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Volume 47 Issue 3January 31, 2012
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Ryan BranchNews [email protected]
A report obtained from UTSA’s Of-fice of Institutional Research reveals that UTSA increased its undergradu-ate population over the last five years, but the average GPA by college re-mained relatively flat.
In other words if UTSA had a re-port card, it would be a “Bs and Cs” student. Overall, the average GPA for UTSA undergraduate students rose from 2.66 in 2007 to 2.69 in 2011, a slight increase. This means that the av-erage full- time student makes mostly Bs, one or two Cs, and the occasional A.
The report is divided into three sec-tions that reveal the average GPA and exact headcount by college from fall to fall over the last five years for each student classification, the percentage of students who obtained a 4.0 from fall to fall by college over that same time period, and the average GPA of fall 2011 graduates by college. All data obtained was for undergraduates.
The first part of the report reveals several interesting trends. The under-graduate class grew from 24,434 in fall 2007 to 26,332 in fall 2011, or about 8 percent. All colleges showed that the average GPAs for freshmen hovered around 2.54 and 2.78 for seniors. This
statistic shows that student GPAs tend to increase throughout a student’s un-dergraduate academic career.
Undergraduate population change from 2007 to 2011 by college:
Architecture: - 0.3 percentBusiness: 1.4 percentEducation: 18.5 percent
Engineering: 32.8 percentLiberal and Fine Arts: 8.9 percentPublic Policy: 23 percentScience: -1 percent
The next part of the report covers the percentage of students by college from fall 2007 to fall 2011 who ob-tained a 4.0 GPA. This report shows
one of the most interesting anoma-lies of the data set. For all colleges, the average percentage of 4.0 students from 2007 to 2011 ranged from 4 to 9 percent except for one, the College of Education and Human Development. The percentage of 4.0 students who are education majors ranged from 17 to 19 percent year over year. This raises the
question of whether or the high GPA is due to the College of Education be-ing a model for the university as far as GPAs are concerned; the college being guilty of severe grade inflation; or the curriculum not being particularly dif-ficult.
Report reveals UTSA GPA info: Not too bad
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Sarah GibbensStaff [email protected]
In a cut-throat race to the White-house, the remaining GOP candidates seem willing to play on any and all emotions held by their potential vot-ers. The issues addressed by each can-didate are no longer exclusive about government control and regulations, but now explore the role of faith in a secular government. To many, these issues should more appropriately be addressed in a church, instead of in government halls. Rick Santorum, self-described “Champion of Faith and Family,” is perhaps the candidate who has most invested in the religious ticket. Santo-rum, who practices Catholicism with his wife and seven children, often ex-
ploits his religion to discuss topics of abortion and same-sex marriage. On gay marriage, Rick Santorum asserts that same-sex marriage is “politically fashionable” and that it has no real place in the government. Santorum believes marriage is sacred between a man and a woman because it creates life. “These unions are special because they are the ones we all depend on to make new life and to connect those new lives to their mom and dad.” However, following this logic, a man and a woman that cannot conceive a child would be violating the sanctity of marriage with their inability to produce life. Santorum has promised that if he becomes president, he would crimi-nalize abortion. Santorum believes same-sex marriage and abortion are violations of the first amendment
right to freedom of religion, what he believes to be the most important amendment, while some argue he purposely neglects other rights, such as a right to privacy. While Santorum is losing steam in his run for the presidential bid, Mitt Romney has consistently been the leading candidate among vot-ers. CNN’s reporting on the most recent Florida polls show Romney to have the support of nearly half of all Republican voters. Romney is a practicing Mormon, as well as his wife and their five children. Mitt Romney, who received criticism for drastically changing his views from a pro-choice governor to a pro-life candidate said, “I am pro-life and believe that abor-tion should be limited to only instanc-es of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother.” Romney also says that
his pro-life views stem from the belief that, “unborn children… are capable of feeling pain from abortion.” Romney believes that people should not be discriminated because of sexual preferences but does view mar-riage as a “sacred institution between a man and a woman, marriage is first and foremost about nurturing and developing children.” Newt Gingrich runs his campaign as a seemingly morally sound Catholic aiming to protect, “life and religious liberty.” However, recent allegations against Gingrich have painted him as anything but ethically pure. In an interview with the Washington Post, Marianne Gingrich, Newt Gingrich’s second ex-wife, claims that she was asked by her former husband for an open marriage. In her interview Mari-anne tells the Post, “He said the prob-
lem with me was that I wanted him all to myself.” Marianne then goes on to claim that when asked about his then mistress and now wife, Callista Gin-grich, Newt claimed, “She doesn’t care what I do… In a few years I’m going to run for president. She’s [Callista] going to help me become president.” Callista Gingrich is the third wife of Newt Gingrich who is said to have cheated on both of his former wives. Surprisingly enough, Gingrich still defends marriage as a sacred entity and is opposed to “non-traditional,” same-sex marriage. Gingrich also incorporates faith into his views on abortion, as do many of the GOP candidates. As a potential presidential contender, Gingrich would remove funding from programs such as Planned Parenthood that pro-vide assistance to pregnant women.
Catholics, Evangelicals and Mormons campaign for GOP nod
Matthew DuarteStaff [email protected]
UTSA professors J. Mitchell Miller, Michael Karcher and Holly Ventura-Miller received a $280,000 research grant from the US Department of Jus-tice to work in conjunction with Youth Advocate Programs (YAP). Their re-search will seek to determine if youth advocacy is an effective way to treat juvenile delinquency when compared to the current model of pairing at-risk youth with volunteer mentors. While a mentor would spend an hour with the youth every week for a year, “there’s a much higher frequency of contact” with a youth advocate,” Miller said.
In a state such as Texas—which is
known for its high prison population and enforcement of the death penal-ty—it is not hard to imagine jails full of hardened criminals. Controversy surrounding the American criminal justice system is common considering that the U.S. imprisons more people than any other country and at a higher rate. Juvenile delinquents are often not mentioned when discussions of the criminal justice system arise; although, they are the most at-risk to someday be numbered among the thousands of convicted felons in Texas.
Studies have shown that minors who commit a crime are more likely to be arrested as adults, and it is not uncom-mon for that same minor to be arrest-ed more than once before turning 18.
Juvenile delinquency study to measure advocate effectiveness
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A g raph o f UTSA’s average GPA fo r undergradua tes shows tha t the number has rema ined re la t i ve ly f l a t fo r the la s t f i ve year s .
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Recidivism—the act of offenders re-lapsing into criminal behavior—poses a large strain on the criminal justice system, and it is estimated that at least half of juvenile delinquents in the US will be rearrested within one year of being released.
