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Volume 84, Issue 24
Photo by Kaitlin Trujillo Jared Velasco, senior pitcher, throws a strike to home. Velasco struck out three Tarleton batters.
Free Summer Housing Program continues
Students can live on campus for free while taking summer courses Christian Hunick Staff Writer
ASU is continuing its popular Free Summer Housing Program and launching several new initiatives for the summer 2018 sessions. ASU’s Free Summer Housing Program is unique among Texas universities. “I am not aware of any other program like it,” Associate Director of Housing and Residential Programs Travis Taylor commented. “It is our
way of encouraging students to graduate on time, which nowadays often requires some summer course completions to happen.” Though initially aimed primarily at first- and second-year students, the Free Summer Housing Program can also be beneficial to incoming freshmen who want to get a head start on their education. The program allows students taking at least six credit hours or a four-hour science lab during each of the two
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Photo by Axel Marcenaro The west-facing side of Plaza Verde. Plaza Verde is the most
centrally-located of all the dormitories.
Students TIPA the scale Senator Ram Page and Ram TV win awards at the State level Travis Hunter Contributor ASU students at a March 21–24 event won awards for their work in mass media over the 2017 academic year. The Texas Intercollegiate Press Association presented Ram Page and Ram TV with a total of seven awards at their annual convention in Dallas. ASU competed against 10 other schools for their awards. “Every year, we come back with a few awards,” Ram Page editor-in-chief Kaitlin Trujillo said. “I think it’s a cool legacy to leave behind. We’re proud of the photos and the stories we put out, so it’s cool to get state recognition for it.
I think it’s great that we’re able to represent the school and get awarded for the work we put into the paper.” Trujillo placed second in the breaking news photo category. Former Ram Page cartoonist Patrick Fleming took third place for cartoon strip/panel. Ram Page photographer Axel Marcenaro and photo editor Brit Raley won honorable mentions for illustration and feature photo, respectively. The Ram Page staff also took second place for editorial and earned an honorable mention for headline writing. “I’m really proud of the work our entire staff has done this year,” Ram Page managing editor Aubree Bailey said. “We’ve had some great stories and some awesome photos. It
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File Photo Kaitlin Trujillo’s second place Breaking
News Photo of the Rambelle volleyball team.
visits the senate
SGA hosts State Senator at general sentate meeting Rosanna Aguilera Sports Editor
The Student Government Association had a state senator as a guest speaker in its meeting on Monday and discussed preparation for the Rammys and the end of the year 5k. Kel Seliger, chair of the Senate Higher Education Committee, came to talk to SGA about how the senate works. President pro tempore, Brayden Woods, said Seliger oversees higher education for the entire state of Texas. “It was a unique opportunity for the students of ASU,” Woods said. Woods said Seliger talked about how the state of Texas works and how the committee represent students and higher education to the governing bodies of Texas. “It allowed the students to gain a learning experience from that,” Woods said. “It was unique for the students to hear him speak because of the experience he has not only in Texas government but life in general.” Woods said free speech was a main topic during their discussion.
Woods said the senate really enjoyed that he was interactive with the student senators. “He would throw a problem out there and ask a senator ‘how would you fix it, what would you do,’” Woods said. “Getting that interactive between a student and a state senator was unique of its own.” Junior Haley McGregor, Special Events Committee chair, said she and her committee are ready for the Rammys.
