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Volume 47 Issue 5February 14, 2012

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Conference hopes to tap into Texas’s Rainy Day Fund during next legislative session to help schools.

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Conference rallies support to increase education funding in Texas schoolsMatthew DuarteStaff writernews@paisano-online.com

The Texas education system has been a devisive issue over the past year, and supporters of funding Texas’s public schools met earlier this month to ensure that the dialogue continues. Last year, in the midst of a slow economic recovery, many states were faced with significant budget shortfalls, and Texas was no different. With about $100 billion in federal stimulus drying up, the education system was going to be hit especially hard across the country.

However, unlike most other states, Texas had set aside a rainy day fund to prepare for a fiscal emergency. The Texas legislature became ground zero over the spring and summer of 2011 as fiscal conservatives and pro-education legislators debated on whether to open the state’s rainy day fund to prevent cuts to education spending.

Last March, Save Our Schools, which describes itself as a “nonpartisan, statewide coalition,” held the largest rally in modern history at the capitol in Austin. The event attracted over 12,000 educators, parents, students and legislators from across the state.

However, a bill to open up the rainy day fund did not make it out of committee in June, causing many districts to tighten their belts and cut their budgets, which resulted in the firing of thousands of Texas teachers.

The results did not just affect students inside the classroom. Dallas ISD was forced to close 11 neighborhood schools and lengthen the school day. A school district in South Texas was forced to cut its athletic pro-gram just to keep students in the classroom.

Months later, the fight to keep Texas’s schools competitive seemed lost, yet a large crowd continued the fight by meeting at Northside ISD’s ac-tivity center on Feb 3 to educate citizens on how to continue spreading the message to anyone who would listen. Among the speakers were John Folks, Superintendent of Northside ISD; Connor Brantley, a 14-year-old student from Fort Worth; State Representative Mike Villarreal; and San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro.

Each of the speakers shared the common belief that, in spite of the costs, education is a valuable and necessary component of a student’s life, and students should receive the best education possible, the schools must have all of the necessary resources available to them. As Brantley noted, the Texas Constitution specifically states that the Texas legislature has an obligation to the state’s public school system.

There were parents at the meeting who spoke first hand about the problems their children face in the classroom each day. They spoke of children who wore the same uniform everyday because they did not have the money to afford more clothes for school. They also spoke on how much harder it is for a teacher to prevent bullying while trying to teach classes that have become almost too large to control.

As Castro pointed out, however, education is not simply an issue that affects teachers and students, but also is a measure of future job growth and opportunity.

“The currency of success in the 21st century global economy truly is knowledge,” Castro said.

Castro is a proud product of San Antonio’s public school system. His father was a teacher, and the mayor himself has even delved into teach-ing from time to time. He recounted his experience as a recent college graduate who briefly worked as a substitute teacher. Although he jokingly wondered why his youthful appearance never got him into trouble with a hall monitor, he expressed deep respect for teachers who work long, hard days in the classroom.

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The UTSA Provost Lecture Series on Feb. 8 presented “Why We Get Fat” by renowned author Gary Taubes. The topic of Taubes’ lecture was based on the historical research outlined in his latest book, “Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It.”

A self-described “hard-core science journalist,” Taubes was the recipient of the “Science in Society Journalism Award” in 2001 for his article “The Soft Science of Dietary Fat,” published

in the journal “Science.” Taubes holds degrees in physics, aerospace engi-neering and journalism; he writes on subjects ranging from science to nutri-tion and medicine for “Discover Mag-azine” and the journal “Science.”

His latest book, “Why We Get Fat and What to Do About It” was pub-lished in 2010. Taubes is also the au-thor of “Good Calories, Bad Calories,” “Challenging the Conventional Wis-dom on Diet” and “Weight Control and Disease.”

Citing scientific observation and nutritional research dating back to the 19th century, Taubes debunks the ac-

cepted wisdom that claims overeating makes people fat. Taubes also refutes the notion that increased prosperity, access to abundant food choices and sedentary lifestyles of those in devel-oped nations contribute to weight gain and obesity.

In an effort to understand and ex-plain the causes of obesity, Taubes credits historical research with dis-covering high obesity rates and dia-betes cases among Native American peoples, as well as other indigenous populations around the world.

Cutting the fat: expert explains alternative theory on why we gain weight

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While Texans battle obesity, author and health researcher Gary Taubes explains why we get fat and how to start losing weight.

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Associated PressMax Pons is already anticipating

the anxiety he’ll feel when the heavy steel gate shuts behind him, leaving his home isolated on a strip of land between America’s border fence and the violence raging across the Rio Grande in Mexico.

For the past year, the manager of a sprawling preserve on the southern tip of Texas has been comforted by a gap in the rust-colored fence that gave him a quick escape route north in case of emergency. Now the U.S. gov-ernment is installing the first gates to fill in this part of the fence along the Southwest border, and Pons admits he’s pondering drastic scenarios.

“I think in my head I’m going to feel trapped,’’ said Pons, who lives on the 1,000-acre property of sabal palms, oxbow lakes and citrus groves he manages for the Nature Conser-vancy’s Southmost Preserve. “I need

to have something that is much easier for me to have to ram to get through’’ if necessary.

Pons’ concerns illustrate one of the complications in the government’s 5-year-old effort to build a secure barrier along the border that would keep out illegal activity from Mexico without causing worse problems for the people living in the region.

In this lush area, the Rio Grande’s wide floodplain precluded building the fence right on the border so it was set back more than a mile in places, running behind the levees. The re-sult is a no-man’s-land of hundreds of properties, and the people who work on them, on the wrong side of the di-vide.

The arrival of the gates will reveal whether the government’s solution for this border fence problem will work. Can sliding panels in the fence controlled by passcodes allow isolat-

ed workers to cross when they need to while keeping intruders out?

Pons hopes the gates will open fast. “Because when is reinforcement go-ing to show up?’’

Some landowners also worry they’ll become kidnapping targets for smug-glers seeking passage through the 18-foot-tall metal fence.

Violence has surged in Tamaulipas, the Mexican state bordering this part of Texas, in the past two years. This week the State Department issued a new travel warning urging U.S. citi-zens again to avoid traveling there.

Residents in this rural area often see groups of illegal immigrants passing through or smugglers toting bundles.

In Oct., the Border Patrol caught a high-ranking member of the Gulf car-tel’s Matamoros operations who had crossed about a half-hour upriver.

See SCHOOLS, Page 2See BORDER, Page 3

Texans on wrong side of border fence grow anxious

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“I went back through the literature looking for populations where obesity and diabetes levels were measured pri-or to 1980,” Taubes said.

