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COLLEGIAN UTBCOLLEGIAN.COM Vol. 64, Issue 25 Monday, March 26, 2012 A new future? UTB, TSC SEPARATION

> The Communication department selects a new chair. However, UTB's president must OK the decision RIGHT-- before anything is official. OPINION SIZING “Why didn’t the sports park partner up with UTB to create a BEGINS similar facility rather than both Officials send reduction in endeavor to cre- force process letter to staff ate two facilities when they could By Rene Cardona Jr. per Texas statutes and have saved them COLLEGIAN EDITOR Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board both, and the jonathon de los santos/collegian With the right-sizing rules and regulations, A bobcat tries to hunt for a meal before being caught on camera. The wildcat roams the area right off the bridge that leads to city’s taxpayers, process beginning March UT-Brownsville cannot the Education and Business Complex some money?” 19, officials sent a letter to offer community college programs once the >>CARTOON: Red Herrings the UTB/TSC community outlining the process of partnership ends. PAGE 4 resizing the university’s When registration for core faculty. the Spring 2012 semester Late Wednesday began, students were OUT OF afternoon, UT-Brownsville directed to choose their In for the kill: OFFICE President Juliet V. home institution (either The Collegian will not be García and Pedro Reyes, UTB or Texas Southmost The bobcat in an urbanizing world published April 2, as its staff will be attending in the area surrounding UTB/ like the bobcat (shown Texas Intercollegiate Press By Rene Cardona Jr. Association's Conference starting utbcollegian.com COLLEGIAN EDITOR TSC and will only continue in the photograph), the Thursday. Wish us luck! @ as the university builds ocelot and endangered (Our next issue will be out April 9.) Read the letter sent out by UTB and UT System officials. It’s a warm day, you’re on brushland east of U.S. jaguarundi to contend hungry and strolling down Highway 77/83. with a new world. by the bridge that leads UTB’s undeveloped Bobcats, or lynx rufus, ON THE WEB College). executive vice chancellor to the southwest end of property consists of 20 are one of the signature “The result was that 80 ad interim for Academic campus; you spot a duck recently purchased acres species of South Texas, percent of the students Affairs for the University and say, “Yum.” that abuts the highway which is considered one of chose UTB and 20 percent of Texas System, issued the You’re about to pounce. in addition to 80 acres the wildcat’s strongholds, chose TSC,” according to letter that delineates the No one is around, or so you near the soccer field. The said Kenneth Pruitt, an a UT System semiannual reduction in force process think. Just as you’re going University of Texas System assistant professor in report to the Texas set forth in Regents Rule in for the kill, you hear a board of regents approved the Biological Sciences Legislature dated March 1. 31003, Sec. 2. shutter sound, scaring your the purchase last year, Department. Because of possible The resizing comes as a meal away. according to a university “Everywhere around discrepancies that will be reaction to the new future Maybe searching for news release. here they are a normal part MARIACHI attributed to UTB’s new that UT-Brownsville food near the Education As urbanization and of our habitat,” Pruitt said. Catch what you missed during admission standards vs. faces as an autonomous and Business Complex is development has edged “One of the big concerns is TSC’s open admissions the weekend. university, including a not a reality for you (unless closer to the Rio Grande, road crossings. They … have and cost differences For all coverage that's not in reduced budget, a smaller the library café runs out the swaths of brushland such a large area they roam between the institutions, print, go to student body, and the of sandwiches), but it is that covered places like over on a normal basis as fact that it will no longer officials thus adjusted the the area on which the we build new roads … as utbcollegian.com becoming a day-to-day be in partnership with a fact for the wild creatures EDBC now sits have been CATCH UP ON NEWS community college. As See LETTER, Page 6 that have inhabited the removed, forcing wildcats See BOBCAT, Page 6 THAT MATTERS on our Website UTBCOLLEGIAN.COM UPDATED REPRINT >>Mexico TSC confirms post-separation nursing programs judges rule that By Rene Cardona Jr. or will be sending all those accept people into two-year Frenchwoman COLLEGIAN EDITOR faculty termination letters, programs,” Artibise said but I can’t say in the letter, about halting admission. not be freed Texas Southmost College ‘But you’ll be hired by TSC “So we backed off that will continue two programs immediately.’” and will continue to admit >>Locator in nursing as of Fall 2013, On March 19, a directive students in light of their officials said Wednesday. was issued throughout the commitment--by TSC--that chips keep Because of its status as College of Nursing that the they will be responsible for track of a four-year institution, Associate Degree Nursing those students.” UT-Brownsville cannot program would no longer TSC President Lily students in offer associate-level degree accept students, as per a tip Tercero and Vice President Brazil programs as per limitations sent to The Collegian. The for Instruction and Student set by Texas statutes and Vocational Nursing and Services Robert Aguero /UTBCOLLEGIAN Texas Higher Education the Licensed Vocational confirmed the college’s Coordination Board rules Nurse Advanced Placement commitment to the nursing and regulations. Associate Degree Nursing programs Wednesday @UTBCOLLEGIAN CHRISTOPHER PEÑA/collegian “After May next year, if programs were still Texas Southmost College officials confirmed March 19 nursing programs would be morning, the provost said. /UTBCOLLEGIAN it’s a TSC program [those accepting applications for offered after separation. However, no other programs have been confirmed. When TSC was officially faculty] won’t be working their last class for Fall 2012, notified of admission to THE COLLEGIAN for us,” UTB Provost Alan according to officials at the “We had started to work we wouldn’t have faculty in Artibise said. “We’ll have college. utbcollegian.tumblr on the assumption because the fall of 2013, we couldn’t See NURSING, Page 12 March 26, 2012 2 | ON CAMPUS the collegian

THE COLLEGIAN Mon. Tues. Wed. Thurs. Fri. Sat. Sun. Weekly Save Lives, Get a Tan ‘Joe’ Day League of Women Guitar Festival Party at Atria Hip-Hop Night April Fools Looking for a Today is National Voters The Guitar Atria Fitness Center The Collegian is the It’s Hip-Hop night at summer job? The City “Joe” Day. For those The Rio Grande Ensemble and Festival celebrates its one-year April Fools! No really, multimedia student newspaper What’s Competition, hosted by anniversary. Mixed the Big Brother Xtreme it is. Pull out your best of Brownsville is now of you who hate your Valley’s League of UTB/TSC, will feature martinis and food will Shops Warehouse. serving the University of name, you have the Women Voters is pranks and jokes ’cause hiring lifeguards for ensembles from be served from 9 p.m. Come out and support Texas at Brownsville and right to be called Joe conducting an effort all is fair on April Fools’ UP the summer. To get across the nation and to 1 a.m., and your local hip-hop artists by everyone you to get more women Day. Texas Southmost College. Want your event to be featured? hired, you must obtain the Grammy Award- name will be entered and DJs at their first know! to register to vote. The newspaper is widely Submit event information one week certification and those winning Los Angeles into a drawing by event ever. The cover The event is from 5 Guitar Quartet. It will in advance, before 5 p.m. Tuesday classes will be offered purchasing a ticket. fee is $3 and the distributed on campus and is to 7:30 p.m. at 285 take place in the Arts Ticket also includes a to [email protected]. First come this weekend. To get event starts at 7 p.m. an award-winning member of first serve, but student organization Calle Jacaranda in Center and starts at performance by Fuel and ends at midnight. the Texas Intercollegiate Press events are given preference. all the details, call Brownsville. Check 9 a.m. Thursday, and Gauge along with live The shop is located 547-6856. out www.lwv.com for ends at 10 p.m. Friday. MMA cage fights. For Association. --Compiled by Regina Miller Ticket prices and more more info, call 621- at 734 E. Levee St. in more information. information is available 4440 and for tickets, Brownsville. P.S: It’s Collegian Editor at http://bit.ly/GTBeIj. stop by Atria at 1747 BYOB! Rene Cardona Jr. W. Price Rd., Suite 6.

