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students
occur when plan-
Most course plans include an elemen-
tary or beginning class, an intermediate
has to explain what action it is taking
while voting in open session.
Library
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has to offer. Pages 6 and 7
was to take on the agenda item listed for
discussion which was the same as
item the board approved this month.
Two attorney's with the Freedom of
Information Foundation of Texas said
the board was in violation of the Texas
Open Meetings Act.
ects, including the RTF building, amounting to
an additional 5 percent contin-
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crushed their opponents. Page 9
Gladys Rich, accompanied by Professor Mary Lou Russell on
the piano, in a series of performance workshops for music stu-
seven languages offered at this college,
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Music sophomore Sarah Smith sings "American Lullaby" by dents Oct. 17 in the auditorium of McAllister Fine Arts Center.
Smith was one of 14 performers who performed for about 60
audience members.
project in December.
At the meeting, trustees awarded four proj-
that in order to enroll in a certain course
students must have taken a prerequisite,
an equivalent course or "need to take a will present"The Afterlife"from 11
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Lot 7 if necessary.
The lots will be fenced off for the duration of the
project.
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gency.
A $8,909,962 contract was awarded to G.W.
Mitchell that includes construction of an advanced
technology center at Northwest Vista College and
an applied science and technology building for Palo
Alto College.
The contract also includes a 200-space parking
lot at Northwest Vista and expansion of the student
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"Most of the time, this happens
because students have taken one or two
years in high school and assume
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the third-year course," Swanson said.
"And high school could have been five,
few days in SPAN 10 years ago, or could have been a weak
program."
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Spanish class had begun in, proved to be that you need
too much for Goshey, and she dropped the third level, and they signupfor that proficiency with the language.
L ’’ Courses requiring the placement test
approve legal counsel to proceed with
all actions discussed in closed session.
While in open session, the board did ready for the college class, but I had a
area, more often than not a Spanish said. "There is so much of a relationship
that question," Swanson said. "If you have between the living and the dead."
The program on Oct. 31 will open at
8:15 a.m. with "Origins of the Rituals of
Dia de los Muertos," to be presented by
portion of Lot 7 open for student parking.
Contractors will try to cooperate, but if they need
the space or the nearby construction is a hazard,
then the whole lot will be closed.
The contract allows the contractors to use all of
the course.
"I didn't like dropping the class,"
Goshey said. "I didn't like losing the lar level of a language, that doesn't mean
Attorney Joel Larsen said the board money. But at the time, I felt that it was
can deliberate in closed session, but it the best thing for me to do."
Goshey is by no means the only stu- Arabic, French^ German, Italian, Latin,
dent who, upon enrolling in one of the Japanese and Spanish classes.
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Casseb, Jones, Riklin, Choate & Watson
as special investigative counsel.
Special investigative counsel was
hired to conduct factual investigation
of suspected or alleged criminal con-
duct, assist the board in cooperating
with outside law enforcement agencies
and provide legal advice related to any School/ a member of the National
investigations. Spanish Honors Society and a successful
The firm was hired as an addition to student in advanced placement Spanish
Langley & Banack, the district's general classes, Misty Goshey thought she was
counsel. Attorney Craig Wood said he ready for the intermediate level lan-
guage class.
However, after a
2311, Intermediate Spanish 1, she
The Alamo Community College
District board of trustees unanimously
approved legal counsel to communicate
with the district's insurance carriers on
items discussed in closed session.
District 9 trustee Jim Rindfuss pro-
posed the motion which was seconded
by District 7 trustee Charles Conner.
The board did not specify what items
legal counsel was to communicate to the
insurance carriers, but it was posted on
the agenda as a con-
sultation with "legal
counsel regarding
potential litigation
on behalf of the
Alamo Community
College District
against former or
current trustees
and/or former
employees to
recover damages
incurred due to
breach of duties."
In an interview
Wednesday, Rindfuss said the board
told legal counsel to talk to the attorneys
of the insurance carriers."It's basically in
the discovery phase."
Rindfuss said during closed session
they received a review of cases and along
with the review come recommendations
from the insurance carrier.
The district's law firm has done cer-
tain work while the insurance carrier
might have hired another attorney to do
some work, he said.
"We are basically telling (our attor-
ney) to talk to (the insurance carrier's
attorneys)," Rindfuss said.
In 2002, the board hired Goode, Alternative: Students should
speak with language instructors has found herself in foreign territory.
before registering In fact, many students signing on for a and an advanced class, all of which
foreign language feel compelled to drop transfer to Texas universities.
But most placement errors occur
when students take Spanish, Swanson
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Building G at Palo Alto.
The San Antonio College administration is orga-
nizing a ground-breaking ceremony for the RTF
project sometime within the next three weeks.
