Alex Birnel Contributing Writer @alexbirnel [email protected]e blending of porno- graphic violence and social media savvy from the Is- lamic State has lodged the group firmly into the pub- lic consciousness. While their ascendancy has been precipitous to watch, much less attention has been af- forded to the trenchant rejection of their brand of Islam by fellow Muslims, who do not see political violence as the essence or sole orthodox expression of their faith. Sadly still, senior English major Sarah Abu- rumuh explains that ”Mus- lims are constantly asked to apologize for the crimes of extremists. We face harsh comments on campus just because we look the part.” is ideological battle within the religion and without has bred plenty of dissent towards tenets of the faith’s doctrines, the Quran and Hadith, and those who consider them- selves practitioners of them. At UTSA, the Muslim Student Association (MSA) has tried to clarify these preconceived notions by welcoming debate and dia- logue about the features of Islam when their members table on campus. With the earnest intent to explain and converse openly about a personal- ized Islam, Senior Ah- mad Kaki, MSA mem- ber, says the group “still on occasion will face people who call them terrorists, extremists and radicals.” e late Colombian pro- fessor of comparative liter- ature and post- colo- nial scholar Edward Said would call these generalizations “Orientalist,” or the tendency to think of Middle Eastern society and Islam as static, archaic and homo- geneous due to ste- reotypical represen- tations of the region and its people and the de- monization of Islam in the news and popular culture. ‘Ijtihad’ or the concept of individualized interpreta- tion of Sharia, is personi- fied by MSA’s own efforts on campus to carve out the right to a progressive inter- pretation of Islam, where violence is condemned and not celebrated. is is a stark contrast to the idea of “takfir,” or religious excom- munication, propagated by groups like ISIS whose ritualized use of the term serves to cast out other Muslims. is is vital to the “vanguard” component of the ISIS narrative, which views the group’s members and the creation of the ca- liphate as the only authen- tic purpose of Islam. ese two competing ideas force Muslim students onto the defensive. Kaki goes onto ex- plain: “Rather than getting to talk about peace, love, and rationality, we’re forced to talk about things that we don’t necessarily want to.” is is not because Kaki does not understand the graphic nature of the vio- lence occurring, but rather because “Islam has no litur- gical hierarchy. ere are conservative scholars and there are liberal scholars, there are differences of opinion, ” he explains. e takeaway from Kaki is that the mo- nopoly claimed by ISIS over questions of Islamic orthodoxy cannot be applied to such a decentralized and fluid religion. In fact, journalists and authors specializing in radicalization now observ- ing the Islamic State (such as Jessica Stern and Der Spiegel reporter Chris- toph Reuter) are beginning to uncover new evidence dispelling the primacy of religion in how the Islam- ic State has thrived and functioned. As opposed to divine intervention on the behalf of this group of shell-state building Sunni Wahhabists, much of the military success of the orga- nization has been because of the tactical expertise of former Saddam Baathists, high-ranking members within the bureaucracy of ISIS. Students like Ah- mad Kaki, Sarah Abu- rumuh and fellow MSA members are on the front lines of changing minds with their willingness to brave the Texas heat, stand outside and engage in con- versations. ey answer student’s questions and when approached with bel- ligerence MSA students respond with congeniality and candidness. Anyone on Twitter knows the decapitated jour- nalist’s names: James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kas- sig. But thousands of others; including the Kurds, Yezidis, Druze, Jordanians, Japanese, Christians and Muslims, have also suffered and lost their lives at the hands of the brutal group. e orange jumpsuits and the black- masked ex- ecutioners standing in the sand dunes of Dabiq, Syria are imprinted images in the public mind due to the viral spread of information. But lesser known are the videos and photos produced by Muslim students on cam- puses all over the world, declaring that such activity is grotesque, immoral and a crime against humanity. Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio {SINCE 1981} Science Studies conducted by Edward Schi- appa, a media studies researcher at MIT, conclude that TV shows that prominently fea- ture gay men can lower prejudice toward LGBTQ people. Psycholo- gists explain this as parasocial relationships — or the attachments viewers form with fictional charac- ters; after seeing them as friends, viewers grow emo- tionally attached to characters who are part of a mi- nority group and prejudices tend to recede. San Antonio Bo Jett Littleton — the man who held two UTSA students hostage in their Avalon apartment assaulting one at knifepoint, in Octo- ber of 2014 — was handed down three life sentences plus 60 years by a Bexar County jury on charges of aggravat- ed kidnapping, bur- glary of a habitation and two counts of aggravated sexual assault. Texas Blue Bell returns to Texas stores, post- Listeria outbreak. U.S. In response to the unrest following the grand jury decisions in Ferguson, MI and State Island, NY, Cali- fornia became the first state to ban the use of secret grand juries when decid- ing to indict police officers in cases of deadly force. Health Can’t go a day with- out having multiple cups of coffee? Well, have no fear, there may be benefits to your caffeine habit. A recent study by the Journal of Clini- cal Oncology sug- gests people who consume, on aver- age, four or more cups of coffee are less susceptible to cancer reoccurrence and mortality dur- ing Stage III colon cancer. Arts Sports Jarveon Williams reflects on his path to his starting position. Opinion Page 4 Page 5 Volume 52 Issue 3 September 1- September 8, 2015 Award shows are useless. News Check out how UTSA assists first-generation college students. Page 2 Planned Parenthood battles zoning on Babcock Page 7 ISIS kills, but so does ignorance Courtesy of UTSA Muslim Student Association UTSA student Nazar Alyassin participating in a vigil in honor of Deah, Yusor and Razan, the 3 victims of the Chapel Hill shooting. Matthew Gil Contributing Writer @ThePaisano [email protected]e