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Resign, chancellor
American Sign Language’s got talent
Prospective student Joe Guilbeau discusses a lack of communication to students on
the status of majors and transfers at the Faculty Senate meeting Wednesday. Pam Paz
Bradlee LaBrutta, business management sophomore and president of
Enactus, poses with grow beds in a hydroponic garden in the green-
house Thursday at Koehler. Filtered water flows from fish tanks into
plant beds, then to bio-filters, a subtank, then back again. E. David Gael
Safety first
at college’s
firing range
Group will compete
in St. Louis in April.
By Edith Moctezuma
sac-ranger@alamo.edu
The plan consisted of creating
four college committees to investi-
gate obstacles unique to each of the
By Travis Doyle
sac-ranger@alamo.edu
By Cynthia M. Herrera
cherrera151@student.alamo.edu
Debra Garner, Palo Alto psychology sophomore, passes her student loan and
A financial aid statement to District 1 trustee Joe Alderete Tuesday during the
citizens-to-be-heard session of the board meeting in Killen. Garner is showing
the trustees proof she had trouble signing up for classes three years ago because
the financial aid was not disbursed properly. Jan Hernandez
STEM careers offer opportunities for
women, minorities
Oppenheimer
Center.
Business
Presidents prefer
district-level committee.
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The Faculty Senate agreed Feb. 18
to present a proposal to Chancellor
Bruce Leslie to create a college-based
committee on majors.
Lisa Black, vice president of
Faculty Senate and sociology and
social work professor, discussed
where plans and proposals stand.
“I think the big burden of this pro-
cess, to be honest with you, are not
the decisions that have been made,
Professor Charles Hunt is
the instructor and adviser
to Enactus along with busi-
ness management Instructor
Mahmud Yusuf.
“I believe students gain the
opportunity to network with
classmates and to look at pre-
vious colleges for inspiration,”
Hunt said. “The aquaponics
system is based off of one that
was created at Flagler College
in St. Augustine, Fla.”
Each semester new stu-
dents enroll in the class and
take on projects from the last
semester or start new ones to
be entered into a competition.
Members from the previous
semester work with the cur-
rent class on projects.
The 22 students who make
up Enactus this semester are
divided among three projects.
See AQUAPONICS, Page 3
system combines convention-
al aquaculture with hydro-
ponics or cultivating plants in
water to recreate a symbiotic
environment using fish and
plants to recycle the water and
create energy.
The Enactus chapter plans
to establish a farmer’s market
on campus by the garden to
sell the extra fruits and veg-
etables grown out of the aqua-
ponics system.
Enactus — for entreprenu-
erial, act, us — is part of a
business management course,
BMGT 2309, Leadership. The
The allied health department will receive 40 iPad Airs
this week as part of a pilot program to determine whether
students perform better using the tablets.
The district provided a grant to study the interaction
between iPad usage and students. The amount of the
grant was unavailable.
The district chose this department because it is small,
skill-focused, has good ideas on how to incorporate the
iPads in their classes and because the department has
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Cadets practice
shooting positions
and techniques.
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completed other projects, Hal G. Buntley, medical assist-
ing program coordinator, said.
Usha Venkat, director of information technology, said
if the pilot is successful, the allied health department will
continue to use the iPad Airs.
Venkat said these Wi-Fi, lightweight devices can eas-
ily access the Internet and can take students’ learning
beyond the classroom.
She said the iPads will have preloaded programs,
which will help students capture pictures and videos,
See IPAD, Page 7
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club meets during the class
period, but membership is not
limited to those enrolled.
The group meets 10:50
a.m.-12:05 p.m. Monday and
Wednesday in Room 318 of
The campus chapter of
Enactus is partnering with the
company Unilever to create
an aquaponics production
system in the greenhouse west
of Koehler Cultural Center.
Members also will make
a garden to the north of the
aquaponics system, so they
can use the two in conjunction
as a small working system.
An aquaponics production
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in professional writing but there is no
concrete plan to confirm that courses
followed will earn him such a degree.
“I’m getting inconstancies across
the various campuses,” Guilbeau said.