His research found that in the 1960s and 1970s, cases of obesity and diabe-tes were found in one-third to one-half of the populations in countries such as Africa, Trinidad, Chile, including islands in the South Pacific and the Southeast and Southwest regions of the U.S. Additionally, Taubes also no-ticed segments of these same popula-tions were diagnosed with mal-nour-ishment.

According to Taubes, these popula-tions were comprised of people who led physically active lifestyles. They were ranchers, farmers, labor workers, yet close to the majority had serious medical problems due to obesity.

Taubes’ findings challenge what he calls the “inconvenient observation” [that concludes] “if eating more makes you fat, then eating less should make you thin.” The reason, he says, is be-cause it does not adequately explain why, despite diets containing 2000 cal-ories a day or fewer, these populations experienced such high obesity rates, together with cases of under nutrition.

Taubes also points out that another theory, calories in/calories out (energy balance), which is currently supported

by leading experts in the medical com-munity, also cannot explain the dis-parity between high obesity rates and under nutrition in these communities.

After examining this research, Taubes’ alternative hypothesis became “Obesity is [caused by] excess fat accu-mulation, not energy balance or over-eating.”

Taubes is convinced that excessive food consumption and inactivity do not lead to weight gain and obesity. Instead, Taubes explains that the op-posite is more likely the culprit to in-creased weight gain as we age.

“We overeat because our fat tissues are accumulating excess fat,” Taubes said.

Inside our fat cells, fatty acids bind to other molecules and other fatty acids to form triglycerides. Taubes explains that triglycerides get stuck inside the fat cell because they are too large to pass through the fat cell mem-brane. The accumulated fat in the cells results in weight gain.

Science has proven that chemicals inside the body, called hormones, regulate how the body functions and responds to stimuli. Taubes states that the chief chemical that controls how the body regulates fat is the hormone insulin.

Insulin production is directly caused by the foods we consume. Foods high

in carbohydrates and sugar signal the pancreas to secrete insulin for proper blood sugar regulation. Carbohy-drate-rich foods - including sugary foods - are easily digestible; meaning they quickly raise blood sugar levels, creating a need for insulin. When our blood sugar levels rise, the sugar is stored as triglycerides in the fat cells.

When triglycerides become stuck inside the fat cell, “the fat cells get fat-ter” and “the fat stays in the fat cells until the insulin level drops,” accord-ing to Taubes. Once this happens, we become trapped in an unhealthy cycle of craving foods high in carbohydrates and sugar. Ultimately, this hormonal imbalance creates a chain reaction that Taubes attributes to fat accumulation.

Taubes points out that carbohy-drate-rich foods continue to be at the base of the USDA’s Food Pyramid de-spite research dating back to the mid-1940s that prove carbohydrates and sugar are major contributors to weight gain and obesity,

The problem with the Food Pyra-mid, according ot Taubes is that “we all grew up believing that we should eat a low-fat, high-starch meal as a way to prevent heart disease, but [instead] we got fatter and fatter,” Taubes said.

TAUBES: Book separates myths from facts surrounding obesityFrom Page 1

Students work out at the Recreation and Wellness Center.

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But in spite of a standing-room-only audience and moving speakers some disturbing facts apply to Texas’s education system. Texas consistently ranks near the bottom in terms of standardized testing performance, high school dropout and graduation

rates, and the number of Texans who have a high school diploma. Those gathered at the meeting were quick to point out these facts, but their fight to keep school funding competitive is far from over.

The Texas legislature faces many problems and, with a limited budget, schools may not be the first in line to receive funding in the future. Castro

did note however, that change must come from the bottom up, and his call to arms to voters surely met willing ears.

The mayor boldly proclaimed that “I know that when things go right in our classrooms, in our schools, that profound impact—positive impacts—can be made in the lives of our stu-dents.”

SCHOOLS: Funding education a top priority for community leadersFrom Page 1

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Gates will roll open on a metal track after a passcode is punched into a panel on or near the fence. Land-owners would have permanent codes and could request temporary ones for visitors. Customs and Border Protec-tion has begun testing its first two gates and plans to install 42 more in South Texas this year at a cost of $10 million.

For more than a year the tall steel bars and panels erected in segments on this stretch of the 1,954-mile U.S.-Mexico border created an effect that was more gap-toothed grin than im-penetrable obstacle.

When the gates are closed, the Tex-ans on the other side won’t be com-pletely isolated, agency officials say.

Border Patrol agents will continue to work both sides of the fence and can assist property owners. Many of the areas are also monitored by cameras and sensors.

But farmers point out that there is a lot the agents can’t stop. They point out dusty footprints scaling the col-umns and say illegal immigrants can climb the barrier in seconds flat.

“It’s the biggest waste of taxpayer money,’’ Leonard Loop said at his pro-duce stand east of Brownsville, where his family farms and some relatives’ homes are in an area between the fence and the river.

Loop’s nephew Paul said he was not looking forward to the delay the gates will add to the countless trips he and his brother make between fields and the barn with their equipment. He also worried about becoming a target

for smugglers eager to use the gates for large shipments. They are wide enough for farm equipment.

“Any drug dealer is going to know anyone on this side has a way out,’’ Paul Loop said, while crews harvested cabbage in a nearby field.

Othal Brand Jr., chairman and gen-eral manager of the Hidalgo County Water Improvement District No. 3, said he welcomes the completion of the fence even though the district’s headquarters is between the barrier and the river.

He said he’s optimistic it will help deflect illegal crossings and other il-legal activity as intended.

“It’s like building a car and only put-ting three tires on it,’’ he said. “Finish it. Get it done.’’

BORDER: Residents along the border must cope with drug violence from MexicoFrom Page 1

Associated PressThe U.S. State Department is rec-

ommending that Americans avoid travel to all or parts of 14 of 31 Mexi-can states in the widest travel advisory issued since Mexico stepped up its drug war in 2006.

The department advises against any nonessential travel in all of Chihua-hua, Coahuila and Tamaulipas, which border the U.S, and in the central state of Durango, as well as sections of 10 other states.

It advises caution for traveling in three other border states and many areas of central and western Mexico where drug cartels have been warring.

The advisory issued Wednesday says U.S. citizens have been victims of drug violence, including killings, kidnap-pings and carjackings.

The previous warning in April 2011 recommended avoiding travel in all of just two states, Tamaulipas and Mi-

choacan, and parts of eight others.It is the first time the State De-

partment listed advisories for each of Mexico’s 31 states, including the federal district of Mexico City, where there is no warning. There were also no warnings for the states that are home to Cancun and Cabo San Lucas, two popular tourist destinations for Americans.

