This week Jeff Schnoor, top left, participates in a Student Activity Fee Committee meeting Oct. 12. Monica Correa @TheRangerSAC /ReadTheRanger Scan The Ranger Campus closes for holidays Alamo Colleges will be closed Thursday through Sunday for Thanksgiving and reopen Nov. 26. Offices at all district colleges will close Dec. 24 for winter break and will reopen Jan. 7. Classes for the spring semes- ter begin Jan. 22 after the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday Jan. 21. For more information, visit alamo.edu/calendars. Rebecca Salinas Last day to drop with W Tuesday Tuesday is the deadline for stu- dents to drop classes with a W. Students must meet with their course instructor to decide if drop- ping a course is best for them before the instructor can drop them from a course, David Rodriguez, director of counseling, said. Instructors can drop students only for exceeding the number of absences allowed by the college attendance policy. After the census date, students cannot drop courses using from their ACES account. “The reason for meeting with the instructor is because nobody wants students to drop classes unless it’s absolutely necessary,” he said. Rodriguez said when students meet with their instructor, they can discuss options, such as extra credit opportunities, to prevent the drop. If students are dropping all their courses for the semester, they must see a counselor, he said. “If a student is at the point where they’re dropping everything for the semester, many times there’s something significant going on other than just academics and we want to see if there is any assistance we can provide,” Rodriguez said. Although course drops do not affect a student’s GPA, they do affect financial aid, academic progress and the cost to repeat the courses, he said. A three-peat penalty charges out-of-state tuition for a course taken three or more times, and the six-drop rule allows only six dropped courses during a stu- dent’s undergraduate career. For more information, call the counseling center at 210-486-0333. Alma Linda Manzanares By JENNIFER LUNA [email protected]A student appointed to the Student Activity Fee Committee, which oversees the allocation of about $400,000 in student fees, shares the same name as a person with a criminal background that includes three convictions for theft, a felony conviction for burglary and one conviction for writing hot checks that resulted in a year in jail. The committee member, addic- tion counseling sophomore Jeff Schnoor, maintains he is not the person listed in Texas Department of Public Safety documents with 16 variations of the name and two birth- dates. “That’s another Jeff Schnoor,” he said Tuesday. He declined to provide a reporter his birth date and full name. After his appointment by the Student Government Association in early October, Schnoor told the committee Oct. 12 in introducing himself that he had been president of student governments at St. Philip’s College, Palo Alto College and the University of Maryland at College Park. The University of Maryland at College Park could find no record of a former student named Jeff Schnoor. No one at Palo Alto College could confirm his serving as a student gov- ernment president. In an interview Tuesday, Schnoor admitted that he had been student government president only at St. Philip’s, which he said was in 2003, and that he only helped student gov- ernments at College Park and Palo Alto. He said he would provide docu- ments from College Park, but had not done so by deadline. “I’ve helped over at Palo Alto and University of Maryland and some other colleges,” he said. A St. Philip’s dean of student suc- cess secretary confirmed by tele- phone Tuesday that Schnoor had been a student government presi- dent at St. Philip’s. Public records show that the person using a version of Schnoor’s name has had seven arrests dat- ing back to 1991 and as recently as March 16, 2012. This person served over a year in state prison. The arrests for theft were report- ed in Tom Green County. A mug shot obtained from the county sheriff’s office bears a strong resemblance to Schnoor. The first arrest was in 1991 for Class C theft of less than $50. The next arrest for this person was in 1992 for a Class B theft between $50 and $500, which resulted in three months probation. An arrest in 1996 for a person using his name was a first-degree felony for burglary of habitation of more than $200,000. The person using Schnoor’s name received 10 years probation. On Nov. 1, 1999, a person using one of the 16 versions of Schnoor’s name in DPS records was arrested for writing $2,688.77 in bad checks, pleaded guilty and was jailed for 457 days, according to records from the 119th Judicial District in Tom Green County. In September 2000, a person