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Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio
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10.26.2010Vol. 44
Issue 10
Celebrating Thirty Years of Independent News with a Brand New Design
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Free concert After Dark
After Dark, a one-night event of the year will make its first visit to UTSA. Jon McLaughlin, Island Records recording artist will perform in concert 8 p.m., Oct. 26 in the grand ballroom.
Joe White, public speaker and former Texas A&M coach, will discuss the topic: “Is Jesus relevant today?” UTSA head football coach, Larry Coker will share his story with students.
For the past 10 years, After Dark has toured over 170 college campuses nationwide. For more information visit, www.whatsafterdark.com.
University Oaks
University Oaks will be spon-soring Impact Hunger, a charity food drive event on Oct. 26.
Participants will join RAs from University Oaks in a walk span-ning The Avalon, The Outpost and The Reserve apartment complexes in an effort to raise a goal of 1,500 pounds worth of food to be donated to the San Antonio Food Bank for the upcoming Thanksgiving Holi-day.
The program is headed by Anna Boyer, the Residence Life Coordinator for the apartments, and will be continued until this coming Thanksgiving holiday.
AlamodomeSan Antonio City Council ap-
proved a contract allowing UTSA to play its home football games in the Alamodome dur-ing its first five seasons.
The contract ensures the Roadrunners will host contests in the 65,000 seat facility begin-ning with its inaugural season in 2011 and extending through 2015. The contract also includes a provision for two one-year re-newal options.
Under the contract, UTSA will receive revenue primarily from tickets, merchandise, sponsor-ships and program sales. The City will be reimbursed for its expenses and will retain all con-cession and parking revenue. UTSA will receive all revenue from 40 of the Alamodome’s 52 suites. The City and UTSA will split revenue from 10 suites and the City will retain two suites for internal use.Sources: UTSA Today. University Oaks and RA Amy
Broomfield, Jennifer Cisneros
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Among the most profitable industries listed in the Invest in Texas brochure, one particularly lucrative business is omitted: human trafficking. Human trafficking is the illegal
trade of human beings with commercial purposes such as sexual exploitation and forced labor. With revenues estimated by the United Nations near $32 billion, it is the second largest criminal activity in the world after drug trafficking. Texas Senator Leticia Van de
Putte hosted a panel discussion at the UTSA Downtown Cam-pus, including police officers, attorneys, human rights ex-perts and social workers. They discussed ways to enhance the fight against this type of orga-nized crime. The U.S. has become a pivotal
point in the transportation and destination of the victims of hu-man trafficking. Around 25 per-cent of all victims are brought and held here, deep in the heart of Texas. The I-10 corridor is considered by the U.S. Depart-ment of Health and Human Services to be one of the main places in the nation where cases of human trafficking occur. “People don’t want to believe
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In The Shops at La Cantera,near the beginning of October, a Chinese restaurant was shut down for failing a health inspection. The restau-rant had the option of clean-ing the restaurant and going through another inspection, but chose to close.When KSAT 12 visited the
food court with the “Behind the Kitchen Door” camera crew, they found Charley’s Grilled Subs and the aforementioned Chinese Restaurant failed the inspection. Lester, the supervisor of Char-
ley’s, said, “I worked 27 hours straight to clean it up, but they [Chinese restaurant] just shut down completely.” “The restau-rant’s ice machine was broken, the floors are still dirty, and the counters are stained.”