“We have been preparing this entire semester,” McGregor said. “It is a lot of work between SGA and the Multicultural Center.” McGregor said Jarett Lujan is also a major part of the Rammys and getting everything together. “Different people do different sections, but I basically oversee everything and make sure that things are running
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Photo by Axel Marcenaro Senator Kel Seliger gives the
Student Government Association an insight into state politics. Seliger is chairman of the Senate Higher Education Committee. WTMA Distinguished Lectureship
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NEWS
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Fasting and Feasting: The Feeding Habits of Black Holes
Yale professor lectures on Black Holes Travis Hunter Contributor
Our collective understanding of black holes has significantly improved in the past 30 years, according to a Yale professor in her March 20 lecture at ASU. She drew an audience of more than 250 people. Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan presented “Fasting and Feasting: The Feeding Habits of Black Holes” as part of the 42nd Annual WTMA Distinguished Lectureship in Science in the C.J. Davidson Conference Center. “Black holes are the most enigmatic objects in the universe,” Natarajan said. “Over the last 30 years, our understanding of this bizarre astrophysical concept has grown by leaps and bounds.” Current knowledge of black
HOUSE page 1 summer terms to live on campus for free, provided they meet the minimum 2.0 GPA requirement. Since the Free Summer Housing Program was intro-
holes is rooted in Sir Isaac Newton’s law of gravity and Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity. “There was this marriage between geometry, mathematics and the physical world that Einstein developed in his theory,” she said. “He realized that it’s an attribute of matter to cause a pothole in spacetime. A universe that has matter will be full of potholes.” The size of those “potholes” in spacetime are determined by the mass of the objects that create them. Black holes have so much mass that they puncture spacetime itself. Natarajan said she found that astronomers co-opted the term “black hole” from an infamous Indian prison in the 1700s called the Black Hole of Calcutta while researching her book, Mapping the Heavens. “The term ‘black hole’ became one to denote a place of
no return,” she said. “You go in there, and you vanish.” Black holes have such a strong gravitational pull that nothing can escape them, she said. A boundary exists around a black hole called the event horizon. “Black holes swallow anything that crosses the event horizon,” she said. “Therefore, the only way we can find a black hole is indirectly, mapping the distortions in space they cause around themselves or the impact on motions of bodies outside the event horizon is how we detect them.” Advancements in technology in the past few decades have made indirect detection of black holes easier. The U.S. recently rejoined a European mission to further research black holes, Natarajan said. “I’m very fortunate to be a part of NASA’s science team,”
she said. “The future is really, really bright for black hole physics.” Sophomore Annissa Figueroa attended the lecture for extra credit but said she enjoyed it more than she thought she would. “Compared to other lectures, this one was much more interesting,” Figueroa said. Abel Hinojosa, sophomore, said he entered the lecture with an interest in the topic of
duced in 2013, the number of students living in residence halls during the summer has steadily increased from 267 the prior year to 709 in 2017. Summer enrollment has also seen an overall increase from 2,551 individuals in 2013 to
3,217 last year. This year, free summer housing will be in Centennial Village. Applications open April 1. One of the new initiatives being introduced is a significant increase in the in the number of core courses available during each summer term. “Taking courses in the core curriculum during the summer can help new and firstyear students stay on track to graduate in four years or less,” vice president for Student Affairs and Enrollment Management Dr. Javier Flores said. “Students graduating in three years can save over $7,400 in
tuition and fees, thus reducing their amount of potential debt.” Another new initiative ASU is offering is Summer Carr Scholarships and summer financial aid for Pell Grant-eligible students. Full-time students eligible for the Pell Grant during the fall and spring semesters are eligible for summer Pell Grants if they enroll at least half time (six total credit hours) during the summer. Similarly, students who have earned a Carr Scholarship will be eligible to receive a Summer Carr Scholarship if they enroll in at least six credit hours during each summer
Photo by Axel Marcenaro Katherine Brooks, junior, and
Phalijanai Simmons, sophomore, study in one of the Plaza Verde community rooms. SGA page 1
on track,” McGregor said. McGregor said her committee is also in charge of ordering the awards and meeting with Chartwells to schedule the food. “Everyone helps out,” McGregor said. “It has taken a lot of effort but I think it will be one of the better Rammys of the past few years.” Senior Cody Kretschmer, committee chair for Environment, Health and Sports, said they are preparing for the 5k
black holes. “It was confusing but awe-inspiring,” Hinojosa said. “There’s so much more to it that we still don’t know.” When asked for advice from an aspiring astrophysicist in attendance, Natarajan said her interest in space began at a young age. “I was always in love with the night sky,” she said. “Definitely keep looking through telescopes.”