using Schnoor’s name was arrested in Tom Green County for unauthor- ized use of a vehicle. The most recent arrest for a per- son with a variation of that name was March 16, 2012, for driving with an invalid or suspended license in Tom Green County. See DISABLED, Page 4 See COMMITTEE, Page 4 By PAULA CHRISTINE SCHULER [email protected]Some mobility-chal- lenged students at this college have questioned whether moving the office of disability support services to the first floor of Moody Learning Center Aug. 1 serves their best interests. They complain of diffi- culties with access, an inad- equate cell phone signal in the office and a VIAtrans drop-off point that is often blocked by other vehicles and difficult to use in the rain. They say mobility issues with construction projects underway all over campus add to frustration. Education sopho- mores Mariana Solis and Meloday Magallanez, kine- siology sophomore Zachry Arambula and liberal arts sophomore Charlie Shivley at different times asked the same question, “Why did DSS have to move?” DSS moved to the first floor of Moody Learning Center Aug. 1 from the first floor in Chance Academic Center, a building designed for ease of access, to be near the office of veterans affairs. “I thought they were going to turn that place into something else,” Arambula said of the space in Chance. “I went by there (Chance Room 124) the other day,” he said. “It was just empty.” Solis, Magallanez and Shivley expressed puzzle- ment on why the office of veterans affairs was not able to move into Room 119 of Chance, near the old DSS office. Students and staff report cell phone service is poor in Moody with only two cell service providers with sig- nals reaching indoors to the DSS office spaces. On Aug. 1, DSS students met with Emma Mendiola, dean of student affairs, at their request. The content of the meeting remains confidential, except that it included location change concerns, Magallanez said. She quoted Mendiola responding to student con- cerns by saying, “I had to move my office too, and the paint wasn’t the paint I want- ed, but I dealt with it.” DSS assistant Delia De Luna attended the meeting and corroborated this quote. In an interview with Mendiola Nov. 7, Mendiola learned Magallanez inter- preted her comment as suggesting the paint on the walls was comparable to their challenges navigating campus with wheelchairs and canes. “There is no comparison, but yeah, I’m not going to make light of their abilities,” Mendiola said. “We have to find some place in the middle so they can do for themselves.” Mendiola said she has been working for Alamo Colleges for about 20 years and she spent her first three years in DSS. Her back- ground includes a master’s degree in social work. “I would never want to insult someone by assuming that they can’t do for them- selves,” she said. “That was one of the lessons they taught me when I worked in DSS.” Mendiola’s impression of the Aug. 1 meeting was that student questions and concerns were answered and students felt better when the meeting was done. She was surprised to learn the Magallanez had said later, “This campus seems to not give a crap about us.” Mendiola said Alamo Colleges wants to educate the whole student, not just the academic part of the stu- dent, but the whole person Disabled students frustrated with access Committee member denies arrest records Liberal arts sophomore Charlie Shivley and his wife, Sherrie, wait for a VIAtrans shuttle Wednesday east of Moody. Access for the shuttle is blocked by a district truck parked in the tow-away zone. 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This week
Jeff Schnoor, top left, participates in a Student Activity Fee Committee meeting Oct. 12. Monica Correa
Liberal arts sophomore Charlie Shivley and his wife, Sherrie, wait for a VIAtrans shuttle Wednesday east of Moody. Access for the shuttle is blocked by a district truck parked in the tow-away zone. Sergio Ramirez
For coverage in Calendar, call 210-486-1773 or e-mail [email protected] two weeks in advance.
Today
Deadline: Rental Returns deadline for
Fall/Flex is Dec. 18. Call 210-733-5960.
ACCD Registration: Open registration
for spring semester.
SAC Workshop: Adobe Illustrator spon-
sored by the student technology center 8
a.m.-9 a.m. in Room 542 of Moody. Call
210-486-0160
SAC Advising: Texas Lutheran 9 a.m.-
noon on the fi rst fl oor of Chance.
SAC Advising: Texas State 9 a.m.-noon
on the fi rst fl oor of Chance.
SAC Meeting: Student Government
noon-1 p.m. in craft room on Loftin.
Continues Mondays. Call 210-486-0133.
SAC Meeting: Men’s Bible study 1
p.m.-2 p.m. at the Church of Christ
Student Center, 301 W. Dewey. Continues
Mondays. Call 210-736-6750.
SAC Meeting: Parkour Club at 3 p.m.
in Gym 1 of Candler. Continues Thursdays.
