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March 10, 2000 ♦ Vol. 75, Issue 18
San Antonio College ♦ www.theranger.org
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Moody mural
plans in limbo
♦ Campus security as available at
night as it is during the day, Chief
Terrie Hoffmann says.
♦ Students concerned about lighting
and high shrubbery can complain to
the assistant to the president.
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of people to make decisions about
the mural project to include facul-
ty, reunion committee members
and professional artists.
Second, she said it would be
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because artists are always looking
lunch with him to discuss the
idea, Gonzales said.
Members of the steering com-
mittee attended the lunch in late
the Academic Council meeting if
consideration has been given to a
mural which is on fewer than
four walls.
After the meeting, she added
she will have to look at the design
before further decisions can be
made.
Some suggestions at the meet-
ing included putting the mural on
the side of McAllister Fine Arts
Center.
This idea was brought up
because more people would be
decision makers can then set crite-
ria and people who fit this can
submit a design such as- sketches
and slides.
Entries could be narrowed
down to about five, and those
finalists could create a model.
Mendiola said when the com-
mittee was first discussing the
idea, they did not have a contest
in mind.
Gonzales said the commemora-
tive committee, which is overseen
by the steering committee, is
made up of staff and faculty.
They discussed what they 503 panels.
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Advertising a mural on four
sides of Moody Learning Center
to other artists is a procedure the January along with faculty from
committee the art program.
"The idea is to get everyone
comfortable with it," Gonzales
said.
Gonzales represented the 75th
anniversary celebrations commit-
tee during the March 8 Academic
wanted, established criteria and
brought the idea to the steering anniversary
committee.
The commemorative commit-
tee then decided to invite the
artist to the campus and have
New library
suggested
♦ Master plan committee
adds new learning resource
to list of items wanted.
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Truth be told, the district's expenditure was
justified. The bill also requested a payment of
$181.87 in addition to the penny due.
Had Vittolo followed the instructions to
detach and return the top portion of the bill
with the 1 cent due, she would have complied
with payment requirements.
Rather than complicate the comical glitch,
Vittolo paid the copper coin in question and
the first installment of $181.87, balancing the
district's ledgers once again.
Vincent Davis
A master plan committee for
this college has recommended a
120,070-square-foot library build-
ing if the Alamo Community
College District institutes a
Capital Improvements Phase 4
program.
The committee headed by
Executive Vice President Robert
Zeigler completed its recommen-
dations in December and present-
ed them to President Vern Loland.
Zeigler said Wednesday that
Loland submitted the recommen-
dations to Chancellor Robert
Ramsay and that they were dis-
cussed by the ACCD board of
trustees Saturday in a closed-ses-
sion retreat.
According to the final report of
the master plan committee, the
most pressing need is for a new
library building.
"We are pleased that the com-
mittee recognized the need for a
new library, and we hope that if
there is a new capital improve-
Eight to 10 officers and security guards
patrol this campus in the evenings, Terrie
Hoffmann, chief of the Department of Public
Safety for the Alamo Community College
District, said March 3.
Evening students receive the same amount
of campus security as day students, Hoffmann said.
She said she advised campus security to
have at least four staff members on bicycle
patrol, two in patrol cars and two on foot
walking through buildings and around the
campus.
Lt. Derrick Patten, patrol division commander,
said these minimum standards sometimes
Business administration freshman Rose
Vitollo balked at the last bill she received from
the Alamo Community College District for
the first installment of the remainder of her
spring 2000 tuition bill.
When she registered, Vitollo paid $388.75
of a $727.50 bill, with the remaining $363.75 to
be broken into two installment payments.
The balance on the top of the next state-
ment dated Feb. 11 had Vitollo in a quandary.
Even district chief bursar Mary Hall was
unsure of the questionable transaction.
said the 75th
committee ap-
proached Trevino some time in
late December or early January.
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Students who find areas of campus too dark
in the evenings can complain by dialing the
maintenance hot line or calling the assistant to
the president.
