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Vol. 96 Issue 11 TheSt. Mary’s University Rattler Student Newspaper 04.29.09 SGA Securing Campus Recent disturbances have Behind Closed Doors students asking for cameras Page 6 SGA presidential candidates cause controversy with election violations Page 3 Cramming for Finals Students offer tips on how to survive finals week Page 16 Chevelle Backstage Pass An exclusive interview with drummer Sam Loeffler Page 22 2 The Rattler News 04.29.09 Police Blotter 4/16/09 Sick/injured person at the AT&T Center. EMS was refused and person released on own. 4/17/09 Minor in possession and disorderly conduct in Adele Hall. County citations issued and referred to Judicial Affairs. 4/19/09 Burglary of motor vehicle in Lot B. 4/22/09 Sick/injured person at the AACC. Lacerations to the face from a fall, Student Health Center provided treatment and student released 4/24/09 Disturbance in Financial Aid Office. Disruptive student escorted from facility. Referred to HR and Judicial Affairs Michelle Myers, a member of the San Antonio Gender Association and part of the Human Rights Campaign, speaks on her experience as a part of Breaking the Silence on Tuesday, April 14. The event focuses on maintaining rights for members of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Damaged property in the Pecan community. Photo by Analicia Perez Grove. Truck backed over a light pole. 4/25/09 Pecan Grove Review’s Damaged property in Lot R. Tires News in Brief Final blessing ceremony slashed. release pushed back for seniors next Friday Disturbance in Lot H, uncooperative New staff appointed for The 2009 issue of the university literary Friday, May 8, 7:00 p.m. student. magazine, The Pecan Grove Review, has been AACC Bill Greehey Arena the coming school year delayed and will not be published until fall. 4/27/09 The university has hired new staff for a vari- Technical problems with the printer have The final blessings will be given to the gradu- Sick/injured person in Dougherty ety of positions. forced a delay of the publication. ating seniors in the Bill Greehey Arena. Bac- Hall. Student cut and bleeding. EMS calaureate Mass is a part of the long-standing was refused, transported to Student Tanuja Singh, Ph.D., has been appointed Graduating seniors who were to be published traditions of the Catholic church, but all faiths Health Center for further medical as dean of the Business School; Winston Er- are asked to e-mail Professor Diane Bertrand are welcome for the prayers and blessings. treatment. evelles, Ph.D., was chosen to be dean of the with a permanent mailing address so the is- School of Engineering, Mathematics and Sci- sues can be mailed after publication. Ring blessings for seniors will also be avail- ence and Rev. Rudy Vela, S.M., is now vice able that day at 6 p.m. in Treadaway’s president for Mission and Identity. Submissions of poetry, short fiction and non- Guadalupe Chapel. fiction for the 2010 issue can be submitted to Professor Bertrand at her office CT 412. For Index submission policies, please e-mail her at dber- News 2-6 [email protected]. Commentary 7-11 Students planting trees in New strain of the flu virus Early voting began for Features 12-18 Entertainment 19-23 honor of soldiers found in San Antonio Mayor and City Council Sports 24-28 University of Incarnate Word students that Two teenagers in the San Antonio area were Early voting by personal appearance for San are members of the Student Veterans Asso- found to have swine flu, a new virus that is a Antonio Mayor and City Council members ciation will be participating in tree planting combination of the bird, human and pig strains started on April 27 and will continue until Contact Us: ceremonies with the Peace Tree Project of of flu. The infection they had matches to the May 5. 210-436-3401 (office) South Texas. infection found in Mexico that has led to sev- 210-431-3407 (fax) eral deaths. The number of confirmed cases in The last day for a mail ballot application is [email protected] The tree plantings will be in honor of fallen the United States have risen to 20. The United May 1. Election day is May 9 and results will soldiers in Iraq and Kuwait. States declared a public health emergency on be shared May 14. Sunday, April 26. Cover design by Jaime Perez Source: Mysanantonio.com Source: Associated Press Source: Mysanantonio.com 04.29.09 News The Rattler 3 SGA election results causes student dissension By Melody Mejia Hernandez and James Eades filed had nothing to do with the affida- Friday morning to add to a petition opponents and SGA, from over- Senior Staff Writer that charge and others in a 21- vit. Election authorities eliminated supporting the election of Osuna. spending on campaign