Planned Parenthood of South Texas facility has begun operations on 2140 Babcock Rd. Protestors, including both local residents and organizations like the San Antonio Family Association (SAFA), have attempted to use TRAP laws in order to prevent the facility’s contin- ued operations. According to the Ameri- can Civil Liberties Union, TRAP laws — Targeted Regulation of Abortion Pro- viders — are laws that single out abortion providers for “medically unnecessary, politically motivated state regulations.” Protestors are argue that the city is not enforcing zoning codes for the ambu- latory surgical center classi- fied as C¬1. e City of San Antonio records indicate the build- ing is a non¬conforming structure in C¬1 since it was developed prior to the 2001 Unified Development Code (UDC) requirements. In 2014, the property owners, Delantero In- vestors, Ltd., applied for building permits related to renovation work. e city was informed the building would be used as a ambu- latory care facility. Del- antero submitted plans that showed medical offices with outpatient surgical capabili- ties, which is a permissible use of property in the C¬1 zoning district. e San Antonio Devel- opment Services Depart- ment (DSD) reviewed and approved the permits in August 2014. In December 2014, elma Franco, a resident of nearby neighborhood, Dreamland Estates, filed an appeal that the building did not comply with zoning regulations. See PP, Page 2 Depression 101: How to beat the odds “This is a pri- vate property rights issue, not a zoning case. Their claim that the use of the property is ille- gal is false.” Ron Nirenberg District 8 City Councilman
The blending of porno-graphic violence and social media savvy from the Is-lamic State has lodged the group firmly into the pub-lic consciousness. While their ascendancy has been precipitous to watch, much less attention has been af-forded to the trenchant rejection of their brand of Islam by fellow Muslims, who do not see political violence as the essence or sole orthodox expression of their faith. Sadly still, senior English major Sarah Abu-rumuh explains that ”Mus-lims are constantly asked to apologize for the crimes of extremists. We face harsh comments on campus just because we look the part.”
This ideological battle within the religion and without has bred plenty of dissent towards tenets of the faith’s doctrines, the Quran and Hadith, and those who consider them-selves practitioners of them.
At UTSA, the Muslim Student Association (MSA) has tried to clarify these preconceived notions by welcoming debate and dia-logue about the features of Islam when their members table on campus.
With the earnest intent
to explain and converse openly about a personal-
ized Islam, Senior Ah-mad Kaki, MSA mem-
ber, says the group “still on occasion will face people who call them terrorists, extremists and radicals.”
The late Colombian pro-fessor of comparative liter-ature and post- colo-nial scholar Edward Said would call these g e n e r a l i z at i o n s “Orientalist,” or the tendency to think of Middle Eastern society and Islam as static, archaic and homo-geneous due to ste-reotypical represen-tations of the region and its people and the de-monization of Islam in the news and popular culture.
‘Ijtihad’ or the concept of individualized interpreta-tion of Sharia, is personi-fied by MSA’s own efforts on campus to carve out the right to a progressive inter-pretation of Islam, where violence is condemned and not celebrated. This is a stark contrast to the idea of “takfir,” or religious excom-munication, propagated by groups like ISIS whose ritualized use of the term serves to cast out other Muslims. This is vital to the “vanguard” component of the ISIS narrative, which views the group’s members and the creation of the ca-
liphate as the only authen-tic purpose of Islam. These two competing ideas force Muslim students onto the defensive.
Kaki goes onto ex-
p l a i n :
“Rather than getting to talk about peace, love, and rationality, we’re forced to talk about things that we don’t necessarily want to.” This is not because Kaki does not understand the graphic nature of the vio-lence occurring, but rather because “Islam has no litur-gical hierarchy. There are conservative scholars and there are liberal scholars,
there are differences of opinion, ” he explains.
The takeaway from Kaki is that the mo-nopoly claimed by ISIS over questions
of Islamic orthodoxy cannot be applied to such a decentralized
and fluid religion. In fact, journalists and
authors specializing in radicalization now observ-ing the Islamic State (such as Jessica Stern and Der Spiegel reporter Chris-toph Reuter) are beginning to uncover new evidence dispelling the primacy of religion in how the Islam-ic State has thrived and functioned. As opposed to divine intervention on the behalf of this group of shell-state building Sunni Wahhabists, much of the military success of the orga-nization has been because of the tactical expertise of former Saddam Baathists, high-ranking members within the bureaucracy of ISIS.
Students like Ah-mad Kaki, Sarah Abu-rumuh and fellow MSA members are on the front lines of changing minds with their willingness to brave the Texas heat, stand outside and engage in con-versations. They answer student’s questions and when approached with bel-ligerence MSA students respond with congeniality and candidness.
Anyone on Twitter knows the decapitated jour-nalist’s names: James Foley, Steven Sotloff, Peter Kas-sig. But thousands of others; including the Kurds, Yezidis, Druze, Jordanians, Japanese, Christians and Muslims, have also suffered and lost their lives at the hands of the brutal group.
The orange jumpsuits and the black- masked ex-ecutioners standing in the sand dunes of Dabiq, Syria are imprinted images in the public mind due to the viral spread of information. But lesser known are the videos and photos produced by Muslim students on cam-puses all over the world, declaring that such activity is grotesque, immoral and a crime against humanity.
Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio
{SINCE 1981}
ScienceStudies conducted
by Edward Schi-appa, a media
studies researcher at MIT, conclude
that TV shows that prominently fea-ture gay men can lower prejudice toward LGBTQ
people. Psycholo-gists explain this
as parasocial relationships — or the attachments
viewers form with fictional charac-ters; after seeing them as friends,
viewers grow emo-tionally attached
to characters who are part of a mi-
nority group and prejudices tend to
recede.
