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When a cloning project in Scotland produced the first cloned adult mammal, a sheep named Dolly, in 1997, a controversial debate over the ethical ramifica tions of human cloning ensued. "It would be desperately
sad if people started using this sort of technology on people," Dr. Even Ian Wilmut, leader of the Scottish sciehtific team "" which cloned Dolly, said. Despite Wilmut's opposi tion, some scientists believe human cloning is a neces sary venture and research continues toward human cloning. Chicago physicist
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Professor discusses ethics of issue By Daniel Garcia Ordaz
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"The topic of cloning would be just one issue in the larger problem of whether our nature or anything else justifies
limits or prohibitions on what is appropriate to do with/to human life," said Dr. Raymond Welch, his tory and philosophy department professor at UTPA. Welch said the subject of cloning is especially
pertinent in a Philosophy of the Person (Phil 2340) course. "If cloning is a serious part of the effort to understand and advance life, yes it must be 'good,' including See ETHICS page 9
Recent cloning experiments in Europe raised legal con cerns about human cloning in the United States. Congress passed the Prohibition on Cloning of Human Beings Act of 1998 preventing the use of federal money to fund human cloning experiments and related research. Human cloning is not ille gal in the United States, but several European and Asian countries have banned human cloning or passed strong legis lation against it. Samuel Freeman, associate professor of Political Science, said attempts will be made to
ban human cloning research in the United States, but that will not deter scientist from conducting the experiments. "We can pass all the laws in the world, but it will eventual ly happen," Freeman said. "The government can not be watching over scientist's shoulders every little second." HumanCloning. org states medicine, plastic surgery, infertile couples, genetic research and organ availability for transplants will benefit from human cloning. Molecular biologist and assistant professor Dan Murray said cloning would be good for people who can not conceive or for donor organs requiring a specific genetic match. "As far as organs go I See CONCERNS page 4
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Student encourages peers to 'rage' against 'discrimination on campus' Dear editor, students, faculty, administration: On the week that UTPA proclaims "Tolerance Week" I was faced with a tough moral decision. Since the beginning of the semester one of my professors has consis tently and blatantly made discriminatory and racist remarks against Mexican Americans, Mexicans and our ancestors. His comments could be downplayed as is normally the case when someone cries racism, or he could be simply called tough or his tactics defined as a way to motivate stu dents. But if you deny racism, if you deny that it occurs in the Valley or on campus you are contributing to the problem. Maybe I am oversensitive to comments made about my bathing and cleaning habits. Maybe I notice the remarks because I have been a discriminated against because of my color, my culture, my sex or my choices. But is it wrong to take notice of discrimination? Am I in fact playing into the role of a minor ity victim? Have we become so accustomed to the discrimination that we pass it off? How can we continue to sit ideally by as this takes place? Where is everyone's anger? Where is everyone's protest? If you can't see it, or if you say "no, I haven't experienced it there fore it doesn't exist on campus," then I tell
you to open your eyes. How many Mexican Americans English professors have you taken? How many Chicano anthropologists are on faculty? Who keeps the grounds of our campus looking "excellent?" How many Chicano classes are offered? African American? Where is our Chicano studies program? Where is our rage? Are you only interested in your GPA or graduating? Then good for you. But those of you who want to make a difference, make a difference now. Do not stand for racist or sexist remarks. Ask for more minority professors. Ask for new build ings and better technology for the forgotten humanities. Do not squabble over issues like misspelled words in our newspaper, pencil sharpeners in the science building or assign ing benches to clubs. Start your own silent protest. Another student and I silently protested by leaving class. We compromised our grades, GPA and graduation dates. Yes, it is true that we must pick our battles. But pick your bat tles here, where it counts. Make a statement this week of Tolerance. Do NOT tolerate it. And in the words of a great poet, "wake up."
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Is hnman cloning ethical? -Irene Trevlno
Alejandro Cortez Sophomore
I think human cloning is unethi cal, because it involves replicas, and everyone should be unique. If you could clone any person from world history, who would you clone?
Nobody.
Josie De La Tejera Special Student
Personally, I don't think cloning is ethical because it would go against my religious beliefs. If you could done any person from world history, who would you clone?
Nobody.
Lance Cox Senior
no wrong in cloning medical purposes, but an entity is wrong. person from you done?
Marisela Salinas Senior
No, DNA should not be tampered with. Scientists should focus on developing cures for diseases.
