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It will be called
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located, Nettles said.
The new cafe will be equipped
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An alternate option, Salinas said, is to investigate
the course by speaking to the professor.
"Find out about the teachers you are planning to
take the class with," Salinas said. "If it's any kind of
good teacher, they'll readily give you information
on their requirements.
"I believe that if they feel that they can handle
the class they should go ahead and try it out for a
couple of days because the exam may not reflect
what they know."
Goshey ended up taking the exam.
"I don't believe that placement tests are entirely
accurate, but it does kind of validate where you are,"
Goshey said.
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ment may call Swanson at 733-2626 or the assess-
ment center in Room 110 of Fletcher Administration
Center at 733-2305. The center also provides testing
for English-as-a-second language placement, GED
testing, credit by exam, correspondence exams and
certification and licensure exams.
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"World banks and world trade
are examples of
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globalization," he said.
Khaligh said the government
should make it mandatory that
large companies that receive tax
Anti-virus software has to
be loaded on the 22 computers,
Nettles said.
If the computer part is opened
first, the dust and noise from the
"How do political leaders who renovation of the coffee shop of
never worked for minimum wage the cafe will result in having to
know how to take care of those close the cyber part, he said.
who do?" he said. "We are going to try to get
Khaligh believes people have those things done as closely as we
to hold the government account-
able, and he believes revolution
is going to be needed to boost
the economy.
"We have to be a smarter
people and elect better leaders," things done at the same time,
he said. Nettles explained.
departmental placement test."
Student options also include a standard Spanish
course, which emphasizes reading, writing, listen-
ing and speaking; as well as a conversational course
which focuses on listening and speaking.
In Swanson's opinion, students should take the
placement test.
"You want to be more scientific than to place
yourself," Swanson said. "If you have some native
experience and you wonder where you fit, I would
still recommend the placement exam.
"Just come to the department and we'll give you
the test right here."
Still, some teachers, like Spanish Professor Delia
Salinas, said the placement exam cannot be com-
pletely relied on to place students correctly.
"I don't think that students should be made to
take a placement exam because I would question
the validity of the exam," Salinas said.
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music or working on television
production projects.
Acoustical consultant Ken
Dickensheets worked with the
RTF department to design the
rooms.
RTF Instructor Tiana Spivey,
former RTF chair, said the archi-
tects used a 50-page document
submitted by the department as
a guide to design the building.
Spivey said the document
gives a general description of
each room or area; their func-
tion, location and access; design
criteria; and statements on type
of equipment needed for the
building.
"I'm looking forward to it and
I hope that it comes into the
vision that was set forth in my
mind," Spivey said.
The first floor of the build-
ing will have seven offices, five
audio edit rooms, five video edit
rooms and three equipment
storage rooms.
The floor will also have a mul-
titrack studio, a control room
and an auditorium for lectures
and presentations.
The second floor will include
two television studios and a con-
trol room, a video lab, news lab
and a computer writing lab.
It also includes a copy writing
classroom, general classroom, two
faculty offices and the radio station
KSYM.
"We've never had a building like
this before," Gamez said. "There is
no other building like this in the
district."
The projects are being funded by
a $25 million bond sale in July 2001.
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ers are always being overlooked,"
Soliz said.
Soliz also talked about why
San Antonio gives large com-
panies huge tax breaks to move
here and that once the large
companies come, they usu-
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their profits before leaving San
Antonio to relocate overseas
because of the struggling econ-
omy.
He said companies moving breaks should have to stay in the
overseas take jobs away, and country to put money back into
the economy instead of being
able to go overseas and manufac-
ture for less.
"Companies such as Levi had
to pay $13 an hour here in the
U.S., but in Costa Rica they only
have to pay 53 cents an hour," he
said.
Khaligh said the economy has
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"Our goal is to open up the
coffee shop with the cafe," he
said.
Computers in the former
cybercafe on the seventh floor
of Moody Learning Center will
be available until the new cafe
opens.
Representatives from student
life and the technology cen-
ter decided Oct. 8 to make the
changes.
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The building will add needed
space for students enrolled in
radio-television-film classes,
Zeigler said.
"More space allows us to
grow with both students and
equipment," RTF Chair Terry
Tackitt said.
The new building will be
30,240 square feet compared to
the current building, which is
3,248 square feet.
Fire code regulations for the
radio-television-film hall limit
enrollment to 12 students and
an instructor per class.
Tackitt said there are RTF
classes in McAllister that allow
higher enrollment, but students
are limited on equipment use
because most of the equipment
is in the RTF hall.
The classes and labs are in
McAllister Fine Arts Center and
the radio-television-film hall.
According to enrollment
records from Sept. 16, RTF class-
es enrolled 706 students.
Budget officer David Mrizeck
said this number does not count
how many individuals are tak-
ing RTF classes because one
student may be taking multiple
classes.