San Antonio
Bo Jett Littleton —the man who held two UTSA students
hostage in their Avalon apartment assaulting one at
knifepoint, in Octo-ber of 2014 — was
handed down three life sentences plus 60 years by a Bexar
County jury on charges of aggravat-ed kidnapping, bur-glary of a habitation
and two counts of aggravated sexual
assault.
TexasBlue Bell returns to Texas stores, post- Listeria outbreak.
U.S.In response to the
unrest following the grand jury decisions in Ferguson, MI and State Island, NY, Cali-
fornia became the first state to ban the use of secret grand juries when decid-ing to indict police officers in cases of
deadly force.
HealthCan’t go a day with-out having multiple cups of coffee? Well, have no fear, there may be benefits to your caffeine habit. A recent study by
the Journal of Clini-cal Oncology sug-gests people who consume, on aver-age, four or more cups of coffee are less susceptible to
cancer reoccurrence and mortality dur-ing Stage III colon
cancer.
Arts SportsJarveon Williams reflects on his path to his starting position.
OpinionPage 4Page 5
Volume 52 Issue 3 September 1- September 8, 2015
Award shows are useless. NewsCheck out how UTSA assists first-generation college students. Page 2
Planned Parenthood battles zoning on Babcock
Page 7
ISIS kills, but so does ignorance
Courtesy of UTSA Muslim Student AssociationUTSA student Nazar Alyassin participating in a vigil in honor of Deah, Yusor and Razan, the 3 victims of the Chapel Hill shooting.
The Planned Parenthood of South Texas facility has begun operations on 2140 Babcock Rd.
Protestors, including both local residents and organizations like the San Antonio Family Association (SAFA), have attempted to use TRAP laws in order to
prevent the facility’s contin-ued operations.
According to the Ameri-can Civil Liberties Union, TRAP laws — Targeted Regulation of Abortion Pro-viders — are laws that single out abortion providers for “medically unnecessary, politically motivated state regulations.”
Protestors are argue that the city is not enforcing zoning codes for the ambu-
latory surgical center classi-fied as C¬1.
The City of San Antonio records indicate the build-ing is a non¬conforming structure in C¬1 since it was developed prior to the 2001 Unified Development Code (UDC) requirements.
In 2014, the property owners, Delantero In-vestors, Ltd., applied for building permits related to renovation work. The city
was informed the building would be used as a ambu-latory care facility. Del-antero submitted plans that showed medical offices with outpatient surgical capabili-ties, which is a permissible use of property in the C¬1 zoning district.
The San Antonio Devel-opment Services Depart-ment (DSD) reviewed and approved the permits in August 2014.
In December 2014, Thelma Franco, a resident of nearby neighborhood, Dreamland Estates, filed an appeal that the building did not comply with zoning regulations.
See PP, Page 2
Depression 101: How to beat the odds
“This is a pri-vate property rights issue, not a zoning case. Their claim that the use of the property is ille-gal is false.”
UTSA is for first-genera-tion students, or it will be, increasingly. UTSA is set to receive a five-year, $1.1 mil-lion TRIO Student Support Services grant from The Department of Education.
TRIO is not an acronym; it refers to the number (originally three, now eight) of U.S. federal programs to increase access to higher education to economically disadvantaged students.
The grant will build on the existing TRIO pro-grams. Students will have
access to University Col-lege’s first-year experience peer mentor program and the Early Alert Retention Network (EARN) system.
The Office of P-20 Initia-tives through the TRIO pro-grams and the UTSA Ready program will identify 140 students for the new TRIO cohort. The program will additionally offer financial and academic counseling to students from disadvan-taged backgrounds— pri-marily first generation stu-dents.
“This is a true collab-orative effort between the P-20, Academic Affairs of-fices, and Student Affairs,” said Dr. Letica E. Duncan-Brosnan, Executive Direc-
tor of the Tomas Rivera Center, which is a partner in the grant.
“TRC Programs have been proven to help all stu-dents succeed at UTSA but students who are first gen-eration and disadvantaged excel with student support,”
Duncan-Brosnan added.Forty-seven percent of
UTSA students are first-gen, meaning neither of their parents graduated from college.
This group, making up nearly half of UTSA’s stu-dent body, traditionally faces more challenges in their higher education than their non-first gen peers. Nationally, first-gens are more likely to work while in college, are twice as likely to drop out before their soph-omore year and are less likely to socialize in school or take part in student orga-nizations.
First-gen students often feel they do not belong in a
university, or are unaware of how to get involved.
In response to these chal-lenges and the increase in first-gen students, UTSA’s First-Gen student organi-zation is in the process of being launched. With Pro-fessor Rhonda Gonzales,
a first-gen student herself, as the faculty advisor, this organization will have the ability to reach even more students through mentor-ship and peer support.
First-gen freshman M. Tejada reflects on her first weeks at UTSA ,”Yeah, I didn’t know what to expect, but everyone’s been super helpful... I think knowing some people going through the same stuff will be really helpful.”
Now representing half of the student body, UTSA’s first-generation students are gaining aid and resourc-es to help complete their education.
Mia Cabello, The Paisano
PP: Residents fight back
The city rejected the ap-peal because it was not filed within 30 days of the administrative official’s de-cision that determined the validity of the zoning.
Franco then sued the city, asking the court to order the city to accept her appeal and to interpret the Devel-opment Code in a manner requiring DSD to deny Del-antero’s permit. The lawsuit has since been dropped.
The Director of Commu-
nications for Planned Par-enthood Mara Posada said, “At every step of this con-struction project we have worked with experienced professionals to ensure that we are complying with all applicable rules and regula-tions.”
According the District 8 City Councilman Ron Ni-renberg, “This is a private property rights issue, not a zoning case.” He continued to say, “Their claim that the
use of the property is illegal is false.”
As of right now, the facil-ity will maintain operations. Posada said, “Our new home is a physical expres-sion of our commitment to protect the health and safe-ty of women.”
