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The Second Front
Feb. 1,1991
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Theater chairman conducts survey to furnish classrooms
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"It is my feeling, radical as it
belong to the college and it shouldn't be my
room should have enough ser-
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president, said Tuesday that paying renovations was to have the same repairs by Sept. 1, by swapping one needed to complete the project.
right," Galvan said.
"This money would have gone
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support new
loan method
ready installed.
Mrizek said he takes some satisfaction
fund has been done before with the
ifoof at the health education build-
ing at St.. Philip's College.
An additional $225,200 was
needed to set up a 5 percent contin-
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Senior News Editor
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Hall to teach a speech class.
He was not happy with what he found.
"There was a little typing table, circa 1940,
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an improved synthetic surface and
Trustee Rebecca Galvan sup-
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Bacher says $1,000 will purchase 10 lec-
terns and those will be installed in the de-
partments "where people complain the
The survey revealed a pressing most."
need for 76 desks, 16 tables, 21 She said most of the lecterns will go to
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McAllister Fine
Arts Center work
near completion
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Managing Editor
Dye said the $105,000 change in
the expected price of the eight new
tennis courts is because of the
about the same time the West Park'
Avenue improvements project is
complete and Myrtle Street is closed
in June. The improvements are
scheduled to begin in about a week.
Dye said the contractor plans to
construct the tennis courts first, a
project that can start before West
Park Avenue is complete. He added
that the portable building that
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the swimming pool will be moved
The district chancellor and the director of
financial aid at this college support efforts
by the Bush administration to provide stu-
dent loan money directly to colleges instead
of going through banks.
The new system would save federal dol-
lars, simplify the student loan process and
possibly make more funds available for
loans. In addition, officials hope to reduce
the loan default rate.
The colleges would establish a fund to
lend money directly to students. Under the
new system students would deal exclusively
with the colleges.
Chancellor Ivory Nelson said the district
already handles other programs in the same
manner that is proposed by the president.
"Why not? All the others come directly to
us," Nelson said.
Nelson said the greatest source of loan
defaults was occupational schools which
operate for profit. The chancellor said the
proposal would place these schools under
closer government scrutiny.
Under the current system, lending banks
are guaranteed a profit on student loans.
Guadalupe Valdez, financial aid director
here, said the proposal is probably a "trial
balloon" to determine the response of offi-
cials in higher education and banking before
the administration takes it before Congress.
In a New York Times Service article Jan. 7,
education officials say the move would save
more than $1 billion in subsidy payments to
lending institutions. The subsidy payments
are made to the banks as a incentive to offer
low-interest rates loans to students.
The government also pays the lenders all
the interest on guaranteed loans while stu-
dents are enrolled in school.
The Guaranteed Student Loan Program is
the largest source of federal aid to college
students and the budget proposal does not
contain any major change in spending lev-
els.
The federal proposal has been endorsed
by some college officials while opposed by
the banking industry. Banks have been in-
volved in student loan programs for more
than 25 years and do not want to lose at
source of profits at a time when the industry
is weakened.
John Dean, counsel to the Consumer
Bankers Association, representingmore than
700 banks, said in the New York Times
article the proposal will make the program
more complex.
"Loans will have to be serviced," Dean
said. "Some body will have to make an
aggressive collection efforts against delin-
quent borrowers. If the banks don't do it,
who will? The government would have to
audit and supervise-those organizations."
Federal officials say it would be much
easier for the government to audit 8,000
schools than to oversee the current system
Rigoberto Acosta, Oscar Villalata and Willie Soto, who workfor G. W. Mitchell
& Sons Construction Co., direct the crane at the new multipurpose classroom
building construction site to lift a cement-filled bucket and finish a column.
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By Justin Bachman
Arts & Entertainment Editor
ne day early last semester, theater
andcommunication Chairman David
MrizekwenttoRoom212ofMcCreless and showed him the problem. He
then suggested I become a catalyst
for this survey," Mrizek said.
Mrizek circulated a memoran-
and a cheap plywood lectern where you dum to all department chairmen
could pull the top right off if you lifted it a in September asking them to sur-
little," Mrizek recalled, ruefully. vey the rooms they use and fur-
"These are not our classrooms. They all niture needs
belong to the college and it shouldn't be my ‘ y
job to make sure every room has these basic might be, that every general class- Nancy Bacher
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Thus, he began a quest to have each class- viceable desks for the students, one 30-by- tant to the president, to buy the least ex-
Fine Arts Center, one is struck by the surgical places,
cleanliness of the place. -
If it didn't smell normal, it could be mis-
taken for a hospital.
