Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio {SINCE 1981} UTSA e results of the Business Auxillary Ser- vice’s (BAS) peanut butter parking capaign are in. In total, 702 pounds of peanut butter were donated, 548 meals were provided to the San Antonio Food Bank and students saved $9,750 in park- ing tickets. e campaign will be repeated next fall. U.S. Oklahoma has granted a stay of execution to convicted mur- derer Richard Glossip and two other death row inmates after of- ficials discovered that they did not have the correct chemicals to fol- low through with the procedure. World Doctors With- out Borders reported that 12 of its staffers and 10 of its patients were killed fol- lowing a U.S. air strike on a hospital run by the organization in the Northern Afghan province of Kunduz. e strike comes as fire fights be- tween the Tali- ban and Afghan Security Forces have again bro- ken out. Science Chinese scien- tist Dr. Youyou Tu has won a Nobel Prize in medicine for her work in the 1970s fighting against malaria. She began her research in the 1960s because American and North Vietnam- ese soldiers were suffering from drug-re- sistant malaria. e mosquito remains the world’s deadli- est animal. Health A fire set to a ousand Oaks, California Planned Parent- hood facility has been ruled an ar- son according to local authorities. e health center has faced public and congressio- nal backlash for its practice of supplying tissue from aborted fetuses for scien- tific research. Volume 52 Issue 8 October 6 - October 13, 2015 See Student group,Page 2 Fabian DeSoto, Paisano See Women, page 3 Hypothesis: STEM has a sexism problem Marina Vences Staff Writer @ThePaisano [email protected]At UTSA in 2014, female students represented 17.4 percent of the 3,089 students enrolled in the Science, Technology, Engi- neering and Math (STEM) fields. While the ratio of male to female students can be influenced by a number of factors, such as student interest and enrollment, the empirically observed gen- der gap raises concerns. Olivia Ybarra, a recent UTSA graduate with a B.S. in environmental science and a minor in biology, has often seen the effects of this gap first hand. “Being a female minority and studying a subject that is often under appreciated and misinterpreted, espe- cially in Texas, it can seem like the odds are stacked against you,” she said. Ybarra stated she has often encountered sexist remarks said casually in her study groups and classes and attributes this to the gap between men and women enrolled in STEM. “I had female classmates, especially engineering majors where females are overwhelmingly outnum- bered, who have been in study groups with only male students when the conversation would sud- denly drift to misogynis- tic comments about the women nearby.” Although female stu- dents today do receive a lot of support, these occur- rences are not uncommon. Barbara Kennedy is the president of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) at UTSA, and a civil engi- neering major. Although the society’s purpose is to highlight the contributions of women in the engineer- ing program, she notes the difference in treatment between the sexes in the area of wardrobe. “I have personally been to half a dozen workshops that focus on what not to wear to career-related events. It took me every one of those experiences before I asked myself, ‘Do men have these work- shops?’ Of course they don’t.” Kennedy believes the workshops should “spend more time talking about how to be the best version of yourself (even if that self is a high-heels wearing, red-lipstick-toting feminista).” Ybarra describes an ex- ample of sexism professors faced by STEM students. Before her 8 a.m. class, a professor in the biology de- partment began the class by giving his personal outlook on marriage. “He decided he wanted to share his ideas of mar- riage and the roles of a wife. His views about his wife were demeaning and belittled her integrity. While I do respect other’s opinions, I think it was inappropriate to have that discussion, especially in a class that did not warrant such dialogue,” Ybarra said. Dean of the College of Engineering Dr. JoAnn Browning says that the key to reducing these types of comments and actions in her field are strong female role models. “I feel that women need to be continuously edu- cated and encouraged to consider careers in STEM fields. ey share the same interest and talent as men to be successful in these Active Minds hopes to reduce stigma surrounding mental illness Photo courtesy of Active Minds Anusha Hussain Contributing Writer @ThePaisano [email protected]In the Neolithic Era, men- tal illness (also referred to as “abnormal behavior”) was thought as evil spirits taking over the mind. In hopes of removing malicious spirits lurking in the skull, part of the afflicted individual’s skull was removed in a surgical procedure called trephina- tion. is outdated ritual has been abandoned; however, the stigma surrounding men- tal health is still strong today. Mental health is ingrained in society, which makes it dif- ficult to remove. Enter Active Minds, the national non-profit orga- nization that promotes mental health awareness and seems to dissolve the stigma surrounding mental illnesses on college campuses. Melina Acosta, presi- dent of Active Minds, was inspired to establish the organization after she lost her father to suicide. She realized there were many warnings that she had overlooked due to igno- rance about mental health. Determined to make a change, Acosta began her search and found an orga- nization with the objective of educating the UTSA community about mental health and helping some- one who may be struggling. Active Minds opens a dialogue about mental health encouraging students to usethe hashtag #ReasonISpeak. “Spend more time talking about how to be your best self (even if that self is a high- heels wearing, red-lipstick-touting feminista,” says president of Society of Women Engineers, Barbera Kennedy.
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Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio
{SINCE 1981}UTSA
The results of the Business
Auxillary Ser-vice’s (BAS)
peanut butter parking capaign are in. In total, 702 pounds of peanut butter were donated,
548 meals were provided to the
San Antonio Food Bank and students saved $9,750 in park-ing tickets. The campaign will
be repeated next fall.
U.S. Oklahoma has granted a stay of execution to convicted mur-derer Richard
Glossip and two other death row inmates after of-ficials discovered that they did not have the correct chemicals to fol-low through with
the procedure.
WorldDoctors With-
out Borders reported that 12 of its staffers and 10 of its patients were killed fol-lowing a U.S. air strike on a
hospital run by the organization in the Northern Afghan province of Kunduz. The strike comes as fire fights be-
tween the Tali-ban and Afghan Security Forces have again bro-
ken out.
ScienceChinese scien-tist Dr. Youyou Tu has won a
Nobel Prize in medicine for
her work in the 1970s fighting
against malaria. She began her research in the 1960s because American and
North Vietnam-ese soldiers
were suffering from drug-re-
sistant malaria. The mosquito remains the
world’s deadli-est animal.
