Issue #10 Spring 2013

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Church examines gay rights under new papacy Shelby Sementelli ssement@stedwards.edu

In the month since Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio became Pope Francis I, he has taken steps to try and change tradition in what many are calling a “rebirth” of the Catholic Church. His dress, shoes and new living arrangements are modest. He is shifting focus to the needs of the poor and washed the feet of both male and female teens in a juvenile detention center on Maundy Thursday rather than those of other elite Catholic officials.

In the midst of this “rebirth,” the Archbishop of New York,

Cardinal Timothy Michael Dolan, defended the church’s view on traditional marriage, but he paired that argument by calling the church and individual Catholics to be more welcoming and loving toward homosexuals.

“We need to do better to see that our defense of marriage is not reduced to an attack on gay people,” Dolan said.

Dolan’s comments came after the issue of same-sex marriage took center stage with the Supreme Court hearing two cases questioning the constitutionality of Proposition 8 and the Defense of Marriage Act. Catholic teaching calls for its followers

Michael Kappeler/DPA/Abaca Press/MCT Cardinals, including Cardinal Dolan, gather at the Vatican for the election of Pope Francis.

to love everyone because all humans are made in the image and likeness of God.

Dolan is not calling for a change in doctrine or teaching, but rather a change in

the openness of individuals toward others with different beliefs or sexual orientations.

Dolan is one of the first highup Catholic officials to make a call in the defense of homosexuals as humans made in the likeness of God. However, Director of Campus Ministry, Fr. Peter Walsh, said that the heart of the problem is that people have responded to Dolan’s statements as if he said something truly revolutionary.

“In a way I thought, the Cardinal said that the sky is blue,” Walsh said.

For those who support gay marriage, marriage is looked at as a personal decision and limiting marriage is viewed as an infringement of personal GAY|3

Global Studies major increases headcount of students, faculty Katherine Frazer kfrazer3@stedwards.edu

There has been an increase of students who are majoring in Global Studies, one of the largest academic programs at St. Edward's University. In the last few years, this major has quadrupled in size, and there are now more than 120 students in the program.

This growth comes soon after the St. Edward’s mar-

keting campaign , “The Global Studies which is centered program will have around the global theme of “take faculty members who on your world.” can cover the whole Everything from signs on streetworld...” lights to television advertise-William E. Nichols, chair of ments promote Global Studies program the university’s focus on being Nichols, the chair of the globally aware.

Global Studies program, the According to William E. current program was started

in 2006, taking place of what was formerly International Relations.

“Dr. [George] Martin started pushing internationalization,” Nichols said.

The Global Studies department has been rapidly expanding. Since the time of its establishment, Global Studies has not only grown in the number of students, but professors as well. What started off as just Nichols has grown

into a large faculty. A new professor who specializes in the Middle East was brought in this year, and a professor who will teach about Asia will start in the fall.

"The Global Studies program will have faculty members who can cover the whole world — except Antarctica,” Nichols said.

Nichols attributes most of the students’ interest to study abroad and having an

international component to their education. Nichols said that some students had experience traveling either with their families or programs during the summer in high school that sparked their interest in Global Studies.

Freshman Global Studies major Luciana Rodriguez is one of these students. She became interested in being a DIVERSE |2

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Global Studies major after taking a class at her high school.

“I like to learn about everything outside of the United States. I love global issues, I love learning about things that are going on in other parts of the world,” Rodriguez said. “It’s helpful for you to understand what is going on in your own country if you understand what is going on in the rest of the world.”

Rodriguez says that the marketing campaign did not have any influence her decision to attend St. Edward’s; furthermore, she doubts that it has much of an impact on the majors incoming students choose. However, she does recognize the link between the theme of the advertisements and the Global Studies major.

Global Studies majors are able to choose what they want to specialize in: first they choose a regional focus, and then they decide if the want to be on a business track or a track focused on conflict and politics.

Freshman Eleanor Murphy

plans to focus on Europe.

“Everyday, globalization makes the world smaller.

Problems on the other side of the globe are America’s problems too, and decisions made there affect us. I learn something genuinely fascinating every day,” Murphy said.

Murphy is studying abroad in Spain in the fall and Belgium in 2014. She claims that the marketing campaign had no influence on her decision of university or major.

“I chose global studies because it is practically an interdisciplinary degree,” Murphy said.

Nichols said that majoring in Global Studies can lead to different career paths. Some graduates of the program have persued “traditional” Global Studies positions, but Global Studies can also lead to law school, nonprofit work, and businesses.

It is not clear whether or not the marketing campaign has led to the success of the Global Studies department, but the reality is that both are growing and thriving.

“It is part of my degree plan to take on the world,” said Rodriguez.

Photo by Matt Nunez Global Studies majors choose a specific region to focus on.

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Professor presents black hole research Bridget Carter bcarter@stedwards.edu

gets larger and the curvature gets more extreme.”

A black hole is formed during the final stages of a massive star’s life. It can become so dense it cannot hold up under its own gravity.

The star then collapses under its own weight. Not all stars, however, leave behind a black hole remnant when they die. Only those massive enough will.

“There becomes so much mass in a tiny space, that it cannot hold itself up anymore,” Walter said.

