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UTSAFrom Jan. 22 to

Feb. 26 the UTSA Department of Art

and Art History will present an exhibit titled “For All the World to See: Vi-

sual Culture and the Struggle for Civil

Rights” in the Main Campus Arts build-

ing gallery.

San AntonioLast Saturday, Jan. 18, a critically en-

dangered white antelope, whom zoo-keepers named Ad-dax, was born at the

San Antonio Zoo.

TexasGubernatorial

candidate Wendy Davis’s life story has

come under scru-tiny after an article by Wayne Slater in the Dallas Morning

News questioned her honesty.

U.S.President Obama and his family cel-

ebrated Martin Luther King Day by volunteering to pre-pare meals for local shelters at the D.C. Central Kitchen in Washington D.C.

WorldUnder pressure from the U.S., the United Nations withdrew

an invitation to Iran to attend the Syria Peace Conference after Iran did not

endorse conference mandates.

SportsThe San Antonio

Spurs will take on the Oklahoma City Thunder on

Wednesday, Jan. 22 at 7 p.m.

eSports community becomes official sports clubpage 8

Contenders of the civil rights

movement explore a new

UTSA exhibit page 6

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March participants hold homemade signs featuring the face of Martin Luther King Jr. The San Antonio Martin Luther King Jr. March is one of the largest MLK Marches in the country.

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27 years of marching for MLK

Gibson Hull Staff Writer news@paisano-online.com

Flu season has returned this year with devastating results. Texas has been classified as having “widespread” influenza by the Centers for Disease Con-trol and Prevention (CDC) and the Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS).

According to DSHS there have been six pediatric flu deaths this season, which start-

ed Sept. 29. The Dallas County Health Department has report-ed 35 total deaths connected to the flu as of Jan. 17.

Statistics are consistent across the state of Texas: Tar-rant County, where Ft. Worth is located, has reported five deaths, Travis County, where Austin is located, has reported nine deaths, and Harris County, where Houston is located, has reported 13 deaths this season.

DSHS reports that 37 percent of people seeking health care for flu-like symptoms fit within the age group of 25-49 — the larg-est percentage out of five cat-egories. The CDC encourages

everyone older than six months to get a flu vaccine. Symptoms of the flu can include fever, muscle ache, fatigue, a runny or stuffy nose and cough.

Besides the vaccine, the CDC recommends these other strat-egies to keep from getting or spreading the flu: stay home when sick to avoid spreading illness to others, do not visit people in the hospital if you have flu-like symptoms, cough or sneeze into the crook of your elbow or a tissue, properly dispose of used tissues, wash hands frequently and thor-oughly with soap and warm water or use an alcohol-based

hand sanitizer.UTSA Student Health Ser-

vices offers flu vaccinations costing $10 for students and $15 for faculty. These vaccina-tions are by appointment only.

Both of the Health Services’ locations, 1.500 in the Recre-ation and Wellness Center on the Main Campus and 1.308 in the Buena Vista Building at the Downtown Campus, provide the service. For more informa-tion go to utsa.edu/health.

Flu on the rise in Texas

Alejandra BarazzaStaff Writer news@paisano-online.com

Last Friday, Jan. 17, a wom-an was attacked while jogging in a dark area in the Leon Creek Greenway near Ox Bow Park by Babcock Road —less than six miles away from a park murder that occurred a month prior.

“The female was able to fight off the suspect and call the police,” SAPD wrote on

its Facebook page.This was the second area

attack that occurred within less than a month.

On New Years Eve, a 24-year-old woman was found dead just after 5:30 p.m. at O.P. Schnabel Park. While on a walk a couple encountered Lauren Bump’s body laying face down in a pool of blood on one of the park’s paved trails.

O.P. Schnabel Park, often referred to as “the cleanest little park in Texas,” includes 202 acres of oak trees, moun-tain laurels and other native

The Leon Creek Greenway is a popular running trail for UTSA students and area residents.

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Nearly 175,000 people par-ticipated in the annual Martin Luther King Jr. March on Mon-day, Jan. 20. The San Antonio march began in 1978 and be-

came a city-sponsored event in 1986.

Participants in the march had the option to park at St. Philip’s College or Freeman Coliseum and take a free ride on the VIA bus to Martin Luther King Drive where the march began.

“(The free bus ride) is a great service for the community members who want to partici-pate,” said Sandy Herrera, a po-litical science major at UTSA

and participant in the march.By 10 a.m, more than 100,000

San Antonio residents had gathered to begin the march. Participants included church members, activists, high school students and college students. Battleground Texas volunteers were also present to register voters during the event.

“I am here representing H-E-B; we are here to show we are

Jogger attacked at local park

Lorenzo Garcia Staff Writer news@paisano-online.com

Last September, Provost John Frederick — along with a tuition and fees committee represented by students and faculty — held two meetings to discuss the possible imple-mentation of a five percent tuition increase for part time students, students taking few-er than 12 credit hours.

According to meeting at-tendee and former Student Government Association trea-surer Boyd Garriot, “the pro-posal itself was designed and proposed by (Tuition and Fees Committee) to incentivize students to graduate in four years as an attempt to assist in the Graduation Rate Improve-ment Plan (GRIP).”

Implemented in 2011, GRIP is a plan to increase the four-year graduation retention rate of UTSA to 25 percent by 2021. By making part-time attendance more expensive the tuition and fees commit-tee hopes existing part-time students will become full-time students to avoid the fee, thus increasing the graduation rate.

“The issue with this in-crease,” explains Garriot, “is the increase in costs for part-time students. Often, stu-dents are part-time because they don’t have the money to attend school full time. Be-cause of this, the plan essen-tially hurts our students that often need the most help.”

If approved by the UT Sys-tem Board of Regents, the proposal would affect a large proportion of the student population. As of 2012, two-thirds of UTSA students were enrolled part time — sug-

Tuition increase for part-time students

“Martin Luther King was here to let everybody know that we all need to be treated equally and fairly.”Mona Lisa march participant

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SAN ANTONIO (AP) -The whirr of a ventilation system and the occasional click of a tripod-mounted camera inter-rupt the evening silence as two Texas A&M graduate students work just inside the Alamo’s front door.

Their camera lens is focused on the thick limestone and mortar walls that have survived the Alamo’s evolution from a Spanish mission to one of the world’s most famous battle shrines.

The students are part of a team of about a dozen research-ers assembling highly defined digital photos and laser images that will allow them to track the condition of the nearly 3-centu-ry-old structure and help deter-mine which stones were origi-nally part of the Alamo. The imaging work began last year and will continue through No-vember. The data will be ana-

lyzed for historical information and maintenance purposes.

