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University student, Nicaragua native faces lasting impacts of quake from overseas SARA E. FLORES SPORTS EDITOR @stmusarasports
On
a
typical
Monday
afternoon,
Nicaragua native and St. Mary’s senior corporate finance, economics and risk management
major
Ninfa
Escobar
received a call from her 13-year-old sister who was evacuating her middle school due to an earthquake alert in their hometown of Managua. Overwhelmed
with
the
everyday
chaos of a collegiate student, Escobar explained the tribulations she has faced throughout the past week and how her mind and focus have been on her loved ones back home, who have faced more than 200 earthquakes during one week. In recent news, Central America has endured a chain of earthquakes that greatly affect residents and their loved ones abroad. Escobar described the environment of present day Nicaragua as being in a state of reconstruction from the occurrence of a tragic earthquake
Photo by Alondra Garcia
St. Mary’s students part of the AEM-Jovenes gathered Feb. 25, 2014 to celebrate the beginning of a St. Mary’s University chapter. Pictured, sitting, from left to right, Mariangela Zavala, Rodrigo Lopez, Lucia Alvarez, Frederico Avila, Camilo Excobar, and standing, from left to right, Eduardo Vaca, Camila Andriazola, Maria Jose Romero, Jeronimo Benavides, Juanita Nantes, Americo Cisneros and Andres Chavez.
University youths build global network Members of a youth chapter of the Associaton of Young Mexican Entrepreneurs establish themselves in the professional world.
affiliated with Asociacion de Empresarios
ALONDRA GARCIA CONTRIBUTING WRITER
in 1972. “This already happened in 1972, and it
organization
was
first
started
three
in 1996 by a group of Mexican entrepreneurs
Gamez, a Mexican student who attends
who were looking to achieve success in
the University of Texas at San Antonio
the United States and to promote Mexican
(UTSA).
business
wanted to start his own business and began
with
According
St. Mary’s students from a span of
The
Mexicanos (AEM), founded in San Antonio
American Alvarez,
according
to
Jorge
By the age of 19, Gamez said he
young
going to AEM meetings with his father, but no one would take him seriously.
by
After speaking with a fellow student,
history for life. Downtown will never
majors
affiliating
networking with entrepreneurs through
Eduardo Bravo, who helped him develop a
exist again because of it,” Escobar said.
with an organization, prominent in the
breakfasts, mixers, workshops, a mentor
course of action that would prompt people
“Around 2,500 people have lost their
United States and Mexico, that connects
program,
that
to take them more seriously, Gamez decided
homes, and the fact that Nicaragua is
students to international entrepreneurs.
help a student in her field of interest.
to start an organization for youth that
one of the poorest countries in the world
The students have agreed to integrate
means the recovery will be pretty bad
a St. Mary’s University chapter into the
Mexican
and lengthy.”
Asociacion
in the United States, because it is very
Gamez
hard to be part of a culture if you’re
entrepreneurs ages 18–30 in San Antonio.
was something that marked Nicaraguan
Earthquakes are constantly occurring
and
countries
de
are
Empresarios
Jovenes—Association
of
Mexicanos
Young
Mexican
causing Escobar along with other Central
Entrepreneurs—joining two other chapters
American natives to have cell phones by
themselves
AEM
ago,
entrepreneurs helps international students establish
to
entrepreneurs.
years
and
“Their
other
activities
purpose
was
to
individual
to
have
presence
Ultimately,
in
founded
February AEM
2012,
for
young
As chairman and president of AEM Youth, Gamez worked with Juan Pablo
their sides at all times waiting to hear
and risk management junior Lucia Alvarez,
include international and American students
Alcantar, now president of AEM young
updates from family and friends. As of
who
who similarly seek internships or potential
entrepreneurs San Antonio, to expand the
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The
young
entrepreneurs
agreement. group
is
Alvarez
would emulate an adult business mentality.
The organization has since expanded to
integration
country,”
the
in the city, according to corporate finance an
another
help
said.
signed
in
professionally
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jobs once they graduate from the University.
Borges foundation president visits University English major Deandra Barrera about Borges.
TAMARA GARCIA NEWS EDITOR @tamvicgar
The
president
of
an
Borges (1899-1986) has written fiction, international
foundation presented to the university as part of Las Americas Letters Series to further the legacy of internationally
Photo by Tamara Garcia
Maria Kodama, president of the J. L. Borges International Foundation, shared her experiences with students, faculty and staff during her visit to campus through the Las Americas Letters series in April.
nonfiction,
poetry,
and
essays
that,
some have said, earn him recognition as one of the greatest Latin American writers of the 20th century. During the 1960s,
‘70s
and
‘80s,
Borges
lectured
acclaimed writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges.
at the University of Texas at Austin.
Maria Kodama, the president of the
“One of the most amazing things about
Fundacion Internacional Jorge Luis Borges,
Jorge Luis Borges is that in his work, this
or the J. L. Borges International Foundation,
man of letters prefigures many of the great
came to campus for “A Presentation by Maria
scientific discoveries of the 20th century,
Kodama: Borges, the Man and His Work.”
such as quantum physics, chaos theory,
“There is no specific genre that his work
and many of the new theories about time,
fits into, because he, like his writing, (and
spacetime and the cosmos. Concepts that
even his own wife), is a genuine treasure
were later explored by scientists such as
all his own” said senior criminology and
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