Online Editor Monica Cano ANNOUNCEMENTS POLICE REPORTS Webcast Editor Women’s Empowerment Forum conduct a free Youth Empowerment The following are among the incidents Miguel Angel Roberts A panel composed of students, faculty Seminar from 5 to 6 p.m. Friday and 11 reported to Campus Police between and community members will discuss a.m.-noon Saturday in the Student Union’s Feb. 29 and March 7. Spanish Editor equality among the genders from noon to Salón Jacaranda. The workshop provides Wednesday, Feb. 29 Viridiana Zúñiga 1 p.m. Tuesday in the Student Union’s tools and techniques for getting rid of 2:05 p.m.: A microwave oven caught Gran Salón. A question-and-answer anger, guilt and anxiety, increasing mental fire in the Raul J. Guerra Early Sports Editor session with the audience will follow the focus, clarity, energy and enthusiasm, Childhood Center. Staff unplugged Valerie Nichole Secrease panel discussion. For more information, improving the quality of sleep and the microwave and found there was a call the Deans of Students Office at enhancing communication and leadership burn mark inside. A staff member for Advertising Manager 882-5141. skills. For more information, visit www. t h e center said that no one was in the kitchen at Jimena Evia WOMEN’S WELLNESS FAIR us.yesplus.org. the time and that she heard something turn on and went Campus Recreation will sponsor MOCK LSAT to the room when she saw the machine in flames. She Advertising Representative a Women’s Wellness Fair from 2 to The Scorpion Law Society will host said this is the first time the microwave malfunctions. Melissa Ramirez 6 p.m. Wednesday in the Recreation, a Mock Law School Admission Test Another staff member said that she was in the room Luisana Lopez Education and Kinesiology Center. at 8 a.m. Saturday in the SET-B third- adjacent to the kitchen when she heard the other staff Departments and organizations will floor conference room. To RSVP, contact member scream. She said she went into the room to see Copy Editor provide free health screenings, health Scorpion Law Society Vice President the fire and quickly unplugged the microwave. Physical Héctor Aguilar information and giveaways. For more Baltazar Salazar at baltazar.salazar81@ Plant employees took the microwave for proper disposal information, call 882-5977. gmail.com. and did not find any malfunctions in any of the nearby Staff Writers Farmworkers awareness Immigration Seminar outlets. The Office of Global Engagement 5:37 p.m.: A Physical Plant employee reported that Marlane Ashley Rodriguez The College Assistance Migrant Program will mark National and Rodriguez & Moretzsohn he found a bullet hole in the hood of his Chevrolet S10 Samantha Ruiz Farmworkers Awareness Week with P.L.L.C. will present an “Immigration pickup truck while it was parked in the Physical Plant Joe Molina several events. The César Chávez Rally, Seminar” at 11 a.m. Saturday in the SET-B parking lot. The bullet appeared to have come from Regina Miller featuring musical performances by CAMP Lecture Hall. The seminar will cover topics higher ground from the southwest. The truck was Magaly Rosales staff and students, and migrant stories such as work visas, attaining permanent towed to the International Technology, Education and and poetry, will take place from 11 a.m. to residency and the citizenship process. For Commerce Center Auto Body shop, where its hood was noon Wednesday in the Free Speech Area. more information, contact Samantha removed. The bullet was not found and was believed to Photographers Refreshments will be served after the rally Lopez at [email protected] or call have ricocheted off the vehicle. The surrounding area in Christopher Peña in the CAMP office, located in Cardenas 882-7092. the parking lot was searched but no bullets were found. Hall North 103. CAMP alumni, students STARS SCHOLARSHIP The truck sustained $200 worth of damage. and United Blood Services will The South Texas Academic Rising Thursday, March 1 Scholars (STARS) scholarship program Cartoonist sponsor the National César Chávez 12:30 p.m.: A man and a woman reported that their van Blood Drive Challenge from 9 a.m. to is accepting applications for 2012-13. was burglarized in the Riverview Golf Course parking Michelle Serrano 3 p.m. Thursday in Cardenas Hall North Eligible undergraduate and graduate lot. They said that they noticed a man who was driving 116 and Cardenas Hall South 117. For more students are encouraged to apply by a truck close the trunk of their van and leave the area. Editorial Assistant information, call 882-7871. Saturday. For more information, visit When they arrived, they saw that the woman’s purse Jasmin Euceda Violence Against Women https://www.southtexasstars.org. was missing. The contents of the purse included $260, a Friendship of Women Inc. will Liberal Arts Symposium wallet, two credit cards and a checkbook. Secretary II host its third annual Conference on Government Assistant Professor Mark 2:06 p.m.: A student reported that he struck a Texas Ana Sanchez Violence Against Women from 7:30 Kaswan will present his research in a Department of Public Safety state trooper’s Chevrolet a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday and 7:30 a.m. lecture titled “Happiness, Democracy, Tahoe with his Pontiac Grand Am as he was backing out Student Media Coordinator to 4:15 p.m. Thursday in the Brownsville and the Cooperative Movement” of a parking space in Lot U. No injuries were reported; Susie Cantu Events Center. The conference will from 12:10 to 1:30 p.m. April 5 in the the DPS unit sustained $200 worth of damage. feature expert presenters on topics such Faculty Study located in Cavalry Hall. Friday, March 2 as human trafficking, stalking, sexual FREE TAX RETURN PREPARATION 6:44 p.m.: A Campus Police officer was dispatched to Student Media Director assault, battering intervention and much Taxpayers who have low or limited the Center for Early Childhood Studies in regard to an Azenett Cornejo more. Registration is $60, $10 for students income (under $49,000), individuals intoxicated man who had been detained by the U.S. with a valid ID. For more information, call with disabilities, non-English speaking Border Patrol. The agent said the man was found near CONTACT: Batterer’s Intervention and Prevention and elderly taxpayers can receive help to the Fort Brown Memorial Golf Course and agents caught complete their tax returns. Volunteers The Collegian Program Coordinator Daisy Lopez at up with him at the childhood center. The Campus 544-7412 or email [email protected]. will be available from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Police officer said the man had bloodshot eyes, slurred Student Union 1.28 Army ROTC Internship Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays, 10 a.m. speech and a strong smell of alcohol on him. The man 80 Fort Brown UTB/TSC Army ROTC will hold to 8 p.m. Tuesdays and Wednesdays and 9 failed the Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus test and told the Brownsville, TX 78520 a presentation for students about its a.m. to noon on Saturdays in room F9 of officer that he had drunk five beers four hours before. Phone: (956) 882-5143 scholarship and internship program the ITEC Center, 301 Mexico Blvd. The He was arrested on charges of public intoxication and Fax: (956) 882-5176 from 10 to 11 a.m. Thursday in the SET-B service will continue through April 14. For transported to the Carrizales-Rucker Detention Center. e-mail: [email protected] Lecture Hall. For more information, call more information, call 882-4108. U.S. Border Patrol placed an immigration detainer on the Cpt. Eva Bratschi at 882-7621 or email ‘Chanclas and Tchaikovsky’ man after he was booked. [email protected]. The Brownsville Literacy Center Tuesday, March 6 YOUR Agriculture Expo will present Symphony in the Park: 3:10 p.m.: A staff member reported food has been missing U.S. Customs and Border Patrol “Chanclas and Tchaikovsky” at 5:30 from the refrigerator in a Life and Health Sciences NEWS will host the first annualAcknowledging p.m. April 21 in Washington Park in Building room. She said the situation is getting worse as IN ONE Agriculture Expo from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Brownsville. Tickets are $4 for children time goes by and that the breakroom should be locked PLACE Thursday in the Education and Business 12 and younger, $8 for adults and $50 after 5 p.m. Complex’s Salón Cassia to inform the for the VIP section. Proceeds benefit Wednesday, March 7 FIND US ONLINE: public of how state, local and federal the Brownsville Literacy Center. For 8:33 a.m.: Two Math Department employees reported www.utbcollegian.com agencies play a role in supporting local information on buying tickets, call 542- that three computers were stolen from a classroom in facebook.com/utbcollegian agricultural interests. A presentation will 8080. SET-B. They said the classroom was left unsecured all twitter: @utbcollegian be given about the requirements to import day and when they arrived to the room at night they found youtube.com/utbcollegian agriculture products from Mexico, which --Compiled by Magaly Rosales that computers were missing and several combination are often associated with Easter. For more locks had been broken. A Campus Police officer advised © 2012 The Collegian information, call Supervisory Agriculture them that they should leave the rooms with expensive Specialist Davis W. Davis at 592-3414 ALWAYS KNOW equipment locked and open them for classes or have the The University of Texas or email david.w.davis @cbp.dhs.gov. What's going on campus. instructors call Campus Police to open the door. at ART OF LIVING SEMINAR See our weekly compilations Brownsville The Art of Living Foundation will of campus happenings. --Compiled by Samantha Ruiz March 19, 2012 the collegian ON CAMPUS | 3 Communication faculty selects new chair SGA time.” “We have dropped off in a Cook plans to According to Cook, number of majors we’ve had gears possible enrollment decline and I think that I’d like to ‘reinvigorate’ to the department’s basic stir up more interest in our program courses might be attributed program.” up for to the possibility that Texas Cook plans to promote Southmost College will be the communication degree By Joe Molina offering Speech 1315 and by inviting high school elections THE COLLEGIAN Speech 1318. students and undecided “We don’t know for sure majors to gather at the By Michelle Serrano Associate Communication but we do know that some Student Union’s Gran THE COLLEGIAN Professor John Cook awaits programs are dropping the Salón and “find out what UT-Brownsville President requirement for speech communication is all about.” The Student Government Juliet V. García’s letter of so we will very likely have He also plans to Association has appointed approval for his position as fewer sections, which means strengthen the bachelor’s senior psychology major department chair. we will need fewer of the program while making way Gaby Ortiz as a senator for For two weeks, nine faculty members who teach for a master’s program next the College of Liberal Arts. faculty members cast that almost exclusively,” fall. The appointment will be their votes on individually he said. “It’s a difficult “I want to be as the last as the SGA gears assigned ballots and on time ... but I’m every bit supportive as I can to Dr. up for online elections to March 9 a decision was optimistic as Dr. García [Louis] Falk because he’s be conducted beginning at made. is that this a temporary going forward with the 8 a.m. Tuesday and ending The department’s current JOE MOLINA/collegian setback but we will start to proposal with the M.A. at 4 p.m. Thursday, with chair, Professor Sharaf Texas Southmost College President Lily Tercero addresses the Student Government grow again and we actually degree in communication all positions (except the Rehman, told The Collegian Association, reassuring the senate on the progress and combined efforts of UT- may be better than we were in April before the graduate judiciary) up for grabs. during a phone interview Brownsville and TSC to reach full separation and accreditation by 2015. before. I foresee that for committee and I’d like to do A total of 22 students that chair elections are good