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SCOBEE SHINES 7
WILDLIFE WORRIES 8-10
INSECURITY SYSTEM 13
The RangeRVol. 85 Issue 2 Single copies free Sept. 17, 2010
A forum of free voices serving San Antonio College since 1926
Banner troubles
REIGN
The Ranger 2 • Sept. 17, 2010
3 News Committee favors increase in parking permits Story by Laura Garcia
Photo by Julysa Sosa
4 Blotter Police start issuing parking citations Monday Story and Photo by Alison Wadley
5 News Cleary admits Banner security too strict Story by Zahra Farah
Photo by Julysa Sosa
6 Calendar
7 Premiere Planetarium will host a star party Saturday Story by J. Almendarez Art by Juan Carlos Campos
8 JSchool Travels Center focuses on public interest Story by Riley Stephens
9 Turtles avoiding shores Story by Riley Stephens
Photos by Alison Wadley and D.A.
James
11 Student ventures to Gulf Coast with video camera Story by Zahra Farah
12 Librarians move to cubicles Story by Melody Mendoza
13 Move-in blues continue in earth sciences Story by Jennifer M. Ytuarte
Photo by Tyler K. Cleveland
14 Editorials
15 Policies and officials
16 Premiere Grammy nominee heats up Loftin Story by Aaron Nielsen Photos by Tyler K. Cleveland
A forum of free voices serving San Antonio College since 1926The RangeR
This issueRecognized mover praised for service Story by Abiel
Rodriguez
Open mic night slideshow Photos by Dave Crockett
SAC night slideshow Photos by Tyler K. Cleveland
Print services closer to closing Story by Laura
Garcia
A great blue heron flies across Mobile Bay with a fish it has just caught Aug. 17 at Dauphin Island, Ala. See stories Page 8-11. Alison Wadley
Cover photo: Academic unit assistant Rosie Carreon of the music
department wears a T-shirt gift Sept. 10 to SAC Night at The Cove.
Adjunct Joaquin Abrego, a former student of the department, silk-
screened the T-shirt, which was presented to Carreon by the music
faculty, to thank her for her help navigating Banner. See “Registration
nightmare plagues returning student” online. Tyler K. Cleveland
GULFCOAST
A Series
Online
The Ranger Sept. 17, 2010 • 3News
By Laura Garcia
Parking permits might increase by as much as $65 beginning in January. On Tuesday, the Building, Grounds and Sites Selection Committee recommended a three- tiered parking structure and dis-missed the district staff’s recom-mendation to charge all students a $10 per semester increase to general fees to fund parking main-tenance and garage construction.
“I feel very strongly that this is a very bad idea,” committee Chair Gene Sprague said of the $10 gen-eral fee increase to all students regardless of whether they park in lots. He explained state legislators said that parking has to be paid strictly by user fees and cannot be lumped into general fees. “What would be the incentive for carpool-ing or riding the bus?” he said. “It doesn’t make any sense.”
Students who park on campus would still need to buy a $25 decal.
Committee members approved a substitute motion 3-1 with District 4 trustee Marcelo S. Casillas voting no.
The committee favored a stan-dard $30, select $60 and premier $90 tiered-parking permit system, which would allow students and employees who pay for premier parking to park in closer lots.
The change would bring in $470,000 in preventive mainte-nance annually with minimal impact this spring because most returning students will have paid for the annual permit this semes-ter. Trustees did not discuss the level of parking that would be avail-able to existing permit holders.
The increase also will fund a new parking garage within one to two years.
The idea came from a $60,000 parking survey approved by the board in January by consultants Lockwood, Andrews & Newnam Inc. of Bryan.
The survey compared Alamo
Colleges’ parking fees with Trinity University’s $70 rate and University of Texas at San Antonio’s non-garage rate of $80 and garage rate of $300-$500. The committee also discussed adding an automatic yearly increase.
Staff also recommended a tiered parking citation increase based on how early an offender pays the ticket. If approved, the rates would be $16 for early pay-ment, $21 for regular payment and $27 for late payments.
In a pre-s e n t a t i o n Tuesday by John Strybos, associate vice c h a n c e l l o r of facilities operation and construction management, he said 15 percent are paid late.
The board will consider the recommendations at its regular monthly meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday.
In the Academic Accountability and Student Success Committee meeting, trustees spent more than two hours on the registration debacle that affected thousands.
District 2 trustee, Denver McClendon, who does not serve on the committee, listened while committee members deliberated on why students who were purged from the system for nonpayment did not receive advance notice.
Some administrators and com-mittee members blamed students for not updating their contact information and others thought faculty could have contacted stu-dents enrolled in canceled classes.
Trustees questioned whether there was a system in place for notifying students that they risk being purged from all classes.
“I could say a whole lot,” McClendon said, explaining that many students who were affect-ed are exposed to the district for the first time, and his concern is
the students who were lost in the process. “I’m assuming that there are some students that just walked away,” he said. “I don’t think it was the students’ fault.”
He said he was concerned about community college students already being a vulnerable popu-lation, and the district, in many cases, threw roadblocks in the way.
A number of students did give up, officials admitted. However, that figure was not provided by Dr. Thomas Cleary, vice chancellor for
planning, per-forming, per-formance and i n f o r m a t i o n systems, and Dr. Adelina Silva, vice chancellor for student suc-cess. Cleary
said students drop for a variety of reasons, including that they “want a schedule based on convenience.”
District 1 trustee Joe Alderete Jr., who is not on the committee, said the two figures that can be used to determine the measure of success are the total number enrolled and the number who decided not to enroll this semester.
Chancellor Bruce Leslie touted a registered enrollment of “more than 63,000 students, which achieved our 5.5 percent growth target” in an opinion piece pub-lished by the San Antonio Express-News. Last year, enrollment was celebrated at a record 60,366.
Committee member Roberto Zárate said he wanted a figure excluding dual-credit students so
the board can get an indication of
how many students are actually
walking through the doors. He said
he didn’t want the vice chancellors
to speculate but to send a report
when it’s available.
Cleary reported that registra-
tion would be better in about 60
days, but not all of the trustees
were convinced.
