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 April 20, 2009 www.theAccent.org Volume 2, Issue 5
Austin police
 out or blood
Administration opposes six drop rule
Trevor Goodchild
Staff Writer
Austin Police Chie Art Acevedo backsSenate Bill 261, sponsored by Senator BobDeuell, which amends laws to allow drawingblood rom DWI suspects who reuse a breathtest.As o March 31 the bill is in the senateCriminal Justice Subcommittee and has notyet reached the House.I Acevedo’s plan to increase blood drawssucceeds, ACC might be used to train Austinpolice ocers to be phlebotomists. Te City Counsel and the Austin Police Departmentare debating the issue right now.“Te program would require us to goto Austin Community College; it is one o two phlebotomy training programs thatare nationally accredited in the country,”Acevedo said.Te phlebotomy program at ACC is a one-semester, stand-alone program. Te programcan be taken without having a higher degreeplan.Eileen Klein, Dean o the Medicalechnology and Phlebotomy department andDepartment chair erry Kotrla, are aware o the police chie’s plan to train ocers at ACC.“We [department chair and Dean] havebeen in constant communication about this...this is not set in cement yet. Until they [APDand City Council] have their ducks in a rowwe’re not going to go or it,” Kotrla said.Tere are many ducks that need to be inmany rows, as Austin’s City Council cannotrewrite exas law.According to exas ransportation Code724.013, taking blood samples rom DWIsuspects who reuse to have it taken is illegalunless the criteria o death or serious bodily injury have been met.Some o these issues were discussedat a public orum hosted by exans orAccountable Government (AG).On March 30 at City Hall a orum washeld with a panel comprised o Acevedo,Council Member Mike Martinez, AmericanCivil Liberties Union (ACLU), MothersAgainst Drunk Driving (MADD) and theAG Executive Director John Bush.Te moderator, DavidKobierowski, presentedthe Supreme Courtcase Beeman v. exas as apossible way around 724.103to the paneland audience o Austinites. KnowelBeeman appealedthe drawing o hisblood because his arrestdidn’t meet the exastransportation code’scriteria, but lost.In an aside, FrancisMontenegro, a criminaldeense lawyer whoattended the event calledthis “judicial activism,”and stated it does not rewrite the exas Lawthat is already in place. Bush spoke in detailin the panel about the rights guaranteedby the Ninth Amendment and the right toprivacy he elt would not be protected withblood draws.“I know i we continue this practice o orcible blood withdrawals, the city o Austinresidents are not going to lay down withoutputting up a ght,” said Bush.Te chie o police had another viewpointabout the drawing o blood authorized underthe implied consent laws.“I don’t know how to break it to people, butwhen you break the law you lose some rights,”Acevedo said.He also justied wanting to train policeocers at ACC because hospitals werereusing blood draws rom DWI suspects dueto liability concerns. Even the jail nurse atthe Austin Police Department will not drawblood or the APD to prove i someone is overthe legal limit.“When you look at the economic toll,the emotional toll and the toll on ourcommunities...I think personally it’s kind o irresponsible [or nurses to reuse],” Acevedosaid.Brackenridge, Seton, and St. David’shospital were all mentioned at the orum,and identied or reusing to do blood drawswhen DWI suspects were brought in by APD.Dr. Steven Berkowitz, the Chie MedicalOcer o St. David’s hospital’s ve locationsin Austin shared his perspective on Acevedo’sproposed policy.“A orensic lab has certain policies andprocedures...they do a chain o custody.Everyone signso on legaldocuments. Let’s say you were accused o a DWI. How do youknow that blood wasactually yours? Becausewe don’t have orensiccapabilities, we cannotsay in a court o law thatthat was your blood,”Berkowitz said.Te ederal grant totrain ocers at ACCwould come romNational Highway and rac Saety Association (NHSA).Despite this, hospitalsaren’t alone in theirscrutiny o this policy.Some o the City Counselmembers criticize itsprice tag.