HealthA fire set to a Thousand
Oaks, California Planned Parent-hood facility has been ruled an ar-son according to local authorities. The health center has faced public and congressio-nal backlash for
At UTSA in 2014, female students represented 17.4 percent of the 3,089 students enrolled in the Science, Technology, Engi-neering and Math (STEM) fields. While the ratio of male to female students can be influenced by a number of factors, such as student interest and enrollment, the empirically observed gen-der gap raises concerns. Olivia Ybarra, a recent UTSA graduate with a B.S. in environmental science and a minor in biology, has often seen the effects of this
gap first hand. “Being a female minority and studying a subject that is often under appreciated and misinterpreted, espe-cially in Texas, it can seem like the odds are stacked against you,” she said. Ybarra stated she has often encountered sexist remarks said casually in her study groups and classes and attributes this to the gap between men and women enrolled in STEM. “I had female classmates, especially engineering majors where females are overwhelmingly outnum-bered, who have been in study groups with only male students when the conversation would sud-
denly drift to misogynis-tic comments about the women nearby.” Although female stu-dents today do receive a lot of support, these occur-rences are not uncommon. Barbara Kennedy is the president of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) at UTSA, and a civil engi-neering major. Although the society’s purpose is to highlight the contributions of women in the engineer-ing program, she notes the difference in treatment between the sexes in the area of wardrobe. “I have personally been to half a dozen workshops that focus on what not to wear to career-related
events. It took me every one of those experiences before I asked myself, ‘Do men have these work-shops?’ Of course they don’t.” Kennedy believes the workshops should “spend more time talking about how to be the best version of yourself (even if that self is a high-heels wearing, red-lipstick-toting feminista).” Ybarra describes an ex-ample of sexism professors faced by STEM students. Before her 8 a.m. class, a professor in the biology de-partment began the class by giving his personal outlook on marriage. “He decided he wanted to share his ideas of mar-
riage and the roles of a wife. His views about his wife were demeaning and belittled her integrity. While I do respect other’s opinions, I think it was inappropriate to have that discussion, especially in a class that did not warrant such dialogue,” Ybarra said. Dean of the College of Engineering Dr. JoAnn Browning says that the key to reducing these types of comments and actions in her field are strong female role models. “I feel that women need to be continuously edu-cated and encouraged to consider careers in STEM fields. They share the same interest and talent as men to be successful in these
Active Minds hopes to reduce stigma surrounding mental illness
In the Neolithic Era, men-tal illness (also referred to as “abnormal behavior”) was thought as evil spirits taking over the mind. In hopes of removing malicious spirits lurking in the skull, part of the afflicted individual’s skull was removed in a surgical procedure called trephina-tion. This outdated ritual has been abandoned; however, the stigma surrounding men-tal health is still strong today. Mental health is ingrained in society, which makes it dif-ficult to remove. Enter Active Minds, the
national non-profit orga-nization that promotes mental health awareness and seems to dissolve the stigma surrounding mental illnesses on college campuses. Melina Acosta, presi-dent of Active Minds, was inspired to establish the organization after she lost her father to suicide. She realized there were many warnings that she had overlooked due to igno-rance about mental health. Determined to make a change, Acosta began her search and found an orga-nization with the objective of educating the UTSA community about mental health and helping some-one who may be struggling.
Active Minds opens a dialogue about mental health encouraging students to usethe hashtag #ReasonISpeak.
“Spend more time talking about how to be your best self (even if that self is a high- heels wearing, red-lipstick-touting feminista,” says president of Society of Women Engineers, Barbera Kennedy.
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This excerpt is from an article published in Recovery Campus maga-zine in March of 2015: “For many years, UTSA—ob-serving the rise in college students seeking help with substance use disorders—worked to develop services specifically for those stu-dents. The Center for Col-legiate Recovery (CCR) is
one of the tangible results of those efforts.” It is misleading to sug-gest that the establishment of the CCR was strictly a result of an effort taken on by UTSA. The program was established when the UT system’s Board of Re-gents mandated that every university institute a pro-gram to help students bal-ance recovery and college life. At this point, UTSA’s involvement in the imple-mentation of this program has been minimal.
The university does pro-vide a room (Recreation Wellness Center 1.808) that houses the program. However, all of its guaran-teed funding is provided by the UT system, and that only covers its employees’ salaries. This includes As-sistant Director Clayton Sponhaltz and one gradu-ate research assistant. The center relies on private donations for all events, promotional materials and supplies. It is difficult to find a mention of the CCR
Student group promotes mental health awareness,suicide prevention continued from page 1
See CCR ,Page 3
According to the Ameri-can College Health As-sociation, more than 25 percent of college students have been diagnosed for a mental condition in 2015, and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration states that one in four adults between the ages of 18 and 24 has a mental illness. Mental illness is tough to talk about, but this only perpetuates the stigma. Suicide is prevalent on college campuses, and ac-cording to the American Psychological Associa-tion, suicide is the second leading cause of death
for college students (after traffic accidents). Through initiatives like these, Active Minds want to raise aware-ness and encourage more students to discuss mental health issues. Active Minds faces numerous challenges, such as overcoming the idea that mental illness is a joke. Most people are guilty of accusing an individual or themselves of “being bipolar,” “so depressed” or “having ADD.” These small statements add to the trivialization of mental illnesses and discourage individuals from seeking help. Active Minds wants to
ensure that all students know that they have re-sources available, namely the UTSA Counseling Center, and that there is no shame in reaching out. This year, Active Minds launched Suicide Preven-tion week, in which 1,100 white flags were placed in the lawn across the McKin-ney Humanities building to represent the number of college students who com-mit suicide every year. Active Minds has meet-ings every other Tuesday (the next one is on Oct. 13) in the HUC Hidalgo room at 6 p.m.