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Human cloning is ethical for sci entific purposes, but the clone should not be allowed to live. I clone any person from world
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Thursday, March 1 through Sunday, March 4 The UTPA production of "Elizabeth and Robert," originally scheduled for early December, has been moved to March 1-4 in the University Theatre. Performances begin at 8 p.m. Thursday through Saturday with a Sunday matinee at 2 p.m. A reception with refreshments will follow in the Studio Theatre. The performance is free to UTPA faculty, staff and students with ID. General admission is $5, and $10 for reserved seating. Students and faculty from other colleges and high schools are $3. For more information call 381-3581. Friday, March 2 and Saturday, March 3 The UTPA Modern Dance Ensemble presents its spring concert both nights start ing at 7 p.m. in the Fine Arts Auditorium. Tickets are $5 in advance, $7 at the door and can be purchased at the Payments and Collections Office or by * calling 381-2715.
Technology Building. There will also be a noon luncheon with Vela at the University Ballroom for $20. Thursday, March 8 "New Faces," a group art exhibition by James Dutremaine, Dindy Reich, Rolando Reyna and Charles Wissinger, opens March 8 in the University Gallery in the Communications Arts and Sciences Building. The exhibi tion runs through April 2 with a reception for the artists on March 8 from 7 to 9 p.m. Admission to the gallery is free. Friday, March 9 The Edinburg North High School Choir pre sents "Jamfest," a benefit for the ENHS choir. Money raised will help the choir fund a trip to New York City where they will play in Carnegie Hall. "Jamfest" begins at 7 p.m. in the ENHS gym. Admission is $15 at the door, $13.50 for regular and $10 for students from the choir 'ft department.
Tuesday, March 6 The 28th Annual UTPA Career Day will take place from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the UTPA Fieldhouse. Over 100 companies, corporations, health industry organizations, state/federal government agen cies and schools/universities will be recruiting students for parttime, internships and permanent employment positions. Admission is free for anyone interested.
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federal spending towards research into human cloning. The restriction, however, does not ban privately funded research. HOW CLONING WORKS Human and animal cloning utilize the same techniques. Mammalian cloning involves using artifi cial means (via a method of "nuclear trans fer") to replicate an organism without sexual procreation. A new organism is created by way of fusion, as opposed to fertilization. Nuclear transfer consists of removing the nucleus of an unfertilized egg and replacing it with the nucleus of a somatic cell, which contains necessary chromosomal information from the donor to be cloned. A small electrical pulse is then applied to take the newly built cell into the division process, beginning the development of the newly cloned being. POSSIBLE BENEFITS OF CLONING Cloning may be beneficial in the areas of medicine and food production. Animal cloning proposes the reproduction of animals engineered with human illnesses, such as Parkinson's, diabetes, and muscular dystrophy. The animal subjects would be studied in hopes of gaining better under standings of the diseases. Other cloned animals may be engineered to include human organs to be used for trans plants. The transgenic animals' organs—par tially made with human genes—should be more readily accepted by human transplant candidates. Reasons to oppose human cloning "Human cloning risks reducing human beings to objects, ultimately leading to genetic manipulation and possibly to the practice of eugenics—or population purifica
tion," said a point paper from Citizen Link, a magazine published by Focus On the Family ("Human Cloning," August 22, 2000.) "You would not try to clone a dairy cow that did not produce milk," Citizen Link said. "If cloning were extended to humans, it might not be long before society began to view people as objects to be improved." The warning is that only the "best and brightest would be replicated," opening the door to attempts at building a master race through genetic manipulation of future chil dren. "Cloning is not proven to be a safe process," Citizen Link said. One of the likely complications of cloned animals, including Dolly, is premature aging. "Humans are not objects for laboratory experiment," Citizen Link said. According to Focus on the Family, Dolly's creation required 277 sheep embryos before the process of nuclear fission worked. The other 276 embryos were either destroyed or failed to develop completely. "Experimenting on and destroying human embryos can never be considered ethical or acceptable," Citizen Link said, since a human cloning attempt would likely be "dis carded" before a human being is successfully nuclear-transfer processed. "Cloning violates two values God bestows upon each human being at their conception: pricelessness and uniqueness," Citizen Link said. If humans were cloned they would be "manufactured," not reproduced, said Focus On the Family. "Each child who is conceived should be viewed as a priceless gift from God and never as an industrial product."