“TRC Programs have been proven to help all students succeed at UTSA but students who are first generation and disadvantaged
excel with student support.”
Dr. Letica E. Duncan-BrosnanExecutive Director, Tomas Rivera Center
First Generation StudentsUTSA assists with a
comprehensive approach
Continued from page 1
UTSA receives $1.1 million dollars from the U.S. Department of Education to assist first generation students.
First generation students are twice as likely to drop out before their sophomore year and less likely to socialize.
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By Matthew Watkinsand Jolie McCullough, The Texas Tribune
As a self-proclaimed member of the lower mid-dle class, Lubbock resident Debra Spencer knew that paying for her kids’ college would be a struggle. This year, however, that struggle has grown far beyond her expectations.
The state is phasing out the biggest source of aid her daughter received when she enrolled in Wayland Baptist University three years ago. That means her son will probably have to rely en-tirely on federal loans when he shows up at the same school this fall. Spencer said her kids don’t qualify for the other state-run programs.
“We really don’t have the money to start paying on these loans,” said Spencer, whose income comes from freelance bookkeeping work and her husband’s musical instrument repair business. “We are worried about sav-ing for retirement.”
State grants have always made up a small portion of Texas students’ college aid — about 6 percent, ac-cording to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. But for middle-class Texans, the state’s help has been shrinking even more. Six aid programs accessible to a broad array of income groups, including people from families that make more than about $60,000 per year, have been targeted for elimination since 2011. Meanwhile, scholarships and grants for the poorest Texans have grown.
The change isn’t neces-sarily intentional. Each cut was an individual deci-sion, and lawmakers have said they eliminated pro-grams that were inefficient or weren’t achieving their desired goals. But all of the cuts combined have caused some higher education leaders to wonder whether middle-income residents are being left behind.
“We do a great job of tak-ing care of poor kids,” said Raymund Paredes, commis-sioner of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, “but I think we need to take a look at middle class families.”
The shift away from the middle class will acceler-ate on Sept. 1, when two
programs that contributed about $90 million annu-ally to Texas students of all income levels will begin to phase out. Those programs, the B-On-Time loan system and the Top Ten Percent Scholarships, served more than 26,000 students in 2013.
Technically, the B-On-Time program is a loan, but it often worked more like a grant. Full-time students seeking undergraduate de-grees received interest-free loans from the state. If the students graduated on time and with a B average, the loans were forgiven.
The state spent about $53 million on B-On-Time dis-bursements in 2013, and some experts praised the program’s apparent abil-ity to persuade students to graduate on time. But there were always problems. Fed-eral law bans schools from advertising loan programs, so many students were un-aware of the benefit. And funding was inequitable at schools across the state. Those issues caused law-makers to scrap the pro-gram. Starting this fall, the state will only fund renew-als.
The Top Ten Percent Scholarships, which paid out $38 million in 2013, is also being axed. The pro-gram promised a reward for students who graduated near the top of their high school classes and chose to attend Texas schools. But the growth in eligible stu-dents outpaced the growth in funding. The original award was $2,000, but the state only had enough to pay out $600 to each student last year. Lawmakers argued that $600 wasn’t enough to make a difference.
“Both programs were found to be less effective, but for different reasons,” said Rep. Trent Ashby, R-Lufkin, who chairs a sub-committee that focuses on education spending.
At the same time, law-makers pumped tens of new millions of dollars into other programs. TEXAS Grants, which pays students up to $7,400 per year, received an additional $62.7 million for 2016-17. The Texas Educa-tional Opportunity Grant, which received about $28.9 million in new funding. Lawmakers said those pro-grams were boosted be-cause they were found to be
efficient and effective dur-ing a strategic review.
Only students who the federal government expects to receive limited financial help from their families are eligible for TEXAS Grants and Texas Educational Op-portunity Grants. That ex-pected family contribution is determined through a formula based on earnings, assets and other factors. But many families of four with income of more than $60,000 wouldn’t qualify for either.
Those students now have few options for help from the state. In 2011, lawmak-ers cited budget difficulties caused by the recession as the reason for eliminating four other programs that didn’t have strict income limits. Those programs spent a combined $20 mil-lion each year on students who graduated early from high school, had a parent in the military or were degrees in engineering or nursing.
That leaves just one grant program that doesn’t have strict income rules — a scholarship to students de-fray the high cost of tuition if they attend expensive in-state private schools.
“In a perfect world, we would fund financial aid for all our students who choose to pursue some form of higher education,” Ashby said. “But as appropriators and stewards, we have to allocate the tax dollars we have in the most fair, effec-tive and efficient manner we can.”
Now, most middle-class students will have to seek out federal aid or scholar-ships from local groups. Paredes said the state should do more. Attend-ing the University of Texas at Austin from out of town can cost around $30,000 per year, he said. That’s a major challenge for a family that earns $60,000, he said.
“We don’t have any finan-cial aid programs to help those students,” he said.
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To promote good health among UTSA’s students, the university must curb — or better yet, discontinue — its sale of Pepsi soda products in the 130 cold beverage vend-ing machines on UTSA’s three campuses.
Two out of every three American adults are obese. In
Bexar County, over 50 percent of adults are overweight and obese. Additionally, reducing soda and other sugary drink consumption has proven to be effective for weight loss and weight management in obese and overweight adults.
According to a study pub-lished in the American Jour-nal of Public Health, drinking one soda a day can shorten an individual’s life.
A 2014 study by Harvard School of Public Health linked 25,000 obesity-related deaths
to the individuals’ consump-tion of sugar-sweetened drinks.
Cigarettes and tobacco products are not sold in cam-pus vending machines; soft drinks and other sugar-laden junk foods should not be sold either.
