UTSA UTSA Assistant Pro- fessor of Geology Ma- rina Suarez has been awarded a $478,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to research paleoclima- THEY PLAY, tology (the study of the earth’s climate in the distant past). Suarez plans to conduct her research around Cre- STUDENTS PAY taceous rocks in China, Spain, Utah and Texas. Texas BUT IT’S NOT ALL According to a review ABOUT FOOTBALL... compiled by The Texas Tribune, of annual fi- nancial reports submit- UTSA students pay more in ted to the NCAA by all eight public universi- athletic fees than students at ties in Texas that play in other universities pay. However, the highest level of col- lege football, the Foot- the athletic departments of those ball Bowl Subdivision. universities are just as — and The schools collected $27 million in student often times even more — reliant fees that went to ath- on student fees and university letics in 2008. In the 2015 fiscal year, that funds to break even than UTSA’s number had more than Athletic Department is. doubled to $57 million. (Private colleges also have to submit records but are not required See Page 6 to make them avail- able under the state’s Graphic by Fabian De Soto , The Paisano open records laws.) U.S. “OpenStax has E-cigarettes Students save on textbooks with saved students The Justice Depart- $66 million since ment canceled a hear- OpenStax-UTSA Libraries partnership ing intended to settle discouraged 2012 and will save the publicized dispute students $39 million between Apple and in new PSA and the F.B.I. about the this academic year agency’s request that the tech company cre- alone”. ate a “backdoor” for secured iPhones. Such Adriene Goodwin Dani Nicholson a backdoor would al- News Assistant Associate Director low the F.B.I. to access @hey_adreezy of Marketing and password protected [email protected] Communications, OpenStax phones. Following the cancellation, the Jesus Nieves Justice Department Contributing Writer stated it “might no @ThePaisano longer need Apple’s [email protected] Since 2012, OpenStax has saved students $66 million in textbook costs. Andrea Velgis , The Paisano assistance to extract data from the device.” Jaswanth Kintada, Trea- Katelyn Wilkinson OpenStax is a non-prof- UTSA,” Green said. “The because he could not buy surer of UTSA Student Staff Writer it organization funded in partnership’s main goals textbooks. He dropped Government Association @KatelynMarie11 part by the Bill and Me- are to ease the financial one course altogether be- Science (SGA), is currently leading [email protected] linda Gates Foundation. burden from purchasing cause the materials were the campaign for a Pub- The group has developed traditional textbooks and over $300. The only class Comets may have been lic Service Announcement UTSA Libraries has part- over 20 free, peer-reviewed ultimately help with stu- he was able to keep up with responsible for bring- (PSA) about e-cigarettes. nered with OpenStax, a textbooks for introductory dent retention and success.” was the sociology class that ing the noble gases to The objective of the PSA is non-profit Rice University college courses and is in the “OpenStax has saved used an OpenStax text be- Earth. According to to inform students on the initiative funded in part by process of developing more. students $66 million since cause it was free and avail- the publication “Earth effects of tobacco prod- the Bill & Melinda Gates These textbooks are avail- 2012 and will save students able the first day of class. and Planetary Sci- ucts, as well as keep UTSA Foundation that provides able to instructors at any $39 million this academic “I love the fact that the ences,” a shipment of a tobacco-free campus. free textbooks to students. institution and are com- year alone,” says Nichol- [OpenStax] books are all a crucial part of the UTSA has been smoke and “Our mission is to increase pletely free; however, Dee- son. wIn terms of the non- digitized because you can planet’s chemical in- tobacco free since June 1 access to education. We be- Ann Green, the UTSA So- profit’s reach, she explained copy and paste and make ventory arrived during 2014, and prohibits the use lieve in academic freedom, cial Sciences Librarian, says that at least one OpenStax your own reviews for ex- the Late Heavy Bom- of any tobacco products. E- so we ask faculty to review that UTSA Libraries’ col- textbook is in use at one ams. Openstax is much bardment about 600 cigarettes, or e-cigs, are on our textbooks and decide laboration with OpenStax in 5 colleges and universi- better than traditional million years after the the list of tobacco products for themselves if they will be will benefit UTSA by giv- ties in the United States. textbooks,” Hillman said. start of the solar sys- that are banned on campus. a good fit,” says Dani Nich- ing the university access to Alluding to beginning of UTSA Libraries sponsored tem — when the moon However, a February 