The advisory seems to take pains not to make even violence-plagued tourist destinations off limits.

It recommends against nonessen-tial travel in the Pacific coast state of Sinaloa, home to Mexico’s most pow-erful cartel of the same name, and one of Mexico’s most violent states. But the state warning excludes the tourist des-tination of Mazatlan. It advises visitors there to exercise caution at night and in the morning, even though the state-ment also says ``incidents of violence are occurring more frequently in tour-ist areas’’ in Mazatlan.

Some large cruise lines have stopped their ports of call in Mazatlan.

While the advisory warns against travel in most parts of southern Guer-rero state, it doesn’t include the resort city of Acapulco, even though Acapul-co has seen a significant spike in vio-lence from warring cartels.

“In Acapulco, defer nonessential travel to areas further than two blocks inland of the Costera Miguel Aleman Boulevard, which parallels the popular beach areas,’’ the statement says.

There have been several incidents of violence on the costera, the main tour-ist road, in the last year.

Many Mexican elected officials de-cried the warning for its potential im-pact on tourism and the economy.

Mexican Foreign Minister Patricia Espinosa said Mexico does everything it can to ensure the safety of any per-son in the country, and said the num-ber of visitors to Mexico is steadily in-creasing.

US increases travel warning to 14 Mexican states

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The revolution will be tweetedCommentary

What is love?Not as “amazing” as you thinkEditorial

Stephanie IkediobiJunior / biology

“Love is unconditional. You accept someone completely for who they are.”

Conrad Briseno Sophomore / civil engineering“I don’t know.”

Jonathan Saint Sophomore / art “Love is happiness.”

Let’s set up a scenario. Two guys are standing on a road. In reality this scenario could have taken place any-where and involve anyone, but for the sake of the scenario we will use these two gentlemen, Bob and Jim. Bob and Jim are talking, about nothing really important, when this phrase comes up in conversation, “Wow man, that was really hilarious!” or “Man, you’re a genius!”

Louis C.K. although vulgar, brings up some interesting points in his stand up performance “Hilarious,” concerning conversations such as these.

“That’s one of those words that we use, and we don’t care about what it means. We go right for the top shelf with our words now. We don’t think about how we talk.” And he is right. We humans do this all the time. We constantly use words in daily conver-sation in the wrong connotation. And

while this incorrect use may not seem like a big deal, if we continue on this path, we might just talk ourselves out of being able to communicate.

This result may sound a little ex-treme. No longer being able to com-municate, because we didn’t use the correct word? Think about it. Words such as genius, radical, gay, special and this list goes on of words that have multiple meanings. Now when the word stretches out so diversely, we are forced to understand the word through context. This leaves a lot of space for error, as we become less and less efficient. What if the day finally comes when we are no longer able to define a word through its context, will we still be able to understand one an-other?

It is not hard to repave this path that we are on. In fact it is quite simple. If you want to be understood, stop and think to understand every word you are using.

In a world that is moving perpetu-ally faster, it is not hard to see this as a rising problem. In a culture where communication has moved from let-ter, to email, to text message, as the individual pushes themselves fur-ther and further away from those with whom they communicate, it’s no wonder we feel the constant need to think on our feet, always having something to say.

Take the challenge for a day to put down the phone and the computer and force yourself into a conversa-tion. Force yourself to think a little bit more about your choice of words. Like Louis CK says, if you use the word “amazing” to describe a basket of chicken wings, “You have limited yourself verbally to a shit life . . . What are you going to do with the rest of your life now? You used amazing on a basket of chicken wings.”

Peyton RichardsFreshman / architecture

“Love is giving someone the power to hurt you and trust-ing them not to.”

Leticia MartinezFreshman / nursing

“Love is something unexplain-able but in today’s society love is confused with lust.”

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Social media is

the driving force of culture, com-munication and c o n s u m p t i o n . Never in the his-tory of the world has there been an easier way to

communicate with millions of people as instantly as you can think it. In ev-ery sector of every discipline of study, there are groups of people trying to understand and measure what this social media phenomenon actually means.

Consider that only seven years ago most people had never even heard of Facebook. Now Facebook is quickly approaching a network of 1 billion people. In terms of countries that would make Facebook the 3rd largest country in the world.

Facebook is also the most addictive substance on the planet. The Uni-versity of Chicago’s Booth Business School recently published a study in the journal Psychological Science that said that Facebook is more addictive than alcohol or cigarettes. The study also reported that resisting spending and even sexual urges were easier to overcome than resisting social net-works (insert Tiger Woods joke).

The implications of social media go far beyond your scantily clad mirror

self-portraits. Social media was the driving force of the recent Egyptian Revolution, which was led by regular people using Facebook and Twitter to overcome an entire government. The world stood back in awe as the true power of these social media tools were on full display.

The Occupy Wall Street protest was started by people’s connecting through social media and spawning a worldwide movement. These people used social media as a tool to orga-nize and find common ground with people they might not have otherwise met or known.

The anonymity of the Internet and ability to find groups of people you agree with has never been easier. There’s no need to meet in an undis-closed basement to organize. There is already a group of people who think and feel exactly like you and are ac-cessible in an instant.

There is a website, change.org, that helps any individual put together a petition and share it all over the world. A recent petition of 250,000 signatures was delivered to an Apple store in New York City demanding proper working conditions for Chi-nese people who assemble their prod-ucts. These signatures were amassed in under a month’s time.

The impact of social media on hu-man behavior is one of the most ma-jor stories of the 21st century. The

reason why social media is so impor-tant is because never has there been a way for common people to assemble a united voice in such a small amount of time. What makes social media even more compelling is that people our age are the driving force of this technology.

Our generation is quickly becom-ing the most important generation since the baby boomers. Previous generations for the most part don’t understand new technology, and are not able to adapt to the quick changes that this type of media requires. They look to us to see what trends will catch on and how we’ll manipulate this technology to our liking. Inno-vation is happening at a quicker rate, and everybody is scrambling to try to label and control it. If you think that we live in a world where we’re pow-erless over our fates, you couldn’t be more wrong.

In his poem, The Revolution Will Not Be Televised,” poet Gil Scott-Heron wrote, “The revolution will not be televised/…The revolution will be no re-run brothers/ The revolution will be live.”

The revolution is digitized, it’s here, and it’s us.

Cliff Perez Staff Writer

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Letter to the Editor

As I read the rant by a College of Education student in last week’s edi-tion of The Paisano, the first thing that stood out to me was that, instead of listing her real name, whoever wrote the piece was clearly too insecure in her views to sign under her real name. Veronica Mars is the lead character in a CW television show that aired from 2004 to 2007.