The center reopened for classes Jan. 14
and bo th students and faculty are pleased to
be back and agreed that the refurbishments
were long-overdue.
McAllister underwent a massive paint-
Renovations and additions to this
college's health building will double
) the size of the existing facilities when
complete in March 1992.
The existing 38,875-square-foot
building will be supplemented by
an adjacent 38,998-square-foot
building.
; The $4.5 million improvements
contract was awarded Jan 22. to
Templeton Construction Co. of San
) Angelo. Change orders totaling
$94,000 also were approved.
; They are a new $84,000 roof for the
I Existing building and a fire sprinkler
system. A new gutter and public
announcement system were in-
cluded.
. The new roof will be paid for with
funds taken from the district's pre-
ventive maintenance fund which
ijvas set up in 1986.
; Dr. James Dye, assistant to the
for a project like this with money warranty with the roof as with the of the other projects into next year's
from the preventive maintenance other improvements. budget.
* * ' ‘ "This money would have gone "No other requirement at this col- gency fund for this project,
toward a new roof anyway," Dye lege will be deferred or deleted be-
said. "If we took the money and cause of this turn of events."
He added that the roofing project made new buildings with it, that This health building project was
almost $500,000over budget because district's decision to go ahead with
Physical plant Director, Jack not enough money was set aside to
"I need the money to buy a thousand
screen," Mrizek wrote. lecterns because it's real simple: Every room
This campus wide deficiency, should have a lectern," Bacher said.
Mrizek noted, led to "continuous
appropriating" of classroom
equipment.
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Pellek, said the new roof, which was pay for new tennis courts and site concrete base for the courts.
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For the site work, $73,000 was ported the extra cost at the Jan. 22
"I would prefer to spend a little
extra money now and do the job
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ing, carpeting and cleaning campaign dur- added.
" It's a lot more professional to them."
"We have more studios, better classrooms
iq McAllister and it has definitely increased
the students' productivity," raved Cindy
Barbier, a part-time voice instructor.
Theater and communication Chairman
David Mrizek echoed many of Parrigan's
comments.
"I'm very pleased and glad to be home
again," he said.
"Hopefully, we'll stay put here for a long
time to come and we're looking forward to
the auditorium opening."
The auditorium in McAllister Fine Arts
Center is set to reopen March 1. It is await-
ing new seating.
"Hansel and Gretel" will be the
auditorium's first production. The show is
scheduled for an April 22 opening.
Mrizek said new video booths have been
added to the three classrooms his depart-
ment uses.
"The booths will allow students to tape F
. _ speeches and critique them right in class,"
Also, the McAllister building sports a new Mrizek said.
Carlos Cendejas, a 24-year-old percussion
;chairman, said the renovations to McAllister an improvement.
"It's better. I was over there last semester
ing much of 1990 and has emerged a mod-
ern, professional
educational building
for music and hu-
manities and theater
and communication
students at this col-
lege.
- The$2.05 million in
renovations and ad-
ditions at McAllister
• are part of the Alamo
•Community College
District's $97 million
capital improve-
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From the increased practice space to the
new lockers designed to safeguard instru-
ments and other belongings, students are
finding McAllister a much friendlier place
this semester.
■ Eight practice rooms were refurbished
•with new carpeting and classrooms have
been fitted with audio/video equipment.
rehearsal room for the band and choir.
; Richard Parrigan, music and humanities major’also agreed the new McAllister was
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;are, "for the most part, positive."
; But Parrigan also said the cabinetry for in the Bennett House and there's more space
room at this college equipped with five ba- 60-inch or larger table, one floor or table top pensive item first, the lecterns,
sic amenities: a table, chair, lectern, projec- lectern, one teacher's chair and a projection
tion screen and a sufficient num-
ber of desks.
"I took Dr. Castillo to Room 212
She said most of the lecterns will go to
chairs, 48 lecterns and 15 projec- departments in the seven-story Moody
Dye noted many departments will move with more than 10,000 banks and 54 state
Nancy Bacher Oct. 2. ready installed. billion in loans to 12 million students.
Bacher requested $1,000 to Mrizek said he takes some satisfaction Bush plans to submit his request to law-
$2,000 from Dr. James Dye, assis- that the departmental budget form now has makers Monday for the fiscal year that be-
a separate item for furniture requests. gins Oct. 1.