While diet is an individual
choice, high caloric intakes should not be supported at the university and offered as a food option on campus.
Curbing the sale and con-sumption of soft drinks on campus and restricting ac-cess to the harmful beverag-es is a necessary step in culti-vating top-tier graduates.
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A healthy future is, at first, a little less sweet Editorial
Lighter loads, more learningAward shows are useless
Satire
Commentary“Taking
15 credit h o u r s each se-m e s t e r helps you g r a d u -
ate sooner and saves you thousands of dollars off of the total cost of your college education.” This statement is posted on shuttle stops all around UTSA with images of oversized dollar bills trickling down.
This statement is true, but is saving money now and rushing yourself out of your campus’ door really the best choice for your future?
UTSA wants students to graduate in four-years be-cause it needs quantifiable measures of student success for the push to tier-one sta-tus. Raising the percentage of students who graduate in four years helps UTSA obtain these measures.
Affordability is one aspect that plays into UTSA’s tier-one status. The average cost of attendance lowers if stu-dents graduate in four years.
Indeed, saving money on your education sounds nice, but trying to cram five class-es worth of information in one semester is not always the best way to learn.
Taking 15 credit hours helps keep students from getting distracted, par-ticularly those who do not have jobs outside of class. However, many, if not most students at UTSA, work jobs while in school. Students must keep these jobs to pay for tuition, rent and bills.
When bombarded with a 15-hour class schedule and a demanding workweek, students are left rushing to complete an assignment rather than actually learn and retain the information.
Many students do quite well following this formula of rushing to complete all their assignments and then cramming for midterms and finals; though, but ask these students what they learned from their classes a semester later, and many will be hard-pressed to give any specifics as facts, terms and formulas have fallen out of their short-term memory.
If students decide to cut down to even 12 credit hours a semester, they would have the opportunity to actu-
ally engage in, critically think about, and perhaps even enjoy their course work. In-stead of turning in work they barely had the time to com-plete, students could turn in their best work—work they actually care about and put thought into.
Having one fewer class to stress over would also allow students more time to par-ticipate in extra curricular activities or jobs where they can apply what they have learned in the classroom. Students can intern with a company and get a taste for the fields they do and do not like. Then, students can then alter and specialize their course work accordingly, not to mention they would have real-world experience to put on their resumes.
Cramming in 15 credit hours a semester to gradu-ate in four-years instead of five or six is only worthwhile if you retain the information being presented. You can show a future employer a paper showing you gradu-ated from college, but if you do not have the working knowledge to back it up, what is the value behind it?
College is the time to de-velop your skills and expand your mind. It shouldn’t be a race to the finish. Once you leave, you cannot come back and re-take classes you never really grasped or pick up that minor that you al-most completed.
We live in a globalized, fast-passed, technology-driven world that the tra-ditional four-year college experience cannot be copy and pasted to.
Students need the time to intern in their fields of study in order to choose ap-propriate course work and electives. They also need the time to fully engage in class, so they will retain informa-tion beyond their final ex-ams.
If you are just going to use the extra time to watch the newest series on Netflix, taking one fewer class a se-mester is pointless. If you are going to use the extra time to really master the informa-tion being presented in your classes and obtain outside
Christopher BreakellStaff Writer
Commentary
Commentary
Technology disconnects everyone Your in-
t r u d i n g footsteps’ e c h o e s greet you from a hall-way filled with head-
phone-laden, half-cognizant students idly waiting for classes to begin.
Finding a space against a wall, you begin noticing the piercing silence from the crowd you mazed through, buried pollex-deep into their phones.
The awkward tension forc-es you too to bring out your mobile-crutch as you wait, scroll and wait.
We’re all guilty of it, wheth-er it’s to procrastinate or to give the illusion of being busy. Being around strangers is uncomfortable, so why not connect with the familiar? Is this just a new societal norm, or are we slowly becoming incapable of interaction out-side of our phones and social media?
Unfortunately, this habit isn’t limited to universities or the age group that’s become the face of the social-media generation, such as college students. Children and adults alike are now phasing into
this dependency for constant connection, creating a now perpetual, impersonal net-work. Understandably, those who aren’t socially accli-mated see the influx of social media mediums as a way of expression, connection, and preferred perception without direct persecution. However, it seems that the attention gained from likes, retweets, and double-taps are of more importance than personal in-teraction. But why?
During my tenure as a serv-er, it was common to watch groups eat in silence as they scrolled through their social-medias for the entire evening. Obviously these people were acclimated enough to share a meal, but were consciously replacing the direct commu-nication. Some restaurants have gone as far as installing signal jammers and cancel-ing Wi-Fi service to combat the lack of interaction.
The ability to transcend beyond personal interaction can be seen as a societal ad-vancement, in context, where there’s no harm done in want-ing stay connected.
But when regulations are created to cease phone use during work, class, and driv-ing due to constant distrac-
tion, disruption, injury or death, we must address that we face a larger issue than a simple habit.
Due to an advancing tech-nology-driven world, con-necting with people through social networks is utilized for convenience. Are we now at the beginning of technologi-cal singularity, or is this sim-ply communication incom-petence where social-media fills the gap?
As you walk through cam-pus, the store, or the city, look around. Take in the world around you with feasting eyes and deep breaths. Open your mind to the scale of life and suddenly what matters online can’t compare.
Instead of Snapchatting every occurrence, live for the moment, rather than try to capture and immortalize.
Instead of updating your status or tweeting your thoughts to the world, share them with the people around you. It’s time to disconnect, and learn to reconnect.