Photo courtesy of Center for Collegiate Recovery
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in any official UTSA publication.Dr. Thomas Baez, direc-
tor of counseling services since 2006, asserted that more funding designated for the organization would increase its reach and stability. Baez also mentioned that efforts were made to provide options for students struggling with addiction before the CCR was established. But until Sponhaltz (a licensed chemical de-pendency counselor) was hired in 2014, there were no counselors on staff who were qualified to treat ad-diction. Because of the nature of the services offered and the importance of peer support in the recovery process, the clinical setting is not the most conducive environment for students in recovery: “Counseling Services can not be a spe-
cialist for substance abuse,” Baez stated. There is still plenty of confusion about the rela-tionship between Counsel-ing Services and the CCR, which is detrimental to students’ understanding and awareness of the CCR. “We have encountered lots of difficulties increas-ing awareness of our pro-gram as we’ve been hidden under the Counseling Ser-vices umbrella,” Sponhaltz explained. There is evidence of this on the university’s website, where the CCR’s homep-age (utsa.edu/recovery) can only be found by searching for it specifically or through a drop-down menu on the Counseling Services site. Jaswanth Kintada—trea-surer of the Student Gov-ernment Association and head of its new Student Health Advocacy Com-mittee—acknowledged the
need for the committee to address addiction. He then deferred to the partnership with Active Minds, a student organi-zation promoting mental health awareness, and the expertise of the profession-als at Counseling Services. This indicates the lack of synergy between counsel-ing services and student government, who both exist to serve the student body. While the allocation of resources among UTSA’s programs is subjective, it is undeniable that greater fi-nancial support and aware-ness of one program comes at the cost of another. In this case, the oppor-tunity surrendered is the expansion of support for a growing, yet historically ignored population: those who suffer from a disease called “addiction.”
CCR wants to make its presence known
Photo courtesy of East Asian Institute associate director Mimi Yu.
In 1986, Dr. Takeshi Matsuda worked as UTSA’s first Fulbright Professor, teaching a course in the history of American East-Asian Relations; Twenty-nine years later, the now President of Kyoto Uni-versity of Foreign Studies returned to promote fur-ther collaboration between UTSA and KUFS. Last Thursday, he pre-sented his research in a lecture entitled “Drift or Mastery Revisited: A Path to Human Co-Existence” to a crowded room. In it, he discussed current Japanese politics, the recently ap-
proved legislation remili-tarizing the state and the U.S.-Japanese alliance.Matsuda began by address-ing the new security bill, which reinterprets Article Nine of the national con-stitution, allowing Japanese forces to fight abroad un-der the pretest of “the right of collective defense.” He continued, “What better choices could there be in the spectrum of Japan’s diplomatic strate-gies other than the long-standing U.S –dependent military alliance?” This remilitarization of Japan’s national security posture has created anxiety among Japanese citizens, who view the country’s long-standing pacifism as a cultural tradition. Moving
on to the big picture, he stated, “I do believe that there is no more ennobling human aspiration than to choose a path toward hu-man coexistence based on non-militarism.” Japan’s pacifist constitu-tion, drafted in 1947 by occupying forces following WWII, has created long-lasting peace between Ja-pan, the U.S. and its neigh-bors. Matsuda described the varying views of Japanese politics from the proto-conservatives who believe in upholding an emperor system revolving around national security, to the issues of foreign policy surrounding a Japanese diplomacy that continues to rely on American power and authority.
careers, but they may not be able to visualize them-selves succeeding without the availability of a strong female role model,” Brown-ing said. Senior lecturer at UTSA for the Environmental Sciences Dr. Karen Engates points to her doctoral mentor as a major influ-ence in her Teaching style. Her mentor (a woman) understood the respon-sibilities she faced and pushed her in a way no one else could. Her mentor, she says, “understood the need for balance of research, course work, outside interests and obligations, and sanity.” Though Dr. Engates respected her male mentors as well, it was the female mentor that most pushed her to new heights and encouraged her the most. Another factor that might explain the low numbers of women in the STEM fields is the work-life balance women struggle with. Associate Professor of Research, Dr. Afamia Elnakat says, “I believe we can do it all. I think if you ask my daughter, she is very proud of me and engaged in what I do. Yes, I have failed when it comes
to being engaged with her in school events such as carving pumpkins for Hal-loween, but because she is engaged in my work. She thinks her mom is a super hero saving the world one environmental source at a time.” Ybarra reminds women in the STEM fields to look to role models such as Dr. El-nakat and Dr. Engates, “My advice to future female scientists and engineers is to never feel undervalued and to look at your female professors as models of success in STEM fields... It was very empowering to see these extremely ac-complished women take on roles of mother, wife, scientist, and teacher and to excel in a traditionally male-dominated field.” Dr. Browning’s department tries to ensure that all students feel in-cluded through programs such as SWE (Society of Women Engineers), women specific work-shops, programs such as the Women’s Professional Advancement and Synergy Academy (WPASA), UT System initiatives such as the UT System Women Se-nior Leaders Network, and others. She emphasizes the
importance of encouraging these students. “It is not just a prefer-ence that I am stating, but a need, for in a country where there is a deficit of STEM professionals, we must actively recruit and educate a talent pool that includes both genders.” Otilia Webb, environmental science senior and president of the Women in STEM organi-zation on campus feels that despite the afore men-tioned instances UTSA does well at including female scientists. “I think that my peers respect that I am just as smart as any male student. I feel that I am empowered by the faculty to do my best in college and then af-ter I graduate. I think that has to be my favorite part about UTSA and especially the ES Department. I am so grateful to be in a uni-versity that has given me this chance.” Despite disparity in num-bers, Dr. Elkanat encour-ages young women to continue and has one thing to say about success: “Go for it…have fun. Be like me! I wouldn’t do it any other way.”
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tle showed American school children how to “duck and cover” in the event that the Soviet Union used nuclear force against the United States.
The duck-and-cover ap-proach — diving under a tree, desk or into a mottled shell in the fetal position — is and would have been an ineffective safeguard against an atomic bomb. Neverthe-less, the occurrence of these schoolyard bomb drills demonstrates that the pub-lic threat was significant enough for mainstream so-ciety to accept even the most absurd ideas as legitimate preventative measures.
Little has changed since, and America continues to flirt with models of mutually assured destruction. Politi-cians and gun stalwarts who support and excuse pro-gun
legislation and a loose in-terpretation of the Second Amendment are imparting an equally absurd message to students and educators: duck and cover — or shoot.