Veronica is a high school (and later college) student who moonlights as a private investigator. As someone who appreciates the importance of statis-tics, this seems like a bit too much of a coincidence. If this author wants peo-ple to take her complaint of education students being unfairly represented, she must step out from behind her curtain of anonymity.

The issue of statistics is actually a perfect lead-in to the true issue at hand. For “Veronica” to state that College of Education is “a model for the university as far as GPAs are con-

cerned” is to say that all of the stu-dents in all of the other colleges are simply incapable of holding a candle to the extraordinary learning prowess of the College of Education students.

This is absolutely preposterous. Though I do not deny that we need teachers to bring up the next genera-tion of successful students, that does not indicate that the work in educa-tion courses is more difficult than that in other colleges or that the grading in these same courses is not more lax.

As a College of Sciences student, majoring in computer science, I will not use my own college as an example so as not to show bias. Instead, let us examine the College of Engineering. Engineering is renowned, both on the UTSA campus and nation-wide, as an extremely difficult discipline to un-dertake.

Any branch of engineering is ex-tremely math-intensive, with most students going deep into math and

physics upper-division courses. We can also consider the architecture majors while we are on the topic of difficult colleges; these students regu-larly spend the night at the architec-ture building to finish the grueling projects that they are assigned, and they, like engineering, are renowned for their difficult major.

I want to be clear, I have no disre-spect for the College of Education or the students within. That said, I do not think that they are, by any stretch of the imagination, taking on the hardest discipline on this campus. Therefore, if they are not in the most difficult discipline on campus, yet achieve a statistically significant posi-tive difference in 4.0s compared to ev-ery other college in a given semester, then logic dictates that either grading is easier or the curriculum is easier.

Dan Rossiter

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Upon walking into Lynn Hickey’s office, it is easy to see the commitment she has brought to UTSA as the athletics director.

Some of the memorabilia and awards that line her office walls are from Hickey’s playing and coaching career; the rest are recognitions the Roadrunners have received, such as trophies from The Southland Conference Commissioner’s Cup, basketballs from Final Fours and, most notably, a UTSA football hel-met encased in glass.

On her desk, Hickey has a UTSA football encased in glass. All the awards in her office reflect her win-ning spirit and attached with these awards are fond memories of victorious athletic feats that hold special significance to her.

Under Hickey’s command, UTSA’s athletic pro-gram has racked up 26 conference championships in 13 years.

The UTSA Roadrunners have established them-selves as one of the top athletic programs in the Southland Conference and have finished first or sec-ond in the Commissioner’s Cup standings in each of the past six years.

Hickey is the first person to celebrate UTSA’s suc-cess and one of the foremost players in achieving it. She has sponsored the addition of three new sports teams during her tenure: women’s golf in 2005, wom-en’s soccer in 2006 and the football program in 2011.

When Hickey talks about her life before UTSA, it is easy to see how her passion about sports became a cornerstone in her life.

”I started in the business as a basketball coach and that’s what I had always dreamed of doing, coaching basketball at the highest level, so I had coached at Oklahoma, at Kansas State and at Texas A&M and just kind of by accident, the way the job was struc-tured at A&M, I also had the title of assistant athletic director, so I was really doing two jobs at A&M; I nev-er thought I wanted to be a full-time administrator, but as my career progressed and as doors kept open-ing, I kept getting pushed to go that way and it’s been a really good decision for me,” Hickey said.

Hickey grew up in Welch, Oklahoma, which had only one coach: her father. Hickey got all of her moti-vation and appreciation for athletics from her father and four brothers. She had always been an athletic person, and playing basketball became her passion; it remains her passion to this day.

Hickey attended and graduated from Ouachita Baptist University with a bachelor’s degree in educa-tion. She began coaching as the head women’s basket-

ball coach at the college level at Kansas State Univer-sity from 1979 to 1984.

While coaching at Kansas State, she met Bill Hick-ey, a baseball coach. They have been married 38 years and have one daughter together, Lauren Nicole.

Hickey coached women’s basketball at Texas A&M for 10 years, 1984 to 1994. She also took on the title of Senior Associate Athletic Director at Texas A&M, where she was doing essentially two jobs.

Hickey thought she had reached her potential at A&M and decided she wanted a fresh start. She was offered the position as Athletic Direc-tor at UTSA after DeLoss Dodds, the Athletic Director at Texas A&M and a longtime supporter of Hickey’s, re-ceived a call from UTSA President, Dr. Ricardo Romo, who was in need of an athletic director at UTSA.

Dodds immediately thought of Hickey as ready to take on the role, given her ex-perience. The i nte r v i e w i n g process was a grueling one.

“Dr. Romo has a lot of vision. He’s very pro-g r e s s i v e , and it was just out-standing that he gave a f e m a l e c a n d i -date an o p p o r t u - nity. Not very many people, at the time, were doing that, so I was at the right place at the right time.

“Dr. Romo believes in diversity and had the cour-age to give me a chance,” Hickey said.

Another person Hick-ey credits for her success is DeLoss Dodds, “the first Athletic Director to ever give me a college coaching job. DeLoss had been a big network-

er for me for a long time.” After having had a successful career at UTSA,

Hickey has yet another accomplishment to add to her resume—setting up the UTSA Football Team along with fellow colleague, Brad Parrott, Senior Associ-ate Athletics Director, with whom she worked closely with during the eight-year process.

“In Dec. of 2009, we had worked all year on pre-senting a business plan. We had a really good busi-ness plan and it finally got approved by The Board

of Regents on December 18, 2009. The following March we hired Coach Coker. Larry Coker

is known as one of the best coaches in the country,” Hickey said. Coker is quite known; he coached for The University

of Miami and was also an ESPN com-mentator.

Brad Parrott, who worked close-ly with Hickey during this under-taking, recounts fond memories abouworking with her.

“I have the utmost respect and admiration for Lynn. I would

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and hardest working person I’ve ever been around. She expects more out of herself than she does any-one else. We call her ‘Mother Superior.’ She likes to mother the Roadrunner nest,” Parrott said.

Since Hickey had such a strong hand in the birth of the football program at UTSA, it certainly makes sense that she feels that way about her job and the people she supports in all 17 athletic categories.

One of the main areas of concern for Hickey is the importance of getting young people an education, finishing high school and going to college for young students. Hickey believes opening doors for students who have been traditionally underrepresented is the best thing a university can do. There is a program Lynn is especially proud of, called the Dream Run-ners; they are Roadrunner student athletes that go into the schools and talk or visit with kids to put this dream in front of them to let them know that they can attend college and get involved in sports also.