“It is going to costmillions upon millions o dollars to collect and storethe DNA and maintain itin a secure process. Tereare too many questionsand until those questionsget answered I don’tthink the city o Austin should beengaged in takingblood samples andstoring them,” Martinez said.Acevedo cited that Arizonahas been doing blood testingsince the 1990s and claimedTe ACC administrationis asking state representativesto back legislation that wouldremove community collegesrom the six drop rule.“We eel that our studentsat community college are not just students who pay theirull tuition, take a ull loadand then all the other thingsthey do in their lie is study,”said Linda Young, specialassistant to the president orExternal Aairs at ACC. “Tey are people who work, some o them work two jobs, some o them come part time, some o them take a ull load and work ull time.”“Students at ACC many times have responsibilitiesoutside o the classroom, likeamily obligations and jobs,and there will be times whenthey have to drop a class totake care o those responsibili-ties,” said Young.Te current policy statesthat students may only dropsix courses throughout theirentire undergraduate career.Tere are some exceptionsto the policy. For example i there is a death in the amily or there is a change in work schedule, a student can dropa course without it countingagainst them i they providethe proper documentation.“Te key is or students tobe successul in their courses,and that is what we really concentrate on,” said KathleenChristensen, Vice President o Student Support and SuccessSystems. She eels the six droprule is unnecessary becauseACC already monitors thecourse completion rate o all credit students and has apolicy in place or dealing withstudents who drop too many courses.Representative RobertoAlonzo, D-Dallas, has submit-ted a Bill, HB 3518, that wouldree community colleges romthe burden o the six drop rule.“I had an uncomortableeeling,” said Alonzo o thesix drop rule when it was rstmade part o exas Educationpolicy. So when ACC’s oceo External Aairs asked i he could write a Bill dealingwith the issue, Alonzo gladly complied.“For junior college olks it’skind o a dierent situation,”says Alonzo. “I think we needto look at helping studentsout.”Te Bill is in the HouseHigher Education commit-tee, and Alonzo thinks it hasa chance at being passed butencourages students who havea strong opinion on the sixdrop rule to e-mail him and lethim know how they eel.“It is important i there arestudents who eel very strongly about it to let me know,” saidAlonzo. “I think it’s right, andthat’s why I introduced the leg-islation, but the more supportthat you have or it the better.”
 Jaa Lelek • Layot Editor
Interest in teaching drives ACC nursing
stdet back to school after e years
Jamie Carpenter
Campus Editor
Lisa Heap dropped out o school her senior year as abiochemistry major. Five yearspassed beore she returned tocollege.Since summer o 2007,Heap has worked on her asso-ciate degree in nursing at ACC.While attending ACC, she hasdecided to become a nursingteacher. She credits Proessoro Nursing Helen Harkreaderas helping to inspire her.“I would like to becomea nursing proessor and she[Harkreader] ormed a loto my ideas o what a goodnursing proessor looks like.Nurses can be very particu-lar. Tere is a very ne linebetween being too strict andbeing too lenient. Tey haveto be strict with us becausewe could hurt someone, butthey have to be lenient becausewe are beginners and we aretrying to learn.”
Nursing Student Lisa Heap is likely to be ound in the learning lab earlymornings at the South Austin Campus helping students in need o health science tutoring. Heap recently won the Common KnowledgeScholarship Foundation’s National Nursing Scholarship.
