Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio
04.26.2011 Vol. 45 Issue 14
The
Paisano
Women’s Studies Institute in danger? Joseph Tidline
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P9: Open Mic night
P14: Historic year in sports
FTK hosts 12 hour dance marathon
The Texas House of Representatives approved a budget provision requiring state colleges and universities, that use state funds to support “a gender and sexuality center” to spend an equal amount to promote “family and traditional values.” The amendment proposed by Rep. Wayne Christian, RCenter, passed by a margin of 110-24. “My first question is how one defines ‘family and traditional values’,” Sonia SaldivarHull, Professor of English and the Executive Director of the Women’s Studies Institute (WSI) at UTSA, said. The amendment specifically targets public colleges and universities that have separate gender and sexuality centers on campus. “I wonder how they are going to hire people to run these centers,” Larissa MercadoLopez, programming director for WSI, said. “There may already be restrictions as to who they may hire just based on [university] equal opportunity acts.” The Inclusion and Community Engagement Center (ICE) is UTSA’s major resource cen-
“State funding and student fees should not fund any university minor or political group whether it be black, white, gay, ect.” John McClellan Chief of Staff
ter for minority groups on campus. “Our center is a little bit different,” Marlon Anderson, director of ICE, said. “Our center is truly a multicultural center so it is not just focused on services specifically fo the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Questioning (LGBTQ) students.” Anderson also notes that the amendment focuses specifically on state funded centers. “Our office is purely funded by student service fee funds,” Anderson said. “We believe that we will be exempt from the legislation in its current form becuase of the fact.” However, Christian’s amendment targets more than just state-funded gender and sexuality centers.
See WSI, Page 3
Graphic by Robert Calcagno
P8: Summer fashion
Texas House of Representative approves budget provision requiring state funds to provide family and traditional value institute.
Minor changes to shuttles in fall semester
Robyn Bramwell
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See FTK, Page 6
Ramsey Rodriguez
paisanonews@sbcglobal.net Students will see minor changes in the shuttle service beginning this fall. “Overall the service will be the same as last year,” Transportation Manager Jim Strahan said. “The shuttle services do intend to add a few more routes to student housing complexes and a Thursday evening shopping shuttle night.” The on-campus shuttle routes will run Mondays through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 9:55 p.m., and 7 a.m. to 5:55 p.m. on Friday. The service intervals will range from 10 to 15 minutes.
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For The Kids (FTK) Dance Marathon at UTSA was the highlight of year-long fundraising. The 12-hour dance event was held Saturday, April 23, in the University Center. FTK’s simple, yet inspiring question “Will you join our dance?” was answered by a diverse collaboration of dancers including affiliates of other clubs, various Greeklife members, about 25 high school students from Holmes and O’Connor, Zumba instructors and other independent participants. All registered dancers had to remain on their feet for the entire marathon, which ran from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Over 100 dancers donated $20 each to dance for the cause. This was FTK’s second dance marathon, the first being only four hours long. The organization hopes to make it an annual event at UTSA. The dance marathon was influenced by Penn State’s 48-hour THON, a two-day dance marathon which has been held since 1977. “Just by them standing there for so long proves how much they all care about this,” junior biology major Christine Wong said.
Number of shuttle routs in the fall semester will be expanded to include more stops to student housing. The off-campus shuttle routes operate on class days from 7:30 a.m. to 9:55 p.m., Monday through Thursday and
7 a.m. to 5:55 p.m. on Friday. However, hours will change in the summer. The summer shuttle hours can be found on
the UTSA shuttle services website. The on-campus shuttle stops include lots 13, 12A, 11, 10, 10A, 3 and the Tobin Lot. However, each of these stops are only allocated to certain routes. The off-campus apartment complexes on the routes are Avalon Place, Broadstone Ranch, The Highlands, Highview Place, Hill Country Place, Maverick Creek, The Outpost and The Villas at Babcock. These apartment complexes will also be designated to certain routes. See SHUTTLES, Page 6
Scope of campus acquaintance rape Sergio Rios Brianna Cristiano
paisanonews@sbcglobal.net “No!” she remembers yelling. “Take me home! I want to go home!” her drunken voice commanded to the man laying on top of her attempting to strip her out of the t-shirt and jeans she wore to a friend’s house party.
“I remember crying and using the word no,” she recalls. “He took my cell phone and wouldn’t let me call anybody.” The unnamed victim (we will call “Jane”), who told her story on condition of anonymity, recalled ending up alone with her assailant, whom she knew. “Instead of taking me back
to my house,” she said, “he took me back to his apartment.” Alone in his apartment, she remembers the offender pressuring her into drinking beyond her limit. “He told me he would take me home after we drank some more,” she recalled. But he never drove her home, and her many pleas -
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before and during the sexual assault fell on her co-worker’s deaf ears. It seems complicated, as most sexual assault cases are.
See SAFETY, Page 3