Photo by Brit Raley Dr. Priyamvada Natarajan shares
her knowledge of black holes with attendees at the 42nd snnual WTMA Distinguished Lectureship in Science
term. “With free summer housing, plus Summer Carr Scholarships and the implementation of year-round financial aid, ASU students can earn in excess of 12 credit hours during summer for free or at very low cost,” Flores said. “These initiatives are more ways for ASU to show our commitment to ensuring students have the opportunity to earn credit hours toward their degree without incurring additional debt.” Registration for current ASU students opens April 4 for seniors, April 6 for juniors, April 9 for sophomores and April 11 for freshmen.
run on April 27. “We are having an end-ofthe-year fun run kind of 5k,” Kretschmer said. The senate passed Bill 89.14 for funding. Kretschmer said the first 50 people who sign up will get a free t-shirt and will be entered to win one of two Fitbits, which is what the money will be going towards. “It’s for students and alumni of ASU,” Kretschmer said. “We are going to be sending out a mass email for the link where students can sign up.” From File Axel Marcen-
aro’s Honorable Mention graphic. Marcenaro created the graphic to represent former SGA president and vice president Fielder and Hecox’s fulfilled campaign promise of free Scantrons for students. TIPA page 1 means a lot to me that a lot of what we do isn’t individual. It’s a collaborative process. I can’t wait to see what we can do next year.” The staff of Ram TV took third place for in-depth news reporting video. Communication and Mass Media Department chair Herman Howard said the results from the TIPA contest reflect the hard work of faculty and students. “The faculty has done an excellent job in teaching and training our young scholars to be diverse and to accept challenges,” Howard said. “All
things are possible through hard work, dedication and commitment. This will bode well for the future in regard to recruiting new students and retaining our current scholars.” TIPA awards also have implications for students beyond their time at ASU. “If students would like to get involved in the Ram Page, there’s a possibility of these awards, which look great on resumes,” Trujillo said. “It’s always a good idea to get involved at ASU. It’s a good place to gain hands-on experience.” TIPA was founded in 1909 and is the oldest group of its kind in the country.
Photo by Axel Marcenaro Senator Kel Seliger asks the Student Government Associ-
ation questions about tuition costs. Students in the organization were invited to discuss their opinions or concerns on the matter.
Events Calendar
Friday 4/6
Sunday 4/8
Track and Field 12-3:00 p.m. LeGrand Stadium
Women’s Tennis vs. TAMU- Kingsville 10:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.
Saturday 4/7
Tuesday 4/10
Annual Rock Climbing Competition CHP
ASU Longboard Event 2:00 p.m. ASU Pavillion
Women’s Tennis vs. Tarleton State 10:00 a.m.- 1:00 p.m.
Staged Reading of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night 7:00 p.m. Mayer Auditorium
Track and Field 12-3:00 p.m. LeGrand Stadium
Wednesday 4/11 2018 Rammies 6:30-8:00 p.m. C. J. Davidson Center
NEWS Angelo State Then and Now
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ASU has had many improvements and construction projects throughout the years. Here are photos of campus from June 1983 and today.
The ASU Aquatic Center at the Ben Kelly Center for Human Performance is home to a 25 meter pool.
Photo by Axel Marcenaro
Concho Hall was renovated in 2005. The dorm had a twin that was imploded in the Fall of 2009.
Photo by Axel Marcenaro
The Carr Education-Fine Arts Building is named for benefactors Robert G. and Nona K. Carr. The Carr EFA Building was constructed in 1976 and renovated in 2006. Photo by Brit Raley
The Porter Henderson library turned 50 this year. In 2003, the library was renoavted to include a third floor.
