The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, November 21, 1986 Page: 1 of 12
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Mark Magavern
In the round
Academic affairs post remains open
Three-year-old Michael Shott, who is enrolled at the campus child
development center, plays horseshoes while sitting in a plastic cube.
Unusually warm weather after two days of recent cold allows the class
of 3 year olds to play outside the center at 209 W. Park.
By Cathy Leigh
Managing Editor
Although a search committee is
reviewing applications for the vice
chancellor for administration, no
plan exists to fill the position of vice
chancellor for academic affairs.
Sam Granata plans to retire Jan. 31
as vice chancellor for administra-
tion, and Dr. Frank Thomas Jr.
retired in the summer of 1985 from
the other vice chancellor’s post.
Chancellor Ivory Nelson said Tues-
day although he favors keeping the
option of filling the academic post
open, the college presidents now
report directly to him.
sees as a possibility without a vice
chancellor of academic affairs.
However, he cautioned, “ We must
watch out for duplication.”
However, he thinks the present
structure will prevent such
duplications.
Nelson said programs that are add-
ed must be “effective.”
“At some time, we may need to fill
the position of vice chancellor for
academic affairs. At most institu-
tions there is a chief executive of
academics.
“I am speaking for academics.
Whether I have a vice chancellor of
academic affairs or not, I am going
to concentrate on academics
myself,” Nelson said.e
to obtain information on academic
affairs at the meeting,” Nelson said.
All issues are discussed at the staff
meeting, he added.
“We reach decisions based on an
exchange of ideas. With this kind of
management, I think we can address
all the issues.
“I have the review committee to
give me a review of the programs. It
is like a form of checks and
balances,” Nelson said.
Saying he is striving for a team ap-
proach, the new chancellor said, “I
think the basic principle of pro-
viding services should be
everybody’s.”
Nelson said the district must avoid
duplication of programs which he
Previously, the presidents reported
to the vice chancellor for academic
affairs who. reported to the
chancellor.
“All the functions are still being
done, but they now are done at the
college level,” Nelson said.
President Max Castillo likes repor-
ting directly to the chancellor.
Calling the change “a more viable
structure,” Castillo said, “Things are
much more productive this way.”
He believes the direct communica-
tion with the chancellor helps.
Nelson said the district has
established an academic program
review committee.
“I have a staff meeting with the
presidents every Thursday. I am able
Two disapprove
of speech class
taught in restroom
strange noises,” Vega said. “You
can’t understand what you are
listening to.”
Sanchez said, “That’s what I told
the teacher, that I was expecting pro-
fessional tapes, and she said they
are too expensive.
“That class is expensive for us, but
we are paying for that and we are
paying for lab, too. But they don’t
provide anything for it.”
David Mrizek, chairman of theater
and communication, confirmed the
situation.
When told the voice and diction
1300 course had lab in the
bathroom, Mrizek responded, “Not
only that, their class is in a
bathroom, also.”
Mrizek said there are three reasons
the class is in a restroom.
First, he said, is a lack of space.
“There is a lack of space on cam-
pus during those prime hours.
Students were a little bothered when
they walked in during the beginning
of the semester.”
Second, Mrizek said the students
need to use the mirrors to monitor
facial expression as they speak.
“The nature of the course requires
they look into a mirror.”
Mrizek said a stage makeup course
is taught in the classroom.
He said the third reason is because
it is difficult to get people to sign up
for the course because of its nature.
The students pointed out a room
which they said is not being used
during their class time, Room 107.
The room has a copying machine
and tables with cassette players.
However, Mrizek said it is a listen-
ing lab, not a classroom.
He had mixed emotions about
whether that would be better than
the restroom.
“It is and it isn’t,” Mrizek said.
“The problem is that’s for the music
department. We bought special
equipment for it—plus, the use of the
mirrors. That’s a very important
function of it. So that’s a primary
reason.”
Mrizek said the chances of improv-
ing the situation are slim.
“Of course, next semester is slim
to none. The best solution is to have
the facilities we need—which means
not using a bathroom.”
Mrizek said he has called Harold
Farris, facilities coordinator, and
Farris said no other rooms are
available.
Farris said Wednesday he did not
know about the situation.
(See Restroom, Page 2)
By Chris Perkins
Sports Editor
Two students have voiced discon-
tent because they are enrolled in a
Glass located in a restroom.
