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Nov. 30, 2001 ♦ Vol. 77, Issue 11
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Students need to be aware that
the usual expenses, such as library
fees and parking permits, will not
with intent to distribute marijuana.
Andy Draghici was 18 years old when
he sold ecstasy to undercover FBI agents,
his mother, Gabriela Draghici, said.
She said he fell in love with a girl who
introduced him to one of her relatives
involved with the manufacture and sale
of ecstasy. He also happened to be under
FBI surveillance.
Andy Draghici and his new friend
bonded, Gabriela Draghici said, because
like her son, the man was diabetic and
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introduced Andy to smaller and less
painful syringes for his insulin injections.
Gabriela Draghici said her son was at
the wrong place at the wrong time.
"He just popped in Eke a stupid fly in
the middle of everything," Gabriela
Draghici said through tears.
Andy Draghici then turned his life
around after he entered his plea, his
mother said.
He enrolled in the radio-television-
and-film program at this college, worked
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with his father at Dixie Flag Co. and start-
ed Ghici Casting, a nonprofit casting com-
pany.
Andy Draghici also directed and cho-
reographed "Music in the City," a month-
ly production of music and art at Sam's
Burger Joint that showcased his father
painting on a canvas while his mother
sang.
Andy Draghici acted in movies,
including "Pearl Harbor" and "The Air
Hockey Affair," a film short co-written
He has been matched with
Betsy Walker, an education mul-
timedia technician in the learn-
ing resource center.
Walker will wear a bracelet
with Sanders' name engraved on
it and stay in contact with him
and his wife and children while
he is away, Armstrong said.
"I would be glad to corre-
spond with someone. I love our
country and I love our flag and I
am very grateful for the people
protecting us, who are in the mil-
itary," Walker said.
About 20 cases need to find a
match, Armstrong said.
"It is important to do any-
thing we can do to encourage
and let our soldiers know we
support them," Walker said.
Anyone interested in volun-
teering for the silver bracelet
project can fill out an application
in Room 152 of Loftin Student
Center.
He was a radio-television-film sopho-
more until Oct. 26 when a request for an
extension to serve a 30-month sentence
was denied and he was ordered to report
to a federal corrections institution in Big
Springs four days later.
George Alexandru "Andy" Draghici
had spent two years free on bond after
pleading guilty in September 1999 on con-
spiracy charges to distribute and possess
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♦ Officials consider special session beginning Feb. 4
to attract students to classes at nonpeak times.
Pat Appleby, unit assistant for the math department, Student Center. The flu shots were provided by
makes a face as phlebotomist Traci Barron gives Discount Lab and Phlebotomy for $15. The college
Appleby a flu shot Wednesday morning in Loftin health center arranged the visit.
a savings because
the minimum of six hours for
tuition would not have been met,
she said.
"Once the minimum of six
hours of tuition is met, that is
sion, similar to a flex session, that when the reduced tuition will kick
would begin Feb. 4 and end May in if the students select within the
12, she said.
The discount will not be avail-
able for courses offered in the reg-
ular or traditional flex sessions in
the spring semester, so it will not
benefit students registering now
for spring classes.
"None of the fees are affected,
still meeting tuition only," Hall said.
an inch wide, were finished Nov.
21, and each individual bracelet with every student or members
costs around $2.50 to be made, of that students family, who has
alert Armstrong said. had to leave to serve our country,
She said $100 worth of silver and see if they would be interest-
was enough to make the first 25 ed in the bracelet idea," she said.
A bracelet wearer can do a
variety of things to keep in touch
at least not yet. tuition classes and at least six
College officials have yet to credit hours in the pilot program's
iron out the details of a pilot pro-
gram that would enable current
students to register for classes at
nonpeak times at half of the regu- tuition classes if they
lar tuition.
The Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board, which over-
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suggested the program, and the
colleges of the Alamo Community
College District are among nine
colleges in the state to try it.
and produced by Gustavo Stebner.
Stebner said Andy Draghici is reliable,
enthusiastic and collaborative.
"In the time that I've known him, I've
never seen him display any threat to him-
self or others," Stebner said.
After Andy Draghici's voluntary sur-
render, professors from this college wrote
letters on his behalf.
Professor Fred Weiss said he wrote a
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Students planning to save
money this spring from a reduced
save half on tuition fees, she said.