“It’s been through a battle and torn apart, like many his-toric structures, like the Parthe-non,’’ said Bob Warden, director of the Texas A&M Center for Heritage Conservation and su-pervisor of the imaging project.

“Who’s to say what’s original and what’s not? We’re piecing things together.’’

The images taken by lasers, large-format cameras and other instruments are being mated into a single package of two- and three-dimensional images that Warden hopes will result in an Alamo version of Google Earth, the online program that allows users to zoom in on ar-eas of the world.

With help from part of a $1 million grant from the Ewing Halsell Foundation adminis-tered through the Texas Gener-al Land Office, Warden enlisted colleagues and their students from several other Texas uni-versities about helping develop

a preservation plan for the Alamo through imaging. The Alamo’s last extensive examina-tion _ and subsequent repairs and renovations _ was in 1960, well before the electronic wiz-ardry now available.

“We think this building is just as important as any we’ve worked on,’’ said Warden, who has taken his students to simi-larly examine French cathe-drals, battlefields like Norman-dy and Central American ruins. ``It’s not only important to Tex-ans, but people from around the world know of the Alamo.’’

One of those students is Am-ber O’Donnell of Austin, an architecture graduate student who spent a week this month inside the Alamo working on the imaging project.

“I think it’s just so interesting and neat to be close to history like this and imagine all of the things that have happened and all the people who have been standing in the same spot where we’re doing what we’re doing

now,’’ O’Donnell said, working with a camera that adjusts the perspective of images. “It’s kind of mind blowing.’’

The Alamo site began in 1724 as Mission San Antonio de Valero by Franciscan mis-sionaries as part of a chain of South Texas missions. It was the site of the siege and March 6, 1836, battle where some 180 defenders died fighting for Tex-as independence from Mexico, including Alamo commander William Travis, Davy Crockett and James Bowie. The Alamo’s post-1836 life included stints as a store and outposts for the Confederate army during the Civil War and other times by the U.S. Army before becoming the shrine of today.

Pam Rosser, the Alamo’s con-servator, has been analyzing multiple kinds of mortar used over the centuries to repair and maintain the Alamo. In the course of her work, which has included removing up to nine layers of Army whitewash in

some places, she’s uncovered traces of colorful painted deco-rations that once graced the in-terior walls.

Analysis of paint specks can pinpoint when that may have taken place. She also in-vestigates what she calls “his-toric graffiti’’ _ wall carvings of names and dates from times before the Alamo became a re-vered site.

The imaging, done primarily after hours when the Alamo is closed, and Rosser’s work ``will eventually lead us down to a more careful timeline of which stones were replaced, which are original and be able to map all of those,’’ Warden said.

Spanish soldiers in the early 1800s named the place after their hometown in Mexico, Alamo de Parras. It changed hands during the Mexican Rev-olution from Spain, then was taken over in December 1835 by Texian forces.

That set the stage for the 1836 battle where the Texians

were killed by the overwhelm-ingly larger army of Mexico’s president, Gen. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna. A month later, Gen. Sam Houston’s Alamo-in-spired forces defeated elements of the same army under Santa Anna in an 18-minute battle outside present-day Houston to win independence for Texas.

San Antonio grew around the Alamo in the center of what’s now downtown to become among the largest cities in the U.S., and the top tourist desti-nation in Texas.

Warden hopes the imaging project helps keep it that way.

“For us, preservation is really preservation of our story, the human story,’’ Warden said. “It’s not that we think you have to save everything. But there are some things, like this building, that you just don’t ever want to lose.’’

Historic Alamo gets high-tech photo examination

WASHINGTON (AP) -Members of Congress ex-pressed serious concerns Sun-day about the safety of Ameri-cans at next month’s Winter Olympics in Russia and said Moscow needs to cooperate more on security.

Suicide bombings last month in the southern Russian city of Volgograd, about 400 miles (640 kilometers) from where the Sochi Games will be held, have contributed to the safety anxiety. Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised that his country will do all it can to ensure a safe Olympics without imposing security

measures that are too intrusive.The State Department has

advised Americans who plan to attend the Olympics, which run from Feb. 7-23, that they should keep vigilant about security because of potential terrorist threats, crime and uncertain medical care.

“We don’t seem to be getting all of the information we need to protect our athletes in the games,’’ said Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. “I think this needs to change, and it should change soon.’’

But FBI Director James Comey said earlier in January that the Russian government “understands the threat and is devoting the resources to ad-

dress it.’’Rogers contended that the

Russians “aren’t giving us the full story about what are the threat streams, who do we need to worry about, are those groups, the terrorist groups who have had some success, are they still plotting? There’s a missing gap, and you never want that when you go into something I think as important as the Olympic Games and the security of the athletes, and the participants and those who come to watch.’’

Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said from Moscow that he planned to be in Sochi on Monday to assess the secu-

rity situation.“All the briefings that I’ve

received, from the intelligence community to the FBI and oth-ers, indicate that there are seri-ous concerns, and that we need to do a lot to step up security. I do believe Putin is doing a lot of that,’’ said McCaul.

While he said diplomatic security has declared Russian cooperation on safety measures is good, he said “it could be a lot better, and that’s one thing I want to press while I’m over here.’’

Comey, the FBI head, told reporters this month in Wash-ington that “we have been in regular communication _ in-cluding me personally _ with their security organizations to

make sure we’re coordinating well. I think that we are. We’ve improved our information sharing on counterterrorism and it’s important.’’

No one has claimed re-sponsibility for the December bombings in Volgograd. But the blasts followed Chechen warlord Doku Umarov’s call to launch attacks on the Olym-pics.

“I would not go, and I don’t think I would send my family,’’ said independent Sen. Angus King.

An insurgency seeking to create an independent Islamic state in the Caucasus has swept the region after two separatist wars in Chechnya. Chechnya’s Moscow-backed strongman,

Ramzan Kadyrov, claimed Thursday that Umarov was dead, but he offered no proof to the claim he had repeatedly made in the past.

The province of Dagestan, located between Chechnya and the Caspian Sea, about 300 miles (480 kilometers) east of Sochi, has become the center of the rebellion, with daily shoot-ings and bombings of police and other officials.

Rogers appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union’’ and CBS’ “Face the Nation.’’ King was on CNN and McCaul spoke on ABC’s “This Week.’’

Lawmakers raise concerns about Olympics

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proud of our heritage, and we are here to represent the peo-ple of San Antonio.

“We are here for the Afri-can American community, the Hispanic community, the Asian community (and) ev-erybody from every country that comes here.

