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The University of Texas System Board of Regents voted to approve a tuition hike. Officials said the UT System’s universities need the money to keep up with inflation and to improve national rankings. Opponents said the hikes hurt students and perhaps create an unwanted response from the Texas Legislature. According to Chancellor McRaven, “We just need additional revenue to improve the quality across our institutions.”
U.S. On Saturday, violence broke out in Anaheim, Calif. when members of the Ku Klux Klan gathered to raise awareness toward “illegal immigration, street crime, and terrorism,” according to leader William Quigg. The white supremacy group encountered a dozen or so counterprotestors who had arrived to confront the Klansmen. During the course of the conflict, three were stabbed and 13 arrests were made.
Science
Scientists in China have successfully bred mice from lab-created sperm, a milestone in research possibilities for treating male infertility. While the labcreated mice matured healthily and were able to breed offspring of their own, the scientists cautioned that more research is necessary before human sperm can be created.
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UTSA Assistant Professor of Management, Dina Krasikova, released a study detailing the traits of a good leader. According to her research, the keys to a successful leader are confidence and creativity in the modern workplace. Specifically, her research explores the reverberation effects of a stress-inducing and abusive leader in the workplace. This causes a ripple-effect. For example, she says, “you might come to work unsure of what you’re supposed to be doing because you get conflicting expectations from your direct supervisor or your boss. The solution is clear roles and communication.”
Texas
Issue 8
TUITION INCREASES SOON UT System Board of Regents approves tuition increase of 3.6 pecent — approximately $162 for Texas residents — to take effect Fall 2016. Alyssa Gonzales News Assistant
@ThePaisano news@paisano-online.com The UT System Board of Regents approved a 3.6 percent tuition hike beginning Fall 2016. The Regents finalized this decision during a special telephone meeting on Feb. 29. Fees are not affected. As a result, tuition for instate UTSA undergraduates will increase, on average $162 and $154 (15 credit hours) for in-state UTSA graduate students. Tuition
will also increase on average $439 and $451 for undergraduates and graduates who are not-Texas residents. The tuition increase is estimated to generate $11.9 million in the 2016-2017 academic year. According to Steven Leslie, the executive vice chancellor for academic affairs, the additional revenue will go toward recruiting toptier researchers; improving the graduation rates; funding services such as advising, mentoring and financial aid; and improving a broad spectrum of student services such as
medical and mental health, study abroad, library resources, support for student athletes and recreation. “The bottom line for me is the (UT System) presidents believe that this revenue is needed to support their universities,” University of Texas System Chancellor William McRaven said. The talk of raising tuition has been brewing for several years. In 2003, Texas lawmakers had to choose whether to budget more money to state universities or relinquish the power of raising tuition to the universities’ own boards of regents.
The Board chose the latter. However, at the UT System Board of Regents meeting, President Ricardo Romo stated that with the state legislature imposing unfunded mandates, the university needs help covering the costs. “What we are asking is very fair,” said Romo about the increase. “The majority of our students are not going to be impacted by this; in fact, 70 percent of our students need financial aid, and almost 40 percent will get full aid, meaning that 40 percent of our students will not
see an increase in tuition.” Not all Texas legislators favor tuition increases within the UT System. One opponent of this action is TX Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick. At a Board of Regents meeting in October 2015, Patrick stated that tuition increases should be a last resort. Patrick contended that the UT System should be looking “for ways to make college education more affordable for students and families across Texas.”
Young voters can sway the election, if they turn out
Daniel Earles , The Paisano
Adriene Goodwin Staff Writer
@hey_adreezy news@paisano-online.com In 2004, five million more young adults voted in the presidential election than did in the 2000 election. This was the highest voter turnout since Richard Nixon’s 1968 presidential election over Hubert Humprey and George Wallace. The “youth vote” generally refers to voters between the ages of 18 thru 29. According to the Pew Research Center’s report on young voters in the 2008 election, 66 percent of those under age 30 voted for Barack Obama, making the disparity between young voters and other age groups larger than in any presidential election since
exit polling began in 1972. In recent presidential elections, the youth vote has been a force capable of determining the outcome. But why then is turnout so low among young voters? Hannah Beck is a UTSA alumna and Executive Director of MOVE San Antonio, a non-profit that aims to ensure young voices are heard in the political process. “We know that young people care, but we’re not seeing turnout at the levels we expect. We need to look at what the potential barriers are,” said Beck. “For more young people to vote,” said Beck, “You need to have people helping to spread information that young people recognize and understand. Millennials are now the largest generation in the
country, outnumbering their Baby Boomer parents; Yet a 2014 report from the U.S. Census Bureau indicates that young voters were less politically engaged in 2012 than in 1964. Voting rates among 18-24 year olds dropped from 50.9 percent in 1964 to 38.0 percent in 2012. There are numerous factors that explain young voter absence at the polls. Accessibility is a key issue in determining the disconnect between young people and voting. Even the physical location of polling sites is critical. In this year, UTSA students were notified via email only 24 hours in advance that there was an early voting site in the Applied Engineering and Technology (AET) Building on the Main Campus.
“For the past five years, (the polling site) has been in the HEB UC,” said Beck, adding that more students are familiar with the location of the UC than the AET building. “If nothing else, UTSA students know where it is. Most people are able to identify it when we talk to them.” UTSA political science professor Walter Wilson claims young people are relatively transient: their lives are continuously in flux and lack a degree of stability. In other words, students don’t often own houses, they haven’t started their own careers, family and other trademark qualities of a rooted adulthood, — this impacts the likelihood to show up and vote. Wilson points out several overlapping issues between young voters
and minority voters, two groups who historically have low turnout rates: many within both groups are poor, and they have fewer fixed interests because of their transient status. Also, “campaigns go for low-hanging fruit,” said Wilson. Essentially, voters who consistently turn out to the polls. “So they’re going to call older, wealthier voters, and they’re going to ignore poorer, younger voters because they don’t have faith that they’ll turn out. It becomes something of a self-fulfilling prophecy.” Transience is one way political scientists believe young voters are disenfranchised. Kristie Kelly is a Government PhD Candidate at UT-Austin specializing in several fields including voter behavior and participation and youth politics. See Why, Page 2
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