District 7 trustee Blakely
Fernandez, who doesn’t serve on
the committee, said Cleary and the
vice chancellors are always giving
the same presentation “but you
finally convinced me that you don’t
have it under control.”
She questioned whether some
of the issues couldn’t have been
resolved with better planning and
she said it seems as if a lot of the
obstacles are things that the dis-
trict knew about months ago. “So
why are we surprised when that
collision is happening?”
Fernandez said the district
should have known there would be
an issue syncing ApplyTexas.
Silva explained earlier in the
meeting that there were discrep-
ancies because of differing con-
tact information, and staff worked
sometimes six days a week trying
to push applicants through.
Fernandez questioned whether
there was enough communication
between front line workers and
those making decisions.
Silva reported receiving only 61
calls of complaint, while Fernandez
suggested switching numbers with
her because she heard many more
complaints. “It seemed like there
were a lot of pieces bubbling under
the surface,” Fernandez said.
Cleary said he estimates it will
be nearly two years before every-
thing is stable, but it will get better.
“I don’t think spring registration is
going to be perfect,” he said.
Dr. Gene Sprague, District 6
trustee, said if the old system had
been used, “my guess is we would’ve
had the same lines or longer.”
Palo Alto College President Ana
“Cha” Guzmán said there were
many registration problems this
fall semester, but “we tried to do
too many things at one time and
we underestimated the impact on
the services to students.”
All of the trustees were present
at the committee meetings, which
lasted until nearly 11 p.m. at the
Killen Center.
Committee favors increase in parking permits
“You finally convinced me that you don’t have it under control.”
Blakely FernandezDistrict 7 trustee
4 • Sept. 17, 2010 The Ranger
Tip of the week
Fact: In 2008, 157 thefts were reported on this
campus, 48 at Northwest Vista College, 41 at Palo Alto College and 78 at St.
Philip’s College.
“Never leave your belongings
unattended. Carry your items with you or have someone
you know watch them,” Sgt. Ben Peña said.
For more informationabout parking permits,
visit the bursar’s website at http://www.alamo.edu/sac/sacmain/bursar/bursar.htm.
SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE
Sept. 2 — Individual reported
being injured. EMS treated indi-
vidual.
Individual reported a suspi-
cious male in McCreeless Hall.
Criminal trespass warning issued
to the male.
Sept. 4 — Individual reported
a disturbance in the parking lot
involving an area bar patron and
the security officer.
Sept. 7 — Individual reported his
bag with medications was stolen
in Nail Technical Center. No
suspects.
Individual reported a vehicle
blocking handicap parking spots.
Sept. 10 — Individual reported
a student had stolen food from
Loftin.
Individual reported her purse
was stolen in Chance Academic
Center. Purse located but money
was missing.
Individual reported a male hav-
ing a seizure. EMS treated the
male.
NORTHEAST LAKEVIEW
COLLEGE
Sept. 7 — Individual reported
graffiti on campus property in
the Commons building.
Sept. 8 — Individual reported an
animal complaint. No injuries
reported.
Sept. 10 — Individual reported
driving while license was sus-
pended.
NORTHWEST VISTA COLLEGE
Sept. 7 — Individual reported
suspicious activity in Huisache
Hall.
PALO ALTO COLLEGE
Sept. 7 — Individual reported a
suspicious person in Performing
arts building.
Sept. 9 — Individual reported
burglary of a vehicle.
Sept. 10 — District property was
reported missing from campus
police office.
ST. PHILIP’S COLLEGE
Sept. 7 — Disturbance was
reported in the science building.
Sept. 8 — A vehicle burglary was
reported.
Sept. 9 — A missing person was
reported.
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ContaCt InfoEmergency222-0911
General DPS485-0099
Weather Line485-0189
Theft prevention
Unattended backpack
in Loftin, Sept. 8.
Julysa Sosa
By Alison WAdley
Beginning Monday, campus police will start
issuing parking citations to vehicles without park-
ing permits parked in Alamo Colleges’
parking lots.
Parking permits can be obtained
at the business office in Room 201 of
Fletcher Administration Center. The
cost is $25 for students and employees,
and only cash is accepted.
Citations will be issued for students
parking in faculty-only lots, unauthor-
ized parking in handicapped spaces,
and parking in red fire lanes and
undesignated parking areas.
The fine for a parking violation on
campus is $15 and increases to $22
after 10 days from the date issued.
The permit price will decrease to
$15 in spring and then to $10 in sum-
mer because permits are valid for the
fiscal year, Sept. 1 through Aug. 31.
Students need to complete a vehicle registration
form, which includes Social Security or Banner ID
number and the make, model, year and license plate
number of the vehicle.
Parking permits are to be placed above the
inspection sticker on the lower driver side of the
front windshield.
Because of long registration lines at the busi-
ness office, Mary Hall, chief bursar
of Alamo Colleges, decided to delay
issuing the parking permits until
Sept. 7.
That created a new round of long
lines at the business office.
While waiting in line, economics
sophomore Edward Ortiz said, “Why
can’t we get parking online? We can
do everything else online.”
Hall said students were unable
to pay online because Market Place,
the system faculty and staff use
to pay for permits online, will not
access student accounts in ACES to
allow payment to be deducted from
financial aid.
She said the process will prob-
ably change next year to allow stu-
dents to pay online, but they will be paying out of
pocket.
For more information, visit www.alamo.edu/
sac/sacmain/bursar/Bursar.htm.
Police start writing tickets Monday
Nursing freshman
Jessica Anthony pur-
chases a parking per-
mit from accounting
clerk Elizabeth Klebahn
Sept. 10 at the busi-
ness office in Fletcher.
Alison Wadley
NewsThe Ranger Sept. 17, 2010 • 5
By Zahra Farah
Security for Banner/Student
Services registration system was
too strict and did not allow enough
access for faculty to help students,
the project director said Sept. 1.
Dr. Thomas Cleary, vice
chancellor for planning, perfor-
mance and information systems,
responded to anger expressed in
a Faculty Senate meeting about
being expected to counsel students
academically with limited access
to records. More access could have
relieved long lines at counseling
and admissions and records, sena-
tors argued.
Cleary told The Ranger Sept.