While a youth advocate spends only six months with the juvenile, com-pared to a year the volunteer mentor contributes, the quality of time spent is more valuable, and the youth advo-cate is in contact more often. Miller notes that “it’s also much more in-tense [the support received]…they’ll go with the youth to court to advocate and represent them.” Additionally, the youth advocates must first go through a thorough background check and ex-tensive training with Youth Advocacy Programs.
The study itself is built on a theory
in criminology known as Social Sup-port Theory, which, according to Miller, suggests that “if at-risk youth can receive a greater degree of social support, then this will increase their chances for preventing their involve-ment with delinquency.”
However, there is little research into this topic as it relates to juvenile de-linquents, a fact that the study aims to change. As Miller notes, the study is “going to give us greater information as to the extent to which social support matters.”
With operations in 16 states in ad-dition to its international work, YAP targets the most at-risk youth, the ones who are on the verge of being in-stitutionalized. Working with YAP in Ft. Worth, Las Vegas, Toledo, Atlantic City and Mobile, the study hopes to de-termine how effective youth advocacy is in all parts of the country with ju-veniles from a variety of backgrounds.
“YAP is intent on “delinquency pre-vention towards the deinstitutionaliza-tion of the youth, that is to keep youth out of confinement and incarceration settings,” Miller said.
Recent data show that three-fourths of Texan juvenile delinquents relapse into illegal activity, and the findings of this study could have substantial impacts. Determining how effective a youth advocate is compared to a tra-ditional mentor has the potential to influence juvenile treatment that will not be limited to San Antonio or to Texas. Although the state could cer-tainly benefit from a lower recidivism rate, the biggest impact would be on the youths themselves.
While studies look to find patterns in approaching juvenile rehabilitation, there is no way to measure the benefits for a former delinquent whose life no longer includes run-ins with the law.
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Percentage of students who achieved a 4.0 for fall 2011
Architecture: 4 percentBusiness: 6 percentEducation and Human Development: 16 percentEngineering: 7 percentLiberal and Fine Arts: 8 percentPublic Policy: 7 percentScience: 7 percent
Finally, when it comes to the graduat-ing class of fall 2011, the average overall GPA was 2.93 among 1,538 students. In comparison, the average freshman GPA in the fall of 2007 was 2.50. This means that, hypothetically, the average freshman who entered UTSA in 2007 and graduated in four years increased his or her GPA by almost half a point.
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Texas colleges must send illegal im-migrants who pay in-state college tu-ition rates reminders that they prom-ised to seek legal status in exchange, a tweak in state law officials unanimous-ly approved Thursday.
The tuition break was a flashpoint issue that helped doom Republican Gov. Rick Perry’s campaign for presi-dent and the rule change by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board is a small step toward putting more pressure on those students to follow up on their pledge.
The change will not end the tuition break or the student’s ability to qualify; only the Legislature can do that. But the board will require schools to be more active in pushing students to-ward gaining legal status by sending them annual reminders and encourag-ing them to contact federal authorities.
Advocates for immigrants say the reminders, which students could start seeing as early as this summer, are un-necessary and could prompt students to place themselves in jeopardy of de-portation if they contact authorities without first seeking legal advice.
Since 2001, Texas has allowed stu-dents who are in the U.S. illegally to qualify for cheaper, in-state tuition rates at public universities if they at-tend high school in Texas for at least three years before they graduate. Those students must also sign an af-fidavit saying they plan to seek legal status.
Perry’s refusal to backtrack on his support for the law during his cam-paign angered conservatives and tea party activists in the state and nation-ally who consider it a benefit reserved
for illegal immigrants at the expense of U.S. citizens.
According to the higher education board, more than 16,000 students qualified under the law in the 2009-10 school year, the most recent year for which complete data were available. Of those, about 4,400 attended a pub-lic university and about 12,000 attend-ed community or technical college.
The rule change requires schools to keep the affidavits on file and remind the students of their pledge every year they are enrolled and upon graduation. Students are not required to respond.
Board spokesman Dominic Chavez insisted the rule change is not because of the flare-up over immigration poli-tics in the Republican primaries but acknowledged the issue got “white hot” when Perry was still in the race.
The issue has come up several times since the law passed in 2001, and the board began considering the change last summer, Chavez said.
Luis Figueroa of the Mexican Amer-ican Legal Defense and Educational Fund said advocates for immigrants are concerned universities will en-courage students to contact federal agencies about their status before con-sulting a lawyer.
“They need legal guidance,” Figueroa said.
Ainee Athar, a third-year anthropol-ogy student at the University of Texas, moved with her family to Texas from Pakistan 15 years ago and has qualified for the lower tuition rate. She said the yearly reminders about a student’s le-gal status are unnecessary.
“No one forgets that,” she said.Supporters of the tuition law say the
thousands of students taking advan-tage proves its worth. Those are stu-dents who might not be able to afford a college education without it.
The average cost at a four-year uni-versity for Texas residents is about $7,000 in tuition and fees and about $17,000 for nonresidents. At commu-nity colleges, the average cost is about $1,400 for residents and $4,800 for nonresidents.
“It’s not about immigration,” Athar said. “It’s about education.”
State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, a San Antonio Democrat who helped write the law, considers the rule change a minor one that won’t change the in-tent of the law or its impact on those who use it. She also said she isn’t wor-ried that it’s the first step in an effort to eventually repeal the law.
“They’ve been trying to repeal it ev-ery year since I passed it,” Van de Putte said.
The latest effort was in 2011, when Perry was flirting with running for president but was not yet a candidate. Legislation by Sen. Brian Birdwell, a Republican from Granbury, to repeal the tuition break was defeated by a bipartisan group of lawmakers in the Republican-controlled Senate.
Birdwell called the rule change a “step in the right direction ... (but) these rules do nothing to solve the core problem of nonresidents unfairly receiving discounted tuition rates.”
Texas tweaks tuition rule for illegal immigrants
“Its not about immi-gration, its about edu-cation”Ainee AtharUniversity of Texas student and Pakistani immigrant
Since the beginning of the 2012 election cycle, many Republicans have viewed former Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney, as the victor of the party’s primary race and eventual opponent of Barack Obama in the general election this November. With an impressive business record, pro-fessionalism on the campaign trail, and high fundraising totals, Romney is seen by many in Washington as the most logical choice to be the Re-publican nominee once all the dust from the spring primaries has settled. Even Obama, who faces no real competition in the Democratic primaries, began preparing for a showdown with Romney over a year before Election Day.
But for every Republican who believes that Romney is the prime can-didate to beat Obama in November, there is another who is skeptical of a Republican ticket with Romney at the top. They note that the former Mas-sachusetts governor has flip-flopped on issues including abortion to im-migration and global warming. Many staunch conservatives also believe that Romney is too moderate to represent the modern Republican Party.