Lighting in the evening at this college is ade-
quate, except for a few spots, said Adolph
Lopez, assistant to the president, Feb. 25.
Lopez said he became aware of a need for
more lighting east of Chance Academic Center
after a student complained last month.
Other dark areas people have noticed are the
pathway between Moody Learning and Fletcher
Administration centers, stairs west of Fletcher,
and the north side of McCreless Hall.
Above: Students walk a dimly lighted path from the northwest side of Chance Academic Center toward the
front of Moody Learning Center Tuesday night. Below: Students walk from Moody toward San Pedro Avenue.
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ment project, a new learning
resource center will be included in
that project," Librarian Ralph
Domas, committee member, said.
The committee did not recom-
mend a site for a new library,
although Domas said members
discussed the utility area on
Dewey Place between Fletcher
Administration Center and
McCreless Hall.
The present library occupied
68,000 square feet of Moody
Learning Center when the build-
ing opened in 1968.
Since then, the library collec-
tion grown more than 400 percent,
and library space has been
reduced about 18 percent to less
then 56,000 square feet, according
to the report.
An average of 11,772 students
use the library each week, for a
total of 506,196 students a year.
The committee also recom-
mended remodeling Moody to
add six classrooms, six storage
rooms, two telecourse rooms and
two student development class-
rooms.
The committee recommended
renovating the second, third and
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For the cost of a postage stamp
Student receives bill for 1 cent
"It could've been a data entry or rounding
figure problem," Hall said.
"I'd hate to say what it is without having
the opportunity to do research on the prob-
lem."
And the amount behind this problem was
less than the cost of the stamp to send the bill.
Or so it seemed.
The amount on the return portion of the bill
was for a whopping 1 cent.
"How much money did they spend to send
me a bill for a penny?" Vitollo asked.
75th anniversary
should consider, art Professor
Susan Witta-Kemph said.
Emma Mendiola, counselor
and coordinator for student devel-
opment; and Dr. Cecilia Gonzales,
coordinator of the 75th anniver-
sary celebration and director of Council meeting about the possi-
institutional advancement; have ble mural project.
been representing the 75th Dr. Lula Pelayo, chairperson of
anniversary committee in dis- the nursing department, asked at
cussing creating a mural on ' ‘ “
Moody Learning Center.
They have talked to different
groups on campus, such as
Faculty Senate, the Academic
Council, President's Council,
deans and directors and Staff
Council, about having Jesse
Trevino, artist and Outstanding
Former Student, create a mural on
Moody Learning Center.
Witta-Kemph however, sug-
gested opening the project to
' other artists as some members
mentioned at the March 1 Faculty able to see the mural.
Senate. She spoke about the proj- Executive Vice President
ect March 7 in an interview. Robert Zeigler commented on a
She suggested getting a group lighter note about the project.
"Dr. Oliver and I are in agree-
ment that bats should be in the
motif," Zeigler said.
In spring 1991, decorative tile
was removed from Moody in an
publicize the project $84,720 bat exclusion project after
j the San Antonio Metropolitan
for a chance to work on large-scale Health District called Moody
projects. unsanitary because of dirt and
From there, she added, the droppings from the bats.
The mural project would cost
about $1 million and funding
would come from private donors,
Mendiola said.
Zeigler said at the Academic
Council meeting that funding
would be external and there are
agencies which fund such proj-
ects.
Trevino designed the 40-by-90
foot ceramic tile mural, "Spirit of
Healing," on the side of Santa
Rosa Children's Hospital.
The mural is made up of
150,000 pieces of tile mounted on
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A woman exits the rotunda of Chance Academic Center Wednesday. College from 1947 to 1982. The four-story edifice is done in late 20th-
The structure, built in 1992, is named after Dr. Truett L. Chance, pro- century contemporary style and was designed by Marmon-Mok, a San
fessor and president emeritus of this college who served San Antonio Antonio firm.
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