This collapse results in a single, infinitely dense point.

“Nothing can escape within the distance of the event horizon,” Walter said.

Black holes can orbit each other and eventually merge into a larger black hole. During this process, gravitational waves are generated and ripple through space.

“The more compact and massive the objects are and

Paul Walter, assistant professor of science in the School of Natural Sciences, shared his research on binary black hole mergers. He presented his research at the Faculty Talk Series on Friday at St. Edward’s University, sponsored by the Center for Teaching Excellence on April 13.

To begin his presentation, Walter introduced the complex subject matter with a simple analogy: a black hole coin funnel.

Once a coin is tossed into the model, it continues to spin until it loses energy. The more the coin spirals around the funnel, the faster it goes.

In other words, the coin gains a higher frequency of orbits.

As the coin travels faster and faster around the model, it is also working its way down into the funnel. This is what happens “We will likely be when an object able to directly detect is sucked into a black hole. gravitational waves by “Because a 2020.” coin has friction, it loses -Paul Walter, assistant professor energy and end of science spirals until a point of no return,” Walter said. the more they accelerate, the Walter said that an Ameri- larger the emission of gravican theoretical physicist, tational waves,” Walter said.

John Wheeler, helped re- “Binary black hole mergers store interest in general rela- will be the largest source of tivity in the 1960s. This the- gravitational waves.” ory states that the curvature Gravitational waves proof spacetime — the union vide information about how of space and time — is di- the sources are moving. As rectly related to the energy two black holes orbit each and momentum of whatever other, they are pulling at matter and radiation are each other and accelerating present. with the same force. This “Matter inversely tells emits a lot of energy. space how it’s going to curve,” “When a black hole is ten Walter said. “The closer an times the mass of the sun, object is to the sun, the force they can orbit themselves at

US News/NASA/MCT Professor Walter recently shared research on black holes.

100 times per second,” Walter said.” This is an extremely energetic event.”

Though the detection of gravitational waves can help astronomers locate black holes, they have never been directly detected.

“Nothing has been found yet,” Walter said. “It will be toward the end of this decade when the detectors will be advanced enough to find signals.”

Astronomers have monitored the orbital frequency of the binary neutron star system since 1974, according to Annenberg Learner. Astrophysicists use the arrival times of the radio pulses to reconstruct the orbit of the binary system. This is indirect evidence that gravitational radiation exists.

“We will likely be able to directly detect gravitational waves by 2020,” Walter said.

“If there was an event close enough to us, we would have measured it by now.”

Detecting gravitational waves is difficult, but it still vital.

“We are detecting something that is extremely difficult to measure,” Walter said. “The signals are going to be very weak. What a wave form looks like is telling us about the dynamics of the source that is making

that wave.”

By the end of the decade we should see a great advancement in this field, Walter said.

“The direct detection of gravitational waves will open a new portal into how we are able to view the universe,” Walter said. “We will be able to map out the universe.”

St. Edward’s encourages undergraduate research.

“The goal is to get students interested in research,” Walter said.

However, professors may find it difficult to conduct their research because of the four course minimum they must teach. Walter dedicates time for his research during the summer months and winter break.

“My responsibilities are to teach,” Walter said. “I conduct my research on my own time and at my own will.”

Though St. Edward’s offers fewer resources for faculty, Walter received a summer grant in 2011 from the Office of Sponsored Programs that was put toward his research.

St. Edward’s currently does not offer a major in physics; however, Walter would like to help build the physics education track and encourage students to get involved with the subject matter.

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Gay community welcomed on university campus, in Church Continued from page 1

liberty. However, when the church looks at marriage it sees it as a public relationship first. For Christians, it is a sacrament, so marriage is seen as more than a legal joining of two people.

“It is a joining of two people in God’s eyes. The perspectives are different, and the disconnect is one that we need to be especially aware of,” Walsh said.

Campus Ministry prides itself on welcoming everyone and wants homosexual students to feel at home on campus and in Campus Ministry. Campus Ministry supports PRIDE and recognizes that LGBTQIA students are a valued part of the St. Ed-

Hilltop Views Archives PRIDE’s top priority is gay and lesbian students on campus.

ward’s University community.

“As an individual, it isn’t really a big deal on St. Ed’s campus. The university is welcoming and accepting of who people are,” Grace Maverick, executive director of

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However, according to Maverick, this welcoming demeanor changes at times when PRIDE tries to organize events.

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strictions,” Maverick said. our community. Having the According to Maverick, St. Catholic Church’s support of Edward’s is specifically wor- gay youth is more important ried about endorsing an image “It isn’t really a big that supports gay marriage. Many deal...The university individuals in is welcoming and PRIDE support gay marriage; accepting of who however, Maverpeople are.” ick said on a dayto-day basis gay -Grace Maverick, executive marriage is not director of PRIDE a big concern for the on campus group. PRIDE strives to establish a place to me than their support of where students within a sex- gay marriage,” Maverick said. ual orientation can feel comWalsh thinks that an imfortable and be themselves. portant distinction needs to “I think the constant link- be made. Some well meaning ing of the two [gay rights and Catholics think they are admarriage] is a disadvantage to vocating for the church’s posi-

tion by alienating homosexuals. In reality, they are giving in to their own personal discomfort with sexuality and the different ways in which people are.