communication as well as whatever I can to help.” applied to run, university and held every three years that election,” Cook said. “I as program coordinator for UTB.” Cook would like to see officials said Thursday. so that the position isn’t still am not chair until I get a while [the] communication When officially made department chairs receive During the adviser’s attached to one person and letter from the president. ... [program] was under the chair this fall, Cook will be training in administrative corner portion of the new ideas can be brought to The letter from the president department of English and overseeing the department’s and management meeting, David Marquez the table. is what makes it official.” Communication,” he said. fiscal resources, responsibilities. discussed that the election, He said the announcement Three years ago, Cook “When we separated as a administrative duties, “We are communication conducted on Blackboard, of Cook’s new appointment decided not to run due to the department--this is the year assignments to committees experts but that doesn’t would exclusively feature would likely be made at the political turmoil caused by that Dr. Rehman came on and engaging faculty in mean we don’t need to be the link to UT-Brownsville’s end of this semester. the splitting of the English board--I just thought it was accomplishing business for trained on how to do it mascot selection. Students “It’s not official yet, and Communication [time] someone else takes the department. better,” he said. “I know interested in voting for the though the votes have been Department. the lead, so I chose not to “I would want to mascot of their preference certified and the dean has “I chose not to run get involved in any kind of reinvigorate the program must vote in the elections recommended we accept then. I had been serving political struggle at that a little bit,” Cook said. See CHAIR, Page 12 to participate. Thirty-one mascot choices are on the ballot. Student Health Services receives prestigious recognition SGA ELECTIONS BEGINS: 8 a.m. March 28 sized manual of compliance also serves as a nurse ENDS: 4 p.m. March 29 By Regina Miller WHERE: My UTB Blackboard THE COLLEGIAN measures. practitioner for the clinic, For more than a year told The Collegian “a Let Your Voice Be UTB/TSC students are and a half, Student Health united effort between the Heard familiar with Student Services Director Eugenia staff, the providers and the Counseling and Guidance Health Services, but what Curet and her team administration” made the Student Association is not known is the volume worked tirelessly to ensure difference in obtaining the President Michelle Ramirez of work its staff completes that all of the AAAHC’s recognition. and member Leslie Wood daily to continue to provide requirements were met “It’s a feather in UTB’s asked the SGA for funding quality services for them. and the department was cap to be able have the for its graduate reception The Accreditation deemed up-to-par. Once SHS be accredited for and celebration. The Association of Ambulatory the evaluator arrived, the maximum amount of funding requested would Health Care (AAAHC) there was no doubt that time. … I really commend help the organization in is an organization that the facility, its staff and Dr. Curet for pursuing it,” purchasing awards, plaques measures the quality of their services would receive Hayes said. CHRISTOPHER PEÑA/collegian and certificates for the services against nationally the recognition. SHS was She described how for After working to ensure requirements, UTB/TSC's Student Health Services was ceremony. recognized standards. awarded the AAAHC’s full many students, SHS is their recognized by the Accreditation Association of Ambulatory Health Care. The women cited the In order to be eligible for accreditation as opposed to “medical home,” [primary stringent 54-hour week of a one-year accreditation or health care provider] and this accreditation, the body that is similar to in South Texas. Another studies and community none at all. that this accreditation department must possess The Joint Commission possible benefit would be service, such as the Connie Hayes, an further validates the 10 different qualities, and accreditation of hospitals working with the Regional community clinic, that associate master technical quality of services they are once approved for the and health care facilities … Academic Health Center, offers free counseling for instructor in the Allied receiving. process, the department which is tops in the nation or RAHC, to exchange the community. Health Department who “This is an accreditation receives an encyclopedic- and internationally,” Curet data and apply it to further SGA Vice President said. research opportunities. of Administration Without Joint “Dr. Curet is a huge Normalinda Reyna said the Commission accreditation, visionary. … She really senate would consider the hospitals cannot receive wants to focus on blending request. Flexible Retirement Income federal funds or accept bio-psycho-social analysis The Greek Council’s Medicare or Medicaid to promote wellness with Rolando Ocañas and Jose programs. our student body,” Fuentes- Martinez asked the SGA SHS pursued the Martin said. if it would be possible to accreditation to show The Collegian asked maintain a non-voting “a higher standard of Curet if the AAAHC had liaison during the meetings CLU, ChFC expectations” for itself, any recommendations for in order to stay abreast Bob Richardson said Mari Fuentes-Martin, SHS and she replied: “The of upcoming activities. REGISTERED FINANCIAL CONSULTANT associate vice president for strongest recommendation Vice President of Policy Student Affairs and dean of was that we provide and Procedures Marisol students. meditation services to Cervantes suggested that “It gives us an extra our students … to help they ask someone from the (956) 542 - 1775 stamp of approval,” [students] relax, focus Greek Council to also join Fuentes-Martin said. and concentrate on their the SGA, to which freshman She believes this studies, and improve their senator Philip Martinez, accreditation will allow quality of life. I believe in who is currently member for funding opportunities, that; it’s part of holistic to the Greek Council, such as grants, to conduct medicine to really help out volunteered to keep the benchmark studies students with that area of Greek Council informed. concerning certain relaxation. For more information on the mascot selection, visit Investment Advisor Representative with and Securities and Investment Advisory Services offered through demographic health issues, Transamerica Financial Advisors, Inc (TFA) member FINRA, SIPC and a Registered Investment Advisor. utb.edu/sa/studentlife/ Non-securities products and services are not offered through TFA. such as weight and diabetes See RECOGNITION, Page 12 LD3916-08/09 Pages/Mascot-Page.aspx. March 26, 2012 4 | OPINION the collegian

Help us help out “The issue that I have right now is that, not many students know that there are other programs out there for homeless people. … Two weeks ago my first- year seminar class volunteered for Homeless Pack a Snack Pack, not many people went. … I don’t know if it’s because not many posters are out there or not enough students are getting that information. I wish they would do something about that, so we can all help.”

Aida Martinez Freshman bilingual education major

A little shade, please “I would think, because parking is so far away, and we have a lot of sidewalks to use, it would be really cool if they put up a tent or tarp over the sidewalk, so we can have shade as we walk to class.”

Gilbert Sanchez Brownsville Sports Park-- Freshman music education major Good move Letters gone with the wind “The UTB separation from TSC, I think overall it will benefit the student population, to t h e e d i to r By Chris Scott because each institution can focus Policy better on their own students Letters to the editor must include the name, classification and phone number of the When the Brownsville Sports Park started its and provide them with a better author or the letter cannot be published. Opinions expressed in The Collegian are those construction I was extremely excited. Finally this education for a better future. of writers and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Collegian or UTB/TSC admin- sports enthusiastic city would be able to accommodate And having more resources istrators. The editor reserves the right to edit the letters. Send your letters to collegian@ everyone who wanted to partake in sports, whether and better investment on the utb.edu. that be soccer, football, baseball, softball, basketball, institution can help further these volleyball, even rollerblading or skateboarding. There goals.” were to be great facilities which would include the best Iraq, Afghanistan wars fields in the city with changing rooms, restrooms, a Jose Jardon concessions stand and enough parking to enable huge numbers of people to use all the facilities at once. Senior engineering physics-mechanical major highlight social inequality I was in my freshman year at UT-Brownsville when the construction was close to being completed and I left By Carlos Gutierrez for the summer break excited by the prospect of having TWEET IT quality facilities available to the men and women’s Why is society so unequal, why does it seem so soccer teams for the first time, having spent my Texas <3's Football natural to have inequality? Far from the feudal kings freshman year invading the baseball field on campus to @utbcollegian, why don't [we] have a football and queens of ages long past we now encounter a very train and enduring Morningside Park, anthills and all, team?!!! I know UTB is small but we love our different picture of social reality; it portrays a world of for matches. football! It's TEXAS! Come on. #mybeef severe inequality that has spread to the whole globe. Sadly, though, I was in for a rude awakening during Norma Mendiola Although they are not new problems, rampant poverty my sophomore preseason. After our first week of @lolabamboo and malnutrition are now widespread and affect almost training sessions at, what we thought, were our new every country. Never before has so much been produced high standard facilities, it became blatantly obvious for so few, and never before have so many resources that the planners of the sports park hadn’t accounted Tell us your beef been wasted and depleted. It almost seems as if the for the high winds that swept across the fields almost via Twitter. machine was designed this way. constantly. Now any sportsman will tell you that the Just use In order to imagine this global inequality we shall worst condition to play in is the wind and it was a rare #my­beef use, as an example, a massive militarized compound occurrence during that season that any of us in the and tweet us, in the Iraqi “Green Zone,” located in Baghdad. It is the squad could play a long-range pass without the wind biggest embassy in the world. It has at least 15,000 catching the ball and hurling it in some completely @utbcollegian. staff members within its almost invincible walls. random direction. The privileges of those who work there and who have It is now three years on from when the sports park was completed in Olmito and yet this problem still --Compiled by Marlane Ashley Rodriguez nothing to worry about and the Iraqi people being constantly targeted are a clear illustration of how global hasn’t been addressed. The sports park was designed to --Photos by Christopher Peña inequality works. It’s difficult to get a clearer picture attract the best sports teams in Brownsville due to its than this; it is well known by a large majority of the superior facilities, yet it managed to repel the two teams informed public that the Iraqi war is a scam. Indeed, that are the pinnacle of soccer in the city. The winds intended to be one. and, to a lesser degree, logistics are the two reasons Massive spending and inefficient war tactics have not why the university chose to move our practices to the political talk only been a constant trait in the Iraq war, but also in REK Center field on campus during my final two years the Afghanistan war, war not only lost by the American at UTB, preferring a bobbly, uneven surface that made army but lost to the invincible Taliban, with whom they soccer almost unplayable at times to a flat, lush surface put simply, now have to negotiate due mostly to the fact that they where the wind made soccer unplayable most of the are now in control of a good portion of the country. time. on a blog Using the information available and applying a political It is not just the best who suffer from the conditions and economic analysis, we learn and appreciate that at Olmito but the beginners as well. Venture down to the indeed most of the characteristics and traits of modern sports park on virtually any weekend of the year and utbcollegian.com social inequality are invested in the origin of our very you will be hard-pressed to find a parking space due to own economic system; a system that is not only packed the amount of youth soccer, both men’s and women’s, with fictitious and absurd ideals such as nationalism played there. I have been lucky enough to coach a team and religious fanaticism, but with very real and crude for the past two years and can attest to how hard it is human conditions. Humanity is forced to pit against See INEQUALITY, Page 12 See WIND, Page 12 March 26, 2012 the collegian ON CAMPUS | 5 ONDER Texas OMEN messes

