporn
Suwansawad, Unnop
Swartz, Marilyn B.
Tomasini, Laurie M.
Tschirhart, Maureen V.
Vanderbilt, Eugene F.
Vass, Alana M.
Vazquez, Mary L.
Wafful, Amy J.
Walker, Laura K.
Wallace, Sean W.
Weilbacher, Sonya E.
White, Nita L.
Williams, Cimber
Wilson, Sharon A.
Zigmond, MaryAnn
Davila, Dennis P.
Koopman, Tammy L.
Smith, Sharron A.
Eison, Donna L.
Hackett, Lori A.
Penticoff, Richard A.
Tapia, Blanca E.
Calvert, Brett
Dyson, Cynthia D.
Gernander, Jerome T.
Gingerich, Diane
Godair, Cathy G.
Granado, Roberto G.
Heglar, Shellie M.
Ho, Hanchuan
Lorch, Karen L.
Yeung, M. Hungkwong
Allen, Joyce T.
Abuhantash, Madhat A.
Ayala, Miguel C.
Cantu, Alejandro Jr.
Garcia, Juan L.
Gavegan, Gary A.
Holloway, Philip A.
Jordan, Donald W.
Martinez, Sylvia
Meyer, Aleta
Nguyen, Huong T.-
Paczos, Zelia
Pleansinchai, Surachai
Powlas, Karen M.
Ramon, Carlos M.
Rasheed, Nedal S.
Salas, Jesus I.
Thai, Han N.
Zamora, Olga A.
Cardona, Sandra A.
Fox, Tracy L.
Orozco, Cynthia A.
Rodriguez, Mariaisabel
Ruiz, Dora P.
Aldrich, Laverne T.
Baldwin, Linda L.
Caudillo, Cynthia G.
Dias, Joy W.
Jenkins. Shane S.
Novikoff, Blair C.
Solomon, Naomi R.
Stephens, Mary E.
Struthers, Eva K.
Wilcox, George K.
Bolanos, Maria A.
Rodriguez, Maria G.
Aldrich, Barbara J.
Beams, Michelle A.
Donovan, Mary C.
Gomez, Jesse P.
McFarland, John P.
Mutz, Mary K.
Ortega, Karen L.
Pinto, Aisa R.
Rios, Mary L.
Salinas, Jorge
Shaefer, Margaret P.
Slaughter, Jay K.
Stevens, Michael S.
Terry, Mary F.
Thorn, Ralph N.
Wallace, Denise J.
Abbasi, Mohammed S.
Altgelt, Paula L.
Arispe, Raul A.
Bell, Joy D.
Benitez, Esther O.
Bertolino, Maria M.
Bolch, Caleb Nehemiah
Borjas, Olga
Bott, Steven B.
Burleson, Cindy A.
Campbell, Renee T.
Carter, Candy H.
Clowe, David W.
Colley, Patricia E.
Cortez, Michele G.
Dahlem, Beverly M.
Davis, Michael A.
Delgado, Audrey
Dolski, Linda E.
Ellis, Barbara A.
Estrada, James
Eul, Beverly J.
Fentonwilliams, Karlene
Flanery, Colbert L.
Flowers, Anne F.
Floyd, Kenneth W.
Foster, Robert E.
Freshwater, Cynthia A.
Garza, Maria Z.
Gorzell, Ben A. Jr.
Gravin, Andrew G.
Greene, Tara L.
Grise, Mary A.
Guerrero, Guadalupe E.
Gunawardena, Shantha
Hatfield, Bobbie J.
Heller, Terry L.
Herrera, Sara M.
Hillman, David M.
Hines, Mary S. •
Hingel, Wanda F.
Horne, Robert E.
Hurd, Chris R.
Jackson, Joy C.
Kutac, George C.
Leigh, Catherine E.
Lopez, Jesse V.
Lozano, Diane M.
Luna, David H.
Malymeik, Janis M.
Manahan, Frances M.
Mancel, William M.
McAshan, Mark P.
McGovern, Glenn C.
Million, Belayneh W.
Moreno, Gerilynn
Morris, Barron B.
Nagel, Robert H. Jr.
OBrien, Michael R.
Oda, Takami
Oms, Aurelio J.
Pletz, Pollyanna
Pocasangre, Rosa E.
Potts, Albert E.
Rahaei, Mohammad M.
Ramsey, Cynthia H.
Rangel, Lithia A.
Rodriguez, Melissa A.
Rodriguez, Soledad R.
Greene, Janette I.
Guenther, Sherman P.
Hepworth, Barbara A.
Larkin, Donna L.
Leitha, Larry L. Jr.