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understand they are making a lot of progress making outside the body," Murray said. "Human cloning could be used for harvesting organs, but it sounds so ridiculous I can't believe it is even being considered." Student health service director Richard Gray sees no medical benefits to human cloning. "[Organ Harvesting] is a benefit, but a ridiculous benefit just to take the parts," Gray said. "I don't think the world is ready for it." Freeman asserted his opposition to human cloning. "It is the issues of producing a master race that really bothers me," he said. "When I think about what people would do if they could go into a catalogue and genetically pick what traits their child would have ... I think it would be a genetic travesty. The cost
we will ultimately have to pay will be greater than the benefits." Last month at a meeting of fertility experts, specialist Panos Zavos and Italian researcher Severino Antinori announced they were forming an alliance to produce the first human clone. A team of specialist will attempt to pro duced the first cloned baby within the next two years at an unspecified Mediterranean country. Chicago physicist Richard Seed, an advo cate of human cloning technology, caused an international uproar after he made public his intention to clone humans. Last week Seed indicated his experiments with calves and monkeys brought him one step closer to cloning humans and larger mammals.
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Despite ending the 2000-01 season with a losing record of 12 u UTPA men's basketball team had its share of bright spots and i By Eladio Jaimez
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(Above)- Junior forward "Colonel" Kyle Sanders attempts to block a shot. Sanders started in 28 of the Broncs' 29 games, averaging 7.9 points and 4.5 rebounds during the 2000-01 season. (Below)- Broncs tussle for the ball during their final game at home against Centenary College Saturday night. The Broncs went on to win the game with a final score of 81-61.
The Broncs ended their 2000-01 cam足 paign on a sour note with a 105-76 loss to Texas A&M Corpus Christi, but the team and coaching staff remain optimistic about next year. "One thing that will help us next sea足 son is our schedule," said assistant coach Robert Davenport. "We probably had the hardest schedule this school has had in a long time." Davenport said close losses on the road
hurt the team on paper, but emotionally the whole team felt they competed well. "Every guy on the team played really hard," Davenport said. "Every game we lost, we were in the position to win. Only in about two or three of our losses did we not have a chance." Head coach Bob Hoffman will lose four seniors. Three of them played significant roles on this year's squad. "Eventually everyone is going to leave," Davenport said. "We're just happy we were able to work with them the times we did. We can't dwell on how we're going to fill their spots, but on how we should proceed." Brian Merriweather may be the biggest shoes the Broncs will have to fill. "Beemer," as he is called, leaves UTPA as the team's all time three point scor足 er with 224. After the 1998-99 season Merriweather finished third in the nation in scoring.
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the cloning debate, by establishing [cloning] organs pretty definitely," Welch said. "MAYBE for other animals laws dealing with the technology? "In the history of human struggle for (but depending on what the larger pur enlightenment and advancement, gov pose humans have in mind for such animals—a big issue in itself), possible ernmental authority has very often played a vicious and indefensible role," for humans (with the same caveat)." Welch said. "If that is a guide, then The "broad question of what are the NO, government had best stay out." defining attributes of being human," "Government in practice has not yet from differing views on spirituality, mastered its own appropriate domain philosophy, and scientific theory is a (defense, adjudica"front and center tion . . . ) so any question" in Phil ———— ———— pretense to partici 2390 (medical pate in a scientific ethics) courses at capacity ought to be the university. looked upon with "The philo the utmost caution sophic question and even disdain," lies in the prior Welch said. parentheses—in "The one justified the face of radi place for a govern cally new experi ment would be to mental tech articulate (codify niques, do we perhaps) the rights have a justified -Dr. Raymond Welch and immunities of understanding of people (and ani what we are aim mals) and to carry out actions defend ing at?," Welch said. "An answer ing, maintaining them, and indemnify depends partly on a richer understand ing their violation," Welch said. "This ing OF human and animal nature. of course would apply to ANY endeav Solutions to these questions will, at best, be constructively circular," Welch or, so cloning should not pose an exception to our ongoing legal commit said. "Namely: Our understanding ments." about life must ground our actions A Philosophy of the Person course is aimed to advance that very understand to be offered next in Summer I, Welch ing." said. Should government get involved in