On Oct. 1 in Roseburg, Ore. a 26-year-old gun-man killed nine students at Umpqua Community Col-lege, where he was a stu-dent. Perhaps inspired by the Oregon massacre, four high school students at Summerville High School in Tuolumne, Calif. were arrested on Oct. 4 for plan-ning, what Tuolumne Coun-ty Sheriff described as, “(the four) were going to come on campus and shoot and kill as many people as possible at the campus,” reported The New York Times. While the Summerville High School students’ plan was thwarted, on Sept. 30 in Harrisburg, S.D. a 16-year-old high
school student, who accord-ing to his father had taken gun safety courses and regu-larly practiced target shoot-ing, shot his principal. The student has been arrested for attempted murder.
Gun violence — including campus massacres, school shootings and random ma-licious acts — are forms of domestic terrorism. Fur-thermore, these cowardly social transgressions have swelled in the last decade. According to an FBI study on active shooting occur-rences between 2000 and 2013, the number of active shootings in the country has nearly tripled since 2007; on average 16.4 active shoot-ings scenarios have occurred per year from 2007 to 2013.
As the majority of gun holders in the United States live in the South, this prob-lem is immediate; but still,
Texas leaders and legislators insist on shooting them-selves in the foot, seemingly oblivious to the growing and present danger of guns — evinced by the new legisla-tion that will allow guns on university campuses.
Civilians who bear weap-ons in a public place (such as a church, business, hospital or school) whether legally or illegally, overtly or covertly have the ability — the gun and the control — to massa-cre. Should they be trusted?
Prior to being cold-blood-ed killers, these shooters are generally law-abiding citizens, practically indeter-minable from the next gun aficionado having a bad day.
Christopher Harper-Mer-cer, the Umpqua killer, pur-chased all 14 of his firearms legally from a federally li-censed firearms dealer. Like-wise, Vester Lee Flanagan
II — the forty-one-year-old gunman who shot and killed a cameraman and broadcast journalist during a live re-cording in Roanoke, VI in August — had no criminal record or history of men-tal illness and obtained his murder weapon, a Glock handgun, legally.
The FBI’s Crime in the U.S. report cites 8,124 homi-cides by gun in 2014. There are neither ample days in the week nor pages in a news-paper to pay due respect to each loss of a life (approxi-mately 22 per day).
As long as innocent lives are shot short and the public is irresponsibly subjected to absurd gun legislation, the topic of guns in America is relevant.
To our national, regional and local leaders: this is a problem. And that is an un-derstatement.
One more runCommentary
San Antonio Spurs fans must be dreaming.
For the first time in the organization’s history, the Spurs nabbed the top mar-quee free agent on the mar-ket, LaMarcus Aldridge, dur-ing the off-season.
And they didn’t stop there. The Spurs rounded out
their roster with veteran free agent and noted NBA leader, David West.
It took some cap room movement and player trades — Tiago Splitter, Aron Baynes and Marco Belinelli all notably moved on to dif-ferent teams — but the Spurs managed to get it done.
The player moves during the off-season give San Anto-nio one of the stoutest rosters in the league — and perhaps the biggest expectations.
While it’s every team’s goal to ultimately win the NBA Championship, anything less in 2016 is a failure for San Antonio.
In addition to their bold off-season moves, the Spurs maintained their dynasty nu-cleus of Tony Parker, Manu Ginobili and Tim Duncan while retaining one of the NBA’s best sharp shooters in Danny Green, a spark plug in Patty Mills and the reigning NBA Defensive Player of the Year in Kawhi Leonard.
The moves will help pro-long the career of Tim Duncan — San Antonio’s cornerstone — whose ca-reer appears to be coming to an end. The proverbial “rock” upon which the Spurs’ championship dynasty was founded upon, “The Big Fun-damental,” continues to stave off Father Time admirably, year after year.
San Antonio’s roster moves enable them to compete with the likes of the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors, two of the best teams in the NBA, and the two teams who competed in the 2015 NBA Finals. The bold roster moves have seen the team ranked second and third in various NBA pre-season polls, while Vegas Odds rank San Antonio at 7/2 to win the NBA title — second only to Cleveland 5/2.
In theory, it’s a roster that should be one of the best in the league. But making it all work will be a daunting task (see 2003-04 Los Angeles Lakers and 2010-11 Miami Heat).
The Spurs, though, contin-ue to employ the best coach in the NBA — Gregg Popo-vich.
The coach, affectionately known as “Pop” to fans, has continually led the NBA landscape in tactics and cre-ativity; the 2016 NBA season should be no different. And, with their once in a genera-tion talent still being produc-tive, the sky’s the limit.
It’s all or nothing this year for San Antonio — brace yourselves Spurs fans.
Jakob LopezEditor-in-Chief
The “pretty-but-dumb” female character stereotype has been overdone in mov-ies, TV shows and books for years. From a young age, women are taught that, in or-der to be perceived as desir-able and fit into the typical female ideal, they must act in a way that does not threaten a man: not demonstrating any level of intelligence that might make a man feel stu-pid.
From a young age, girls are exposed to the nerdy, “ugly,” smart girl stereotype. She is unsuccessful with the op-posite sex and the only way to break out of that shell is to break herself free of her glasses, her messy, unkempt hair and ridiculous outfits and move on to ‘fixing her-self’; the intelligent girl is painted as an undesirable and ‘ugly’ concept. On the opposite hand, the dumb, ‘pretty’, ‘damsel in distress’ stereotype is painted as a desirable and unintelligent concept.
On popular adolescent shows such as ‘Liv and Mad-die’ a Disney Channel show, twin sisters are completely opposite. Liv, embodies the ‘ugly’ intelligent, stereo-type—right down to un-
kempt hair and glasses; her sister, Maddie, is the desir-able, beautiful, dumb stereo-type. Seeing these two oppo-sites on such a popular show for young girls is only one example of the media forc-ing these ideals onto the next generation of women.