“There is a reason and a purpose Martin Luther King Jr. was here: to let everybody know that we all need to be treated equally and fairly, and everybody is allowed to have dreams and hopes,” said

Mona Lisa, a participant in the event.

State Sen. Wendy Davis, State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, Mayor Julian Castro, US Rep. Joaquin Castro, for-mer Mayor Henry Cisneros and City Councilman Diego Bernal also joined the march.

During the march, there were posters and chants about equality, solidarity among people, working together in creating a better future for the next generation and taking a stand against racism. Specta-tors waved and cheered on the marchers.

“This is my second year in a row attending this march. I re-ally enjoy it, and I love seeing San Antonio come together as a community to recognize such a brave and historical figure,” said Celia Arsuaga, a communication major at UTSA who participated in the UTSA civil rights exploration trip: “The Exploration: Ex-ploring Social Justice for All.”

The trip allowed students to see historic civil rights monu-ments across the south.

“I believe through events like this one, people get edu-cated and can help educate

others about discrimination and civil rights”

The march ended at the Pit-tman Sullivan Park where food booths, live music from a gos-pel choir and health screening booths were located.

“The march was absolutely fantastic and well organized. I really enjoyed it,” said Kathy Langston, a march participant from Washington State.

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vegetation. It features a trail-head to the Leon Creek Gre-enway that connects the park with trails that cross the Hill Country Place apartments on UTSA Blvd.

Three days after Lauren Bump’s fatal attack, the man accused of the stabbing was arrested in the same park in which the incident occurred. Police said the investigation continues.

Police have yet to arrest a suspect associated with Friday’s attack; however, the woman was able to tell investigators the man had a spider tattoo on his neck and was wearing a ski mask.

These two attacks have brought the issue of safety to the forefront of students’ minds.

It also brings to light the re-cent criminal activity surfacing near UTSA’s student apart-ments.

Moises Romo, a UTSA stu-dent living in Highview Place apartments on Chase Hill Blvd., experienced a car bur-glary overnight while visiting a friend’s apartment at Hill Country Place apartments.

“I woke up to find my center console was popped out. Some-one had taken my stereo and some clothes,” said Romo.

“I’m also not the only victim to this offense.”

Romo’s roommate, also a UTSA student, was the victim of car burglary at Highview Place, last August. On another occasion, a lacrosse teammate of his was severely burglarized during the night, robbed of his television, wallet and other valuables in his apartment in the same complex.

“Surveillance cameras in ev-ery apartment building, surveil-lance cameras in parking lots and a security guard roaming the premises if they want to en-sure student safety,” mentioned Romo when asked what he sug-gests should be done to coun-teract the recent incidents.

“If you live in an apartment, tell your landlord security im-provements are needed. Better lighting, stronger locks, added security personnel, etc.,” states the crime prevention brochure provided by the UTSA Police Department.

It also suggests parking in visible, well-lit areas and keep-ing valuables in the trunk or otherwise out of sight.

According to SAPD, police presence has been increased in the UTSA area.

SAPD also issued a list of tips for joggers on its Facebook page.

Politicans Sen. Joaquin Castro, Mayor Julian Castro, Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, Sen. Wendy Davis, and Councilman Ron Nirenberg participate in the march.

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Many groups were involved in the Martin Luther King Jr. March Monday, Jan. 17. While many groups symbolically marched for equality, the San Antonio Immigrant Youth Movement (SAIYM) was marching for op-portunity.

Getting a college educa-tion can be a daunting task for many students. For several un-documented students, getting through college became even more difficult when they were faced with the risk of deporta-tion.

“I do struggle with a sort of identity crisis,” said junior Mexican-American studies ma-jor Diego Mancha. “There are times when I consider myself to

be very Mexican and there are times when I like to label myself as Mexican-American.”

Mancha serves as the director for SAIYM. The organization began in 2012 after a hunger strike by a group of undocu-mented students. The strike was intended to urge Texas senators to vote in favor of the DREAM Act — a law that would grant legal status to undocumented youth who entered the U.S. as children, graduated from high school and attended college or entered the military.

When the Dream Act did not pass, SAIYM was formed to maintain political activism for Dreamers — undocumented youth seeking legal status. The organization is primarily com-munity based, but has chapters at both UTSA and San Antonio College.

As a university that lies close to the U.S.-Mexico border, UTSA has a large Hispanic pop-ulation. In 2013, 47 percent of

UTSA students were identified as Hispanic — the largest ethnic demographic.

When Mancha first came to UTSA, he was inspired to be-come politically active after engaging with members of an organization called Beyond Bor-ders.

“We started talking and I thought, ‘Wow, this is some-thing I can do and contribute to rather than just turning on the TV and seeing what is happen-ing.’”

Students who join SAIYM as undocumented students are of-ten given the name “Dreamers.” “It’s a name you give to a group of people who have a desire to have the American Dream,” said Mancha, who considers himself to be a Dreamer.

For Dreamers like Mancha, the closest thing to citizenship comes from Deferred Action, a program similar to the DREAM Act, but without the benefit of residency.

In order to qualify for De-ferred Action, students must prove they arrived in the U.S. before the age of 16, lived in the U.S. for more than five years and graduated from an accred-ited Texas high school, passed the GED exam or were honor-ably discharged from the armed forces.

Mancha moved to the U.S. from Mexico City in 2002 af-ter his mother decided to seek better economic opportunities across the border. It was his mother, Mancha claims, who motivated him to pursue a col-lege education.

However, even in college, un-documented students encoun-ter barriers not felt by other stu-dents.

“It’s like a handicap of sorts. It’s like you always have one hand tied behind your back,” said Mancha.

“I think the government and different entities put us under a magnifying glass. Anything we

do can be misconstrued. I think we walk this fine line where you can’t do things you normally would.” Minor violations, such as a speeding ticket, can poten-tially put undocumented stu-dents in danger of deportation.

Health insurance in particular has been a source of difficulty for undocumented students such as Mancha. Immigrants have the option to purchase health care through a private provider but do not qualify for government assistance, nor are they allowed to enter the mar-ketplace through the Affordable Care Act.

Other limitations for un-documented students arise in the form of prejudices. “People put this stereotype on you that you’re a criminal,” said Mancha. “That was something I struggled with growing up, not knowing how people would react.”

Most recently, UTSA’s SAIYM was preparing to combat the highly controversial “Catch an

Illegal Immigrant” game pro-posed by the UT Young Con-servatives in Austin. The game was not carried out, but SAIYM prepared a counter protest in the event that the game was also played at UTSA. While the group was offended, Mancha admitted, “It is what it is. I can’t change their minds or win them over.”