There are many factors that can help explain why Romney has not caught on with the most conservative wings of the Republican Party, not least, of which would be his Religion. Romney, unlike most Republicans, is a Mormon. In a party known for the heavy influence of Evangelical groups some consider a Mormon candidate as a far cry from the ideal candidate. Although the Republican Party has begun to reach out to minorities and non-Christians, it remains a party whose base is historically rooted in Christian ideology. This may help explain why Romney has been less suc-cessful with the evangelical vote so far in the primaries.
That’s not to say that Romney has been ineffective in the primaries—he leads all candidates in primary votes thus far—but it remains to be seen if Romney can broaden his base to include the most conservative Republi-cans and members of the Tea Party. Romney took a pro-abortion stance as governor of Massachusetts and has also expressed support for the theory of global warming. He must also defend a health care law he signed as governor, a law that heavily influenced “Obamacare.”
It’s not just his work as governor that’s giving Romney a hard time on the campaign trail; recently he has come under scrutiny for his work in the private sector. Romney’s supporters have often cited his private sector experience as a reason to get behind the candidate and with good reason.
As a successful hedge fund manager and founder of Bain Capitol he amassed a huge fortune, estimated to be as high as $250 million.
Additionally, after weeks of indecision and convoluted responses when-ever the topic arose, he released his tax returns for 2010 and estimates for 2011, which revealed that he makes over $20 million a year from invest-ments and his Bain retirement package.
Although he has said that he won’t apologize for being successful, it’s not difficult to understand how a typical American would find Romney out of touch with his or her working class status.
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Altered photo questions health department’s integrity Editorial
Laura SeymourSophomore/ computer science
“The little kid in the Darth Vader costume for the KIA commercial.”
Jose PuenteFreshman /mechanical engineering“The Camero commercial where the guy thinks he is getting a Camero but instead it is a fridge.”
Monica Stricko Sophomore/ nutrition “The Doritos commercial with the pug.”
The New York City Department of Health did not violate any ethical boundaries when they altered a stock photo to show the effects diabetes can have on a person.
Several years ago, inspiring actor, Cleo Berry, participated in a photo shoot where he received $500. Berry admits to signing a waiver before the shoot which allowed for alterations to be made to the photos.
The distribution of the photos to the New York City Department of Health
was also an agreement in the waver. The health department then changed the photo for an anti-diabetes cam-paign by cutting the overweight man’s leg off.
Since amputations are common for people who have diabetes, the campaign was only trying to show the long-term effects of the disease which could be hereditary, but can also be caused by having low amounts of activity, poor diet, and being over-weight.
If the advertisement is an issue for
being misleading, then the popu-lar Food Network Star, Paula Deen should also be held accountable for not disclosing her having developed Type 2 Diabetes when she is over-weight and promotes a poor diet.
Berry wanted to have publicity to get his career in gear, and he did. He should just be proud that his picture is being used all over New York City to promote awareness of a very seri-ous disease in the United States.
Frankie Shairali Sophomore/nursing
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This American Life (an NPR radio program) recently aired an excerpt from a one-man show performed by Mike Daisey called “The Agony and Ecstasy of
Steve Jobs.” In the show, Daisey details a trip he took to Shenzhen, China, to investigate the working conditions of a manufacturing plant named Foxconn.
Foxconn is known for manufactur-ing a third of many of the consumer electronic devices from companies like Apple, Dell, Nokia, Panasonic, HP, Samsung, Nintendo, Sony and Lenovo. At the plant, there are 430,000 work-ers. Daisey tells story after story of first -hand accounts from inside this fac-tory, which are alarming and tragic.
Daisey finds kids as young as 12- years -old working at the plants. There are not any large machinery producing these goods. All are made by hand.
Although the standard day of work is 12-hours, most people interviewed work 14-16 hours a day, seven days a week. Last year, a Hong Kong newspa-per, Mingpao, reported that a 27-year-old man died of exhaustion after work-ing 34 hours straight.
Death became a common thing around Foxconn. In 2010 alone, there were 18 workers who committed sui-cide by throwing themselves off the top of one of the Foxconn buildings. In response, Foxconn installed nets around their buildings to keep people
from jumping. Most recently, at the beginning of January, 150 workers went to the top of one of the buildings and threatened to jump in unison as a protest to the terrible working con-ditions. They were eventually talked down by Foxconn and local Commu-nist party officials (The Telegraph).
The New York Times also recently published a report about working con-ditions at Foxconn in Chengdu, China. According to the Times, “two years ago, 137 workers at an Apple supplier in Eastern China were injured after they were ordered to use a poison-ous chemical to clean iPhone screens. Within seven months last year, two explosions at iPad factories, including in Chengdu, killed four people and in-jured 77.”
Many people are completely un-aware of these conditions. A survey of the UTSA campus shows that many people are connected to these prod-ucts and use them in their everyday lives.
Apple plays a huge part in my daily life, as I have an iPhone, iPad, and this article is being typed on a MacBook Air. When I see this machine, I hardly ever think that there may have been a human cost for the convenience of my shiny toy.
I wanted to highlight this story be-cause I think it’s relevant to the cur-rent election, especially with the Re-publican Primaries. According to the frontrunner Mitt Romney, he wants to “reduce taxes, spending, regulation, and government programs.”
Newt Gingrich’s website says that he wants to “remove obstacles to job creation imposed by destructive and ineffective regulations, programs and bureaucracies.” Deregulation is all the rage from the Republican Party, fu-eled by the view that our country has gone to hell in a hand basket, because corporations are not allowed to oper-ate free of regulation and all the mean government rules that they have to fol-low.
Allowing companies to be free of regulation or to be less regulated may be great for those companies, but it is not great for the humans who do work for these companies. Businesses will always operate on the principle that profits come before people.
No matter how nice a company is to their employees, the employees are just commodities that must be retooled, fixed, and sometimes cut. Regulation is in place to help protect people from the inevitable goal of the company to increase profits at all costs.
The stories of Foxconn and China, although extreme, are an example of what companies are capable of when not properly regulated. As much as people would like to think that com-panies will always do the right thing, remember that history has proven that companies are more likely to do the wrong thing.
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I enjoyed the opinion piece by Cliff Perez, who wrote about the distor-tion in the rates of African American/Black incarceration versus Cauca-sian/White incarceration. Being of African descent and currently study-ing law, I found this article touched on a subject matter that is not often discussed.
Although most of my life I grew up in suburbia, this past summer I had the pleasure of studying law with an attorney that succeeded in overturn-ing the sentence of Anthony Graves, a wrongly convicted black male on death row. Anthony Graves served
18 years for a crime that he did not commit.
When most people hear stories like this, they wonder how did the judicial system fail so woefully? The truth is bias and ignorance. It is not hard for an overly determined prosecutor in the south to paint to a mostly white jury that another black man should be convicted of a crime.