“We are not here for athletics, but athletics can open doors and create visibility for the campus. If we can help campus life and be a visible agent to attract attention to the university in the right way, and if we could have an impact on the youth of the city, then adding football was well worth the effort,” Hickey said.

When asked about what was next for the football team, Hickey stated that, “By 2014, we will be fully certified to be an FBS school playing at the Football Bowl Subdivision level, and by 2013 the Roadrunners will be opening against Oklahoma State, so we’re re-ally stepping up.

This next year we’ll play a full WAC schedule. The team has been off to a good start, for a young team, consisting mostly of freshman, sophomores and now two seniors. They did well. I really believe in God, and God is a Roadrunner because everything just fell into place.”

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“We call her Mother Superior;” Lynn Hickey works miracles

WHERE CAN YOU FIND THE SEXIEST, SMARTEST STUDENTS AT UTSA?

That’s exactly what we are asking ourselves. Actually, we’re looking for sixteen of them.

The Paisano is warming up for our premier edition of UTSA’s Sixteen Sexiest Scholars:

Upperclassmen 2012, and this week is nomination week.

Members of The Paisano and representatives from various student organizations will be

nominating the most intellectually and personally appealing upperclassmen of 2012.

If you are an officer of a student organization and would like to nominate one of your peers,

please send us an e-mail at paseo@paisano-online.com including their name and contact

information, as well as your name and the name of your registered student organization.

Hickey has been director of athletics sine 1999, the fourth UTSA in the university’s history. She has sponsored the addition of three new sports teams during her tenure: women’s golf in 2005, women’s soccer in 2006 and the football program in 2011.

Long tenure: Hickey has been Director of Athletics since 1999, the fourth UTSA AD ever.

Making a name: Since taking over as AD, Hickey has earned countless awards locally and nationally.

New Teams: Since 1999, UTSA has started three new sports: Women’s Golf, Women’s Soccer and Football.

Showing off the Alamo City: In addition to the 2011 Volleyball National Championship, UTSA has hosted 13 NCAA tournament events since 1999.

This is the first part in a series of two featuring profiles on UTSA administrator.

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Hidden near the San Antonio Zoo and Brackenridge Park, Little Aus-sie Bakery & Café continues to satisfy hungry taste buds with its 100 percent gluten-free menu.

Gluten-free foods are often ste-reoptyped by their stiff, bitter taste; however, Little Aussie Bakery & Café

clearly overcame the problem, as it was named one of 2011’s Top 10 Bread Bakers in America by Dessert Profes-sional, beating out numerous non-glu-ten-free restaurants.

Founders of the bakery and café, Rita Sturzbecher and John Apostolovic, left Australia in 2003 to work as registered nurses in America. Seeing the harsh effects that food intolerances can have on the body, the pair dedicated them-selves to opening a bakery and café where people could go and not have to

worry about cross contamination ag-gravating their food allergies.

Sturzbecher and Apostolovic also set out to prepare foods that would make people exclaim, “That was delicious,” rather than, “Not bad for gluten-free.” After visiting Little Aussie Bakery & Café, one would undoubtedly agree that Sturzbecher and Apostolovic cer-tainly accomplished their goals.

The food at Little Aussie Bakery & Café is “like heaven on a plate,” says staff member, Brittany Hoefert. The decorative pizzas, extravagate desserts and fresh breads still manage to de-light those without food allergies.

“The Lot” pizza contains every-thing that a well-made pizza should — warm, gooey mozzarella cheese, rich tomato sauce, zesty pepperoni, juicy sausage, fresh veggies and a soft crust with crisp exterior, a combination that every pizza lover has come to expect. At Little Aussie Bakery & Café, gob-bling down “The Lot” is definitely a given, and seconds are common.

If in the mood for something light, “The Great Big Aussie Sanger” is the best bet. This unique sandwich con-

tains lettuce, sliced tomato, bell pep-pers, peanut butter, yogurt, a hint of chili and roasted bell pepper sauce nestled between two slices of their award-winning bread and a side of fresh in season fruit. The delicious va-riety of flavor in “The Great Big Aussie Sanger” will surely send taste buds on a roller coaster ride to food heaven.

As for the desserts, everything is delicious! However, the pie is the most popular of them all.

“A lot of people come in for the pies, not because they’re gluten-free, but because they’re really, really good,” Hoefert said.

Perfectly confected, each pie slice screams to be eaten from its glass prison.

Little Aussie Bakery & Café also of-fers free wine with every dinner entrée. Check their Facebook for free loaves of bread coupons and drawings to win a free dinner for two.

Little Aussie Bakery is located at 3610 Avenue B and is open Tue thru Thur.; 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Fri and Sat 11 a.m to 9 p.m. and Sun 10 a.m. until 3p.m..

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Campus Calendar

Ongoing Events “Texas Contemporary Artist Series: Henry Catenacci”This Texas local artist will have his work on display at the Institute of Texan Cultures.

“Drawn Forth: Contemporary Drawings from the Collection”The McNay will be featuring newly acquired drawings by contemporary artists Leonardo Drew, David Hockney, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Joan Snyder, Richard Stankie-wicz, Cy Twombly, And Warhol and others. Exhibit will be on display thru May 6.

Thursday, Feb. 166 p.m. Art Opening: “New Works on Paper”Featuring artists: Jonathan Faber, Sara Frantz, Kelly O’Connor, Dan Sutherland and Vincent Valdez at the David Shelton Gallery

7 p.m. Free Movie at the Bijou(*editors choice)

Join the Bijou every Thursday for a free movie. This week the theater will be featur-ing the romantic classic, “The Notebook.” Take your Valentine!

Friday, Feb. 177:30 p.m. John Pihillip Santos(* editors choice)

As a part of the Creative Reading Writing Series, John Phillip Santos will be speaking at the University Room (BB 2.06.04)

Saturday, Feb. 182 p.m. “Darwin: How One Man’s Theory Turned the World on it’s Head”(*editors choice)

Discover Darwin’s world through the new exhibit at the Witte featuring specimens, documents, film, fossils, interactive media and exact replicas. The exhibit will be on display thru Sept 3.

Want an event in our calendar? Email your event to arts@paisano-online.com

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“Dear God, please take care of your servant, John Fitzgerald Kennedy.” This haunting inscription was on the back of a picture handed out at St. Matthews Cathedral the day of JFK’s funeral. It was also included in the 11th frame of Andy Warhol’s “Flash” collection that is currently showcased in the McNay’s Andy Warhol exhibit.