Gaige DavilaStaff Writer
#UTSAGoGreek, Go Viral G o o g l e
s e a r c h “ U T S A Fraternity Punch” to see one of the most popular vid-
eos this month on YouTube. The video of a fight at a UTSA fraternity pool party in Aspen Heights apartment complex titled “Rushee Punched into Next week” has gone viral, surpassing 200,000 views. The popular video depicts in slow-motion, an unidenti-fied shirtless man wearing an American flag themed hat and glass, throwing a hard left punch at an unsuspect-ing victim.
Affectionately dubbed
“Uncle Sam,” the suspected fraternity member has been hailed as a hero by the com-munity. It was reported that the sucker punched victim had been flirting terribly and making girls uncomfortable, inciting many to believe this “party foul” was well deserv-ing of the star-spangled hit.
“I just poured one foamy beer,” reported bruised-faced freshman, Buddy Light, who was attending his first college party when pummeled by Uncle Sam. Witnesses how-ever say that the beer had been pumping perfectly out of the keg until that moment, and many accusing Buddy of creating the disturbance.
“Uncle Sam saved my beer,” noted beer recipient sopho-
more Cora Ona, who had worried her lips would never get passed the foam.
Recently, Uncle Sam was witnessed at a house party punching two cheating flip-cup participants, who had incited a chorus of “not cools” by other players. In an-other attack, a woman was knocked unconscious after she spilt a bowl of potato chips at a mixer.
Campus police are still on the hunt for the half-naked vigilante; meanwhile, Uncle Sam continues to bring his own brand of justice through-out the UTSA community.
Robert AvilaStaff Writer
K a n y e West did it again.
At the 2015 MTV Video Mu-sic Awards
(VMA’s), the provocative Chi-cago-raised artist yet again befuddled the world with his spontaneity.
Many will remember, the 21-time Grammy Award win-ner’s memorable interruption of country-pop superstar Tay-lor Swift to dispute her receiv-ing an award during the 2009 VMA’s. The incident, which became an Internet sensa-tion, garnered negative pub-licity for West.
This time, though, West kept his interruptions to him-self. Instead, the rapper/de-signer rattled off a perplexing speech filled with anecdotes aimed at the millennial gen-
eration. Despite the artist’s un-
abashed attitude and nega-tive attributes, the speech surprisingly had substance.
Expressing his discontent with award shows, West claimed that music — art — should not have any losers.
And the artist has a point. Award shows such as the
Grammy Awards or the Os-cars often deem what they find is the “best” work, which is complete nonsense.
Although art is tangible, it is also undoubtedly subjec-tive. It affects people in dif-ferent ways — whether the art is a song, book, movie or painting. So why judge, with disdain, an artist’s work?
While criticism and cri-tique of pundits are accept-able among certain awards — such as the Pulitzer and Nobel Prize — award shows
often serve as popularity con-tests rather than an accurate portrayal of assessment.
Both the Grammy’s and Oscars have a similar voting style — a panel of “experts” who deem, subjectively with which work is the “best.” While they may be experts in their respective fields, there is no rubric for which a song or movie is assessed. This panel of experts surely, does not speak for the whole of the lis-tening and viewing populace.
So, instead of awarding artists accolades based on popularity and an opinion of a small panel of experts, why not respect the art for what it is?
There are no losers in art, only different forms of ex-pression.
With enrollment continu-ously on the rise, the mental health of college students is a major concern. The rise of social media and increased job competition intensifies pressure felt by incoming students to live up to soci-etal standards and compete in a global economy, which often leads to depression.
In 2014, The Cooperative Institutional Research Pro-gram at the University of California conducted a sur-vey of more than 150,000 students nationwide about campus depression, and the
results were not inspiring.The study stated that “9.5
percent of respondents had frequently ‘felt depressed’ during the past year, a sig-nificant rise over the 6.1 percent reported just five years prior. Those who felt ‘overwhelmed’ by work, school and other commit-ments rose from 27.1 to 34.6 percent.”
In an effort to gain insight into how UTSA compared to national statistics, The Paisano interviewed Me-lissa Hernandez, Assistant Director of Counseling Ser-vices of twelve years, about common trends of depres-sion and anxiety amongst students.
“Anxiety and depres-
sion are two of our top re-lated concerns,” Hernandez states, “but over the last three years, the number of students seeking assistance for those issues in particular has held pretty steady based on student enrollment and percentages. What I have seen over the past few years is an increasing number of students coming in for more severe issues. College counseling used to be about adjusting to college life, yet over the past fifteen years it has become more and more a situation of students coming in with diagnosable mental health conditions.”
According to Hernandez’s record for the 2014-2015 academic year at UTSA,
students counseled with general anxiety disorder to-taled 496, and students with general mood disorders, including depression, 619. Counseling Services pro-vided help to 1,399 students last year, averaging 1,200 to 1,500 students per year.
The focus of Counsel-ing Services is to provide short-term care to current-ly enrolled students. For students in need of long-term therapy, Counseling Services provides referrals to the UT Health Science Center, University Hospital or Methodist Specialty and Transplant Hospital.
Hernandez also explained the move from the UC to the RWC building had less
to do with visibility and more with providing the best care they can for UTSA students. “The idea was to create a center for wellness that was designed and cre-ated for the specific needs of recreation, health, and counseling,” explained Her-nandez. “Although moving from the center of campus detracts from visibility and awareness, it can also be at-tractive to students for the purpose of privacy and con-fidentiality.”
Counseling Services also provides a variety of one on one sessions and group therapy to students. “Man-aging Your Mood” with Adam Lofti and “Guided Meditation” with Cristina
Hernandez help those with depression and anxiety ev-ery Wednesday from 1-5 p.m. Both sessions take place in the group room lo-cated at the RWC 1.810.
The Counseling Services office is open until 7 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays for walk-ins, along with an after-hours crisis help line through UT-Austin.