Even though Anthony was wrong-fully convicted, one must wonder how an employer would react to an 18-year gap in employment. What kind of job would Anthony be able to get with an 18-year lack of work experi-
ence? Should these store-owners give Anthony a job because his sentence was overturned or should they allow a formerly convicted man a chance on their payroll? Let’s be honest. So-ciety is taught to presume initial guilt not innocence. Upon release, society gives these prisoners a scarlet letter that warns them they will never be ac-cepted. They will always be animals.
Chizoba Onyeise
Troubling prison statistics
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Rowley’s take on the increasing of tuition for public universities in Texas hits on some very interesting points. The mention of deregulation of tuition was very interesting; I had no idea that the state legislature had considered deregulation since the 80’s and had only addressed the issue in 2003.
Now, when looking at the num-bers-- the $10 billion budget shortage to be more precise-- you can under-stand that they had to do something. Even the fact that they chose to risk only upsetting a small percentage of voters, i.e. the students, rather than
risking upsetting millions of voters makes sense in a way, but when will it stop? As the article states, “Children of current freshman will be expected to pay four times what their parents paid in tuition when they are old enough to attend college.”
It would seem that, for the time being, the legislature has painted themselves into a corner. A $10 bil-lion shortage is no laughing matter, and as I stated above, something, ob-viously, had to be done. What I find interesting is out of all the informa-tion given as to why the increases are necessary and why deregulation was
allowed and all the stats and numbers given to prove that this was the best plan of action, there are no signs of a better solution being considered. All the data shows that tuition is going to continue to increase with no signs of stopping like a runaway train with a full head of steam. They came up with a “solution” of sorts to the bud-get shortage, but now it seems they have no way of stopping it.
Justin Lopez
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Ron Paul: Constitution man
No one on the campaign trail knows what it’s like to be down and out quite like Newt Gingrich. The former Speak-er of the House has been written off by pundits time and again. Although he has been considered down for the count on multiple occasions, he has managed to outlast much of the competition, includ-ing Texas governor, Rick Perry, and Mi-chelle Bachman. He has suffered his fair share of setbacks, and has a personal his-tory that is at odds with the social con-servatism that many Republicans hold dear. Nonetheless, after some impressive debate performances and a command-ing win in South Carolina, it has become clear that Gingrich has his sights set on being much more than just a thorn in the side of his opponents.
Although he became a champion of conservative ideas as Speaker of the House in the 1990’s, Gingrich still strug-gled to gain traction in the polls months after he entered the race for the Republi-can nomination. His own staff even quit on him, many of them leaving to work for other candidates. However, Gingrich still managed to run his campaign on a shoe-string budget and played the role of the elder statesman in the fall debates.
During the last debate in South Caro-lina, Gingrich was asked by moderator John King to address comments made by his second wife, who alleged that Gin-grich had asked for an open marriage. Gingrich called the accusations false, but only after calling King “despicable” and attacking CNN for asking such a ques-tion. Gingrich received roaring applause from the audience and carried that mo-mentum into a landslide victory in South Carolina.
It is well known that Gingrich is on his third marriage, and in the family-orient-ed Republican Party many social conser-vatives have been hesitant to throw their support behind Gingrich.
Additionally, during his time in Con-gress he was forced by the House Ethics Committee to pay a fine after it was de-termined that he broke House rules by violating federal tax law and lying to the committee. For this and other reasons, Gingrich often collides with Washington Republicans, who regard him as too con-troversial.
Gingrich has played his falling out with Washington to his advantage by portray-
ing himself as a Washington outsider; someone who will come in and change what many feel is a broken political sys-tem. This, however, has also come with accusations from his opponents. Espe-cially after it was reported that Gingrich received payment from Freddie Mac as a consultant. Although Gingrich claims that he was merely acting as a historian for the Washington group, his opponents have called Gingrich a lobbyist who prof-ited from his Washington connections, not surprisingly, considering the average wage of regular historians.
Although Gingrich has faced strong adversity from his primary opponents, he consistently defends his conservative values, which cannot be said of Gin-grich’s fiercest rival, Mitt Romney. While Romney must defend himself from accu-sations of being a moderate, Gingrich has no such history to his name. Gingrich, to his credit, has remained very consistent in his positions throughout his political career. The consensus among his sup-porters is that, although he is flawed on a personal level, Gingrich is a fierce con-servative who has done an excellent job in contrasting himself with the current administration.
On the same day that Gingrich blasted John King on national television, Rick Perry admitted defeat and suspended his own presidential campaign, and in the process, endorsed Gingrich. Perry reminded a very Christian audience that although Gingrich has an unusually po-lemic personal history, a central theme of Christianity is forgiveness. Perry urged his followers to overlook Gingrich’s flaws and throw their support behind the for-mer Speaker. Many people have counted Newt Gingrich down and out in several occasions during the past months of campaigning, but, as Rick Perry and oth-ers have realized, you count Gingrich out at your own risk.
GOP candidate Ron Paul is no ordi-nary politician. Since last fall, he has en-tertained audiences during the previous 18 Republican primary debates with hu-mor, passion for his beliefs and stinging one-liners such as his comment during the most recent Florida debate that aired Jan. 26, 2011 on CNN about the need to send some politicians to the moon.
Of the issues that set Paul apart from the remaining GOP presidential candi-dates, three stand out: foreign policy, government spending and personal liberties. Paul’s stance on these issues, along with a loyal following of young adults and military supporters, may just propel him, along with the Libertar-ian movement, into the political main-stream.
Paul’s appeal to America’s youth this election season is rooted once again in his libertarian ideology that advances the rights of personal freedoms and re-jects government over-reach into citi-zens’ private lives.
“The founders were Libertarians. They didn’t want to regulate the market, nor did they want to regulate personal life-styles. And they had a non-intervention foreign policy,” explained Paul to Scott Simon of NPR on Jan. 7, 2011.
Paul’s strong allegiance to libertarian values, such as non-intervention and respect for civil rights, have galvanized young Republicans, as well as many in-dependents.
The momentum among young Repub-licans and independents swelled during the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire primary in January. Paul won 48 percent of the vote among Iowa caucus-goers under 30, and 47 percent of the youth vote in New Hampshire. “Paul’s 47 per-cent support from 18- to 29-year-olds was the strongest level of support for any candidate by any age group,” accord-ing to Tufts University’s Center for In-formation and Research on Civic Learn-ing and Engagement.
A strong opponent to America’s war against terrorism in Afghanistan and proposed sanctions against Iran for building nuclear weapons, Paul intro-duced his own Golden Rule at the South Carolina debate that aired Jan. 16, 2012 on Fox: “Don’t do to other countries what we would not want done to us.”
