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Serving San Antonio College and the Alamo Community College District
San Antonio, Texas
hotline at 208-8189.
Shuttles strand wet students
Title 5
director
Brook Freeman
By John Lauricelia
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Student troubled by lack of
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Monica Gil
By Amber Tafoya
Sophomore Nook Gustamante
Interim: Thomas Hoy promises to
be visible on campus and work with
students, faculty and staff.
Inside
Poetry, music and dancing.
Learn more about Hispanic
Heritage Month. Page 5
Every Sunday morning from
9 a.m. to noon, The Beatles
are on KSYM 90.1 FM.
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Weekend
The Lion’s Club will sponor a free
circus for children from 2 p.m to 4 p.m.
Saturday in McAllister.
With rain pouring outside, a student
pulled himself out of his wheelchair and
scooted down the stairs in the journalism-
photography area of Loftin Student Center
Aug. 28.
Kinesiology sophomore Nook Gusta-
mante said the elevator was not working
between McCreless and Gonzales halls,
and he had no other way to get from his
class on the second floor of Gonzales Hall
to his car.
Gustamante was at a class in Gonzales
and tried two elevators before slowly low-
ering himself down each step.
"This is how I build strength," he said. "I
get strength from living everyday life."
Gustamante said he was able to reach
the bottom of the stairs because of his
weightlifting regimen and participation in
sports.
Until construction of an elevator west
of Loftin Student Center is completed,
students must use the elevators between
McCreless and Gonzales if they are unable
to navigate the stairs in the journalism-
photography area of Loftin.
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Bizzell said Tuesday riders were told
by the person sent to stop sendee that
"Everything's backed up. You can get
there faster walking."
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A call from The Ranger to the motor
pool at 12:20 p.m, revealed the deci-
sion to stop the shuttle had been made
already.
Luckily for some students counting
on the shuttle, the motor pool office
couldn't contact the bus driver through
the storm and traffic.
The driver continued serving the
route, making a pickup at 12:30 p.m. at
Chance Academic Center and carrying
a standing-room-only load of students
into the traffic jam the campus had
become.
Motor pool sent personnel on foot to
inform the driver he could stop.
At 12:45 p.m., he got the message
while waiting in the heavy traffic trying
to exit Lot 18 east of Chance.
Riders were informed they must walk
the remaining distance in the rain.
Kristin Bizzell, a business sophomore
and Ranger reporter, riding the shuttle
at the time said, "I was in shock at the
time, I was dumbfounded they would let
me get off (in the rain)."
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through the heavy rain, speed was no
consolation.
"I'm a little angry today," Bizzell said.
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Gustamante, who uses a wheelchair
after being paralyzed from a gunshot
wound to the back in 1994, said he had to
sit on the steps and slide his body down
step by step.
"The one in McCreless is hot and slow,"
he said, referring to the elevator. He said
he frequently has problems with the eleva-
tor north of Gonzales.
He said the elevators were inoperable
that day and have frequently been out of
order.
Gustamante was headed toward his car
parked at Main Avenue and Dewey Place
and said finding handicap parking was
another challege on campus.
"I see people circling the parking lot
with handicap decals," he said.
Gustamante said he had to wait an hour
for parking and sometimes the wait is not
worth the trouble because some parking is
far from campus.
Isabel Sandoval, senior clerk typist at
disabilities support services, said there has
been one complaint this semester, but she
expects more.
Sandoval said maintenance was called
on the complaint. But when help arrived,
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Monday's shutdown of this campus
left some students wet and upset when
they were asked to disembark a shuttle
bus in the middle of its route.
The district closed at noon because
of reported flooding of streets, particu-
larly on the South Side, President Robert
Zeigler said.
Apparently caught without a plan
for an orderly shut down of campus in
the event of an emergency, the motor
pool ordered the campus shuttle service
stopped, giving no warning to students
scrambling to get off campus.
Heavy rain kept unsuspecting stu-
dents under the shelter of trees waiting
at the shuttle stops.
Just as the buses were needed most
for a mass exodus from parking lots,
Gary Sanders, fleet maintenance super-
visor of the motor pool, decided the bus
service should stop.
Because it was lunchtime, only one
bus was operating.
Parking: For information on emer-
gency campus closings, call the ACCD
department of public safety weather
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Interim Vice President Thomas Hoy
finds accomplishing goals effectively on
the job means working as an organized
group.
"My management style is that we
make up a team at San Antonio College,"
he said. "Everybody that works here or
comes here is part of the team."
Hoy is temporarily filling the vacancy
left by Dr. Robert Zeigler after he was
named president of this college.
Zeigler announced in the July 10
Academic Council meeting that he was
naming Hoy to fill the No. 2 spot in the
administration on an interim basis.
On Aug. 23 Zeigler appointed the
Structure Advisory
Task Force, a com-
mittee of 12 cam-
pus faculty, staff
and students,
charged with
evaluating possi-
ble administrative
structure changes
at this college.
Hoy oversees
student activities,
admission and
records, enroll-
ment manage-
ment, the five
deans and specific programs such as
service learning.
He received a bachelor of science
degree in social work from Hardin-
Simmons University in 1971, a master's
degree in social work from Our Lady of
the Lake University in 1973, a master
of arts degree in counseling psychol-
ogy from the University of Texas at San
Antonio in 1977 and a doctorate in high-
er education administration from Nova
Southeastern University in 1995.
Hoy assumed a visible role on cam-
pus in 2000-01 when he coordinated this
college's 75th anniversary celebration.
Activities included a procession from
the original campus downtown to this
campus, work days to beautify San
Pedro Springs Park and a video tracing
historic milestones.
The anniversary year was also
marked by the college's first technol-
ogy fair.
The former Title 5 director said Aug.
26 that he would be available to help his
successor.
"I will be working with them on it, but
my primary duties will be in this office,"
Hoy said, citing his history of working
with various grants as beneficial to dis-
cussions on elements of Title 5.
Hoy's experience at this college also
includes working 11 years in disability
support services and five years as direc-
tor of Title 3.
Emma Mendiola, coordinator for
strategies for success, was approved
Aug. 27 as the acting director of Title 5 by
the U.S. Department of Education via e-
mail, Hoy said Aug. 30. The Department
of Education funds the grant.
Hoy said he is interested in making
a difference while fulfilling his position,
which includes having a presence on
campus.
"I wanted to bring some stability to
this while we are going through some
changes," Hoy said.
"The role of a leader is not someone
who is off in the closet somewhere in
the third floor.
"How else can you be involved in the
activities on campus if you don't take a
look at the operations?"
Zeigler is confident with his appoint-
ment of Hoy.
"I think he's an excellent person
and I'm happy he decided to serve
in this job," he said of Hoy. "I think
he's respected by faculty, staff and the
administration. In fact, I know he is."
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the student had already used the stairs
with assistance from other students.
"There have always been a problem
with the elevators," she said, who believes
one factor is walking students who use the
elevator. She said the elevators are over-
used by people who do not have a need for
assistance and cause crowding.
"Some students don't leave the elevator
when someone in a wheelchair comes up,"
she said.
Lalo Gomez, assistant director of facili-
ties of operations, said there has not been
a major problem with elevator operations
and they are made for heavy use.
Before going out into the rain,
Gustamante pulled a plastic bag over his
body and said he was lucky to have some
use of his lower limbs.
"Some people are weaker because they
do not have full use of their body," he
said.
A couple of weeks later, on Sept. 11,
Gustamante said he has not had trouble
with elevators on campus, but he still can-
not find a convenient parking space.
"They have maybe 10 for every parking
section, but that's not enough."
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