The Ranger (San Antonio, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 11, Ed. 1 Friday, February 7, 2014 Page: 7 of 8
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By Brandon Borrego
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immunizations. At the time, I was up to
date with my records until 2015.
It has been two years, and, like most
students I regularly check my account
in ACES, which made registration seem
easy. In December, I began to plan
classes for the spring.
Before I began registering, I checked
ACES for holds. There were no holds
on my record, so I began searching for
classes. After figuring out my schedule,
I entered one course number and was
This will make honoring fallen veterans
graveside more difficult because this college’s
hours of operation are 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. while one
of San Antonio’s most honored burial grounds,
Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, is open
8 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Other burial grounds follow
similar hours.
Memorial Day is observed the last Monday
in May. The elimination of the holiday also
affects students and faculty during Maymester,
a three-week session between spring and sum-
mer.
Alamo Colleges trustees voted Jan. 21 to
give staff off the first three days of spring break
Editor:
First, Keats and the American
Revolution don’t change much;
computer technology is the fast-
est changing discipline in the
history of the planet. Staying cur-
rent leaves little time for refin-
ing pedagogy or schmoozing in
faculty offices.
Second, technology classes
have a greater variance in stu-
dent background; that makes
them harder to teach. How
many of our students are out
there right now reading about the
Renaissance or looking over some
Wordsworth quite apart from any
college assignment? How many
are texting or surfing the Web?
When I do an accounting
in exchange for staff, faculty and students for-
feiting a day off for Memorial Day.
District 7 trustee Yvonne Katz suggested
organizing a memorial service for fallen sol-
diers at the board meeting Jan. 21.
Chancellor Bruce Leslie responded, “We
will be here and not at the mall celebrating the
commitment and dedication of our service-
men.”
Jose Ramirez, a prenursing sophomore who
is a work-study in the veterans affairs office,
said Memorial Day is not about honoring all
service personnel.
“Most people think that Memorial Day and
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ment messages. If both can prevent a
student from registering, then shouldn’t
both alerts be under the same tab?
When ACES is receiving mainte-
nance, students can’t log in to check
emails or register for classes.
During the semester, there are times
the ACES server is shutdown because
of the mass of students attempting to
use ACES at the same time. If personal
information is required for registra-
tion, students need to be personally
informed by phone, mail and ACES.
I understand that we, as students,
have a responsibility to keep checking
ACES for holds and requirement mes-
sages, but I would prefer to be informed
personally by mail or phone if the issue
involves me not being able to register.
Perhaps, Qless can also be used as
an alert system to send important mes-
sages accounts or to turn in personal
documents before important deadlines.
Maybe it’s time for an ACES update.
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notified there was an issue.
Apparently, there are holds and
requirements that must be checked
and cleared. I was told a requirement
message was sent to my ACES account
that stated I needed an immunization
before enrolling for the spring semester.
The message was sent after
Thanksgiving. I argued during my first
semester I was told no immunization
was needed until 2015. When I found I
needed an immunization, it was close
to Christmas vacation and I was unable
to be seen by a doctor until January. The
deadline for registration was Jan. 12,
and I registered for only one class.
ACES is the only way I have to com-
municate with the college and my
instructors. Students can receive infor-
mation about happenings around the
college and updates regarding registra-
tion though ACES, but it is not reliable.
On ACES, there are tabs where stu-
dents can check for holds and require-
RESTAURANT
Although United Staff Council recently con-
vinced the Alamo Colleges board of trustees
to give staff the entire spring break off in
exchange for eliminating Memorial Day as a
holiday, not everyone is happy about it.
“Crazy,” sophomore Steven Alvarado said.
“It just takes away from Memorial Day’s pur-
pose.”
Alvarado was in the 82nd Airborne Division
of the Army, which specializes in paratroop-
ing, and is now seeking a degree in network
infrastructure.
Veterans Day have the same purpose,” he said,
noting Memorial Day is for honoring “those
who have died for our country'.”
He suggested there be some sort of pictorial
or visual observation posted at the college.
Ramirez said he and other veterans under-
stand many students are more concerned
about celebrating a day off.
Ramirez’s grandfather was a Mexican-
American who fought in the Navy in World War
II. “It is a passing of generations, and we are
responsible for honoring those actions.”
Being an educational institution in a mili-
tary city, we ought to get it right.
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Let’s start from
the beginning, I
graduated from
Highlands High
School in June 2011
and started college
majoring in journal-
ism that fall.
When you first
register for college,
all students must
provide a record of
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course, everybody starts in about
the same place; when I teach our
computer course (BCIS), student
experience is all over the map. It’s
far more challenging.
Now there’s a third reason:
Learning outcomes, detailed
e-syllabuses and other items in
the growing stack’ of overhead
that is being imposed by the edu-
cationists are much friendlier to
some disciplines than others.
The history faculty can set up
learning outcomes, which will
require only modest revision as
time goes by. CIS will have to
cancel classes to keep up with
the constantly changing learn-
ing outcomes of 100 high tech
courses.
Teaching technology is, as
they say, a whole new ballgame.
College administrators have
yet to accept that and deal with
it effectively.
Thomas Friday
Business Administration
Professor, Retired
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