Morton, Ira B. II
Naylor, Sharron
Parker, Paul D.
Quiroz, Carlos A.
Renaud, James M.
Ruel, Michael J.
Simmons, Michele I.
Snodgrass, Rebecca N.
Williams, Linda L.
Garcia, Jesse W.
Klufas, Adriana C.
Mulligan, Geralyn M.
Todd, Melissa K.
Fernandez, Herlinda
Gonzalez, Maria G.
Martin, Gary F.
Mutz, Elizabeth A.
Ramirez, Gloria A.
Wallace, Cynthia L.
Kellam, William B.
Olenick, Douglas D.
Vazquez, Joseph L.
Sierra, Patricia V.
Bahrami, Shahrokh
Bowersox, Brenda J.
Camcioglu, Belgin
Davis, Franklin D.
Diaz, Arthur A.
Farmer, Joy H.
Fazal, Mohammad
Ferguson, Barbra H.
Greene, Susie
Hill, Rebecca L.
Kregar, Anthony A.
Lewis, Alison L.
Lutgen, Kathryn E.
Martinez, Patricia
McKnight, Toni A.
Rossi, George M.
Ruiz, Daniel O.
Sanchez, Florin
Tawfik, Khaled F.
Taylor Nancy M.
Tranbarger, Russell N.
Aldrich, Aaron S.
Bartee, Lisa M.
Beaird, Bonnie L.
Bell, David L.
Benavides, Andrew
Boykins, Cheryl L.
Breig, Ernest R.
Broadway, Ross
Buckley, Collin E.
Burner, Suzanna R.
Cannon, Cheryl A.
Cantu, Henrietta C.
Carroll, William R.
Castillo, Francisco M.
Coleman, Joe L.
Crerand, Donna M.
Curiel, Erasmo
Davila, Laura B.
Davis, William V.
Dehan, Elizabeth J.
DeLeon, Barbara L.
DeLeon,Jose A.
DeLeon, Stella G.
Delgado, Cristela
Demarcus, Christine E.
Diaz, Sylvia W.
Dicks, Connell
Doolittle, David R.
Edmonds, Brenda K.
Elbanna, Youssef A.
Escamilla, Raul
Fannin, Michael C.
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Fernandez, Sandra A.
Flores, Alma R.
Flores, Jose Jr.
Franco, Phillip J.
Galindo, Samuel
Garza, Angela
Garza, Jose A.
Garza, Lisa
Garza, Michael A.
Gerbatowski, Alexandra M.
Gonsalez, Mike V.
Gonzalez, Cynthia M.
Grandy, Lavonne M.
Grobe, Ben L.
Guerra, Lisa A.
Guerra, Melinda G.
Harris, August Jr.
Hassfield, Susan E.
Hernandez, Diana M.
Herrera, Rosa M.
High, Lucy G.
Holmes, Phillip S.
James, Steven C.
Johnson, Elam S. Jr.
Johnston, Mark H.
Jones, John D.
Jurcak, Joseph E.
Kea, Bobby J.
Kokinda, Stephan F.
Kolb, Tracy E.
Kozik, Renee D.
Kreitner, Karen L.
Leger, George D.
Lewis, Larry G.
Lohmann, Michael J.
Lopez, Rebecca S.
Lowry, Linda S.
Luna, Sally A.
Lytle, Elaine
Machi, Hamadani I.
Manero, Anthony M.
Maroti, Jaime G.
Martinez, Rose M.
Maslyk, Steven
Mecke, Larry W.
Mendez, Olga M.
Molter, Margaret S.
Morris, Esther, M.
Munoz, Joe M.
Naylor, Susan J.
Ortega, Jose D.
Ortiz, Alfonso H.
Pamplin, Rick L.
Parker, Edward R.
Parker, Elizabeth A.
Pedraza, Carmen
Pena, John E.
Polk, Georghan S.
Proctor, Deane K.
Ramirez, Roberto
Richard, Deborah D.
Riley, Monica L.
Roberts, Shaaron K.
Rodriguez, Maureena A.
Rodriguez, Richard
Rusin, Mark
Russell, Gail E.
Rutland, Billy W.
Salge, Pensla V.
Schiller, Melissa K.
Sepulveda, Debbie M.
Shults, Elizabeth A.
Sickenius, Brad F.
Steiner, James A.
Tashiro, Akiko
Tiger, Gerald W.
Travis, Edward E.
Tucker, Lucinda D.
Vick, Wilbert L.
Williams, Robin L.
Ybarra, Richard K.
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Students with a GPA between
3.50 and 3.93 for spring
semester 1986
Molina, Irma
Eslami, Neda
Henderson, Nancy P.