with collegian ts/ Medicaid r Miguel Angel Robe UTB/TSC Health Services avoids financial blow released Name: Michelle Ramirez a law passed by the Texas covering the rest. in January By Michelle Serrano Age: 25 Legislature last summer Cindy Mann, director 2011 by THE COLLEGIAN Hometown: Brownsville and that took effect March of the federal Centers fiscal policy Classification: Graduate 14. It bars state funding for Medicare and Medicaid analysts, said the The U.S. Health student pursuing a master’s in for clinics affiliated with Services, said that last Texas Legislative and Human Services education abortion providers. The year it cost about $41 Budget Board Department has rescinded Major: Counseling and Obama administration had million, and about $34 s u p p o r t , “recommended Medicaid funding for family Guidance-Community Track pledged to stop funding the million of that came from Mann said. that Texas planning in Texas due to the Graduation Date: August Women’s Health Program Washington. Perry has directed state continue and expand state’s Health and Human 2012 because federal law health officials to women’s health programs Services commissioner Hobbies: “Thrift store requires women to find the funding to to help contain Medicaid refusal to fund family shopping, volunteering be able to choose keep the program costs,” according to a planning agencies that friendship of women, PELAG any qualified clinic. What I’m afraid going from other news release by the Texas provide abortion services. “ [at] Community Events and Gov. Rick Perry parts of the Medical Association. Federal regulations of is that women’s other workshops and giving counters that budget, but he has Eugenia Curet, director stipulate that grant rights are being back to the community, states have the promised not to of UTB/TSC’s Student monies awarded to states stepped on, as we go on-- spending quality time with right, under federal raise revenues to Health Services, said the for programs such as friends and family, my pets.” law, to determine instead of cover the costs. funding cut could create public health cannot be Goals: “My immediate goal is qualified providers having more The move may bigger problems. distributed unless the state to simply graduate and obtain in the program. ‘equal rights.’ affect access “Poor people—low- follows rules attached to licensure to counsel. I hope to The program ” to affordable income people, [will have] those monies, including Eugenia Curet move and eventually obtain a provides care to reproductive health less and less access to health money set aside for Director of Student Health Services doctorate in counseling and about 130,000 care for Texas care, which in fact, is going family planning agencies open up a private practice. women between women if the state to burden more costs by the that provide abortions. Long term, I hope to be the ages of 18 and 44 About 29 other states cannot find other sources of government because when In addition, the Hyde financially stable enough to get earning less than $20,000 have programs similar to funding. they get sick, they cannot go Amendment prevents my brother through college a year or less than $41,000 the one in Texas, and all The action is contentious to somebody to get [taken] Medicaid from funding and closer to his goals, along for a family of four--with of them except Texas are considering the “Texas State care of, [and they] will end abortions, except in cases with being able to support and federal funds paying 90 continuing to participate in Government Effectiveness up in the emergency room of rape or incest. repay my mother for all that she and Efficiency” report, The standoff stems from percent of its cost and Texas their programs with federal See MEDICAID, Next Page has done for me.” Ideal job: “My ideal job consists of waking up each morning to do something I love. Although, I am only an intern Scrapping standardized tests to advance at the moment, I absolutely love what I do and couldn’t ON CAMPUS | Expert touts organization’s sociocultural and sociopolitical vision for Latinos' education see myself as anything other than a counselor. Plus, it will be By Regina Miller includes the study of students were able to avoid pretty exciting to actually be THE COLLEGIAN sociocultural, political, the path of a high-stakes paid. Not to be materialistic or economic and historical standardized exam like the anything, but bills have to be At least one national context of Latino education. State of Texas Assessment paid, right? I haven’t quite found organization is advancing In university education, of Academic Readiness, or my counseling niche but as of the education of Latinos “what we’re really lacking is STAAR. By creating a new right now I really want to open in the United States by promoting political literacy policy, students were waived a practice specializing in the scrapping standardized and political efficacy. … It’s from such requirements, treatment of various issues tests for a tailored the kind of thing that you and yet were able to within the at-risk adolescent curriculum, according to an learn as you’re actually doing demonstrate their academic and young adult population.” education expert. the work in the community,” capabilities through a What kinds of struggles Angela Valenzuela, Valenzuela said. tailored curriculum. have you faced as a associate vice president She believes that while “The question in a school woman? “Just as I had a lot of for school partnerships at conducting research and like El Puente is not whether issues that brought me down the University of Texas at implementing policy on an you’re going to graduate, for a long period of time but I’ve Austin and director of the institutional level, “we have it’s a question of when,” come to realize that everything National Latino Education to realize that we are all Valenzuela said. Here, happens for a reason and that Research and Policy different … and difference is sequence of learning is meaning can be found in even Project (NLERAP), said the the strength.” similar to one of a college, the worst of situations. This is organization is an initiative Another focus is the where you study fewer a huge lesson that I try to instill that aims to further develop organization’s “teacher subjects in depth as opposed in my clients as my less than teaching quality and the preparation pipeline,” to many subjects quickly. perfect past helps me relate JOE MOLINA/collegian teacher education for Latino created by Sonia Nieto, one The NLERAP strives to and empathize with them. ... Angela Valenzuela, director of the National Latino Education Research and Policy high school youth in Texas, of the founders of NLERAP, build “a constituency that Overcoming stereotypes and to build “critically conscious is university connected, Project, discusses improving Latino education during the College of Education’s negative attitudes was also California, Wisconsin, Distinguished Lecture Series on March 19. Illinois, New York and educators,” Valenzuela said. but community based,” another huge issue I have Arizona. One pipeline currently Valenzuela said. Its and continue to struggle with. NLERAP focuses on implements the NLERAP’s approach in achieving this Chicago, Milwaukee, Puerto education attainment and I’m tattooed, non-conventional “improving the education vision into language arts, is to include two signature Rico and other NLERAP student learning.” and have been told that I don’t of Latino children, families, science, math and history courses, one sociocultural posts across the United Valenzuela is the author fit the typical ‘what a counselor/ and community,” Valenzuela classes at the University of and one sociopolitical, States. of “Leaving Children professional should look like’ told an overflowing crowd Illinois. which all of their teacher As stated on its website, Behind: How ‘Texas-Style’ stereotype. What you see is March 19 in the Education The organization’s effort preparation pipeline the NLERAP believes in Accountability Fails Latino what you get; I pride myself and Business Complex’s in New York called “El graduates will have to take. “getting to know educator, Youth.” Her speech was part in being someone who is Salón Cassia. Puente Academy for Peace These courses will be parent and community of the UTB/TSC College of completely authentic and She said one of NLERAP’s and Justice” is an example taught at its community- values, attitudes, and Education’s Distinguished major areas of research of a small school where based research centers in beliefs and their impact on Lecture Series. See WONDER, Next Page March 26, 2012 6 | the collegian

is habitat loss in all three countries in BOBCAT which the bobcat roams. The Rio Grande Continued from Page 1 Valley is not excluded. TALL ORDER “Over the past 40 years we’ve eliminated they try to cross they tend to get hit quite the habitat for the bobcat, the jaguarundi, often by cars, and that’s one of the things the ocelot, all sorts of things and so, with any of the wildcats we’re looking at is you know, as we continue to urbanize how exactly does that impact their ability and subdivide, and cut up the bigger not only to move without dying but also [tracks of uninhabited land] into housing their ability to breed and interact with developments, there’s just less and less other cats of the same species.” natural habitat for the species that would The bobcat’s range extends from occupy those niches,” Burchfield said. southern British Columbia along the Although conserving land in innovative U.S.