8 that few people had access to
the highest level of security unlike
with the older registration system,
Passport. The widespread access,
however, Cleary said caused data
corruption because of program-
ming problems. “I’m not blaming
employees,” he said.
In a June report, the district’s
internal audit department criti-
cized weak system security and
data corruption such as incorrect
student information and students
missing prerequisites or required
courses like student development.
A Student Information System
Plus Security Process and Controls
Review from July 31, 2009, said,
“The current control environ-
ment does not appear adequate
to safeguard the regulatory desig-
nated sensitive student data due in
part to using SSNs (Social Security
numbers) for student identifica-
tion, and to not logging or moni-
toring the use of inquiries.”
Pat Major, district director of
internal audit, said logging software
has been purchased for Banner.
In 2008, a student financial ser-
vice employee used a supervisor’s
operator ID to commit financial
aid fraud of $2,700. The student
used a supervisor’s login to remove
an academic suspension to be
rewarded back aid. The fraud was
resolved, but took time to detect.
The student gained access
when the supervisor left for lunch
without logging off Passport, which
did not include a timed logout.
Major said supervisors need to
communicate to employees rules
such as logging off or they will
never know if they broke any rules.
Two faculty members accessed
student information for nonedu-
cational purposes, according to the
audit. In 2005, a breach of confi-
dential records was used to harass
a Palo Alto College student.
The report said it was “imprac-
tical for one employee” to monitor
databases for each of the five col-
leges and one for district. Banner is
one database for everything.
The audit recommended for
Banner “implementing a con-
tinuous communication plan
for employees regarding access
changes and ongoing reviews of
security levels to avoid creating
negative perceptions.”
The idea was to develop a “sand
box” or duplicated system with
dummy data. Employees could
have been trained with the dupli-
cated system to learn how to get
accustomed to the new software.
District did not follow this
advice.
Senators questioned if limited
control meant district administra-
tors didn’t trust chairs.
Cleary said, “I’m discouraged
to hear that faculty thinks we don’t
trust them. I don’t want them to
think we don’t trust them. We trust
them more than anything.”
He said it wasn’t about trust,
but about security and data effi-
ciency, a reaction to audit criti-
cism. “I don’t think anyone thinks
faculty would do something mali-
ciously,” he said. High security is
to prevent mistakes made in one
portal from affecting all five college
portals.
Cleary said he’s been gathering
feedback on problems for chang-
es for the next registration cycle.
“We can’t go to the past where the
employees had too much access.”
He said, “We now need to have
more openness so students and
faculty can do their job.”
He said the system did not
make mistakes, for example, in
dropping paid students. “It’s rule-
based software; it did what it was
configured to do,” he said, adding
that it did not accommodate stu-
dents’ situations.
Part of the problem was pro-
gramming and running out of time.
Students with 15 hours or fewer
are required to take a student
development course. They were
told before registering that they
would have to take the class. Cleary
said because there is no opt-out,
12,000 incoming students at the
five colleges are taking student
development classes.
Banner is set up to prohibit
a student from registering for a
course without the prerequisite
courses and skill levels.
Students’ summer transcripts
were not transferred into the new
system, so a prerequisite met since
May did not show up in Banner.
“It was not converted in the
summer, just wasn’t there,” he said.
“That won’t happen again going
forth with the new system because
it will already be in there.” Data
conversion of students’ academic
history will happen by the end of
this month, he said.
Cleary said students whose
transcripts the district had failed
to input in time could enroll. The
Center for Student Information,
which opened late, was behind
schedule from the first day. About
800 transfer students were waiting
on transcripts to be input.
Cleary said the whole district
was affected by state cuts. “This
hurt gearing up with registration
because we did not have person-
nel,” he said. Nor were temporary
employees hired.
A lot of students were dropped
because sections were canceled.
Students’ financial aid was with-
drawn when hours dropped and if
it was on a purge day, they lost all
their courses.
He said drastic improvements
would be made before spring reg-
istration. “Maybe not perfect, but a
lot better,” he said
At Tuesday’s Academic
Accountability and Student
Success Committee, District 7
trustee Blakely Fernandez chas-
tised Cleary for his repeated board
reports that Banner installation
would be difficult but under con-
trol. “You finally convinced me it’s
not under control. This is a mess,”
she said.
A tense silence followed before
she added, “We need to fix what we
can get under control.”
Cleary reports to the board on Banner problems Tuesday. Julysa Sosa
Cleary admits Banner security too strict
The Ranger 6 • Sept. 17, 2010 Calendar
Today
SAC Music: Live in Loftin music series
featuring Grupo Kilombo 11 a.m.-1 p.m. in
the Fiesta Room of Loftin. Call 486-0125.
SAC Lecture: Raul Ramos, historian
and author of “Beyond the Alamo,” 11
a.m.-11:50 a.m. in Room 218 of the nurs-
ing complex. Call 486-0673.
SAC Event: Constitution Day 2010
panel discussion 9 a.m.-noon in Room
120 of visual arts. Call 486-1009.
SAC Event: Video gaming 1:30
p.m.-3:30 p.m. in Cyber Cafe of Loftin.
Continues Fridays. Call 486-0125.
Exhibit: “Between the Leaves” with Roy
Pitman 5:30 p.m.-8:30 p.m. at Bihl Haus
Arts, 2803 Fredericksburg. Call 383-9723.
Saturday
SAC Event: Job and Homebuyer Fair
sponsored by the services for women and
nontraditional students 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at
the empowerment center, 703 Howard.
Call 486-0455.
PAC Event: Harlandale Cultural Arts
Fair and Parade at 9:15 a.m. at Roosevelt
and Huizar ending at a fair at Memorial
Stadium, 4002 Roosevelt. Call 989-4355.
Monday
SAC Transfer: Texas State University-
San Marcos 11 a.m.-3 p.m. in the transfer
center. Call 486-0864.
SAC Transfer: Our Lady of the Lake
University 9 a.m.-2 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.-6
p.m. on first floor of Chance. Call 486-
0864.
SAC Lecture: Film producer Ray
Sanisteban 9 a.m.-9:50 a.m. in Room
101 of Longwith. Call 486-0681.
SAC Meeting: Cheshyre Cheese Club 3
p.m. in Room 100 of Gonzales. Continues
Mondays. Call 486-0125.