K was put into the contract as an al-
ternate and could have been elimi-
nated had the bid been too high.
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used for that purpose. The reason for by crediting next year's budget and for the tennis courts, $250,000
for bidding it along with the other or, if the contractor is ready to begin
Renovations, additions to double space in health building
present location so excavation can
begin.
The additions are scheduled for
an Oct. 15 completion with the
renovations scheduled to finish
March 15,1992.
The current building will have
improved classrooms, conference
rooms, faculty offices, work areas,
laundry and weight-training space.
It also will be air-conditioned.
Additions to the existing facility
will include a second gymnasium,
10 racquetball courts with observa-
tion rooms, locker rooms and sepa-
rate restrooms at the natatorium.
The new tennis courts will be at
the northwest comer of Lot J. There
are now four tennis courts at the
northeast comer of the lot.
The courts will have a synthetic
surface on top of four independent
concrete slabs with two courts each.
The existing courts are on asphalt.
A l/5th mile running track will
surround the new courts.
Dean Fox, chairman of the kine-
. siology department, said Monday
The project is scheduled to begin improvenients to the building
will enable his staff to better provide
for students.
"We've been so deficient in this
department for so many years," Fox
said. "We've made do, but the stu-
dents will eventually benefit the
most."
Fox expects more students to sign
up for physical education classes
houses the faculty offices south of but said the purpose of the project is
the swimming pool will be moved not to accommodate more students
to the basketball courts north of its but to provide more for them.
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poorly designed so adjustments will be nec-
essary for the equipment to fit the cabinets.
Parrigan said some fault may lie with him
becuase he thought he may not have been
specific enough in his requests for the
cabinetry.
"It's an inconvenience, yes, but we'll
manage," Parrigan said.
By Justin Bachman Each of the practice rooms has acoustical
Arts & Entertainment Editor carpeting on the walls, a vast improvement
over the unsightly tileboard which Parrigan
Walking through the renovated McAllister expiained was "cracking and falling off in
Fine Arts Center, one is struck bv the surgical f"
Percussion Instructor Alice Gomez said
the changes in McAllister make it "feel like
a real music school."
"We can now compete with the other
schools in town," she said. "We have the ,
space we didn't have before.
"And the students are even taking a dif-
ferent attitude toward their lessons," Gomez
tion screens. Learning Center.
Mrizek forwarded the results x
of his survey to facilities Manager soon into new buildings with furniture al- guarantee agencies which have at least $52
$3.8 milhon central plant infrastructure awarded
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Managing Editor P I in Zsi h ^taSntoolXto The s^e work on the project is
a q -ir formers to cool them when electric have ready bv the initial deadltoe scheduled to finish June 1,1992.
A $3.8 million construction con- ™™*sct0 The firstnhaseoftheconstruction
tract to complete the second phase currentsmcreasetheir tempera- ^workwi1 ofthenewSa^nllntandreno-
of the renovation of this college's turejt is Sin^t X KTof ft vattons^
centralplantfacilitieswasawarded Prot^tlon A raXs rhlmisFrv/a^to^b^kline to Septemberaftera&OOOtxFcon-
Jan. 22 to A. J. Moiner & Co. Inc. of cds that have been found to causes ^e^/ geo^ Sto^con£ t*wasSX
San Antonio. CaJfer’ , , J f 5 , .e r W Mifrhnll £• Qins Tnr nf San
A 5 percent contingency fund of The agency has recommended lation and air conditioning eq p- • •
$191,275 also was approved for this that transformers containing PCB ment and modifications to t e ex- mnfral nlani is bpinv
project. be destroyed. is ting equipment. The new central plant is l^ing
The original funding for this Also, the contractor requested The contract also calls for in- builtbetweenthechenustiy/geol-
proiect was $4 05 million making the completion deadline be pushed stalling associated electrical work ogy building and the nursing
thisproject$224,000underbudget. back to Aug. 10 for a $20,000 de- and construct new buried pipeline education building
The board of trustees also ac- duction. systems. The pipes will serve as Itwillbeconnectedtotheexist-
cepted two alternates including the Theoriginal completion date was sewage lines as well as carry water, ing central plant.
removal of two existing PCB April30. The contractor had to push electricityand gas to all the college's That construction is sceduled for
transformers, which are i^ed to th^atebae^ausethepuXse huildings. a March 15 compietion.
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would have eventually been projects. He said it would be paid budgeted, but $190,000 was required meeting of the board of trustees.^
was set aside, but $355,000 was
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