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Broncs end season with loss with 21 points off the bench. Brian Merriweather, playing Michael Hicks scored in his final game as a 37 points, leading collegiate player, Texas A&M-Corpus scored 17 points and hit Christi to a 105-76 win on 2-of-12 over UTPA in three point men's basket shots. ball action Marcus Tuesday night at Circle K Quinn was the only Court. other Hicks, a Bronc to senior from score in Panama, hit double fig on 12-of-18 shots from ures with 10 points. the field and Mire Chatman The loss 11-of-16 shots from the free throw line ended UTPA's season with a 12-17 record, the in his final collegiate Broncs second consecu game. He also pulled down a tive 12 win season. It was also the first game-high 12 rebounds time since the 1993-94 and had six assists. Lee and 1994-95 seasons Denmon also had an that UTPA has posted outstanding game for back-to-back 10-plus the Islanders with 27 win seasons. points, on 10-of-15 Texas A&M-Corpus shooting, including five Christi finished the sea three-pointers. son with a 14-14 mark. For UTPA, Mire Chatman led the way Sports Information
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Cowboys upset Longhorns, score 11 runs in victory Special to The Pan American
The Cowboys of McNeese State (10-5) scored five runs over the first three innings off Omar Quintanilla and never looked back on their way to a 11-4 victo ry over the Texas Longhorns (9-8) in front of 3,646 fans at DischFalk Field on Tuesday, Feb. 27. Two-run home runs by both Jack Newark and Doug Cormier in the first and second innings, respectively, staked McNeese State to an early 4-0 lead. The Cowboys then tacked on another run in the third courtesy of a hit and a
pair of Longhorn errors before exploding for five runs in the top of the sixth, keyed by a Cormier double that plated three runs, to expand their advantage to 10-0. Texas would counter with a run in the bottom of the sixth and three more runs in the seventh behind a two-RBI double from Omar Quintanilla, who extended his hitting streak to five games with a 2-for-4 performance, to cut the lead to 10-4- The Cowboys then pushed another run across in the eighth to close out the scoring as pitchers Jarrod Portie and Jared Gothreaux held the Horns
in check over the final two innings en route to the victory. Picking up the win for McNeese State was starter Joey Poirrier, who allowed only one run on six hits while striking out a pair over his six innings of work to even his record at 1-1 on the year, while UT starter Eugene Espineli, who was the first of six UT pitchers used on the afternoon, incurred the loss. Up next, the Longhorns kick off a three-game series with thePanthers of Wisconsin-Milwaukee at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, March 2 at Disch-Falk Field.
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Legends of flio oomo 3,163 minutes. In the 1961-62 season, Chamberlain scored an unbelievable 4,029 points in 3,882 minutes. For the math majors out there, that's 50.4 points a game. In addition to the points, the Stilt also pulled down twice as many boards as "The Big Aristotle." Even if Chamberlain didn't dominate O'Neal, those two giants roughing it up in the paint would more than make up the price of admission to a game. Jesse Owens also rests at the top of the "athletes to be cloned" list. But his athleticism isn't the only rea son Owens would make an excellent cloning subject. Owens was one of those rare athletes whose accomplish ments affected not only athletics, but the world around us. Owens, an African-American living in a time of unmasked hate and dis crimination, went to the 1936 Olympics in Berlin and single-handed ly destroyed Hitler's Nazi myths of white supremacy. Standing tall in the face of German soldiers, swastikas and hate-filled speeches, Owens won four gold medals in the 100- and 200- meter dashes, the long jump and the 4x100
By Matt Lynch
The Pan American
Florence Griffith-Joyner
Jesse Owens
In a perfect world, the scientific community would meet to clone sports legends long dead. Assuming a method of cloning which could also copy athletic ability existed, cloning athletes would be great for sports fans who missed out on the moments of the past. While the business of professional sports would make the stars of yester year sick, maybe those stars could show today's athletes/businessmen a thing or two. Today's media is enamored with calling Shaquille O'Neal the most dominate big man of all time. I beg to differ. Because the 20-something generation wasn't around to see Wilt Chamberlain score 100 points in a game and dominate the other big men of his time, many of us don't realize that the Stilt would take Shaq Daddy to school. Take a look at the stats. In O'Neal's MVP season he averaged 29.7 pointsper-game, scoring 2,344 points in
relay team. By the end of the games, German crowds in excess of 110,000 cheered for the American. Owens' performance was so spectac ular that a street in Berlin was named in his honor. In addition, President Bush awarded Owens the Congressional Medal of Honor, not only for his athletic achievements, but for the effect those achievements had on history. I don't know where I stand on the ethics of the whole cloning issue, but the thought of cloning athletic super stars of the past appeals to me. Sports fans of our generation have missed out on so many of the greatest sports moments. We missed Owens' performance in Berlin. We weren't around to see Jackie Robinson shatter baseball's color barrier, or "Pistol" Pete Marovich bomb treys on his oppo nents like he was shooting freethrows. But I guess that's life in sports. We should always be on the look-out for history, because you never know where it'll turn up next. •Biographical information from ESPN.com.