Rocha, Carlos B.
Winkler, Bradford J.
Stepherson, Paul K.
Cronin, Russell
Lineberry, Lisa M.
Solis, Moises G.
Bhat, Arvind P.
Brown, Charles A.
Burkhardt, David A.
Dobson, Sandra J.
Eberly, Margaret T.
Fleming, Brian K.
Galarza, Edwin
Gates, Eileen G.
Goerig, Judy L.
Gonzalez, Michele L.
Guerra, Amada
Hamlin, Odis P.
Heimbecker, Kimberly A.
Knippa, Gary L.
Luna, Ricardo
Masilungan, Edgar A.
Miyaura, Kiyomi
" MUllin, Scott T.
Nawrocik, Jack L.
Pargmann, Michelle
Rankin, Kevin L.
Rosales, Charles H.
Rosastatum, Veronica
Spencer, Michael T.
Steubing, Melissa J.
Trevino, Robert P.
Wanke, Karl J.
Watson, Darryl T.
Zapata, Carlos R.
Cano, Nancy
Elbanna, Hadi A.
Escamilla, Laura
Esquivel, Deborah
Guerra, Celia R.
Rodriguez, Rosalva
Steel, Gregory G.
Vandervort, Robert A.
Williams, Frank D. Jr.
Tobias, Celestino
Alyassin, Abdalmajeid M.
Becerra, Luz M.
Berry, Charles, F.
Campos, Gloria M.
Coffman, Teodoro J.
Crawford, Jackie M.
Cunningham, Claude E.
Demark, Patricia J.
Dunbar, Tina L.
Flores, Robert L.
Galan, Alberto
Garza, Lillian
Habtegabr, Tewodros E.
Holmes, Peggy M.
Hoog, James G.
Hurley, Chris C.
Jiha, Ali I.
Kaufmann, Gerald T.
Kirsch, Ann D.
Martinez, Eugene R.
The memo gave a summary of revenue available for
the summer of 1987:
• $1,366,662 for full-time faculty salaries summer
lege Book Inc. of Beaumont) did not even receive notice.”
Saunders explained the difference between a bid and
proposal.
“A request for bids is a very succinct response,” he
said. “A request for proposals, if I can be a bit loose with
this terminology, goes all over the place; you can bring
in whatever you want.”
Smithson said this move by the district eliminated him
you’re taking away the cherries in terms of the oppor-
tunities for any private contracts at San Antonio College
and St. Philip’s College. We have five proposals on the
table that responded to our request.”
“Right,” Warrick interrupted. “You could get five more
for just Palo Alto. Why do you think we couldn’t? If they
(Follett) are willing to pay $1 million, $300,000 a year,
let’s see what we can get for one year.”
Warrick was referring to an advance of $1 million
Follett offered as a deposit which was rejected.
However, Follett guarantees the district $300,000
nually for the first three years.
George Panketh, director of district finance, said he
favored awarding the contract to Follett.
“This company is offering an annual guarantee of
$300,000 for the first three years, which is more than
twice as much as the average total return to the district
for the last three years.”
“Even in the best year, which was the fiscal year of
1984-85, the total return amounted to $206,000. So this
minimum guarantee is very, very beneficial to the
district.”
Warrick spoke against the committee’s emphasis on
money.
“We’re in the business of educating people. We’re not
in the business of making money.”
Trevino countered, “I think we’ve done a real good job
of not making a lot of money.”
Trevino’s comment drew laughter from the audience.
Warrick also expressed concern about the possibility
of an increase in book prices should Follett take over.
“I worry about pricing to the students,” she said. “If
you’re going to pay out more in rent or whatever have
you, you’re going to have to charge more.”
She presented her argument for bidding the bookstore
at Palo Alto College and compared business at the new
campus with business at St. Philip’s and this campus.
“If we just turn it over, you don’t have any control. You
don’t have any basis of comparison.”
Panketh responded, “If there is unsatisfactory perfor-
mance on Follett’s part, there is room for termination
of the contract.”
Before voting no, Warrick said, “Mr. Panketh, I’m a
pharmacist. I’m not a banker or financier, but I do
believe in preventive medicine. I think if you can pre-
vent a problem that may occur or may not occur, that’s
the route to take.”
Before seeking bids from private companies, the
district operated the bookstores, hiring a manager and
staff and providing space here and at St. Philip’s. •
1987
• $673,359 for lecturers and overload salaries
available summer 1987
• $352,490 from the dean’s pool for salaries summer
1987
• $300,000 from the tuition increase based on restora-
tion of 30 percent section reduction
The total estimate of revenue available is $2,692,511
for the summer sessions.
