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WHAT’S INSIDE EDITORIAL: Congrats to Reader’s Choice winners. Page 4B | Opinion McAllen gears up for 11th annual PalmFest A BILINGUAL NIGHT OF WORSHIP WITH Page 1B | Valley&State CHRIS TOMLIN TICKETS START AT WITH LATIN GUEST STAR JON CARLO Hard knocks $25 OCTOBER 5 See how your favorite high PLUS FEES MORE INFO: 956.358.2755 school football team fared in Thursday night matchups. Page 1C | SportsDay FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 SERVING THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY SINCE 1909 75 CENTS DAILY STARR COUNTY | UT Regent Locations Hall appeals Fight to court in fight with erupts chancellor over BY MATTHEW WATKINS THE TEXAS TRIBUNE University of Texas Sys- tem Regent Wallace Hall’s early public fi ght with the chan- cellor of the system he oversees isn’t over yet. With the clock ticking on his time on the board voting of regents, Hall has fi led Nathan Lambrecht | [email protected] an appeal to the Texas Su- The skeletal head of a Tyrannosaurus named “Sue” revolves on a display during a news conference celebrating the 15th year BY BERENICE GARCIA preme Court of HESTEC Thursday at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley’s campus in Edinburg. HESTEC begins on Monday and ends STAFF WRITER to get access the following Saturday. to confi den- RIO GRANDE CITY — A tial student verbal altercation over early records that voting sites broke out dur- Chancellor ing a meeting of the Starr Bill McRaven Hall County Commissioners has denied Court this week. UTRGV celebrates Hilda Garza, the chief him. Hall is election administrator for seeking the the school district, ap- records to peared before the commis- gain more sioners with information a proposed MY monitor news.com about an agreement admissions McRaven 15 years of HESTEC between the Read a scandal in- county and previous volving stu- the school chapter in dents with MY monitor district that news.com this story. powerful Expands events to would allow connections Read: the district to use two coun- who were Judge Brownsville and Harlingen ty facilities in admitted to dismisses addition to the Univer- UT Regent BY DANYA PEREZ-HERNANDEZ the county courthouse as sity of Texas Hall’s suit STAFF WRITER at Austin early voting locations. seeking The agreement was ap- even though access to EDINBURG — This year marks the they had proved by the school board admissions 15th anniversary, or quinceañera, of low scores. last week. records. HESTEC — Hispanic Engineering Hall wants Science and Technology week — and Commissioner Eloy to see the the University of Texas Rio Grande Garza, who represents the records used Valley is commemorating the occa- precinct where the two to compile sion by expanding the reach of the additional sites would be an investi- conference. located, was alone in sup- gative report that criticized “We’ve seen throughout these porting the agreement. the university for its admis- 15 years literally thousands and Although the proposal sions practices. failed to get approval from McRaven has offered re- See HESTEC | 4A the county, Commissioner dacted versions, but says Joel Martinez | [email protected] Garza suggested he would he needs to protect student Local middle school student experience hands on robotics at HESTEC, still allow the district to use MY monitor View HESTEC information. The full board Hispanic Engineering, Science and Technology on Oct. 7, 2015 at the the sites. news.com 2016 schedule. University of Texas Rio Grande Valley in Edinburg. See APPEAL | 5A See STARR COUNTY | 4A Texas prisons ban ‘The Color Purple’ but not ‘Mein Kampf’ BY DEREK HAWKINS what detractors say are arbitrary Different editions THE WASHINGTON POST MY monitornews.com reasons. Among the latest to be of Adolf Hitler’s added to the scroll of offend- Texas is banning more “Mein Kampf” Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” ing material is “Wolf Boys: Two and more books from are on display is allowed, but an illustrated American Teenagers and Mexi- prisoners. Dec. 11, 2015, history of World War II isn’t. A co’s Most Dangerous Drug Car- at the Institute 700-page defense of racial segre- ment of Criminal Justice, home tel” by Dan Slater, which TDCJ for Contemporary to 140,000 prisoners and a list of gation is fi ne, but not Langston banned before it even hit the History in 15,000 banned books. Hughes’s poetry. shelves this month. Munich. Kinky paperback memoir? The state’s prison system, The book is a narrative nonfi c- Matthias Balk | No problem. Suggestive Shake- which is the largest in the coun- tion thriller that tells the story of dpa via The spearean sonnets? No way. try, has been repeatedly criti- Associated Press Welcome to the Texas Depart- cized for censoring books for See BOOKS | 5A TODAY’S WEATHER | 2A Looking for a Sunny. HIGH 90 new vehicle? LOW 68 An AIM Media Texas MISSION - McALLEN EDINBURG - HARLINGEN Newspaper Vol. 108, No. 65 WWW.BERTOGDEN.COM 50 Pages, 6 Sections 4A The Monitor, www.themonitor.com | FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2016 HESTEC It was important for us to try to see From Page 1A thousands of students who what we could do have come through our to take out some of campuses,” said UTRGV the activities that Provost Havidán Rodri- guez. “This has had a re- HESTEC offers to ally positive impact in the other parts of the education of our students. Valley.” It is about expanding edu- cation opportunities, and what better example than Velinda Reyes HESTEC.” assistant vice president This will be the fi rst year for community relations the university will host two and operations of its most popular events, the Robotics Day and the U.S. Navy SeaPerch Chal- lenge, in Brownsville and out, within an hour, more Harlingen, respectively. than 30 faculty had regis- The conference was cre- tered, and we are hitting ated at the former UT-Pan 100 now.” American with help from As part of this year’s cel- Congressman Rubén Hi- ebration, the university is nojosa to engage students also planning to unveil new starting at the middle scholarship opportunities school level in STEM — for Valley high school stu- science, technology, engi- dents who wish to pursue neering and mathematics a degree in STEM fi elds. — activities and encourage Details on the scholarship them to seek jobs in these will be unveiled Sunday fi elds. Nathan Lambrecht | [email protected] during the congressional UTPA merged with its Congressman Ruben Hinojosa speaks via a pre-recorded message during a news conference on the 15th HESTEC week Thursday at dinner, which will kick off neighbor UT Brownsville the UTRGV’s campus in Edinburg. HESTEC begins on Monday and ends the following Saturday. the week of events. in 2015 to create UTRGV, “One of the impedi- which also offers teach- continuing the tradition of But it was also important do to take out some of the ulty Colloquium in which ments for students to go to ing facilities in Harlingen, HESTEC is important, Ro- to begin the expansion activities that HESTEC of- UTRGV professors will school has been fi nancial McAllen, Rio Grande City driguez said. into Brownsville and Har- fers to other parts of the have the ability to inter- and some students don’t and South Padre Island. “We are developing un- lingen and allow students Valley,” Reyes said, adding act with guests like Robert qualify for some of the In its 15 years of exis- dergraduate degree pro- in those areas to have eas- the challenge was to try to Russell from the National grants that are out there,” tence, HESTEC has reached grams, master’s degree ier access to some of the keep it at a college cam- Science Foundation and said Veronica Gonzales, more than 58,000 middle programs and doctoral events, said Velinda Reyes, pus. “We are trying to keep Amanda Quiñonez from UTRGV vice president of and high school students, degree programs that will assistant vice president for it on a college campus be- the U.S. Department of governmental and com- 22,000 college students be new programs for The community relations and cause for a lot of these kids Energy. munity relations. “So we and 8,000 educators, offi - University of Rio Grande operations. The Robotics it is also the fi rst time they “We thought, ‘How do want to make this available cials said, and the hope is Valley and have never Day will take place this go to a college campus.” we bring them together to for students who are pur- to continue reaching out been offered in the Val- year at the Jacob Brown The exposure is not only talk to faculty, to talk about suing the STEM fi elds and to more students in the ley,” he said. “A lot of those Building in Brownsville, for students, as educators opportunities for expand- are qualifi ed students. We area. programs are in the STEM while the SeaPerch Chal- are also usually engaged ing the programs that they want to tell them that col- One of the main focuses fi elds, so there’s a great lenge will be hosted at the in the learning process have and what are some lege is attainable and great of UTRGV is to become an correlation between what Harlingen school district and even have an entire of the tips for putting in careers are attainable.” emerging research univer- we are doing with UTRGV aquatic center. day dedicated to them. successful grants?’” Reyes sity and expand the degree and what we are doing “It was important for us This year, Reyes said they said. “On the fi rst day dperez-hernandez@ offerings in STEM fi elds, so in HESTEC.” to try to see what we could will also showcase a Fac- that the application went themonitor.com STARR COUNTY the commissioners alone “I think it is a civil rights “Bacho” Villarreal and Leo- district, said she under- election administrator that had authority to allow the violation,” he said and ar- nel Lopez.