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April 21 - April 28, 2015

Raising the skates at Runner Rink

The first ever UTSA Roadrunner Store opened Monday, April 20 at the H-E-B located at I-10 and De Zavala and specializes in UTSA merchandise.

San Antonio The Bexar County Commissioners Court unanimously approved a $175 million project to transform San Pedro Creek downtown into a linear park.

Texas Following a vote in the Texas House, a bill allowing for the open carry of firearms awaits Governor Greg Abbott’s signature.

U.S. Recently released documents show that President Obama’s college rating system — which will rate certain metrics at colleges in an effort to lower costs and make information accessible — would allow colleges to challenge and verify their data.

Sports UTSA’s baseball team will face off against the Southern Miss Golden Eagles Friday, April 24 through Sunday, April 26 at Roadrunner Field in San Antonio.

Sports controversies provide fodder for research on race, masculinity MariaCristina Moreno

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Brayden Boren, The Paisano Runner Rink, held in the HUC Ballroom, gave students a chance to enjoy roller skating, food and music courtesy of UC Programs.

Brayden Boren Arts Assistant

@ThatBorenGuy news@paisano-online.com “Ready? Skate!” The announcer bellows his announcement as a flash of strobe lights stream across the ballroom, illuminating the multi-colored squares of tile that four different pairs of skates just zoomed over. Skaters are decked out in high-waisted blue jeans,

tucked-in shirts and hightop socks. Is this the 90s?

Nope, it’s UTSA’s Runner Rink.

Held in the HUC Ballroom for all students, Runner Rink literally brought out the brightest in everyone that came out to skate.

Though the theme of the night was the best of the 90s, many styles from the 80s seemed to seep into the bloodstream of the night’s festivities.

The neon colors of the tiles placed squarely along

the ballroom floor perfectly accented the side-ponytails and acid-washed jeans of the retrofitted skaters. A makeshift arcade playing old favorites like Super Mario World bleep-blooped quietly next to the skate rental tables. Not far off you could hear students either belting out or caterwauling their way through old favorites by Michael Jackson and Mariah Carey at the curtained karaoke booth in the corner of the ballroom.

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Three first- year assistant professors at UTSA have explored the media’s portrayal of social issues in professional sports scandals.

Dr. Emmett Gill, an expert on social work in athletes, brought in Dr. Candace Christensen, an expert in gender based violence prevention and response, and Dr. Alfred Pérez, child welfare scholar, to work on a collaborative study titled “Teaching Culture Competence Through Case Studies: Ray Rice, Adrian Peterson, Atlanta Hawks,” where they examined the portrayal of race, gender and violence in the media.

Each professor took the lead in dissecting each scandal and came together to create an analysis for each case study.

Gill focused on white privilege, new racism in colorblindness and race talk in his paper “The Sale of Atlanta Hawks: Is it Racism or

White Ownership Playing the Race Card.”

“We have this idea that the owner is playing the race card to have the ability to sell his team,” said Gill, when he noticed the team’s worth jumped from $825 million to $1 billion after the scandal hit its peak.

Shortly after Donald Sterling’s racist comments, Atlanta Hawks’ owner Bruce Levenson stated in a business email that “many of our black fans don’t have the spendable income which explains why our (food and beverage) and merchandise sales are so low.” About two years later (and five months after Sterling’s scandal broke) Levenson came forward with his comments and revealed his plans to sell his team.

Two days later, comments made by the team president Danny Ferry in an email regarding free agent Luol Deng, surfaced in the media. Ferry said, “He’s got some African in him. And I don’t mean that in a bad way. But he’s like a guy who would have a nice store out See SOCIAL WORK, Page 3

Bill could finance new science building at UTSA, alleviate aging labs and classrooms MariaCristina Moreno Staff Writer

@ThePaisano news@paisano-online.com On April 9, The Texas House of Representatives passed House Bill 100, which would authorize funding for construction projects on college campuses across Texas.

Authored by John Zerwas, R-Richmond, HB 100 seeks to approve over $3 billion in tuition revenue bonds (TRBs) as a method for funding construction in higher education with classrooms, laboratories, libraries, academic centers and other critical infrastructure being well-suited to longterm financing.

Essentially, TRBs are a way for a school to receive money from the state for on-campus construction projects and allow the university to pay off the loan once the bonds are sold to the public.

On Feb. 10, William H. McRaven, Chancellor of The University of Texas System, appealed to the Texas Senate Committee citing the growth of the student population as the reason for more laboratory space.

“It’s been almost a decade since the Legislature last provided state funding for classrooms, laboratories, research and clinical care

facilities,” McRaven stated.

“Since then, the student population of the system has grown over 27,000, and enrollment in the science, technology and engineering classes that require laboratory space has increased by 46 percent.”

At the beginning of the legislative session, UTSA requested $95 million in TRBs to help fund a new Instructional Science and Engineering (ISE) Building and $42.5 million to renovate the 39-year-old Peter Flawn Science Building.

According to UTSA Today, the ISE Building would add “175,000 square feet for instructional laboratories and classrooms, STEM education and research and support programs that enhance teaching skills of students preparing for careers in science instruction at K-12 institutions.”

If approved, HB 100 would provide UTSA with up to $70 million for the construction of a new Instructional Science and Engineering Building (ISE Building), $25 million less than the original request, which could affect UTSA’s proposed plan for the ISE Building.

However, not all Texans are on board. Texans for Fiscal Responsibility argued against the bill earlier this month, claiming TRBs “seem like a harmless au-

thorization for a new building” but have since resulted in billions of dollars of debt that the state is responsible for financing.

“I think it’s good we’re expanding,” said senior English major Amalya Hyman.

“We’re becoming an accomplished and well known research and technology university. However, as a non-science major who has to park on the same campus, I hope some of that money is allocated to more (parking) space.”

In a proposal presented

by UTSA President Ricardo Romo to the UT system’s Board of Regents last July, it was suggested that the ISE Building would also “improve graduation rates and increase undergraduate enrollment” while also replacing 39-year-old class labs.

Some UTSA students questioned the necessity of a new ISE building and felt the TRB funds should be used to improve already existing buildings.

“I do not think it is necessary to build another science building. If I was to use the money for something else, it would be renovating and updating some of the older buildings that the school has,” said sophomore biology major Rebecca Colley.

Colley went on to suggest that the MH building could use bigger rooms to

accommodate class sizes, and the JPL could use improvements as well so that students could have “more study room and better wifi connections.”

“I don’t think we need a new ISE building unless for some reason there’s not enough space for science classes,” said senior English major Michaela Hillis. “If I had the money, I think I’d renovate the Art Building because it feels very out of date.”

Senior English major Chelsea Robertson agreed: “I feel like there is no need to construct a new science building. The Peter Flawn Science building is perfectly

fine.”

Robertson, like Hillis, also felt the Art Building could use a renovation.

“Honestly, I would like for there to be a focus on bringing theater and drama to UTSA. Perhaps renovating the Art Building, where there can be a section for theater. I understand that would require hiring more professors, creating a theater program, and adding more theater-related classes to the curriculum, but imagine how much more flavor could be added to UTSA’s melting pot of education.”

Marcus Connolly, The Paisano If passed, the TRB would provide funding for a new ISE building to update needs currently served by the Flawn Science Building.

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UTSA lagging behind other emerging tier one universities in research spending Matthew Duarte News Editor

@matthew_duarte news@paisano-online.com As UTSA continues its unabashed push for Tier One, many of the achievements go unnoticed by the student body. Although much of the emphasis of tier one universities is to recruit and retain high quality students and faculty, there is just as much of a drive for UTSA to be a leader in research as well as academics.