The students, Irene Vega and
Maria Sanchez, are taking Speech
1300, Voice and Diction for Non-
native Speakers of English. The class
helps foreign students better unders
tand English.
The classroom is Room 215 of
McAllister Fine Arts Center. The
laboratory, where students listen to
tapes, is in Room 216 of the same
building, a women’s restroom.
<♦ The class meets from 11 a.m. to
‘‘11:50 a.m. Mondays, Wednesdays
and Fridays.
Vega said, “We’ve been having
class in a, they call it a dressing
room, but it’s really a restroom.
“Last Friday, I was studying and
there were six ladies and they were
talking and making noise, and I was
taking notes and this lady put her
shoes on my notes.”
Vega said that was the last straw.
She said seven people are in the
^class, most of them students from
other countries.
The classroom is a dressing room
used by the theater and communica-
tion department. The voice and dic-
tion class uses it because it has mir-
rors. The classroom used to be a
men’s restroom.
There are still two toilets in the
room, but the students had no com-
plaints about the classroom.
The room used for laboratory
(room 216), however, still is a
restroom.
T “What I think is if they don’t have
'any classrooms they should not have
the class,” Vega said. “When we
have lab, everybody walks in and
uses the restroom.”
The students said they have ap-
proached their instructor, Suzanne
Skinner, a lecturer in speech, but she
has told them there is nothing she
can do about it.
“We asked her and she said it’s the
only place we can work because it
has mirrors,” Sanchez said.
* Skinner was unavailable for
comment.
The mirrors are necessary so the
students can study their facial ex-
pressions while pronouncing words.
The students also complained
because the cassette tapes they
listen to in order to learn the
language are not very clear.
“The cassettes that we have, we
hear music, we hear voices, we hear
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the chemistry/geology building.
“We are connecting McCreless Hall, Loftin Student
Center and McAllister Fine Arts Center to the central
Students returning in January from Christmas vaca- -power plant in the chemistry/geology building,” Farris
'. ” ‘ ~ " — ” ’ ~ - said,
ident Center closed. The asbestos needs removing before work starts, Far-
move from McCreless to Room 309 of Fletcher. Faculty
offices will go to Moody Learning Center.
Business administration will move to the first floor of
the chemistry/geology building.
The student activities office in Loftin will move to the
third floor of Fletcher.
The kitchen for the Corral will move to Room 301 of
Loftin.
“That is where the cooking will be done, but the serv-
ing area in the newer portion of Loftin will be used in bill, not the
addition to Room 300 of the building,” he said.
Game tables and machines in El Alamo Room will
McCreless, Loftin will close during spring
By Cathy Leigh
Managing Editor
Offices for the mathematics department in McCreless move to the Fiesta Room of Loftin.
will move to Room 308 of Fletcher Administration “We will begin to move offices Dec. 8. All the
Center. classroom and equipment will be moved during the
The departmental office for reading and education will Christmas break,” Farris said.
The college has hired Graebel/San Antonio Movers to
move the offices and departments, he added.
Farris said equipment not needed will either remain
in the current location or be stored.
“The 1987 spring class schedule does not reflect the
changes in locations. When students register, their bills
will reflect the proper rooms.
“Students should look at the room number on their
one on the schedule,” he said.
Farris said the college will relocate 446 classes because
of the work. •
I | tion will find McCreless Hall and a part of Loftin Stu-
The two buildings will close for the spring for remodel- ris said.
ing, a part of the $3.1 million master plan for the college. Farris said the journalism/photography department
Improvements will include asbestos abatement, and advertising art classes in Loftin Student Center will
replacement of heating and air conditioning systems, move to the continuing education center for the spring,
exterior lighting improvements and replacement of the Two speech professors will move their offices from
electrical load center No. 4. McCreless Hall to the drama workshop in the Bennett
Harold Farris, facilities coordinator, said work also will Carriage House.
be done on Gonzales Hall and the chemistry/geology Visual arts and technology faculty in McCreless will
building. However, this work will not disrupt classes, go either to Koehler Cultural Center or the continuing
Asbestos abatement has begun on the power plant in education center.
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The Ranger
San Antonio, Texas
November 21, 1986
quate information to prepare a bid.
In other business, Claudia Adams-Stukes, teacher
assistant at the child development center here, receiv-
ed an award for October staff employee of the month.