Each frame in this particular collec-tion is an enlarged picture of dated text describing the moments leading up to JFK’s assassination and the series of unforgettable events that directly fol-lowed. Above the framed text are 11 screen prints on paper of images that depict JFK and his family. Reading and

looking in silence, visitors are moved by the profound effect of the captured words and images as though they were in Dallas the day JFK was killed.

The “Flash” is one of many collection that is featured in this interesting maze of Warhol. But who was Andy Warhol? In a quote printed in bright yellow writ-ing on a wall of the exhibit, Warhol says, “If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, and there I am. There’s nothing behind it.”

Unapologetically, Warhol captured life & death, fame & misfortune in his breakthrough artwork. His combina-tion of color and disaster is aesthetically pleasing, but dark and humorless at the same time.

Andy Warhol: life, death, fame and misfortune

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You’re Invited . . . To A Free Book Discussion

Thursday, Feb. 23, 7:00- 8:00 p.m. UTSA (1604), UC II, Magnolia Rm. 2.01.30

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You’re Invited . . . To Discover Something Beautiful!

Free HU Chant with Discussion

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Learn how to sing HU, an ancient name for God, for your spiritual upliftment.

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Chap. 1: How to Live and Make It in This World

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Chap. 4. Past Lives, Dreams, and Soul Travel Chap. 5. Spiritual Choices

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February 22, 2012 2:00pm

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The SSF Advisory Committee established by the Texas Education Code chapter 54.503

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review general expenditures and make recommendations on the type and amount of fee

to be charged the following year.

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There is a great deal of buzz about the electronic cigarette. It ma be a tool used to quit smoking, but is it a safer alternative for smokers?

Do e-cigs pose the same health hazards as traditional cigarettes?

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Question: Suppose you see a zombie running towards you, do you scream like a baby? Run like hell? Or do you pick up the nearest weapon and begin your zombie killing spree? If you chose the last option, Humans vs Zombies might be the game for you.

Humans vs Zombies (HVZ for short) is a moderated game of tag that was created by students at Goucher University in Baltimore, Maryland in 2005. Since then, it has spread across college campuses all over the world as well as workplaces, camps and even military bases.

A standard “Survival” game begins with one or two designated zombies. It is failry straight forward, if you’re a human, your job is to survive. If you get tagged by a zombie, you become a zombie. The game ends when all the humans have become zombies, or when a pre-determined time limit has been met. Living humans get bragging rights for surviving the zombie on-slaught, but this isn’t your basic game of tag.

As a human, you have advantag-es in the form of Nerf swords, axes and some improvised bombs made out of socks. If you’re a zombie, get-ting double tapped by a sword or axe stuns you for five seconds. If you get hit by a sock-bomb, you’re stunned for 15 seconds. HVZ offers other game modes as well. There’s the “Lighting Round,” in which games start off with

only three humans fending off a horde of zombies. Or you could play a game of “Capture the Flag.” Zombies hide a flag at a predetermined location, and the humans must storm the zombie stronghold, recover the flag, and make it back to their own base.

The UTSA HVZ group has been playing around the pool square in Chaparral Village due to the some-what small turnout for games. With a bigger turnout though, they could start playing on the main campus and during regular school hours. A proper HVZ game involves at least 40 players registered at the website, humansvszombies.org. Humans wear identifying bandannas on their arms or legs and carry a note card with an ID number.

Zombies are required to tag and eat a human every 48 hours, reporting the ID number of the human they ate on the site, or else they die of starvation and are out of the game. Obviously, the game is suspended when inside ac-ademic buildings and other designat-ed safe zones, but other than that, the game is on. The game ends only when every human has been zombified, or if every zombie has starved. When asked about the game itself, Roli Garza, one of the moderators said, “It’s an alterna-tive to playing video games.”

If you’re interested in playing, check out the UTSA Humans vs Zombies Facebook group at https://www.face-book.com/hvzutsa for meeting and game times. In the meantime, try to avoid eating any brains this week.

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Art Picks

ArtpaceWindow Works: Judith CottrellRecent UTSA graduate alumnus, Cottrell has since shown her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions.Cottrell’s drawing technique is unique, methodically moving her hand in repeated looping movements across a surface to achieve her compositions. In her Artpace exhibition Cottrell takes advantage of the window space as she creates a “drawbot” that mimics her technique. The overall composition will be completed over the course of Cottrell’s four-month exhibition, and is definitely worth checking out.

UTSA Satellite Space“Movement into Form”In an attempt to create a conversation about space and motion, Houston based artsits Katy Heinlein and Daniel McFarlene use the most basic materials to portray complex ideas. These works that often feel minimal, tackle intricate themes that are often hard to express.

Blue Star LABBlue Star Lab (114 Broadway)Blue Star LAB’s new exhibit displays a series of large-scale prints that were a part of the Large Scale Public installation piece that took place at the Alamo Stadium on Saturday Jan. 14. Artists Kim Bishop, Paul Karam and Luis Valderas, who are known collectively as Art to the 3rd Power, cover hallways of the LAB in their large monochrome prints.

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The news of Whitney Houston’s death Saturday stunned the music industry and has left throngs of fans around the world shocked and deeply saddened.

With a voice described as “the gold-standard,” Houston wowed audiences world-wide with her talent and won the hearts of fans with her vibrant exu-berance on and off stage.

Whitney catapulted to fame in 1985 with her debut album, “Whitney Hous-ton,” which launched megahits “Saving All My Love for You,” and “The Great-est Love of All.” But her emotional and mesmerizing rendition of “The National Anthem” at the 1991 Super Bowl, along with the sound track from her 1992 film, “The Body Guard” pro-pelled her to the echelon of pop-icon.

Unsurpassed talent, combined with natural beauty, Houston enthralled audiences throughout the 1980s and 1990s with her powerful stage perfor-mances and captivating movie rolls. Her hit, “I Will Always Love You,” won her the Grammy for Record of the Year in 1994 and solidified her as a force few could ever hope to rival.

Houston’s 1998 album, “My Love Is Your Love” spawned the hit “It’s Not Right, But It’s Okay,” which won her the Grammy for best female R&B art-

ist. Described by many in the music

industry as possessing a God-given talent and unequaled range, Houston set the bar for female singers that fol-lowed. Simon Cowell of “The X Fac-tor” said Saturday that bar was some-times too high for contestants who chose to sing a Houston song.

Houston’s awards include six Gram-my’s and 22 American Music Awards for hits such as “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” and “You Give Good Love.”