Call 210-486-1023.
SAC Performance: Choir concert
sponsored by fi ne arts at 7:30 p.m. in
auditorium of McAllister. Call 210-486-
1030.
Tuesday
SAC Meeting: Campus Crusade for
Christ now called “Cru” 1:30 p.m. in
Room 004 of Chance Academic Center.
Continues Tuesdays.
Wednesday
SAC Meeting: Ladies Bible study
1 p.m.-2 p.m. at the Church of Christ
Student Center, 301 W. Dewey. Continues
Mondays. Call 210-736-6750.
SAC Meeting: Gay Ally and Lesbian
Association 3 p.m. in the faculty and staff
lounge of Loftin. Continues Wednesdays.
Call 210-201-4252.
SAC Meeting: San Antonio Immigrant
Youth Movement at 4 p.m. in Room 101
of Gonzales. Continues Wednesdays. Call
210 849-8066 or visit www.facebook.
com/saiym.sac.210.
Friday
Event: 23rd Annual International
Mercado de Paz Peace Market 10 a.m.-
6 p.m. at Esperanza Peace and Justice
Center, 922 San Pedro. Continues through
Friday. Call 210-288-0201 or visit www.
esperanzacenter.org.
Nov. 26
St. Mary’s Drive: Miracle on 36th
Street Toy Drive sponsored by campus
police department 7 a.m.-noon in con-
ference Room D in University Center.
Continues through Dec. 21. Call 210-
436-3668.
SAC Advising: Texas A&M University-
College Station 1 p.m.-4 p.m. on the fi rst
fl oor of Chance.
Nov. 27
ACCD Deadline: Last day to withdraw
for 14-week fall session.
SAC Advising: University of Incarnate
Word 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. on the fi rst fl oor
of Chance.
Nov. 28
SAC Advising: Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
9 a.m.-11 a.m. on the fi rst fl oor of Chance.
SAC Event: Foosball Tournament spon-
sored by student life 1 p.m.-2 p.m. in the
craft room of Loftin. Call 210-486-0128.
SAC Event: Teaching Academy Program
Peers speaker series: “What Can I Do
Today to be a Great Teacher Tomorrow?”
by Sylvia Lovelace, teacher for the San
Antonio Alliance, 1 p.m.-2 p.m. in Room
129 in Gonzales. Call 210-486-0658.
Nov. 29
Deadline: Fourth installment pay plan,
33 percent of tuition and fees due. Call
210-486-0201.
SAC Meeting: President’s Roundtable 2
p.m.-3:30 p.m. sponsored by student life
and student government in craft room of
Loftin. Call 486-0128.
SPC Event: Career TechED Expo 2012
sponsored by applied science and technol-
ogy division 4 p.m.-8 p.m. in building I at
Southwest Campus. Call 210-486-7015.
Nov. 30
Trinity Performance: Christmas
Concert sponsored by the music depart-
ment 7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m. in Laurie audi-
torium. Call 210-999-8212.
SAC Event: “Harvest the Empire” and
“Illegal Movie” screening sponsored by
San Antonio Immigrant Youth Movement 3
p.m.-5 p.m. in Methodist Student Center,
102 Belknap. Call 210-849-8066.
SAC Concert: Percussion Ensemble
sponsored by department of fi ne arts at
7:30 p.m. in the auditorium of McAllister.
Call 210-486-0255.
Dec. 4
Deadline: Last day to withdraw for fall
Flex 2 session.
Dec. 5
SAC Event: SAC holiday tree-decorating
celebration sponsored by student life 11
a.m.-1 p.m. in Loftin. Call 210-486-0128.
SAC Event: Snow Day sponsored by
student life 1 p.m.-3 p.m. in mall. Call
210-486-0128.
Dec. 7
SAC Event: National Cotton Candy Day
sponsored by student life 9 a.m.-1 p.m. in
Loftin. Call 210-486-0128.
Dec. 10
SAC Event: Final examinations for the
regular 16-week fall session. Continues
through Dec. 15.