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college students
Chris Smith
Staff Writer
 
Devon Tincknell
Staff Writer
Dear icketmaster:Hey icketmaster, how’s itgoing? Pretty good, I bet. It’salmost summer and musicans across the country aregetting ready to shell out bigbucks or outdoor estivals, U2concerts, and, o course, all thebig reunion tours. Can youbelieve Phish is nally back together aer ve longs years?I know! But despite being inthe midst o a rapidly worsen-ing economic depression, con-cert tickets are more expensivethan ever. Te average priceor nose bleed seats to see a bigname artist is $65, double whatit was ten years ago. You guysmust be stoked.Unortunately, a lot o ansaren’t as excited about all o this as you are. Once upona time, attending a big rock concert was a rite o passageor America’s youth. It wasn’t just the show that was special,it was the whole ordeal. Peoplesaved up their minimum wagesalary or weeks to buy tickets,camped out in ront o the boxoce to get primo seats, andthen handuls o young entre-preneurs bought more ticketsthan they needed so they couldmake a little cash scalping. Itwasn’t legal, but it allowed ansto get into those sold out showsor a ew extra dollars.Now that ritual is gone.Fans are orced to rapidly click reload on your website,then watch with horror when“SOLD OU” pops up amere een minutes aer thetickets went on sale. I guessit was inevitable. You sawthose sleazy denim cladburnouts hawk-ing tickets in theparking lot andsaid, “Hey, weshould be makingthat money,” andnow you are, in themost suspicious way possible.You’re the number oneticket retailer in America,
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Soon it will be gradua-tion time here at ACC. Tereis actually a light at the endo the whirlwind tunnel o exams, homework and longlectures. Come the end o thesemester, many students willpossess an associate degreeor a technical certicate. Yet,some will choose not to walk across the stage at the Frank Erwin Center come May 14.According to ACC’sNewsroom Blog Archive,there were 1,800 graduates inthe class o 2008. Only about370 students attended theceremony.Really? Only about 370out o 1,800? Granted, somepeople probably couldn’tattend because o personal orwork conficts with the day and time. However, I am surethat does not explain why all o the over 1,300 missinggraduates did not walk thestage.Personally, I am moreinclined to believe that mostpeople did not walk the stageor two reasons: 1.) a lack o interest in spending an hour orso sitting down and watchinga lot o people they don’t knowwalk across the stage or 2.)the belie that an associate /technical degree / certicate isnot worth walking across thestage or.I strongly and sincerely encourage people to walk across the stage. Yes, you may be bored while you are sittingthere waiting or your turn togo up, but almost everythingthat is un, interesting or o importance in lie is coun-teracted with the boredom o waiting.You want to ride TeRattler at Fiesta exas? Haveun waiting in line. Need toget your driver license? Haveun sitting or hours waitingor your number to be called.Your wie, sister, or aunt isgoing into labor? Have un inthe waiting room or countlesshours.Te point is, i you’re notgoing to your graduationceremony because you think you will be bored or havebetter things to do with yourtime, think again. Aside romgetting a diploma, the act o walking across the stage isa tangible way to show yourachievement. It is similar to aclass ring or the diploma youhang on the wall.For those who think get-ting an associate degree, or atechnical degree or certicateis not worth walking the stage,think again. Many, many students have struggled withhigher education. Tey havestarted, quit, restarted, orhad to go part-time becauseo nancial situations. Tey are raising children, workingull-time, and basically suera lot o real lie problems thatprevent getting an associatedegree, being merely two yearso their lives. You are success-ul because o what you havegone through and how youcame out o your situation.You deserve and are worththe recognition o having yourname called out just as muchas anyone getting any otherdegree. So, walk across thestage and be proud.
