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Committee holds off
on vote for sports
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Lecturer urges students to develop financial savvy
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to pay for the principal, Wilde said.
Next Wilde discussed the 25- to 29-year-old age group, con-
cerned with purchasing a starter home or a condominium.
The average price of a home in America is $106,000, though
that average is lower in San Antonio, Wilde said.
If people take a 30-year mortgage on a
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mation on resurrecting intercollegiate
sports and the board has been waiting for
that information for four years.
“Students have been coming to me
looking to bring back sports,” Gonzalez the intent of this college is to build an in
“Write grammatically correct and learn
how to guide a reader by punctuation,”
attitude and if students McCarthy said.
McCarthy said that at the beginning of
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Students are timid and sensitive, like
absorbed from turtles poking their heads out to test the
waters.
Students are filled with anxiety and self
poor.
Then about halfway through the semes-
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to have.
The colleges also must look at the costs
involved with starting and supporting an
athletic program, Ramsay said.
Wilde had a few tips for making the first big purchase. percent, Wilde said. Credit unions quoting 9.9 percent are tell-
Do not purchase the extended warranty, he said, adding most ing the truth because they take into account the pay down of
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most repairs. Wilde also added a vehicle’s value depreciates about
30 percent as soon as the papers are signed.
The best time to purchase a vehicle is at the end of the month
because dealers are trying to meet their quotas, he said.
Wilde also warned the group about interest rates advertised
/ car dealers. He questioned whether people believe advertis- will pay about $1,500 a month and the house will actually
ing that dealers offer 2.9 percent or 6.9 percent financing. $350,000, Wilde said.
“1 ruth in advertising, right?’ he said. People in their 30s and early 40s .want.a. biggec.house, and said, erasing the savings leg of the stool.
The dealers’ interest rates do not take into consideration the people 45-50 set up an education fund for their children. “How
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Funding for the intercollegiate program
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and tuition and fees.
Trustee Brian Fox said the district and
the board need to look at the numbers
in.
“We need to look at the education and
the number of students in remediation,”
Fox said. “If the budget for sports is go-
ing to be a half a million dollars, we need think the decision was two-fold because
The last time this college had an orga-
nized intercollegiate team was in 1983
tion needs to sit down and figure out what when the baseball team was disbanded.
Physical education Professor Bill
Richardson was baseball coach at the time.
“We had it (baseball) once, and it broke
my heart when we lost it,” Richardson
said.
Richardson attended the meeting as an
years in cross country, swimming and
track and field.
Twenty-four students participate in
cross country, 32 in swimming and 22 in
track, which is divided into distance, re-
lay and field events.
Palo Alto has an agreement with South
San Antonio High School to practice on
the high school’s track.
St. Philip’s College has indicated inter-
est in women’s volleyball, but there were
no facilities, St. Philip’s President Charles
Taylor said, adding there is still interest
in volleyball even though they do not have
the facilities to support intercollegiate
volleyball, but there is a gained interest in
basketball.
Administrators at the colleges should
bring in budgets for such a program,
Vasquez said.
Laura Jesse contributed to this story.
grand check to go to SAC and have a good time?” Wilde said.
Wilde said to have enough money for educational expenses,
parents need to put aside $3 a day for each child.
Later in life comes the empty nest and retirement fund stage
of life, Wilde said.
“I consider retirement to be sitting on a comfortable three-
legged stool,” Wilde said, pointing to a diagram with the legs
$100,000 house, they representing savings, Social Security and pension.
" cost
To become a millionaire, one must make a daily deposit of people do not need the warranty and it is cheapi
$6.35 with a bank that pays 10 percent interest for 30 years, a
business administration lecturer said Monday.
“Better pick six good numbers,” Richard Wilde said.
No banks now will pay 10 percent interest, Wilde said.
Wilde addressed about 40 students about financial security
and concerns of various age groups. People under the age of 25 by
are concerned with the purchase of a new car, Wilde said.
“The average car in America costs 20 grand,” Wilde said. “My
first house cost less than that. I can’t see driving that down the
street.”
“The program can
sai^' tramural program. scholarships,” he said. “I’m interested in
Chancellor Robert Ramsay said it is up Intramurals have been a big part of ath- a strong program, not a good team. ”
to each college if they want to have a letics at this college and have been the Gonzalez said the students and com-
sports program and what sports they want focus for funding in athletic programs af- munity need to be surveyed to get a feel
ter the death of the intercollegiate pro- for the amount of support for athletic pro-
gram. grams.
“I do remember when SAC had an in- Palo Alto College has been competing
tercollegiate program,” Zeigler said. “I in intercollegiate sports for the past three
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“When instituting an intercollegiate
athletic program, the three biggest costs
are associated with travel, coaching and
equipping the team,” Ramsay said.
The decision to have a program has to
be a college decision, he said.
“If Palo Alto and St. Philip’s have the
expertise in sports, then act on it,” Ramsay
Travel costs, community and student said. “Because you all are going to be re-
support and available facilities all need to sponsible for the bottom line,
be further investigated before developing T
an intercollegiate athletics program in the would
district, trustees and advocates of such a
program agreed.
The intercollegiate sports ad hoc com-
mittee of the Alamo Community College before moving forward with a plai
about what they be sure to use a green marker, resembling
“Students must care about what other that it is worth something.
He later realized and regretted his re-
mark. He cringes when he thinks about
what he had said.
“Professors must nurture students’
are trying to come out,”
McCarthy said.
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don’t have an attitude they should get one,
an English instructor said March 7 at a the semester freshmen
student development seminar in Moody convey their inner thought;
Learning Center.
“Writers’ attitudes are i'
life,” Jerry McCarthy said. “Writers cel-
ebrate diversity.”
The majority of the 32 students who doubt and their papers tend to be p<
attended this seminar were there to ob- ‘
tain credit for orientation classes and have ter, students begin relaying their personal
not taken freshman composition. experiences in their writing.
Curiosity, courage, caring, clarity and “All of you have the ability to write
correctness are the five C’s that will help well,” McCarthy said, but “writers must
first learn to enjoy the process of writing. ”
Then “writers must nurture the voice
inside that wants to come out.”
Curiosity is the single most important McCarthy warns students that English
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professors attitudes can destroy a
Students must gain the courage to write student’s confidence, a mistake McCarthy
t has made.
Earlier in McCarthy’s career, he recalls
a student approaching him after he had
returned her paper with red marks.
She told McCarthy that her paper had
ts over
and every week people in Fletcher Admin- her most inner thought;
istration Center and other people are ner-
vous,” McCarthy said.
Students must care t ’
write to prevent boring writing, he said. the color of money, in which she may feel
people have to say.”
McCarthy said that students “must
strive for clarity. ”
Writers are leaders when they write and
a writer is taking the reader on a trip, voices that
McCarthy said.
District board of trustees voted Tuesday
to continue investigating the possible de-
velopment of intercollegiate sports pro-
grams in the district colleges. ~
The ad hoc committee consists of trust- to consider what else could the money be of funding and lack of interest,
ees Richard Gonzalez, Eloisa Vasquez, ’ - — -
Kenneth Shumate and Robert “Tinker”
Garza.
Gonzalez said he called the meeting programs, if any, will be offered, the cost
because four years ago the board of trust- and feasibility and then present the pa-
pers to the board.
“The athletic program should not take
away resources from the academic pro-
gram,” Shumate said.
Interim President Robert Zeigler said advocate for beginning a new program.
operate without
tramural program.
Intramurals have been a big part of ath-
letics at this college and have been the
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