“If people have a personal discomfort with someone’s sexual orientation, they need to reconcile that themselves.

This and the church’s stance on marriage are two separate things,” Walsh said.

Consistent with Dolan’s call, Walsh says that Christians need to be more open, sit down and have a conversation with people who have different views or lifestyles.

“Discrimination, exclusion or shaming is not consistent with Catholic teaching or St. Edward’s ministry,” Walsh said.

BRIEF

Incident

Location

Resolution

11:06 a.m.

Forgery

Teresa Hall

Referred to Dean of Students

March 29

8:25 p.m.

Suspicious Activity

S. Congress and Cumberland

Closed

April 2

8:07 a.m.

Graffiti

Hunt Hall

Closed

April 3

1:10 p.m.

Minor Accident

Parking Lot C

Closed

April 5

2:46 a.m.

Unauthorized Use of Motor Vehicle

Trustee Hall

Active

April 8

7:40 a.m.

Graffiti

Moody Hall

Closed

April 8

12:09 p.m.

Lost Property

Doyle Hall

Closed

April 11

1:57 p.m.

Accident

Congress and Woodward

Closed

April 11

10:08 p.m.

Damage to Personal Property

Woodward Parking Lot

Closed

April 12

3 a.m.

Ill Student

Apartments

Closed

April 14

2:27 a.m.

Ill Person

The Village

Closed

April 14

10:52 a.m.

Fraudulent ID

St. Edward’s University

Closed

April 14

9:32 p.m.

Injured Person

East Hall

Closed

Google Fiber heads to city Jacob Sanchez jsanchen@stedwards.edu

In an announcement last week at Brazos Hall, Google confirmed that Austin will be getting their super high speed Internet, Google Fiber.

“Google Fiber will change how we live and work in ways we don’t know about,” Mayor Lee Leffingwell said.

Google Fiber has speeds that are 100 times faster than today’s high speed Internet.

Milo Medin, vice president of access services at Google, said that the gigabit Internet will come next year.

Google will divide the city up into fiberhoods where each community

will try to get enough demand to bring Google Fiber to their area. Community centers, such as libraries, will get the gigabit Internet free of charge.

No pricing was announced; however, the pricing for Google Fiber in Kansas City is $120 for gigabit Internet plus TV, $70 for just the gigabit Internet and free Internet at today’s average speeds with a $300 construction fee.

Governor Rick Perry spoke at the event saying that Texas is at the forefront of innovation.

“The next Google will be born and bred in Texas,” Perry said. “Austin is the next Silicon Valley. No, Austin will be better than Silicon Valley.”

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Q&A

Visiting writer shares his passion and poetry Brooke Blanton bblanto@stedwards.edu

Award-winning poet A. Van Jordan will visit our campus on April 18 as the latest installment of the Marcia Kinsey Visiting Writers Series in celebration of National Poetry Month.

The former University of Texas professor lived in Austin for three and a half years and currently teaches at the University of Michigan.

Brooke Blanton: When did you first know you were a poet?

A. Van Jordan: The first time I felt like a poet was the first time I got something published. I had been a journalist before, so I was used to having a byline, but it was a very different experience seeing my name associated with something that I was so invested in.

BB: When did you first get published?

AVJ: 1996. It was a little journal from a small college in Pennsylvania, Lycoming College.

BB: Where did you get your training?

AVJ: When I lived in D.C., there was a very vibrant literary scene. I entered an MFA program at George Mason University and stayed a semester there. I didn’t have a lot of money, so

Courtesy of A. Van Jordan Jordan’s poetry often deals with issues of race.

I dropped out. Then I ended up in the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College.

BB: Tell me about your new book, “The Cineaste.”

AVJ: On one frequency, it is an exploration of film in general. There are times where I cast myself as the protagonist or antagonist in the film or I’ll riff off the theme of the film.

On the other level is a large poem which tells the story of how Oscar Micheaux, an African American independent filmmaker, became a filmmaker. This guy just taught himself how to make film and ended up making over 40 films in his life.

BB: Why poetry?

AVJ: Poetry has the

most artistic freedom of any art form. We can pretty much deal with any subject matter we want to. People who don’t encounter poetry on a daily basis are often really struck when they encounter a poem and they connect with it. There are people who have read a poem when they were a child and it stuck with them the rest of their lives.

BB: What percent of your poems actually go into your books?

AVJ: I’m pretty conservative with the amount of writing I do. I may write 10 poems a year.

Maybe eight of the 10 make it into the collection.

BB: What was your impression of Austin?

AVJ: There are so many things about Austin that I really enjoy, but I thought it was incredibly segregated.

I’d go places and be the only person of color.

Then I’d go over to the east side to get my haircut and it’s a whole new world. It always bothered me that the city was so divided that way. But my favorite thing about Austin was the film scene, which I think is very underrated.

Jordan will speak in the Maloney Room at 7:30 on April 18.

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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 17, 2013 • HILLTOP VIEWS 6 LIFE & ARTS Prepare for laughs: emerging comedy festival takes over Austin Kelsey Caine kcaine@stedwards.edu

The Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival is coming to Austin and comedy fans are thrilled.