Throughout her career, reports of Houston’s battle with drug and alcohol abuse eclipsed her musical achieve-ments. In 2009, Houston hoped to stage a comeback with the ballad “I Look To You,” a compelling, personal plea for strength in the face of tremen-dous adversity. Describing herself as “lost without a cause,” Houston bares her soul and hints that defeat may be near if she loses sight of her source of her strength. In her strength, she hears a song.

Sadly, the song has ended and her time ran out before she found that strength she so desperately needed.

Houston’s contributions to music are innumerable. These contributions, together her talent and endearing love of performing will stand as a tribute to a legacy that is sure to endure for gen-erations to come.

... And we will always love you, Whitney

Deconstructing theOne such example is a photo of a car crash.

The car is flipped over a bloody victim trapped inside. Two others are wounded and sitting be-side the car staring blankly at the photographer. Such “pieces of art” are indicative of Warhol’s obsession with darkness. They have the poten-tial to make a viewer obsessive, too. Something about the way the two living people are staring while their friend lies dead feet away is chilling, and a museum visitor is left to wonder, “why?”

The Andy Warhol: Fame and Misfortune ex-hibit will be at the McNay until May 20, 2012. The museum has acquired over 150 pieces of his artwork including screen prints, paintings, charcoal drawings, screen-printing ink on linen, graphite on paper, photographs and videos.

Littered throughout the exhibit are quotes

from Andy Warhol that help define his vision and the art he created. Warhol believed, “Every-thing has its beauty but not everyone sees it.”

Warhol was fascinated with celebrities. “Mari-lyn” is a collection of four screen prints on paper from a collection of 10 that depicts the iconic star smiling coyly. The prints were created in 1967; Marilyn Monroe died in 1962. Warhol was fascinated with celebrities… and their demise.

Born Andrew Warhola, Jr., the incomparable artist prematurely met his own misfortune on February 22, 1987 from a post-operative car-diac arrhythmia. His legacy and artwork live on, and a vast collection of that legacy is available for viewing by the public at the McNay Art Mu-seum.

Per Warhol, “It’s not what you are that counts; it’s what they think you are.”

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The Roadrunner men’s basketball team got the chance to play against two southland foes whom the Road-runners will no longer face after the move to the Western Athletic Confer-ence in July. In their two games in the past week, the Runners were sepa-rated by eight points both in victory and defeat.

UTSA, 59; SE Louisiana, 51It had been a while since the Run-

ners last experienced a conference victory on the basketball court. 10 days had passed since the Roadrun-ners had won a conference game, with a victory over Sam Houston on Jan. 28. During that time the Roadrunners dropped road games at UT Arlington and Lamar and fell to sixth in the con-ference.

Enter the Southeastern Louisiana Lions, who came into the Convoca-tion Center Wednesday, Feb. 8 near the bottom half of the conference. The Lions and Runners fought a tough game before the Runners pulled out a 59-51 victory that allowed them to remain within striking distance of the league leaders while also entrenching themselves in the hunt for one of the eight spots in next month’s Southland Tournament.

The game saw an ebb-and-flow be-tween both teams before the Runners were able to get the upperhand late in the game.

“We were lucky to get a win to-night,” Head Coach Brooks Thomp-son told reporters after the game.

The Runners’ Jeromie Hill scored 16 points to help in the defeat of the Lions, who fell to 2-8 in conference play. The Runners improved to 7-3 in conference.

SFA, 59; UTSA, 51On Saturday, Feb. 11 the Runners

hosted the Stephen F. Austin (SFA) Lumberjacks in the Convocation Center. The Lumberjacks and the Runners came into the game tied for second place in the Southland Con-ference West Division, with the same 7-3 record behind the division leading UT-Arlington Mavericks.

The Lumberjacks defeated the Run-ners with their incredible shooting for a final score of 59-51. The loss also snapped the Roadrunners four-game home winning streak and dropped UTSA to 7-4 in conference play and 15-10 for the season.

The Lumberjacks stormed out of the gates, jumped out to a 20-7 lead in the first eight minutes of the first half and shot 83 percent from the field. Turnovers plagued the Roadrunners throughout the first half. The Lum-

berjacks scored 15 points off 14 Road-runner first half turnovers. Junior guard Kannon Burrage was the only strong sign of offense for UTSA as he scored nine points in the first half.

Forward Jeromie Hill and junior guard Melvin Johnson III are usually the offensive leaders for the Runners, but they struggled in the first half. Hill scored only four points in the first half and committed four turnovers. The high scoring Johnson was held scoreless in the first half. He went 0-7 from the field in a very uncharacteris-tic performance.

Junior guard Antonio Bostic car-ried SFA with his 13 points and three assists to a commanding 34-19 lead at the half.

“Spotting them 15 points is like spotting another team 25. You have to credit Stephen F. Austin for doing that, but our guys haven’t been ready to play early,” head basketball coach Brooks Thompson said.

The Lumberjacks shot 48.1 percent from the field and 55.6 percent from the three-point line.

The Runners came out with a new sense of determination in the second half.

Senior center Alex Vouyoukas had a big defensive block and converted with a lay-up of his own at the other end. Hill converted a contested lay-up as well, a welcomed sign of life from

the Runners’ forward. Junior guard Michael Hale III hit a three-pointer from almost three feet behind the arc, capping off a 7-0 run for the Runners. UTSA seemed to find their second wind in the later half. The Runners kept on fighting, slowly cutting down the SFA lead from 15 down to four.

Burrage kept up his aggressive of-fense mindset and he was soon joined by Jeromie Hill to try and bring the Runners back.

Senior forward Stephen Franklin had a very strong second half, scor-ing 10 points after going scoreless in the first half. Franklin also hustled de-fense with three steals.

The Lumberjacks never cooled down with their shooting touch, and that kept the Runners from complet-ing a comeback at the Convocation Center. SFA’s shooting percentage did drop to 36.4 percent in the second half, but the turnovers continued to plague UTSA in the second half. The Lumberjacks also led the game in re-bounding, stifling the second chance points for the Roadrunners. SFA com-manded the paint and out-rebounded UTSA 32 to 25.

The dismal first half performance couldn’t be reversed by the Runners, and ultimately the Lumberjacks willed their way to a victory.

“We need to change our whole mentality as a team. I think it starts

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with each player individually. They have to look at themselves in the mir-ror and ask themselves if they really want it. We just have to come out and play harder, and that’s the bottom line,” Burrage said.