SAC Meeting: Astronomy Club 1 p.m.-2
p.m. in Room 111 of chemistry and geol-
ogy. Call 486-0063.
SAC Event: Rock Band Extravaganza
sponsored by Catholic Student Association
11 a.m.-1 p.m. in the Fiesta Room of
Loftin. Call 736-3752.
SAC Exhibit: “Trace Elements” photog-
raphy exhibit, an official Fotoseptiembre
USA event, reception 4:30 p.m.-6:30 p.m.
in visual arts. Call 486-1030.
SAC Lecture: “Autobiography in Fiction”
with Keith Carter. Reception 4:30 p.m.-
6:30 p.m. in visual arts. Lecture at 7 p.m.
in McAllister. Call 486-1034.
NLC Event: “Bath Salt Making 101”
noon-1:15 p.m. in Room 135 of commons.
Continues Tuesday. Call 486-5404.
Tuesday
SAC Meeting: Chemistry Club 4:40
p.m.-5:40 p.m. in Room 100 of chemistry
and geology. E-mail [email protected].
SAC Event: “Cooking With Mama” with
Esther Morales Liedecke at 12:15 p.m. in
the craft room of Loftin. Call 736-3752.
SAC Intramurals: Flag football 1:30
p.m.–4 p.m. at San Pedro Springs Park.
Continues Wednesday. Call 486-0125.
Wednesday
SAC Transfer: Texas A&M University 9
a.m.-noon on first floor of Chance. Call
486-0864.
SAC Transfer: Texas A&M University-
San Antonio 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. by
appointment in the transfer center. Call
486-0864.
SAC Lecture: “Wellness — Making the
Case for Sleep” with Robert Gonzalez
of the Sleep Institute of San Antonio 11
a.m.-noon in the craft room of Loftin. Call
486-0125.
SAC Event: “Dream Act Awareness Day:
Immigration Issues, Financial Aid and the
Dream Act” sponsored by Students United
for the Dream Act with Marisol Perez and
Luis Figueroa 10 a.m.-2 p.m. in the Fiesta
Room of Loftin. Call 486-0651.
SAC Event: Antojitos Festival showcas-
ing lowrider cars and performance by
Mariachi Herencia Mexicana 11 a.m.-2
p.m. in the mall. Call 486-0125.
Thursday
SAC Transfer: University of the
Incarnate Word 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m. and
4 p.m.-6:30 p.m. on first floor of Chance.
Call 486-0864.
SAC Lecture: “Rediscovering Mexican-
American Religious Art” by Richard
Arredondo 12:15 p.m. in the Catholic
Student Center, 312 W. Courtland. Call
736-3752.
SAC Event: Leadership Forum spon-
sored by student life 1 p.m.-3 p.m. in the
craft room of Loftin. Call 486-0127.
SAC Intramurals: Flag football 1:30
p.m.-4 p.m. at San Pedro Springs Park.
Call 486-0125.
SPC Music: Azul Electrica 11:30 a.m.-
12:30 p.m. in cafeteria at Southwest
Campus. Call 486-2625.
Calendar Legend
SAC: San Antonio CollegeNVC: Northwest Vista CollegeSPC: St. Philip’s CollegeSWC: Southwest CampusPAC: Palo Alto CollegeNLC: Northeast Lakeview College
For coverage, call 486-1773 or e-mail [email protected] two weeks in advance.
The Ranger Sept. 17, 2010 • 7
By J. AlmendArez
Scobee Planetarium, in col-
laboration with the San
Antonio League of Sidewalk
Astronomers, will be hosting
the semester’s first star party from 7
p.m.-10 p.m. Saturday in parking Lot
21, in honor of the first worldwide
International Observe the Moon Night.
The league will provide about a dozen
telescopes available for the public.
This event will coincide with
Jupiter’s close pass by the Earth.
The planet is 588.5 million kilome-
ters from Earth in comparison to its
furthest distance at 968.1 million kilo-
meters.
It will be almost as bright as Venus,
reaching its closest to Earth on Sept. 21.
Parking Lot 21 is between the plane-
tarium and Candler Physical Education
Center. The party is free to the public.
In August, Scobee Planetarium
became one of the first planetariums
in Texas to install Digistar 4, the latest
in planetarium theater technology to
enhance the visual and audio aspects of
the planetarium experience.
Planetarium Coordinator Bob Kelley
said, “It allows us to recreate the night
sky in a very attractive way.”
This semester, the planetarium
added new shows, “Violent Universe:
Catastrophes of the Cosmos” and “Tales
of the Maya Skies.”
“Violent
Un i v e r s e”
explores the
possibilities
of interga-
lactic col-
lisions and
debris that
threaten the
existence of
life on Earth. It shows at 7:45 p.m. today.
No children under the age of 6 will be
admitted.
“Maya Skies” is an educational pro-
Planetarium hosts star party Saturday
duction about the Mayan culture
and its contribution to astronomy.
It is the most expensive show the
Scobee Planetarium has purchased,
costing $12,000 in part because it’s
the first show to have an audio track
available in Spanish.
This feature isn’t available yet
because the planetarium is still
working out a schedule for Spanish
show times.
The show can be seen in English,
for now, at 9 p.m. today. No children
under 6 will be admitted.
The planetarium will continue to
show its children’s production, “The
Little Star That Could” at 6:30 p.m. today for
children 4 and older.
It follows an animated story of a sun and
the creation of the solar system and galaxies.
No admittance is allowed to any show
after it has started.
While the shows are expensive to pro-
duce, Kelley says that the planetarium hopes
to “serve as a community resource and edu-
cational resource for the distribution and
knowledge of astronomy.”
District students have free admission
with ID.
For more information about Scobee
Planetarium, visit the website at http://www.
alamo.edu/sac/ce/scobee/.
Tickets for shows are $2 for children 4-17, $5 for adults 18-54 and $3 for senior citizens 55 and older.
Juan Carlos Campos
Scobee Planetarium gets top-of-the line upgrade.
Premiere
8 • The Ranger JSchool Travels
Donations will be used to rebuild habitats.