The Texas Legislature passed a bill in 2009 that created incentives for seven universities, including UTSA, to become “Tier One” institutions. Emerging tier one schools all qualify for distributions from the National Research University Fund (NRUF), and funds from the Texas Research Incentive Program (TRIP).

NRUF rewards schools that meet criteria in areas such as research and the quality of students and faculty, while TRIP uses a pool of

Dallas and UTEP, are quickly approaching the mark as they make significant steps in becoming high-caliber research institutions.

UTSA, on the other hand, is moving backwards.

Making significant strides, UTSA more than tripled its research expenditures from $10.6 million in 2000 to $46.5 million in 2009. However, UTSA’s research expenditures have dropped each successive year since fiscal year 2011, dropping from $56.8 million to $45.2 million. In other words, UTSA spent less on research expenditures in 2014 than it did when the Tier One announcement was first made.

In the same five-year time frame, every other emerging tier one institution has made strong gains in their own research expenditures.

In fact, while UTSA has seen its research expenditures drop, each of the remaining seven emerging tier one schools have seen a sizeable increase. Excluding UTSA, emerging tier one

“If you look across the nation, there is no tier one institution that has research expenditures of less than $100 million.”

Mauli Agrawal

UTSA Vice President of Research money to match large private donations geared toward improving research.

Although many definitions exist for what exactly constitutes a Tier One university, the most common benchmark is $100 million annually in university research expenditures.

Additionally, just a few months ago UTSA unveiled Accelerate 2025: UTSA’s Framework for Top Tier Research. The long-term plan outlines several goals and proposals for UTSA’s research in the coming years.

Perhaps the plan’s most ambitious goal is $100 million in sustained annual research expenditures by 2025.

“If you look across the nation,” said UTSA Vice President of Research Mauli Agrawal, “there is no tier one institution that has research expenditures of less than $100 million.”

By this metric, Texas Tech and the University of Houston have both surpassed the $100 million threshold.

Others schools, like UT

institutions in Texas have, on average, increased their research expenditures by more than $25 million each since 2009.

So why is UTSA lagging behind the competition?

A big reason, according to Agrawal, is the recent decline in federal funding.

“We need to expand our portfolio and not just depend on the federal government,” Agrawal said.

The federal stimulus bill passed in 2009 produced a sudden increase in funding for federal agencies, a boon that trickled down to universities as they secured more federal research partnerships, Agrawal explained. As the stimulus money vanished, so did much of the research provided by that funding.

“This (shortage of federal funds) is not just peculiar to us,” Agrawal said. “It is happening across the nation at all academic institutions.”

According to the THECB, the amount of federally funded research conducted at all universities in Texas increased by 10 percent

from 2009 to 2010 and has since been relatively stagnant. In 2013, the amount of federally funded research at Texas universities peaked at $1.068 billion before it fell to $1.027 billion in 2014.

Following the passage of the stimulus bill, UTSA’s federally funded research, by comparison, increased just over 6 percent from 2009 to 2010. However, unlike the rest of the state, UTSA’s federally funded research has since dipped below its 2009 levels.

So, although federal stimulus money has seemingly dried up at UTSA, other universities in Texas have managed to secure such federal funding. In fact, every other Emerging Tier One university has increased the amount of federal funding it receives since the tier one legislation passed in 2009.

Another possible explanation for UTSA’s stagnant research is its below average utilization of its research space. Despite utilizing its classroom space more efficiently than almost every other university in the state, UTSA is far less efficient with its research spaces, spending $182 per square foot of research space.

According to Accelerate 2025: UTSA’s Framework for Top Tier Research — a long-range plan for UTSA “to achieve the vision of becoming a top tier institution” — other emerging tier one institutions average $212 per square foot of research space. If it was as efficient as other emerging tier one universities UTSA could support an additional $17 million on research per year.

“The currently available research space can carry UTSA forward significantly,” the Accelerate 2025 plan states, “but will not be able to support annual research expenditures of $100 million.”

Although the Accelerate 2025 plan explicitly states that “there is not an immediate shortage of research space at UTSA,” a bill currently making its way through the Texas Legislature would allocate for the construction of an Instructional Science and Research building. Although the legislature will likely not provide the full $95 million for the project originally requested by UTSA, the proposed ISE building “would add 175,000 square feet for instructional laborato-

Marcus Connnolly, The Paisano Despite having almost 300,000 square feet of research space, UTSA’s research expenditures have fallen by almost 20 percent.

ries and classrooms, STEM education and research and support programs.” Although the project may not be built as originally proposed, the added research space will certainly be welcome at a university that has room to grow but lacks the financial resources to do so.

Other ways to improve UTSA’s research potential, as outlined in Accelerate 2025, include hiring more faculty and creating more partnerships with the private sector.

The Accelerate 2025 plan identifies five areas of research excellence, noting that “a university cannot be known for excellence in all fields.” Among these areas are cloud, cyber, computing and analytics; advanced materials; and integrative biomedicine. According to the Accelerate 2025 plan, “leading with investment in these areas will provide the best opportunity to ex-

is not limited to financial and structural contributions, but includes and emphasizes hiring faculty who are experts in these fields.

“Strategic hiring in these areas should be above and beyond normal hiring patterns,” the Accelerate 2025 plan states.

In addition to carving its own niche in specific areas of research, UTSA also hopes that forging more partnerships in the private sector will reap dividends for its research possibilities.

Although Texas State and UNT spend less on total research expenditures than UTSA does, UTSA currently has the lowest amount of research dollars provided by the private sector than any other emerging tier one institution.

“It’s very critical that we partner with other established institutions,” Agrawal said.

UTSA selected its areas of research excellence in part

“Ten years from now, in San Antonio, UTSA will be the center of innovation.”

Mauli Agrawal

UTSA Vice President of Research peditiously increase overall research expenditures and faculty research productivity.”

“We looked at UTSA and asked the question ‘where do we have the most traction?’” Agrawal explained.

“We choose the areas where, if we invest more, we could be at a national — international — level of excellence in the next five years.”

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based on the available resources provided by the San Antonio community, and these resources will play a pivotal role in the partnerships UTSA will seek moving forward.

“The people are here, the brainpower is here,” Agrawal said, “so it’s very critical that we collaborate with the (researchers) wherever they may be.”

In February, UTSA an-

nounced a partnership with Rackspace — one of four major open cloud companies in the world, headquartered a mere 20-minute drive from UTSA’s main campus — to create the Open Cloud Institute at UTSA. The Open Cloud Institute will create new degree programs and foster partnerships (research and otherwise) with the open cloud industry. “With the support of our industry partners, UTSA students and researchers now have unparalleled opportunities to collaborate on projects that will lead to new innovations in this dynamic field,” UTSA President Romo said of the partnership.

As federal funds continue to decline, UTSA will push harder to forge partnerships with the private sector.

“Rackspace is one example, and we should be doing more with other folks,” said Agrawal.

To become a Tier One university, UTSA still has a long road ahead of it. Other emerging tier one schools have made greater steps to reaching tier one by expanding their own research, while UTSA’s own research has stagnated or declined.

Nevertheless, Agrawal remains confident in the potential UTSA has, and believes the future is bright for the university’s research programs.

“What I can say is that ten years from now, in San Antonio, UTSA will be the center of innovation,” Agrawal said. “We will definitely be in the discussion for Tier One.”