Photo by Brit Raley
Named for former ASU President Dr. Lloyd D. Vincent and his wife, Johnell, the Vincent Building was completed in 1985. Photo by Axel Marcenaro
The Cavness Science Building was constructed in 1967. It was named after ASU’s first President, Dr. Raymond M. Cavness.
Photo by Brit Raley
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FEATURES
Beyondthe
English and Modern Languages Professor shares her passion Aubree Bailey Managing Editor Dr. Karen Cody, a professor in the Department of English and Modern Languages, began her university education at TCU. “I went to TCU as a music major, actually, but I was also a National Merit Scholar. I was really fortunate that after my first semester I realized being in music required me being in a practice room all the time, I changed my major, and my scholarship didn’t change. I wound up being in the humanities honor sequence. There were four semesters where we were really
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Student organization spotlights mental health Christian Hunick Staff Writer
The student chapter of Active Minds is a new organization at ASU that spreads awareness of mental health issues and strives to reduce the stigma toward people living with these issues. While the organization and its members do not have the training to act as counselors or a support group, they work to provide students with factual information about mental health disorders and their symptoms and inform them about the resources ASU provides for mental health care. “As much as we would like to say that we are a support group for people that deal with mental health illnesses, we actually don’t have the proper training, education, and experience to do that,” Active Minds President Rosalyn Hollingsworth said. “Instead, we try to break down the negative stigma towards
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concentrating on art, music, literature, and history.” Cody said that this intensive track helped her grow as a student and a thinker. “Though I had been in a college prep track in my high school, and I had taken a trip to France, I was not prepared for the level of thinking that was required. I was a French and Spanish double major, and I spent my junior year abroad. It was a mythical year studying in the French university system.” She obtained her master’s at UT Austin before entering the work force. “After I returned to Fort Worth, I worked in sales and marketing for an international petroleum business. I was the in-house assistant, but I knew more about the products, handled international banking, was organizing distributer training\ and I did fully everything but was very frustrated to be only the assistant. They could not have done their job without me, but they would absolutely not have a woman being a salesman.” Cody then made the move to Kansas City, where she continued working in international business, before coming back to Texas for a doctorate. “I ultimately decided to go back to grad school and work on a PhD. I went back to UT in 1996. I was able to teach while
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mental health illnesses and tell students that they are not alone and that it is ok to reach out for help.” Hollingsworth recalled that her own experience with mental health issues and as well as those of a close friend, played a role in her bringing Active Minds to ASU. “I’ve heard my friend’s personal stories of dealing with mental health issues, and I’ve had my own personal story, so I wondered why there wasn’t some presence on campus bringing that to light and telling people that mental health should be thought of more.” Hollingsworth said that while doing some research, she discovered a national organization devoted to doing just that: Active Minds. After pitching the idea to friends and gathering enough members, an Active Minds chapter at ASU was officially created, and the organization has been growing ever since. One recent event Active Minds participated in was a bake sale on March 1, World
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I was there both in French and Spanish, but also I really pursued linguistics for my PhD. It’s the science of language; it’s about how all languages are structured and used.” While in Austin, Cody began conducting research. “My dissertation, where I compare the world of language to identity in Montreal to that in San Antonio, was personally important to me. I had grown up in Texas always speaking Spanish, but I don’t look like what Spanish speakers are considered to look like here in Texas. I was never fully accepted into a Spanish-speaking community but did not, however, feel this exclusion when I married into a French-speaking family in Montreal. I was really interested in examining why that was; the language structures themselves are very similar and the role of the Spanish and French speaker was similar historically, but it is very different now, so that also got me interested in sociolinguistics, which looks at how we use language in society.” In 2001 Cody became a professor at ASU; she chose the university for the versatility it offered. “It was the only place I interviewed where I could work in all three fields. I could do French, Spanish and linguistics.”