"These kind of things are really rewarding
RTF because you see the end product," Zeigler said. "It's
worth all the effort."
Gamez said the contractors were to fence off
parking Lots 6 and 7 on Thursday and move in
Students at this college are invited to
celebrate the memories of dead loved
ones by bringing items for an altar and
attending lectures during a celebration
of Dia de los Muertos, or the Day of the
Dead, beginning Thursday.
Photographs and mementos for the
altar, to be set up in Room 120 of the
visual arts center, should be brought
by Tuesday to Spanish Professors Delia
Salinas in Room 581 of Moody Learning
Center or Tom Manzo in Room 587 of the
same building.
"Students are always very interested in
the altar," Salinas said. "Everyone should
go and look at the photos. It shows that
we go on and we remember the dead."
The two-day event begins at 8:15 a.m.
Thursday in Room 120 of visual arts with
an introduction, followed at 8:30 a.m.
with "A Discussion with Chiracahua-
Apache Elder Nate' Lu-uunna'a'" about
Native American beliefs about death.
From 9:30 a.m.-10:30 a.m., satirist Rick
Najera's short play "The
Pain of the Macho,"
will feature Charles
Falcon, theater
and communica-
tions instructor, i
Abram Sarabia,
Benito Lara,
Yinelly Arnold, April jflljSFuj
Guajardo and Stephen
Reyna.
From 10:50 a.m. - 11:
20 a.m. Spanish Instructor
Marta Montemayor will present f/
"My Lover's Ofrenda: Photos P
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in Mexico to Diego Rivera's
Deceased Lover."
At 11:20 a.m. Professor Mary Allen-
Martin, mortuary science chair, will
present "Grave Matters," a presenta-
tion of her class's findings from City
of Cemetery No. 1.
"The presentation is sort of a global-
could not reveal the names of the insur-
ance carriers in an interview Thursday.
During the regular September meet- 2311, Intermediate Spanish 1, she program." may feel they are more or less qualified
ing, the board unanimously voted to thought again. Another error students make, than they are, and may try to place them-
"It was like a blow," the 20-year-old Swanson said, can occur when plan- selves in a course that they are either not
English sophomore said."I felt that I was ning enrollment around degree require- prepared for or are overqualified for.
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not define what direction legal counsel major problem with the subject." "The most common error students the foreign languages department on the
The class, which began midway make is looking at the university they're fifth floor of Moody Learning Center has Inspirations" will include a speech from
textbook that the lower level going to after this and the university says offered for the past decade a placement music Chair Jessica Howard and perfor-
test designed to determine a student's mances by Professors Madalyn Blanchett,
Alice Gomez and Terry Muska.
Music will accompany the awards
t con-
the course because previous knowledge
of the language is not enough for the
college course, said Dr. Carol Swanson, said, because of the widespread
the language in this area.
"Placement is, in the San Antonio ization of death and dying," Allen-Martin
Spanish said. "There is so much of a relationship
here they should take lived in San Antonio, it is very difficult
for you not to know some Spanish."
Because of prior knowledge of a lan-
guage, Swanson said, some students EdmundoVargas.
Dr. loannis Vassiliou, English profes-
sor, will speak about Greek traditions
from 9 a.m.-9:45 a.m. in "Women and
Mourning."
From 10 a.m.- 0:30 a.m. "Music and
Dia de los Muertos: Practices and
course," Swanson said.
"Even if your degree names a particu- are marked in the college catalog, stating presentation for the poetry and art
tests from 10:30 a.m.-ll a.m.
Sociology Professor Gloria Pimentel
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ll:^ a.m., and the program will wrap up
at noon.
you should be taking that level."
At this college, course levels vary for
Construction of a two-story radio-television-film
building for this college is in the beginning stages.
Constructor Associates, Inc., a contracting firm,
signed a $4,443,000 contract and received notice Oct.
16 from the Alamo Community College District to
proceed with the project.
The building will be between parking Lots 6 and
7 on West Ashby Place.
"I'm delighted to get this started," President center dining hall, construction of a classroom and
Robert Zeigler said. "It's really a neat thing to be laboratory building and soil and utility repair for
involved in." ” ” ” ~ ‘'
The building is scheduled to be completed by
October 2004, weather permitting.
A $7,167,000 contract was awarded to the con-
tractors at the Alamo Community College District
trustee meeting Sept. 23, to build the new J
building and an instructional center at St. Philip's
Southwest Campus.
Project Manager Evelyn Gamez said the con-
tractors will probably start the instructional center trailers today.
Gamez said at a preliminary meeting Oct. 16
requests were made to the contractors to leave a
200-space parking
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