The Roadrunners have lost three out of their last four games. It is a tough slump for this team to go through so late in the basketball sea-son. The coaches and players still have confidence in each other to reverse their recent bad fortune and go back to their full potential.

“I didn’t see it coming, but we are the same basketball team we were two weeks ago,” Thompson said. “You can never question the character of our

group. We just got to figure out why we aren’t playing real well right now and get back to going. We have char-acter and our guys want to win, we just have to figure out ways to win.”

The Roadrunners start a three game road trip starting at Lake Charles, Louisiana to face off against the Southland East Division leader Mc-Neese State Cowboys. The Cowboys are playing well and are currently on a five game winning streak, and they play even tougher on their home court. The game is scheduled for 7 p.m. at Burton Coliseum and will be aired as the Toyota game of the week on Southland TV Network (KCWX in San Antonio/ESPN3).

UTSA men’s basketball remaining scheduleFeb. 15 @ McNeese State 7 p.m.Burton Coliseum, Lake Charles, LA

*Feb. 18 @ Georgia State 6 p.m.GSU Sports Arena, Atlanta, GA

Feb. 22 @ Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 7 p.m. American Bank Center, Corpus Christi, TX

Feb. 25 vs. Texas State 4 p.m.Convocation Center

Feb. 29 @ Central Arkansas 7 p.m.Farris Center, Conway, AR

Mar. 3 vs. UT Arlington 6 p.m.Convocation Center

Mar. 7-10 Southland Conference Tournament, Merrell Center Katy, TX

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UTSA’s Stephen Franklin drives to the hoop against Southeastern Louisiana. Franklin had five points in 19 minutes of play against the Lions.

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Women’s tennis rolls over UT-Pan American, gets swept by University of Houston over weekendVanessa OsteguinContributing writersports@paisano-online.com

The Roadrunners women’s tennis are off to a good start with a 3-1 record. They recently played host to Texas Pan American on Friday Feb. 10 winning 6-1.

UTPA did not stand a chance against the Runners. In women’s doubles the Runners finished quickly with a 3-0 lead giving UTPA no hope against the profi-cient teamwork the players dis-

played, with a score 8-1. Natalie Hand and Kavya Menon finished first as number three doubles, 8-2. Stefanie Peana and Isabelle Jons-son finishing second as the number one doubles, 8-3. Micaela Silva and Vivian Carrillo finished it off as the number two doubles team.

In women’s singles, Pena and Jonsson finished with rapid victo-ries, 6-2 and 6-0, respectively as number one and two singles. Irene Gandara Gonzalez won the decisive point with a 6-2, 6-1 win against Cindy Sands, giving UTSA a 3-0

advantage. Hand finished with 6-1, 6-2 lead as the number five singles. UTPA got their single point by Malin Anderson who defeated Silva in a close game that extended to a third set as the number three singles. Junior Kavya Menon won the final match with 6-3, 7-6, 7-1 wrapping up a strong lead over the Broncos.

The Runners also traveled to Houston over the weekend to face the Houston Cougars but came up short in getting swept 7-0 for their first loss of the season.

The Roadrunner women’s tennis team got off to a 3-0 start to the season before being swept in Houston on Sunday. The team will try and return to the Southland Tournament after missing it in 2011.

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Junior Tyler Brown’s dramatic three-set victory at No. 2 singles propelled UTSA (1-4) to a 4-3 win over No. 36 Rice (5-4) on Saturday afternoon at Jake Hess Tennis Stadium. It marked

the first win over a ranked opponent since the Roadrunners defeated No. 75 San Francisco on March 3, 2007.

It was also the Roadrunners’ first win of the season. UTSA will host Trinity on Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 3 p.m. at the UTSA Tennis Center.

In Brief

Stephen WhitakerSports Editorsports@paisano-online.com

The women’s basketball team has seen its season spiral out of control as it has lost four straight games in Feb-ruary. They spent the last week on the road where victory yet again eluded the Runners.

SE Louisiana, 64; UTSA, 63A 9-1 scoring spurt by the Roadrun-

ners late in the game was not enough to win as the Southeastern Louisiana Lady Lions held on to win a 64-63 con-test Wednesday, Feb. 8, in Hammond, Louisiana.

The Roadrunners found themselves down by seven points with 3:43 min-utes left in the game before they went on a valiant run. They were able to take a one-point lead on a Kamra King layup before the Lady Lions’ Aja Gib-son scored what ended up being the final basket with 35 seconds left in the game that sent the Roadrunners back defeated by one point.

King finished the game with eight points, which made her the third high-est scorer for the Roadrunners after Ashley Gardner, who finished with 10 points, and Judy Jones, who ended the night with 15 points.

The Lady Lions had four players

score in double figures, Kelli Jenkins led with 16 points.

The Roadrunners fell to 3-6 in the conference. The Lady Lions rose to the same conference record with the vic-tory.

SFA, 73; UTSA, 64The Roadrunners gave a great ef-

fort in trying to end their slide against the Ladyjacks of Stephen F. Austin on Saturday, Feb. 11, but 19 points and 11 rebounds from Judy Jones were not enough as the Roadrunners fell by nine points, 73-64, in Nacogdoches.

UTSA was also led in the stat sheet by Kamra King, who scored 18 points in a non-starting role, but a poor shooting first half proved too much for the Roadrunners to overcome as they dropped their fifth straight Southland Conference contest and put into jeop-ardy a run of consecutive trips to the Southland Conference tournament.

With the loss, the Roadrunners fell into a tie with UT Arlington for last in the West Division at 3-7. The Roadrun-ners will get back in action when they host McNeese State on Wednesday, Feb. 15, at 7 p.m. That game will be followed by another road game on Sat-urday, Feb. 18, when the Roadrunners travel to Thibodaux, LA, to take on the Nicholls Lady Colonels at 1 p.m.

Roadrunner women still searching for first win in February

UTSA Women’s basketball remaining schedule

Feb. 15 vs. McNeese State 7 p.m.Convocation Center

Feb. 18 @ Nicholls 6 p.m.Stopher Gymnasium, Thibodaux, LA

Feb. 22 vs. Texas A&M-Corpus Christi 7 p.m. Convocation Center

Feb. 25 @ Texas State 4 p.m.Strahan Coliseum, San Marcos, TX

Feb. 29 vs Cent’l Arkansas 7 p.m.Convocation Center

Mar. 3 vs. UT Arlington 6 p.m.Convocation Center

Mar. 6-9 Southland Conference Tournament, Merrell Center Katy, TX

SLC conference games in italicsHome games in bold italics

COMING NEXT WEEK:UTSA Baseball vs. Louisiana-Monroe & Baseball preview

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