Compliment Day. Not only did the bake sale provide much-needed funds for the expanding organization, but it also gave students a chance to brighten each others’ days with compliments. They also held several events during finals week last semester to help students relieve stress and promote a positive mindset. Active Minds will host an event on April 25 for suicide awareness. “Suicide is the second leading cause of death for college students, so we are going to be partnering with the psychology club and Psi Chi to lay out stakes in the ground with ribbons to pay respects to the students who lost their lives to suicide last year,” Hollingsworth said. The following day, there will be an informative event in the C.J. Davidson Center where students can learn selfcare techniques for their mental health.
Photo by Brit Raley Cody praises the academic and social communities she has found in San Angelo. “It has been a great fit here for me in my teaching and my research and for me to continue my music. The resources here are phenomenal. I have also stayed very busy in the community.” Cody is a founding member of the San Angelo Chamber Singers, serves on the Symphony Board and several committees at ASU and as well as supports the Civic and ASU Theatres and various avenues for art, music, and education: “I would be hard pressed to have found a more perfect community for me to be an active member in: a scholastic community, a professional community, but also with all of the arts and opportunities that are available.” Additionally, Cody has
traveled extensively around the globe. She was selected to participate in a Fullbright-Hays Seminar Abroad Program in Senegal during the summer of 2016: “I really feel like the understanding I got of the country was authentic. I have a lot of confidence in the research that has come as a result of this.” Cody contributed to this research significantly: “My piece on that was on teacher preparation. Senegal is a relatively small country where there are some 15 tribal languages that are spoken, but education happens only in French, so everyone who goes to school goes in a foreign language. I was looking specifically at how they scaffold these children in early grades so that we may improve our ESL instruction in San Angelo and West Texas.”
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OPINION
Baseball is back
Kaitlin Trujillo Editor-in-Chief Baseball is back and my heart is happy. Opening day for Major League Baseball was last week and all felt right in the world.
The time between October and April is awfully long. Sure, we have spring training games in between, but those games don’t compare to the 162 games of the regular season. The only thing better than the 162 are the post-season games, but I have to pace myself here. I truly love this time of year. I love the camaraderie between fans, the smell of concession stand food mixed with the summer air and the sounds of a roaring crowd. One of my favorite moments of going to a baseball game is walking through the tunnels at a major league sta-
dium, stepping into the sunlight and seeing the expanse of green slowly grow before your eyes: the stage for a nine inning battle. I grew up watching baseball and the game feels nostalgic to me. Throughout American history, baseball has been there. Through the Great Depression, the Civil Rights move-
ment and 9/11, America’s pastime brought people together. Most recently, the Astros boosted the morale of recently knocked down Houston when they brought home the World Series title for the very first time. There is undoubtedly magic in this sport. If you don’t believe me, you’ve never seen a bottom
Page 5 of the ninth homerun to win the game or a seen a kid’s face when he catches a ball hit his way. I don’t get how anyone could not love baseball. Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics, said it best when he said “it’s hard not to be romantic about baseball.”
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SPORTS
Rams match single-game records
Rams add three Lone Star Conference wins to record Rosanna Aguilera Sports Editor
The Rams baseball team got a series win over the Tarleton State Texans, winning three of the four games played. The Rams won the first game 3-0 on Thursday, March 29. In Friday’s doubleheader, they lost the first game 2-4 but won the second 6-4. They sealed the win on Saturday, winning 26-9. The Rams are 25-9 on the season and 6-2 in their Lone Star Conference play. The team matched single-game records for home runs (6), RBI (26) and walks (13) in the final game. They were one run short of matching the single game scoring record, too. Head Coach Kevin Brooks said he was proud of the team’s
offense. “I think our offense is capable of doing that every game,” Brooks said. “Our guys really locked in early.” Brooks said he was proud of his players. “Mike [Urquidi] starting out the game with a home run got us off to a good start,” Brooks said. “Everybody had really good at bats up and down the line up.” Brooks said he felt like they could score pretty regularly that day. “Got one in every inning today except for the last one because we didn’t bat in that one,” Brooks said. Sophomore Nicholas Novak ended the game with four runs scored and five RBI. He’s now tied for the team lead with four home runs on the season. “I was seeing the ball well,” Novak said. “The first three games were going in my favor
as far as hitting, so coming into today, I wasn’t thinking about the stats; I was just thinking about going out and playing baseball, and it worked out for me.” Novak said he had lots of ups and downs. “I’m trying to do the little things right, but the big thing is to stay consistent,” Novak said. “That’s been part of my game growing up, and I’m trying to keep that coming from the high school level going to the college level.” Novak said he’s adapted to a lot more. “I have one year under my belt that I took advantage of, and I hope that continues,” Novak said. Junior Brad Mathiowetz said he felt comfortable in the final game. “It helps when guys are getting hits in front of you,” Mathiowetz said. “You know you’re going to get a lot more
Photo by Kaitlin Trujillo Andrew Morales, junior first baseman, makes con-
tact with the ball. Morales had seven runs against Tarleton.