To pass an inspection, restau-rants are enforced to follow and keep up with health guidelines required by the San Antonio Metropolitan Health District. One requirement that must be met is proper cooling for cooked/prepared foods (cold 45 degrees Fahrenheit and hot 135 degrees Fahrenheit) and rapid reheating at 165 degrees Fahrenheit in two hours. Each restaurant must also have a designated hand washing area and be clear of any rodents. The San Antonio Metropolitan
Health District inspects the food court every few weeks. “We don’t know when, but we
get inspections and audits every few weeks at random” said a Sonic employee. Aramark supplies the students,
staff and faculty of UTSA with food. As a part of their safety commitment, which is acces-sible from their online website,
Aramark promises to “comply with food and workplace safety regulations, to ensure that our purchasing through autho-rized suppliers, as well as our handling, cooking, service and storage practices, contribute to the safety of the food that we prepare and serve, and to strive to continuously improve our food and occupational safety performance.”Graduate students Sofia
Morutes and Ashley Skrobarak both agreed that the “cleanli-ness is not so great, but they have a lot of dining options.” “I have noticed birds flying
around in the cafeteria,” Skro-barak said. Morutes would “like to see more plug outlets for students who are eating and studying at the same time.” While some think that the
cafeteria could be improved, other students such as senior psychology major Gabriella
Reynosa said, “ I haven’t had any problems; it’s pretty decent in there.” “I like the new island bar that was just put up, you can make your own fruit cups and parfaits there.”Transfer student Mackenzie
Watson said, “I have noticed [the food on campus] is very accessible, so when I get out of class late I can still get food if I needed to.” With a campus as diverse as
UTSA, the food court must have a wide variety of selections. Senior biology major, Courtney De La Rosa, is pleased with the choice selection. “The food is decent. I have
only eaten there a couple of times only because its always so packed but they have a lot of choices and pretty much have something for everyone,” De La Rosa said.
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On Oct. 21, UTSA Department of Music hosted a performance of Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” by the UTSA Orchestra, conduct-ed by Eugene Dowdy.Gustav Holst’s “The Planets” is
a seven movement piece, rep-resenting all the planets of the solar system minus Earth and Pluto. Originally written for piano and organ only, the orchestral version is the most well-known. During the last movement “Neptune, the Mystic”, the UTSA Women’s Choir, conducted by Gary Mabry, made an appear-
ance giving the night a chilling, yet mystic and dramatic finale.“This was a huge chance for
the students to play such a mammoth piece of work,” Eu-gene Dowdy, Associate Professor in the Department of Music and conductor for the night, said. “It requires a huge full orchestra, and we don’t normally do it, so it was exciting for the students.”At the 19th anniversary public
performance of the piece, guest speaker, Dr. Eric Schlegel, spoke about the developing knowledge about the planets and showed a presentation on the planets, from early sketches to recent images and videos from NASA
satellites. The show played simultaneously as the orchestra performed each movement, in order to show how the piece of music relates to the planets themselves.Eric M Schlegel, Ph. D, is the
Vaughan Family professor of physics and astrophysicist at UTSA.“A cool thing was the oppor-
tunity to hear a well-known astrophysics like Dr. Schlegel talked about the connections of the pictures to the music” says Dowdy.The night ended with a com-
pletely filled full-house, parents and students alike, giving the
orchestra a well-deserved stand-ing ovation.“All I can say is how proud I
am to be at UTSA and have an orchestra playing professional level music and it keeps getting better and better every single year” says Dowdy.For upcoming UTSA Orchestra
events as well as other music events visit the UTSA Depart-ment of Music website: http://music.dev.utsa.edu/index.php
UTSA presents a night among the stars
this is happening,” said Kirsta Melton, assistant district attor-ney for Bexar County. The activ-ity is far more dramatic when the demographics of the victims are considered. “More than half of the traf-
ficked are children, especially girls,” said Van de Putte. “This is modern day slavery; it is an issue that people need to know about. Folks think this is only a problem of immigrants, when the fact is that 60 percent of the victims are runaways.” A recent report by Children
at Risk, an organization led by Dr. Bob Sanborn, reveals that 450,000 children in America run away from home each year, and one in three is lured into sex trafficking within 48 hours of leaving home.Often, the vulnerable position
of children towards strang-ers renders them helpless to respond to traffickers. “Most children don’t know that what is happening to them is ille-gal,” said Melton, to Christian Burchell, president of Texas Anti-Trafficking In Persons. “These people use whatever
they have in their means to force their victims into prostitu-tion or unpaid work; sometimes they’ll threaten a girl with killing her little brother or her parents until she complies. Sooner than the girl realizes, she is being
TRAFFICKING:
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The orchestra combined projector imagery of each planet to accompany its movement.