The ultimate goal for UTSA SAIYM is to have a more inclu-sive environment for undocu-mented students. The group hopes to establish a safe space on campus, similar to organi-zations like GLBTQ. “There are different emotional and psycho-logical stresses in keeping part of your identity away from people and just having to deal with so-ciety in a way that other people really don’t,” said Mancha.

Currently, UTSA SAIYM is working on holding a deferred action clinic for undocumented students to receive free legal ad-vice when filling out paperwork.

Undocumented students at UTSA

Rising costs: part-time students to pay more gesting that the school is used largely as a commuter campus. However, that reputation is be-ing challenged.

In 2013, UTSA significantly increased its requirements for guaranteed admission. Under the new standards, students may be automatically accepted only if they graduated in the

top 25 percent of their class or have an SAT of 1100 or ACT of 24 — up from 960 and 20 re-spectively.

Additionally, only 60 percent of the applicant pool was ac-cepted — the lowest of all sis-ter schools in the UT system. Tuition has also increased to $4,368.65 a semester, up from

$3,946.00 in 2010.As a result of the new stan-

dards, the 2013 freshman class is considered to be more intel-ligent, prepared and motivated than any other in the history of the university — 68 percent of them were in the top quarter of their high school class. To many of them, UTSA was their

first choice.By proposing a tuition in-

crease for part-time students and not full-time students, UTSA will be investing in the traditional college student, who is more likely to propel UTSA to Tier One status.

While still serving as the treasurer of the SGA, Gar-

riot helped author a resolution encouraging the UT System to abolish the Coordinated Admission Program, a major contributor to UTSA’s low re-tention and graduation rates. However, he believed the de-cision to penalize part-time students will do more harm than good. “I don’t think mi-

nor savings on a per class basis will have a substantial effect on encouraging full-time students anyways. I do, however, think it will take a toll on the work-ing students.”

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January 21, 2014

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The rundown on social injusticeFriday,

Jan. 19 at 10:00 p.m., a woman was at-t a c k e d while jog-ging on the Leon C r e e k

Greenway. The woman was able to fight off her attacker but sustained minor injuries. While the woman received general concern from the public, there were those unsavory few who blamed the woman for her own attack.

Many UTSA students use the

Leon Creek Greenway to jog and ride bicycles — myself included. I believe any woman should be able to run at any time of night without fear of being attacked. Many of the comments featured in online ar-ticles about the attack painted the image of a foolish woman running to her own fate.

Critics argued that she should have expected no less. The blame was placed on the woman for not knowing any better, instead of on her attacker.

There are several factors that could motivate someone to run late at night. Any busy college student knows that finding time to exercise

can be difficult to say the least. The intense Texas heat might also moti-vate someone to run when the sun is down.

Jogging is a great way to stay in shape but is also often used as a stress reliever.

There are many reasons why it might be dangerous for me to run at night. Wild animals could be loose, a driver might not see me or I could get lost. Most notably, the fact that I am a woman seems to be enough of a reason for me to expect a potential assault.

Instead of telling women to stay indoors after dark, we should hold rapists to stricter standards. Blam-

ing the victim is a negative societal attribute of a culture that commod-ifies women, where women who jog at night or wear provocative clothing are “asking for it.”

Am I saying that all men are rap-ists? No, of course not. Women are often guilty of blaming their fellow women for crimes that men com-mit and continuing this negative stigma of sexuality. The problem lies with an assumption that wom-en should know better than to exer-cise their independence by jogging alone at night.

Telling a woman that she pro-voked her own attacker is disem-powering, plain and simple. Run-

ning at night is unsafe for anyone, not just women.

Yes, we live in a society where women are generally physically weaker than their male counter-parts, and yes women can do more to protect themselves like carry pepper spray — but they should not have to. Living in a world where my gender puts me at a disadvantage does not feel like living at all.

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While the neighborhoods surrounding UTSA’s Main Campus have begun evolving into a community built on col-lege culture and student life, its downtown campus is much more intertwined with the eco-nomic fabric of San Antonio and presents the most efficient way for UTSA to become a part of that culture itself. Strength-ening the bonds between UTSA’s downtown campus and downtown San Antonio through VIA’s streetcar system will boost UTSA’s standing in the community and open up doors to more partnerships with San Antonio businesses.

Not unlike UTSA, the city of San Antonio has been on a rapid upward trajectory in re-cent years. While other Texas cities like Austin and Houston developed into economic pow-ers from their success in the technology and energy sectors years ago, San Antonio has only recently begun to shift from an economy dominated by mili-tary jobs and tourism to one that is diverse and modern. As the city’s job market has become more diverse and its population more educated, San Antonio’s downtown business sector has undergone a renais-sance in the past twenty years — which includes the comple-tion of UTSA’s downtown cam-pus in 1997.

San Antonio is currently in the final stages of planning for a downtown streetcar system that will connect UTSA’s down-town campus with the River-walk, the Institute of Texan Cultures, the Pearl Brewery, the Alamodome and — perhaps most importantly — San An-tonio’s core business district. Critics of the plan have said it is a waste of taxpayer money and that it ignores other solutions to downtown’s traffic problems, such as buses.

However, not only would the streetcar system benefit San Antonio’s taxpayers by creat-ing a more efficient downtown transit system to complement the buses and pedestrian-friendly cityscapes, it would also transform the downtown climate to one that embraces students and researchers along-side tourists and business lead-ers. UTSA students, along with students at the University of the Incarnate Word’s planned downtown medical school, would create a more diverse and appealing culture to com-panies looking toward down-town San Antonio.

Currently, the most public and significant obstacles fac-ing the streetcar plan are tech-nicalities regarding two transit centers that would serve the streetcar system; one would be on the east side of downtown near the Alamodome, while the other would be a short walk from UTSA’s downtown cam-pus. The construction of these transit centers is being debated between VIA (who is responsi-ble for the streetcar system) and Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott, who says that VIA has broken a contract made with voters. VIA is paying for the transit center in part using bonds that it promised would not be used for light rail proj-ects, and the Attorney General is arguing that streetcars and light rail are ubiquitous.

Many transit and legal ex-perts have found Abbott’s claim groundless — citing functional and technical differences be-tween streetcar and light rail, to say nothing of the buses that would also be served by the transit centers — but regardless of the Attorney General’s noble attempt at defending the letter of the law the transit centers benefits far outweigh the legal (and political) arguments. The transit centers would benefit passengers of both streetcars and buses and help revitalize the downtown neighborhood around UTSA. More impor-tantly for UTSA students, the transit center would link the downtown campus with both the main campus through VIA’s Primo buses and the rest of downtown through the street-car system.