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Bills seek to tie college tuition to inflation Brittany Brink Staff Writer

@ThePaisano news@paisano-online.com Public universities in Texas might not have the power to control increases in their tuition costs much longer. If passed, Senate Bill 778 (SB 778) will require all public universities in Texas to meet certain criteria before increasing tuition costs.

Filed by Senator Kel Seliger, R-Amarillo, the bill defines the 11 “performance measures” established by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board. Some of the measures considered are graduation rates, average length of enrollment required for undergraduate degree completion, administrative costs and the number of degrees awarded to at-risk students. A majority of these performance measures must be met before the universities can increase their tuition costs beyond the inflation rate.

If the performance measures are not met, the bill allows increases in tuition based on the inflation rate, to be determined by the Legislative Budget Board.

The Senate’s Higher Education Committee approved SB 778 with a vote of 5-1 in early April, and the bill is currently on the Intent Calendar for further Senate review.

Seliger believes that the bill addresses the issue of skyrocketing tuition increases, while tying these schools’ finances to their performance.

“If you want to get more money, you’re going to have to give the students measurably more,” Seliger stated in an interview with the Texas Tribune.

Seliger went on to say that the bill’s performance measures are benchmarks that universities must hit in order to raise their tuition costs. Seliger states that one of his goals will be making these benchmarks difficult to achieve.

Since the legislature deregulated tuition in 2003, lawmakers have expressed interest in limiting the climbing costs of tuition by including several tuition bills filed this session.

Similar to SB 778, Senate Bill 233 filed by Charles Schwertner, R-Georgetown, proposes tuition to be capped at its current levels, and adjusted based solely on the rate of inflation.

The Senate has not yet approved any of the bills af-

fecting public universities’ tuition prices introduced this session. Seliger, however, feels confident that his bill is “the good one,” and will generate future discussion.

Senior communication major Vanessa Solis supports the passage of SB 778.

“I think passing this bill would be a good idea,” Solis said. “With better quality of education comes a higher price. This would (prevent) lower-performance schools from overcharging students.”

Seliger’s bill and similar tuition regulation bills are currently a topic of controversy, with major concerns arising over how much, or if, state funding will increase along with the passage of these bills.

If the Senate passes SB 778, its provisions would take effect in the 2018-2019 academic year.

Marcus Connolly, The Paisano The cost of attending UTSA has more than doubled in the past 12 years.

SOCIAL WORK: media can skew perceptions front but sell your counterfeit stuff out back.”

In her case study, “The Ray Rice Domestic Violence Case: Construction Black Masculinity through Newspaper Reporters,” Christensen looked at colorblindness, bipolar depiction and commodification in the report, and in one of her findings she noticed that the media “has a tendency to portray black men in t w o ver y d i chotomous ways.”

They are either portrayed as good black men, who have white male characteristics, or bad black men, who are inherently violent, irrational and deviant, according to Christensen’s study.

“Ray Rice used to be the example of a ‘good black man” before he was caught rendering his fiancee unconscious on video, said Christensen.

“Once the video was released, he was a terrible person. He was a criminal. He was the kind of black man who people are afraid of, and that’s not a fair way to look at anybody.”

In his study, “There is a Thin Line Between Discipline and Child Abuse: Child Abuse Discourse in the Adrian Peterson Child Abuse Allegation Case,” Pérez examined

how newspaper reports depicted Peterson’s case, how newspaper reports correspond to child abuse and neglect policy and how the public responded to the case based on newspaper reports.

Pérez analyzed 190 Pe t e r s o n related newspaper articles between 11 newspapers and found that the majority of newspapers reported on Peterson’s legal process, the relationship between the NFL a n d t h e p l ay e r s a n d c o r porate sp onsorship loss.

Only a few editorials looked at the issue through a child welfare policy frame. In response to the newspaper reports, “the public distinguished Peterson’s intent as either discipline or child abuse,” said Pérez.

In their studies, Gill and

Christensen found common themes of racial discrimination instead of focusing on the root of the problem such as race and violence.

Contrary to Gill and Christensen’s findings, Pérez found that race was not a major factor in newspaper reports’ portrayal of the Peterson case. The public evoked religion and intent of the situation. “If one believed that Adrian Peterson was disciplining his child, he was a viewed as a good guy. If one believed he was abusing his child, then he was viewed as a bad guy,” said Pérez.

The objective of these studies was to interject professional social work in professional sports and have the media focus on the real problem rather than the individuals and their identities.

After TMZ exposed the photos of Peterson’s son’s injuries, Pérez was concerned about the media’s motives. “From a social work perspective, we will want to work with the media and inform them that they shouldn’t be posting this content.”

“My recommendation is that the NFL come up with community-based interventions to address the problem,” said Christensen, who would like to see the NFL be more invested in its players’ personal lives rather than focus on publicity.

All three professors plan to distribute their papers to the NBA and the NFL in hopes that these organizations will find an alternative solution in the future “because it’s going to happen again,” said Gill.

Texas could see increase in minimum wage Anthony Mendoza News Assistant

@dAnthonyMendoza news@paisano-online.com State Reps. Eddie Lucio, D-Brownsville, and Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, have proposed Texas’ minimum wage be increased to $10.10 an hour.

Fischer has also proposed a constitutional amendment concerning the federal minimum wage.

Several national protests, such as in the District of Columbia, Houston and Dallas, have portrayed the concern that U.S. citizens are receiving improper compensation for their work.

Local D.C. labor groups rallied behind the minimum wage initiative proposing a minimum wage increase to $15 an hour. President Barack Obama voiced his support last September, indicating “America deserves a raise.”

“We deal with constituent cases on a regular basis of folks coming for assistance just to pay basic light bills, money for gas to get to work and take their kids to school,” said Lucio to the committee. “These are working folks. They aren’t trying to skirt the system in any way.”

As the gradual push toward minimum wage hikes continues, protesters cite low pay and the inability to support themselves and their families as reasons why the government should mandate a higher wage rate.

Despite federal minimum wage provisions contained

in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) — which currently sets the federal wage at $7.25 per hour — protests across the country demonstrate dissatisfaction with the current minimum wage rate. Still, there is a debate over if a new higher hourly wage is warranted.

Beginning in 1979, the federal minimum wage was set at $2.90 an hour. At its peak in 2009, the hourly rate reached $7.25 and has remained stagnant for nearly six years. Although the federal minimum wage has not increased since 2009, 29 states as well as D.C. have minimum wages above the federal standard — Texas not included.

Currently, Texas matches the federal minimum wage rate at $7.25 per hour. According to the 2013 Bureau of Labor Statistics data (BLS), 6.3 million workers were paid hourly in Texas.

Of the 6.3 million workers, 223,000 — the highest among all states — earned the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour, while 177,000 workers earned less; collectively, the 400,000 workers account for 6.4 percent of hourly workers who earn pay at or below the minimum wage.

“We’ve seen states — both red and blue states — adopting wage increases, and here’s the bottom line: Nothing is being done in Congress,” said Fischer on his website.

Nationally, 75.9 million workers — or 58.8 percent — were paid hourly rates in 2013. In total, 1.5 million

received the federal minimum wage of $7.25 while 1.8 million earned pay below the federal minimum.

Collectively, both figures account for 4.3 percent of all hourly paid workers, indicating that the minimum wage concern affects a small percentage of hourly paid workers.

State Rep. Matt Rinaldi, R-Irving — who opposes a minimum wage increase — suggested that a wage increase would provide little benefit to the state since 50 percent of minimum wage workers are under 25 and without dependents. The 2013 BLS reported that, nationally, workers 25 years or younger account for onefifth of hourly paid workers but account for nearly half of those workers who earn the federal minimum wage.