Critics warn that Paul’s stance on for-eign policy is naïve and dangerous. Dur-ing the GOP debate that aired on Dec. 15, 2011 on Fox, former presidential candidate Michele Bachman defended America’s need to guard against Iranian intentions. “Look no further than the Iranian constitution, which states un-equivocally that their mission is to ex-tend jihad across the world and eventu-ally set up a world-wide caliphate.”
Paul also levied heavy criticism of the U.S. tax code during his Oct. 18 CNBC interview. “Our current tax rates are a symptom of too much spending,” he said. A fierce opponent to the personal income tax, Paul has been called a “tax hawk” by his peers. If elected presi-dent, he plans to rein in government spending by cutting $1 trillion from the budget by eliminating five federally run departments, cutting foreign aid, ending foreign wars and ending corporate sub-sidies, just to name a few. In addition he promises that his annual salary will not exceed the median household income
in America, which, according to Paul, is just over $39,000.
A stalwart for the U.S. Constitution, Paul explains on his campaign website, that he “never votes for legislation un-less the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution.” Paul further believes that the Obama ad-ministration, like others before it, side steps the Constitution when it comes to government over-reach. On www.paul-house.gov, Paul writes that the “Obama administration, like so many adminis-trations in the 20th century, chooses to ignore the Constitution entirely.” In Paul’s view, recent measures taken by President Obama subvert the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution.
Many political pundits don’t give Paul much of a chance of winning the Repub-lican nomination, but as long as this race continues to offer Paul a voice for free-dom, he’s likely to tough it out at least through the Florida primary on Jan. 31, 2012.
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“I never vote for legislation unless the proposed measure is expressly authorized by the Constitution,” said Ron Paul.
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Ron Paul is one candidate who can be seen as not overtly religious. He has said, “My faith is a deeply private issue to me… I want to avoid any ap-pearance of exploiting it for political gain.” Paul was the only candidate who didn’t sign sign the Marriage Pledge, a pledge that publicly com-mits candidates to oppose same sex marriage. He does pledge that he will neither support nor oppose legisla-tion for the advancement of marriage equality.
The National Organization for Marriage, who drafted the Marriage Pledge, warns conservatives to vote against Ron Paul , describing him as a, “non conservative.” for a “God given right to life- for those born and
unborn.” Paul worked as an OBG-YN before delving into politics and claims his pro-life beliefs are based on science and medicine.
Paul believes life begins at con-ception. Ron Paul has also made it publicly known that, as president, he would reverse the court case of Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion as a woman’s right to privacy, as well as removed funding from family plan-ning programs like Planned Parent-hood.
The 2012 presidential election cy-cle is viewed by many as one of the most critical elections in our nation’s history. The next president will likely be obligated to appoint Supreme Court justices who will shape what it means to have freedom and equality.
Through three primaries in the 2012 Presidential race, Romney has only won in moderate New Hampshire and is still struggling to demonstrate his ability to lead the Republican Party. He has long run his campaign as if he was the front-runner, but recently many have begun to wonder if he is indeed the inevitable nominee. His religion, inconsistency, moderate ideology and inability to identify with the aver-age voter will likely continue to pose problems for his campaign; however, he remains the candidate with the strongest organization, the most money and, according to most polls, is the Republican most likely to beat Obama in November. He has consistently done well in debates, and his campaign has yet to encounter a major pitfall. By main-taining front runner status for so many months, he has avoided taking unnecessary risks but has at times seemed more like a CEO than a man of the people. Only time will tell whether his campaign will crumble under the constant scrutiny, but thus far Rom-ney has demonstrated that he can take heat better than any other Republican candidate.
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The name alone, Cryin’ D.T. Buffkin & the Bad Breath, is distinctive. How-ever, it is their authentic swing/ol’ timey sound that you will remember them by. The local band delivers jazzy beats, excellent piano tones, along with rustic vocals.
The lead singer is reminiscent of Tom Waits in his vocal approach, while the rest of the sound is similar to Squirrel Nut Zippers. Made up of two guitar players, a bassist and a clarinet, the sound of this rag time sextet will transport its back in time, while the audience hangs back, or maybe even dances along.
Influenced by such artists as Nat King Cole and Benny Goodman, this band serves as a tribute to big bands of that era. They do a few cover songs from that time, but a lot of their songs are originally written by the lead sing-er and current UTSA student, Daniel
Travis Buffkin. Not only does the band offer an au-
thentic sound that speaks of the times where Jazz and Swing rocked the na-tion, but they put a lot of soul into their music. There is a refreshing sin-cerity to their work that you just don’t find often amongst the local bands in this town and for that. Recently the Paisano had an opportunity to inter-view the lead singer/pianist Daniel Travis Buffkin (DTB) and bassist, An-drew Maley (AM).
PAISANO: Your band has a really interesting name. Part of it is from your own name, but where did you guys come up with “The Bad Breath” part?
DTB: My friend, Duff and I used to play together in a band. We were just kind of doing this jam session, talking, throwing out names and we thought of “the dead family.” I just thought that was pretty cool and hippie like, you know. It was Grateful Dead-ish though, so we decided that was pretty lame … so … I don’t know how it hap-
pened, really. I think Duff was proba-bly just talking and so I could just smell his breath or something. [laughs] And so, I was just like, ‘Oh, that’s perfect!’
PAISANO: How did the band come to be?
DTB: Well, I grew up here, but I moved to Austin for a little while. I wanted to move back to San Antonio. I was in a band in Austin and it’s like, everyone is in a band there. It’s a bum-mer, you know? It’s like, an L.A. sort of thing, where everyone moves there to do music and you’re surrounded by assholes who think their shit is going to make it just because they moved to Austin, as if that means they have more invested in their dream. So, I was just getting really sick of it and San An-tonio has more genuine people.
PAISANO: How would you catego-rize your band?
DTB: Yeah, I just say Ol’ Timey. AM: Or Classical American. AM: We pretty much have roots
from all of that. We like to bring a lot of different things to the table. It kind of just makes it what it is.
DTB: We’ve even played some Hon-ky-Tonk. It depends where we play sometimes, too. If we play somewhere with more of a jazz vibe, we’ll empha-size more of our jazzier stuff. Not ev-eryone, believe it or not, likes Hank Williams.
PAISANO: I heard you guys are go-ing to be coming out with an LP soon.
DTB: Yeah, we haven’t ever record-ed anything officially. We’re gonna do a single with this tune we have called “Ain’t it the Truth.”
PAISANO: Do you have any other plans for the future?
AM: Gigs. DTB: We’d like to throw more beats
into our sets, just get a beat machine. How many rag time bands have beat machines? We like the idea of get-ting a steady gig at one place. That’s our goal. It can be tough doing these random gigs in different bars all time because we have to fit to the standard of the bar sometimes, like their typical business model, and we really want to stray away from that. We want to play the strip clubs, actually. That’d be so great. Stripping to Chamillionare isn’t as classy as stripping to Bad Breath.