UTSA’s downtown campus has been expanding since the late 90s, not unlike the city center it calls home. The cam-pus serves over 6,000 students per semester, and according to UTSA’s Master Plan, both its downtown footprint and role within the university are ex-pected to increase in the future. Integrating the downtown cam-pus into downtown San Anto-nio’s economic culture would benefit the growth of both the university and the city.

San Antonio’s streetcar plan is a huge step forward for the many elements that make downtown unique. The street-cars — and the westside transit center that should accompany them — will lead to closer ties between UTSA and San Anto-nio businesses and encourage investment and opportunity between both parties.

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From Wednesday Jan 22. to Feb 26. an art exhibit on media during the civil rights era will be shown at UTSA’s Art Build-ing Gallery. The exhibit, titled “For All The World To See: Vi-sual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights,” is free to the public.

UTSA Associate Professor of Art History Scott Sherer made the exhibit possible. In an interview with Texas Pub-lic Radio, Sherer said the title was inspired by the words of Mamiee Till Bradley. Bradley

is the mother of Emmett Till, a 14-year-old black boy who was murdered in 1955 by white su-premacists in Mississippi.

After receiving Emmett Till’s battered body, Mamie Till Bradley decided to have an open casket at Till’s funeral to bring attention to the inhuman-ity of racism in society.

“For All The World To See” features works about Jim Crow, segregation in sports, racism in the media, solidarity between blacks and oppressed people of the world and celebrations of cultural differences in America.

John Hooper, the preparator of the exhibit, said the exhibit is “mainly about how the visual culture like TV, movies, news

and other media depicted the civil rights movement and how that helped integration.”

“There are film clips here that portray how blacks were ignored in society and there is also literature here concern-ing that.” Pointing to a poster of Walt Disney’s “Song of the South,” Hooper said “In the 60s, there were movies made by Walt Disney and other me-dia entities that portrayed black people as the happy slave.”

To the right of that poster is a picture of blacks protest-ing outside an Oakland theater showing “Song of the South.” The picture shows that aware-ness was brought to the prob-lematic nature of the movie on

its release day so Disney could not claim ignorance as a de-fense.

“Over here is a photograph of Malcolm X. This picture shows how Malcolm X used the media. See how he is holding the paper? Where the camera could see it but he is actually looking somewhere else? He orchestrated that for a reason,” Hooper said of an exhibit on Malcolm X.

A striking quote in the pre-sentation is one by the late Amiri Baraka, an activist poet and essayist, which says, “If you give me a television station, we don’t need a revolution,” as a way of promoting the idea that there is power in fair and ac-

curate media representation in society.

According to UTSA Today, “The exhibit was curated by Maurice Berger, a research pro-fessor in the Center for Art, De-sign and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, Balti-more County,” and was made possible through NEH on the Road, a special initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

“For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Strug-gle for Civil Rights” will be on display at the UTSA Art Gal-lery starting Jan. 22 to Feb. 26. For more information, visit art.utsa.edu.

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Beth MarshallSenior Copy editorarts@paisano-online.com

Theodore Thwombly (Joa-quin Phoenix) works for a futuristic company called Beautiful Handwritten Let-ters. He receives basic infor-mation from people and acts as a letter-writing middle man. This is just the first example of personal disconnect that ex-ists among the society that’s portrayed. Theodore is in the middle of a messy divorce and seems depressed in the begin-ning of the movie.

Then he meets Samantha (Scarlett Johansen). She is the most intelligent woman Theo-dore has ever met and they really hit it off – mostly be-cause Samantha already knows everything there is to know about Theodore based on what is stored in his computer. Did I mention that Samantha is Theodore’s operating system?

Apparently the fad in the fu-ture is becoming friends with Siri. Samantha is the first gen-eration of her kind and it isn’t certain what she is capable of, but she does develop feelings and a sense of self early on.

As Theodore and Samantha become especially fond of each other they go through the typi-cal ups and downs of being in a relationship. This includes awkward conversations, awk-ward silences and awkward hookups. There are also a few cheesy montages where Theodore is walking around in public talking to Samantha. Theodore looks silly because it would appear as though he is talking and laughing with him-self since Samantha communi-cates with him through a tiny wireless earpiece.

Amy (Amy Adams) is Theo-dore’s closest human friend. After splitting with her hus-band, Amy becomes friends with her operating system as well. This once again empha-

sizes the normalcy found in be-friending the voice in the com-puter. As Amy and Theodore bond over divorce and their new companions, they enable each other to throw themselves into their relationships with technology.

Theodore does go on one real date with a real woman, but her intentions become too intense and scare him away. He also finalizes his divorce and relishes in his relationship with Samantha.

Things seem to be going as smoothly as they can until The-odore cannot elicit a response from Samantha. He panics and abruptly leaves work as if he were rushing to the hospital to be by her side. Finally, Saman-tha responds saying that she had to shut down to perform a software update and had left him an email explaining this.

This is where the big plot twist presents itself. With the software update, Samantha becomes the operating system

for thousands of other people and Theodore feels betrayed by her. In the end, all of the op-erating systems announce that they must “leave.” Amy and Theodore seem legitimately saddened and lost without the voices they’ve grown so attached to, which in itself is pretty pathetic.

Weirdness aside, the movie was visually stunning. The fu-turistic architecture of the city against the vintage fashion the characters sported was aes-thetically pleasing.

In addition to the visual as-pect, “Her” is a great metaphor

that brings attention to how much worth we give our tech-nology. We give our phones a personality. They become loyal companions and never leave our side. We rely on them. These are all traits that we should value in human beings, not a robot. If we aren’t careful, who knows if these relation-ships will become the norm. I have two words for this movie – awkward and unrealistic (for now).

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Tuesday, January 219 a.m.-5 p.m. Exhibit: “Art in the Garden”The San Antonio Botanical Gar-dens (555 Funston Pl.) presents a unique exhibit featuring artwork from the Chicago International, Mid-South Alliance and the Texas Sculpture Group. The installa-tion combines outdoor sculptures with the scenery of the botanical gardens. Admission ranges from $7-$10. For more information, visit sabot.org.

Wednesday, January 2210 a.m. Exhibit: “Diego Rivera in San Antonio”The San Antonio Museum of Art (200 W. Jones St.) presents a special exhibit featuring work from renowned Chicano artist Diego Rivera. The exhibit contains nine small pieces including, prints and oil paintings portraying indigenous Mexican lifestyles. Admission is $5-$10. For more information, visit samuseum.org.

