LVOL. 111, NO. 5 GOSwww.uiwlogos.org December 2010 Light the Way Word Up news Pages 12 and 13 Check out the new Logos Page 2 website! www.uiwlogos.org Basketball Page 9 Fashion shows Pages 3 and 14 By Samantha Avila Hortenciá’sLOGOS STAFF WRITER “I thinkto now I servewould go every day,” beer, wine asin long as theyspring check IDs and look for Beer and wine are set to be served in Martinez said. students who are getting out of hand. Hortenciá’s Café at the University of the Alcohol will be served at Java and “Drinking a glass of wine can be a way Incarnate Word starting spring 2011. Hortenciá’s Café during regular busi- to unwind and kill time before class or Sodexo General Manager Anthony ness hours, administrators said. socialize with friends in between Allen said he received a request from Hortenciá’s Café is more a “con- classes,” Morales said. UIW’s administration to serve alcohol venience store” and customers will be permitted to walk out with the at Hortenciá’s. More commuters use the past alcohol, said Dr. Renee T. Moore, café than Java on the Hill where beer and t w o dean of Campus Life. wine already are served. Java is next to and a half years in However, there are regulations the bookstore. which public intoxication with serving alcohol at UIW. First and “It’s only beer and wine, no hard was reported due to selling foremost, all Sodexo employees who spirits,” Allen said. “It’s the convenience alcohol on campus, said serve alcohol are 21 years old and older of having a product and keeping the Judicial Educator Melissa and certified by the Texas Alcoholic Bev- customer happy.” A. Sayre. “I don’t think we erage Commission. They are required to Commuter Antonio Martinez, a will have a problem as long check all IDs of anyone who looks under senior bilingual communication arts as students are responsible 30. Sodexo employees are also to monitor major, said he had no idea beer and and being monitored.” students who are getting intoxicated and wine was sold at Java and welcomed Senior Blanca Morales, can and will refuse them service. the news about the beverages coming to a senior bilingual commu- There has been only one case in the Hortenciá’s nication arts major, said it’s totally cool Book rental growing on students By Michael Meija among underclassmen but slow among LOGOS STAFF WRITER upperclassmen, who seem more comfort- able getting their textbooks outside the The bookstore’s Rent-A-Text program bookstore. appears to be a success this fall, helping “My friend rents from Chegg and told students save money from renting their me about (it),” said sophomore Alexan- textbooks rather than buying them. dria Vargas. “For me, I felt safer getting “Students were pleasantly amazed them from the bookstore because I knew when seeing that they had more than one they would be the right ones. I bought option,” said Anne Richards, bookstore five books and rented one, because there manager. was only one that I was able to rent.” This has been the first semester the bookstore has offered this program which lets students rent out certain textbooks just as they would check out ERIC PATRICK/LOGOS STAFF a video. The selection of rentable text- books at the University of the Incarnate Word store is not as large as the selection Faculty, staff roll meatballs on websites such as Chegg.com and Amazon.com. But more variety already is planned for the spring. The rental program appears to be a hit forBy Jennifer Caldwell president's spaghettiMany of those same hands also pre- LOGOS STAFF WRITER pared the silverware and napkins used More than a hundred faculty and for the dinner that took place Monday, staff members had a hand in rolling Nov. 15, at McComb Center Rosenburg 170 pounds of hamburger meat into Sky Room. Credit Union opens doors meatballs three days before the annual By Katie Rivera The event, held annually for 24 years, LOGOS STAFF WRITER President’s Spaghetti Dinner.” Cont. on pg. 2 -Meatball United SA Federal Credit Union Cardinal Branch had a quiet opening in mid-No- vember but a grand open- SpecialBy Michael Meija meal pleases Homecoming palates Princess Lyndsey ing took place Tuesday, LOGOS STAFF WRITER Reyna greeted students as they entered Nov. 30, in Sister Antoninus As a jazz ensemble played, students the Skyroom to be escorted to decorative Buckley Courtyard. lined up for servings of a secret recipe and tables. “This is a very big day for JOANN JONES/LOGOS STAFF filled themselves at the annual President’s “This event was a complete success,” UIW and the community asUniversity of the Incarnate Word students await customers at the