From April 24-27, Austin will be hosting some of the biggest names in comedy. The Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival is put on by the Paramount Theatre and is one of the most up-andcoming comedy festivals.

This will be the second annual Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival, a beginning to what may become a facet in the comedy scene.

As comedy is subjective, the festival features acts of every genre including stand-up, improv, sketch and even musical comedy. This event has many different comical options to please all types of comedylovers.

However, the headliners

Mary Ellen Matthews/NBC/MCT Bill Hader is one of the headliners of Moontower this year.

include some of the biggest names in comedy. For the “Saturday Night Live” fans, current cast mate Bill Hader

will be performing.

Hader is known for his recurring characters on SNL such as Stefon, the flamboy-

ant New Yorker. His comedic talents are also showcased in the movies “Superbad,” “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” “Adventureland” and “Hot Rod.” The SNL veteran Dana Carvey is also scheduled to perform at the Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival. Carvey is best known for teaming up with Mike Myers in the cult classic “Wayne’s World.”

For more offbeat comedy, Maria Bamford will be doing her uncomfortably funny stand-up. Bamford has the amazing ability to change her voice as needed for her stories, making her standup more of a character performance. Using this talent, Bamford lends her voice to Hot Dog Princess in the cartoon “Adventure Time.”

The festival will also be showcasing stand-up comedian Bill Burr, a regular on the late-night circuit. Burr

has been featured on “The Late Show with David Letterman” and “Late Night with Conan O’Brien.”

Other big wigs that will be performing include Jim Gaffigan, known for his standup commentary on bacon, Michael Ian Black, commentator on VH1’s “I Love the 70’s/80’s/90’s/New Millennium” and Judah Friedlander, who plays Frank on the television show “30 Rock.”

The truly exciting part of the festival comes from the input of many local Austin comedians. This year the current winner of the Funniest Person in Austin Contest, Ramin Nazer, will be performing.

His accomplishments include a showcase on the “Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson,” working on HUMORdy, a collection of stand-up, sketches and cartoons made by Austin co-

medians and producing Live at Coldtowne, a stand-up showcase every Friday at the Coldtowne Theater.

Mac Blake is another local Austin comedian to watch out for. He is a silly standup comedian as well as gifted improv and sketch comedy player. Blake is currently featured in the troupe Stage Comedy, which can be seen at the Coldtowne Theater.

Other Austin comedians performing in the Moontower Comedy and Oddity Festival include Maggie Maye, Amber Bixby, Derek Phelps, Kath Barbadoro, Michael Priest and Danny Palumbo.

These comics can be seen at many comedy venues around Austin on a weekly basis. In the Austin comedy scene, they are the people to watch.

Overall, the festival will be packed with over 100 comedians looking to make you laugh.

Professor translates life experiences to classroom teachings Kelsey Caine kcaine@stedwards.edu

William Earnest, better known as Billy, is a wellknown St. Edward’s University communication professor.

His conversational and critical thinking-focused teaching method has been greatly received by many of his students.

Earnest grew up in Wichita Falls, Texas.

“It’s just a big small town,” Earnest said.

Earnest began his love affair with teaching after he earned his undergraduate degree in marketing at Midwestern State University in 1989.

Shortly thereafter, Earnest was offered a teaching position at Midwestern State as

a graduate student. It was at that point Earnest knew his life’s calling was to teach.

However, he also knew he wanted to give the real world a try.

Earnest left his position at Midwestern and was recruited by Atlanta’s Electronic Data Systems, EDS. “I’d never been there, but I always liked the idea of living in Atlanta, so I put it down,” Earnest said.

Earnest was happy to then be moved to Atlanta.

“For a small-town boy, it was a real-world education.

I think living and working in the real world for five years has made me a much better teacher,” Earnest said.

After the five years at EDS, Earnest was ready to attain his master’s degree. He was

accepted to the University of Texas to receive a master’s degree in communication.

As a masters student, Earnest also became the teaching assistant for Mark Knapp, a prominent leader in the field of communication.

Knapp quite literally wrote the book on nonverbal communication. In 1997 Knapp introduced “Lying and Deception” as a communication course at UT. From 2002 to 2005, Earnest was hired as a full-time lecturer at UT. During this time, he also attained his doctorate in communication studies from UT. After that, he began teaching at St. Edward’s. Over the course of his time here he has adapted “Lying and Deception” as well as “Communica-

tion and Culture” to fit into the St. Edward’s communication program.

As well as teaching, Earnest wrote the book “Save Our Slides,” a guide to PowerPoint as a form of persuasion and good presentation strategy, the idea for which began while Earnest was forced to watch terrible PowerPoint presentations at both EDS and UT. “I wrote the book in ’07 and it is now required by the school for presentational speaking,” Earnest said.

“Save Our Slides” has been used by Indiana University, Westchester University and University of Texas.

Earnest plans to take a sabbatical next spring to work on his newest book, “The Reluctant Agnostic.”

The book will discuss the idea of the religious middle ground, analyzing those who choose to leave organized religion, but are still hopeful in faith and hesitantly become agnostics.