See FORCED LABOR, Page 3
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sold to strangers every night in a truck stop,” Burchell said.“It is a very difficult crime to prosecute because
often you have to convince the victim that she is a victim. The condition of many children is denial and often includes being dependent on drugs given by their traffickers,” Burchell said. One of the cases Melton is currently working is a
13 year-old girl who accompanied an elderly wom-an to buy cocaine. She was held in a bathroom and sold for sex to regular customers for more than a week. One hard fact given by the panelists states that little girls are often sold eight to twelve times a night. Aaron Barasa, an investigator from the Bexar
County Human Trafficking Unit, thinks the fight against traffickers goes beyond patrolling south-west San Antonio. The Internet has become one of the main ways criminals advertise their victims. As police become better trained in online tracking, so do criminals. Last September, Craigslist’s adult section was
nationally censored. Some anti-trafficking groups considered the censorship as a victory; however, to Barasa and other panelists the success of this ac-tion is figurative.“Where there is an action made by law enforce-
ment, there is a reaction by the organized crime. There is always another website,” Barasa said. “Whenever there is major event, such as conven-
tions or big sports games, say the Super Bowl, there is a spur of web pages weeks before the event happens. In that way, those interested know
beforehand which bars to go, whom to ask for, what is the code,” Burchell said.Van de Putte said, “This is a very organized crimi-
nal industry.”One factor that allows human trafficking to occur
is social unawareness and common misconceptions about the circumstances in which the crime en-sues. Pimping, for instance, is widely celebrated in popular culture. “I don’t mean to bash the music industry, but the
last hit songs are all about pimping,” said Burchell. In the past few years, terms associated with prosti-tution have been widely accepted and have found a place in the popular slang of many Americans. This acquisition of gangster terms could well
render trafficking to be seen, to a certain extent, as more normal than it really is. Studies by several non-profit organizations con-
cerning human trafficking have shown that the main reason potential witnesses do not report suspicious activity is that people think the victims are willfully involved. The summit also gave insight on forced labor,
which tends to be less common than sex trade. Burchell said that one of the main reasons human trafficking is still common is that every human be-ing is capable of performing a task; a young man may be sold to a rancher as easily as a girl to a sex parlor. Burchell said, “You don’t hear much about forced
labor because sex trade is far more dramatic; how-ever, people who are forced to work are being held captive right now. It is also a nightmare.”
FORCED LABOR: Mention of pimping in popular music
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Trash. It’s ev-erywhere I look. Sure there is the cliché that one man’s garbage is another’s treasure, but I can assure you
that I will not be the one to salvage the crap that is in my way as I try to negotiate a place to put out my cigar. Clearly the few sand traps provided outside in the upper levels of the HSS are for ash, cigarette butts and cigars.
Everything has its place. Usually it is defined in bold letters either beneath the “cubbyhole” meant for the backpacks of elementary students or on the side of the recy-cling bin, large and in charge of our
environmental well being, destined to be filled with plastic. To put something out of its place is often viewed negatively as order is left. Partly because of “The Dark Knight” and Heath Ledger’s splen-did acting, people seem infatuated with chaos. Of course there are esoteric lessons to be learned from such, but to think that the people who place trash in the ashtrays are subtly protesting smoking is absurd!
Trash is meant to be in a trash-can; recyclables, in the recycling bin; and I’m sure you can guess where cigarettes go. Well most of them go towards emphysema, but the rest is to be put out and placed in the nearest receptacle for ash, one that is preferably void of candy bar wrappers and wadded up
paper. Enough harsh smoke has fumi-
gated my lungs. I need not in-hale any more toxic fumes than I already have.