-Canadian border down into central ways, such as having homeowners pay Mexico between Guerrero and Veracruz, premium to live out in nature and opening according to the International Union for wildlife corridors for creatures to roam, Conservation of Nature. Because of the humans continue to expand their reach. lynx rufus’ wide range and abundance, Because UTB and its new land is the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species surrounded by bodies of water, to which lists the wildcat’s conservation status as of native species cling, effectively managing least concern, the lowest classification that projects is crucial for the continuation of includes species such as the honeybee and wildcats in the area. humans. “We have a proven record here on Bobcats, among other wildcats, call the campus of respecting the natural habitats Rio Grande Valley, including the UTB/ and respecting the natural boundaries we TSC campus, home, even if students and have, leaving the palm growth, leaving photographers roam the area. One such the resacas, working around those,” said cat was caught on camera in mid-January Associate Vice President for Facilities and on a Friday when the campus is mostly Planning Veronica Mendez. abandoned by students. The university’s master plan lays out The creatures, weighing on average several goals and objectives as construction between 15 and 20 pounds, tend to be and development continue, and future reclusive although they are less so than landscaping planning encourages their wildcat counterparts, the ocelot and integration of the ecology of the location, jaguarundi, Pruitt said. according to university documents. In some areas like southern Canada, “How do we incorporate it into the design male bobcats can weigh as much as 40 rather than tearing it down?” Mendez pounds. The wildcat’s fur varies in color said about incorporating the surrounding from pearl gray to light yellow, and some natural features of an area. have spotted coats. The allure of the coats However, simply maintaining chucks of a natural habitat or the trees is not enough, has led the creature to top the felid skin MAGALY ROSALES/collegian Burchfield said, because everything is trade, and most of those exports come Sophomore chemistry major Danny Hurtado (from left), senior biology major Josh Hilton and sophomore needed, such as the understory of plants. from the U.S., according to the IUCN’s exercise science major Bobby Barker climb a U.S. Army rock wall during the “Spring Back” event held last profile on the bobcat. Exports reached a “You don’t clear everything on the Tuesday on the Student Union lawn. About 450 people attended the event, which welcomed UTB/TSC peak with 51,419 skins shipped abroad in ground and just leave the trees because students back from Spring Break and featured an earth-friendly theme. Coca-Cola donated barrels for 2006 compared with an annual average of you’ve destroyed the ecosystem,” he said. collection of plastic bottles on campus and representatives from the Texas Commission on Environmental 13,494 skins between 1990 and 1999. “You need to leave pieces of it intact and Quality, the Rio Bravo Wildlife Institute, Brownsville Scrap Paper and Go Green Center had information “A big problem [is that] bobcats are freely preferably connecting pieces so it forms a booths. The event was coordinated by the university’s Sustainability Council, Recycling Committee, hunted in Texas,” said Gladys Porter Zoo corridor so … there is connectivity so the Residential Life and students in Assistant Professor Elizabeth Heise’s conservation of natural resources Director Patrick Burchfield. “All predators animals can move from Point A to Point B, class, according to Joshuah Law, chair of the Sustainability Council. For more photos, check our gallery utbcollegian.com have a function in the scheme of things so the animals can roam without having to [such as] keeping down on pestiferous rats be exposed to getting hit by cars or getting and mice and other animals that are of a shot by somebody.” campaign for Student Health Services. health concern to man.” MEDICAID For women outside the campus The primary threat, according the IUCN, community, “there is lack of education, Continued from Page 5 but there is also lack of health care [facilities],” Curet said, pointing out that with really chronic diseases which require women between the ages of 18 and 64 will deliberation as the units formulate their hospitalization. ... The person is not going go without reproductive health care unless recommendations for elimination. to be able to afford [the costs] and the they are disabled or have private insurance. LETTER government will have to pay for the cost on Departmental Review Committees can On campus, the clinic provides an array Continued from Page 1 the institutions of care.” request permission to deviate from the of services for students. As of now at UTB/TSC, the potential in “We have all these programs for Provost’s Charge for “exceptional cases.” projections, the report states. losing low-cost resources such as family prevention to teach the students,” Curet Officials predict 60 percent of currently Once the review of academic programs planning and sexual health education will said. “We care about them when they come enrolled students will attend UTB and 40 and faculty positions is completed, not be affected. here, and provide the medical care so that percent will attend TSC, the UT System recommendations and rationale for “We don’t get affected by that because they can take care of their health and don’t report states. termination will be completed and all our operations are funded by the fees end up in the emergency room.” that the students pay,” Curet said. “We also The hits will affect lower-division submitted by May 7 to the provost. A total of 225 students visited Student have a small grant from the [Alice Kleberg courses, which swell with freshmen such “The Provost will then submit his Health Services for family planning in recommendation to the President, Reynolds] Foundation that we use for academic year 2011, compared with 32 so as English 1301. However, because TSC women’s health.” who will in turn submit her request for far this semester. That’s about 19 visitors has not informed the UT System on its The grant helps provide reduced-cost pap approval to the Executive Vice Chancellor per month in 2011 vs. 11 visitors per month course offerings, UTB is still unaware how smears ($25) and blood work ($17.50), with for 2012. for Academic Affairs,” the letter states. vast the impact will be. For example, it is special circumstances such as indigence With Medicaid for women’s health being unknown if TSC will offer Speech 1301 or For those tenured and tenure-track allowing services to be provided at no cost. phased out within the next three months, Macro- and Microeconomics, so the extent faculty who are recommended for Funds are also utilized for sexual health it remains to be seen if Student Health of reduction in force in the departments termination, an incentive program option education classes and family planning-- Services will see an increase in students that host the classes cannot be so easily exists “that would allow these faculty both of which “promote abstinence and seeking access to women’s health care. other safe practices” associated with healthy calculated. to voluntarily resign their positions “What I’m afraid of is that women’s rights reproductive systems. Three types of committees will be set effective May 31, 2013.” Notification of are being stepped on, as we go on--instead and information on the program will be Sexually transmitted infection/HIV of having more ‘equal rights.’ There [are] up to review academic programs and prevention education are at the forefront provided on or about May 14, 2012, the people who are making [political] decisions faculty positions up for elimination: The of the clinic’s campaigns, but current letter states. [about] women’s rights.” University Review Committee, composed knowledge of the services available to The Associated Press contributed to this UT-Brownsville will notify faculty of of five faculty from across the university, students on campus is still a burgeoning report. will cover tenured and tenure-track their termination August 1, 2012. faculty associated with community- Employment for those terminated in the assist people during some of the darkest and/ college-level programs; Departmental reduction of force process and who have WONDER or most confusing moments of their lives. ... The Review Committees will review academic not elected to participate in the incentive Continued from Page 5 best feeling in the world is to be present during departments and be composed of three to program will end as of May 31, 2013. someone’s transformation, experiencing it with Those who do not participate in five members of the respective department; honest and I will continuously work on breaking them and to receive a genuine thank you or sigh the incentive program can appeal the Program Review Committees will also the entire judging-a-book-by-its-cover issue.” of relief.” termination decision. Appeal Hearing be formed to review other programs that What is your latest accomplishment? Advice: “Don’t let anyone tell you who you can Committees will be created and hearings are being considered for abandonment or “Taking on the position of president for our or cannot be and let those moments of negativity will be conducted in Fall 2012, the letter reduction in scope, the letter states. Counseling and Guidance Student Association or hardship push you to be more than you ever states. Those sitting on the committees and being accepted as a counselor intern at the imagined you could be. Don’t allow your past to Review of staff positions will begin were recommended by their respective local private practice, Cascadas Counseling.” hold you back and provide you with excuses, but in January 2013 with notification of deans and Provost Alan Artibise. García Who or what inspires you? “I try to find rather move forward and reach for the stars. ... termination decisions in the spring appointed the nominees, the letter states. beauty and appreciation in most everything; Acknowledge your past, work through it and ask, semester, and employment will end August The committees will have a specific however, as cheesy as it may sound, people ‘So what am I going to do about it?’--and may 31, 2013. charge provided by the provost, or and humanity in general inspire me. It is an honor, your answer be something positive.” Provost’s Charge, to guide the process and each and every time, to be asked and allowed to --Compiled by Jasmin Euceda March 26, 2012 the collegian LOCAL & STATE | 7 TEXAS TRASH rate set City-Allied Waste accord reduces amount of increase SHORTS The document states By Samantha Ruiz Associated Press THE COLLEGIAN that the fees shall be increased every 12-month KOMEN EXECUTIVES RESIGN Good news for period beginning April 1. DALLAS — At least five high-ranking executives with Brownsville residents- Deputy City Manager the Susan G. Komen for the Cure breast cancer charity -a planned 4.67 percent and Chief Financial Officer have resigned in the aftermath of the organization’s increase in the residential Pete Gonzalez told The decision to eliminate its funding for Planned garbage collection fee Collegian via email last Parenthood. The departures include three officials has been lowered to 4.09 Wednesday that Allied from Komen’s Dallas headquarters, as well as CEOs percent. Waste will keep 77.61 of affiliate groups in Oregon and New York City. The Residents will see a bill percent of the revenue chairman of the foundation also stepped down from his of $19.83 per container and the city will get 22.39 post, though he will remain on the board. on April 1 instead of the percent. SANTORUM IN S.A. original $20.63 that was The commission approved a resolution that SAN ANTONIO —Presidential candidate Rick being requested by the authorizes the Brownsville Santorum last Thursday said Republicans should give company. Of that total, Public Utilities Board to CHRISTOPHER PEÑA/collegian President Barack Obama another term if Santorum $15.37 will go to Allied employ condemnation Brownsville residents will be charged a monthly rate of $19.83 for one container of isn’t the GOP nominee and for a second day compared Waste and $4.46 to the procedures to obtain an residential garbage beginning April 1. rival Mitt Romney to an Etch A Sketch toy. Santorum city. easement in the Villa and Maintenance Building stipulated prices; reiterated an argument he has made before: The former During its meeting last Nueva Subdivision in order located at 700 Jose Tipotex Chevrolet Massachusetts governor is not conservative enough to Tuesday, the Brownsville -- to construct a sewer line. Colunga Jr. St. The total of Brownsville for the offer voters a clear choice in the fall election and that City Commission also Commissioners also project cost is estimated at purchase and delivery only he can provide that contrast. approved an addendum to its resolution on the passed a resolution $615,000. of 10 patrol vehicles for FAMILY FATALLY SHOT license agreement with authorizing Brownsville If the grant is awarded, the Brownsville Police HEMPSTEAD — A man charged with fatally shooting Allied Waste that was first Metro to request the city will have to pay the Department at a total cost his parents and brother in their Texas home had been approved on March 17, $492,480 in federal remaining $123,120. of $268,440; studying serial killers and mass shootings like the 2010. financial assistance for the In other business, the --and to 3M Co. of one at Columbine High School and