branch. Spaghetti Dinner on Nov. 15 in Mc- a whole,” Dr. Shawn Daly, Combs Center Rosenberg Sky Room. Cont. on pg. 2 -Spaghetti dean of the H-E-B School of Business and Administration, said at the grand open- ing. The branch, which is located next to Chick-fil-a in the basement of the Admin- istration Building, was appropriately decorated with festive balloons and streamers. The event included some words from those in charge, an official opening of the doors, and refreshments. The ceremony began with a welcome from Dr. Alicia Rodriguez de Rubio, an assistant professor of banking and finance who is serving as UIW’s branch adviser. The Rev. Thomas Dymowski, campus chaplain, gave the invocation. Steve Coomes, president and chief executive officer of United SA Federal Credit Union, had positive words for this unprecedented advancement of their company. “This is a unique learning lab … and we are very excited,” Coomes said. With the branch located on the UIW campus there will be lots of personal atten- ERIC PATRICK/LOGOS STAFF tion and help readily available. Sodexo workers assist the faculty and staff who showed up Friday, Nov. 12, in Marian Hall Student “We are a personal business and help members however we can,” said Arturo Center's dining facility to roll meatballs spiced with Castillo, who is in charge of bringing in new customers to the company. Dr. Louis J. Agnese Jr.'s secret family recipe for sauce. The annual President's Spaghetti Dinner was Monday, Cont. on pg. 2 Nov. 15, in McCombs Center Rosenburg Sky Room. -Credit Union ERIC PATRICK/LOGOS STAFF page 2 NEWS www.uiwlogos.org December 2010 Woman survives 20 days in CourtThe European rejects Union’s Italy’s top chocolate court said Italy label must refrain from using the label “pure chocolate” to express bathroom Due to the door lock being jammed, a 69-year-old their chocolate is made with 100 percent cocoa butter. woman from Paris survived in The labeling rules were changed in 2000 by the Euro- her bathroom for 20 days pean Union. The law indicates if chocolate contains up with only warm water. to 5 percent of non-cocoa The elderly woman was vegetable fats it can still unable to reach anyone be considered choco- because there was late, otherwise, a neutral no window or statement should present phone in the indicating the presence Compiled by Paola Cardenas, News Editor b a t h r o o m . of vegetable fats other than pure cocoa butter. Italy She would tap could be faced with a fine if it fails to obey the law. on the pipes to make noise so the FIFA According Cup to BBC’sofficials Pan- take bribes neighbors could orama, three of FIFA’s senior hear. Neighbors executives -- Ricardo Teixeira, Drug Police tunnel discovered found a 2,220-foot-long in Tijuana tunnel under soon noticed she Issa Hayatou and Nicolas Leoz the United States-Mexican border that connects from had not been around so they called the -- took bribes during the 1990s. Tijuana, Baja California, in Mexico, to Otay Mesa in authorities who sent firefighters who found the The money was taken from a California. This is the second tunnel that was found woman lying on the floor in a very weak disposition. sports marketing firm that was as earlier this month another tunnel was discovered The woman is recovering in the hospital. given profitable World Cup with lights and ven- rights. Neither of the men tilation. Authorities replied to Panorama’s accusa- say such tunnels as the Train A speeding kills goods seven train killed elephants seven elephants tions, and interviews to address ones found are used to in India, as the animals rushed to rescue two other the accusations were refused as smuggle drugs such baby elephants along the train tracks. The baby well. These three FIFA execu- as marijuana in order elephants were trapped on the track at Moraghat tives are the officials who are to bypass strict bor- Tea Garden near Binnaguri. The other elephants to vote for the 2018 and 2022 der controls. Suspects formed a line in order to try and save them. Forest World Cup bids. from both Mexico and officials said elephants are often hit by trains in the the United States were area. The track was shut down for several hours arrested. after the collision. Meatball Spaghetti from pg. 1 from pg. 1 has always had faculty and staff participating in. Dr. Renee Moore, dean of Campus Lyndsey Reyna, a sophomore communication arts major from Corpus Christi, said. Life, said she sees this as an opportunity for the faculty and staff to give back to the “It is one of my favorite events during the fall semester. It is nice to see students come students.