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MARCH 29, 2006
WEDNESDAY
VOLUME 95, ISSUE 67
2 ASG candidates experience car theft, vandalism
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By Clayton Medford The University Star Associated Student Government vice presidential candidate and Sen. Israel Ruiz came home from playing basketball late Monday night to find his silver Ford F-150 missing from its spot in front of his house on Comanche Street. Ruiz reported the vehicle stolen to both the San Marcos Police Department and the University Police Department. At approximately the same time Ruiz said his truck was stolen, the paint of ASG presidential hopeful and Sen. Katie Kasprzak’s Honda Accord was scratched with a key. Kasprzak said only one car separated her vehicle from Ruiz’s truck. Ruiz said he did not think that his and Kasprzak’s campaign for office was a factor in the incidents. “I just wanted to inform the student body that there was a car stolen on campus,” Ruiz said. “I mean, I live right behind San Jacinto (Hall).” Kasprzak said she does not believe the opposing candidates were involved in the incidents. “I have faith in our university, and I’ve talked with the other side, and I know it’s not from them,” Kasprzak said of the campaign of presidential
Stephanie Gage/Star photo San Marcos Fire Department firefighter Jason Schultze puts out a blaze on Tuesday after a GMC Envoy caught fire on N. LBJ Drive in the parking lot next to the Music Building. SMFD Capt. Bill Schroeder said two fire engines responded to the situation at 12:22 p.m. Schroeder said there were no injuries reported and that vehicle fires are actually “very common,” although there is no general cause. “It can range from anything—from the driver doing something to a mechanical failure,” Schroeder said. The owner of the vehicle, English associate professor Libby Allison, has been contacted, he said. The circumstances of the fire are not considered suspicious.
candidate and Senate Clerk Kyle Morris and vice presidential candidate and Sen. Amanda Oskey. Kasprzak did not rule out the possibility of foul play on the part of a third party not involved with either campaign, citing reports of vandalism to her campaign posters hung on the doors of San Marcos Hall residents as evidence. Morris said he contacted Ruiz and Kasprzak when he heard about the incident on Tuesday. “I told them that Amanda (Oskey) and I were so sorry to hear that happened,” Morris said. “Issues like this go beyond elections.” SMPD Sgt. Byron Mobley said the theft of Ruiz’s vehicle might be a part of a trend developing in San Marcos. “We’ve had a rash of stolen cars over these past two weekends,” Mobley said. “But most of those have been little Honda Civics.” Mobley said on March 24 and 25, three vehicles were stolen in San Marcos, one of which was stolen from the student-populated apartment complex The Zone. The previous weekend, police were notified of the theft of one vehicle and the possible attempted theft of another, Mobley said.
Baseball Hall of Fame lecture to pitch history of America’s pastime By Leah Kirkwood The University Star
N.Y. since 1999. He also worked as the assistant press secretary Baseball Hall of for former President Fame President Dale Ronald Reagan from Petroskey will deliver 1985 through 1987. “Baseball as America” Petroskey is a gradufor the eighth annual ate of the University Gilbert Grosvenor of Michigan with a Distinguished Lecdegree in journalism. Dale Petroskey ture at 8 p.m. today in “(The lecture) is the LBJ Student Cengoing to be on the ter Ballroom. history of baseball as it relates The lecture was originally to American culture, and how scheduled for Sept. 24, but the it at times influenced American threat of Hurricane Rita caused history, and really how the two its cancellation. are so inseparable and so interPetroskey has been the presi- twined,” Petroskey said. dent of the Baseball Hall of Fame Petroskey gave the example and Museum in Cooperstown, of Jackie Robinson breaking
the color barrier in 1947 as a moment when baseball helped shape the American civil rights movement. Judy Behrens, grant specialist at the Grosvenor Center for Geographic Education, organized this year’s Grosvenor Lecture. “Dale Petroskey worked at the National Geographic Society for a number of years before he went to work for the Baseball Hall of Fame, so his connection with geography is strong, which makes him an interesting person to us,” Behrens said. “He worked in the geographic education side, so that’s where our connection with him origi-
nated.” Behrens said Petroskey and the director of the Grosvenor Center, Richard Boehm, worked closely on a number of projects when Petroskey was still with the National Geographic Society. Boehm thought Petroskey was an obvious choice for speaker at the annual lecture series. “It’s all about place; it’s all about where things happened, and where things happened affects what’s going on,” Petroskey said about how baseball relates to geography. Around 1956, both the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Giants relocated from the
East Coast to California and became the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Francisco Giants. Petroskey said this movement of two established teams reflected the whole country’s interest in moving west. Gilbert M. Grosvenor, chairman of the board of trustees for the National Geographic Society for whom the lecture series was named, will introduce Petroskey. Petroskey will use slides and a DVD to demonstrate how the last 200 years of baseball have shaped American history. There will be a question-and-answer session immediately following the lecture.
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Genocide survivor, runner to speak on Courage as part of Common Experience By Anna Heffley The University Star
continent of Africa, said Kyle Morris, Associated Student GovGilbert Tuhabonye, ernment senate clerk. a genocide survivor “In the future, we from Africa, will speak hope to have similar to Texas State students events to promote on Wednesday in a different aspects of lecture titled, “The awareness,” MorCourage to Run: Esris said. “Africa is the Gilbert Tuhabonye most underdeveloped caping Genocide.” The lecture is part of continent in the world, the Common Experience series and our generation will have to and will be held at 7 p.m. today confront Africa sometime in the in the Centennial Hall Teaching next 50 to 70 years.” Theater, Room 157. Tuhabonye was born in Songa, The event is also the start- a southern county of the central ing point of African Awareness African country Burundi, and is United, a new program and or- a member of the Tutsi tribe. ganization that will promote See EXPERIENCE, page 3 awareness of issues facing the
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“It’s going to relate to anybody interested in baseball, and judging from the response, that’s a lot of people,” Behrens said. The lecture is free and open to the public, but seats are limited. Behrens said more than 600 seats have already been reserved, and the LBJSC Ballroom houses only 700 people. Petroskey said all students could gain something from this lecture, not just baseball fans. “I think you have to understand the context of the time and place in which you live, and students need to know how things have evolved to this point,” Petroskey said.
By Jason Buch The University Star
Photo Courtesy of Shawn Hersey AIMING FOR VICTORY: Criminal justice junior Tim Griffith (left), criminal justice senior Shawn Hersey and criminal justice senior Mike Chavarria, members of the American Criminal Justice Association, pose for a photo after taking home third place in the upper division team pistol contest in St. Charles, Ill.
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Texas State students competing in the 69th American Criminal Justice Association National Conference brought another trophy home last week. Shawn Hersey, criminal justice senior and president of the Texas State chapter of the American Criminal Justice Association-Lambda Alpha Epsilon, said the Texas State team traveled to St. Charles, Ill. and competed from March 10 through 24. “We brought 12 people this semester, which is about an
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average size for traveling so far away,” Hersey said. Hersey was on one of two teams from Texas State that took part in the conference’s firearms competition. Hersey and teammates Michael Chavarria, criminal justice senior, and Tim Griffith, criminal justice junior, took third place in the upper division pistol contest. Chavarria shot the top individual score in the upper division competition. “It gets split up into three divisions: lower, upper and professional,” Chavarria said. “They took our collective See PISTOLEROS, page 3
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