The memo said the above estimate does not include
$1.5 million available after state cuts were scaled from
13 percent to 9 percent. This amount also does not in-
clude revenue from unfilled positions which are shown
as expenditures on the budget.
“We are aware that certain other costs in the above
analysis, in extended contracts, can be considered
against the above analysis, but are convinced these
would not exceed $330,000,” the memo said.
The memo said a great deal of concern exists among
the faculty over the prospective loss of summer pay.
“Faculty employed in the ACCD have been able to sur-
vive a low-pay scale by supplementing it with income
from working in the summers,” the memo added.
The letter said for more than 30 years faculty members
have been promised in their employment interview full
pay for at least one summer term. •
He does not think smoking is a right.
“Oh, it’s not a right any more than shooting a gun in
public is a right. If a person wants to smoke, I think he
has every right to smoke in private, not in public.”
Hansen said smokers should have no reservations
about going outside if those areas are approved as smok-
ing areas.
“The law says I have to drive 20 miles per hour in a
school zone. If I’m in a hurry, I still have to drive 20 miles
per hour because that’s the law.”
Hansen agrees smokers are being shoved in a corner.
“I think smokers are being shoved into a corner, yes,
just like people who have to drive 20 miles per hour
when they’re in a hurry.”
Hansen was a member of the designated smoking
areas committee, although he did not attend a single
meeting because of class.
He said Dr. Earl Wright, vice president of student ser-
vices, asked him to be on the committee. Hansen refus-
ed at first but changed his mind a few days later.
“Talking to people made me change my mind,”
Hansen said.
The meetings were at 9 a.m. on Wednesdays. Hansen
teaches a class at that hour.
“It was impossible for me to attend the meetings. At
the time, I didn’t know we meet Wednesdays at 9.”
Spanish Professor Delia Salinas filled in for Hansen at
the meetings. “She gave me all the details of the
meetings,” Hansen said.
“The safety committee, of which she (Salinas) is a part,
suggested I try to get on the committee. I want to em-
phasize I talked to a number of people, not just the
committee.”
Hansen said people came up to him to tell him they
are glad they (non-smokers) are represented.
“Smokers are the minority, and they’re getting smaller
every day.”
“They’re saying smoking is a dirty, nasty habit. Like
non-smokers don’t throw trash on the ground. I
don’t want to feel like I’m being shoved in a corner.”
McLean said she knows her cigarette smoke can be of-
fensive to others, and she tries always to be considerate:
when she smokes.
“I’ve never smoked in a department store. It’s a fire
hazard. It’s common sense you don’t smoke in areas like
that.”
Strangely, McLean does not consider it a right or a
privilege to be able to smoke, but rather a choice.
“I have the right to do as I choose as long as I don’t
hurt someone in the process. I think it’s more of a choice
rather than a privilege or a right.
“I’m not going to say, ‘Hey, it’s my right.’ Because it
does bother other people, I do have to be careful about
it.”
McLean also disagrees with reports that say
sidestream smoke can cause cancer and other
respiratory diseases among non-smokers.
“I think it’s extremely debatable, and it’s a personal
thing. I have read a lot about this. Wherever these
sources come from, I don’t think it’s presented in an ob-
jective way.
“Come on. You’re going to get worse things in your
lungs walking down San Pedro.”
McLean thinks the issue of designating smoking areas
should have been resolved long ago.
“I don’t want to cause a whole lot of problems. I real-
ly don’t think it should have anything to do with the or-
dinance in the first place. It shouldn’t take a city or-
dinance to do something like that.
“I think it should have been done even before the or-
dinance. Before the ordinance, I would study and have
a cigarette in the stairwell. At that time there were also
several ashtrays. That’s all concrete. There’s no fire
hazard there.”
McLean was especially incensed by a story which ap-
peared in the Oct. 24 edition of The Ranger. Charles De
La Torre, freshman engineering major and an ex-smoker,
said, “You see cigarette butts everywhere—on food, trays
and tables. This is my school as much as anyone else’s.
“What they (smokers) are doing is making my school
a dump.” •
Hansen said he heard a report which said for every
dollar smokers spend on non-smoking gum, they save
$132 in medical costs.
“The people who destroy themselves are a burden on
taxpayers in hospitals.”
Hansen favors no indoor smoking.
“I think we should aim for a smoke-free indoor
environment-no smoking, period. In offices, halls,
lounges, bathrooms..."
Hansen thinks it is unfair for everyone to have to
breathe toxic smoke from cigarettes.
“If I were to light a cigarette, you’re going to be forced
to breathe the poison I’m spewing out. That’s not fair,
not kind, that’s not neighborly.”