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but apparently that wasn’tgood enough, so last yearyou bought icketsnow.com. icketsnow is what isknown as a secondary tick-eter, ormerly called a scalper.Tey let olks with tickets orpopular concerts and eventsauction them o or severaltimes the price, then chargeadditional service ees thatcan exceed $100 per ticket. Itmight seem like there wouldbe a confict o interest whenthe legit ticket retailer is incahoots with the black market,but you’ve promised repeatedly that there is no unny busi-ness going on. Which makesit so weird that when BruceSpringsteen ans tried to buy tickets rom icketmaster lastFebruary, they were reroutedto the icketsnow site, despitethe act that unscalped ticketswere still available.Tose shenanigans not only irked the ans, but the Bosshimsel, who wrote a letter onhis website that said the “abuseo our ans and our trust by icketmaster has made us...urious.” You swore up anddown that it was a computerglitch, but then did the samething with Leonard Cohentickets in Canada. And nowCanada is pissed! You cur-rently ace three class-actionlawsuits north o the border.Your legal woes don’t endthere. For some reason, a USSenate Anti-trust committee isa little suspicious o your pro-posed merger with LiveNation,the third largest ticket retailer.I this merger goes through,you will own three out o our o the top ticket sellers.Tat looks an awul lot like amonopoly.So what are us ans todo? Prince oughtback and reusedto allow histickets to besold ar inadvance,cuttingdown onthe timein whichticketscan be resold or exorbitantprices. Another idea beingbandied about is to get rido paper tickets all together.Since all o these transactionsare taking place online, why not have ans just line up atwill call the day o the showand pick up their tickets witha credit card and a photo ID?It would cut the scalpers rightout o the equation. Gettingrid o paper tickets would alsomean we could get rid o someo these ridiculous ees. WhenI bought Morrissey tickets
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No handguns on college campus
A Bill written by Rep. Joe Driver thatwould allow concealed handguns oncollege campuses just passed out o theHouse Committee on Public Saety witha vote o ve to three on April 15. Tisis a dangerous plan that will lead to adisrupted and unsae learning environ-ment. Te entire Bill is based on alseassumptions, and a complete disregardor the past.Te idea behind this Bill is that, i some kind o armed attack on the school,those brave ew who bring their hand-gun to class can protect themselves andothers until the police arrive.For every heroic scenario in which astudent or proessor wards o a derangedgunman and saves the day, there is aterriying counter scenario in whichsomeone who shouldn’t have a gun isallowed to walk reely around campus. Inthe event that someone attacks a campus,panic stricken, adrenaline lled studentsand proessors are not the people whoshould be running around with guns.Campus security and the Austin PoliceDepartment are.Students should not be orced to sit ina classroom with armed peers and teach-ers. It would be unnerving and incredibly distracting. Te lawmakers supportingthis bill argue that because only citizensover 21 years old can get a license, very ew students would have guns.Tis is based on the archaic notionthat most college students are 18-20 yearsold. In all o 2008 just over 54 percent o the students at ACC were older than 22.Tis Bill completely ignores past trag-edies. Tere is no reason to believe thatpeople who have a handgun license areall actually the kind o people one wouldwant carrying a gun around campus.In 1966, right here in Austin, CharlesWhitman a University o exas graduateshot and killed 14 people using an arse-nal o weapons, all o which were legally acquired. He was an ex-Marine, and hasbeen described as an ‘all American guy’by one o the campus psychiatrists hesaw.A decade ago this week, most o usremember waking up to see that 12people were brutally slaughtered atColumbine High School, some o theguns purchased and given to the twoshooters were bought at a gun show,without a background check. It’s calledthe gun show loophole.wo years and one week ago, in thedeadliest peacetime shooting on or o o a school campus in United States history,32 people were gun downed by a seniorEnglish major at Virginia ech whobought both his weapons legally and wasdescribed by the owner o the gun shopas a ‘clean cut looking college student.’Incidents like these are actually beingused by lawmakers as examples o why guns should be allowed on campus, butthe amilies o those involved in thesemassacres are oen anti-gun.As recently as April 6, om Mauser,the ather o a boy killed at ColumbineHigh School, spoke to legislators inMaine about the importance o eliminat-ing loopholes that allow some buyers toorgo background checks and waitingperiods beore being given a gun.Families o Virginia ech victimsworked with NYC Mayor MichaelBloomberg on a V ad released on thetwo year anniversary o the Virginiaech massacre last week. Te ad alsocame out against laws that make obtain-ing guns too easy.Teses people have survived rst-handthe unimaginable tragedy o a schoolshooting. No one should use what hap-pened to these amilies as an excuse topass shameully unsae laws.last week I was charged $15or shipping, despite the actthat I received my tickets by e-mail. Where are you comingup with these ees anyway?Convenience ees are over $10per ticket. Aer you considerthe scalpers, quick sell outs, jacked up prices, computerglitches, and class-action lawsuits, it sounds pretty inconve-nient to me.Sincerely,
Devon incknell 
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Proposed g legislatio is irresposible, safe
Te Asian Spring Festival is April 23, 2009, not April 16, 2008,as previously reported, or April 16, 2009, as it was originally planned.In last issue’s story ‘ACC proposes broad prohibition o smoking’ it was reported that most (ACC) sta were in avor o designated smoking areas. Tis was based on the inormation that was cur-rently available rom the Classied Employee Association. Afer the story printed, the Classied Employee Association submit-ted a much more thorough tabulation o results that ound moreemployees in avor o not allowing smoking on campus. Toseresults were not available at the time the article was written.In last issues story ‘House Bill, local project ghts death penalty’ it was reported that HB 682 was the rst Bill on this topic toreach the criminal jurisprudence committee in 30 years. Tisis incorrect. HB 304 was led by Rep. Dutton in 2003, and washeard by the Criminal Jurisprudence Committee.