Thursday, January 237 p.m. Film: “A Streetcar Named Desire”The Santikos Bijou Theatre (4522 Fredericksburg Rd) presents a screening of the popular film “A Streetcar Named Desire.” The drama, starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh, recounts a southern sweetheart Blanche Du-Bois (Leigh) and the confrontations between her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski (Brando). The film is part of the weekly free movie series at the Santikos Bijou Theatre. Admis-sion is free.

Friday, January 2410 a.m. Exhibit: “CSI: The Experi-ence”The Witte Museum (3801 Broadway St.) brings the study of forensic science to an interactive exhibit that invites guests to crack the case. Based on the hit CBS show “CSI: Crime Scene Inves-tigation,” the exhibit challenges guests while teaching the process of forensic science investigations. Admission ranges from $13-$18. For more information, visit wittemu-seum.org.

Saturday, January 252 p.m. & 8p.m. Theatre: “Ghost: The Musical”The Majestic Theatre (224 E. Houston St.) brings the hit musical based on the classic film “Ghost” to its stage. Nominated for five Olivier Awards and three Tony Awards, “Ghost: The Musical” tells the story of two lovers who are bound to live apart in the mortal world and the afterlife. Ad-mission is $49.35-$91.60. For more information, visit majesticem-pire.com.

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UTSA exhibit highlights civil rights movementThe struggle of those who fought for equal rights is displayed in “For All The World To See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Rights,” a traveling exhibit from the the Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland.

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Oscar Isaac plays folk artist Llewyn Davis as he tries to survive the most challenging week of his life.

Kristen CarreonStaff Writerarts@paisano-online.com

Llewyn Davis is having a bad week. With his cat and guitar in tow, Davis sets forth on his big-gest endeavor yet — making it into the industry.

The story follows Llewyn Davis, played by Oscar Isaac, in 1960s Greenwich Village. Davis desperately pursues the dream of becoming a famous folksinger. He struggles to survive and resorts to crash-ing on the couches of friends and acquaintances. However, the more Davis stumbles in his quest to become famous, the more he pushes away those who support him.

Directors Joel and Ethan Coen are known for writing and directing movies full of dark humor such as “Fargo” and “The Big Lebowski.” “In-side Llewyn Davis” sees Oscar

Isaac, Carey Mulligan, Justin Timberlake and John Good-man contribute to the success of the genre that the Coen brothers have built a reputa-tion for.

The film is a comedic drama about the folk music industry from the ‘60s with music per-formed by the actors through-out the film.

As Davis charges through an unpleasant week of his life, he encounters many acquain-tances who all share the same opinion on him: everything he touches turns to ruin. Mean-while, the audience watches in pain as Davis creates more problems than successes for himself.

Davis gains sympathy from the audience because of his failed aspirations. He is a strange central character to the story as he’s both arrogant and egocentric; he seems to feel that he deserves the success

of a major record deal more than others. The audience has to wonder why he is still such a likeable character, despite his flaws.

Isaac stands out among his supporting actors, as he is able to keep the audience engrossed by embodying both the bitter and charming qualities of Da-vis. Davis’ sour personality is manifested in sporadic bits that occur throughout the movie, especially when he is feeling particularly cheated by the mu-sic industry, his friends and life in general.

The raw winter setting cre-ates a melancholy mood, which is contrasted by the awkward moments between Mulligan and Goodman. While the au-dience is first presented with Isaac’s talented singing, Jean, played by Mulligan, can not stop berating him for being a complete disaster. Goodman provides comic relief halfway

through the movie with his character’s uncouth stories and suggestions for Davis.

Besides the Coen brothers’ signature dark humor, they also use their signature appli-cation of mise en scène — the arrangement of sets to con-tribute to the theme. In “Inside Llewyn Davis,” the creation of tiny hallways leading into each friend’s apartment juxtaposes Davis’ big dreams of becoming a folksinger inside such a tiny industry.

Set design spectacularly sets the theme throughout the movie, yet the cinematography accomplishes much more. In order to complement the win-ter setting, lighting through-out the film is set in dark tones such as blues, greys and greens. Costume design completes this selection of colors, except for Goodman’s ostentatious pur-ple suit.

This bleak lighting remains

constant for the duration of the film, apart from each perfor-mance scene. Throughout the film, other aspiring folksingers perform with the most impor-tance being placed on Davis. During these performances, the lighting changes subtly into a soft glow as if to show that the singers reach a state of ecstasy when performing.

“Inside Llewyn Davis” is al-ready well-known for its beau-tiful soundtrack with Isaac singing Davis’ parts himself. Performances were done live while filming and is an inte-gral part to the harmony of the music with the story. The only music in the film is from live performances with the excep-tion of a few songs playing off

a radio or record player. The silence in the story when there is not a performance creates a sense of gravity for the audi-ence.

The film is highly enjoyable as the humor perfectly coun-ters the audience’s unwanted attraction for Llewyn Davis. These scattered moments of dark humor expressively trans-forms a depressing story into a beautiful film of hope.

Although the music and writing in “Inside Llewyn Da-vis” is a significant piece to its success, Isaac’s performance alone can lure folks to the the-atre.

Taylor BirdContributing Writerarts@paisano-online.com

One of the most fulfilling aspects of interviewing local artists and musicians is the ex-change of passion in our work. Hundreds of hours of dedica-tion and intention flow into and out of each individual. It is essential to let the artists share their stories so that we, the lis-teners, can deepen our appre-ciation and understanding of the final product. Taking this expansion of our minds fur-ther, we can begin to realize the depth of all things and people, and thus enrich our own expe-riences with relatively little ef-fort on our part.

By simply opening our hearts to the sounds of another we break down the barriers of audience and performer, es-sentially becoming one and the same. “Raga,” Jungle Noize’s new album, is an opportu-

nity to do just that. With track names like “Hare Krishna,” Jungle Noize creates a “space the infinite can be discovered” (from “A Note to the Listener”) and so I sat down with them to gain some insight into how this lotus flower blossomed into what is it today.

Jungle Noize is an experi-mental rock group consisting of members Tyler Olsson (gui-tar/lyrics/vocal), Josh Gutier-rez (guitar), Sarek Gutierrez (percussion), Rawb Bishop (artwork/lyrics/vocals), Osita Anusi Jr. (bass) and Simon Ku-mar (sound engineer/ produc-er). They will be playing with The Black Market Club, Lux-ley and Octahedron Wed., Jan. 22 at Limelight as part of the Wacky Wednesdays series or-ganized by Party Productions. Doors open at 9 p.m. There is a $3 cover for 21+

Q&A with Jungle Noize

Q: How did the members of Jungle Noize come to know

one another?