Through his writings and teachings, this critical thinking professor has made a real impact on the St. Edward’s community and will continue to do so for many years to come.

Photo by Kelsey Caine Earnest wrote one of the most notable books on presentations.

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WEEKLY ‘FLIX FIX | Heavenly Creatures True story turned into twisted but cinematically beautiful film Chloe Kirkpatrick ckirkpa@stedwards.edu

Actress Kate Winslet, best known for the blockbuster “Titanic,” made her film debut in “Heavenly Creatures.”

The 1994 film is strange, twisted and, disturbingly, based on a true story.

“Heavenly Creatures” is set in Christchurch, New Zealand.

It follows the friendship of two adolescent girls, Pauline Parker and Juliet Hulme, played by Melanie Lynskey and Winslet.

The girls initially meet in school, but their innocent friendship eventually be-

comes obsessive. They spend all their time together, creating stories about a fictional land called “Borovia.”

The girls spend so much time in “Borovia” that they start to believe it is real.

Their delusions intensify over time. Hulme introduces Parker to a non-religious heaven called the “Fourth World,” and the girls begin spending their time there.

They actually believe the Fourth World and Borovia are real places.

Both Parker and Hulme have strained relationships with their parents. Additionally, both girls’ parents begin to suspect their friendship is

not healthy.

Parker’s parents have her psychoanalyzed, and based on Parker’s obsession with Hulme, the doctor concludes she might be a lesbian.

Since the film is set in the 1950s, this is not a welcomed diagnosis.

While Parker is busy being diagnosed with lesbianism, Hulme comes down with Tuberculosis. Her parents decide to send her away to live with relatives. The girls become hysterical at the suggestion.

The film, directed by Peter Jackson, is structured circularly. The opening shot shows Hulme and Parker running,

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distressed and bloody. Thus, the viewer immediately knows this cannot end well.

Indeed it does not. Parker and Hulme’s delusions and obsessions eventually culminate in disturbing violence.

Although it is beautifully shot, “Heavenly Creatures” is an unpleasant film to watch, a fact that is exacerbated when the viewer realizes all of this delusion and violence actually happened.

Winslet and Lynskey’s performances are strong, especially for debut performances, and the film is well-made, but it leaves the viewer uncomfortable and disturbed.

Kirk McKoy/Los Angeles Times/MCT Kate Winslet made her film debut in “Heavenly Creatures.”

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Kelsey Cartwright kcartwr@stedwards.edu

A St. Edward’s University women’s soccer player was recently selected to try out for the Filipino national soccer team.

“I felt that it was going to be silly to pass this opportunity up,” senior Olivia Collado said. “It is a once in a lifetime opportunity, and I knew that if I did not try out, I would regret it in the future.”

Collado, a central defensive midfielder, has been playing soccer for 14 years. Her parents first enrolled her in soccer because it was convenient since her brother also played.

However, this decision would later land her with the opportunity to play for St. Edward’s and to try out for a

national soccer team.

Collado was first contacted by the Filipino team in December. The team got all of her information from Nick Cowell, the women’s head soccer coach.

“You make a pool and they pick upon availability for different tournaments,” Collado said. The roster numbers fifty women, which will eventually be cut to a group of twentyfive players by April 20.

The Philippines Football Federation’s training squad will soon start training for the Asian Football Confederation Women’s Asian Cup, where they will play teams from across Asia.

Collado’s parents then urged her to try out.

“My parents were onehundred percent supportive.

They were the ones that talked me into trying it,” Collado said. “They were also proud that I was even offered this opportunity.”

She tried out for the Filipino team in Los Angeles, Calif., over Easter break. If she does get called back to play, she would be going to stay in the Philippines for about a month in May. If she does play in May, Collado said that she will probably only play for the summer because she plans to go to pharmacy school.

“I would not pass up an opportunity to play because it is such an honor to play for my country,” Collado said.

Cowell said that it is rare for a player to get called up in college to play for their national team if they have

not played for them before.

Cowell is well aware that this experience means a lot to players.

“It means that the player is representing their culture and their heritage,” Cowell said. “I am sure that one must feel very proud to don the jersey of one’s nationality. It is the pinnacle of one’s sporting career.”

Usually, Cowell recruits at least some players who have previously played at the national level.

Since Cowell has been head coach for seven seasons at St. Edward’s, he has sent several players abroad after graduation. For example, Stacey Copeland, Troi Jorgensen and Kelly Boyd all went to play in Sweden.

Other players, such as Kim

Abbott and Kristen Gascoyne, have played semi-professionally for the Houston Aces in Texas, Cowell said.

Cowell said that these accomplishments mean a lot for the women’s soccer program.

“It means that we are doing a great job of not only recruiting talented players but also developing them once they are here,” Cowell said.

Cowell said many female soccer players do not get the opportunity to go on to play after college because professional opportunities, both stateside and abroad, can be limited.

“It is great to see our players go on after graduation and continue to enjoy the game at the highest level,” Cowell said. “I hope that many more will continue to play.”

Courtesy of Olivia Collado Collado plays defensive midfield for the Women’s team.

SPORTS COMMENTARY

Louisville’s Ware’s tragic injury trumped by inspiring recovery Reagan Roehl rroehl@stedwards.edu

There are moments in the world of sports that transcend the games themselves and the fan loyalties attached.