Other recipients were Phyllis Roquemore, secretary in
By Rudy Arispe
Editor
£an Antonio College
Vol. 61 No. 11
The district board of trustees voted 5-2 Tuesday to
award a three-year contract to Follett College Book Co.
to manage the district’s three bookstores.
The company will open a Palo Alto College bookstore
in January, and take over management of bookstores at
k this college and St. Philip’s College in March.
k The contract also includes an option for three one-year
extensions.
As part of the agreement, Follett cannot charge more
than the publisher’s list price.
Follett, a Chicago-based company which operates more
than 200 bookstores, guarantees $300,000 to the district
each year.
From the district’s revenue, $150,000 will be used for
student scholarships.
Trustees Cynthia Scott Warrick and Rebecca Galvan
voted against awarding the contract to Follett.
Voting for the contract were board chairman Jerry Gon-
zalez and trustees Dr. Doug Harlan, George Killen, Sue
1 Oppenheimer and Lee Trevino.
Warrick expressed concern about increased prices.
“We’re in the business of education, not leasing,” she
said. “The reason they can give us $300,000 is because
J they will have to make a profit by raising prices. Follett
Betty Jean Johnson of the library department at St.
Philip’s. e
“Bookstores have been a chronic problem. We lost
have problems with this company $90,000 one year, and $30,000 the next. We’re just break-
,” he said. ing even,” she said.
Harlan speculated Follett “will not be around in three
years.”
“If they can make us a proft, I’m all for them. I’m not
going to vote for anything that will hurt students, and
monitor the actions of Follett.
The district received five bids and one protest when
not been kept up. Follett will give students and faculty it solicited proposals to handle the bookstores. The pro-
better service, and some of the returns will go for test from L&M Bookstore cited lack of time and inade-
scholarships,” he said.
Trevino said Warrick’s book comparisons were
inaccurate.
“Just because a book at Baylor costs $1.95 more
doesn’t mean it will cost that much here. Comparing
books from Baylor, UTSA and L&M is not a valid com- puchasing department at district headquarters; Sandra
parison. She is catering to the few at the expense of the E. Kaise of business services at St. Philip’s College and
many,” Trevino said.
Although some people opposed the resolution, a ma-
Board awards Follett three-year contract
will increase prices for students and faculty.”
Warrick brought books from Baylor University
Bookstore, which is run by Follett, the University of
Texas at San Antonio and L&M Bookstore, located near
the San Antonio College campus, to compare prices.
She said an intermediate accounting book at UTSA
costs $43.95. Students here will pay $46 for it.
“The books will cost more. I don’t think it’s fair for
students and faculty to finance these bookstores. When
you raise prices, you are going to lose money,” she said.
She said student scholarships could come from other
sources.
“We should be doing this already. If we are sincere
about scholarships, we should do it in the budget all
the time, not just because of this.
“We should limit the bids to Palo Alto and keep the
bookstores we have because there is no urgent change,”
she added.
Galvan said, “The bookstores have historically been
a losing process for the colleges. A committee has work-
ed for months on this.
“The overriding issue is privatization.
“I am concerned that contracting services is not a solu-
tion that merits attention. I think we are forced with a
time problem. We need to get the bookstore open at Palo
Alto for the spring.
“I can’t support wholesale bookstores at all three col-
leges at this time, either,” Galvan said. jority agreed to it, Trevino said.
Trevino spoke in support of the resolution. Trustee Sue Oppenheimer, speaking at the board
“There is a considerable urgency to change. We do meeting, agreed.
have concerns about employees. We don’t want to
eliminate jobs. If we 1
down the road, we will deal with them,
Referring to Warrick’s statement that money for
scholarships should be in the budget, Trevino said, “We
don’t have an additional $150,000 in the budget.”
^Jw^lakerJnterJie^’ Trey\u° tXp\ai?ed why he sup' I5 don’t think it will Follett will lose and we’ll profit*”
- * —* x _ - Harlan said.
Chancellor Ivory Nelson reminded the audience a com-
only made mittee composed of students, faculty and staff will
ported the privatization of the bookstores.
“First, the pilferage has been high. I mean a loss of
inventory without receipts. Secondly, we
$38,000 for the 1985-86 fiscal year.
‘/The bookstore’s appearance and maintenance have
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