“You’re going to lose and the rea-
son you’re going to lose is because a
bureaucracy will manage to the lowest
common denominator ... I wish you
luck, that’s all I’ve got to say.”
Elmore stressed that although the
senate had agreed on a proposal, it
doesn’t necessarily mean Leslie will
accept the proposal.
At the board meeting the night
before, a Palo Alto student tore up
his diploma to protest the removal of
majors from diplomas.
Reference Librarian Celita Avila
said the board did not want to have
those issues be discussed at the citi-
zens-to-be-heard segment.
“It should make you uncomfort-
able ... it should make all us feel
uncomfortable and angry,” Avila said.
“The house is on fire, people, now
what are we going to do about it?
“When the students and commu-
nity members show up for a board
meeting like after November and
December it’s a big embarrassment.
It’s a public PR nightmare for the
board of trustees.”
Connecticut Community-Technical
College System 1996-99, overseeing
a $200 million budget, 12 colleges
and 2,000 employees. He resigned in
1999 after college presidents didn’t
support his attempts to standardize
academics, according to an article
in the San Antonio Express-News.
He was chancellor of the
Houston Community College
System from October 2000 to June
2006, and oversaw a $200 mil-
lion budget for six colleges, 5,000
employees and 55,000 students per
semester. The article said Leslie
resigned from in 2006 after dis-
agreements with trustees.
Leslie has a doctorate in higher
education administration from the
University of Texas at Austin and
a bachelor of arts from Baldwin-
Wallace College in Berea, Ohio.
“You’re playing games, and we
are tired of this,” Perez said of the
chancellor’s current performance.
“We want lawyers, doctors,
nurses, teachers to come out of
Palo Alto. So cosmetology, agricul-
tural, gas and oil, and apparently
See RESIGN, Page 3
By Katherine Garcia
kgarcia203@student.alamo.edu
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Several students from Palo Alto
College’s chapter of the Student
Leadership Coalition expressed
discontent with Chancellor Bruce
Leslie and his stance on transfer
degrees listing no specific major
during the citizens-to-be-heard
portion of the regular board meet-
ing Tuesday in Killen Center.
Gilbert Perez, business man-
agement graduate of Palo Alto,
began by ripping his degree in half.
“That’s how I feel. You want to take
them away? There you go,” he said
Perez said faculty at Palo Alto
are “working together to take other
options to possibly replace the
chancellor.”
He said more Palo Alto students
would attend the next board meet-
ing to express their discontent with
Leslie, and “we should have this
room packed and outside.”
“You’ve failed at three other col-
leges. ... You’re failing us,” he said,
referring to Leslie’s employment
before joining the district in 2006.
Leslie was chancellor of
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but our fear that you are not aware of Alamo Colleges relative to degree
decisions that are being made that are completion and transfers.
going to affect you and that are going Although the Alamo Colleges’ has
to affect our community,” she said. five colleges, Northeast Lakeview
The need for a new proposal came College is not an accredited college
from the chancellor Feb. 2 when and so has separate circumstances,
he emailed a timeline along with The college will submit its next
a description of his proposal for a accreditation application March 6.
district process to come together to The committees also will look at
evaluate majors. whether majors impact completion
He gave faculty 48 hours to and transfers. Once this is completed,
respond to his proposal. a cross-college committee made up
Faculty Senate requested more of selected members of the college
time and responded Feb. 6 that committees will work with the vice
the plan was complete and will be presidents of academic success,
reviewed by the college presidents. This stage in the proposal will
On Feb. 11, the college presidents consist of sharing findings and rec-
decided that a district-level commit- ommendations, and offer a chance
tee would work better to define the for collaboration among the colleges,
problems with transfers, majors and After meeting with the vice presi-
degree completion and could con- dents, curriculum changes will follow
duct research. procedures for each college.
According to an email sent out District administration will be
by English Professor Dawn Elmore, able to provide solutions to prob-
president of Faculty Senate, the rea- lems, such as academic support ser-
son for a new proposal was presi- vices, information technology and
dents were hesitant to support the student support services.
original proposal in concern that Joe Guilbeau, a prospective stu-
Leslie would not want to look at a dent, said he would like to have an
“solutions-based” proposal. associate of arts with a concentration
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