The Ranger Online

Issue Summary

Calendar

• Upcoming events

News

• Campus minister celebrates retirement after 31 years
• Couple's RV goes green on educational tour
• Photojournalist to discuss coverage of polygamist compound raid
• Scholarship recipient's award remains in question for members of alliance
• Source Awards recognize contributions to The Ranger
• Suspicious object investigated as a possible bomb
• Voters return incumbents for another six-year term
• District 3 candidates happy with results of Saturday election
• New vice chancellor wants better technology
• Officer applauds surveillance by female student
• Runnels spent career in Texas higher education
• Speech professor of 39 years remembered for dedication
• Board approves payment installment plan for summer
• District food service contract expires; cafeteria could close for summer semesters
• Maintenance employee victim of early morning campus assault
• No money deposited for employees on tax day
• Buildings often extremely cold, faculty, staff say
• Organization teaches tolerance versus racial hatred, religious bias
• Attorney general denies Ranger's request to reveal identity
• Office of student life up for five-year review
• Be wary of free drinks to prevent date rape
• Elections May 10 for three trustee positions
• Returning student says voice silenced at KSYM
• Science, engineering club takes awards for business proposals
• Educator says teaching background helpful to trustee
• Student publications garner awards
• Vice chancellor for employee services hired
• 525 grads expected at May 10 commencement
• ACCD to cap e-mail capacity
• Board meetings can be downloaded to MP3 players
• Peer education office offers assistance to students seeking advice
• Peer Educators aim to de-stress students
• Popularity of women's event prompts yearly returns
• SIFE wins regional award for projects
• St. Philip's College lowers price of English-as-a-second-language courses

Features

• Dedicated recycler disposes of one small bag of trash monthly
• Eleven articles about ways to Go Green for the environment
• Family members taking classes together
• Going green while saving some green
• Citizens urged to 'Own up' as good pet owners
• Gateway lecturer shares diary fascination at Anne Frank exhibit
• Inner workings of a garbage dump: Where trash goes when pitched
• Student's 'American Idol' performance leads to producing films, interning in talent agency
• Science teacher tells of impending doom - with funny hats

Premiere

• Even if you're not shucking, keep on trucking
• Student poets win cash at celebration
• Taste of New Orleans serves bite-sized Fiesta
• Victorian photos mix life, death
• Art show displays students' best
• PACFest brings Fiesta to Palo Alto College
• Piñata Protest defies punk rock norm
• Rising gas prices affect how students plan transportation
• Employers seeking only blue-collar workers at campus job fair, student complains
• Former student media activist combines music, social justice
• Annual Say Sí art exhibit to benefit students sowing creative oats
• Celebrate Earth Day with environmental movies
• Multicultural Conference to explore relationships of the body to politics, power, racism
• Film documents toxic chemicals, cancer link
• KSYM pledge drive ending strong
• Collecting rain helps save water
• Concert to rock Loftin
• Local foods make for healthful eats
• Wine tasting to benefit homeless new mothers
• Design students offer pro bono advertising
• Music calendar
• Fiesta events add estimated $284 million to local economy

Pulse

• Politics set to spoil Olympic Games' promise of international peace
• Racing against time
• Night relay benefits cancer patients, survivors, research
• Student life searches for a new champion cheerleading squad
• Department of public safety issues tips for preventing stalking

Opinion

• April 18 editorials
• Editorial Cartoon
• FROM OUR READERS
• Viewpoint - Immigration debate fuels racial intolerance in America
• Viewpoint - Fiesta's Queen of Soul passes crown, feels honored to have been part of history
• Corrections
• Viewpoint - Small body imperfections cause teenager to see distorted self-image
• Viewpoint - Plenty of blame to go around for Toyota zoning blunder by City Council
• Guest viewpoint - Professor applauds alternative perspectives on liberal arts
• Guest viewpoint - Leadership Institute becomes life-changing experience, opens doors

Blotter

• Blotter for April 18

People

• Photographers record the week's images around campus

Back Page

• Psychedelic high of legal substance attracts students
• Salvia concerns officials