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University of Texas Rio Grande Valley ScholarWorks @ UTRGV The Collegian Special Collections and Archives Spring 2-20-2012 The Collegian (2012-02-20) Rene Cardona Jr. Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.utrgv.edu/collegian Recommended Citation The Collegian (BLIBR-0075). UTRGV Digital Library, The University of Texas – Rio Grande Valley This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Special Collections and Archives at ScholarWorks @ UTRGV. It has been accepted for inclusion in The Collegian by an authorized administrator of ScholarWorks @ UTRGV. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. THE ANNOUNCEMENTS Page 13 | POLITICS Page 14 | NOTICIAS EN ESPAÑOL Página 17 STENCH > Something smells, COLLEGIAN UTBCOLLEGIAN.COM Vol. 64, Issue 21 Monday, February 20, 2012 and it's not the unbathed frat brother who sits in front of you during biology. PAGE 3 a&e Nuestra casa es su casa, >> Campus celebrates love Mr. Amigo with chocolate, speeding dating, laughs and politics. By Viridiana Zúñiga >> PHOTOS: A Night to Rejoice SPANISH EDITOR >>Abstract art show opens Tues. PAGE 9 Since the 1960s, renowned and unforgettable figures from Mexico carrying the title of Mr. Amigo have come to Brownsville to help us OPINION celebrate Charro Days. This year, the title previously held “Corporations by individuals as distinguished as Juan Gabriel, Lola Beltrán, Tito don’t work for Guízar and Cantinflas, has been people--like given to actor and comedian Arath governments- de la Torre. -they work for “He is very popular in Mexico and in the U.S.,” said Eliseo money, and Davila, president of the Mr. money doesn’t Amigo Association. think about the See AMIGO, Page 7 courtesy photo humans who Love Mr. Amigo? The Collegian will cover the daylong celebration. For on-the-minute coverage, check out UTBCOLLEGIAN.COM to read our live blog starting at 10:40 a.m Thursday. construct their lives around it.” >>CARTOON: Democracy: an eternal dance. PAGE 4 New admission standards RECOMMENDED get under way for fall SUICIDE School of Business close to receiving >> After the death of a UTPA student, By Rene Cardona Jr. UTB has trained a slew of students, with COLLEGIAN EDITOR the help of a federal grant, to be aware of international accreditation the signs that could point to suicide. PAGE 8 By Rene Cardona Jr. Because UT-Brownsville and Texas Southmost COLLEGIAN EDITOR College will go their separate ways, the university’s ON THE WEB open admissions policy will end in Fall 2012 with The School of Business implementation of required test scores. Last summer, university officials from University at UT-Brownsville has College, Student Affairs, Academic Affairs and Academic been recommended Advising met to devise the new admission standards. for international The officials “came together and did a lot of research and accreditation, as per the evaluation,” said Janna Arney, associate vice president evaluation of three officials for Academic Affairs. “We looked at endless enrollment who visited campus last data from many, many years back to see trends and to see week. what and how students scored and how they performed.” The School of Business The best predictor for college success, Arney said, was GET MORE completed the application Paper is finite. Get all of high school rank, process to receive according to the our content on our newly accreditation from the literature looked redesigned Website Association to Advance at and UTB/TSC’s UT-B 2.0 utbcollegian.com Collegiate Schools of historical data. Business back in Spring S t u d e n t s Second in A series CATCH UP ON NEWS 2011. Then, Associate graduating in Editor’s Note: New academic THAT MATTERS Dean Musa Essayyad led the top quarter initiatives will be implemented on our Website the preparation and data of their class will in the coming semesters as UT- collection that brought be guaranteed Brownsville makes the move to >>Suspected the final stages of the admission until become an autonomous university. Fall 2014, the last Ensuring success of incoming accreditation process to freshman classes stands as the gunman, semester for which fruition and produced a main goal of the different directives, standards have victim found 150-page report. HÉCTOR AGUILAR/collegian and The Collegian will report on Three deans from David Bejou, dean of the School of Business and Economics at Elizabeth City State been developed. these in a three-part-series. dead in L.A. other universities came University