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slim Thorpe •Foofoali and baseball star •Won both the decathlon and pentathlon fin 1912 Olympics
Roadrunners speed past Broncs in double-header Sports Information The University of Texas-San Antonio used strong pitching and timely hitting to sweep a doubleheader from the Broncs, 9-5, 5-1, in baseball action Tuesday night at Jody Ramsey Stadium. The Roadrunners had a com bined 25 hits in the doubleheader, including six with two outs, which led to many of the Roadrunners runs. UTPA strand ed a total of 15 runners and left the bases loaded twice in game two. UTSA broke out on top early in game one with four runs in the first inning off starter Mike Calvert. All four runs scored with two outs in the inning. The big blow was a two-out, two-run single by Dustin Perez. UTPA responded with three runs in the bottom of the second inning on a three-run home run by Marvin Manns. That cut the lead to just one run. But the Roadrunners scored three more runs in the top of the third inning, including a
two-RBI single by Hunter Wenzel that gave them a com manding lead they would not relinquish. Game two was a classic pitch ers duel with neither team gain ing the advantage through six innings. But UTPA broke out on top on a solo home run by Darren Heinrichs in the bottom of the sixth, giving the Broncs
The Broncs (1-15) to UTSA (S-9) lost 5-2 Wednesday afternoon at Jody Ramsey Stadium. their first lead of the day. However, the Roadrunners came right back and scored two runs on a two-out, two-run double by
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Nick Prater to give the Roadrunners the lead for good. Mike Srp picked up the win in game one, going six innings, allowing three runs on seven hits. Mike Calvert took the loss for UTPA, allowing seven runs on seven hits and two walks in 2 1/3 innings of work. In game two, Sal Alvarado pitched 6 1/3 innings of four hit ball to pick up
the win. He allowed just the Heinrichs home run. Ed Marko was the tough luck loser, allow ing two runs on 10 hits and two walks in 6 2/3 innings of work. Kevin Carrejo picked up the save for UTSA. UTPA dropped its ninth straight game and fell to 1-14 on the season. UTSA improved to 7-9 overall.
Game 8: UTSA S - UTPA 1 The Broncs were out-hit by the Roadrunners 14 to 5 and
The Roadrunners took an early lead in the first inning, scoring four runs and blanking out the Broncs
were sent to their 14th loss of the season. UTPA had the
until the second inning. The Broncs scored three in the
opportunity to score, but left nine players on base while
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runs, but produced one run in their final three innings.
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Broncs head to Border Olympics By Isaac Chavarria
The Pan American
On March 3, the UTPA track & field team will begin their out door season at the Border Olympics in Laredo hoping that they can continue the success they had in their indoor events. UTPA started off their spring season with a strong showing at the Louisiana State University Purple Tiger Invitational. "All around we are balanced this year," assistant coach Gabriel Rodriguez said. We don't have one big section, yet." The Broncs, who have been held up by a mix of veterans and newcomers, have a total of 16 freshmen on the mens and womens team. At their last meet, freshman
Valerie Summa tied her school record in the high jump (5' 5"). At the same meet, senior Perla Handy set a personal best in the 3,000 meter with a time of 10:45.95 finishing 8th. Freshman Amy Moses took fourth place overall with a toss of 44' 7" which was less than a foot off the school record in the weight throw. "Our throws are good and our distance is getting strong with the girls," Rodriguez said. "They [freshmen] are training hard. Harder than most freshmen I've coached," said Rodriguez. "They are really dedicated. Dedicated as the seniors." UTPA will need that drive in the meet, since many athletes will be competing in more than one event. Summa, who special
izes in high jump, also runs dis tance for the Lady Broncs and could compete in the triple jump and relay. But after having three meets in a three-week period, the team has had three weeks to rest and prepare. "The past two weeks we have been training hard and this final week is going to be more rest," said Rodriguez. "We are switch ing from physical to mental focus." Teams competing are Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, Texas A&M-Kingsville, and two teams from Mexico. The TAMCC is almost entirely comprised of freshmen and contains only one upperclassman. Last year, UTPA placed sev enth at the Border Olympics.
