The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 79, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, March 11, 2005 Page: 7 of 11
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Students complicit in loss
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Premiere Editor
Julie Ann Sanchez
Opinion Editor
Amber Whittaker
News Editor
Kristina Lindberg
College community supports
extramural programs.
Affordable education
will only be achieved
through citizenry’s vigilance.
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Jeremy Hopkins
Education Sophomore
Photographers
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Guest Viewpoints Faculty, staff, students and community members
are welcome to contribute guest viewpoints of up to 450 words. Writers
should focus on campus or current events in a critical, persuasive or
interpretative style. All viewpoints must be published with a photo portrait
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Editor
Nicole Lessin
Circulation
Spencer West
With the defeat of the $450 million
bond issue last month, the district’s
thousands of dollars in proposed
upgrades for the board room seems
extravagant at first glance.
Appearances, however, can be
deceiving.
The $135,000 for lighting and
equipment to televise the board
meetings and to put board packets
online is a laudable investment if
the district administration is able to
follow through on a promise of more
open government.
Televising the meetings would
allow more people to tune in to the
board meetings.
We are excited to see the variety
of sports offered in the extramural
program this semester.
The quality of sports has improved
from previous semesters when pro-
grams were abandoned and coaches
were not provided.
Programs provided this semester
include basketball, volleyball, base-
ball, tennis and soccer.
These programs are available for
all students, faculty and staff.
But district’s new
furniture is questionable
in wake of section cuts.
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Extramural sports offer students
the chance to stay fit and enjoy team
work.
Recognizing this, extramural sports
have received support from the dis-
trict, which has provided paid coach-
es for this semester’s programs.
Sports recreation has done a good
job promoting the sports events, and
the college community has come out
to take advantage of these activities.
In times of alienation and obesity,
students actually take a stand and do
something for health and mind.
Their sportsmanship represents
their commitment to this college.
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friends to waiting choppers, seeing
friends blown apart or killed at the
Editor:
There is a sign in front of the eleva-
tors saying “elevator is restricted to per-
sons with disabilities, faculty and staff'”
I am not going to sit and judge who
has a disability, but when I see an eleva-
tor full of people, nine times out of 10
bells go off in my head. Are all of these
people in need of an elevator?
Viewpoint by
Sarah Cordova
Nora E. Leza
Manager of Corporate Development
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barrels, according to the Department of
Veterans Affairs Web site.
Agent Orange was classified as a her-
bicide and used to strip trees of leaves
and kill underbrush that could provide
More than 20 million gallons was
doused over the jungles of Vietnam with
no consideration as to the potential dis-
eases it could cause the soldiers fighting
below.
Now, more than 30 years later, it
is proved that the exposure to Agent
Orange can cause from Type 2 Diabetes
to Hodgkin’s disease to a variety of can-
cers.
As the agent has free range through . •’
who knows him.
Although he has become mellower
and easier to talk with, I can’t decide
whether or not the changes have been
Joe Marsilio
Liberal Arts Freshman
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Staff Writers
Angela Covo
Joseph M. de Leon
Mandy Derfler
BreeAna K. Montoya
Heather K. Robinson
Cesar G. Rodriguez
Mary Zamora
Here is the thing, people. When you use
the elevator, you take it away from people
who need to use it. People like me.
I have to use the elevator. I am in
a wheelchair that weighs a good 120
pounds. I cannot just pick it up and carry
it downstairs.
Maybe the “restricted” signs need to
be placed inside all elevators like they are
in the child development center. It seems
to work there.
San Antonio is on the Top 10 list again
for the fattest cities. So walking down
some stairs will not hurt if you are physi-
cally capable.
Do not ride the elevator because you
think you will pass as being a professor. I
can tell you who is and isn’t just by look-
ing at them.
A dead give away is a student who
wears beat up clothes and girls wearing
revealing shirts and micro minis.
There are people at times who will get
off when they see someone who needs it.
I will not get on one when it is packed
because that is dangerous.
nosed with at least two of the diseases
directly attributed to the exposure, he
now follows a daily regimen of medica-
tions.
There are visits to the veterans’ hos-
pitals every month and an assortment of
Editor:
I really hope the group gets input from
everyone who attends this college, not
two or three small groups that are really
vocal about their opinions.
I suggest each department nominate
representatives to Student Government
so that representation will be fair and
equitable. Student groups could be repre-
sented the same way.