hoped to carry out The new cost reflects department’s Operations commission awarded St. Paul, Minn., for the his own act of public violence, authorities said last a change in the Water and Maintenance Facility contracts to: purchase and delivery of Thursday. Trey Sesler, 22, was arrested last Tuesday and Sewer and Trash Rehabilitation Project. --Eleana Gift Inc. reflective sheet materials after police found the bodies of his family members Collection Services Index The project will replace DBA Lynx Uniforms for the Brownsville Traffic at their home in Waller, about 40 miles northeast and the Gulf Coast Weekly and improve structural of Brownsville for the Department at stipulated of Houston. Police said they’ve also recovered Retail On-Highway Diesel elements, such as beams purchase and delivery prices. ammunition and about six weapons, including Price Index, according to and roofing and the of uniforms for the handguns and long rifles. the addendum. interior, of the Operations Brownsville Metro for the OBAMA DEFENDS OIL DRILLING RECORD CUSHING, Okla. — President Obama firmly defended his record on oil drilling last Thursday, ordering the government to fast-track an Oklahoma pipeline while accusing Congress of playing politics with a larger Texas officials approve radioactive waste dump Canada-to-Gulf Coast project. Deep in Republican oil environmental T e x a s wastes at the site, has country, Obama said lawmakers refused to give his By Jim Vertuno Associated Press reg ulators, officials spent hundreds of millions administration enough time review the controversial a n d s a y of dollars to open the 1,170-mile Keystone XL pipeline in order to ensure that AUSTIN--Radioactive company t her e dump. In 2009, the state it wouldn’t compromise the health and safety of people waste from dozens of states president is no issued two licenses to the living in surrounding areas. could soon be buried in a R o d company to bury low-level With: Texas dump near the New B a lt z e r radioactive waste, making TEXAS DROUGHT HEARING Mexico border after Texas said it it the nation’s only dump HOUSTON — The economic impact of a historic officials gave final approval could happen as early r e q u i r e m e n t for all classes — A, B and C drought that has parched Texas and other parts of last Friday to rules allowing this week. to notify law — of nuclear debris and the the Southwest will be felt for years, with ripple effects the shipments. Applications to e n f o r c e m e n t first low-level site to open in spreading nationwide as agriculture damage adds to Texas lawmakers in bury waste at the of which 30 years. increases in food prices, experts told a Texas legislative 2011 approved the rural Andrews site must routes trucks One license pertains committee last Thursday. Andrews County site to be approved by the carrying low- to the compact between POLYGAMIST LEADER-TRIAL take the waste and last compact commission level waste will Texas and Vermont that MIDLAND — A former lieutenant to polygamist sect Friday’s unanimous vote on a case-by-case basis. take. allows for disposal of prophet Warren Jeffs illegally took multiple wives on by the Texas Low-Level At least three have already Karen Hadden of the radioactive materials such a remote West Texas compound that was raided by Radioactive Compact been filed, Baltzer said. If Texas SEED Coalition, as uranium, plutonium and authorities, prosecutors alleged last Thursday. Wendell Commission cleared a they are approved, material an environmental group, thorium from commercial Loy Nielsen’s trial on three counts of bigamy began major hurdle to allow the could start arriving in May. warned the commission power plants, academic last Thursday in Midland, Texas, the Standard-Times waste burial. Waste Control Specialists that many rural counties institutions and medical of San Angelo reported. Nielsen, 71, was a counselor Texas already had officials say accidents don’t even have professional schools. In 2011, lawmakers to Jeffs and former president of the Fundamentalist a compact legal with are infrequent when low- fire departments to respond approved expanding that to Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. He faces Vermont to take its waste. level radioactive waste in case of an accident. 36 other states. up to 10 years in prison if convicted. Environmentalists have is moved. Data from “The magnitude of risk The other license deals AMERICAN AIRLINES LABOR argued against expanding the U.S. Department of here is huge,” Hadden said. with similar materials Transportation’s Pipeline Hadden also said the from sites run by the U.S. NEW YORK — American Airlines will ask a federal the program to 36 more and Hazardous Materials Department of Energy, bankruptcy judge next week to throw out its union states, warning it could commission should such as Los Alamos contracts if it can’t reach cost-cutting deals with labor result in radioactive Safety Administration require independent National Laboratory in unions. American’s lead bankruptcy lawyer, Harvey material rumbling through show that, from 2003 audits of the shipments to New Mexico, Hanford Site Miller, said last Thursday that the company and unions the state on trucks with through 2011, there were 72 make sure only low-level have bargained in good faith, but he doesn’t expect few safeguards in case of incidents involving trucks material is coming in. The in Washington state and them to reach compromises. an accident. They also say a with radioactive material Texas Commission on other federal facilities. Also: problem at the waste dump traveling on highways. Environmental Quality Waste Control could lead to potential One person died and the has an on-site inspector Specialists’ majority owner JUSTICE TO AT&T: PAYUP underground water accidents caused $2.4 to monitor shipments and is Dallas billionaire and WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is seeking contamination. million in damages. Baltzer said the facility heavyweight GOP political to recover millions of dollars from AT&T Corp., alleging Dallas-based Waste That compares with won’t take materials it’s not donor Harold Simmons, the company improperly billed the government for Control Specialists, which almost 64,000 incidents licensed for. who has given millions of services that are designed for use by the deaf and hard- owns and operates the site, involving flammable/ “I’m not sure you can ever dollars to Republicans, of-hearing who place calls by typing messages over the insists it will be safe. The combustible liquids-- do enough to satisfy some including Texas Gov. Rick Internet. waste would be entombed the leader in hazardous people with the number Perry. in concrete about 100 materials accidents in the of audits in place,” Batlzer feet underground in an nine-year span. Seventy-six said. area with densely packed people have died in those Waste Control, which clay. 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Rick Scott that his departure was piece of bread. But who benefits? Who is meal. Associated Press aimed at “toning down the rhetoric” in the well protected by the walls of the green The infirmities of this economic case. zone and who makes the cash at the end sector which are also the core reasons SANFORD, Fla.--Before the charges Residents had demanded that Lee be of the day? for its failure have created wars and that police botched the investigation of the fired before he stepped down; afterward, We can get a broad idea of what the ravaged cultures. So insecure we are of shooting of an unarmed black teen, there protesters gathering early for a rally real world looks like when we read our illegitimate domain that we build were complaints that police went easy on chanted “The chief is gone. Zimmerman authors such as Noam Chomsky who, a massive fortress, the biggest in the an officer’s son who beat a black homeless is next.” Others sold T-shirts that read, with evidence-backed inquiries, takes a world just to feel safe and appropriate. man, or that police pull over black kids for “Arrest Zimmerman.” Lee has said stab at the political system. The reality But those inherent errors in the script of wearing the wrong color hat because they police officers didn’t arrest Zimmerman is that those who are profiting from modern economy are also those which suspect gang associations. immediately after the Feb. 26 shooting the Iraqi war are also those who are have made petroleum so important and The furor over the failure to charge a because he claimed self-defense and there not in the front line of the battlefield. human lives so utterly unimportant. neighborhood watch captain for shooting was no evidence to contradict his claims. The truth is that while thousands of Carlos Gutierrez is a junior sociology Trayvon Martin to death is the latest Florida’s self-defense law gives people innocent soldiers and hundreds of major and president of the Sociology episode to inflame racial tensions that wide latitude to use deadly force rather thousands more of innocent civilians Club. You may send comments to have simmered between police and blacks than retreat during a fight. die, the lives and futures of Europeans [email protected] in this Orlando suburb for years. “There is no trust,” said Turner Clayton Lee has been on the job for less than Jr., president of the Seminole County’s a year. His predecessor, Brian Tooley, weather field to attract high-profile teams retired early in wake of criticism that to play there. I have a couple of issues NAACP. “There is no confidence.” WIND Clayton spoke before Sanford’s police Sanford police dragged its feet in arresting Continued from Page 4 with this: 1. Why didn’t the sports park Justin Collison on charges of knocking out partner up with UTB to create a similar chief and a local prosecutor stepped aside at times to teach the kids close control, last Thursday. The chief was accused by a homeless black man. facility rather than both endeavor to It took a month for Collison, the son juggling, heading, long-range passes and create two facilities when they could have critics of mishandling the investigation of a variety of other skills needed in soccer, 17-year-old Martin’s death. of a police lieutenant, to be arrested saved them both, and the city’s taxpayers, and charged in 2010 with battery, even due to the wind. The whole facility was some money? 2. Surely the money would “I do this in the hopes of restoring some designed for the purpose of allowing semblance of calm to a city which has been though the attack was captured on video. be better spent on a wind barrier around Collison eventually pleaded guilty to youth sports to develop and thrive but the south side of the facility. in turmoil for several weeks,” Police Chief how are these kids expected to do that Bill Lee Jr. said. a misdemeanor and was sentenced to Perhaps trees might be a solution, probation late last year. when they can’t even dribble with the ball similar to the hundreds cut down to The U.S. Department of Justice has as the wind knocks them off balance or launched a civil rights probe and a special The department was also criticized for actually build the facility in the first delaying the arrest of two security guards blows the ball away from them and they place. If a few were spared or replaced prosecutor appointed by the governor is spend most of the session chasing them examining the February shooting by watch with close ties to the department who shot along the perimeter of the all-weather a 16-year-old teen to death in 2005. The down? and grass fields, the sports park would captain George Zimmerman, 28. Police It is not even just the soccer fields that questioned but never charged Zimmerman guards were arrested several months after be able to achieve its goals of providing a the shooting and were eventually cleared. are affected by the wind. On the drive high-quality facility to allow sports to be after the Feb. 26 shooting of the teen who into the sports park from the highway had gone to a convenience store for Skittles One of the two guards who shot Travares nurtured and grow, it could attract the McGill was a police volunteer and the your vehicle will be sandblasted as best of what Brownsville sports has to and an iced tea. the wind erodes the beach volleyball The