Stories of the underdog, teams playing for their tragedy-stricken communities and players persevering through adversity have served as a rallying cry for sports audiences everywhere. Add Louisville guard Kevin Ware’s injury to this list.

In Louisville’s Elite Eight NCAA Tournament win over Duke on March 31, sophomore Kevin Ware jumped up to contest the three-point shot by Duke’s Tyler Thornton.

The images that followed

will forever be cemented in 1985. the minds of millions of live However, I would liken the viewers. injury to former Alabama As Ware came back down to “It was by and far land, his right leg buckled and the most graphic and gave out, resultcatastrophic injury I ing in a gruehave ever witnessed some compound fracture that sent live, in many years of his splintered watching sports.” tibia protruding through his skin.

It was by and far the most graphic and catastrophic in- wide receiver Tyrone Projury I have ever witnessed thro’s in 2005, as he too sufin many years of watching fered the fracture while maksports. The media immedi- ing a landing. But neither had ately made comparisons to his skin breached or went former Washington Red- down right in front of his skins quarterback Joe Theis- team’s bench. mann’s compound fracture in Although he was not a ma-

jor player for Louisville, Ware was a sparkplug off the bench for Head Coach Rick Pitino and had a very close relationship with his teammates.

This was on full display after he suffered the injury, as everybody on the bench and the court was distraught and in tears, with some players such as Peyton Siva and Chane Behanan even collapsing to the floor.

The injury flooded social media across the country, with the gruesome close-up shots of Ware’s leg trending everywhere.

However, CBS, the carrier of the game, avoided replaying the injury from close camera angles out of respect for the nature of the incident and the viewers. Other major me-

dia outlets began following suit as well, avoiding the use of detailed videos and photos that could be easily accessed from popular news sources and YouTube.

There is a silver lining though, as all the publicity of the injury has led to an overwhelming out pour of support for Ware and the Louisville basketball team from across the country.

Ware received Twitter shout-outs from LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony and other high-profile athletes and celebrities.

Adidas even produced Louisville Final Four shirts that read “Rise to the Occasion,” with Ware’s number “5” replacing the “s” in “Rise.” The shirts were discontinued be-

cause of disputes regarding the proceeds, but the support for the Louisville Cardinals and Kevin Ware has not waned.

With this momentum and Ware — fresh out of surgery — accompanying the team, Louisville made the journey to the Final Four in Atlanta to defeat Michigan and win the National Championship on April 8. In a fitting tribute, Ware cut down the nets after their title game victory, capping off a heartwarming championship run with people around the country rooting the Cardinals on.

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No-hitter for sophomore pitcher Sarah Debrow Shelby Cole scole2@stedwards.edu

Sophomore pitcher Sarah Debrow pitched a perfect game and a no-hitter on the weekend of April 12-14.

Shelby Cole: How has the team been doing this season?

Sarah Debrow: We started off the season really strong and then kind of went for a little bit of a ride up and down, which a lot of teams tend to do. But I feel like lately, especially since the mid-season, we’ve kind of hit an upward climb and we’re doing really well.

SC: How did this weekend go?

Courtesy of Sarah Debrow Debrow threw a no-hitter at the Texas A&M International.

SD: First we played [Texas A&M] International and I threw my first ever no-hitter. Exciting is kind of an understatement. Then, we had West Texas A&M as our double header Sunday,

and I feel like as a team, we kind of were seeking a little bit of revenge because we played them earlier in the season and lost. One of the games we were up 3-2 the entire game, and in

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the bottom of the seventh, I was pitching, we had two outs and I gave up a walk off three-run home run.

Completely heartbreaking for all of us, especially me.

But that happens in the sport all the time, and it just really bummed us out and kind of got us down.

SC: What do you do when that kind of thing happens?

SD: I take it extremely hard. It’s not like I leapt over the plate for her, but it’s my fault. I was pitching.

And it’s not my fault that we lost because it’s always a team effort, but I’m like “Yeah guys, that’s my fault.”

SC: What do you do to get back in the saddle?

SD: For about a half hour, I spent time alone, but we still had a game to play after that, so you have to give yourself some time to beat yourself up but then you have to get back at it.

But then when I found out that we were playing them again here, it was our chance to get them back.

We lost the first game 6-2, which is a good game on both sides, but then the second game, it was a completely different story.

SC: Will you explain what a no-hitter is?

SD: Well, the no-hitter was Friday against International. It was a no-hitter as well against West Texas, it was a perfect game because I didn’t walk anyone either.

Everybody was up in the dugout, the energy level was out the roof.

SC: Are you a celebrity on the team now?

SD: No, I was almost crying on Sunday, though. I

love my team so much and I feel like everyone loves each other. I’ve never been a part of a better group of girls.

SC: What got you into the sport?

SD: I was six years old, walking with my dad, and we lived kind of close to some softball fields.

And one day he was like “Hey, do you want to play softball?” And I pictured a giant, red bouncy ball. I thought he meant kickball.

He put me in it, and I just have played ever since.

SC: What’s your biggest accomplishment in the sport? Is this weekend pretty high up there?