These stereotypes teach girls that intelligence and femininity are mutually ex-clusive and that both can-not exist in one person, because in order to be one, you must sacrifice the other. Then as the girls grow up, these harmful ideals follow them into adolescence, and eventually, adulthood. These stereotypes can be seen in popular shows such as “The Big Bang Theory,” in which the ‘ugly’, nerdy girl, Amy Farafowler, a successful bi-ologist, is portrayed as hav-ing trouble with the opposite sex, while her friend Penny is pretty and dumb, a commu-nity college drop out and as-piring actress; these women enforce the idea that intellect and beauty cannot mingle.
As women age, these ideals move from being constricted to Hollywood and moves into schools and real life situ-ations. In high school, girls are bullied for being smart. The nerdy girl in the corner that doesn’t speak very often is pushed aside, while the pretty, popular girl pretends to be dumber than she is to make friends and fit in.
Often times, the people doing the bullying do not in-clude just men— women are doing it to their own gender. When Megyn Kelly attacked Donald Trump on stage at
the first round of the repub-lican debates, several people disagreed with her. Though she has become extremely successful as a journalist (a male-dominated field), she was immediately attacked by both men and women as a blonde bimbo who didn’t know what she was talking about. Had it been a man who had attacked Trump, looks would never have been brought into the situation. But because Megyn is blonde and beautiful, instead of at-tacking her intellect, people tried to discredit her by pushing her into the ‘dumb blonde’ stereotype that they have been raised to believe.
In order to change the rhetoric that has been so prevalent in our society for so long, women (and men) need to stop putting beautiful women down and branding them as idiots. Shows such as “Doctor McStuffins,” a show about a little girl who serves as a doctor for her stuffed an-imals, and “Scandal,” a show about a successful female lawyer, need to be lauded over shows where this pretty, but dumb idea is enforced. More shows need to exist for adolescents that show young, beautiful, and most importantly, intelligent girls who are not social outcasts as a result of that. The only way to stop the stereotype is stop using it and showcase the opposite. In this way, girls will start to see that being smart is not something to be ashamed of, but something to celebrate.
Marina VencesStaff Writer
Girls, dumb is not cuteCommentary
“No, because a lot of people use technology to take notes and study.”
Merrik HetheringtonSophomore, Psychology
is the use of technology by other students in class a distraction ?
October 6 - October 13, 2015 5OPINION
“No, because technology provides access to information outside of class and it is readily available.”
Wesley Wolfe Freshman, Business and Biology
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“Not at all, because I actually use it a lot in class myself.”
Angel MendozaSenior, Civil Engineering
“Personally, it doesn’t bother me. I feel like if you’re concentrating on the class, then it shouldn’t bother you what others are doing.”
Abigail ChaparroFreshman, Public Policy
“No, I mind my own business and focus on the class and not others. As long as it’s not a distraction, then I am fine with it.”
Jolynn HallFreshman, Geology
“Phones don’t bother me so much, but computers do. It’s really hard to focus on a lecture when someone in front of you is us-ing their laptop.”
Kirk OwensSenior, Mechanical Engineering
A study conducted with Princeton and University of California Los Angeles students shows that taking notes by hand promotes a more meaningful understanding
of the subject as opposed to typing notes. Many professors at UTSA prohibit cellphone and laptop use in the classroom so that way they are not a distraction to
themselves and other students.
Brady PhelpsSatire: Topics to AvoidIn order to maintain peace-
ful relations on campus, all students should avoid discus-sion of the following topics:
Evolution, revolution, Rev-elations, Elevation (the U2 tour), legalization, deglacia-tion, overpopulation, gender socialization, immigration, gender discrimination, eco-nomic segregation, cultural appropriation, annexation, fund allocation, prison priva-tization, shadow organiza-tions…
Human rights, health care, human rights in rela-tion to health care, sexual orientation, sexual educa-tion, sexual orientation in relation to human rights, sexual orientation in relation to sexual education, abor-tion, contraception, abortion and contraception in relation to healthcare, abortion and contraception in relation to human rights, abortion and contraception in relation to sexual education, abortion and contraception in relation to gender discrimination…
Fundamentalism, auto-eroticism, atheism, agnosti-cism, terrorism, eco-terror-ism, social constructivism, feminism, the metric system, the justice system, the prison system, the banking system, the voting system…
Sony hacks, WikiLeaks, Daryl and Carol, Nicki and Meek…
Nicki and Drake, Nicki and Miley, Nicki and Mariah,
Nicki and Iggy, Nicki and T-Swift, Nicki and Queen Bee, Nicki and Tyga, Nicki and the Catholic League, Nicki and the Anti Defamation League…
Race of any kind, includ-ing: Nascar, arms races, The Amazing Race, Race for the Cure, pod races (or any other aspect of The Phantom Men-ace), boat races, horse races, “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” the rat race, the social construct…
Race (the social construct) in relation to human rights; race (the social construct) in relation to information and opportunity disparity; race (the social construct) in rela-tion to economic segregation; race (the social construct) and the justice system; privi-lege…
Mulder and Scully, Han and Greedo, Weezy and Baby, Dez and Romo, Hope Solo, Google logo, Austra-lians’ guns, top buns, hot dog toppings, Bono (or his alter egos), color-changing dress-es, “Scandal” spoilers, “Net-flix and chilling,” ice hockey,
Brady PhelpsStaff Writer
Avoid confrontation, no conversationSatire
Photos and quotes by Claudia Jimenez, The Paisano
Letters to the Editor Letters must be fewer than 400 words and include the writer’s
name, classification or title and email address. The Paisano re-serves the right to edit al submissions.
Over the past few years, UTSA has seen an increase in wildlife population, most notably the squirrel popula-tion around the Sombrilla. These are not the same tim-id, fearful of humans, squir-rels found in earlier years at UTSA. Fueled by crack-er-wielding, selfie-seeking students, these second and third-generation Sombrillian squirrels have become bolder and more dangerous than ever before.
Tired of their usual diet of nuts, seeds and fungi and encouraged by students who have offered them bits of
food, these squirrels are now terrorizing students who seek to eat lunch under their turf.