There was a lot of laughter and smiles, while girls shout “Play it again!” right after their second song. This band invokes a feeling of comfort, good times, and everything you’d ask for of old Southern style.
Crying DT Buffkin and the Bad Breath have a Sound Cloud, on SoundCloud.com where you can listen to their music for free. The band plays at The Mix every Tuesday night and every other Friday night.
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Korean dancer performing during the Asian Festival at the Institute of Texan Cultures last Saturday, Jan. 28
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Eye-catching burgundy and ivory garments drape and glisten in soft light as “The Marriage of Figaro,” performed by the London Philharmonic illumi-nates the ambiance of the “Baroque to Bauhaus” exhibit at the McNay Art Museum.
The “Baroque to Bauhaus” exhibit is comprised of several displays which include titles such as “Baroque: Mo-zart’s School for Lovers” and “Bau-haus: The Mechanized Stage.” The term “Bauhaus” is used to describe the clean lines and geometric forms of the post World War I art movement. Be-tween 1919-1938, students of this style included Laszlo Moholy-Nagy with his 1923 print, “Konstruktionen III (Con-struction III)” and Alexandra Exter’s “Decors de Theatre” (1930).
Oskar Schlemmer was a major figure associated with the Bauhaus school. He believed that theatre was signifi-cant for the Bauhaus style. Schlemmer once stated that the “human body is a physical structure—not an emotional being” and that “theatre means to re-veal second nature” and not the single reality.
In the exhibit, “Baroque: Mozart’s
School for Lovers,” the contrasting Bauhaus and Baroque styles become one. Mozart’s operas “Cosi fan tutte” and “The Marriage of Figaro” are trans-formed from the extravagant and or-nate Baroque fashion to the slick style that is Bauhaus.
Baroque art was the new art move-ment of the 17th century and was made popular for its dramatic and emotional appeal. Mozart’s opera scenes are re-designed to take place in modern set-tings such as in lofts overlooking a city skyline.
One of the artists who made this transformation possible was Adrianne Lobel with her graphite drawings. At this display, a video is available for viewing with modern reenactments of “Cosi fan tutte.”
Other parts of the exhibit include drawings and sketches of Georges Bizert’s “Carmen,” and ink on paper costume designs by Tazeena Firth and Timothy O’Brien for Benjamin Brit-ten’s opera, “Peter Grimes.” A looping projection of acts I, II and III of “Pe-ter Grimes” also accompanies the dis-plays.
At the end of the exhibit is a section titled “Recent Acquisitions,” displayed in this area are two costumes from the 2006 Broadway musical, “The Drowsy Chaperone.” The designs for these cos-
tumes are just as extravagant as the costumes themselves.
Gregg Barnes created the costume designs with gouche, metallic paint and graphite on paper. An audio track sung by the cast of “The Drowsy Chap-erone” titled “Show Off” can also be heard. Across the room is an area titled “The Chinea Festival” which mostly consisted of 1772 etchings by engraver Guiseppe Vasi. Hung in the back wall of this room are oil paintings by Natalia Gontcharova, which por-trays characters from the Russian fairy tale turned play, “Snegourotchka (The Snow Maiden).” Among these oil on canvas paintings are depictions of “The Queen of Shemahkan” (ca. 1922) and “The Astrologer (ca. 1922)”.
Setting the mood for the exhibit are richly colored walls, featuring dimly lit quotes from “Carmen” and “Peter Grimes,” among others. The best ele-ment to the “Baroque to Bauhaus” ex-hibit is the multimedia experience. Not only is there a modern audio/video as-pect involved, but the actual costumes, designs and small-scale sets from the operas add to the variety of visual treats, a feast for your eyes. The “Ba-roque to Bauhaus” collection is on dis-play at the McNay until June 10, 2012.
‘Baroque to Bauhaus’:
Wednesday, Feb. 17 p.m. Anthony Green and Deer HunterThe two bands will be playing at the Korova. Admission is $16.
7 p.m. Jay PariniProfessor of English and Creative Writing at Middlebury College Parini will be discuss-ing the books that changed America. In BB 2.06.04
10 p.m. El Valiente, the Grasshopper Lies Heavy, and SohnsAll three local noise bands will be playing at the 1011. You’re in for a wild ride at this show. Tickets are $5 at the door.
Thursday, Feb. 23 p.m. Jay PariniProfessor of English and Creative Writing at Middlebury College, Parini will discussing the film “the Last Station,” in the Retama Room.
6 p.m. “Movement into Form”This new exhibit at UTSA’s Satellite Space hosts artists Katy Heinlein and Daniel McFar-lane. Exhibit continues until Feb. 19
Friday, Feb. 32 p.m. Jay PariniProfessor of English and Creative Writing at Middlebury College, Parini will discussing why poetry matters., in BB 2.06.04
8 p.m. Caitlin RoseAdmission is $20. Gruene Hall. Look for the Paisano’s exclusive interview online.
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This year, there is one thing the super bowl can’t go without and that’s food. Nothing brings togeth-er a group of raging football fans than easy food that can be cooked in minutes. Living in San Antonio, Mexican food is one of the first ways to go at it. Here are a few, easy, and simple ways to make your foot-ball arena a better place.
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Shish kabab 1. Purchase long wooden picks at
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end of the wooden pick followed by uncooked chicken pieces, white onion, pineapple chunks, and green bell pepper
3. Repeat step 2 until the pick is filled to the end
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French Dadaist Marcel Duchamp not only turned heads in 1917 with
his “objet trouvé” – French for found object, a urinal turned upside down, signed under a made-up and called it “Fountain.”
UTSA art professors Ron Binks and Larry Leissner once again showcase
found objects in their new photo ex-hibit “Ron & Larry: Passageways Into the Sky and Restrooms in Berlin”, cur-rently on display at REM Gallery on East Park Ave.
Binks’ “Public Places” photos were taken with a point and shoot camera, in public restrooms during an annual visit to Berlin. In his artist statement, Binks says he was “intrigued with the décor involved in designing these spaces and how this reflects the at-titudes toward the prospective clien-tele.”
In each photograph, Binks’ urinals take center stage, but the juxtaposi-tion of each image is equally as strik-ing. “Public Places”, number three, four and five are manipulated in a way that enhance their geometric design creating lines that lead in and out of the photograph, guiding its viewers eye throughout the image, eventually landing on the glistening urinals. De-spite that these images have a serious context, an aire of comedy is undeni-able.
Binks travels to Berlin each spring break with UTSA art students and fel-low UTSA art professor, Larry Leiss-ner, to explore the city through a pho-tographer’s lens.
Leissner’s photographs, depict wa-ter, earth and fire.