Editor:
. Many spring breakers begin what is
considered a “rite of passage” and take
their first drink of alcohol or what will
lead to excessive drinking during spring
break.
Spring break is an invitation to cloud-
ed judgment, limited control and conse-
quences that can last a lifetime.
As a result, underage drinking can
affect you and your loved ones forever.
Not only could you potentially injure or
kill yourself, but you could injure or kill
someone else.
More than 6,000 people died in 2002
from underage-drinking-related causes
(alcohol-related traffic fatalities, homi-
cides, suicides and other unintentional
injuries).
More than 2,200 of these were alco-
hol-related traffic fatalities!
Mothers Against Drunk Driving
encourages you to make an adult decision
by not drinking and driving! Therefore,
consider a sober and fun spring break
and think before you drink!
With one word,
I can evoke memo-
ries or horror, ter-
ror and disillusion-
ment. The same
word can bring potential hiding places for the enemy,
back the stench
of blazing jungles,
fiery houses and
burning flesh. This
one word uttered
to my father, has
the power to make
a strong man’s eyes water.
Vietnam.
A few years ago, after a cookout at
my parents’ house, my dad shocked my
brothers and me by reminiscing about my father’s blood, and he has been diag-
his experiences in Vietnam.
In the more than 20 years since he
had come into our lives and married my
mother, my dad had never spoken one
word about the war.
My older brother and I sat outside
listening to him talk of carrying dying medical tests and X-rays.
There are new battles to fight almost
daily: mood swings from the medicines
hands of the enemy and the bodies litter- ingested, lethargy from the diseases,
ing the paths each soldier walked. anger at the government for not tak-
Later, my brother and I tried to fig- ing care of its soldiers 30 years ago and
ure what had triggered the onslaught of
memories and the desire to talk about
them.
Maybe it was the war in Iraq — some
had been referring to it as the “modern
Vietnam.”
Maybe it was the stories I told my
now.
There are nightmares and sleepwalk-
ing. And sometimes, there is depression
and hopelessness.
For the three years since the diagnosis,
my dad has gone through a range of treat-
ments, both physical and mental. The
family about my friends being shipped change is extremely noticeable to anyone
out in herds to fight. In any case, we
knew something was up.
A few weeks later, my mom told us
that my dad had been diagnosed with a
form of Agent Orange. It was a serious worth all the trauma my dad has had and
and potentially deadly diagnosis.
Between January 1965 and April 1970,
one of the chemical cocktails our govern-
ment sprayed over Vietnam and conse-
quently on our soldiers, was a reddish-
continues to endure.
Although I wasn’t around back then, I
have seen the effects of the Vietnam War
and wonder how the soldiers in Iraq will
continue to suffer long after the govern-
brown liquid shipped in orange striped ment has forgotten about their sacrifices.
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Not surprisingly, not many of you
will be able to meet these stringent
requirements, so fewer of you will
qualify.
Perhaps fewer of you will gradu-
ate. Why would the state of Texas try
to balance its budget deficit at the
expense of the future of Texas?
In a word: Apathy. Yours.
Lawmakers pay attention
those who squawk the loudest. You
don’t squawk. Heck, you don’t even
notice.
If you want affordable education,
you need to call your lawmakers,
or e-mail them. You can find their
addresses and numbers at www.capi-
tol.state.tx.us/fyi/fyi.htm.
Otherwise, when graduation day
rolls around, along with the con-
gratulations and best wishes, expect
the Legislature’s gift of a mountain
of debt.
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Students, don’t you mind that law-
makers are quietly picking your pock-
ets?
This year, the Texas Higher
Education Coordinating Board will
begin phasing out the Texas Grants
Program, which has provided mil-
lions of dollars to many low-income
college students who excelled in high
school. This year 527 students at this
college receive this grant.
In its place will be the more restric-
tive Texas B-On-Time loan program,
which becomes a grant only if you
can graduate with a 3.0 average in
four years — five if the program
requires it — and have no more than
six outside hours.
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The current system relies on
streaming video from the Internet,
which is difficult for the majority of
the public to access.
In addition, we congratulate
William Bruce, the district’s new
multimedia coordinator for adminis-
tration, for working to bring the cost
of these bids down.
Making the board packets avail-
able online is another improvement
that we support if paper copies can
still be made available to those with-
out Internet access.
Spending more than $8,000 on
new leather chairs and a table for
the board conference room, however,
is a questionable investment to be
making at a time when class sections
across the district are being cut.
They are sitting pretty while across
the district we sit in tatters.
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