Collectively, the minimum wage concern does affect some citizens but not all.

The Consumer Price Index for the U.S.— often considered a cost of living index — reported a 1.9 percent increase in food costs and a 2.2 percent increase in housing costs from 20102014, which may qualify as reason to raise minimum wage rates. However, 2013 BLS data showed that Texas’ median wage rate for salary and hourly workers was $11.99 compared to the national median of $12.93.

“I think it’s a very simple proposition (and) it’s something if you ask people if they’ll vote to raise their wages and their standards, I think they’d do it,” said Fischer on his website.

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Campus culture and tradition takes time and patience Editorial

Let’s do the numbers.

Over the last five years, UTSA has increased its research spending by 97 percent.

UTSA boasts the largest business school in The University of Texas System and is nationally ranked by the Princeton Review, Business Week and HispanicBusiness.

Moreover, UTSA’s College of Liberal and Fine Arts is second in The UT System for external research funding in arts, humanities and social sciences.

Despite these distinctions,

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According to the Pew Research Center, the number of adult non-readers has almost tripled since 1975.

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Despite the bleak metanarrative currently shrouding print journalism, the national numbers are looking up. For the first time since 2003, American newspapers are experiencing a spike in circulation patterns — an overall 5 percent growth.

Print advertising is currently the largest source of news revenue, the number of companies that advertise in print has decreased in the past decade; this creates financial strains on smaller news outlets that rely heavily on ad revenue.

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the university still lacks an identifiable culture and community.

Comparing campus traditions to those at other top universities in Texas such as UT Austin, Texas A&M, Baylor and Rice must be done through a time-sensitive lens.

For all its accolades, UTSA is still in its infancy. But don’t panic, we are on the path to building tradition.

By establishing an NCAA Division I football team, creating a Rowdy Statue and emphasizing UTSA’s own Fiesta activities on campus,

the university has begun to lay groundwork for a budding campus atmosphere.

The Sombrilla — UTSA’s answer to a quad — is slowly become a place to hang out.

Late night dining options and lighting along the Paseo will help build an after-hours community, an integral part of a campus culture.

Much like the trek to Tier One, the development of campus culture is a numbers game to come to fruition.

While UTSA has yet to shake its commuter identity, it is quickly becoming a campus

students commute to, and then stay a while.

UTSA is on its way to becoming a university with an established tradition. As President Romo engages with faculty, students and staff about the UTSA2020 Blueprint — a newly minted strategic plan for the next five years — students must participate.

Tradition cannot be itemized in a strategic plan. Structural growth and development does not translate to school pride, just as athletic teams do not immediately result in heavily attended sports

games.

UTSA has the resources of a traditional university, but these elements have yet to gel.

But to say that there is no campus identity at all is unfair. UTSA Athletics, Greek life and the Student Government Association have worked toward creating the sorely needed cohesive community.

As the roots of a traditionladen Tier One University take hold, we must be patient.

Building tradition takes time.

So stay calm, at least until 2020.

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tion and revenue. Audience revenue, especially funds to daily newspapers, serves as the industry’s second largest revenue source.

Not all news outlets can afford compatible degrees of multimedia capability. The web presence of newspapers with limited budgets lags behind readers’ expectations of the industry standard — usually at the detriment of the publication.

Large news outlets that use cutting edge reporting technology shape how readers perceive other news outlets. This non-content based standard threatens how consumers perceive other news sources — judging almost solely on aesthetics.

Truly, local and independent newspapers currently undertake the most arduous charge in the industry: remain solvent despite a national decline in interest in reading, invest in new modes of journalism, provide readers with quality writing and remain relevant through avenues of social and multimedia journalism and marketing.

The never-ending newsroom produces a demand for continual content, which, in turn, strains newspapers’ human and financial capital. Social media, mobile news applications, and news websites and blogs sustain the 24-hour news cycle.

New media has affected journalists’ career paths as well. In deciding to be journalists, writers gamble on journalism, hoping it will prove to be a viable career option worth their time investment.

Whether or not print remains the most efficient and effective platform for delivering the news is the crux of maintaining newspapers’ social relevance. The good news — all news is local. And local news, despite it being

the slowest growing and the branch most affected by new digital standards, will keep print journalism alive.

Print news remains the most practical and effective avenue for broadcasting what is significant, inspiring and interesting; whether the newspaper’s form is accessed by 5-inch screens or 11-inch broadsheets, journalistic standards and quality should not be compromised.

Declines in readership that cannot be remedied through savvy marketing would signal a net loss of the nation, deconstruction to a society of selves.

If newspapers do die, we killed them, with condensed attention spans and Internet binge clicking habits. The foreboding “death of print” will not be due to digital advancement or integration, but rather, to socially rampant uninterest. American society has migrated from reading for content, curiosity, knowledge and pleasure to a state of almost mechanic consumption of rhetoric, graphics and noise.

The print process is ugly, corporeal, powerful and best experienced as it is created — hands-first.

As technology brings new digital media into the newsroom (often at the expense of resources), it injects rote efficiency and fosters a mercurial journalistic atmosphere.

Like print has and will, we too must continue to adapt. Our greatest challenge, as writers and readers, must remain to preserve the rhetorical imagination imperative to exceptional, innovative writing.

Mia Cabello Managing Editor

Preserve Record Store Day Commentary

Seventyfour record stores in Texas participated in the eighth annual Record Store Day (RSD) on April 18. Although RSD was created to help the small, independent record stores around the world, those attending RSD have lately begun to feel cheated.

Since it’s inception in 2007, the event has grown to include various special releases and reissues from several big name artists such as Violent

Femmes: Happy New Year EP, Jimmi Hendrix: Purple Haze/Freedom, Bob Dylan: The Basement Tapes.

RSD has morphed into a game of who can be at the record store by 2 a.m. in order to be the first in line to purchase RSD exclusive releases for $18, only to resell them on Ebay for a $100-plus profit.

Not releasing these tracks in form available to everyone excludes a large demographic of fans.

Fans unable to make it to the record store before the records are gone feel cheated

that they miss out or pay more for exclusive content.

Crowds of hundreds of people causes a disconnected atmosphere with a more rushed sense than one would except when looking at music in a record shop.

Though Record Store Day continues to carry out it’s main intention — bring people into record stores — the current trajectory of the event has begun to taint the event’s attendance. Buying and reselling of exclusive records on eBay for exploitive profit is becoming more common, and gone is the

We live in a rape culture.

Underneath our society is an environment of unreported rapes and sexual assaults. This occurs when rape is ignored or normalized and victims are blamed or disbelieved.

Sexual violence is a societal issue that extends to affect college campuses and the students that inhabit them.

Deeming that a specific environment has a “rape culture” is difficult, especially when the subject is so clouded and shadowed in secrecy.

Rape and sexual assault certainly exist on college campuses around the country. In 2012, the Washington Post reported more than 3,900 reports of forcible sex offenses on college campuses nationwide. Last year’s annual UTSA’s security report recorded seven. These are documented incidents reported to law enforcement. These numbers reflect the 0.02 percent total of all enrolled students around the country who chose to report forcible sex offenses to campus police or local police every year.

Because a majority of rape and sexual assault victims do not report their crimes to law enforcement, it is difficult to truly understand the extent of the issue. What we know about how frequently these events occur is based on a number of different anonymous surveys. The National Institute of Justice estimates that 18 to 20 percent of college women experience rape or some other form of sexual assault during their college years — but even that statistic is heavily debated.

It isn’t hard to see why rape and sexual assault have low incidents of report. It is a crime that violates one’s body at the most intimate level, and often the offender is someone who the victim knows.