hits when you’re up in the game.” Mathiowetz said they feed off each other like that. “It also leaves a little bit of a sour taste in your mouth that we dropped a game and then come and do this to them,”
4.6.2018 Mathiowetz said. However, Mathiowetz said it’s good to get three out of four games. “We saw this coming, we’ve been building to this for a while,” Mathiowetz said.
Photo by Kaitlin Trujillo Michael Urquidi, junior out-
fielder, catches a fly ball. Urquidi scored four runs in the series against Tarleton.
Photo by Kaitlin Trujillo Jonathan Soberanes, senior second base-
man, runs to second while keeping his eye on the ball. Soberanes had four hits in the series.
Rambelles fall to Tarleton TexAnns
Rambelles look forward to Lone Star Conference Championship Rosanna Aguilera Sports Editor
The No. 4 ASU Softball team lost its series this weekend against the No. 20 Tarleton State University TexAnns. The Rams lost the first game 3-6 on Thursday, March 29, and won the first game of the double-header on Friday 8-0 but lost the final game 1-2. The Rambelles ended the first game of the DH with a run-rule victory. Senior Brandy Marlett pitched and picked up her 15th win of the season. After the series, it was only Marlett’s second loss of the season. The Rambelles are 30-6 overall on the season and 14-4 in the Lone Star Conference play. The team recorded 17 hits in the doubleheaders and nine
runs, while the TexAnns were held to eight hits on the day and scored only two runs. Head Coach Travis Scott said they played well in the series. “Give Tarleton credit; they came into a place that is hard to win and got two.” Scott said Tarleton did what they needed to do to win against the Rambelles. “We were there, though,” Scott said. “We had our chances but couldn’t quite get the base hit that we needed, and that was the difference.” Scott said he was happy with the way they bounced back in game two, especially with the energy they had. “Lots of positives that we can take from it, but we battled, and I was proud of that,” Scott said. Scott said the team is still looking to a LSC Championship. “A Lone Star Conference
Championship is still there for us, as much as it may not seem like it right now,” Scott said. Scott said they still have to play Texas A&M Commerce, UTPB, Cameron University and Midwestern State University. “Our destiny is in front of us,” Scott said. “If we can get on a role here and put a ton of wins together, it’s still available for us to try to win that thing, so that’s what we’re focusing on going forward.” Scott said it’s been a tough stretch of games. “Our teams can still battle and play well,” Scott said. “We should be ready to go next week.” The Rambelles will be on the road next week to face Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls. They will be back at home on April 13 and 14 to face UT Permian Basin.
Photo by Axel Marcenaro Brandy Marlett, senior, winds up a powerful
pitch. Marlett struck out eight players in the first game against Tarleton State.
Photo by Axel Marcenaro Courtney Barnhill, sopho-
more, is all smiles after a home run hit. Barnhill hit one home run in every game against Tarleton.
Photo by Axel Marcenaro Mykayla Stroud, freshman, smashes the ball
and makes a successful run to first base. Stroud successfully stole one base against Tarleton State.