2016 olson, the associate direc- OpenStax’s experience and semester challenges, Nich- a workshop with OpenStax (and supposedly Earth) article from Consumer tor of marketing and com- proficiency in open-educa- olson went on to say that on Feb 29 during which 10 was pummeled by de- Reports notes that e-cigs munications at Openstax. tional resources as well as OpenStax benefits stu- faculty members applied bris from the outer so- neither contain nor emit Aligned with the same OpenStax’s free consulta- dents by providing access to use OpenStax textbooks lar system as the giant tobacco. While e-liquids goals of cutting student ex- tion, workshops and grant to course materials on the in their classrooms. Ac- planets abruptly settled do not contain tobacco, penses and increasing ac- programs. This collabora- first day of class while sav- cording to Green, these into the current orbits. they do contain a chemi- cess, UTSA Libraries has tion, according to Green, ing hundreds of dollars faculty members will adopt cal called propylene glycol, partnered with OpenStax. will help UTSA become in course-material fees. low-cost or free materi- that is mixed with the ad- According to Nicholson more proficient in open-ed- Junior Richard Hillman, als in their classrooms.. dictive substance nicotine. “Once an instructor adopts ucational resources, which a criminal justice major If their applications are E-cigs have grown in an OpenStax textbook, will lead to more accessible and sociology minor, said approved, instructors popularity due to their students will potentially education for all students. he loved using an Open- will begin using Open- stylish look and the gam- save hundreds of dollars “UTSA libraries’ partner- Stax textbook in one of his Stax materials Fall 2016. ut of flavors available. and possibly perform bet- ship with OpenStax will lay classes last semester. Hill- ter in their courses because the foundation for quicker man, a veteran, said that he they have access to mate- expansion and growth in had to wait on funding and See PSA, page2 rials on day one of class.” open textbook adoption at fell behind in his classes 2 NEWS March 22 - March 29, 2016 Women’s Studies Institute celebrates Women’s History Raquel E. Alonzo munity” in which Jewelle litigations about forging sig- Staff Writer Gomez discussed her ad- natures on documents. @raquelalonzo94 vocacy of rights for queer Premo refers to German [email protected] women of color; and “A philosopher Immanuel Woman’s Place is on Stage” Kant in her book and his that showcased five women ideas about the Enlighten- UTSA’s Women’s Studies and their spoken words ment. Institute (WSI) began cel- about subjects such as race, Additionally, she discusses ebrating Women’s History gender and love. the various schools of En- Week in 1986. Since then, On Thursday March 3, lightenment such as Scot- it has transformed into a “The Republic of the Un- tish, radical and Colonial. month-long celebration of lettered: A People’s Intel- Premo mentions her love women. lectual History of Law in for Jonathan Israel’s novels The objective was to offer the Spanish Empire” panel and how he believes in the more courses to students took place in the Assembly Spanish-American Enlight- on topics about gender and Room in the UTSA library. enment. sexuality. Dr. Bianca Premo, a pro- Premo also covers how WHM at UTSA covers fessor at Florida Interna- slaves began to get ideas on the history of gender, race, tional University in Miami, how they were being tricked ethnicity, class, religion and discussed her book upcom- by attending court hearings. ability. ing book “The Republic of Her panel featured exten- Events began on Tuesday, the Unlettered” during the sive knowledge on the his- March 1 with the “Women’s panel. Her book covers the tory of law in the Spanish History Month Program”. Enlightenment and how en- empire. Events offered include:slaved people in Spain, such There will be more op- “Mercurial Attraction: The as women and indigenous portunities to attend a WSI photographic work of Cara inhabitants, could not read Women’s History Month Lee Wade” that showcased or write. event from Tuesday, March two works that included This led to authority fig- 22 through Thursday, discussing the legacies ures forging signaturesre- March 31. of those Wade lost to Al- sulting in those enslaved to More information on zheimer’s disease; “Lost in sue in record numbers. events offered is avilable on a Valley with a Dog: How “The Republic of the Un- utsa.edu/WSI Photos courtesy of Jessica Gonzales We Find and Make Com- lettered” explores these civil UTSA Boulevard Project to install new PSA to discourage turn, bike lanes, to alleviate traffic e-cigarettes, meanwhile Johnee Jasso to four lanes from 1604 to traffic signals and pedes- tobacco policy is unenforced Staff Writer I-10 and construct a 10- trian crosswalk mark- @johnee_thegreat foot concrete hike and bike ings.