Feelings of shame and guilt can overwhelm a victim, and for the victim, reporting the crime can feel like living the experience all over again.

Yet, reporting these crimes is essential to solving this issue.

Not only can it help prevent criminals, but also can lead to more accurate statistics on the issue.

A college environment could easily inhabit a culture

of rape. Attending college for the first time is about new experiences, which beyond higher learning, includes drugs, alcohol and sex. Students are warned of the dangers of alcohol, but they are often faced with it for the first time at a party, where they do not know their limits.

“Incapacitated sexual assault,” sexual assault that occurred under the influence of drugs or alcohol, accounts for more than half of reported sexual assaults. Students who are in sororities, have numerous sexual partners and are underclassman have an increased risk of being victimized by sexual assault.

Inexperience and unrealistic social expectations can make certain individuals more vulnerable to sexual assault.

The greatest issue is how our society views rape — often alienating the actors involved in rape from the act itself. Of course, it is difficult to believe and accept that our daughters, sons and loved ones could be victimized in such a terrible way. It is just as worse to imagine our sons, fathers or brothers could commit such heinous crimes onto another person. If more people understood the actions that happen before being shocked when it happens to someone they know and love, the after math and the stigma of rape could be minimized.

Rape is not a crime localized to college campuses.

It disregards institutional parameters, inflicting society as a whole. The issue needs to be addressed and discouraged. Institutions should place a greater emphasis on assisting and creating a system where victims are not afraid for themselves or their reputation should they report the crime. Incoming students should be better prepared for the new experiences that are inextricable from college life.

Until we, as a society, remedy the way we view rape and sexual assault, it is up to students to prepare and protect themselves from sexual violence on and off campus.

laid-back feeling of browsing through music during Record Store Day. Record Store Day should cater to record stores and fans alike. Without its loyal fans, Record Store Day would

be both pointless and ultimately profitless.

Robert Avila Staff Writer

Michael Turnini Web Editor

ARTS & LIFE

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Runner Rink Fourth annual ‘It Could Be Verse’ continued from front page Not satisfied to just recreate the glory days of the roller rink, the event came into full swing with the announcement of a dance contest on skates. Three teams of four lined across the edge of the skate platform, eager to pump up and please the encroaching crowd that was making their way to cheer on their favorites.

The first group of guys tried their best to pump up the crowd to the tune of Future’s gut-punch banger “Commas,” but the squad soon realized cool demeanor doesn’t translate to good balance. Unable to demonstrate any impressive tricks, along with one member dropping to the floor like it was hot, the crowd simply wasn’t impressed.

The second group, made up of a rag-tag group of girls, came out with an attitude all their own. What they lacked in skating tricks they made up in charisma and enthusiasm, rolling around to the hard-hitting beat of DJ Khaled’s “All I Do Is Win” and even prompting the entire crowd to get their hands up. And they stayed there!

The last group of contestants seemed doomed to become disqualified without a fourth member. Gavin Sumwalt was dancing wildly in the corner of the rink before a group of people pushed him into the competition.

As soon as the announcer said the word “Go,” Sumwalt – visibly timid, yet ex-

cited – slowly but surely led his team through routines even they couldn’t keep up with. Sumwalt wowed the crowd by balancing on the fronts of his wheels and spinning each foot in a myriad of directions while gliding across the floor, all to the beat of Bruno Mars & Mark Ronson’s hit “Uptown Funk.”

Sumwalt’s nervous demeanor concealed an incredible set of moves, to which he credits his friends’ teachings. “I learned off a bunch of my friends,” said Sumwalt. “I’m from Indiana, but I came here and basically saw a bunch of people doing it too and thought I’d try it out for awhile.”

Upon announcing the winners of the skate-off, it was apparent that both the first and last group of boys were no match for the girl power that the second team had on their side. The ladies were asily getting the most crowd response at the mention of their name as the champions of the event.

Despite the loss, Sumwalt seemed unfazed as he headed back to the wall he previously occupied.

After all, it’s his and others’ love for the activity that brought them to the Runner Rink in the first place. “Just the fact of skating in general excites me,” Sumwalt said.

“I’ve been skating for six years, just thought I’d come for a little while, skate a bit.

I’ve had a blast.”

attracts UTSA readers and spectators

Marcus Connolly, The Paisano The participants in this year’s edition of It Could Be Verse pose for a group photo after completing their poetry reading for an engaged audience.

Anelia Gomez-Cordova Special Issues Assistant @ThePaisano arts@paisano-online.com

At a dinner event a few years ago, Creative Writing Professor Wendy Barker and Comparative Literature Professor Steven G. Kellman got to thinking: What would publicize the English department as well as promote literature?

The result – It Could Be Verse, a night of faculty and students getting together and reading poetry to an audience. On April 7, the English department hosted the fourth annual edition of It Could Be Verse in the Business Building.

“We were trying to think of ways of getting students

and faculty together beyond the classroom and faculty together beyond the department meetings,” Doctor Barker said.

Some of the participants read from a book, others opted to use a printed copy of the poem and a few even chose to go paperless and recite from memory. Regardless of their preference, all of the participants delivered applause-worthy readings.

The event opened with a warm welcome from the event’s founding faculty members, followed by a poem read by Doctor Kellman regarding the topic of poets. The energy that Doctor Barker and Doctor Kellman brought to the room was maintained throughout the event as the volunteer

readers kept the audience hanging on their every word.

Participants presented something unique with their individual readings, from using a particular accent to expressing meaning with their hands, tempo or speed. It was not just reading a poem from a piece of paper, but rather a fullfledged performance. The poems themselves were extremely varied, some just a few words and others quite lengthy, but all of them captivating. Some poems were recited in Italian or Spanish, which also added to the event’s ambience.

“We all love poems,” Doctor Barker said. “We all love hearing them read.”

Freshman English major Bianca Pulido signed up

to participate at this year’s It Could Be Verse without knowing quite what to expect.

“It makes people happy,” Pulido said. “Even if it’s a depressing poem, it speaks to the human experience. A lot of this is human expression – it’s coming from our soul.”

This year a total of 26 people participated, and the number of audience members was rather large, too. This was not surprising, considering that both the readers and the spectators seemed to enjoy themselves.

“I think it gets better every year,” said Doctor Kellman. “I think tonight in particular we had a combination of fine poems, large variety and wonderful performances.”

It would seem that not only Doctor Kellman thinks the event was a success.

“Everybody needs to come to this event. It needs to be huge,” Pulido said. “The English department needs events like this.”

Name That Author, another product of the dinner-turned-brainstorming-session, is a contest in which participants answer questions about English and American Literature and takes place during every fall semester. Check the English department’s homepage at colfa.utsa.edu/english to stay informed.

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UTSA brings Fiesta to the Sombrilla Luis Alanis

Contributing Writer @ThePaisano arts@paisano-online.com

The University of Texas at San Antonio hosted its 38th annual Fiesta UTSA this past Friday, and to say that things got a little rowdy would be putting it lightly.

Fiesta UTSA is a time to celebrate the city’s rich and diverse cultures under one roof – the Sombrilla. Representatives from various student organizations woke up at the crack of dawn to get their booths set up, where they sold delicious cultural foods, held carnival games and offered time in a photo booth.

Most of the booths had credit and debit card readers for the modern student.

This feature not only made it extremely easy for everyone to make purchases, but also kept the lines at each booth short, which made everyone happy.

“The best part is the food!” UTSA senior Victoria Rodriguez said. “There are so many different kinds from so many different cultures, and I always want to try them all.”