Images of clouds layered with ink
and paper media, add depth to each photograph. Set against vivid blue skies, the clouds become intertwined with the media, creating the illusion of water. Without giving the audience much context, viewers will find these images more desirable if they forget to search for meaning and instead admire the bright colors and how the details come together to create a whole.
Leissner’s “Olympia,” references the original painted in 1863 by Édouard Manet. “Olympia,” the photograph renders a beautiful young woman re-clining on a chaise lounge holding a large fan. Leissner brings depth to “Olympia” by positioning her image repetitively within layers of fans.
Perched on the mantle of a fireplace in the gallery, earth is represented by a photograph of gray and black mar-ble. Another fan, bearing the same gray and black marble sits in front of the photograph, adding dimension to Leissner’s portrayal of earth.
Both artists’ manipulated photo-graphs seem to be influenced by the remnants of the dada movement. Like Duchamp, these artists ridicule the pedestal of menial objects in the mod-ern world.
The exhibit will be on display every Friday and Saturday from noon until 6 p.m. until March 2.
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“Cats” is a thrilling Broadway mu-sical that has left countless audiences spellbound, garnered massive critical praise, and also holds the achievement of being the second longest running Broadway musical of all time. San An-tonio residents and UTSA students will finally get an opportunity to ex-perience the magical intrigue of “Cats” when it opens at the Majestic Theater on Jan. 31.
“Cats” features dazzling costumes, intricate dance moves, a spectacular
light show, extreme feats of athleti-cism, a colorful cast of characters, and an operatic score that can be appreci-ated by people of all ages.
The musical is split into two acts, the first of which provides audiences with the background for the mysteri-ous universe of “Cats” while also intro-ducing many of the major characters in the play. The second act deals with the aftermath of the Jellicle Ball con-test culminating in a musical finale that will stay with viewers long after the curtains close.
The plot follows a diverse group of Jellicle cats as they celebrate the Jel-licle Ball. Individual cats and feline en-sembles each audition to win a chance
at being reborn into a new life. How-ever, only one feline contestant can be chosen by the cat patriarch, Old Du-eteronomy and journey to the fabled Heaviside lair to start life anew. Will the magical Mr. Mistoffelees enchant his way to a new beginning? Will the evil Macavity steal the show? Or will the extravagant tomcat Rum Tum Tugger prevail?
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Cats” is based on T.S. Elliot’s “Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats.” This simple children’s book quickly exploded into a pop culture phenomena when many of the book’s verses were accompa-nied by music, song, and dance when the Broadway play was first released.
The song “Memory” is one of the only original pieces of music created for the play and is arguably the standout per-formance of the entire show.
“Cats” premieres at the Majestic Theater Tues. Jan. 31 and will show at 8:00 p.m. everyday until February 3. The February 4 show is at 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. The final day to catch a performance of “Cats” is on February 5, at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The Ma-jestic theater is located at 224 E. Hous-ton Street. Individual tickets can be purchased online for only $17.50.
“Cats” the Broadway Musical is the purrrrfect way to celebrate a long weekend at the Majestic Theater.
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Judy Jones draws a foul during action against Texas State on Jan. 21. Jones had five points and nine rebounds in a losing effort against Sam Houston State Saturday Jan. 28.
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The Roadrunners faced off against the Sam Houston State Bearkats in the Convocation Center Saturday Jan 28. The Runners won their fifth game in a row, 78-66 behind a dominating defense. UTSA improved to a 14-7 overall record and 6-1 within the Southland Conference. Head coach Brooks Thompson credits the matu-rity of the returning players to their success in the beginning of the sea-son.
“They are really focused in and I think they are really growing as a unit,” Thompson said. “We got a lot more experience. We got other guys that have played in big games.”
Sam Houston State never looked comfortable against the complicated San Antonio defense. The runners forced 22 turnovers from the visiting Bearkats. At the end of the game, Sam Houston State shot 45.1 percent from the field and only 25 percent from three point range.
“The guys are working hard and
they are getting better at (the defense) every day,” Thompson said. “I think now the guys are really getting com-fortable with it.”
UTSA’s offense has been powered by sharp shooting Melvin Johnson III (18 points, two steals) and sophomore forward Jeromie Hill (11 points, four rebounds, two assists, one steal). Hill was awarded Southland Player of the Week last Monday.
Against Sam Houston, Hill had a very slow game after averaging 18 points and 7.5 rebounds in the victo-ries against Northwestern State and Texas State. But Senior center Alex Vouyoukas had a stellar performance in the Roadrunners’ home victory.
“I know that I’m not the first offen-sive threat on the team,” Vouyoukas said. “Tonight I had some open looks, and I was able to take full advantage of them. I’m not a guy that looks for the spotlight, but if things work out then I’m happy.”
In the first half, the big man scored 10 points, that included one three pointer. Vouyokas’ performance help set a very high tone for the home team, and he finished with 14 points, seven rebounds and two assists. Vouyokas’
efforts were appreciated by a standing ovation from the home fans and also by his parents in Greece watching the Roadrunners online.
UTSA’s intense defense fueled their offense. Eight players scored in the game, five of those players in double figures. Junior transfer guard Michael Hale III had (12 points, three assists, one steal) and has been a perfect fit so far for Coach Thompson’s team.
“The transition has been great. Coach Thompson is a great coach, one of the best in my eyes. The team is really close together. We know each other in and out and we starting to come together,” Hale said.
In his first season playing at the Di-vision I level, Hale is very optimistic about the future of the team.
“In my eyes, the only people that can stop us is us. We just have to stay together, stay composed and play to-gether and we’ll be fine.”
Coach Thompson has also been very proud of his new weapons this season.
“It just shows their character. We obviously knew they were gifted ath-letes because we recruited them to play here, but their character shows that they knew they had to come in and play major roles. It usually takes a little bit longer to be honest with you, from junior college or high school to the division one level. That has a lot to do with our experience, and the other guys helping those guys along the way.”
Going into the second half the Roadrunners had a commanding 43-29 lead. The Roadrunners defense forced another eight turnovers for Sam Houston State, but the Runners also gave up eight turnovers of their own. The visitors were able to score 10 points off these turnovers and at one point cut the lead down to 9. The Runners kept their composure and never panicked, sticking to their de-fensive scheme which eventually led to the fifth consecutive win. Those last few seconds showed a maturity of this basketball team that will become vital down the road.
The Roadrunners’ next game will be on the road against the Southland Conference’s number one team, the UT Arlington Mavericks on Feb. 1st. The Mavericks are perfect in confer-ence play and with their recent 82-79 win against Texas State, are currently in the middle of an 11 game winning streak. First place in the Southland Conference will be on the line in Ar-lington Wednesday.