Oil on troubled waterCenter focuses public interest
CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
By Riley StephenS
MOSS POINT, Miss. — Oiled birds and
turtles have been found on beaches along
the Gulf in Louisiana and Mississippi. The
animals that survive are taken to rehab cen-
ters for cleanup and recovery before being
released into a safe environment. Autopsies
are performed on the less fortunate.
Volunteers and wildlife organizations
in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi
and Texas are monitoring the natural habi-
tats along the Gulf Coast.
The organizations have been monitor-
ing effects of the Deepwater Horizon explo-
sion and spill April 20 on shoreline habitats
and fisheries.
Volunteers at the Gulf Volunteer
Response Center in Moss Point, Miss., have
been answering calls from people who
want to help after the April oil spill and
are unsure how. Volunteers said they have
received hundreds of calls since the spill
from people all over the United States.
People can donate by signing in to
the online membership at the Audubon
Society website or calling the response cen-
ter directly. “The money will be used to
help rebuild local natural habitats,” com-
munication coordinator Finley Hewes said
Aug. 16.
Hewes gives information to media when
they call the center. The Gulf Volunteer
Response Center is working with the
Audubon Society to set up a place for peo-
ple to call if they have questions about the
oil spill in the Gulf.
The volunteers give callers the option
of making online monetary donations and
provide phone numbers if an injured or
A volunteer of Share the Beach helps a newly hatched sea turtle Aug. 4 emerge from its shell.
Courtesy of Share the Beach
A dozen rescued baby sea
turtles are isolated in a tub
with sand before moving
them. Courtesy of Share the
Beach
Stephanie Wright, marine educator for
Dauphin Island Sea Lab and volunteer
for Share the Beach, shows the skull
of a sea turtle Aug. 19 at the lab in
Alabama. Alison Wadley
From top, water tower,
recently dug up turtle egg,
entrance to Estuarium,
Dr. Sean Paul Powers of
Estuarium Sea Lab. D.A.
James
GULFCOAST
A Series
Jonas Stewart, Angela Stewart and chil-
dren Eleanor, 10 months, and Olivia, 4,
visit the Estuarium on Dauphin Island
Aug. 17. D. A. James
Sept. 17, 2010 • 9JSchool Travels
By Riley StephenS
DAUPHIN ISLAND, Ala. — Turtles have
been scarce this summer, and scientists at the
George F. Crozier Estuarium at the Dauphin
Island Sea Lab do not understand why.
“The number of turtles returning to
the island has dropped, and studies have
shown turtles will not beach because they
feel a change in the water,” said marine
educator Stephanie Wright with the
Discovery Hall Program, a summer minor-
ity internship. Wright said scientists on the
island are unsure why the turtles are not
returning.
“There are a number of reasons why
the turtles are not returning to the island.
It could be oil in the water, a change in
temperature, or too many people on the
beaches. We just don’t know,” Wright said.
As part of the sea lab on Dauphin
Island, Wright educates students in grades
K-12 on the estuary system in and around
Alabama in summer camps, helping stu-
dents to understand how sea animals and
the ecosystem live together.
Oil on troubled water
Turtles avoiding shores
CONTINUED ON PAGE 10
A volunteer of Share the Beach helps a newly hatched sea turtle Aug. 4 emerge from its shell.
Courtesy of Share the Beach
Volunteers of Share the Beach dig out newly hatched
sea turtles Aug. 4 on Dauphin Island. Courtesy of
Share the Beach
Specimens await evaluation at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. D. A. James
Technician Sarah Muffelman counts and identifies fish larvae using a dissecting
microscope at the Dauphin Island Sea Lab. D. A. James
Scientists are researching sea turtles to see if oil is keeping
them from laying eggs.
10 • Sept. 17, 2010 The Ranger
oiled animal is found.
“People can donate by signing in to the online member-
ship at the Audubon website or calling the response center
directly. The money will be used to help rebuild local natural
habitats,” Hewes said.
Volunteers do not
encourage people to go
out and touch or handle
any of the oil in the gulf.
“There are many organi-
zations that are working
to clean up the oil and
they are more equipped
to handle the oil,” Hewes
said.
“What’s really tough
is the number of people
who want to help, but
we just don’t have the
number of volunteers to
answer the phones,” vol-
unteer Laura Wilfong said.
Hewes said he did not have the total number of volun-
teers at the center.
“I just hope nobody believes that the oil is truly gone,”
Hewes said. He said it is going to take a long time to estimate
the total damage of the oil. “We still don’t know what will
happen to the wildlife habitats in the future. We have to do
surveys to learn what effects the oil has caused,” Hewes said.
For more information log on to www.audubon.org.
The sea lab educates students on the water
and the animals that live in it.
Scientists at the sea lab on Dauphin Island
are testing the water in the estuary system.
As part of Discovery Hall, a summer program
at the sea lab, graduate students from colleges
in and around Alabama research the estuaries
and test plankton in the water to see if any oil
is found.
The water samples from the April 20 oil spill
have not been tested in any labs because they
are waiting for permission from BP.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is con-
cerned about 38 species of wildlife around the
Gulf states protected under the Endangered
Species Act of 1973, including the loggerhead
sea turtle.
Wright said every summer the loggerhead
sea turtles go to the Dauphin Island beach to lay
about 100 eggs.
“Lately, because of the hot climate, the
turtle eggs seem to be hatching in 49 days rather
than 60 days,” Wright said. The eggs have been
hatching earlier than usual because of the high
temperature of the sand.
“We relocate the turtle eggs so that they
can’t get trampled on and also so that they are
out of the way of the construction workers – BP
– when they try to do their jobs,” she said.
She said the volunteer organizations, such as
Share the Beach, are working closely with BP to
make sure that no turtle nests are destroyed. For
example, when the BP crews use their tractors
to clean the oil off the beaches, a turtle volun-
teer group rides in front of the tractor to show
where the turtle nests are.
She said the eggs were relocated along the
beaches of northwest Alabama. Wright said
the number of turtle nests that have appeared
around the island has been less than 10. They
expected to see at least 20.
She said only about 0.01 percent of sea tur-
tles make it back to the beach to lay their eggs.
She said she hopes more turtles will lay
their eggs on the beaches because it helps her
research and increases the population.