The UTSA Green Society was on the scene, but instead of selling from a booth, it was judging how environmentally friendly the others’ booths were. It challenged every organization to limit the amount of trash they created and re-

cycle anything they could.

The winner was given a certificate and recognized as the most environmentally friendly booth.

A crowd of students sang along to an equally enthusiastic live band singing songs like Salt-N-Pepa’s “Push It.” Everyone was sad to see them go and be replaced by a playlist of music while the next performance was set up.

Leave it to Fiesta UTSA to have members of the U.S. Navy performing a choreographed dance to Uptown Funk by Bruno Mars. With moves matching the music video, the crowd instantly joined in and started dancing, cheering and clapping along with them.

Upon finishing, the Navy received a standing ovation and then rejoined the masses to let the rest of the show go on.

“The live band was very energetic,” Rodriguez said.

“I actually stayed throughout their whole playlist, and the whole Uptown Funk dance was amazing!”

Fiesta UTSA is a great way for students to learn more about the clubs and organizations campus has to offer. Events like this unite the student body and foster Roadrunner pride.

Unable to attend Fiesta UTSA this year? There is always next year! Make sure to give those fried Oreos a try, and take photos at the photo booth to remember some fun college moments.

>>> Student organizations set up booths in and around the Sombrilla offerring a multitude of food, games and drinks for Fiesta UTSA. Most booths come equipped with the “Square” which enables students to use their debit and credit cards easily rather than having to deal with cash. Organization members used creative ways to advertise their products in hopes of raising funds for their individual causes.

Liz Moreno, The Paisano

<<< Students get down with Iron Man during Fiesta’s Festivities. A live band played today’s top hits while onlookers were encouraged to participate in some pre-finals week fun. One of Fiesta UTSA’s main goals was to unite the student body while supporting student activites.

Despite the dreary weather, the Roadrunners wore their smiles while enjoying their own Fiesta experiences.

Liz Moreno, The Paisano

>>> President Ricardo Romo poses with the King of Fiesta. During his appearance at Fiesta UTSA, Romo mingled with students and faculty alike. With cascarones remains in his hair, UTSA’s president demonstrated that sometimes work does in fact come before play. Holding events like this promotes comradery among students in UTSA’s trek to Tier-One status.

Liz Moreno, The Paisano

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Record Store Day spins into San Antonio

Tuesday 4/21 6 p.m.

Siesta Fest is celebrating its ninth year from April 21 – 23 at Alamo City Music Hall (1305 E. Houston). Despite the name, not much sleep will be happening as this event mainly features various DJs from San Antonio.

Tickets can be purchased in advance at HEB for $12 and at the door for $15 – $20. For more information, visit siestafest. com.

Tuesday 4/21 7 p.m.

Get your country music fix for a good cause at St. Jude Jam! Sponsored

by KJ97 at Cowboys Dance Hall, this charitable concert will feature Kasey James, Kip Moore, Montgomery Gentry and Thompson Square.

General admission tickets are $10 in advance, $15 at the door, for patrons 18 years and up.

Wednesday 4/22 5:30 p.m.

Spend “A Night in Old San Antonio,” also known as NIOSA, at La Villita downtown. Spread over the course of four nights, NIOSA evenings will feature 250 food and drink booths as well as stages packed with multiple entertainment lineups, all with themes geared toward San Antonio’s culture and heritage. Dance, drink and eat your way through historic downtown for just $12 in advance, $15 at the gate. For more information, visit fiesta-sa. org.

Friday 4/24 7:30 p.m.

Comedian John Mulaney is stopping by the Charline McCombs Empire Theatre (226 N. St. Marys) for one night only. The Saturday Night Live writer turned standup comedian will take the stage with his dry wit and, at times, raunchy humor. Tickets start at $29.50 and they’re going fast. For more information, visit ticketmaster.com/ john-mulaney-tickets.

Saturday 4/25 10 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Let the “All the Rage in Paris: Diaghilev’s Ballets Ruses, 1909-1929” come to life during a 30-minute ballet class designed for dancers ranging from OffBeat Olivia from Zumba class to Princess Odette of Swan Lake. “Ballet Barre at the McNay” is the perfect workshop for all ages and all skill levels. Split into two times, dancers 12 and under are scheduled to meet at 10 a.m. and dancers 13 and up will meet at 11 a.m. For more information, visit mcnayart.org.

Sunday 4/26 3 p.m.

Listen to the UTSA Orchestra perform before the semester ends. Stop by the Music Recital Hall in the Arts Building for an hour of music played by the Aria Competition winners. Admission is free for students and $5 for non-students.For more information, visit the music department’s homepage at music.utsa.edu.

Brayden Boren, The Paisano Hogwild Records and Tapes in downtown San Antonio opened its doors on the globally recognized Record Store Day. The 33-year-old store saw a line wrapped around the premises full of music fans in a hurry to get inside so they could take their time browsing records and tapes old, new and in between.

Brayden Boren Arts Assistant

@ThatBorenGuy arts@paisano-online.com In a digital age where everyone is constantly listening to their favorite songs, bands and artists on the go, it has become increasingly rare for people to use physical media of any sort, whether it be CDs, cassette tapes or vinyl records.

Record Store Day wants to change that.

The days of walking into your local record store, asking around for new suggestions from the counter clerk, or just browsing through the $1 bin of old LPs seem obsolete now thanks to the revolution of iTunes, streaming services and social media. Discussing new and old music can now be done with people all over the globe from the comfort of our own laptops.

Conceived in 2007 by a group of independent record store owners and employees, Record Store Day celebrates the people who make up the tradition of the record store – the artists, the customer and the staff – by coming together and recognizing the unique role these local stores play in their communities. Spanning across every continent of the world, except, of course, Antarctica, participating record stores offer exclusive records, CDs and tapes only found on this special day.

A mainstay in San Antonio for 33 years, Hogwild Records has stayed open longer than most of the country’s record stores.

Manager Jaime Gonzalez’s devotion has kept the store up to date with all of the latest releases, vintage records and old relics people bring in to sell from their own collections. This, in addition to a supportive San Antonio community, has kept the store in business.

Judging by the line wrapped around the outside of Hogwild Records for this year’s Record Store Day, the physical medium of music has clearly found its way back into the hearts of many people. Hogwild has been known to cater to San Antonio’s historic metal scene, with one of America’s historic rock bands, Butthole Surfers, hailing from the Alamo City. On a day like Record Store Day, metalheads and newcomers alike arrived early to snag an exclusive record, or just to come and look around and accompany other music lovers on their endeavors.

The first thing customers lay their eyes on upon entering is a “New Release” rack, along with differing shades of black and grey shirts emblazoned with numerous metal and rock bands hanging from the rafters of the small building, including Slayer and Behemoth.

The smell of the records intermingle with the scent of years worth of smoke and soot that inhabit the history of the building and the records people have brought in, whether from decades ago or two days prior.

This year’s offer of exclusive titles included limited numbers of vinyl from famous musicians, such as Bob Dylan’s “The Basement Tapes,” Frank Sinatra’s

“Songs for Young Lovers” and even U2’s “Songs of Innocence” which only had 5,000 known copies.

Record Store Day does have its downsides; people that exploit the exclusivity of some of the records on sale will camp out all night in an effort to grab a copy of a rare release, only to sell that record on eBay for more than they bought it for.

Though this can ruin the fun for some passionate collectors, the love of music wins out over everything.

Customers were leaving the store with their hearts as full as their bags.