Left: Nursing sophomore Edric Filpo asks Chancellor Bruce Leslie if more signs can be put up around campus where parking is available during Chat with the Chancellor Thursday in the faculty and staff lounge of Loftin. Leslie said Filpo would need to get in touch with Dr. Robert Vela, vice president for academic and student success. Riley Stephens
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Above: Liberal arts freshman Angela Winston and Victoria Estrada, who attend Travis Early College High School, win a shirt during National Distance Learning Week in the mall. The information booth was set up to give information to students about the online classes that this college provides. For more coverage, go online to theranger.org Monica Correa
Below: Kathy Ma, program specialist at UTSA’s Confucius Institute, helps liberal arts freshman Homer Sandoval into a king’s costume during a Chinese Culture presenta-tion Tuesday in Oppenheimer for International Education Awareness Week. The presentation included other activi-ties such as calligraphy, mask-painting and paper-cutting. Monica Correa
Left: Architecture freshman Jean Pierre jumps in and out of a 200- pound tire before executing 10 tire lifts Wednesday in the mall. Pierre attended different stations as part of a promotion for activities the kinesi-ology department offers in Candler. Vincent Reyna
Former student life director is considering legal representation.
Student life events will continue as planned.
Emily Kahanek
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Jorge Posadas at a men’s basketball game Feb. 11, 2009 File
Justin Wideman, biology sophomore and Student Government Association secretary, says survey results from Sweet Treats reveal students are happy with the number of campus police but are unhappy with administration during Pepsi with the President Nov. 8. Riley Stephens
Student Government Association asks for a budget increase to add two officer positions.
this district to get the first three days of spring
break off during the College Council meeting
Tuesday.
Luna said the Alamo Colleges are the only
colleges to be open three days of the week
classes do not meet for spring break.
“You could be more productive in a way that
a lot of people have to make special arrange-
ments and leave part of the time anyway for
their children,” Luna said. “A lot of the people
gone affects the work of the ones that are still
here.”
According to the academic calendar, all
administrative offices will be closed March
14-17. Classes are dismissed March 10-17.
In a phone interview Thursday, Dr. Adriana
Contreras, deputy to the chancellor, said
Thursday that the topic was discussed in the
presidents and vice chancellors meeting Nov.
12. She said the proposal was taken into consid-
eration and more research is being conducted.
Luna said in a phone interview Thursday
that she does not know when or if Leslie or the
Alamo Colleges board of trustees will make a
decision.
Zeigler said the staff in the Alamo Colleges
have fewer days off than the rest of peer dis-
tricts by three or four days.
“Taking this step and making this move will
put us in line with our peer colleges,” Zeigler
said. “I think it is a good proposal … It seems to
be a reasonable request.”
In other news, Zeigler said the college exec-
utive team is pleased with the placement of the
college seal on a base west of Moody Learning
Center.
The seal will be in a marble base with a
slanted top near the west entrance to Moody.
“Of course, all we need to do is figure out
how we’re going to pay for it,” Bill Richardson,
kinesiology and dance chair, said.
The two college seals on the college monu-
ment west of Gonzales and McCreless halls
on San Pedro Avenue were removed in April
after Alamo College’s logos were placed on top
of them in 2010. The other seal is on the wall
of the executive conference room in Fletcher
Administration Center.
In other news, allied health Chair Stella
Lovato said the Faculty Evaluation Committee
is going to delay the deadline for recommen-
dations for new full-time faculty evaluations
to Jan. 18. The evaluations are based on the
new full-time faculty job descriptions that were
passed at the Sept. 18 regular board meeting.
The committee is working with Dr.
Raoul Arreola, a consultant from the Faculty
Evaluation Resource Center, to determine new
standards to evaluate full-time faculty.
Lovato said chairs thought the evaluation
process was “moving too quickly and some
of the departments did not have time to ade-
quately work on it.”
Lovato said District Council of Chairs gave
the motion to Super Senate Friday and to Dr.
JoCarol Fabianke, interim vice chancellor of
academic success.
Dr. Dawn Elmore-McCrary, co-chair of the
Faculty Evaluation Committee, initially wanted
to have the evaluations done by the end of this
month.
In other news, Faculty Senate President
Larry Rosinbaum announced math Professor
Hoan Duong is this college’s Piper Professor
Nominee.
