Glimpse into the future, UTSA 2038 see page 6
Most unbreakable sports record chosen see page 13
Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio
March 27, 2012
Volume 47
Issue 9
MURDER AT ASPEN HEIGHTS Ryan Branch News Editor
What started out as a birthday party turned into a nightmarish scene for Aspen Heights residents after an unknown gunman opened fire, leaving one man dead and another wounded. Students from UTSA were celebrating a birthday party for one of their friends. A group of uninvited individuals started crashing the party after a different party nearby was shut down by the police. “We were having a birthday party, and it was only people that we knew,” an eye witness who wishes to remain anonymous said. “At around 1:40 a.m., two officers showed up and told everyone they had to clear out and then they left. Then a bunch of guys started walking in as everyone was leaving.” The witness told the group that they had to leave because they were shutting the party down, and the group complied. As the witness started to clean up, a commotion was heard outside. “I went outside, and there was a huge fight,” the witness said. The witness then went to the aid of one of his friends, who was being assaulted, and was also struck several times while trying to help. The witness then saw the victim, 20-year-old Randall Perkins, walking with a friend inside, when an unknown male pulled out a gun and fired two shots. One of the shots struck Perkins in the head. The other victim, a UTSA student, was wounded in the arm.
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San Antonio Police Department questions a witnesses that may have information that could lead to the arrest of the shooter who is still at large.
“Randall fell to the ground, and we all ran off but came back right away to help,” the witness said. “When we came back inside we started to try and help
him; he was bleeding a lot and coughing up blood. We called 911 five times before we were able to get through.” The witness then went to the gate to
guide emergency services to the scene. Another witness saw the events unfold from her second story bedroom window across the street after hearing
noises outside. “They were just getting into it (fighting) when I saw a guy standing on top of a car. I did not see anyone with a gun and then I heard the gunshot, and I kind of ducked from my window. Then I saw everyone scatter. The guys scattered , got into their car and drove off. Everyone was screaming,” said the other witness. The second witness also heard that someone was seen with a gun at another party around the corner approximately 30 minutes before the shooting. “The owner of the house started kicking people out, but most of them stayed (at the party around the corner). All of a sudden everyone scattered out of the house saying there was someone with a gun. The police came within 10 minutes and got a statement from the owner of that house,” the second witness said. “The cops left; they did not patrol.” Perkins, an assistant lacrosse coach at Smithson Valley High School, died from his injuries and was pronounced dead at 3:26 a.m. at University Hospital. Officers from the San Antonio Police Department (SAPD) were the first to arrive on the scene. “I was dispatched to the listed location for a shooting in progress with a confirmed hit,” Officer Shawn King said in his report. “I observed V1 (Perkins) laying in the rear parking lot of building 56. An unknown male and female were on each side of V1 trying to help.” See HOMICIDE, Page 3
The McKinney Estate: the gift that keeps on giving Melissa Lopez Intern
A donation station located at the Shell gas station on UTSA Blvd. for the Medina Children’s Home.
Rejection leads to charitable behavior Dylan Bynum Staff Writer
news@paisano-online.com UTSA’s marketing Ph.D. program is off to an excellent start. The very first student to graduate from the program is Jaehoon Lee; he already has his doctoral dissertation published in the “Journal of Consumer Research,” a highly regarded marketing journal published by the University of Chicago Press. Lee’s recently finished work began when he first started the marketing Ph. D. program looking at the
social effects of ostracism, and his research culminated in the study of what he calls the “differential needs hypothesis.” The differential needs hypothesis is a combination of previous studies on the effects of ostracism and social exclusion, and the results are mixed. Some experiments show that participants react to social exclusion with prosocial behavior—such as making charitable donations—while other experiments result in antisocial behavior such as aggression or conspicuous spending. See REJECTED, Page 4
Mary McKinney had a great passion for education and a strong desire to learn and teach. McKinney grew up within a modest but wealthy family. McKinney graduated from Trinity University and earned a Master’s degree at the University of Texas at Austin; she even took post-graduate courses at UTSA from 1992 to 1996. She was a schoolteacher for most of her life and loved teaching. Education held such a great importance to McKinney that she gave the majority her estate to UTSA to ensure that students with strong academic records would not be hindered from completing their education due to a lack of finances. The gift, unbeknownst to McKinney, would continually produce royalties of 25 percent from oil production that was found through the Eagle Ford Shale on the estate she had given to UTSA. A lease was signed with UTSA to drill at the location of almost 5000 acres, which consisted of three ranches. “The three ranches include both the surface estate and the mineral estate. In many properties in Texas, minerals have been severed from the surface …
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The McKinney Humanities Building was named in honor of the late Mary McKinney.
but (not) in this case… so we get both the surface estate and the mineral estate. UTSA’s Associate Vice President for Administration Pamela Bacon said. “Before it was distributed to UTSA, an oil and gas lease had been negotiated on one of the ranches (which) required that they begin drilling a well within a year after signing. We met their obligation, and a well was completed early this year,” Bacon said. McKinney’s gift to UTSA—which
included real estate, stocks, bonds and personal savings—is an estimated $26 million dollars. “She gave us (UTSA) a few gifts in her lifetime but nothing of this magnitude. The size of her estate was a big surprise to everyone because she was just a very modest person,” UTSA Associate Vice President for Advancement Services and Administration Laura Murray said. See BLACK GOLD, Page 5