Organization draws on distinc-tion as morality may be based on intuition. Intuition to take you the few extra steps towards returning your shopping cart while crafting a distinction between the cart return and the empty parking spot to your left. You have both of these gifts, which are usually inherent in the human condition. Work with me to put things in the right place, and I’m sure we’ll improve the future, which is now.
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On any college campus, it is not uncommon to see students support their university by wearing their college apparel; however, have you ever wondered where that apparel came from?
Although some colleges carry apparel made from sweatshops in other countries, UTSA and 399 other universities have started to sell apparel made from Alta Gracia, a “sweatshop free” factory in the Dominic Republic the apparel sold by Knight’s Apparel.
According to a press release from Alta Gracia:
“Alta Gracia is a new brand of T-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies made for the very first time in a factory that pays its workers enough to enable them to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, health care and education for themselves and their families.”
UTSA is one of many colleges participating in this exciting new
venture along with Harvard, Yale and Baylor. Other top universities in Texas including Texas A&M and UT are not selling Alta Gracia apparel though. UTSA received their first shipment of apparel in September.
“Follett has been working with Knight’s Apparel for a while and has had a long-standing relationship with them. We are very happy that this undertaking is now official and in stores,” said John Palmer, director of the UTSA bookstore. “From Follett, we’re extremely excited to be part of the monumental launch, and we eagerly look forward to its success.”
If students have not been in the bookstore recently buying apparel, they might have missed the newly advertised clothing sold from Gracia.
Students can now buy “sweatshop free” apparel. The bookstore, managed by Follett, Higher Education Group, is also considering reaching out to students in ways to make them aware of the university’s effort to make a difference.
“We’re [UTSA] leveraging both traditional and social media including email marketing,” said Palmer.
Some students think that UTSA is just interested in boosting their reputation and business no matter what the cost.
“Either way, UTSA is benefitting from outsourcing and exploiting developing countries, allowing us to gain more profit,” Katherine Barrera, senior art history major said.
Although the clothes are more expensive due to the higher wages they are paying their employees, the clothes are not made from a “sweatshop.”
“For Knights, the factory is a risky proposition, even though it already has orders to make T-shirts and sweatshirts for bookstores at 400 American universities. The question is whether students, alumni and sports fans will be willing to pay $18 for the factory’s T-shirts — the same as premium brands like Nike and Adidas,” explained a recent New York Times article about Knights Apparel.
Some students have said that it is a great idea, but that they still think the university’s products are overpriced.
“Don’t get me wrong, I think it is great what they are doing but I still wouldn’t buy anything from here,” Katarina Rodriguez,
sophomore French accounting major said.
Follett wants to make sure they are taking a progressive step into the future in helping other people saying, “Follett cares deeply about the topic. That is part of the reason why we carry our own Labor Code of Conduct; why we ensure each vendors abide by the code and a reason why we are active members in the Fair Labor
Association.”Still, many students are excited
about this new launch of products.“I think this is a progressive
step towards reasonable wages and a better standard of living. I hope other companies will follow in their footsteps,” Monica Fiol, freshman international business major, said.
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“Paranormal Activity 2” (“PA2,”) the sequel to last year’s smash horror hit, provides enough tension and ”gotcha mo-ments” along with some nice plot development to be consid-ered a successful sequel.
Around this time last year “Paranormal Activity” hit the screens in what turned into a small pop culture phenomenon. The makers were eager to recreate their success, and now, barely a year later, “PA2” is again hitting the screens to terrify its audience. For story purposes, “PA2” is a prequel, as it takes place before the unfortunate events that occurred to Katie and Micah in the previous movie.
The movie focuses on Katie’s sister Kristi and her husband, step daughter and an adorable new baby named Hunter. After a series of suspected break-ins, the family decides to have se-curity cameras set up around the house so that whatever may happen during the movie will be conveniently captured by HD widescreen security cameras. In a similar fashion to the first movie, the family is disturbed by some supernatural being with increasing intensity. What is perhaps the most interesting thing about “PA2” is the plot. If you were left with questions from the previous movie about why the demon specifically targeted
Katie and Micah, then you will appreciate the clever solution the filmmakers have come up with.
