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Vol. 59, Issue 12
Est. 1981
April 16 - April 23, 2019
The Paisano
Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio Community /PaisanoOnline
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Cardboard Kids®campaign advocates for child abuse awareness By Breahna Luera Staff Writer On April 4, UTSA displayed decorated cardboard children as a part of the Cardboard Kids® campaign that was created in 2014 by ChildSafe, an organization that advocates for the protection of children who are abused and neglected. The Cardboard Kids® is a citywide public awareness campaign used to draw attention to the pervasiveness of child abuse and the fact that every story is different and every child is unique. At UTSA, students were encouraged to decorate a cardboard child in a unique way to drive home this message. “We always strive to build awareness about important issues,” Lydia Bueno, UTSA assistant dean of students and director of the Student Center for Community Engagement and Inclusion, said. “We want to encourage people to start conversations about this important issue and to use the resources on the ChildSafe website to help guide those conversations.” UTSA’s Volunteer Organization Involving Community Education and Service (VOICES), Volunteer Services, Department of Social Work and First Lady Peggy Eighmy, who is a member of the ChildSafe Board of Directors, worked together to organize the campaign on campus. “Cardboard Kids® are more than two-foot-tall cardboard figures,” Bueno said. “They represent the thousands of children that are abused and neglected at the hands of adults in our community each year. Cardboard Kids® start the conversation, not only by creating a visual symbol for children to identify with, but by also providing valuable tips for caregivers on how to talk to their children about child abuse and neglect.” While VOICES has participated in the campaign since 2016, they invited the entire UTSA community to join for the first time this year, hoping to make a greater impact. This is the first year that UTSA served as an official distribution site for Cardboard Kids®. The ChildSafe organization dropped off 4,000 cardboard children at UTSA campuses so that members of the San Antonio community could pick them up to display on their own to show their support. “We were overwhelmed by the number of Continued on page 2 See “UTSA serves as distribution site for Cardboard Kids”
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Rape survivor shares her story By Kimiya Factory Assistant News Editor In light of April being Sexual Assault Awareness month, Brenda Tracy, rape survivor and founder of the national campaign #SetTheExpectation, visited UTSA in wake of launching her #SetTheExpectation Greek Life Pledge. Phi Gamma Delta fraternity hosted Tracy’s lecture in the Student Union Retama. “The original pledge started in December 2016; I started speaking with [five major] football teams around the country,” Tracy said. “And I recognized really early on that coaches were drawing a line in the sand about players who rape and engage in sexual assault and no longer having the privilege of participating on the team. And then there were coaches that were actively recruiting violent athletes. So then there’s this huge disparity between coaching styles and I thought, ‘What can I do to get them all on the same page?’” In March, Tracy spoke to all of the sports teams and Greek life on campus, sharing her story of being a gang rape survivor. Tracy painted a vivid picture
Students For Life (SFL) at UTSA displayed panels showcasing information related to Planned Parenthood on April 9. This demonstration included a prolife panel discussion designed to answer questions for any student seeking further information on their stance. The demonstration was met with protestors advocating for pro-choice,
Brenda Tracy speaks to students about sexual assault awareness.
for those who would listen to her story. “Every Saturday, 10,000 fans would cheer for the men who raped me—My trauma lives right here,” Tracy said. “It doesn’t just go away. My rape happened 20 years ago, but it’s still right here.” Last month following Tracy’s visit,
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Julián Castro leads ‘People First’ rally By Alex Hanks Assistant to the Editor-in-Chief Julián Castro, former San Antonio mayor and former United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under Barack Obama, took the podium in his “People First” rally in Hemisfair Park on April 10. The counter-rally originated in response to President Donald Trump’s announcement of an array of fundraising stops which visited San Antonio earlier that same day. “To Donald Trump, to [my] fellow Americans... we believe in compassion and not cruelty,” Castro said. Castro put emphasis on what he claimed to be a strong need to rally in the city he once ran, in an effort to send a clear message to the president, especially on the subject of immigration. Presidential candidate Julián Castro speaks at Hemisfair Park.
Students disagree on abortion debate By Joseph Torres Assistant News Editor
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resulting in a group of students engaging in discourse in front of the McKinney Humanities (MH) building at UTSA’s Main Campus. Students shared stories and expressed concerns relating to their personal views on the topic. Students in support of pro-choice voiced their concerns over social issues
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Organization protests block party
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Students for Justice in Palestine protest the San Antonio Hillel Israel Block Party.
By Alejandro (AJ) Lopez Co-News Editor
Students for Planned Parenthood stand in Students For Life demonstration.
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Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) protested the Israel Block Party, an event that the UTSA chapter of a pro-Israel student organization, the San Antonio Hillel, hosted on April 15. The protest was held in front of the Student Union where the Israel Block Party took place. The Israel
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Block Party featured several booths promoting Jewish culture, highlighting the diversity within Israel and breaking down the structure of the Israeli government. Protestors carried a large banner with ‘Free Palestine’ written on it. Other members carried signs that read ‘We Stand with Palestine,’ ‘Boycott Israel’ and ‘We Want Peace Not Apartheid.’