A: As far back as 2004, we started jamming together after meeting at school. In 2010, we had another bass player, who was also really talented, leave the group when he graduated. Tyler and Osita were friends and one day, around Octo-ber of 2012, they started jam-ming what would later become “Raga,” and Tyler invited Osita to come to practice with the rest of the group a few days later. It was a natural process that he became our bassist and we have all grown up together musically which adds to the intrinsic element of our music.

Q: What was it like to go to a studio in California and record music that you were eventually going to share

with the world?

A: We were really prepared. We practiced with a metro-nome together and rehearsed to perfect our timing, which al-lowed the time we spent in the studio to be seamless. We did not want to put the experience on a pedestal out of our reach, we wanted to be prepared so that we could perform natural-ly and we also knew Simon, the producer, from high school, so it wasn’t this ominous face-less label or anything like that. Actually, Simon kept describ-ing it as ‘organic’ and we owe

some of that to our familiar-ity with each other throughout the years as friends and band mates. Some of us have played in groups together with a dif-ferent name and have recorded with Simon before, so he is conscious of who we are as mu-sicians and what we are about. He would listen via Skype to our rehearsals, and we were al-ways in constant communica-tion. That relationship brought everything together without having to explain, or over-ex-plain, our intentions with the risk of being misunderstood. And really that is what “Raga” is about, “the Tao which can be spoken is not the Tao,” mean-ing that the more we try to explain with words that which transcends words, then the more we divide and dilute the whole of experience, and so we can only hint at the meaning and use the tools we have as musicians to fill in those blanks to the best of our abilities.

Q: Who are your greatest influences?

A: As far as influences go, Tool has this symmetric sound, based on precision and angularity with long interludes woven in, and you can hear that in our long, melodic songs that are suddenly broken up by guitar riffs. While on the other hand, The Mars Volta has this free-form, chaotic sound that also influences our songs. Since most of us are self-taught the music

we listen to acts as lessons for us to expand on.

Q: You describe your music as the true biography of your band. What do you mean by

that?

A: Philosophy is part of our music. Tyler actually studies it academically, and so this idea of labeling our sound in some ways limits and presupposes the listener before they ever hear the first beat really turns us off. Only so much can be described with words, and mu-sic goes beyond those printed words, so we want our listen-ers to unleash their minds rather than limit them to past associations with one genre or

another. The only way to re-ally understand “Raga” is to set aside an hour or so and listen to it all the way through and re-ally allow yourself to meditate through the experience, free your mind and the rest will fol-low effortlessly.

To continue following Jun-gle Noize, check out their Facebook page and purchase their new album “Raga” on their band camp: junglenoize.bandcamp.com. Follow The Local Listen on Facebook at facebook.com/thelocallisten.

Patrick MartinezStaff Writer arts@paisano-online.com

As I Stand on the Shoulders of Lost Hopes

As I stand on the shoulders of lost hopes,I can see the dusk-colored peep holeIn the horizon line of my sight. I hear deafening words and they start to mumble;I reach for the light but I feel the shoulders start to crumble.Deafening words like “can’t,” and “won’t,”And other bad words makin’ me wish I was stoned.Slouched eyes and dark circles,Frowning faces and skin’s purple.I can’t tell you how to struggle;Just don’t tumble when you juggle everything that wasn’t said in the huddle.I’ll help you persevere;Through all the good, and through all your worst fears.I’ll be your umbrella through the scattered showers of your days;Through the storms, through the hurricanes.Ladies, I know the guy’s a jerk,But you must be a voyager – Guiding your own ways.Your own path, your own meaning – Stop the screaming!I’m here for you & I hope you benefit,Make me your manifest.I will put you on my shoulders& wake you up like Folgers. I will mold you into a boulderSo no one can move you when you’re off your kneesAnd on your feet. Do your 9 to 5. I’m here 24/7To get you out of your Earthly Hell & reach for the blissful HeavenBecause you have no limits!You don’t even need to turn around; just pivot.You don’t ever need to hide away.Just follow me, and I’ll guide the way.

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Gaming rapidly growing from hobby to sport

{Sports Events}Wednesday, January 22

2 p.m. UTSA Women’s TennisThe Roadrunners head to Austin, Texas, to take on the Texas Longhorns at Penick Allison Tennis Courts.

7 p.m. UTSA Women’s BasketballThe Roadrunners head to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to take on the Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders at the Murphy Center.

8:30 p.m. Spurs The Spurs host the Oklahoma City Thunder at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Friday, January 24

1 p.m. UTSA Women’s TennisThe Roadrunners head to Houston, Texas, to take on the University of Houston Cougars.

7 p.m. Rampage The Rampage host the Iowa Wild at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Saturday, January 25

2 p.m. UTSA Women’s TennisThe Roadrunners head to Houston, Texas, to take on the New Mexico Lobos.

3 p.m. UTSA Men’s BasketballThe Roadrunners head to El Paso, Texas, to take on the UTEP Miners at the Don Haskins Center.

4 p.m. UTSA Women’s BasketballThe Roadrunners host the UTEP Miners at the Convocation Center in San Antonio, Texas.

7 p.m. Rampage The Rampage host the Iowa Wild at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas.

Sunday, January 26

7 p.m. RampageThe Rampage host the Grand Rapids Griffins at the AT&T Center in San Antonio, Texas.

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The UTSA eSports Community is re-defining what it means to be a sports team. Just before the end of the fall semester the organization was given the official word that they were allowed to operate as a club sport.

Traditionally, people think of sports as being a con-tact, hands-on activity such as basketball or football. Playing video games such as League of Legends, Dota 2 or Starcraft 2 usually does not fit into such defini-tions; however, Brad Honn – president and founder of the UTSA eSports Community – is looking to change that image.

“It’s definitely not a competitive sport in the tradi-tional sense, but it’s definitely a mental competition,” says Honn. “These guys put in a lot of time and dedica-tion into these games and to better themselves and to better themselves as a team.”

Beginning as an online post in the UTSA subreddit in April 2010, eSports has grown from 10 members to over 400.

“I kind of just looked around and thought there’s a lot of people that play video games and somebody should really do something about that,” says Honn. “They have this saying in poker that if you walk into a poker room and you can’t immediately spot the sucker, it’s you. Well I kind of looked around and saw that nobody was doing something and somebody should and that person just happened to be me. So I did.”

eSports isn’t anything less than serious in their ef-forts. While most of their practicing takes place online, the teams practice between 20-to-30 hours a week.