“PA2” features plenty of effective moments like loud bangs or screams, but what “PA2” is not able to recreate is the unique atmosphere of the original. “PA2” plays more like a regular hor-ror movie by making one jump and then laugh at themselves and each other when they do. In the original the audience did not laugh, and really got the feeling that you wanted the night to end, just like the main characters. But what the film makers understand is that people aren’t scared half as much by CGI monsters as they are by the dark.
The film plays on one of the most fundamental human emo-tions: fear of the dark and the unknown. In “PA2” the demon or evil presence is never shown, and all is left to the imagina-tion of the audience. The huge success of “Paranormal Activ-ity” can perhaps be tied to people being tired of the gore and torture movies that have dominated the horror genre in recent years.
My main complaint with the movie is that in the first hour of the movie nothing really happens except the plot being set up. The movie takes an awful lot of time to foreshadow and hint at what the audience clearly knows is going to happen. The fam-ily doesn’t even really fully come to realize that they are in fact haunted by some evil presence until the last 30 minutes or so.
This really makes the movie suffer since one of the most effec-tive things the first one did was showing the main characters acknowledging that they are haunted and there is nothing they can do about it. In “PA2” the family doesn’t really fully realize until it’s too late and when major stuff starts to happen in the last 15 minutes they are shocked and surprised.
“PA2” isn’t as scary as the first one, and goes for the more obvious scares, rather than relying on atmosphere to terrify its audience, but “PA2” is a worthy follow up that adds on to the plot of the first one,while delivering its fair amount of scares. Paranormal Activity 2 is that rare successful sequel (or pre-quel). The only question is: Will we see a Paranormal Activity 3 next October?
Paisano Rating: B
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To love.Now She is gone.AndEveryone Was willing To help.
Heavenby Robat Kram
“Mr. Sanchez, I am terribly sorry to say this, but you are paralyzed from the waist down.” Those were the words that ended my life, the 18 inch dagger lodged into my heart. I was in a car accident two years ago. It was not my fault, but that did not change my situation. She was drunk. I was not. She walked away from the accident. I never will. The grim reality was, I could never use my most important limbs again. I could never run again. I could never swim again. I could never drive again. I always wondered why it hap-pened. I trusted God and got this, a social death sentence.
I have always been a rational thinker. I got my PHD in Philosophy at age 27 and taught at the University for 15 years, and then my life altering crash occurred. I loved discussing contentious issues. Nothing was more fun than debating someone else equally passionate about imperative issues. I was a great debater. Even when I was a younger man, I matched wits with PHDs. I was almost as articulate as Christopher Hitchens. But the accident screwed me over. I could never appear in public debates or teach again. Everyone just saw a man in a chair, not an intellectual giant.
After my legs were taken away, my girlfriend, 10 years younger than me, decided to leave. I knew she was just using me, but I thought it was mutually advantageous. I gave her rides to school, and she gave me rides at home. That was how I rationalized our relationship. It still hurt when my theory was proven. She left without so much as an apology. Sure, she stuck by me for two months, but once I could no longer take her to school, she found some one else. I must admit to myself, even though I would never promulgate it to anyone else, that I loved Lilith. That wound cut pretty deep, and I harbored vast resentment towards her. To make things worse, I heard from a mutual friend that she got a high paying government job. I was the reason she did well in school. Without me, she would have been living with her overwhelm-ing mother the rest of her life. I even gave her an A in my class. Her in-class oral presentations were sub-par, but she made up for that with quality inter-course at home. She clouds my mind day and night, and it tortures me to know she is going to have a happy, fruitful life while I am left to rot in my piece of crap chair.