Hansen thinks progress in courtesy toward non
smokers is being made.
“I think we’re going back toward the day when the
smoker says, ‘Do you mind if I smoke?’ ”•
Students with a 4-point GPA for spring semester 1986
Alcala, Raoul E.
Almanza, Silvia
Andermatt, Eva
Aicher, Dennis E.
Arizola, Emily B.
- Ashworth, Alan R.
Atashdaman, Ahmad
Athens, Melina A.
Avila, Ada P.
Aylesworth, Edward L.
Ayres, Randy P.
Bard, Maryfrances
Barnes, Tina L.
Bassel, Stephen W.
Beasley, Danny J.
Best, Gay
Bettis, Becky E.
Brand, Michael B.
Bridges, Devona L.
Bruner, James A.
Bryant, Brad S.
Buzzelli, Vincenta G.
Byrd, Jean M.
Canales, Casey S.
Canant,.Carmen D.
Carroll, Dusty J.
Chesney, Linda M.
Cobb, Jack A.
Coleman, Jerry A.
Covert, Dehaven
Deuley, Thomas P.
Diethelm, Barbara
Dorang, Kema L.
Douglass, Julie
Efting, Grace L.
Elizondo, Juanhector E.
Escalante, Maria
Fannin, Irma A.
Fernandez, Maria C. L.
Feurtado, Anthony J.
Flores, Debra J.
Flores, Manuel
Ford, Ivy M.
Freehauf, Steven C.
Friedman, Amy A.
Galka, Boguslaw
Gallinger, Cynthia P.
Gardner, Bonnie L.
Garza, Adolfo Jr.
Garza, Maximo
Garza, Roza Linda
George, Deborah A.
Gilbert, Carolyn R.
Goff, Richard S.
Gonzales, Jesse B.
Gootjes, Dirk C.
Gorrebeeck, Walter R.
Graf, Paul B.
Graham, Cynthia M.
Greenberger, Harvey
Grundy, Cheryl L.
Guajardo, Graciela V.
Haby, Jeffery A.
Haecker, Melissa A.
Haley, James L.
from taking over the district bookstores.
“I wanted to bid, but it was obvious to me, once they
started changing this thing around that what they
wanted was big bucks. They didn’t care who ran it. They
didn’t care who they ran over to get it. They wanted the
big bucks. I can’t run those three stores for them and
pay them $300,000,” Smithson said.
In a letter from Saunders to Linda O’Nave, district pur-
chasing director, dated Oct. 9, he requested a cancella-
tion of the process.
“College Book Store of San Antonio (Smithson’s com-
pany) hereby requests that you cancel all bids (or pro-
posals, as the case may be) and reissue an ‘Invitation
for Proposals’ accurately describing your requirements
with sufficient response time.”
During the meeting Monday, though, this request was
denied.
Jerry Gonzalez, chairman of the board of trustees, said,
“The committee gave a hearing to the protest, the pro-
testor and his attorney and considered at some length
the objections and overruled.”
Saunders and Smithson questioned the legality of the
bookstore committee’s approval during the pre-bid con-
ference for the bidders to build new bookstores.
Saunders said, “Now, you can’t request the bidders—
and it was a bid at that time—to build a building or to
embellish. Two of the respondees put in their bid pro-
posal that they would build buildings. Two things about
that: that is completely insufficient information and the
second thing, the state statutes just don’t allow
buildings to be bid in that manner.”
Smithson agreed, saying this constitutes bribery.
“The only way you can build a building on campus
on a public college or university is through a bond and
bid process. It’s public bribery otherwise. It just opens
itself to bribery.”
He singled out Ronnie Gassiot, district controller and
chairman of the bookstore leasing committee, in the
solicitation of buildings.
“Lone Star and Texas Book Co. offered to build them
a building, and Ronnie Gassiot at the pre-bid conference
said, ‘Hey, if you guys want to build us a building, go
ahead and put them in the bid,’ which is completely il-
legal for him to solicit that.”
Gassiot responded to this charge Tuesday.
“What I said was alternate bids would be accepted,”
he said. “Anything you can dream up.
“It was an offhand comment at the meeting. The bid
itself is what stands.”
Smithson said a company from Chicago will not be
concerned about the students here.
“They’re so big. They aren’t going to give a damn about
what happens in San Antonio, Texas,” he said. It’s go-
ing to be run by Chicago and for Chicago. There’s no
doubt about that.”
He added the district will not be able to do anything
should that happen.
“Another problem is (what if) this leasing situation
does not work out?” “In other words, it’s bad for the
students; it’s bad for the faculty, and it’s bad for the
district.”•
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