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THE STUDENT VOICE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY MONDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 2017 WWW.UTRGVRIDER.COM VOL. 3, ISSUE 13 /UTRGVRIDER @UTRGV_THERIDER SPORTS CHECK IT OUT Library extends regular service hours in Brownsville Western Athletic Conference tournament recap Page 7 ESPAÑOL TSC fue la sede del XVI Congreso Binacional Página 5 A & E Ana Cahuiche/The Rider The Student Government Association has successfully worked with University Library officials on the Brownsville campus to increase the library’s hours of operation. The extended schedule has been in effect since Nov. 13. Britney Valdez Paul Sharpe and Associate “It helped to better align “Since the [UTRGV] THE RIDER University Librarian for library hours of operation, merger, I started coming t the request of Resource Management Peter so that both Edinburg and over to Edinburg more, so I “Get Out and Play” premieres Brownsville’s hours could started noticing things that Thursday students, the Cortez, took on the project Brownsville they had over here Page 6 library that we didn’t have extendedA its Monday [The library hour extension] also in Brownsville,” to Thursday hours by helps with those who were needing Galvan said. “The OPINION two. library is trying to The original hours a safe place to wait for the final take the approach were from 7:30 shuttle pickup at 11:45 p.m. of, ‘anything that Vaquero a.m. to 10 p.m., is on the Edinburg and now it’s open --Peter Cortez campus library, until midnight. The University Librarian for Resource Management Brownsville should Voice: change took effect have’ and ‘whatever Nov. 13 and aims to is in the Brownsville End of the better correlate the hours for of extending the Brownsville reflect each other as much as library, Edinburg should the Edinburg and Brownsville campus’s hours of operation. possible.” have.’ So, they have been campuses. “The library hours in SGA President Alondra working for equal amenities.” semester The Student Government Brownsville were recently Galvan expressed her SGA, Sharpe and Cortez Association, with the help extended to better serve motivation for changing the collaborated to better serve Page 4 of University Librarian our students,” Cortez said. hours. See LIBRARY, Page 2 still able to take all his undergraduate courses on the Brownsville campus. Before and during the semester, he emailed Emmett Tomai, the Computer STUDENT: ADD MORE GRAD Science interim department chair; Patricia McHatton, the UTRGV interim provost and vice president for academic affairs; Bin Fu, a computer science professor; and UTRGV CLASSESclasses IN for his BROWNSVILLEgraduate program are Success Vice President Kristin Croyle Nubia Reyna President Guy Bailey. THE RIDER being offered only in Edinburg. said in the article. “That’s really Garay received a response from Fu “They promised when schools were important. The idea is that a student and Tomai on Aug. 24, and met with Computer science students on the merging, that both campuses would should be able to finish their degree on Brownsville campus taking advanced McHatton on Nov. 1. have the same courses,” he said. “It’s the campus of their choice. Of course, In a Sept. 18 email to Tomai, Garay or graduate courses are having to three years after the merge and it’s still if there are some elective classes not commute to the Edinburg campus to wrote, “The current state of courses not the case. Why isn’t that promise required for your degree that you offered is unfair, inconvenient, and take most of their classes. being kept?” decided you just have to have, then you Such is the case for computer science raises many issues for us Brownsville In an article published April 6, would have to travel for that one, but students. I ask that you offer the graduate student Luis Garay, who 2015, in The Collegian, the student it wouldn’t be required, that would be wants an answer as to why there aren’t Brownsville campus the same courses newspaper of legacy institution the student’s choice.” that the Edinburg campus offers.” more courses in Brownsville. UT-Brownsville, a UTRGV official Garay was an undergraduate when Garay said if students search through Tomai replied on Sept. 27: “We are appeared to have made that promise. UTRGV opened its doors in Fall 2015. also exploring and evaluating every the ASSIST application in myUTRGV, “The main goal is for students to Even though both campuses were they would notice that most of the option for delivery at both locations. not have to travel,” UTRGV Student transitioning into one university, he was See COMPUTER, Page 3 November 27, 2017 2 ON CAMPUS THE RIDER ANNOUNCEMENTS Today information, call 665-3581. at the same time and place Saturday. Board Game Night Sexual Harassment