Female dogs notwithstanding, I had more substantial problems. I depend-ed on my care taker to shower me, bring me food, and drive me to the movies and other social events. Relying on others was the most frustrating aspect of my situation. The state of Texas awarded me a capable servant, and Sherry was sweet, but no one could ever banish my pain. I was broken in every sense of the word. Precluding death, I did not see a way out. Stem cell research was promising, but I knew I would never get the help I needed. Politicians blocked that beneficial avenue just enough so that I would miss out. Thank you, GOP. Your pseudo moral values truly moved me. I was going to miss that important scientific breakthrough. That was fitting.
Thinking about all of these pernicious emotions made me suicidal again. About a year after the crash, I was content on ending everything. I had it all planned out. I took my money out of the Stock Market, put it in my computer desk, and told my brother, the one person I still cared about, where it was. It was not much, just ten thousand, but he was also going to receive my $50,000 in my bank account. It was him who talked me out of it then, but this time I was not going to call anyone. This time I was dead set on leaving this wicked dwelling. My life was inane. There was no reason to go on, so I wheeled my broken down body to my bed. There was a hang gun strate-gically placed inside my broken box frame. I quickly grabbed the gun, not wanting to think about the potentially adverse consequences that might fol-low. I aimed it at my temple, yelled a profane word, and blew my brains out. Blood invaded my sight. It was strange. My brain was not psychically working anymore, but I could still think. That is all I could do-- think. I was alone with the one activity I loved most. I could practice logic, rehash old debates, and tackle tough philosophical issues. It then hit me: Heaven does exist.
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Downtown San Antonio in late October is filled with people in search of festive fear with ghosts and goblins around each corner as long lines swarm haunted houses. However, just off of East Commerce, candle-lit tables await a crowd with an appetite for comedy, featuring “The American Frankenstein in Freder-icksburg in 3-D.” Dressed in a flashy 50’s getup with a cigar in hand, Frankie Stein acts as the talk-show narra-tor. He is able to pause, rewind and fast forward scenes to the audience’s liking. Actors onstage per-form the “movie,” part scripted and part improvisa-tion, unaware of the Stein’s uprising wit. The play is filled with sensual innuendos, and some audience members chime in with one-liners, creating slap-stick comedy on the spot. Some of the male roles are played by female characters: Brandi Hollsten plays sherriff Bill Mill-er and Tara Hershberger plays Little William and Schmetz. Elisabeth Cradenza is played by Josue Gonzalez, a husky man dressed in vintage attire. The dramatic acting overshadowed the exchange in roles, and in many instances added to the co-medic effect. “So far it’s pretty cool. Back in the day we didn’t have movies; we had plays and improv,” UTSA alumni, Philip Nunez said. “It’s good to see their enthusiasm and creativity.” David Ankrom, who plays the hunchback Igor Clerval, proved to be a crowd favorite. His facial ex-pressions and child-like fancy for Elisabeth Craden-za sent Frankie Stein into rewind mode.
The fast forward and rewind modes are impres-sive, as well as the recollection of the actors’ lines with an interruption at any time. “It’s comedy at its best. I loved the scene when [Igor] couldn’t get his hands off of Elisabeth,” said Tracy White. The play, written by Magik Theatre founder Rich-ard Rosen is structured by a script, but not bound to it. While working the machine just before the monster is brought to life, Victor Frankenstein and Clerval push different buttons. Clerval made a wit-ty comment and Frankenstein said, “Just pretend to push buttons, it’s a drawing,” with his voice still in character. “I thought it was pretty awesome. I had great time, I’d see it again,” Allison Weaver, 13, said. Even the monster has a sense of humor, as he rhymes like Dr. Seuss, hides behind a lampshade and expresses the beauty of Cradenza with lines of Shakespeare. Each member of the cast is dra-matic, bringing the play to life. Frankie Stein is a blend of “Whose Line is it Anyway?” and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein with a San Antonio-kick. Many locations mentioned in The Frankie Stein Show include references from our own backyard, as intended by the writer. Willkommen [Welcome in] to the The Frankie Stein Show, American Frankenstein in Fredericks-burg at 9 p.m., Oct. 29-30 in the Cameo Theatre Zumbro lounge for a night of laughs and original entertainment. Tickets are $12, for more informa-tion visit www.cameocenter.com. For those theatre lovers, the Cameo Theatre will present Let’s Misbehave, the new Cole Porter musi-cal Dec.9-Jan. 2.