onference Southeastern Louisiana Texas-Arlington Texas-San Antonio Centenary Texas-Pan American Lamar Louisiana-Monroe
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exas-Arlington improved its overall record to 7-4 with wins over Texas Tech and Texas-Pan American. The Mavericks lost a 4-3 decision to New Orleans to go 2-1 for the week. UTA's 5-2 victory over UTPA (3-7, 1-2) pushed them to the top of the Southland Conference standings with Texas-San Antonio, tied at 2-0. UTA took all three doubles matches from the Broncs and dropped two points at No. 3 and 4 singles. All six singles matches were won in straight sets. Junior Andy Leber, last year's Southland player of the year, led the defending Conference champion by going 3-0 at No. 1 singles and 2-0 at No. 1 doubles. He earned straight-set decisions over Tech's Bourut Marticeuic 7-5, 7-6, New Orleans' Peter Szczepanski 6-1, 7-5, and UTPA's Enrique Bastante 6-0,
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same score. Freshman Milos Vasovic downed Samford's Chuck Maddox 6-4, 7-6 at No. 3 sin •Andy Leber 'Texas-Arlington ; gles and Troy State's Jody Kane 1-6, 7-5, 6-1 at No. 4. • Jr • Gratwein, Austria j He has now won five of his last six matches and three straight. 6-3. UTPA lost three straight to UTA stays in Conference for Texas Wesleyan, UTA and New a match at Louisiana-Monroe Orleans to drop to 3-7 overall, Saturday at 11 a.m. 1-2 in Conference. ULM (2-5, 0-0) was idle last The Broncs stay on a busy week. The Indians' most schedule with three tilts lined recent match was a 6-1 victory up this week, including a over Delta State on Feb. 18 at Southland match with ULM home. tomorrow. UTSA (3-7, 2-0) played an Lamar (1-10, 0-3) continues out-of-conference contest with to struggle. The Cardinals, Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, who are winless on the road, losing to the Islanders 4-3. have lost six straight after last The Roadrunners stay outside week's losses at Trinity 6-1 and the Southland with a Saturday St. Edward's 5-2. contest at St. Edward's at 9 Centenary (2-5, 0-1), which a.m. last played Feb. 18, defeating Southeastern Louisiana (4-5, Alcorn State 5-2 at home, is on 2-1) split its two away match the road for five matches this es, edging Samford 4-3 and week. losing to Troy State by the
Southland Conference Player of the Week Feb. 26, 2001
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Head coach Dan Laufer's team will travel to Laredo to begin outdoor competition at the Border Olympics on March 3. *
Mens tennis team upsets Southeastern Louisiana By Matt Lynch
The Pan American
The UTPA mens tennis team proved Tuesday that home field provides an advantage in tennis, too. The Broncs picked up their second conference win of the season by beating the Louisiana-Monroe Indians 5-2. UTPA began the competition by winning the doubles point, which had proved a weakness for the Broncs in earlier events. The Broncs won two out of the three doubles matches to win the point, picking up wins from the number two doubles team of junior Kareem Abdullah and senior Juan Saiz, and the num ber three doubles team of senior Enrique Bastante and freshman Pierre Cantu. Abdullah and Saiz teamed up in doubles for the first time this season to beat the team of Fred Blaise and Jaime Pombo 9-8. Bastante and Cantu also won a close match to earn the doubles point, edging the ULM team of Taylor Vaughn and Adam Piskozyb 8-6. The Broncs continued to win the close matches entering the singles portion of the event. Despite losing both the number one and number two singles
matches, UTPA rebounded by beating ULM at the third through sixth singles spots. Freshman Brandon Meiners won a close match over Bart Dabrowski at number two sin gles. Meiners won the first set convincingly 6-3, but lost the second set 3-6. Meiners then edged Dabrowski 10-8 to earn the victory. At number three singles, Saiz earned another point for the Broncs by beating Piskozyb 6-4, 6-4. Abdullah picked up a tough win, coming from behind to beat his ULM counterpart Pombo 3-6, 6-4, 6-2. Freshman Tom Mangleschots continued his strong play for the Broncs, crushing Vaughn at number six singles 6-1, 6-3. Mangleschots struggled at num ber five singles earlier this sea son, going 0-2, but has owned his opponents at number six sin gles, winning three of his four matches. The Broncs continue their sea son this weekend when they head to San Antonio and face Incarnate Word and St. Mary's Saturday. UTPA's next home contest is March 6 when the Broncs face off against Laredo Community College.