If students register for three
credit hours of regular session
classes and three credit hours of
"The purpose of the program is reduced tuition courses, they
to utilize classroom space during would not see
nonpeak times," Rosemarie
Hoopes, director of admissions
and records, said Nov. 20.
The reduced tuition would be
available for a special spring ses-
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"Students have to be cautious
not to mix and match the reduced
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six hours," Hoopes said.
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when selecting classes for the
higher education in the state, reduced time frame, they could
The Alamo Community
College District has filed a law-
suit against Texas Attorney
General John Cornyn, attempting
to block the release of records the
attorney general has declared
open records.
Information requested by The
Ranger and the San Antonio
Express-News concerns the ter-
mination of former chemistry
Professor William Miller.
In the documents sent by the
district's legal firm Gale, Wilson
& Sanchez to the attorney gener-
al's office, the reason for termina-
tion is explained.
According to the documents,
Miller was accused of sexual
harassment by a Jane Doe, a
work-study student in the chem-
istry department. Based on this
accusation, an investigation was
performed by the district, and
Miller was terminated.
The reason for Miller's termi-
nation has become public only
because it is included in the case
the district has filed against the
attorney general.
The legal maneuvers by the
district to withhold information
began in September.
Miller, a high-profile, tenured
professor at this college, was fired
May 25. On June 22, Miller filed a
suit of wrongful termination
against the district. Miller's suit
asks for unspecified damages.
In September, The Ranger,
under the Texas Public
Information Act, Chapter 552,
Texas Government Code, which
guarantees the public's access to
information in the custody of
governmental agencies, faxed a
request for information concern-
ing Miller to the ACCD human
resources department.
The Ranger requested all docu-
ments concerning Miller, includ-
ing but not limited to full name,
salary and titles during employ-
ment, starting and ending dates
of all and any positions held at
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volunteers at no cost, she said.
Funds for the project have
come from money collected and
way to show support for this saved from profits of the student as we need to," Armstrong said.
Drawing from resources in it all together," Armstrong said,
admissions and records and the Scott Sanders, a student at this
veterans' affairs office, college who is married and has
Armstrong has complied a list of three children, has been
students in the armed forces deployed for three to six months.
Bracelet project to display patriotism, caring
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Students, staff and faculty
have an opportunity to demon- to duty," Armstrong said,
strate their patriotism in ways
other than displaying
American flag.
They can wear a sterling silver
cuff bracelet engraved with the military and
name of a student or former stu- 1
dent from this college who is ready," Armstrong said. "With
away from home. that fact alone, I have have been bracelets and start on another 25.
Wearing the bracelet also sig- trying to think of some tangible
nifies a commitment to keep in thing we all can do to show sup- Military Highway, will engrave with the matched soldier, includ-
touch with the military member port for our students and our
and family as a morale booster,
said Kathy Armstrong, director
of student life.
Armstrong started the
bracelet program to give people
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nation's military fight against life office selling hot dogs, fajitas,
terrorism after the Sept. 11 and other food in the mall area
attacks. between Loftin Student Center
"People who sign up have to and Moody Learning Center,
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reduced tuition time frame," she
said.
Zuniga believes the incentive
to save money will be important
to students.
"The college understands that
financial considerations are major
Each college in the district is factors for our students when they
deciding what classes to offer and consider a college education,"
what times would be considered Zuniga said.
nonpeak. The installment plan will not be
This college has not specified available for students enrolling in
yet which courses would be this pilot program.
offered during the special session. "If students are solely on the
The district is preparing infor- installment plan, they will have to
mation to indicate the price struc- be in regular session classes," dis-
ture students will be dealing with trict bursar Mary Hall said.
when paying for the reduced
tuition classes.
"We are working on it," Leo
Zuniga, director of public rela- change,
tions, said Nov. 21.
"The colleges are
ment and be serious about stay- instructor, with the help of sever-
al students is making the silver call for duty and are interested in
bracelets. having someone volunteer to
The first 25 sterling silver wear a silver bracelet with their
Armstrong has been planning bracelets, about three-eighths of name and stay in touch.
the the project since Oct. 11 . an inch wide, were finished Nov. "I have tried to get in touch
"There are so many students
on this campus who are in the
are now on
with their bags packed and
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each bracelet, but Armstrong ing writing letters, sending pho-
country." does not know how much the tographs or sending cookies.
The bracelets will be given to engraving will cost because it "One example would be to go
depends on the number of letters, down to the River Walk and take
pictures of San Antonio at
Christmas time and then write
them a nice letter and then send
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