SD: I would probably say this weekend, the no hitter and the perfect game are probably my biggest accomplishments ever.

SC: I know you’re a sophomore, but what is your big end-of-graduation dream?

SD: With my life? I’m a communications major, but I kind of started in business. I would love to end up managing, kind of in the corporate setting somewhere. I would really like to do that.

SC: Do you have any weird habits that you would be willing to share with the world?

SD: Everyone tells me I’m a weird person, so I know I do, I just don’t know. I love pickle pops.

SC: What is a pickle pop?

SD: You’ve never had one?

Oh my gosh. You just take pickle juice, you freeze it and it’s a pickle pop. You should totally try it.

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Job and Internship Fair disappoints some students Ask students why they attended college, and you’ll get a variety of answers.

Expanding intellectual horizons, playing sports and going to parties will all probably come up, but these answers do not get to the heart of the matter: people want jobs when they graduate.

Many students will continue on to law school, medical school, graduate school and the like, but the goal post-graduate education is ultimately to get an even better job than everyone else.

Moreover, most people would be happier if they got a career, not just a meager job, but most college graduates will take what they can get.

Last week, Career Services no doubt left disappointed offered students a glimpse with their experiences. at some employment Kelsey Acosta, a junior possibilities at the Job and double majoring in Internship Fair. Over 100 Psychology and Philosophy, businesses and organizations, chose not to attend this year’s including some St. Edward’s University “Many students want to offices, set up do research or produce booths in the Recreation and art, or countless other Convocation things that warrant Center.

The fair gave a lab coat or stage students an makeup, not a suit.” opportunity to shop around potential employers a bit, Job and Internship Fair after and hopefully some students being let down last year. walked away with jobs — or “There wasn’t a lot there for at least interviews. That said, people who aren’t business countless other students were majors,” Acosta said.

While the fair hosted a variety of employers, from New York Life insurance to Boy Scouts of America, the fact of the matter is that traditional, suit-and-tie, nine-to-five employment is not for everyone. Many students want to do research or produce art, or countless other things that warrant a lab coat or stage makeup, not a suit.

Acosta’s views likely reflect those of many other students who are not on track to work in an office. That said, students like Acosta still need work experience in their chosen fields.

Luckily, many majors require students to intern, which gives students valuable

experience — even if this experience is unpaid. Often, professors and administrators help students find these internships.

“I get emails all the time about Psych internships,” Acosta said.

Other majors do not have internship requirements simply because internships would be difficult to even conceptualize in some areas.

Students seeking academic careers could theoretically work in a classroom setting, but that is not always practical.

“It’s not like they even have philosophy internships, or money to pay us to be TAs,” Acosta said.

Career Services is, overall,

a valuable resource for students. Offering access to any job opportunity is obviously going to be welcomed by many students, all of whom really want a job. Other students, who are less interested in traditional office jobs, are at risk of being disappointed by the reality that jobs are hard to find, especially non-traditional jobs.

Luckily, St. Edward’s University offers a unique environment for networking.

Students seeking nontraditional work have the benefit of an approachable faculty.

St. Edward’s students actually know their professors, and their professors want to help them.

Google Fiber to transform Austin into a better Silicon Valley Jacob Sanchez jsanchen@stedwards.edu

After Austin’s campaign for Google’s ultra-highspeed Internet failed three years ago, Google announced that the city will be getting Google Fiber in 2014.

Google Fiber is so fast that a person can download a high definition movie in about five minutes.

Now that may sound just like a gimmick, but this gigabit Internet opens all types of opportunities for everyone in Austin.

At the announcement, many of the speakers imagined that with this Internet, patients could talk to their doctors in real time over the web or even stream movies from a festival happening downtown. It could make Austin the “live

music capital of the web.”

These ideas are very ambitious, and they would most likely be decades away without Google Fiber.

As was the case in Kansas City, people will want to come and start new businesses in Austin because of Google Fiber. This is good for everyone in Austin because it means citizens will have more services and jobs available.

With more jobs, there will be more people, which means more money flowing into Austin. With more money in Austin, the city will be able to improve the infrastructure.

While the majority of people will benefit from Google Fiber, competing Internet service providers like AT&T and Time Warner will be hurt because of Google Fiber, but this is

good for consumers.

AT&T is planning to bring gigabit Internet to Austin soon, but it is unknown if their prices will be similar to the price Google charged in Kansas City. Pricing has yet to be decided for Google Fiber in Austin.

Pricing in Kansas City is $120 for TV and gigabit Internet, $70 for gigabit Internet and free Internet at average speeds with a $300 construction fee.

While ISPs may be impacted, Google Fiber will make these companies become more competitive, driving costs down for consumers.

Gov. Rick Perry believes that with Google Fiber, the next Google or Apple will be born and bred here in Texas — he is right.

Photo by Jacob Sanchez Gov. Rick Perry posing at the announcement that Google Fiber will be coming to Austin soon.

Austin is the new Silicon Valley, but with Google Fiber Austin will surpass California’s Silicon Valley.

When the next great company is born in Austin, it will cement Austin as the best place for technology.

Perry cannot take credit

for Google Fiber coming to Austin because that was an effort by the city of Austin.