Courtney Pines, who specializes in rodent-based wildlife of top-tier universi-ties in South Texas counties, believes that this type of ag-gressive food-seeking squir-rel has become the new norm on college campuses. “These squirrels have tasted the deli-cacy of Chik-Fil-A, Subway, and Papa Johns. How could they go back to eating bits of dry grass?” Pines further states that as their taste for finer dining grows, so will their need to satisfy their cravings.
Students have started to notice increasingly aggres-sive behavior from squirrels, with reports to Campus PD increasing by 40 percent in this year alone.
“It is dangerous to go out with food, especially at night,” said student Cia Lan-tro, who found herself cor-nered by a gang of three after
walking through the Som-brilla returning to the JPL after a late-night Chipotle run. “They began squeaking at me intimidatingly, then one of them struck me with its tail.” The attack, which caused Lantro to drop her burrito and assorted salsas, is only one small example of the number of increasing incidents that have led many students to avoid the Som-brilla all together.
Tension is growing as the UTSA administration is con-tinually pressured to resond to the issue. Small bands of students have begun to fight back against the squir-rels, choosing to yell loudly in their direction, and many now carry brooms to shoo them away. Since the issue is still not resolved, students are encouraged to avoid the Sombrilla altogether with recommendations to eat in confined, windowless, in-door places.
Satire
Robert AvilaStaff Writer
Campus squirrel population soars
Crossword: This week in print
Crossword creator: Annette Barreza, The Paisano
Across5 A mark of disgrace with a particular circum-stance, quality, or person 8 (of a habit, belief, or attitude) firmly fixed 9 A person who believes in pacifism or is op-posed to war or to violence of any kind10 Belonging or relating to a college or its students11 In anatomy, a horizontal cut or section of the body dividing it into superior and posterior por-tions
Down1 A Russian Astronaut
2 To leave a ship, aircraft, or other vehicle3 Dislike of, contempt for, or ingrained prejudice
against women4 Also known as frontal, in anatomy, a cut straight
down the body dividing the body into anterior (front) and posterior (back) portions
6 Blood that has been shed, especially as a result of violence
7 The plural from hypothesis
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6 ARTS & LIFEOctober 6 - October 13, 2015
Witte Museum peels back skin on newest exhibitAnnette BarrazaEditorial Assistant@[email protected]
Ever wonder what’s go-ing on inside your stomach after a meal, or what the human brain looks like be-neath the boney skull?
“Bodies Revealed: Fasci-nating and Real,” the new exhibition from The Witte Museum, features real hu-man bodies donated to sci-ence education. They are displayed respectfully and artfully in a variety of posi-tions in an effort to answer the question: “What does the human body do?”
“We were personally awe-inspired by the people of this exhibit that have in-tentionally donated their bodies for science,” ex-claimed Marise McDer-mott, President and CEO of the Witte Museum. McDermott explained the “Bodies Revealed” exhibit was a beautiful homage to the human body. Each body display, including one exo-skeleton riding a bike in striking detail, is intricately modeled and positioned, reflecting the passion and care that went into creating the displays.
This year’s exhibit intro-duced a number of changes since the exhibit was last shown over eight years ago. Featuring six main rooms, each titled after a differ-ent part of the body, such as circulatory and respira-tory, the exhibit also show-cases a new prenatal room. The displays are made up of individual organs, tissue
samples and full bodies dis-played in motion. In addi-tion, there are entire bodies cut into transverse or coro-nal sections. The specimens are fixed with chemicals to temporarily halt the decay-ing process, while all of the water is removed by placing the specimen in acetone. Then, silicone polymer is applied for hardening pur-poses.
Once hardened, the re-sult is a dry, odorless and permanently preserved specimen that doesn’t con-tain toxic chemicals. Mc-Dermott noted that a full body specimen could take up to a year to prepare in the process, while a small organ could take only a week.
In addition, special care was taken to describe dis-plays in which a healthy organ was placed next to a diseased organ. One display showed a healthy lung jux-taposed with a significantly smaller, darker and sickly smoker’s lung. A container to throw away cigarette boxes sat between the two specimens.
“In the past, we didn’t just have families come with their little ones. People with scrubs, rehabilitation spe-cialists, doctors and nurses all showed up,” McDermott explained. “They said to us, ‘We had our cadaver in medical school a number of years ago, but here we have so many questions and are able to get coherent and ex-plicit information from this exhibit.’”
The exhibition opened Oct. 3 and will close Jan. 31, 2016.
‘Bodies Revealed: Fascinating and Real’
The human anatomy and its inner workings are revealed through a variety of displays at the “Bodies Revealed” exhibit. Each body is displayed in a different manner, such as a muscled athlete, stripped of skin, pitching a baseball.
Annette Barraza, The Paisano
Annette Baarraza, The PaisanoBrains and a preserved human face is shown on display at the Nervous system room at the “Bodies Revealed” exhibit at the Witte Museum. “Bodies Revealed” features real human bodies donated for public education, and then preserved, dissected and respectfully and artistically displayed.
Arts & Life Events Calendar:Wednesday 10/77 p.m.“Hocus Pocus” Quote-AlongWhether you’re a kid or a kid at heart, “Hocus Pocus” is basically the cinematic equivalent of trick or treating, which is why The Alamo Draft-house Park North (618 NW Loop 410) is holding a quote-along to go along with the film. You’ll be encouraged to say your favorite witchy lines, belt out “I’ll Put a Spell on You” and interact with this classic Halloween movie using themed props along with an ecstatic audience. To buy tickets, visit draft-house.com/san_antonio/park_north.
Thursday 10/86 p.m.“La Verbena de la Paloma” ShowingTime to put your Spanish language knowledge to use. Sigma Delta Pi will hold a showing of “La Verbena de la Paloma,” a Spanish Opera as part of the Latino Heritage Month. The showing will take place on Thursday in MH 3.01.28. Tapas will be served after the show-ing, along with a discus-sion on the film.
Friday 10/912 p.m.OktoberfestBier steins, lederhosen, polka music and plenty of German fare mark Alamo Beer Company’s First Oktoberfest (202 Lamar St)! With a bier garten, bier hall and bier brewed using German methods, the three-day celebration inaugurates a new South Texas tradition. Entertainment includes The Tubameisters and New Braunfels’ German-Czech inspired group Bohemian Dutchmen. Food trucks will be on site and the company’s new beer, ALAMO Oktoberfest, will be available. Visit alamobeer.com for more details.