Hernandez knows the best way to get a student help is to walk them into the counseling office. “Ac-tively engage in discussion about it amongst friends to decrease stigma about mental health. Talk about it openly without judgment. Be an active bystander. Find someone that can help.”
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Fabian De Soto, The Paisano
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Depression 101: How to avoid the sophomore slump
Many people experience the first symptoms of depression during their college years. Unfortunately, many college students who have depression aren’t getting the help they need. They may not know where to go for assistance, or they may believe that treatment won’t help. UTSA hopes to correct these rising concerns with a variety of counseling services, classes and staff waiting to help you every step of the way.
Annette BarrazaContributing Writer@[email protected] “If you think of a piano, I only hear one octave.” It seems unconventional that someone who is deaf would describe her hearing in rela-tion to an instrument, but Emma Faye Rudkin isn’t the average student. At only 19 years old, Rudkin has already accom-plished much more than her peers who aren’t disabled. At an early age, her parents decided to keep her in the “speaking world” instead of enrolling her in a school for the deaf and having her learn sign language, which seems to have paid off. Vice President of the National Honor Society, Cheer Cap-tain, Prom Queen and high school Honor graduate are just some of the re-cent barriers she’s broken. She’s even been crowned Miss San An-tonio 2015, becoming the first deaf wom-an to win the award. Even with all of these ac-c o l a d e s , Rudkin’s n u m -b e r o n e l o v e g o e s back to music. “I was never afraid of anything, so I went out and learned how
to play music and started signing up for school plays,” stated Rudkin. “I feel music and play through vibrations. I speak by knowing the placement of my mouth af-ter years of speech therapy.” Looking back, Rudkin never expected to get to where she is now in life. Often teased for her accent and hearing aid, Rudkin’s confidence dipped low at a young age. “I didn’t know if I was ever going to amount to anything,” recounts Rudkin. “That’s how bad my insecu-rities were.”
Instead of despairing about her disability, Rudkin in-stead decided to celebrate it, creating the “#ShowYo-urAids” campaign to reha-bilitate the image of hear-ing aids, which Rudkin describes as a badge of hon-or to tell people of her story. The campaign reached viral success, with stars such as Derrick Coleman, the first deaf offensive play-er in the NFL, participating by sharing a picture of his hearing aids. Empowered by the movement, Emma heard countless stories through social media of children finally finding the confidence to wear their aids or tell their friends about their hearing loss.
B e -y o n d
the cam-paign, Rudkin has also started
Aid the Silent, a non-profit orga-
nization that uses donations to help the deaf community
and divides its func-tions into four parts:
deaf research, deaf education, deaf
resources and deaf minis-try. Closest
to her heart is deaf minis-
try, or teaching the deaf about God, which helped her
heal emotionally and taught her confidence in herself.
“I met Jesus when I was 14, and I realized he took away something that the world considered valuable in order so that I could hear him,” explained Rud-kin about her divine intervention. She felt the need to share her sto-ry on a large p l a t f o r m , s p e a k i n g out during her Miss San Anto-nio pageant a b o u t
her disabil-ity and the ways it changed her life. Although she sees it as a great personal experience, Rudkin says she will wait at least a year before trying again to focus on her stud-ies at UTSA. While major-ing in Communication and planning to get a Masters in Deaf Education, Rudkin also plans to expand Aid the Silent, even organizing a 5K marathon in San Antonio this November where she plans to perform and run at the event. Rudkin’s advice for any-one who will listen is to not be afraid of deep living. “Life is always deeper and more rich than you realize.
The more you speak truth and peace and joy, the more you will find it,” proclaimed Rudkin. “We all have pain, and battles that can all be overcome and can become
your platform to proclaim free-
dom for oth-ers.”
6 ARTS & LIFESeptember 1 - September 8, 2015
Events Calendar:Wednesday 9/27 p.m.Ready for some friendly competition on campus? Head over to The Roost on campus this Wednesday and take part in a tourna-ment, or watch while enjoying a free slice of pizza. This week Smash Bros. 4 will test the strength of the competitors. For a full schedule of upcoming tourna-ments visit utsaroost.wordpress.com. Sign up goes until 30 minutes before the tournament, so make sure to arrive early!Friday 9/45 p.m. This Labor Day weekend, La Villita (418 Villita St) will be transformed into a Shakespearean Re-naissance Village as part of Shakespeare in the Park, offering the public a chance to enjoy some out of the ordinary kind of fun. To go or not to go? That is the question.Sunday 9/66 p.m.San Antonio’s Bom-basta is set to be one of the four acts to appear on stage this weekend during Échale 2015 at the Pearl Amphitheater (100 E Grayson St)! The concert is free and open to the public, so grab a couple of friends for an evening filled with great music.
‘Aid’ing the Silent
Photo Courtesy of Emma Faye Rudkin
UTSA student combats d isabi l i ty with pr ide, pass ion
“Life is al-ways deeper and more rich than you real-ize. The more you speak truth and peace and joy, the more you will find it.”Emma Faye RudkinMiss San Antonio 2015,Founder of Aid the Silent
It was the 2014 home opener — four minutes and 43 seconds remaining in the first half. Following a stellar UTSA punt, Ari-zona’s offense took the ball from its own 2-yard line.
A bad snap hurled over Arizona quarterback Anu Solomon’s head and into the Roadrunner endzone for a safety. UTSA led Arizona 16-13, and the Alamodome crowd was going ballistic.
UTSA played its fiercest football that day, matching up evenly with the Pac-12 power-house all the way down the stat-line. The offense gained 23 first downs while
controlling the ball six min-utes longer than Arizona, and the game came down to the very last play.
Despite the Roadrunners’ efforts, the Wildcats held on for a three- point vic- tory,
26-23.
UTSA didn’t recover from the heartbreaking loss, winning only three of its remain-ing 10 games following the Arizona loss in the 2014 season. The Roadrunners finished that year under .500, the first time since the program’s inaugural season.