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Te third annual Dia de la Familia, sponsored by the ACCLatino/Latin American Studies Center (El Centro), will be heldon April 25 rom 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Riverside Campus. Teevent aims to inorm the community about ACC and El Centroin particular. El Centro is an interdisciplinary collegewide centerthat hopes to educate and provide understanding o the Latinoand Mexican American impact on culture and society. Te eventis ree and open to the public.Tis year’s Spring Art Fling will be held at the Cypress Creek Campus rom April 25 through April 30. Te opening receptionis on April 25 rom 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Te exhibit will showcaseart rom ACC students and aculty as well as the Cedar Park community and Leander ISD. Singer/songwriter Kevin Haywoodwill perorm. Te eatured artist, Isabelle Olivier, won the 2008Spring Art Fling or “Favorite Work o Art” or Poppy Field inFrance. According to Linda Haywood, the Cyprus campus man-ager, the art work will remain on display the ollowing week.Te Student Lie celebrates student involvement and achieve-ment event with Nite in the Lie: A Red Carpet Aair, on April24 at the Monarch Event Center. Te event will run rom 6 p.m.to 11 p.m. Te celebration includes a reception, awards ceremony and aer parties. Winners o awards such as Servant LeaderAward, Extra Mile Award, and Outstanding Club Contributionto Campus will be announced. Reservations are required andcan be made by visiting the Student Lie web page.Early registration or the Fall 2009 semester begins May 18and continues through June. Students can register as early asMay depending on how many hours they have, including thosein progress. Te Fall printed schedule will be made availableon June 8, but students can view the online schedule now. Tepurpose o the early registration, according to the ACC’s website,is to help insure that students who are nearing graduation areable to take the courses needed beore they ll up. Contact yourcampus Student Services oce with questions or concerns.
Christopher Smith
Staff Writer
Higher tuition and eesmight be necessary i ACCdoes not receive more money rom the state o exas oremployee health care.Members o the board o trustees, the president o ACC,and the Oce o ExternalAairs have all taken the timeto call, send letters and talk ace to ace with central exasstate representatives about theissue o proportionality.Under the current policy,institutions o higher edu-cation receive unding oremployee health care thatmatches or is proportional tothe state unds the institutionreceives. Community col-leges across the state receivemuch o their unding romlocal sources, so they receive asmaller amount o state undsthan larger our-year institu-tions. Tereore ACC andother community colleges donot receive the same amounto money or employee healthcare that larger our-year insti-tutions do.“Proportionality is beingapplied unairly,“ LindaYoung, special assistant to thepresident or External Aairsat ACC said. I proportionality is once more included in thebudget bill, it could cost ACC
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Adam Oliphant
Staff Writer
Besides being the newestACC campus, with anexpected enrollment o 10,00students, the Round Rock Campus will also have thereshest ood and more diningspace.Simon’s Caé and otherbusinesses are competing ora contract to sell ood at theRound Rock Campus that willbe awarded by May 1.Currently, ood serviceis contracted out to Simon’sCae, which serves prepre-pared meals and drinks. Hotood served at Simon’s isusually toasted or microwavedbecause the space provided tothem does not have adequate ventilation systems to allowor cooking meals on-site.“ACC is interested inproviding a ull service oodconcessionaire at the RoundRock Campus. Food cookedto order at two dierentcounters would add variety and can be geared to servic-ing the needs o the studentsand aculty,” Reed Stoddard,certied proessional publicbuyer director procurementand materials management(interim) said.As the contracts are beingreviewed or Round Rock, stu-dent concerns about Simon’sCaé, owned and operated by Simon’s president Jae Park,range rom lack o biode-gradable take-away dishesand cups to ood quality andpricing.