Free ice cream draws crowd

A line of 75 students gathered Monday to get free ice cream and soda served by college administrators, but apparently no issues or concerns were addressed in the process.

Dessert with the Deans and Directors, sponsored by Student Government Association, was designed to get students to meet the deans and directors, Julianne Cantu, association president and political science sophomore, said Monday.

"It was very successful — we ran out of ice cream," Cantu said.

The event, which had been scheduled to run one hour, began at noon in the Fiesta Room of Loftin Student Center, and ended after 30 minutes when the ice cream was gone.

Unlike Pizza with the President, sponsored by the association April 1, no formal announcements were made by college administrators and no students spoke publicly to protest or question college policies.

At the pizza event, chairs had been set up in front of a podium. Monday's event had a serving line for ice cream, staffed by college administrators, but no seating area was provided.

Administrators attending Monday's event were Conrad Krueger, dean of arts and sciences; Tim Rockey, dean of continuing education training network; Alice Johnson, dean of learning resources; Vernell Walker, dean of professional and technical education; Nancy Cobb, dean of P-16 initiatives for this college and Alamo Community College District; Sophie Caldera-Castaneda, director of academic development; Susan Espinoza, director of college grants and developments; Charlotte Wolf, director of instructional technology and innovation center; Barbara Knotts, media services chair; Johnnie Rosenauer, director of the Raul S. Murguia Learning Institute; and Jeff Jackson, associate director of student life.

President Robert Zeigler and Jessica Howard, vice president of academic affairs, presented an iPod shuffle to radio-television-film sophomore Cornez Percell, who was one of 10 students to win an iPod for wearing a "Don't just transfer, graduate!" button and the only winner present to collect a prize.

Another student will receive an iPad for wearing an "I'm graduating, are you?" button.

Students at this college were encouraged to wear buttons to promote graduation, and as a result they were entered in a drawing to win either an iPod or an iPad.

"Students who did not get their iPod Shuffles or their iPad can come to the vice president's office to pick them up," Rose Marie Gonzales, executive secretary to the vice president, said.

The office is in Room 328 of Fletcher Administration Center.

For more information, call 486-0953.