This Thursday night, UTSA hopes to rewrite the novel in Tucson, AZ, and start the 2015 campaign strong. This meeting will be the final of a three-year series in which the Wild-cats lead 2-0. UTSA will go into Arizona Stadium as 31-point underdogs despite last year’s showing.
After graduating 37 seniors, UTSA filled every vacant roster spot with this year’s tremendous recruit-ing class.
“We’re bigger, stronger, and fast-er,” UTSA Head Coach Larry Cok-er claimed after Friday morning’s
practice. “We’re a more talented team
(now) than we were then.” The Roadunners have
depth at each position, and of the starters, only five are returning from last season. So, UTSA students should expect to see several play-ers get opportunities for playing time.
The biggest question marks lie on the defen-sive side of the ball as the Roadunners lost six of their top eight tacklers from last season, including defensive team captain — now Seattle Seahawk — Triston Wade.
The team’s biggest task will be containing Arizona quarterback Anu Solomon. A young defensive line will have to win upfront to slow down Arizona running
back Nick Wilson, who racked up 174 yards in last year’s matchup.
As for the offense, Blake Bogen- schutz, who won the offsea-son’s quarter-back battle, as- sumes
com-mand as the starter. He played in three games last sea-son, complet-ing 22-of-39 passes before suffering a season-ending hand injury in the game against Florida International University.
He received a medical red-shirt during the offseason, so it’s safe to
assume Bogenschutz will be the offensive captain for the next few years.
The Roadunners also have a new starting run-ning back, Jarveon Wil-liams. The coaching staff is expecting great things from the junior.
“We should’ve won,” Williams simply stated, speaking on the Arizona loss from 2014.
Last year Williams rushed the ball 66 times for 325 yards, nearly 5 yards
per carry. Also expect to see fellow running backs Tyrell Clay and Brian Vaughn get some carries.
Watch the Roadrun-ners kick off their 2015
season as they take on the Arizona Wildcats, Thurs-day, Sept. 3.
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Thursday, Sept. 3
UTSA volleyball (away)Coming off of a big win at the Bearkats Invitational, the volleyball team will look to duplicate its success at the Delta Zeta Classic in San Marcos. The team opens play against Texas State on Thursday, followed by matches with Indiana and Texas Southern on Friday and Saturday respectively.
Friday, Sept. 4
UTSA cross country (away)Both the men’s and women’s teams will be competing in the Aggies Opener in College Station over the weekend.
UTSA soccer (away)The soccer team will be in Lubbock competing against the Texas Tech Red Raiders.
Sunday, Sept. 6
UTSA soccer (away)The soccer team will take on Oklahama on its home field in Norman, Okla.
Monday, Sept. 4
UTSA volleyball (home)Volleyball hosts the home-opener against the Oregon Ducks in the Convocaton Center. The game is set to begin at 6 p.m.
The that got awayUTSA vs. Arizona: inside the anticapated rematchUTSA FOOTBALL
Arizona quarterback Anu Solomon (pictured) will be a force against UTSA. The dual-threat quarterback is on the pre-season Pac-12 Player of the Year watch list.
Photos courtesy of Arizona Athletics Jeff Huehn, UTSA Athletics
Senior tight end David Morgan II (pictured) is a key contributor for the UTSA offense. Morgan gained honorable mention All-Conference honors in 2014.
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The UTSA Football team is implementing a new pass-happy, up-tempo of-fense for the 2015 season. Although the quarterbacks and wide receivers will be featured heavily, junior running back Jarveon Wil-liams will be vital to the success of the team.
Being the top return-ing rusher from a season ago — despite missing the final four games — means Williams will be carrying the ball along with added expectations heading into the 2015 season.
Alhough he is going into his third year on the team, Williams still remembers year one like it was yesterday.
“I didn’t know what to expect,” said Williams. “I thought everybody was going to be bigger then me,” he admitted with a laugh. “I didn’t think I was going to play, but I wanted to.” Wil-liams got his opportunity to play as a true freshman and has been a key contributor ever since.
In his hometown of Converse, Texas, Williams played defensive back for his first three years of high school before switching
to the offensive side of the ball. During his senior sea-son, he made the switch to running back and instantly excelled at it. He received second-team All-Area and first team All-District for both positions during his time in high school.
His transition from defense to offense was seamless, much like his transition from high school to the collegiate level. Williams was a success at UTSA from his very first game where he nearly scored for the Roadrun-ners.
“My adrenaline was pumping,” said Williams,
reflecting on his first game as a Roadrunner. “I made a real big play and almost scored.”
In his early days, Wil-liams recalls playing off of pure emotion and excite-ment. Now as an upper-classman, he has matured and improved as a runner. “With experience you get better,” said Williams. “So the more I’ve played the better I’ve gotten. I’ve learned how to (properly) run and not just run off of instincts; I actually learned
the game in-depth.”Going into the 2015 sea-
son, Williams’ junior year figures to be his best.
“This year, my goal is to capitalize on all my runs and make the most of each opportunity I can,” said Williams.
Not only is he work-ing to better himself as a player, the junior running back also takes part in the progression of his younger teammates. Williams’ ten-ure and status on the team make him a great leader for this year’s freshmen too. “I’m taking on the role of a leader,” said Williams. “I’m showing them the things
that the guys that were here before me showed me.”
Williams’ steady ad-vancement from his freshman year to now can be seen not only on the field, but also in his demeanor
and attitude as well. When asked about his expecta-tions for the team this year, Williams responded with no hesitation, saying: “(We will) win the confer-ence and a bowl game.” That confidence and belief in himself, as well as his teammates, will be needed this year as Jarveon looks to lead his team to victory.