Panel For more information, call 882-7025. The Rider is the official, award- Vaquero Ice Cream Bar A panel discussion on sexual Ballet Español The Student Union will host the harassment will take place from 12:15 to UTRGV’s Dance Program will winning student newspaper of the Vaquero Ice Cream Bar at noon 1:30 p.m. in Main 2.502 in Brownsville. perform its Ballet Español Fall University of Texas Rio Grande in the veranda on the Brownsville Members of the panel will be Juliet Concert at 10 a.m. in the Performing Valley. The newspaper is widely campus. For more information, call V. García, former president of the Arts Complex on the Edinburg distributed on and off campus in 665-7989. University of Texas at Brownsville campus. Tickets are $8 for adults, $5 The Student Union will host a and the first female Hispanic to for children and senior citizens. For Brownsville and Edinburg, Texas. Board Game Night at 5 p.m. in the lead a U.S. college or university; more information, call 665-2230. Views presented are those of the Game Room on the Edinburg campus. Douglas Stoves, associate dean for Saturday writers and do not reflect those The same event will be held at the same Student Rights and Responsibilities; Home for the Holidays James Whittenberg, an assistant of the newspaper or university. time in El Comedor on the Brownsville The Patron of the Arts will host campus. For more information, call professor of counseling; and Camilla Home for the Holidays at 7 p.m. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF 665-7989. Montoya, a psychology lecturer. They in the Texas Southmost College Arts Jesus Sanchez Wednesday will discuss procedures for handling Center in Brownsville. Admission sexual harassment situations, its is $10 for adults and $5 for senior SPORTS EDITOR Gingerbread House Contest citizens and students. For Bryan Ramos The Student Union will host a Gingerbread more information, call 882- ONLINE EDITOR House Contest at noon Have an announcement? 7025. Alain Lestarpe in the Game Room on the Holiday Bazaar Edinburg campus. For more Email us at The Edinburg Library SOCIAL MEDIA EDITOR information, call 665-7989. will host its annual Sergio Garcia Season’s Greetings [email protected] Holiday Bazaar from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the SPANISH EDITOR The Student Union will host Season’s Activity Center in Edinburg, Eric Montoya Greetings at 6 p.m. in El Comedor located at 123 E. Palm Drive. For more A&E EDITOR on the Brownsville campus. There psychological effects, how to get help information, call 383-6246 or visit for victims and social causes and Sydni D. Salinas will be a Make-a-Wreath activity and www.edinburglibrary.us. holiday music by the UTRGV Tuba solutions. For more information, email Sunday COPY EDITOR Euphonium. The same event will Communication Chair John A. Cook Handel’s ‘Messiah’ P.J. Hernandez take place at the same time on the at [email protected]. The UTRGV Master Chorale, CARTOONIST Chapel Lawn in Edinburg. For more Friday Brownsville Festival Chorus and information, call 665-7989. Free Play at the Union high school choirs from Brownsville, Laia Vite UTRGV Jazz Orchestra The Student Union will host a Free San Benito and Harlingen will REPORTERS The UTRGV Jazz Orchestra Play at the Union from 2 to 4 p.m. in perform the Christmas portion Nubia Reyna will perform at 7 p.m. in the Texas El Comedor on the Brownsville campus of Handel’s “Messiah” with the Gabriel Galvan Southmost College Arts Center in and the Game Room on the Edinburg UTRGV Symphony Orchestra and Britney Valdez Brownsville. Admission is $5. For campus. For more information, call soloists Cathy Compton, Jasmin 665-7989. Steven Hughes more information, call 882-7025. De la Cruz, David Sadlier and ‘The Ugly Princess’ Daniel Hunter-Holly at 3 p.m. in the Zugay Treviño Thursday ‘Get Out and Play’ UTRGV Opera Theater will present Texas Southmost College Arts Center “The Ugly Princess” at 7 p.m. in the in Brownsville. Admission is $10 for PHOTOGRAPHERS The College of Fine Arts will Library Auditorium on the Edinburg adults and $5 for senior citizens and Ana Cahuiche present “Get Out and Play: A Play about Playing” in the Albert campus. Admission is $10 for adults students. For more information, call Albert Monrroy L. Jeffers Theatre on the Edinburg and $5 for children and senior citizens. 882-7025. Robert Benavidez Jr. campus. Admission is $5. For more The same performance will take place --Compiled by Steven Hughes Valeria Alanis Lesley Robles Joahana Segundo ADVERTISING SALES POLICE REPORTS MANAGER The following are among the incidents reported to University Police between Nov. 9 and 13. Leslie Medrano Nov. 9 displeasure with a recent student intoxication. This report was referred ADVERTISING SALES 9:50 a.m.: An walkout demonstration in Edinburg.