failure to arrest Zimmerman — who other was the son of a former police officer. offer and would be able to do this without Bryan Ansley and William Swofford courts, creating sandstorms bigger than the soaring costs that we have seen over said he shot in self-defense after Martin those seen in Dubai. The Brownsville attacked him — and a delay in releasing claimed they feared for their lives when the last few years. However, if the BCIC they shot the teen through a car window. Community Improvement Corp. has chooses to continue along the path that it 911 calls related to the shooting outraged spent $35 million on a facility that was Sanford residents who called it the latest Of Sanford’s 53,000 residents, 57 is currently on, all hopes of achieving any percent are white and 30 percent are black. first thought to cost a little over $10 of these goals will be gone. Gone with the example of bias against blacks. million, yet how much of that is wasted “They’re as crooked as a barrel of Some residents have proposed wind. boycotting the Sanford Police Department due to the high winds? Chris Scott is a graduating fishhooks,” said black resident Lula King. Now we see this new stadium She told a town hall meeting this week that by asking 911 dispatchers to send county communication senior and former sports sheriff’s officers rather than the Sanford construction taking place on the all- editor for The Collegian. her teenage grandson is regularly pulled over by police officers who think he is in police. a gang because of the red-and-black hats And Martin’s family said the resignations current students. He plans to engage his he wears. don’t’ go nearly far enough. They repeated colleagues’ energies to help him reinvigorate “There are two sides to every story, but demands last Thursday that Zimmerman CHAIR the program. they don’t get but one side,” said King, 75. be charged. Continued from Page 3 “I hope it will be a smooth transition,” he Lee said he would step aside temporarily “We want an arrest, we want a conviction and we want him sentenced for the murder fundamentally what we are supposed to be said, “where I begin to do my best to lead to let passions cool, saying he had become of my son,” Martin’s father, Tracy, said. doing.” and engage what I believe is a very talented a “distraction” in the investigation. Hours Aside from promoting the department, faculty and advancing the programs for bachelor’s and master’s.” Cook hopes to resurrect the service club because [we] passed accreditation,” Curet called the Communication Council for RECOGNITION said. Continued from Page 3 The department employs 10 people full the college informed the UT System that time and serves more than 1,000 students it expected a list to be complete in early UTB/TSC students can expect Curet to per semester. Its services range from NURSING March, according to a semiannual report begin looking into those services soon. mental health care to sexually transmitted Continued from Page 1 by the UT System to the Texas Legislature. Now that it has been accredited, Student disease testing and weight management Health Services expects to “continue programs. the ADN program being halted March Officials from both institutions have confirmed the goal of having separate improving the services we have; we just 19 by UTB officials, the college urged the don’t sit back and rest on the laurels just university to continue enrolling students classes beginning August 2013, meaning “given that both entities remain in each entity will have its own admission partnership until 2015,” Tercero said in an processes, too, the provost said. email to The Collegian Friday. “They need to admit their own students; “We explained that while TSC has not yet we can’t admit them,” Artibise said, “so completed its program review process, we starting next spring there will be two would take care of any students enrolled processes. They will have to have an in this program beginning fall 2013, when admission registration and admissions TSC is to become fully operational under function/operation.” the UTB/TSC accreditation,” Tercero said. By May 2013 there will likely be no UTB “Until then, all students enrolling at both involvement in TSC processes, he added. institutions should be officially enrolled as UTB/TSC students.” During the TSC board of trustees meeting on March 1, TSC transition team member Leonardo de la Garza said the college and the university cannot have See the separate accreditation until 2015 per regulations established by the Southern redesigned Association of Colleges and Schools, which is the sole entity capable of accrediting institutions in the U.S. in 11 states, from Texas to Virginia. UTBCOLLEGIAN.COM No other programs or course offerings have been confirmed by TSC, although 26 de marzo de 2012 the collegian NOTICIAS EN ESPAÑOL | 13 Experto en interpretación visita el campus Por Viridiana Zúñiga Barrientos comenzó alentando a a mi compañero decir ‘Germán came EDITORA DE ESPAÑOL la audiencia a traducir una serie de into the room and, then, Germán left the términos utilizados en la corte, como: room’”, dijo Barrientos. “Pues cuando él initial appearance--comparecencia decía ‘Germán’, los del tribunal entendían inicial; indictment--acusación formal; her man (su hombre); una vez que lo arraignment--instrucción de cargos; entre esclarecimos, el juicio siguió su curso sin otros. Explicó también uno de los principios confusiones”. básicos de la traducción: el contexto. De acuerdo a la Asociación Nacional “Se debe tomar en cuenta la historia que de Intérpretes y Traductores Jurídicos rodea a la palabra; por ejemplo, seize es (NAJIT, por sus siglas en inglés), los CHRISTOPHER PEÑA/COLLEGIAN comúnmente traducida como ‘asegurar’; intérpretes de la corte certificados ganan Ignacio Barrientos, un intérprete del tribunal del distrito sur del sin embargo, cuando se presenta un caso $388, por tiempo completo al día; $210, Texas, explica su profesión a los estudiantes de UTB/TSC durante en que lo que se asegura son drogas, la por medio tiempo al día; y por tiempo la charla de interpretación jurídica el pasado jueves en el tercer palabra que se usa es ‘decomisar”, dijo el extra, $55 por hora. piso de SET-B. intérprete. Los que no cuentan con un certificado y Rosalba Epps. Esta beca anual se da a CHRISTOPHER PEÑA/COLLEGIAN Barrientos aconsejó a los presentes ganan $187 por día; $103 por medio día y los estudiantes que están tomando cursos José Dávila-Montes, coordinador del programa de traducción e estudiar previamente la terminología que $32 por cada hora extra que laboren. de traducción jurídica e interpretación, interpretación de UTB/TSC, entrega la beca de TAJIT por $500 a la se utilizará en un juicio en el que hay algún Dávila-Montes dijo que el ponente tomando en cuenta su desempeño y estudiante Rosalba Epps. ha hecho trámites en la corte para promedio general. El programa de traducción e permitir que los alumnos de traducción “Este reconocimiento, aunque un poco interpretación del Departamento de e interpretación presencien en vivo una simbólico, es revelador del interés y la Lenguas Modernas presentó “Court sesión con intérpretes en el tribunal federal cooperación que hay entre la comunidad Interpreting: An Insight to the Profession”, de Brownsville. profesional y nuestro programa de una conferencia sobre interpretación Además de la ponencia de Barrientos, traducción”, dijo Dávila-Montes. “Vale judicial en donde un experto en el tema se entregaron, por primera vez los la pena repetir que dicho programa es el expuso los detalles que envuelven a dicha certificados de interpretación médica, que único en todo el estado de Texas a nivel profesión, el jueves 22 de marzo. entraron en vigor en otoño del año pasado. de licenciatura y es uno de los pocos seis u “Desde hace un tiempo intentamos Los recipientes de dichos certificados ocho programas en todo el país”. organizar todos los semestres, si es posible, fueron los estudiantes de traducción e La certificación federal para un acto de divulgación de la actividad interpretación: Rosalba Epps, Alejandra interpretación en tribunales consta de dos de los traductores e intérpretes a nivel Mora, Luis Sánchez, Kathleen Cerda, partes. El primero es presentar un examen CHRISTOPHER PEÑA/COLLEGIAN profesional”, dijo José Dávila-Montes, Alfredo Mercuri, coordinator de la certificación de interpretación Viridiana Gaitán, Moroni Puga, Jesús escrito, con un costo de $140, en el que se coordinador del programa de traducción e médica, otorga el certificado de interpretación médica al estudiante López, Nelson Troncoso, Christian Zapata, requiere un 75 por ciento para aprobarlo. interpretación. “Esta vez nos enfocamos en Luis Sánchez. Belinda Carreón, Antonio Leal, Tania Después, se debe tomar un examen la interpretación jurada en tribunales, una perito involucrado. Galván y Sergio Martínez. oral, que tiene un costo de $200. Estos de las vertientes más especializadas y una “Ya sea un caso en el que se vaya hablar “Esta es la primera promoción de exámenes se pueden tomar cuantas veces de las que más curiosidad despierta entre del ADN o de la producción de nylon, el intérpretes médicos, así que los hospitales sean necesarias y no hay requisitos extras los estudiantes, pues buscan información intérprete debe estar familiarizado con estarán contentísimos de que les vamos para inscribirse. El período de inscripción sobre cómo obtener la licenciatura como los términos que se usarán para ofrecer a brindar mucha gente”, dijo el profesor es del 16 de abril al 1 de junio del presente intérprete judicial, tanto a nivel estatal un óptimo desempeño y, de esta manera, del departamento de lenguas modernas, año. como federal”. facilitar el entendimiento del caso”, dijo él. Alfredo Mercuri. Para más información sobre el examen Al evento se invitó como ponente El ponente compartió una anécdota Además, se entregaron las dos becas que de certificación, consulte este enlace: principal al intérprete de tribunales Ignacio personal en la que él y uno de sus colegas la Asociación de Traductores e Intérpretes www.ncsconline.org/d_research/fcice_ Barrientos, que compartió con la audiencia fungían como intérpretes en un juicio. Jurídicos de Texas (TAJIT, por sus siglas exam/index.htm. Contacte la Oficina de el desarrollo de su ejercicio y los detalles “Noté que los presentes en el juicio en inglés) concedió a los estudiantes de Traducción e Interpretación al 882-8215. más relevantes de su profesión. tenían una cara de confusión al escuchar traducción e interpretación Iván Torres UTB/TSC será la sede del congreso nacional ATISA El eventó reunirá a traductólogos de más de 10 países diferentes Por Viridiana Zúñiga de tamaño relativamente pequeño, pues También se incluye el ejemplar anual de posgrado, en el EDITORA DE ESPAÑOL somos una sesentena de personas, el hecho Journal of the American Translation and sentido de que ya de ser la única especializada en este ámbito Interpreting Studies, una revista que trata no se va aprender Por primera vez, de conocimiento, atrae a asistentes, no sólo de las diferentes investigaciones que hay en a traducir, sino que nuestra universidad del país, sino de todo el continente y fuera el ámbito de esta disciplina. se aprenderá a El profesor de Johannes fungirá como de él”, dijo Dávila-Montes. “Dado a que nuestro campo académico investigar mejor; anfitriona del sexto Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, En el congreso se contará con la es pequeño y, en muchos lugares no muy en cuanto a los Don Kiraly. congreso nacional presencia de tres oradores principales, dos reconocido, es recomendable pertenecer estudiantes de nivel de la asociación de los cuales pertenecen al ámbito de la a una asociación de este tipo para licenciatura, son más que bienvenidos; académica ATISA traductología. agregar peso y garantía al currículo”, dijo además, si alguno está interesado en ser ( A m e r i c a n El primero es Don Kiraly, profesor de él. “Y por supuesto, asistir al congreso voluntario, está de más pedirle que nos lo Translation and Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, y permite escuchar los progresos en las haga saber”, dijo Dávila Montes. Juliet V. García, rectora de UT- Interpreting Studies escritor del libro “A Social-Constructivist