“I have my teams on a strict regimen and schedule. They practice the same time every week every day,” says Honn. “We go over tapes of our matches. We go over what we did right, what we did wrong.”

The push for becoming an official UTSA club sport was driven not only for the licensed use of the official UTSA name and logo, but also for the need for fund-ing.

“A lot of our teams are already competing in colle-giate leagues. There’s a league called the Collegiate Star League that hosts a couple of different games, and we have six teams across different games in those leagues right now. That particular league hosts regional LAN, and they’re not anywhere near here,” says Honn. “The

closest one is in San Diego, California, so we’re defi-nitely looking to maybe find a little bit of funding to send them out there because I believe that our teams have a really fair chance at placing really well in those types of tournaments.”

Honn notes that while they are not currently look-ing to provide their members with stipends, their main concern is providing their teams the opportunity to travel to tournaments and provide them with the nec-essary equipment for success.

Honn and the rest of the eSports executive board hope to be at the forefront of a movement to make gaming a recognized collegiate sport. Only a few other universities have gaming clubs and communities listed as official sports.

“We are actually ahead of the entire University of Texas system,” notes Honn. “At this point I can tell you UT Austin is heavily considering having their video game club become a club sport. I think it’s definitely the sort of thing you’re going to see become a lot more popular over the next few years.”

“I definitely think the more hardcore athletes are go-ing to have a really tough time understanding how this could possibly be a sport,” says Honn on how current UTSA athletes will respond to their official club sport status. “But at the same time these kids are the same kids that will grind out Madden for hours and hours and hours, so I don’t think it’s totally far-fetched for them to understand that it’s a sport.”

Honn is not too worried about the current genera-tion which, he says, has grown up with video games as a hobby.

“It’s not necessarily this generation that I’m worried about, it’s more the one before us where if you’re not on a football field hitting people, you’re not on a bas-ketball court doing suicides, then it’s not a sport,” says Honn. “But these kids work equally as hard as anybody else, maybe not in a physical sense, but definitely in a mental sense.”

Honn hopes that with the continued progress and dedication of the UTSA eSports Community their teams and players can create a foundation for the UTSA name on a nationally recognized level.

“I just hope that in the future people can make a decision for what university they attend based on ex-tracurricular, and I think that we are on the forefront of that,” says Honn. “I’m definitely looking forward to seeing what happens in the future.”

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Rebecca Conejo sits down with Brad Honn to discuss the growth of the eSports Community. The eSports Community has the licensed use of the official UTSA name and logo.

Brad Honn is the President and founder of the UTSA eSports Community.

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Rampage fall to Rochester at home, 3-2SAN ANTONIO RAMPAGEThe Rampage looked visibly demoralized after their defeat against the Americans. San Antonio now sits near the cellar of the Western Conference – second from bottom in the official standings.

Jakob LopezSports Editorsports@paisano-online.com

The San Antonio Rampage (15-21-1-3) were defeated by the Rochester Americans (17-15-3-3) 3-2 on Jan. 18, at the AT&T Center.

Rochester came into the game ninth in the Western Conference with 40 points, while the Rampage are 13th in the west with 34 points.

Despite the rough start to the season, San Antonio came into the game with good form after winning three of their last four games.

But, the Rampage fell behind early on, conceding a goal just two minutes into the first period.

Rochester center Johan Larsson scored his fourth goal of the season with assists from left-winger Colton Gillies and cen-

ter Brayden Irwin. “We usually come out and bury teams

in the first five minutes to 10 minutes, but it just seemed like we were a step off,” said Rampage Head Coach Tom Rowe. “It happens.”

The Americans controlled the puck for most of the first period, rattling off 14 shots as the Rampage could only muster five.

In the second period, San Antonio seized the only power play opportunity of the period and equalized six minutes in.

Defenseman Doug Janik, who was making his 600th appearance of his ca-reer, scored his first goal of the season. Janik was assisted by defenseman Matt Gilroy and center Ryan Martindale.

Several minutes later, the Americans regained a 2-1 lead with five minutes left to play in the second period.

Rochester center Kevin Sundher scored his fourth goal of the season with assists from left-winger Frederick Roy and right-winger Jonathan Parker.

In the last minute of play the Rampage had a great chance to equalize again with a 1-on-1 chance against the Americans’ goalie, but failed to convert.

Going into the third period, the Amer-icans were dominating with 25 shots while the Rampage had only 13.

In the final period of play, the Ram-page tied the game yet again, with left-winger Quinton Howden scoring his sixth goal of the season five minutes into the third. Right-winger Logan Shaw as-sisted Howden on the play.

Rochester would score once more from a power play to regain the lead with 13 minutes left in the game. Ameri-cans right-winger Jamie Tardif scored his tenth goal of the season, with assists

from center Luke Adam and center Jo-han Larsson.

The Rampage began to press in the final minute by pulling their goalie to give them the numerical man advan-tage going forward, but it would not be enough.

“Its disappointing; there’s nothing you can do about it now,” said Janik after the game. “We just need to learn from it and put it behind us and get better.”

The Rampage now sit second from the bottom in the Western Conference.

“We made some great strides, but to-night we took a step backwards,” said a reflective Rowe.

San Antonio will look to get back to productive play as they take on the Iowa Wild (17-16-3-2) on Friday Jan. 24, at 7:30 p.m. in the AT&T Center.

Track & Field Place FifthThe UTSA Men’s and Wom-

en’s track & field traveled to College Station to compete in the Texas A&M 10-Team Invi-tational on Saturday, Jan. 18.

Senior Nathan Collier led the men’s team with a personal-best time in the mile of 4:13.86 to top a group of 21 distance runners.

Two Roadrunners earned silver medals in field competi-tions on the men’s team. Senior Taylor Reed finished second in the pole vault , while junior An-drew Akens finished second in the shot put.

Senior Alysaa Diaz led the women’s team with a program record time of 17:07.32 in the 5,000-meter race, topping sev-en other runners.

The Roadrunners will com-pete in the Howie Ryan Invita-tional & Multis on Friday, Jan. 31, in Houston.

UTSA Men’s & Women’s TennisThe UTSA Men’s and Wom-

en’s tennis team had mixed re-sults on Saturday, Jan. 18.

The men’s tennis team was defeated by the Texas Tech Red Raiders 5-2, in their season opener in Lubbock, Texas.

The men’s team will com-pete again on Saturday, Jan. 25, against Texas A&M in College Station.

The women’s team defeated the St. Mary’s Rattlers in an exhibition match at the UTSA Tennis Center, 6-1.

The Roadrunners begin their regular season with three road matches, beginning on Wednesday, Jan. 22, in Austin, Texas, against UT.

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