For more information on Dauphin Island
sea turtles, visit www.disl.org.
Public: Hundreds call to offer help Continued from Page 8
Turtles: Volunteers rescuing eggs Continued from Page 9
Houses on Dauphin Island.
Photos by D.A. James
Technician Crystal Hightower
examines an otolith, ear bone,
of a red drum, to determine
the age of the fish. Hightower
counts the rings, which are
similar to tree rings. With this
information, she can estimate
the length and weight of the
fish.
JSchool Travels
Crawl track marks of a sea turtle on Sand
Island near Dauphin Island June 23. Courtesy
of Share the Beach
Communications coordina-
tor of Audubon Volunteer
Response Center, Finley
Hews Jr., talks about the
society’s mission.
The Ranger Sept. 17, 2010 • 11JSchool Travels
By Zahra Farah
Ben Fetterman planned to document his
experience as a volunteer cleaning up oil along
the Gulf shores. Little did he expect he would be
entering the world of investigative journalism
and documenting the financial well-being of
people whose lives depend on the Gulf shores.
When BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig explod-
ed April 20, killing 11 men and releasing more
than 200 million of gallons of oil into the Gulf
of Mexico, Fetterman was at an accounting firm
doing taxes. “I was sitting in my cubicle, and I
couldn’t sit there anymore,” the University of
Pittsburgh senior said in a telephone interview.
Fetterman had reasons he couldn’t sit and
wait for news to come to him. “The Gulf shore is
home to me,” he said.
Fetterman’s grandparents, who are originally
from Philadelphia, bought land in Fort Morgan,
Ala., 40 years ago so the family could meet every
summer. “As long as I have been on this planet,
I have never missed a summer down there,”
Fetterman said.
This year was a different story. Every sum-
mer his family had a two-week reunion, but this
year, no one showed up because of the spill.
“It was personally upset-
ting to my family and me,”
Fetterman said.
Second, he wanted to
fully grasp what happened
in the Gulf. “I was in high
school when Hurricane
Katrina hit, and it changed
my opinion on the world
and government,” he said.
He didn’t want his-
tory to repeat itself. “The
response was slow,” Fetterman said. “There was
lying and indecisiveness.”
What troubled him the most was if “dirt
would be brushed under the carpet.” This moti-
vated him to see the situation for himself.
Fetterman was concerned over the lack of
coverage and aid to the South. “Less value is put
on the South because it’s not a big city or eco-
nomically enticing like New York,” Fetterman
said. “When a disaster happens, it’s easier to
brush off.”
On July 27, 12 days after the well was capped,
Fetterman journeyed back to Fort Morgan.
He trekked through the Gulf Coast in his
step-grandfather’s car and a digital video cam-
era. His initial plan was to record his experience
as a volunteer cleaning animals and beaches,
but he found out most volunteers had to be
from the state.
As a finance major, Fetterman switched his
focus to the economic problems facing locals
of the Gulf Coast. Fetterman documented his
findings at his blog, http://savingthegulfcoast.
blogspot.com, and planned to make a docu-
mentary with his video. “One thing you have
to understand about these beach towns is they
rely on their summers to get them through the
year,” he said.
Fetterman said unlike Hurricane Katrina,
the Gulf does not have outlets for people to
donate because it’s not a natural disaster. “BP
says they can handle it.”
Fetterman said to understand the pulse of
the situation, he was going to have to get a
sense of what the average
person was going through
environmentally. “It forced
me to not go where I was
told and gave me a chance
to explore,” he said.
He went out to compare
closed beaches with open
beaches. “I was kicked out
of one of the ports on Fort
Morgan that were closed
to the public,” he said. The
little opportunity he had to look at the beach,
he saw no visible signs of oil. Fetterman said
the problem is no one understands what they
are dealing with because all the oil sank to the
bottom of the ocean.
He said real estate agents are renting beach
homes saying the water is safe, and families are
taking their kids in the water and going crab-
bing at night.
They are unaware if the water is affecting
them. “What are Realtors going to do three to
five years from now when the families put two
and two together and realize they are sick from
the water?” he said.
Fetterman said around Aug. 15-20 in
Gulfport, Miss., hotel owners on a Skype inter-
view said the beaches were safe and fine.
Fishermen are not so confident. Fetterman
said they need reassurance that the water is safe
to start fishing again because they do not want
to have a reputation for selling a bad product.
“They know one thing and that’s shrimping,”
Fetterman said. “They need hard data to prove
everything is OK.”
Fetterman said this is the largest oil spill in
U.S. history, but the beaches don’t give it away.
He said it is unfortunate but people will real-
ize how much oil was released when another
hurricane hits and the oil at the bottom rises
and washes up on beaches.
Through a series of interviews, Fetterman
discovered business and real estate were at
an all-time low. “July Fourth is supposed to be
the biggest holiday weekend,” Fetterman said.
“This July Fourth, out of 100 rented houses only
four had tenants.”
Fetterman said 60 percent to 80 percent of
businesses survive the winter on July Fourth
earnings. Even family restaurants 10 miles from
the Gulf shore are doing poorly. Fetterman said
business is down 55 percent to 60 percent.
“It hits further than coastal communities,”
Fetterman said. “Because of their proximity
from the beach, they cannot receive a claim.”
In the beginning of his trip, Fetterman met
with 10 businesses along the Gulf shores. When
he visited them before his trip ended, six of the
businesses were closed. “There are real financial
consequences,” Fetterman said. “This summer
was supposed to be the summer businesses
get back the money they lost from Hurricanes
Katrina and Ike.”
He does not have a release date for his
documentary because he wants to gather more
information.
Student ventures to Gulf Coast withvideo camera
Fetterman worries Gulf shores will be ignored like
Hurricane Katrina areas.
Oil washes up on the Gulf Coast staining the light sand. Courtesy photos by Ben Fetterman
Gunky blobs of crude oil cover Gulf
Coast beaches Aug. 17.
12 • Sept. 17, 2010 The RangerNews
By Melody Mendoza
Library faculty will be housed
in cubicles, when fifth floor ren-
ovations of the Moody Learning
Center are completed. Modular
furniture will be used in future
district renovations and new con-
struction.