Rosinbaum said paperwork still needs
to be finished, but the citizens committee is
almost ready to turn in all paperwork to Minnie
Stevens Piper Foundation.
Nomination forms are due Nov. 21, and the
winner will be announced May 1.
Susan Espinoza, director of college and
grants development, said she wants people to
share interesting information with her about
Duong to make the presentation to the founda-
tion more interesting.
Jacob Wong, Student Government
Association president, said SGA is considering
Duong as an adviser. Criminal justice Professor
Tiffany Cox and English Professor Sharon Argo
are current SGA advisers.
In other news, College Council will not meet
in December because Zeigler said he did not
see a need for one.
For more information, call Project
Coordinator Robin Collett at 210-486-1956.
Susan Espinoza, director of college and grants development, asks for members to share informa-tion on math Professor Hoan Duong to contribute to his statewide nomination in the Piper Professor competition at College Council Tuesday in visual arts. Rebecca Salinas
Environment can determine success of study efforts
Adjunct’s book traces African-Americans’ military history
For more information on purchasing parking
permits and bus passes, call 210-486-0201.
Playland lot to continue offering parking reliefParking attendant Roy Ramirez helps to guide vehicles to the correct parking spaces Thursday, in the parking garage. Riley Stephens
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Communication design sophomore Jordan Anascavage takes out materials for his class Thursday in Lot 9 north of visual arts. Monica Correa
Note: Final exams for evening andweekend classes are given during classhours. Department chairs can schedulefinal exam dates that do not conform tothis schedule.
before, but we just don’t have the resources to put
boxes out in each department anymore,” Solis said.
Solis encourages other students and depart-
ments to donate.
“We used to donate to St. Vincent De Paul
Society, but now we donate all the food to the Phi
Theta Kappa food pantry,” Solis said.
If students or departments wish to donate,
there will be a box in the department office in
Room 238A in Nail Technical Center until Nov. 30.
The Catholic Student Association’s drive
through November is the third drive the group has
participated in this semester.
“For the month of November, we will distribute
evenly who we donate to, which is the San Antonio
Food Bank, SAC (Phi Theta Kappa) food pantry,
and the family that we adopted,” campus minister
Joseph Liedecke said Wednesday.
The association has been doing this for more
than 11 years, he said.
The November drive will be through with
boxes distributed throughout the campus and at
the Catholic Student Center, 312 W. Courtland
Place.
Boxes will be collected at the end of the month.
The association helped Student Government
Association and the office of civic engagement
with a food drive Nov. 12 and 13 in the mall.
The association also had a food drive last
month, “Trick or Treat so Others Can Eat,” that
brought in six large boxes of nonperishable food.
For more information from the mortuary sci-
ence department, call 210-486-1135.
For more information on the Catholic Student
Association, call Liedecke at 210-736-9306 or visit
https://orgsync.com/30743/chapter or www.arch-
sa.org.
For food pantry information, call 210-486-0431.
Groups work to fill upfood pantries
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Less than one box of food was collected for Student Government Association and Catholic Student Center food drive Tuesday in the mall. Nothing was collected Monday. Maura Callahan, SGA commissioner and communications sophomore; Mike Martinez, SGA vice president and anthropology sophomore; and criminal justice freshman Megan Halbardier pose for a photo taken by Catholic Campus Minister Joseph Liedecke. Monica Correa
Mummies of The World, The Exhibit at the Witte Museum Courtesy
Students are encouraged to donate food for two organizations.
This year’s communication design exhibition will be on dis-
play through March 8 on the second floor of Longwith Radio,
Television and Film Building.
Richard Arredondo, communication design program coordi-
nator, said the purpose of the exhibition is to display the work of
students in the program.
The exhibition, which opened with a reception Thursday, is
composed of hand-executed illustrations and computer-gener-
ated digital prints, Arredondo said.
Because the projects came from multiple communication
design classes, there were no specific guidelines.
Full-time and part-time faculty from the program selected
the 70 projects for the exhibition from more than 100 projects
submitted.
The projects on display were created by students in the com-
munication design program during the fall 2011 and spring 2012
semesters, Arredondo said.
The program, one of five in the media communications
department, provides animation, web and illustration courses,
Arredondo said.