Brayden Boren, The Paisano Black Star, Wu-Tang Clan, Father John Misty and Run the Jewels were just a handful of exclusive records featured at Hogwild on Record Store Day.

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{Sports Events} Friday, April 24 6 p.m. UTSA baseball The baseball team brings in Conference USA rival Southern Miss to a three game series at Roadrunner Field.

8:30 p.m. San Antonio Spurs The Spurs fly back to town to continue their playoff series against the L.A. Clippers in game three.

Saturday, April 25 2 p.m. UTSA baseball The baseball team continues with game two against the Southern Miss Golden Eagles.

Sunday, April 26 12 p.m. UTSA baseball The UTSA baseball team ends their homestand before hosting Baylor on Tuesday at 6 p.m.

2:30 p.m. San Antonio Spurs The San Antonio Spurs host the L.A. Clippers in game four at the AT&T Center.

Monday, April 26 7:05 p.m. San Antonio Missions Baseball The San Antonio Missions end their four game road trip with their contest against the Frisco Roughriders at Wolff Stadium.

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UTSA’s offense stands out at Spring Game UTSA FOOTBALL Darryl E. Sherrod Contributing Writer @PaisanoSports1 sports@paisano-online.com

The UTSA football team held their annual Fiesta Spring Game on Saturday, April 18. The scrimmage placed the offense, wearing white, against the defense in blue. The white team prevailed by a score of 57-42 The Spring Game used an adjusted scoring method, wherein the defense is rewarded for plays such as sacks, interceptions and defensive stops while the offense was awarded for first downs in addition to their usual scoring methods.

“Man it was good, it was just great to get out here with the guys,” said redshirt freshman quarterback Blake Bogenschutz. “I loved the scoring thing; it allowed the defense to score some

points and compete with us instead of just stopping us and not getting anything for it.”

Bogenschutz was one of the standout performers of the game, going 15-of-23 for 233 yards and two touchdowns. The red shir freshman is currently in battling for the starting quarterback position, but that has not stopped him from putting the team first.

“I couldn’t ask for a better group of guys to work with,” Bogenschutz said when asked about the quarterback competition. “Coach Brown (UTSA Offensive Coordinator Kevin Brown) is going to name the starter (quarterback) and we’re going to go with it and support whoever he chooses.”

The Roadrunners are currently in the midst of a large transition, with 36 seniors graduating and a new offen-

sive scheme being implemented where the offense is focusing on maintaining a faster tempo. However, neither the departing seniors nor the old offensive scheme were missed in Saturday’s offensive explosion, as the white team compiled over 500 yards of total offense.

“It’s a new team — we graduated 36 guys,” said senior tight end David Morgan. “Last year was last year and it’s time to push on and do some new stuff. We’re ready to get on with this next season.”

Morgan is coming off of a strong season where he was second in both receiving yards and touchdowns on the team. He’s expected to be a large factor in the new offense, which yielded big plays throughout the game.

“That’s why the up-tempo is the way it is; they tire you

down and shoot the deep ball,” said senior linebacker Drew Douglas. “That’s why the offense is going to be so good.”

Douglas had a productive game for the blue team, totaling three tackles and one sack. Linebacker Marcos Curry recorded seven tackles and a sack, while defensive end Romario Naples and safety Carl Austin III each had interceptions.

Austin III took his pick 33 yards for the defense’s only official touchdown of the day.

Early in the fourth quarter, Bogenschutz connected with senior wide receiver Kenny Bias on a 75-yard touchdown. The play was the longest of the game for either team and was the lone touchdown for Bias.

Shortly after, sophomore quarterback Dalton Sturm threw a short pass that

redshirt freshman wide receiver Greg Campbell Jr. took for 67 yards in one of the game’s surprise plays.

Campbell led all receivers in yards, receptions and tied for the lead in touchdowns. “(I am) just happy. I made it through the whole thing so I’m happy,” said Campbell with a big smile when asked about the game and his performance.

The theme of change and new improvements was clear throughout the day and Douglas summed it up best, saying, “Let’s pick up and move on. It’s a new era; young guys are coming in, stepping up and learning things fast. It’s really exciting.”

The UTSA football team will use the remainder of the off-season preparing for the season-opener against Arizona on Thursday, Sept.

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{Recent Results} Tuesday, April 14 UTSA baseball W, 10-8 at Texas State

Friday, April 17 UTSA women’s tennis L, 1-4 vs. Marshall (C-USA Tournament)

UTSA men’s tennis W, 4-3 vs. Southern Miss (C-USA Tournament)

Saturday, April 18 UTSA men’s tennis W, 4-2 vs. Old Dominion (C-USA Tournament)

UTSA softball W, 7-3 vs. UTEP W, 5-4 vs. UTEP

UTSA baseball L, 8-9 vs. Rice L, 2-8 vs. Rice

Sunday, April 19 UTSA men’s tennis W, 4-2 vs. Rice (C-USA Tournament)

UTSA softball W, 8-0 (5) vs. UTEP

UTSA baseball W, 7-1 vs. Rice

USMNT downs Mexico at Alamodome USA SOCCER

Shabazz I. Dawkins Sports Editor @shabazzvs sports@paisano-online.com

On Wednesday, April 15, the U.S. Men’s National Team (USMNT) etched another tremendous chapter in the storied USA, Mexico rivalry and showed tremendous grit in a dominant shutout of Mexico, 2-0.

The now legendary score line of 2-0 in favor of the USMNT has occurred in eight separate matches since 2000, gaining it the name Dos a Cero.

“The energy was outstanding,” mentioned USMNT Head Coach Jürgen Klinsmann in the post-game press conference.

A sold-out crowd of more than 64,000 fans packed the Alamodome to witness the friendly match between the international rivals. A swarm of green, red and blue could be seen throughout the stadium as supporters of both sides turned up in large numbers, passionately chanting the entire match.

With the win, the USMNT is now unbeaten against Mexico in the last six matches between the two clubs. The USMNT also extended their homesoil winning streak to 21 consecutive matches with

“It’s something I’ve dreamed about since I was a little kid: scoring a goal.”

Jordan Morris

US Men’s National Team Forward the victory.

“Everybody was on the same page in terms of, we want to get a (win) and we want to do well,” said Klinsmann. “We want to prove a point.”

USA’s offense put a ton of pressure on Mexico in the early part of the first half.

But Mexico maintained composure and neither team truly gained ground throughout the first 45 minutes.

The second half, however, was controlled by the Americans. In the 49th minute, USA forward Jordan Morris ripped in an emphatic shot to give USA a one-goal lead.

Morris chipped the shot in with an impeccable touch over Mexico goalkeeper Cirilo Saucedo.

Klinsmann gave Morris – a forward at Stanford University – the starting nod over the absent Jozy Altidore, making his first career start. Prior to the event, Morris previously played in only one game in 2015 and logged just two minutes of playing time. The score was the first of his career with

the USMNT and his first international goal.

“It’s something I’ve dreamed about since I was a little kid, scoring a goal. Especially in such a big game in front of so many fans.

It was unbelievable,” said Morris.

“We see that there is a constant positive path in him,” added Klinsmann.

In the 72nd minute, USA forward Juan Agudelo gained control of the ball on the edge of the box, worked his way inside and knocked in a goal to double USA’s lead at 2-0.

Agudelo came into the game as a substitute in the 65th minute, relieving the previous goal scorer, Morris. His goal marks the first international goal for Agudelo since 2011.

The USMNT held on to 2-0 lead to close out the game in victory. The win moves the USMNT’s record against Mexico to 18-32-14 all time.

The USMNT competes next against the Netherlands on June 5 in Amsterdam.