Diane Snyder, vice chancellor
for finance and administration,
said completion of the project
should be within nine months.
The Ranger reported that
library renovation plans dated
to 2004 and went before the vot-
ers in a failed bond election in
February 2005. Library renovations
were described again as a part of a
revised bond package approved in
November 2005. The package was
to include a new nursing and allied
health complex; parking garage;
and renovations for Nail Technical
Center and nursing education
building.
The bond provided $4.4 mil-
lion to renovate the second, third,
fourth and half of the fifth floor of
Moody. The third floor was com-
pleted this spring.
President Robert Zeigler said
Tuesday, “We are trying to get the
fifth floor finished fast with the
funds we have, and the only way is
with this modular furniture.”
Zeigler said it was a long deci-
sion-making process in which the
library staff and administration
“made the best decision consider-
ing the circumstances.”
Library Chair Candace Peterson
said she was called into a meeting
on May 19 with Zeigler and all the
parties involved.
John Strybos, associate vice
chancellor of facilities operation
and construction management,
oversees all construction. He told
The Ranger Tuesday that facul-
ty was “splitting hairs” between
who was considered faculty and
the district standards for faculty
offices. He said these standards are
design guidelines, not laws.
“The standards were presented
to the board of trustees in October
2008,” he said.
Space and faculty responsibili-
ties define standards of faculty
offices in the library.
Peterson said she approved
of the workstations and helped
decide the arrangements to give
faculty proper lighting and space.
“They’re quite nice; I don’t have
a problem with them,” she said.
The chair and circulation
Librarian Ralph Domas will have
traditional offices on the second
floor. “The library was designed
based on the limitations we were
given. We did the best we could.”
Alice Johnson, dean of learn-
ing resources, said she invited the
librarians to see the cubicles at
Wittigs Office Interiors because
“they look better than they sound.”
She said, “The ones who saw
them were pretty impressed.”
Zeigler also said they were
“nice, not cheap” and “fairly
soundproof.”
Strybos said he does not know
the cost because the plans have
not been finalized. “The layouts
have been shown to the users and
are about 99 percent final,” he said.
“The average cost for a typical
workstation – 8-feet by 8-feet – is
around $5,000,” he said.
Zeigler said there is space for a
conference room if there needs to
be a student and faculty meeting.
He said there were librarians
who didn’t like the decision, but
if they didn’t implement the cubi-
cles, the renovations could not be
completed in a timely manner.
Zeigler said cubicles will be
used in future renovations because
it’s cost-effective.
“If it had been presented dur-
ing previous renovations, cubicles
would have been implemented,”
he said. “We weren’t thinking
about it until the library came up
with money constraints.”
Zeigler said Wednesday, “I’m
the one that makes the final deci-
sion, and I’m convinced that this
was the best one.”
Librarians move to cubicles
The Ranger Sept. 17, 2010 • 13News
By Jennifer M. ytuarte
Trash cans, desk chairs and a large rock
serve as doorstops in the halls of the newly
renovated chemistry and geology building.
A folded piece of paper covers the strike
plate so Dr. Krishnan Madappat, organic
chemistry professor, can keep his office door
unlocked.
“I come into my office; the door locks. I
don’t want my students locked out during office
hours,” Madappat said.
Abdul Qudus, geology professor, wheels a
cart out of his office, careful to keep a wad of
paper pushed against the latch to keep the door
from locking.
He is headed to a classroom on the second
floor, unsure if the door will open.
“Some offices won’t lock while other rooms
don’t unlock,” Qudus said.
“We have to call campus police every time
so they can open it,” he said.
The Schlage controlled access system
ensures room security — even from the profes-
sors with key cards.
“My ID doesn’t unlock my office door,”
Qudus said.
ID carriers call campus police to provide a
unique serial number on the lock receptor.
Campus police can then remotely unlock
the door via the district’s computer network.
During a power outage, the locks have a
backup power source and become individual
systems, accepting ID signals programmed
from the last network transmission.
Employee ID badges are programmed to
have access to doors specific to their class
schedule, office and lab locations.
Sgt. Ben Peña of the district department of
public safety said, “We’ve requested a list of
hours per door. Once we receive that informa-
tion, we can program the doors to be open at
specific times for a class session or a professor’s
office hours.”
Faculty have to submit a request to super-
visors, which is then forwarded from campus
administrators to the campus police depart-
ment.
Roger Stanley, chair of chemistry, earth
sciences and astronomy, said, “The system
is unreliable. We will not submit information
while they’re still working out the bugs.”
Chemistry, astronomy, geography and geol-
ogy students, faculty and staff have survived
two years of homelessness with the promise of
more space, updated labs and furnishings.
They’ve been shifted between the old nurs-
ing building, Chance Academic Center, visual
arts center, Nail Technical Center, academic
instruction center, and the chemistry and geol-
ogy portables.
Meanwhile, the chemistry and geology
building, opened in 1961, was gutted to the
studs.
Lab technician Judith Dakin said, “There
was no money in the budget for packing sup-
plies. We had to bring newspaper from home to
pack all of our instruments. A lot of our equip-
ment is made of glass.”
When chemistry classes moved into the
annex adjacent to Subway on Main Avenue,
humidity was a problem.
Dakin said, “There was 85 percent relative
humidity in the building. All of our equipment
was molding or rusting. Chemicals were chang-
ing from solutions to solids. Labels on bottles
were sliding off. It was a nightmare.”
Astronomy Professor David Wood said, “The
chemistry and geology building had to be reno-
vated.
“There were leaks, mold and a whole list of
documented problems.”
Wood said it was a miracle the building was
mostly ready for fall move-in Aug. 23. Other
departments needed space. Biology needed
the chemistry and geology portables for this
semester’s classes.
“Moving into an unfinished building has its
problems, but we will make it through,” Wood
said.
Staff moved in 10 days before the start of the
fall semester.
The chemistry and geology building
employs two full-time and one part-time lab-
oratory technicians, but no work-studies or
tutors.
“Chemistry is a hard course. Usually we
have tutors, but the budget is so tight this year.
I volunteered myself to tutor students once the
tutoring center is unpacked,” Madappat said.