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The Roadrunners gave a val-iant effort against the Sam Hous-ton State Bearkats but it was not enough as the Bearkats outscored the Roadrunnners 14-2 over the final three-minute stretch to win 67-55 Saturday in Huntsville.
The loss to the Bearkats means that head coach Rae Rippetoe-Blair remains at 199 career wins at UTSA.
Even though the Roadrunners only shot 23 percent from the field in the first half, they held a 24-23 advantage at halftime.
The second half saw multiple lead changes before the Bearkats went on their victory-sealing run.
Kamra King pitched in 13 points
in the losing effort. No other Road-runner was able to score in double figures.
The Bearkats were led in their victory by Britni Martin’s 17 points followed by Sequeena Thomas with 16.
The victory over the Roadrun-ners gave the Bearkats their first season sweep of UTSA since the 1999-2000 season, which was also the season before Rippetoe-Blair took over the Roadrunners.
The Roadrunners fell to 3-3 in conference play with the loss. They will attempt to get back in the win column when they travel to face the Mavericks of UT Arlington Wednesday Feb. 1 in the grand-opening game of UT Arlington’s new College Park Center. Tip-off is scheduled for 6 p.m.
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Rippetoe-Blair remains one win shy of 200 at UTSA with 10 games left
Upcoming Home Games:Women’s Basketball vs. Lamar, Saturday Feb. 4, 4 p.m. Convocation Center Women’s Tennisvs. Midwestern State, Friday Feb. 3, 4 p.m.
vs. Laredo Community College
Saturday Feb. 4, 1 p.m. UTSA Tennis Courts
For complete team schedules go to www.goutsa.com
Roadrunners rolling along with defense UTSA improves to 6-1 in conference with 78-66 win
Jordan Sims brings the ball up court during action against Sam Houston State. Sims was 8-8 earlier in the week in a non-conference 115-49 victory over Jarvis Christian.
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Super Bowl rematches
Another year, another Super Bowl without one or both of the Texas teams.
Eventually they will get there but it won’t be at least until Super Bowl XLVII. For now, football fans in Texas will have to get through Super Bowl XLVI between the New York Giants and the New England Patriots, or Super Bowl XLII 2.0 as the national media has christened it.
Yes, this Super Bowl is a re-match, but then again many previ-ous Super Bowls were rematches. In honor of the Super Bowl having yet another rematch, let’s take a look at some of the matchups that have happened more than once.
The first time two teams ever met in a Super Bowl for a rematch was in Super Bowl XIII when the Pittsburgh Steelers took on the Dallas Cowboys in a reunion of Super Bowl X. Just like Super Bowl X, the Steelers defeated the Cow-boys en route to their fourth Super Bowl victory of the 1970s.
The Steelers and Cowboys would play each other again in Super Bowl XXX with the Cowboys avenging previous defeats to the Steelers en route to their last title to date.
Four years after Super Bowl XIII came another rematch when the Miami Dolphins faced the Wash-ington Redskins in Super Bowl XVII. The two teams had met in Super Bowl VII with the Dolphins winning to complete a perfect 17-0 season, the only time that has hap-pened in the Super Bowl era. In XVII the Redskins got revenge by knocking off the Dan Marino-led Dolphins.
The next rematch in a Super Bowl came in XXIII when the San Francisco 49ers knocked off the Cincinnati Bengals in a rematch of Super Bowl XVI, also won by the 49ers.
The early ‘90s would see a his-toric run from the Buffalo Bills as they made four Super Bowls, in-cluding XXVII and XXVIII against the Cowboys. The Bills would lose in all four trips.
Now comes the fifth rematch in Super Bowl history.
It remains to be seen whether the Patriots will do as the Redskins did in XVII and avenge a previous loss or whether the Giants will do as the 49ers and Steelers did and prevent a familiar opponent from winning the Super Bowl.
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The Roadrunners’ men’s basketball team is off to another fast start to the season with a 14-7 overall record and the program’s best start to Southland play in 20 years at 6-1.
The Southland start has the Road-runners in a good position to win the conference and earn consecutive trips to the NCAA tournament for the first time in program history.
For a team that lost only one player to graduation last season and entered this season with three new players, it is a credit to the returning players
who have stepped up this season.Sophomore forward Tyler Wood
believes that the previous experience has been extremely valuable to this year’s squad.
“We’ve learned what it actually takes to be a championship team. We learned how hard it is. All the hours that you got to put into to get there. So, we are able to learn from that and take from it and help prepare for this season to repeat what we did last year,” Wood said.
A huge challenge for this year’s team was replacing the production of guard Devin Gibson, who graduated last spring. However, Wood believes other players have risen to make up
for such an explosive player. “This year we have more people
contributing on a nightly basis,” Wood said. “You just never know who’s go-ing to come at you that night.”
Melvin Johnson III is second on the team in scoring average (13.4 points per game) and first in three-point field goals made with 41. Johnson credits the team’s chemistry as one of their strengths.
“Most teams in our conference, they change teams almost every year. Right now, we are building a pro-gram, bringing in a bunch of young guys that can play,” Johnson said. “We know how to play together and how to adjust to each person’s game.”
Some of the newest players to Coach Thompson’s team haven’t wasted any time making an impact. Junior trans-fer guard Kannon Burrage is the Run-ners top scorer early in this season, with 13.8 points per game and he is number one in made free throws with 71.
Another Junior transfer guard Mi-chael Hale III has adjusted very well to the tempo of Division I basketball. He currently leads the team in assists with 3.1 per game. Hale has also con-tributed with his defense averaging 1.2 steals per game, ranking him sec-ond on the team.
“They have gelled in perfectly,” sophomore forward Igor “Iggy” Nujic said of the new players.
Another strength for the Runners this year is their shooting touch. The Runners are shooting a respectable 44 percent and scoring an average of 73.5 points per game.
“We have a lot of good shooters,” sophomore forward Jeromie Hill said. “Even all our big men can shoot. No one lacks confidence to shoot, and that’s one thing that this team thrives on.” Hill has continued to be a strong offensive presence for the Runners this year by leading the team in field goals made per game (five) rebounds (6.5 per game), and third on the team
Returning Runners spark historic start to Southland campaign
In his first season at UTSA Michael Hale has led the Roadrunners with 3.1 assists per game.
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with a scoring average (12.7 points per game).
The Runners have also shown up on the defensive side of the ball. This year’s squad has kept opponents to an average of 67.5 points per game through the first part of this season.
“At first the new defense was tough. It was complicated and the coaches were expecting a lot from us,” Nujic said. “But once we all bought into it, now it’s starting to click like it should,
and we are getting really good re-sults.”
Nujic has also credited the defense as key factor in the win against Texas State.
The Runners seem to have all the right tools for another successful sea-son. They have an efficient offense, a relentless defense and the trust in each other to perform at their best.
“You are going to have a great time if you come to the game,” Wood said.
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