The two-year program leads to an associate of applied sci-
ence degree, and students can also earn a Level 1 certificate that
provides basic training and skills through specific courses that
may lead to entry-level employment.
The program also offers an advanced skills certificate.
Graduates may find careers in publishing, art direction,
graphic design, illustration, animation, web design, multimedia
development, special effects, storyboarding, and advertising.
For information, call 210-486-1031.
Students show ingenuity in saving time, money
Nonperishable food items can be donated in Room 238A of Nail or in
collection boxes throughout campus through November.
Diamonds in the afterlifetion rate.
Websites for LifeGem,
DNA2Diamonds and Cremation
Solutions suggest a diamond would be
a kind of portable tombstone able to be
taken with survivors wherever they go.
They offer dozens of choices for
memorial jewelry for diamonds and
ashes, urns and FAQ pages for questions
about the process and other aspects of
cremation.
Questions, answers and comments
after the lecture were diverse.
The first audience member said she
had donated her body to science and
would never allow her family to have it.
Another talked about touring the
huge cemeteries on the East Side of San
Antonio.
“In the Texas Hill Country, there is a
Republican only cemetery,” Kearl said.
The audience responded with laugh-
ter as they did several times throughout
the presentation.
Kearl ended by saying, “It is a
democratization of the afterlife that is
happening now.”
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Less than one box of food was collected for Student Government Association and Catholic Student Center food drive Tuesday in the mall. Nothing was collected Monday. Maura Callahan, SGA commissioner and communications sophomore; Mike Martinez, SGA vice president and anthropology sophomore; and criminal justice freshman Megan Halbardier pose for a photo taken by Catholic Campus Minister Joseph Liedecke. Monica Correa
Communication design Professors Brook Rosser, Qing Liu and Joel Knocke set up the program’s student exhibit Nov. 9 in Longwith. Monica Correa
Exhibit displays 70 projects from multiple communication design classes.
Congratulations to the students at this college who received honors in the 2011-12 academic year.
In fall 2011, spring 2012 and summer 2012, 5,997 students received honors, and 267 of them participated in the annual honors ceremony Tuesday in the auditorium of McAllister Fine Arts Center.
Those students have excelled in their studies and put hard work and dedication into their aca-demics to receive such a high level of distinction.
Students received honors in four categories.President’s Honors are for students with 12 or
more semester hours in a semester and a grade-point average of 4.0 and cumulative GPA of 2.0.
Honors are for students with 12 or more semester hours with a GPA of 3.5-3.99 in with a
cumulative GPA of 2.0.President’s Part-time Honors are for students
with 6-11 semester hours and a GPA of 4.0 and cumulative GPA of 2.0.
Part-time Honors are for students with 6-11 semester hours and a GPA of 3.5-3.99 in the cur-rent semester with a cumulative GPA of 2.0.
These students excelled despite the chal-lenges most students face — too little money, too little time and too many distractions.
They did their best on assignments, turned them in on time and made their academic responsibilities a priority in their lives.
They serve as an example for others.Stay focused and finish this semester with
good grades so you can be eligible for next year’s honors ceremony.
Beginning in spring, incoming students will have to complete mandatory online modules before admission as part of MyMap, or My Monitoring Academic Progress, a stu-dent success initiative.
Modules include “Paying for College,” “I-CARE,” “Assessment Information” and “Test Preparation.”
Upon completion of the four modules, stu-dents will be required to take a quiz and are expected to score a minimum of 60 to pass each module.
A score of a 60 is the equivalent of a letter grade of a D minus, a grade most universities will not accept when students transfer.
To promote student success, the bar needs to be raised to a higher standard.
The modules teach basic skills that all first-time-in-college students need to know, so it’s important to make the experience accessible for students.
If students are expected to earn a 2.0 minimum GPA to transfer, the expectations should be the same for MyMap.
Kudos for honors
Raise expectations
Recognize adjunctsAdjuncts sometimes receive the short end
of the stick. When the district passed out raises to faculty for 2012-13, officials didn’t include adjuncts.
Then this year, administrators considered limiting adjuncts to teaching loads of 7.4 units or less to avoid the expense of contrib-uting to adjuncts’ retirement.