The tutoring center will be sharing space
with the geology museum on the first floor.
The display cases are empty.
“We just got moved in. Most of our stuff is
still packed,” Qudus said. “We have to arrange
the displays carefully and do not have work-
study students to help.”
There are six chemistry labs in the building,
four on the third floor and two on the second
floor.
Three labs are ready and in use. Two are
large enough for chemistry classes. The third
lab is smaller and tailored to organic chemistry
classes.
Stanley said, “One of the larger chemistry
labs received their temporary certificate on
Tuesday and will be ready for use soon.”
Two other labs on the second floor are
almost ready but are filled with hundreds of
boxes.
Biology sophomore Aaron Uresti said, “We
meet in random rooms, whatever is available.”
“Last week, we met in a different classroom
because our scheduled room was taken,” Uresti
said.
Three concurrent classes require labs so
students have been shuffled among open
rooms while construction continues.
Biology sophomore Julie Miller said, “We’ve
missed two labs. We just had our lab intro last
class. We were supposed to be in one room but
ended up in the smaller lab.”
“There are adjustment periods. Once every-
thing is up and running, the facilities will be
great,” Miller said.
There is no definite date of when the build-
ing will be fully operational.
Move-in blues continue in earth sciences
A paper towel prevents a door from locking
Monday on the second floor of chemistry and
geology. Tyler K. Cleveland
The Ranger 14 • Sept. 17, 2010 Editorial
Budget cuts to meet Gov. Rick Perry’s mandated 10 per-cent decrease in public college budgets for the next two years have forced district adminis-tration to make quick, yet irre-sponsible decisions.
The 25 cost-saving strate-gies the administrators adopt-ed on July 19-20 have signifi-cantly affected the quality of education.
The college was backed into a corner with the budget cuts, but starting with student ser-vices is not the way to go.
Cutting funds for note-tak-ers has affected returning war veterans and students with head injuries, memory issues, physical disabilities or ADHD who are unable to write.
The district mission is “empowering our diverse com-munities for success,” yet we are cutting funds for note-tak-ers, who are essential to at least 150 DSS students’ success.
If the state government and district officials truly valued students’ success, they would make sure the necessary resources were available.
Of course, students are peeved about the 5 percent tuition increase next spring, but at least they have a semes-ter to save extra money, start budgeting and apply for schol-arships. DSS students and counselors weren’t given any time to prepare.
Other cuts were made to libraries, tutoring, printing and faculty released time – critical factors for quality edu-cation.
The budget cuts are under-standable, but administrators should not continue the reck-less strategy of piling costs on students.
Find somewhere else to cut. Students struggle enough.
These decisions make stu-dents seem unimportant to district officials.
As with every other instance of the district passing on its responsibility, students and college employees are expect-ed to take on more.
The one benefit this cut provides is an abundance of community service opportu-nities.
Start at top for cutting Alexandra Nelipa
Students can use a college ID card to visit the San Antonio Museum of Art, Institute of Texan Cultures and the McNay Art Museum for free.
IDs can be used any time the museums are open except during special events.
At the McNay, you can take in exhibits such as this summer’s “Neither Model Nor Muse — Women As Artists” which closed Sunday.
The museum’s permanent collections include Medieval and Renaissance work, 19th and 20th cen-tury paintings and sculpture, post World War II art, Southwest art and artifacts, and the Tobin theater collection that spans four centuries of scene sets and costumes.
The San Antonio Museum of Art features an extensive collection of pre-Columbian and Latino art as well as art and artifacts of Asia.
At the Institute of Texan Cultures, students can immerse themselves in the heritage of more than 130 ethnic groups that settled the Lone Star State.
All three facilities offer a wealth of culture to the city in the form of lectures, classes, workshops, per-formances and festivals.
It’s great that students are getting something in return for the hike in tuition and parking fees. Funding for these memberships came from the general fund rather than the student activity fee col-lected from students.
Consider it a new source of free entertainment. Let’s provide more opportunities like this.
Students might even learn something.
Visit 3 museums for free with ID
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16 • Sept. 17, 2010 The Ranger
By AAron nielsen
Loftin Student Center was
treated Sept. 10 to the pop and jazz
saxophone styles of Joe Posada.
The six-time Grammy nominee
played to a small, but captivated
crowd as part of a six-part series
scheduled in Loftin this fall.
Groupo Kilimbo brings its
blend of salsa merenge Sept. 17.
The Reliques, sirens of Texas
folk scheduled Sept. 24, draw from
a broad base of influences from
Fleetwood Mac and Paul Simon to
Bob Dylan.
Posada, a seasoned profes-
sional deeply rooted in the origi-
nal Tejano music scene in San
Antonio, played in several bands,
notably the Royal Jesters and El
Quinto Sol.
Though not a founding mem-
ber of the Royal Jesters, Posada’s
place in Tejano music history was
assured. The original band was
formed in 1956 by Lanier High
School students and went on to a
string of hits.
Now based in Los Angeles, reg-
ular studio work keeps him busy.
Posada said some of his main
influences are blues and jazz giants
John Coltrane, Michael Brecker
and Stan Getz.
A one-time music student here,
Posada cut his teeth early on the
San Antonio College campus.
As his second set began, Posada
showed his love of Bossa Nova styl-
ings and his talents on flute as well
as sax.
Friday’s performance put
Posada on stage with keyboardist
Charlie Bernal and drummer Dan
Lazo. Bernal handled most of the
bass parts on the keyboard.
The Live in Loftin music series
continues at 11 a.m. and 1 p.m.
every Friday through October.
For more information, call
student activities specialist Carrie
Hernandez at 486-0125.
Grammy nominee heats up Loftin
At right, music business freshman Jacob Davila and his twin brother, music business sophomore Jordan Davila, listen Sept. 10 to Grammy- nominee saxophonist Joe Posada in Loftin. Photos by Tyler K. Cleveland
Posada shows his versatility playing jazz flute on “Fly Me to the Moon.”
Left, business administration freshman A.J. York and sociology sophomore Deann McKinney salsa dance to “En Anaquel Valle.”
Student life presents a six-part concert series.
Keyboard and touch base player Charlie Bernal, above, performs “I Like the Way You Move” by Outcast.
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