Gamez said the RTF depart-
ment helped plan the design of
the building.
Tackitt said the department
met with the architects during
the designing process to make
recommendations for the design
of the building.
One recommendation was to
include sound isolation rooms.
The design of the rooms pre-
vents outside noise from inter-
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This college is facing a
major parking problem with
the increasing enrollment, but
administrators say they are
looking for rental lots south of
the campus.
Gamez said the college will
not issue the contractors park-
ing permits. They will either
park within the fenced-in areas
of the parking lot or on the
street.
The meeting was to introduce
the contractors to faculty, staff
and the administration of this
college and to brief the contrac-
tors on project guidelines.
Participants included Gamez;
Dwight Gillespie, CIP purchas-
ing coordinator; Sgt. Dennis
Guyer, B-shift supervisor of the
department of public safety;
three district personnel; four
maintenance personnel; seven
contractors from the company;
three employees from 3DI/
Marmon Mok, a joint venture
firm contracted to oversee the
project; four RTF personnel; and
administrators.
Another meeting will be held
Tuesday to monitor the progress
of construction.
Gamez said the meetings will
be necessary to provide direct
communication between the
firm and the contractors.
Meetings will be every other
week.
It is the responsibility of this
college, as the owner of the proj-
ect, to make sure architects and
contractors are working together
properly, Gamez said.
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Khaligh speak about why they COPS member Joe Soliz criticizes corporate tax breaks Oct. 15 at the Methodist Student Center,
believe the economy is not mov-
ing.
Soliz told students he has been
keeping tabs on the economy.
"I started reading the busi-
ness section of the San Antonio
Express-News to get a better
grasp on what the economy was
doing," Soliz said.
Making reference to
articles written by the San
Antonio Express-News such as
"Shrimping in Peril," Soliz said
he began to wonder where the
truth lies in the media. overseas take jobs away, and
"The news gives messages that when jobs are taken away, it cre-
doing OK, but the work- ates problems.
Soliz said large corpora-
tions fail to reinvest in the
economy.
"They only want to see instant
return," Soliz said.
Khaligh said international
studies have shown that the U.S.
ally pay workers only minimum government encourages global- not been managed well, pointing
wage. ization. out that when former President
Soliz said companies such as "World banks and world trade Clinton was in office, the prob-
Levi Strauss Co. nearly doubled organizations are examples of lem was what to do with the bud-
"While the rich get richer, the
poor get poorer."
Two surveillance
video cameras will
monitor the room, one
on each side of the
cafe.
A help desk will be
available for students
who have questions,
and a printer will
be available, Nettles
said.
Student life is
working with Custom
Foods, the Alamo
Community College
District food service provider,
for coffee, cappuccino, expresso,
sodas and maybe some snacks,
Nettles said, noting the coffee
shop will be in the same room as
the computers.
Planning by the technology
center will include a theme, retro
decor, rules for the cafe and
organization of the furniture and
computers, Nettles said.
"They know what a cafe should
look like,"he said, adding that the
technology center helped design
the original cafe.
"I want the cafe to open on a
grand scale," Nettles said. "I want
everything to be done. I want it to
be something the campus can be
proud of."
Nettles said he wants the cafe
to provide students with more
equipment, extended hours,
games and a place where they
can surf the Internet and "have
some fun."
Hours for the cafe have not
been decided.
Large corporations are
responsible for the bad econ-
omy because they do not pay
their workers enough, and the
government should stop giving
tax breaks to companies that
move operations overseas, two
speakers said Oct. 15 during a
Methodist Student Center Hot
Potato lecture.
"While the rich get richer, the
poor get poorer,"Joe Soliz, a mem-
ber of Communities Organized
for Public Service, said.
"Why the Economy is Stuck
in Neutral" drew 34 students
for a baked potato lunch and an
opportunity to hear Soliz and
government Professor Asslan
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Bailey's
Cybercafe.
Student life officials
have postponed the
reopening from Oct. 1.
"We are taking the
time to do it right to
make it look present-
able for students,"
Darryl Nettles, associ-
ate director of student
life, said Oct. 10.
The January open-
ing may be difficult because of
get surplus. spring registration, which takes
Khaligh said he does not have place where the new cafe will be
the answers to fixing the econo-
my, but he believes the economy
is in such bad shape because the with 22 computers, a big-screen
government is doing nothing to television, a lounge area with
help. sofas and chairs and tables and
"It is the failure of the political chairs where students can sit and
leaders of today to take charge of drink coffee while waiting for a
the large companies who run the computer,
economy," the government pro-
fessor said.
Khaligh questioned the
government's ability to fix the
economy.
Joseph e. Sanchez Changes: New name,
location scheduled
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Bailey's Cybercafe in Moody
Jan. 23 with a new name and a
new location in the lounge area
adjacent to the game room in
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