But now the Bob and Mary Zeigler Adjunct Faculty Professional Development Fund pro-vides recognition for the hard work adjuncts exhibit.
Part of the fund is the Èxito award, which gives $250 to one adjunct each semester who exhibits exemplary work.
The deadline to apply is Nov. 30.
Another part of the fund supports profes-sional development for adjuncts and con-tinuing education faculty at this college.
The fund allocates a total of $2,000 this year for professional development, and each award can be up to $250.
Professional development activities include workshops, conferences or seminars.
These awards are the few recognitions adjuncts qualify for.
Adjuncts are essential to this college.This college has 332 full-time faculty mem-
bers and 468 adjunct faculty members teach-ing this semester.
Adjuncts deserve every bit of financial encouragement they can get.
Guest Viewpoints: Faculty, staff, students and com-munity members are welcome to contribute guest viewpoints of up to 450 words.Writers should focus on campus or current events in a critical, per-suasive or interpretative style. All viewpoints must be published with a photo portrait of the writer.
Letters Policy: The Ranger invites readers to share views by writing letters to the editor. Space limitations force the paper to limit letters to two double-spaced, typewritten pages. Letters will be edited for spelling, style, grammar, libel and length. Editors reserve the right to deny publication of any letter. Letters should be mailed to The Ranger, Department of Media Communications, San Antonio College, 1300 San Pedro Ave., San Antonio TX 78212-4299.Letters also may be brought to the newspaper office in Room 212 of Loftin Student Center, emailed to [email protected] or faxed to 210-486-9292.Letters must be signed and must include the printed name and tele-phone number. Students should include classification, major, cam-pus and Banner ID. Employees should include title and telephone number. For more information, call 210-486-1773.Single Copy Policy: Members of the Alamo Community College District community are permitted one free copy per issue because of high production costs.Where available, additional cop-ies may be purchased with prior approval for 50 cents each by con-tacting The Ranger business office. Newspaper theft is a crime. Those who violate the single- copy rule may be subject to civil and crimi-nal prosecution and subject to college discipline.
Editor Alma Linda Manzanares
Managing EditorRebecca Salinas
Calendar EditorJennifer Coronado
Photo EditorRiley Stephens
Photographers Monica Correa, Vincent Reyna
Photo TeamGloria Fernandez De ClementsSergio Ramirez, Carolina Vela
Multimedia EditorIngrid Wilgen
Illustrator
Juan Carlos Campos
Production ManagerMandy Derfler
Production AssistantJason Hogan
Staff WritersCristina Carreon, Angelo Thomas Dixon, Chelsea Driskell
Lucia Espino, David Espinoza, Carlos Ferrand Edgar Garcia, Kirk Hanes, Jennifer Luna,
Mircofinance helps empower women in IndiaEmpowered women mean an empowered community, a Fulbright visiting scholar says.
“Women that join these groups also need the support of the men to be successful. Men are also benefiting from the success of the women in the program.”Trupti Biplabketan Jain,
Michigan State University Fulbright
visiting scholar
“Our way to discipline a child here in the center is redirection. If we want a child to walk and not run, we say, ‘Use your walking feet,’ instead of saying, ‘Stop running.’”
Teresa Robledo,early childhood center teacher
Fulbright scholar Trupti Jain from Michigan State University talks about microfinance and women in poverty in India Nov. 8 in nursing. Carolina Vela
Works in Progress set for Dec. 7Veteran and graduate Valentin Martinez
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Blue lights and colorful laser
beams brightened the Fiesta
Room of Loftin Student Center
while music blasted as student
models walked down the run-
way Wednesday for the seventh
annual fashion show.
The theme of the fashion show was
“San Antonio SAC in the City,” which Carrie
Hernandez, student life event coordinator, said
was a reference to the television series, “Sex in
the City.”
The fashion show was sponsored by the
office of student life and funded by the Student
Activity Fee Committee.
Hernandez helped students organize and
stage the show.
Student Government Association President
Jacob Wong, psychology sophomore, and SGA
commissioner Laura Belalcazar, criminal jus-
tice sophomore, emceed the show. SGA Vice
President Mike Martinez, anthropology sopho-
more, served as the DJ.