investigaciones de la comunidad en este El congreso está subvencionado por una Brownsville. Association), en el Approach to Translator Education” (2000), ámbito”. beca del Departamento de Educación de los que estudiosos de la donde presenta un enfoque de educación Los costos de la inscripción, de acuerdo a Estados Unidos a través del FIPSE (Fund traducción e interpretación compartirán centrado en el aprendizaje y basado en los la página oficial de ATISA, son: for the Improvement of Postsecondary sus últimos hallazgos e investigaciones en proyectos para los profesores. Kiraly es •Regular: $250. Education). el ámbito. uno de los didácticos de la traducción más •Estudiantes: $120. “Esta beca fue la que nos permitió tener “Este congreso bienal albergará a casi reconocidos del mundo, de acuerdo a una Como parte del grupo de ponentes y un programa de maestría en traducción todos los traductólogos de Estados Unidos descripción que ofrece la página utb.edu/ escuchas que asistirá al congreso, cuatro y con la que se creó la maestría en línea”, para comunicar los últimos progresos en ATISA profesores del Departamento de Lenguas dijo él. “Tenemos la obligación de hacer los proyectos que tienen en mano”, dijo Estará también la doctora y profesora Modernas; todos ellos involucrados accesible, al ámbito académico, nuestros José Dávila-Montes, director del programa emérita Marilyn Gaddis Rose, una de los en un programa de traducción. Los avances de investigación”. de traducción e interpretación y miembro miembros fundadores de la asociación docentes son George Green, catedrático Parte de esa beca cubre este congreso de la junta directiva de ATISA. y pionera en la implantación de la del departamento; Jorge Jiménez- como vía de diseminación y divulgación de El evento, que comenzó el 19 de marzo traductología como ámbito académico Bellver, profesor los logros obtenidos a través de ella. y terminará el 31 de marzo en la Isla del en Estados Unidos. Rose fue la creadora adjunto; Alfredo El tema principal de este año es Padre Sur, consiste en diversos talleres del primer programa de doctorado en Mercuri, profesor “Didáctica de la traducción” y “Métodos de metodología en la investigación y una traductología en el país. del departamento y educativos en la traducción”, pues la beca veintena de ponencias orales que tienen La tercera oradora será la rectora de Dávila-Montes. está orientada precisamente a la didáctica como objetivo alentar la exposición de los UT-Brownsville, Juliet V. García, quien Un grupo de de la traducción. progresos más recientes en el ámbito y inaugurará el acto. voluntarios, UTB/TSC lleva 30 años de enseñanza conocer las investigaciones que se llevan a “[La rectora] es una figura de gran de personal y en este campo. Actualmente cuenta con cabo, de acuerdo a utb.edu/ATISA. relevancia y trascendencia en el ámbito estudiantes de la programas de cierta envergadura, lo que La asociación tiene 10 años de antigüedad de la interculturalidad dado el lugar universidad estarán la ha convertido en un referente a nivel y se fundamenta en la investigación y la Marilyn Gaddis Rose, profesora donde estamos y la naturaleza de nuestra de University of Binghamton en el congreso nacional dentro de este ámbito. docencia. A ella pertenecen profesorado e universidad inminentemente bilingüe ayudando con la “No hay muchos lugares que ofrezcan investigadores del ámbito de la traducción y bicultural y dada la importancia de su logística del evento. Algunos fungirán la variedad y la calidad de estos estudios e interpretación. puesto como rectora de un lugar como en como moderadores en las ponencias, que como los que ofrecemos aquí”, dijo Dávila- Este año, los países visitantes serán el que estamos”, dijo Dávila-Montes. abarcarán más de una docena de lenguas Montes. “El congreso es una oportunidad Australia, Barbados, Bélgica, Canadá, Los asistentes al congreso, deberán dar diferentes, pasando por el árabe, el ruso, de establecer una diferencia y de poner a China, Colombia, Alemania, Israel, México, un pago que incluye la membresía de la alemán, español, entre otros. UTB/TSC en el mapa académico en una Polonia, España y Taiwán. asociación por dos años, además de cubrir “Este congreso es especialmente especialidad en la que realmente estamos “A pesar de ser una conferencia nacional los gastos de las comidas y las actividades. recomendado para los estudiantes de muy por delante de otras instituciones”. 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Valerie Nichole Secrease/collegian Name: Vincent Cavazos Hometown: Corpus Christi

JOE MOLINA/collegian Major: Management Scorpions third baseman Kyle Douglass(left) barely misses Javelinas pinch runner Julian Duran during last Tuesday’s game on Scorpion Field. The Sport: Golf Javelinas edged the Scorpions 2-1. If you could meet someone famous who would it be? Why? Scorpion with two hits in in previous victories, RRAC Pitcher of the Week By Valerie Nichole Secrease “I’ve always had a little crush on Shakira. You know how the game. including a 12-run eighth for March 12-18. Sports Editor people name boats after girls? Well, I don’t have a boat, Matt Leffler had a inning in March 13’s win. Henscey, a sophomore so I named my truck Shakira. So, I would love to meet After a harsh 15-6 loss strong performance for After five victorious from the East Texas city her one day.” against the Texas A&M the Scorpions, but he days on its home of Mont Belvieu, went What do you enjoy the most about playing golf? International University collected the loss for diamond, the team 7-for-11 during the four “What I love is playing with my brothers. I’ve played Dustdevils earlier this UTB/TSC, making his traveled to Marshall games, posting a .636 with them in middle school and high school, and now month, the Scorpions look record for the year 1-5. for an important three- batting average during college, so I always think that’s something that not ¹/³ game Red River Athletic the span. to make a comeback when Leffler went 6 innings everybody gets to enjoy, playing with their brothers. I they travel to Laredo on and threw only 76 pitches Conference series against In three conference love playing with them and my teammates, so I’m glad Tuesday. during the stretch. He Wiley College, where it games against Wiley about that.” Another A&M allowed two runs, five swept the competition. College, he was 7-for-9 What are your expectations for you and your component, Kingsville, hits, struck out one and UTB/TSC is now 23-10 with two doubles, one teammates this semester? edged the UTB/TSC did not walk a batter. for the season and 13-2 homer, five RBIs and “We’ve already had a lot of good tournaments together, Baseball Team 2-1 last Kale Wierenga allowed in the Red River Athletic three walks. and our last tournament is coming up, and that’s Tuesday at Scorpion only one hit over the final Conference. Vera, a junior from conference. We would love to win that, it’s always been one of our goals.” Field, the last game before 22/3 innings. The Scorpions jumped Brownsville, pitched the Scorpions began a While everyone else into first place in the in the second game of What is your favorite thing about golf? “I think just the competitive nature. I’ve always been an monthlong roadtrip. was out at the beach and conference on March a three-game sweep of athlete, but golf is probably my favorite sport. Just being The non-conference catching up on their tans, 16 with a Northwood Wiley College March 16. in the competition is my favorite thing about it.” loss against the Javelinas the Scorpions were on University loss and He needed only 85 What is next for you after graduating? broke the eight-game a busy schedule as they remained there with the pitches for a seven-inning “I’m from Corpus, but I like to be here in Brownsville. winning streak the win on March 17. complete game shutout, played eight games over So what I want to do is stay here in Brownsville and help Scorpions had during The team outscored striking out 10 batters Spring Break. the guys and my brothers out, and just stick around for a Spring Break against UTB/TSC hosted the Wiley 33-3 in the three- without walking any. He game sweep. In the eight- scattered five hits in a little bit longer. I’m not ready to leave yet.” Fisher and Wiley colleges. Fisher College Falcons Do you have any secret talents that people might UTB/TSC took a 1-0 (Mass.) in a five-game game winning streak, 15-0 Scorpion win that the Scorpions scored 83 was stopped after seven not know about? lead in the second inning series March 10-14, and “Well, I have one secret, but I don’t know if it’s really a runs and allowed 28. innings because of the 10- on a run-scoring single by proved to be victorious in talent. I always like to jam out either in the car when I’m UTB/TSC swept the Red run rule. K.J. Semien, scoring Matt every game. by myself or even when I’m with people. Even when I’m River Athletic Conference The Scorpions return Ginn, but the team could The Scorpions swept in the shower, I put my music on full blast and pretend weekly baseball awards, home on April 20 for a not bring anymore base the series 9-4, 12-4, 12-8, I’m like 50 Cent or something and rap and freestyle a runners home. 12-4 and 6-5. They were as Colby Henscey was doubleheader against little bit.” Outfielder Peter able to take advantage of named RRAC Player of University of the Maldonado was the only an inexperienced bullpen the Week and Adam Vera Southwest. --Compiled by Valerie Nichole Secrease Men’s golf team places 6th, women’s 12th in Daytona for UTB/TSC in the strong 16-team field. Valerie Nichole Secrease The Scorpions were consistent March 12, with all five Sports Editor golfers shooting between 76 and 78. Other scores for the After the two-day Eagle Invitational hosted by Embry- Scorpions were Haley, 75-77 for a 152; Eric Cavazos, 76- Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona, Fla., the 76 for a 152; and Marcus Cavazos and his brother Vince UTB/TSC Men’s Golf Team finished tied for sixth place Cavazos each shot 77-77 for 154’s,according to a UTB/ out of 13 teams. TSC Athletics Department news release. On the opening day, March 19, the team was tied for The UTB/TSC Women’s Golf Team joined the men in eighth place after its 36-hole total of 617. Daytona on the course, as they shot a 358 total on the first Eric Cavazos led UTB/TSC with a 152, followed by day of the tournament to put them in 12th place out of 17 Vincent Cavazos with 153; Adam Haley and Anthony teams after 18 holes. Alainey Muro led the women with an 83 score followed Milligan, 154; and Marcus Cavazos, 158. , The men returned to the course last Tuesday to play 18 by Krystal Garza with 85; Elizabeth Garza, 93; Cat Lira, holes and as a team gather up a score of 305 to bump them 97; and Veronika Vasquez, 98. up to sixth place in the tournament. After returning to the LPGA International Champions Vincent Cavazos led the Scorpions with a 54-hole total Course, the women remained in 12th place with an 18- of 228, shooting 75 Tuesday. Milligan shot a 75 for a 229 hole total score of 353 last Tuesday. Muro led the team with a 165, shooting 82 Tuesday after total, Eric Cavazos shot 78 for a 230, Haley shot 81 for a 235 and Marcus Cavazos shot 77, also for a 235. an 83 on the first round. Krystal Garza shot 85 for a 170 The men’s team also participated in the UST Mamiya total, Elizabeth Garza shot 92 and finished with 185, Lira Texas Intercollegiate at Hawk’s Creek Golf Club in Fort shot 94 and finished with 191, and Vasquez had a 103 and Worth March 11 and 12 where they placed 12th out of 16 finished with a 201. teams with a two-day total of 605. The Eagle Invitational was the last tournament for Milligan finished with a four-over-par score to highlight the men’s team until the Red River Athletic Conference UTB/TSC’s efforts at the tournament. After a first-round championship in Red Rock April 16 and 17. Valerie Nichole Secrease/collegian two-under-par 70 March 11, Milligan shot a six-over-par The women’s team will participate in the Bluebonnet Coach Anthony Lopez mentors junior Marcus Cavazos at the Sen. Eddie Lucio 78 March 12. His total score of 148 was the best showing Classic in Fort Worth today and Tuesday. Intercollegiate Feb. 20. 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