Friday 10/95 p.m.GamEXpoGamers, come meet other members of the gaming community this weekend. Whether it is board games, roleplay-ing or videogames, GamEXpo is the thing for you. Founded by Vince and Colleen Guzman, owners of independent gaming companies in San Antonio, the gaming convention is a three day event that brings together the gaming community of San Antonio. The conven-tion will take place at the Hilton San Antonio Hill Country Hotel in Westo-ver Hills Blvd. Tickets range from $15 to $40.
Saturday 10/106:30 p.m.Opera In the ParkEver seen an Opera performance? This is your chance. Presented by Opera Piccola of San Antonio, an arts group looking to build a profes-sional opera chamber in the city, Opera in the Park is taking place this Saturday. Travis Park will also be offering a life-size chess board to play on, an artisan market and plenty of food trucks to feast at during the day.
Do you know what the term ‘hydriotaphia’ means? Do you know what the structure of a ‘Tanka’, a spe-cific type of Japanese poem is? Maybe you don’t know the answers, but the contes-tants at last Friday’s 4th an-nual competition of “Name That Author” at UTSA might have.
Split into two groups, un-dergraduate and graduate UTSA students, the contes-tants were asked questions of every sort imaginable as they pertain to literature. Dr. Steven Kellman, profes-sor of comparative litera-ture at UTSA, was the mod-erator and questionnaire of
the night’s festivities. The questions Dr. Kell-
man asked ran the gamut, from the names of poets, critics, playwrights, Nobel Peace Prize winners in Lit-erature, places and charac-ters in works of literature, important time periods and major players within the his-tory of literature. Dr. Kell-man also switched up the questions at points, asking for the name of works of lit-erature based on a few lines of a book, stanzas of a poem or of a unique stage direc-tion of a play. Contestants were awarded 10 points for every correct answer and deducted five points if they answered incorrectly. Prizes were awarded to the top three scorers.
The game-show feel of the event was complement-
ed by the use of buzzers by each contestant. Tough questions, like identifying obscure writing structure and little-known literary terms were met with pro-longed silence, eased only when the moderator turned to the audience for the cor-rect answer.
All of the undergraduate winners were English ma-jors. Aidan Watson-Morris, who competed last year for the first time and won, at-tained first place again this year. When asked how he prepared for the competi-tion, Watson-Morris said he didn’t spend any time formally preparing for the competition.
“Almost every class within my major helped me learn what I needed to know,” explained Watson-
Morris, who plans to buy books with his prize money.
Of the graduate winners, Shawn Keeney won first place by a large margin, making this his fourth win in a row. “I attribute my win to paying attention in class, with the help of some on-line trivia,” said Keeney. His love of reading is attributed to the way that, as Keeney states, “it teaches us some of our own history.”
During the undergradu-ate competition, second place was decided by a tiebreaker between Eric Pitty and Jordan Smith. Ultimately, Pitty secured the second place slot after answering the tiebreaking question correctly. Pitty is part of the Honors College, and considers his decision to be an English major one
of the best he’s ever made. “Majoring in English is a
romantic way to make a liv-ing,” explained Pitty, who plans to become a professor, filmmaker, actor or possibly a motorcycle rider. “The money is nice, but really, it’s a great networking op-portunity to show your stuff and to meet professors.”
The full list of winners are:
Graduate1st: Shawn Keeney2nd: Calvin Hoovestol3rd: Chris Guzman
Undergraduate1st: Aidan Watson-Morris2nd: Eric Pitty3rd: Jordan Smith
Students ‘Name That Author’ for fun, cash prizes
Fabian DeSoto, The PaisanoBoth graduates and undergraduates turned out to compete in friendly competition in UTSA’s 4th Annual “Name That Author” event. The top three winners in the first round moved on to the second round, and the first prize winners in both categories received $200, $100 for second place and $50 for third place.
October 6 - October 13, 2015SPORTS 7
{Sports Events}
Friday, Oct. 9
UTSA soccer (home)The Roadrunners will be competing with conference rival UTEP in a match that is set to begin at 7:00 p.m. at the Park West Athletics Complex.
UTSA volleyball (away)The volleyball team will look to knock off top-ranked WKU in a crucial conference match-up between the two top-ranked teams.
Friday, Oct. 10
UTSA softball (home)The Roadrunners will be competing in a double-header against Navarro JC to open the 2016 season.
UTSA football (home)UTSA will face off with conference rival Louisiana Tech Bulldogs. The game, which will be held at the Alamodome, is set to begin at 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 11
UTSA volleyball (away)The Roadrunners will compete against the struggling UTEP Miners. The match will be the third of a four-game roadtrip for UTSA.
Monday, Oct. 12
UTSA golf (away)The men’s team will be in Pearland competing at the Bayou City Collegiate Classic. The tournament will begin on Monday and wrap up the following day.
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FREE admission for all UTSA Students, Faculty and Staff with ID
On Saturday night in a rainy Sun Bowl Arena, the UTSA football team de-feated Texas-El Paso, earn-ing its first win of the year to begin conference play 1-0. The 25-6 trouncing of the Miners was a showcase for UTSA’s “hard hat defense,” which forced five turnovers and nearly shutout UTEP in their homecoming game.
“It’s the start of a new season,” UTSA Head Coach Larry Coker said. “We’re 1-0 and away we go.”
After a slippery first half that was postponed by two 30-minute lightning delays, UTSA took over the game with 22 second-half points while holding the Miners to only one touchdown.
Defensive starters Mar-cus Davenport and Drew Douglas returned to the Roadrunners’ lineup after spending some time out with injuries. The two dis-rupted UTEP’s backfield on back-to-back stops to force a safety early in the third quarter. The play sparked a 15-point scoring spree that took the Roadrunners less than three minutes.
Douglas — a lineback-er — and free safety Nate Gaines led the defense with nine tackles each.