Belalcazar was the coordinator for the event,
which featured 14 student models, 10 females
and four males who auditioned in October.
Before the show, the female models fixed
their hair and makeup in the Fiesta Room, and
the male models got ready behind black drapes.
Some of the female models had makeup
applied by cosmetologist Cynthia Garza who
volunteered to help.
Biology sophomore Kim-Briana Lorine, who
is the Phi Theta Kappa president, was a model
in the show.
“It’s a fun event. I watched it last year and
thought I’d try out this year,” she said.
Most of the models had two business outfits
and two eveningwear outfits.
The first part of the fashion show was
dedicated to a contest hosted by Generations
Federal Credit Union.
The bank donated $20 to each model to
spend at Goodwill.
The models had to assemble an outfit suit-
able for business attire with the $20 budget,
and the winner would receive a free iPad from
Generations Federal Credit Union.
“You don’t have to spend a lot of money to
dress nice,” Kimberley Blohm, student brand
ambassador from the credit union, said.
As each model came out from the black
drapes and struck a pose, noise of the crowd
increased.
Business freshman Terrell Stewart walked
the runway in a black suit with a black and red
tie. The audience reacted with whistles as he
posed.
To choose the winner, Blohm asked for
the audience to
applaud for the
outfit they liked
best.
The mod-
els lined up on
the stage, and
Belalcazar asked
each one to step
forward.
The audience
replied with whis-
tles and applause
for all models, but one model, early childhood
sophomore Michelle Negrón, received more
applause than the others.
Negrón won the contest for business attire
she bought from Goodwill. She said many of
her family members told her that she should be
a model, and that’s why she decided to partici-
pate in the show.
Negrón wore a white blazer, black blouse
and white pants for her business attire.
Graduate Lizzie McDonald, who participat-
ed as a model in last fall’s fashion show, came to
show her support as a spectator.
“I had the most fun with the other girls, and
we rehearsed a lot,” she said.
McDonald described this year’s fashion
show atmosphere as glamorous, sassy and
exciting because of the decorations, music and
lasers.
Before the models came out in eveningwear,
students continued to line up outside the Fiesta
Room to gain entrance. Each student had to
sign a sign-up sheet for the student life office.
Many stopped at the refreshments table for
free lemonade and popcorn.
For the eveningwear portion of the show,
the female models wore dresses and the male
models wore suits.
The eveningwear was either the model’s
own clothing or
borrowed from
Arden B in North
Star Mall, Wong
said.
The store man-
ager of Arden B,
Amadilia Galindo,
also attended the
fashion show.
The female
models took turns
sitting on a cube
chair behind the drapes waiting for their turn
to walk.
When it was their turn, two male models
opened the drapes, and one held out his hand
and led the model to the runaway where she
showed off her dressy attire.
Three of the female models designed their
own dresses.
Education freshman Sierra Rose Solano and
liberal arts freshman Susan Maghami designed
black dresses, and business sophomore Sonya
Love created a mustard halter-top dress.
Each model posed with the four male models
who served as a backdrop, and Belalcazar play-
fully described them as the “girls’ accessories.”
As the show ended, the models posed for
photos by audience members.
Behind the black drapes, cookies cut as mar-
tini glasses, heels, shoulder bags, and shirts that
read “San Antonio SAC in the City” were pro-
vided for the models by the office of student life.
Wong referred questions about the cost of
the production to Hernandez, who could not be
reached Thursday.
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Nursing sophomore Nicole Herrera and business admin-istration freshman Karen Ibarra help Negrón get ready.
Liberal arts sophomore Jon Martinez stands vigil while business sophomore Sonya Love walks the runway Wednesday in the Fiesta Room of Loftin. Martinez helped the contestants step down during the fashion show.
Liberal arts freshman Gladymar Nieves walks a runway during a fashion show Wednesday. The office of student life sponsored the seventh fashion show “SAC in the City” in the Fiesta Room of Loftin.
Early childhood sophomore Michelle Negrón wins the seventh fashion show and an iPad while the runner-up, business administration freshman Karen Ibarra, cheers loudly.
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Story by Nicole A. West • Photos by Riley Stephens