Photos by Antonio Morano, KENS5 / KENS5.com Kyle Beckerman (pictured), was the starting midfielder for the USMNT. The match versus Mexico marked Beckerman’s first appearance for the USMNT since the U.S. matched up against Ireland on Nov. 18, 2014.

Photos by Antonio Morano, KENS5 / KENS5.com Greg Garza (pictured in blue), is a native of Grapevine, Texas. Garza recieved the starting nod at left back against Mexico. He played in the last five matches of 2014 and also started in the match against Denmark on March 31, 2015.

SPORTS

10 April 21 - April 28, 2015

Marcus Connolly, The Paisano

Marcus Connolly, The Paisano

Roadrunners softball sweeps Miners UTSA SOFTBALL Jordan Sanchez Contributing Writer

@PaisanoSports1 sports@paisano-online.com The UTSA Roadrunners (30-14, 12-5 C-USA) swept the UTEP Miners (13-32, 8-10 C-USA) this weekend three games to none at Roadrunner Field.

With the wins, the Roadrunners earned their first 30-win season since 2006.

UTSA softball is now sitting in first place for Conference USA and looks to keep it that way as the team only has eight more games remaining before tournament play.

Saturday’s doubleheader served as the Roadrunners’ annual Strike Out Cancer Day, honoring former pitcher Hope Ortiz. As an assistant with the pro-

gram during Ortiz’s tenure, UTSA Head Coach Michelle Cheatham remembers Ortiz as “The ultimate Roadrunner”.

“She was a great teammate who was always there for her team,” said Cheatham. “To be able to recognize her every single year with this Strike Out Cancer game means a lot to us and it means a lot to our program” The Roadrunners represented Ortiz well on Saturday, stealing the first two games from the Miners by scores of 7-3 and 5-4 respectively.

In game one, UTSA jumped to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the third thanks to a single-shot homerun by shortstop Courtney Buchman and an RBI single from designated player Randee Crawford.

Junior Kacy Freeze pitched 5.1 innings for UTSA before sophomore Nicole Merrill came in to relieve. Freeze allowed three runs on four hits as the Roadrunners found themselves down 3-2 in the bottom of the sixth.

Second basemen Madison Kinley sent a singleshot to right field, knotting the score at three a piece and recording her sixth home run of the season in the process. With only one out remaining in the bottom of the sixth, left fielder Jade Smith kept the rally alive by recording her first hit of the ball game.

Freshman Kendall Burton brought Smith in to score after hitting an RBI triple that tight-roped down the right field line to stay fair.

First basemen Megan Low tacked on another three

Go Figure: Stat titles rarely lead to NBA titles AP SPORTS Tim Reynolds AP Basketball Writer It’s already known that Oklahoma City won’t win the NBA title, since the Thunder didn’t make the playoffs.

And now it doesn’t look good for the Los Angeles Clippers, San Antonio Spurs and New Orleans Pelicans, either.

Reason? They have players who won stat titles this season.

Odd as it seems, excelling in the regular season doesn’t guarantee anything in the postseason — a weird fact as the NBA gets set to open its playoffs on Saturday.

The last player to win an NBA championship in the same season that he took home one of the league’s top stat crowns — points, rebounds, assists, steals or blocks per game — was Shaquille O’Neal, when he won the scoring race in 2000 and the Lakers won that season’s Finals.

No rebounding champion has been on the title team since Dennis Rodman in 1998, no assist king since Magic Johnson in 1987, no steals leader since Michael Jordan in 1993 and no top blocker since Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in 1980.

So now, this year’s statrace winners — DeAndre Jordan (rebounds) and Chris Paul (assists) from

the Clippers, Kawhi Leonard (steals) from the Spurs and Anthony Davis (blocks) from the Pelicans — get a chance to buck that relatively odd trend.

Only four players in NBA history have 5,000 career playoff points — Michael Jordan (5,987), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (5,762), Kobe Bryant (5,640) and Shaquille O’Neal (5,250).

The club could grow this season.

San Antonio’s Tim Duncan (who became the league’s all-time leader in postseason minutes during last year’s NBA Finals) needs just 12 points to get to 5,000 for his postseason career.

And if Cleveland goes deep as many suspect, LeBron James could hit the milestone as well. James is 581 points away from the mark, and he averaged 584.5 over his last four postseasons — all Finals runs — with the Miami Heat.

The saying is that scoring slows down in the playoffs, and there’s a certain amount of truth to that.

The times might be changing a little.

Last season’s playoff games resulted in an average of 199.1 combined points, the most in the league since teams combined to score 206.5 per game in the 1992 playoffs.

In fact, last year the dip in scoring from the regular season to the playoffs was

nominal.

Regular-season games last season resulted in 202 combined points per game, just 2.9 more than the postseason pace.

This regular season saw teams combine for 200 points per contest.

Good news, Memphis and Washington. Since the NBA went to the 16-team playoff format, No. 5 seeds fare better than No. 4 seeds.

In first-round matchups, No. 5 seeds have advanced 33 times, compared with 29 wins in those series by No. 4 seeds.

Upsets do happen in other series, though nowhere near as frequently.

No. 1 seeds are 57-5 in the 16-team format against No. 8’s. No. 2 seeds are also 57-5 against No. 7 teams, and No. 3 seeds are 45-17 against No. 6’s.

The league went to the 16-team format before the start of the 1984 playoffs.

It doesn’t take a genius to realize winning Game 1 is optimal for best-of-seven success: Teams ultimately prevail 77 percent of the time in a series after taking the opener But odds are, someone will lose a Game 1 in this first round and advance anyway.

Not since 2004 have all eight Game 1, Round 1 winners advanced to the conference semifinals. Since the 2005 playoffs, 21 Game 1 losers have recovered and won their first-round series.

runs for the Roadrunners as she hit a three run money ball, giving her team a 7-3 lead over UTEP. The Miners would fail to have a rally of their own as they dropped game one by a final of 7-3.

Game two was a game of call and response. Starting off the top of the 1st, UTEP jumped to an early 2-0 lead over the Roadrunners. UTSA wasted no time though as they responded with two runs of their own.

With the game tied at two going into the top of the fourth, shortstop Courtney Clayton knocked in two runs for the Miners and reached base on a single.

Trailing 4-2 in the bottom of the fifth, Crawford answered back as the Conference USA RBI leader hit a double, bringing in two more runs for the Roadrunners and knotting the game

at four.

With the bases loaded in the bottom of the seventh, Crawford found herself in another RBI scenario. The sophomore from Livingston, Texas yet again made the most of her time at bat as she drilled the second pitch she saw, recording an RBI walk-off as Burton crossed the plate for the Roadrunners.

When asked about performing in high stress situations, Crawford said, “I tell myself just relax. Get in the box, there’s no pressure.”

Merrill and the Roadrunners had a short outing on Sunday as UTSA run-ruled UTEP, taking an 8-0 victory after just five innings of play. Out of the twenty batters she faced, Merrill allowed four hits with only one walk and struck out three Miners in her five in-

nings of play. The Roadrunner offense scored four runs on five hits in the bottom of the third and four runs on three hits in the bottom of the fourth.

“This team runs on family and I do believe that,” said Merrill. “I think every single one of us loves each other. We all know our one goal is to make it to (the Conference USA tournament) and we’re gonna win it. When you’ve got an offense that can score seven runs a game, you don’t really worry about the one hits here and there or the runs because you know your offense has your back.”

Next, UTSA will travel to Houston on Wednesday, April 22 as they face Houston Baptist at 3:00pm.