in North Carolina, addresses a Principles of Macroeconomics course. He SAT and ACT scores to campus Feb. 13 and and two other academics compose the Peer Review Committee that visited campus will now be required by UTB, although no minimum house left last Wednesday after Feb. 13. scores have been outlined for Fall 2012 to allow the >> visiting with Provost Alan H. Sarhan, vice president told The Collegian. community and surrounding school districts to clue in Ariz. officer Artibise to let him know of Academic Affairs at However, one more on the changes, Arney said. Students graduating in the second quarter of their about their deliberation. Savannah State University, hurdle stands in the way scrutinized classes will need an SAT score on the math and critical David Bejou, dean of the form the Peer Review for the School of Business reading section of 790 or an ACT composite score of 16. School of Business and Committee. to receive the prestigious after 6th fatal Those in the third quarter of their class will need an Economics at Elizabeth The committee informed accreditation. The AACSB’s SAT score of 830 or ACT score of 17. Those in the fourth shooting Artibise and School of Initial Accreditation City State University in quarter will need to get an 870 on their SAT or an 18 on Business Dean Mark Kroll Committee must ratify North Carolina; Christine their ACT. /UTBCOLLEGIAN at 9 a.m. Wednesday of the recommendation of Clements, dean of the The maximum score on the SAT for math and critical their decision. accreditation. By mid- @UTBCOLLEGIAN College of Business reading is 1600. The max composite score for the ACT is and Economics at the “They were positive … March, UTB should a 36. /UTBCOLLEGIAN University of Wisconsin- they would recommend know whether it has been Whitewater; and Mostafa initial accreditation,” Kroll THE COLLEGIAN See ACCREDIT, Page 8 See ADMISSION, Page 8 February 20, 2012 2 | ON CAMPUS the collegian HigH marks Ten students in the STING program have been recognized for completing all course requirements and having exceeded the number of points required for class attendance, participation, campus activities, meeting with mentors and COMPASS test. Shown (from left) are Administrative Clerk Pedro Luis Mendoza and honorees Evelyn Valenzuela, Sergio L. Gomez, Segismundo Carretero, Samuel Cortes, José Daniel Del Bosque, Camila Nuñez, Sting Program Coordinator Magda Goga and Peer Mentor Sindy Estrella. Other student honorees are Oscar Yepez, Cesar Vargas, Jorge Gonzalez and Luis Olalde. The students each received an MP3 player, USB and planner. 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JOE MOLINA/collegian photos A Campus Police officer, whose patrol car was photographed as it was parked at Cardoza said there was an incident in Residents of Casa Bella, UT-Brownsville’s student housing complex, have complained about the sewage odor coming from which a person called to ask why a university PUB’s Lift Station 15 at Jackson Street and University Boulevard. With the right weather conditions, the smell is impossible for a Cameron County public boat ramp, was students and neighborhood residents to ignore. there to drop off money for his son who officer was at Saint Joseph Academy. The was fishing, the department’s police chief police chief said the department uses the By Joe Molina Obama signed into law safeguard the health and said. school’s track field to train cadets. the American Recovery safety of its customers and In response to people reporting Campus THE COLLEGIAN The Collegian received a photo showing and Reinvestment Act to the public. BPUB lift stations a youth leaning into the patrol car and Police vehicles being seen off campus, At the intersection provide funds for water and meet Environmental apparently talking to someone. It also Cardoza said: “That’s going to happen. If I hadn’t known about it and I see it, I would of Jackson Street and wastewater infrastructure Protection Agency shows a man holding a fishing pole and have been upset about it, too.” University Boulevard, the projects, according to PUB’s regulations and constantly sitting on a lawn chair next to the vehicle. “If I had seen that car stay there for Brownsville Public Utilities Sanitary Sewer Overflow pass Texas Commission The photo was taken at 3:37 p.m. Jan.16 at projects summary of 2011. of Environmental Quality the Jaime J. Zapata Memorial Boat Ramp hours, then I would have taken some Board operates the city’s administrative action on it, but this was largest of 174 lift stations.