Gaines caught two high-light-reel interceptions in the second half. The first was a diving grab in the UTEP end zone halfway through the fourth quarter
that sealed UTSA’s victory. “I knew what the tight
end was going to run, so I broke on the ball and dove for it,” Gaines said about the catch.
His second interception was a play for the ages; with just two minutes left, Gaines caught a tipped pass at the 22-yard line and sprinted toward the end zone as fellow safety Mi-chael Egwuagu followed. Egwuagu, who was not wearing his mouthpiece, shouted, “Hey, Nate! Pitch it back!” Gaines lateraled the ball to him at the 15-yard line and then set the block to help Egwuagu get in the end zone.
Gaines said it wasn’t the first time that happened. “At practice one day, I got a red zone interception and he got behind me and said ‘lateral it!’”
“We have a lateral drill (that) we work on in prac-tice. We were in a per-fect pitch relationship,” Egwuagu said after the game.
The score was actually Egwuagu’s second of the night. His first came on a 40-yard interception return for a touchdown in the third quarter.
With superb play from defensive tackles Brian Price and Kevin Strong, the defensive line held the Min-ers to just 59 yards rushing. Strong, a redshirt freshman, recorded three tackles and a batted pass in only his sec-ond start.
UTSA’s defense read UTEP’s offense all night. “They did everything we
had seen on film,” Gaines said. “We were calling out motions and (Egwuagu) was calling out routes.”
Starting rover safety Mauricio Sanchez was out with an injury. Freshman safeties C.J. Levine and Darryl Godfrey filled in and combined for seven tackles.
“Those guys are stepping up,” Coker said of the 14 freshmen that played Satur-day night.
On the offensive side of the ball, starting running back Jarveon Williams had another record game with a program-high 28 carries for 133 yards. He also had 45 yards receiving on five re-ceptions.
Williams continues to be the offensive engine; Coker calls him the kind of run-ning back “you can hang your hat on.”
Wide receiver Kerry Thomas led receivers with three receptions for 50 yards. Tight end David Morgan had three recep-tions for 45 yards, including an acrobatic one-handed grab along the UTSA side-line in the third quarter.
Not everything went well for UTSA, however, as quarterback Blake Bo-genschutz faced immense pressure throughout the evening and was sacked five times. The offensive line has been blocking well dur-ing run plays, but has strug-gled with pass protection.
Center Austin Pratt had several bad snaps, including one that flew over Bogens-hutz’s head and resulted in the quarterback taking a hard hit that knocked him out of the game in the fourth quarter. Backup
Dalton Sturm filled in and gained 59 yards rushing on three attempts.
Kicker Daniel Portillo also had a rough evening, only making one of his four field goal attempts and missing an extra point. He missed every attempt that was greater than 40 yards.
The Roadrunners will not have to worry about inclem-ent weather as they come back to the Alamodome to play against C-USA-Cham-pionship-favorite Louisiana Tech this Saturday.
“They’re really good, they’re going to test our metal. There’s a reason they’re picked as the favor-ites,” Coker said of the up-coming opponent.
Watch UTSA take on LA Tech this Saturday at 6:00 p.m. in the Alamodome.
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{Recent Results}Tuesday, Sept. 29
UTSA men’s golf
6th/12 at Mark Simpson Colorado Invitational
Friday, Oct. 2
UTSA volleyball
W, 3-0 at UAB
UTSA cross country (men)
5th/7 at Longhorns Invitational
UTSA cross country (women)
4th/7 at Longhorns Invitational
UTSA soccer
L, 1-2 vs. Marshall
Saturday, Oct. 3
UTSA football
W, 25-6 at UTEP
Shabazz I. Dawkins and Claudia JimenezSports Editor and Staff Writer@[email protected]
After a top-five finish at the Longhorn Invitational, the UTSA cross country team looks to be in great form heading into the Bron-cos Invitational on Oct. 17, the final meet of the regular season.
Through three meets, UTSA senior and two-sport standout athlete Dusan Makevic has led the Road-runners. Makevic, who also competes in long distances with the UTSA track team, has finished in the top five of every meet he has com-peted in this season.
“I worked hard during the summer,” said Makevic of his early success. “I was running by myself. I would practice whenever I could to stay in shape. In previ-ous seasons I didn’t start that well (or) I got injured, so this is looking like a good season.”
For Makevic, the work he put in over the summer has been apparent. He finished second in a 6k at the Aggies Opener in September with a time of 18:02.05 — 3.3 seconds behind individual winner Cameron Villarreal of Texas A&M (17:59.9). His strong performance at the Aggies Opener garnered him Conference USA Co-Athlete of the Week honors — the first Conference USA weekly accolade awarded to the team in program his-tory.
“I was able to maintain a
good place with them (the Texas A&M cross coun-try team), and at the end, their best guy beat me,” said Makevic of his strategy at the opener.
After missing the second meet of the year, Makevic came back with a fourth-place time of 25:30.60 in an 8k at the Longhorns Invita-tional.
As one of only a few up-perclassmen on this year’s roster, Makevic’s strong performances have been important for the relatively young team.
“I think in the next (few) seasons they can be good,” Makevic said of his young teammates. “At the season opener, (the sophomores) made insane results. If they continue improving, we can expect more and better.”
For a two-sport athlete, it can be difficult manag-ing training hours. As an NCAA athlete, Makevic is required to stay underneath 20 hours of official training each week, so to supple-ment, Makevic often spends time training in his spare hours.
“My teammates are also working hard and they help me a lot,” Makevic said. “We go on long runs together a lot. We are all good friends; we spend time together out-side of practice. It’s a good atmosphere and I wouldn’t change it.”
Although Makevic has been impressive early, he will have to wait until track season in order to display his ability to a home crowd. The cross country team has no home meets slated for the remainder of the season.
“Track season is in the spring and we usually have more intensive stuff (train-ing),” Makevic said. “(Cross country) helps me to build a pace for the track season. We do low aerobic work-outs to build a pace for the spring.”
Makevic will look to con-tinue with his early sea-son success in Sunnyvale, California when the UTSA men’s cross country team competes in the Broncos Invitational on Oct. 17.