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Celebrate Israel Event __Hillel & Christians United for Israel at UTSA invite you to join us as we come together to celebrate and support the nation of Israel. Come for the falafels and stay for the music,dancers, & special guest speakers. Learn about Israel as a Democracy and as a center of great technological creativity & innovation. We hope to see you there! Shalom Ya’ll! When: Wednesday October 27th Where: UC Lawn (between the South Parking Garage & UC III Bldg) Time: 6:30pm – 8:30pm
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MLS playoffs are set to start Oct. 28. With only two Eastern teams making the playoffs most of the contenders for the MLS Cup will be in the West. Here’s a quick look at who is most likely to contend for the MLS Cup.
The first choice to contend is the top seeded Los Angeles Galaxy. They will be playing against the Seattle Sounders in the first round. Against the Sounders the Galaxy is 2-1, having defeated them twice in the regular season. So the Galaxy is very likely to make it past the Sounders and into the Western Conference Finals.
The second team is the reigning champs Real Salt Lake. They’re the second seeded team, and they will be facing FC Dallas. The teams split their series in the regu-lar season, with each team winning a game. Unless RSL doesn’t want to defend it’s crown, expect them to move on to the Conference Finals.
From the two teams from the East: New York and Co-lumbus, New York seems like an easy favorite to make it past the first round. However, Columbus shouldn’t be count-ed out completely, they face the Colorado Rapids whom they defeated 3-1 at home, during the regular season.
The most likely outcome is that a team from the West will be hoisting the MLS Cup at the end.
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Thursday, Oct. 289 a.m. Men’s andWomen’s Cross Country SLC Championships
Beaumont, Texas6:30 p.m. Volleyball vs. Northwestern State
Saturday, Oct. 301p.m. Volleyball vs. Central Arkansas
Sunday, Oct. 31All day Women’s Golf Alamo Invitational2 p.m. Women’s Basketball vs. Henderson State
Monday, Nov. 1All day Women’s Golf Alamo Invitational
Tuesday, Nov. 2All day Women’s Golf Alamo Invitational
Thursday, Nov. 46:30 p.m. Volleyball vs. Sam Houston State
Friday November 5All day Men’s Tennis Texas Invitational Austin, Texas7 p.m. Women’s Basketball vs. Texas Lutheran
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Over the weekend the UTSA women’s soccer team beat the Nich-olls Colonels 1-0 after losing to the Southeastern Louisiana lady Lions. The weekend was also the last time the UTSA women’s soccer team will play a home match this season.
Even though the Roadrunners seemed to have ball control for most of the match during the Oct. 22 match against the Lady Lions, the Lions managed to make the most of its chances and scored a goal at the 56 minute mark.
A stalemate prevented either team from scoring a goal and after 90 minutes of play, the Lady Lions walked off the field with the win.
Friday’s match was also UTSA’s first loss since the beginning of Oc-tober.
The weekend was not without good news for the Roadrunners. Sunday’s match progressed much like Friday’s match. No goals were scored until the second half, and the Roadrunners seemed to have domi-nant ball control. In this game the Roadrunners managed to score a goal.
At 49 minutes Kimberly Sellman shot the ball unassisted over the
keeper’s head from the right side making, the score 1-0 in UTSA’s fa-vor. For the remainder of the game the Roadrunners kept trying to get a second goal, but despite many op-portunities, the game ended with the score 1-0 in favor of the Road-runners.
Attendance for both games was high, especially Friday’s match which attracted 672 fans.
UTSA faces off against Sam Hous-ton State and Stephen F. Austin in the Southland Conference play.
Roadrunners lose against Lady Lions, beat Nicholls
The Roadrunners defeated Nicholls 1-0 in their last home game of the season.
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