However, Perry can take credit for the possible boom that the economy will have because of Google.

If the economy continues at its current pace, Perry will

have a good platform for a reelection bid in 2014 and a presidential run in 2016.

Google Fiber is going to change the way Austin works, plays, and lives. It will change everything in Austin.

Google Fiber is the next revolution in technology.

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Jimmy Fallon to take over for Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show” Jacob Sanchez jsanchen@stedwards.edu

After months of rumors, NBC confirmed that “Late Night” host Jimmy Fallon will take over “The Tonight Show” after the Winter Olympics in February.

This marks the end of Jay Leno’s 22-year reign as host of “The Tonight Show.” He previously stepped down in 2009 to let Conan O’Brien host, but due to bad ratings Leno regained his seat behind the late night show’s desk.

The transition from Leno to Fallon will not be like the previous one — it will be permanent. Fallon is a more “mainstream” comedian than O’Brien, whose humor worked when he was at “Late Night,” but fell flat at “Tonight.”

Fallon is consistently funny.

His bits, such as the recent clips of the best moments. skit with First Lady Michelle Like Carson, Fallon has Obama called “the Evolution a side kick who is also the of Mom Dancing,” often go show’s announcer, Steve Higviral. gins. When Fallon’s jokes fall “Saturday Night Live” cre- flat, Higgins usually turns it ator and “Late Night” execu- around and makes the auditive producer Lorne Michaels ence laugh. said that Fallon is “the closest Fallon’s best asset is The to [ Johnny] Carson that I’ve seen of this genera“He breaks the show tion.” Michaels up so that viewers do is right. Fallon is this generation’s not have to watch the Carson. entire live show, but Fallon does not do a “Las Vegas” can watch clips of the style show: he best moments.” does a show that incorporates music, the Internet, SNL-like skits and games Roots. They are in the show’s with his guests. He breaks skits, and at times are even the show up so that viewers funnier than Fallon. The do not have to watch the en- Roots will stay with Fallon tire show live, but can watch when he moves to “The To-

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night Show.”

For the past 40 years, “The Tonight Show” has been filmed in California, but NBC executives have decided to move the show back to its home in New York City. This is a move that ensures Jimmy Fallon as the host of “The Tonight Show” for many years to come.

With Fallon replacing Leno, people are wondering who will take over “Late Night.”

The rumored front runner to be the newest addition to late night is SNL’s Seth Meyers.

While Meyers would be a good pick, the time has come for a woman to host a late night show on a major network.

Chelsea Handler would be a great choice to replace Fallon because she already hosts a talk show on E!, has a studio and is in California.

Lawrence K. Ho/Los Angeles Times/MCT Jimmy Fallon will end Jay Leno’s 22-year reign as the host.

Tina Fey would be another great pick for “Late Night,” but reports have said that she has turned it down because she is too busy.

Alec Baldwin is in talks to host a new late night show on

NBC, according to the New York Times. It is not known what time his show would air.

Fallon will become this generation’s Carson when he begins his new job as host of “The Tonight Show.”

Equality not achieved with a profile picture Sam Jackson sjackso8@stedwards.edu

Unless you’ve just come from the ‘80s in a DeLorean, you know that recently, the Supreme Court heard arguments on the constitutionality of two laws impacting LGBT rights in the U.S.: the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as being between one man and one woman for purposes of marital benefits, and California’s Proposition 8, which only allowed recognition of heterosexual marriages.

To mark this occasion, little equal signs have been spontaneously appearing on Facebook profiles like weeds after rain. The sign is a brainchild of the Human Rights Campaign, and several million people have already changed their profile pictures, ostensi-

bly to show support for mar- Remember all those gag riage equality. posts about Kony snatching While both those laws de- more kids in the time it took serve to get stricken down, for one guy to watch that? changing a profile picture is Those were definitely rooted not going to help anything, in truth. now or ever.

If you changed your proThese equal signs are an file picture and you do other effect of slacktivism. Slack- things like participate in tivism happens when millions of people band “If you only change together and peryour picture and form an action, but the action is nothing else, you are so insignificant part of the problem. it ends up being useless despite Caring is not as good the beautiful senas doing.” timent.

The best example of this is the Kony 2012 video. Good Pride parades, then that is cause, but it did not help awesome. Keep doing it. If anything because nobody you only change your picture was willing to actually do and nothing else, you are part anything that would help. of the problem. Caring is not

as good as doing, and we forgot that.

And did we forget who is deciding the case? The U.S. Supreme Court, who do not care about popular opinion.

If the Supreme Court really bowed to public opinion, pot and gay marriage would have been legal years ago, and Antonin Scalia would have been tied naked to a hog and set loose into D.C. for repeat offenses of spewing Haterade.

The equal sign campaign, along with recent polls that show a majority of Americans support gay marriage, might have helped sway politicians, though.

But come on, when did “stand up and shout” become “lie down and mumble”? Get out there and really show some love and support for LGBT people, with more than a cute profile picture.

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Relay For Life St. Edward’s University Colleges Against Cancer hosted it’s third annual Relay For Life from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. on April 12-13. The night featured music, speakers and food while participants walked all night to support cancer awareness.

Photos by Matt Nuñez