“I don’t see why a ham-burger at Simon’s cost twiceas much as one at Jack in theBox,” student Larry Williamssaid. “Te prices seem pretty high or what you get or someitems.”ACC closed bids or aood service contract orthe Round Rock Campus onApril 16. Food service will beready when the Round Rock Campus opens in August o 2010.Te new contract stipulatesthat all ood must be reshand prepared daily on site.ACC will provide the vendorswith the necessary space and ventilation to run a high qual-ity ood service operation orstudents.Te contract will alsoinclude some changes toaddress current issues withSimon’s, including eliminat-ing the minimum amountor credit card purchases, aswell as extra charges or orks,napkins, plates, cups, bowls,ice and condiments.Simon’s hopes and plans topaint all campus locations auniorm color scheme match-ing RGC’s scheme, updatemenu boards to be uniormand include pictures o moremenu items “so studentsknow what they are ordering,”according to Park.Park stated that “ (Simon’s)wants to grow with ACC. Weare willing to step service upa notch to better serve theneeds o the students.”
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they’ve had great results withonly one lawsuit, which theplainti lost. When askedwhat his recourse was i theblood draw policy didn’t pass,he brought up another tacticto decrease DWIs in Austin.“I think we have tocontinue to work on theeducation component o it.We have to keep trying toeducate the public,” Acevedosaid.Recent cases involvingpeople such as Jesse Owens,Sophia King, and DanielRocha have brought APD’suse o orce policy to theoreront o the public’s eye.ACLU Central exas ChapterPresident Debbie Russellquestioned what wouldhappen i someone physically reused a blood draw.“What hasn’t been broughtup yet is the use o orce issuewhen getting that blood roma person who is unwilling to
Simon’s Caé employee Lee Sang takes a student’s order at the Rio Grande Campus location. A contract is being worked out or the Round Rock Campus which is also taking bids rom other businesses. The new space has room or a ull kitchen and all ood to be prepared resh on-site .
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APD Chei Art Acevedo spoke with Accent about phlebotomy trainingat ACC. He advised students not to drink and drive..
give up their most preciousidentier,” Russell said.Acevedo addressed thisaer conronted by panelmembers and multipleAustinites that spoke at thepodium and yelled out romthe crowd regarding APDusing physical restraints toobtain blood rom a personwho might be intoxicated.“We’re not going to beat onsomebody to get a blood testout o them,” said Acevedo.APD does not call theirpolicy orced blood draws,they call it “non-consensualtesting.” Te chie hasinitiated no reusal weekendson holidays when APDestimates there will be a lot o drinking. Acevedo concludedthat there was a way to avoidthe entire situation, “Bottomline is i you take a taxi, walk home, have a designateddriver, call dial-a-ride, or takethe bus you’ll never have toworry about us.”$2.6 million in the coming twoyears. Te money or employeehealth care has to come romsomewhere said Young, andthat could mean higher tuitionor more ees in the uture.In a letter sent to local staterepresentatives, the adminis-tration asks representatives toexclude proportionality romthe budget bill and to supportbills in the House (HB 2080)and Senate (SB 41) “whichwould resolve the proportion-ality issue.”“Tose bills would say thatthis ormula or guring howwe support benets or aculty in higher education would notapply to community collegeswhich don’t get the sameamount o unding that theour-year (universities) do,”Young said.“For our students to besuccessul, we have to have topnotch educators, and we do.We want to continue to attractand retain our aculty and ouradministrators and proes-sional sta,” Nan McRaven,Chairperson o the ACC Boardo rustees said. “For ACC toattract and retain aculty andsta, the college needs to beable to oer things like healthcare to its employees...theissue o proportionality aectsemployees, students and thewider ACC community.”
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