materials, page affidavit against Ramirez, the Osuna as vice president because Claudia Charbel, a junior ma- to violating other sections of the New student body officers may top vice presidential vote winner she twice appeared in the Univer- joring in English-communications election code. Though the com- have been inaugurated earlier this Amanda Osuna, candidate Vincent sity Center atrium, the site of vot- arts, said Osuna supporters intend plaint has been dismissed, whether week, but the widely-contested Astudillo and the SGA. ing, in violation of the campaign to force a re-vote “so that those the affidavit has any merit remains campaigns that produced them code. Osuna maintains that she who voted for Amanda can then unclear, partly because student have ended with students chal- “I feel Tanya and I didn’t do had permission from student elec- again vote for Amanda and show elections officials and the student lenging the results. Recalling the tion officials both times to enter the their support and not just have six body president James Escamia, re- failed Bush v. Gore presidential anything wrong.” atrium, but the student elections people [the student elections court] fused to discuss them. election of 2000 the student elec- panel held otherwise. Election offi- decide what 60 percent of the stu- Escamia said it’s up to the stu- – tions officials so far without pub- - Amanda Osuna, junior cials who made that determination dent body already decided.” dent elections committee to decide lic comment–disqualified the lead- Criminal justice major and could not be reached for comment, Charbel derided the student whether to discuss their findings ing vice presidential candidate af- but Osuna said the decision con- elections committee for effectively publicly, and “as of now, there VP candidate ter she won more than 60 percent fused her. declaring Eades to be vice presi- hasn’t been a consensus for that.” of the vote. “Out of the [three years] I’ve dent, with no public discussion On the other hand, Escamia In the meantime, opponents to Hernandez and Eades cited been here, I have never seen any- until the 5 p.m. Thursday e-mailed acknowledged that the elections presidential winner Tania Ramirez an array of violations of the elec- one be disqualified for these rea- declaration. That declaration, and code and the SGA constitution claimed she had overspent election tions code which they said harmed sons,” she said. “That’s what the failure to articulate its reasons, need revision, apparently because code finance limits by producing their campaign. The irony is that kills me about this whole thing, forced challengers onto Facebook, of issues arising from the election. campaign t-shirts at lower costs elections officials Thursday then I feel Tanya and I didn’t do she said. The declaration of Eades’s “I certainly do feel that the in- across the border in Mexico, by- effectively eliminated both Her- anything wrong.” win without mention of Osuna’s formation in our constitution has passing Student Government As- nandez and Osuna from their By Friday morning, April 24, a election victory amounted to “a left loopholes that determined the sociation (SGA) spending ceilings. election bids, then declared Eades challenge sprang up literally over- slap in the face,” said Charbel. election code needs to be revisited Ramirez denied the claim, saying vice president-elect, after he polled night from Osuna supporters on “This is our first step,” she for next semester,” said Escamia. she was hardly the first to do so, only 38 percent of the vote. They Facebook. They lashed out at SGA said. “Getting a petition and going At the same time, Villareal said and her position was effectively did so without public comment. authorities for failing to discuss about from that. That’s all we can that the elimination of Osuna was upheld by the elections committee, Osuna said Sunday night that the matter publicly, and urged Fa- do for right now. I have everyone I decided by student election judges which declared her the winner late Interim Dean of Students and SGA cebook users to express their dis- know trying.” for reasons other than those cited Thursday, April 23. advisor James Villareal told her appointment to interim dean of Hernandez and Eades had al- in the affidavit, reasons which Vil- But that declaration came only she had been disqualified for three student James Villareal and to join legedly reported an array of im- lareal, too, would not disclose. a week after candidates Gabriel violations of the election code that a protest they staged in the quad proprieties on the part of their Student lands job on Wall Street despite recession By Allison Hernandez him want to work harder. I started having doubts myself,” said Diaz.