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TEXAS
Eminent domain for vote today The vote on Proposition 11 could restrict the government’s ability to take property from land owners. BY LATAISHA JACKSON The Shorthorn staff
Charles Knerr, political science associate professor, said his Arlington property was taken about seven years ago for flood prevention.
The use of eminent domain and the following compensation was fair, he said. Texas voter will decide today on changing the eminent domain laws in a proposition that Knerr said he endorses — mainly because he doesn’t believe it will change anything. Proposition 11 will amend the Texas Constitution to limit private property from being taken for transfer to a private entity or to increase taxable revenue, according
to the Texas Secretary of State Web site. It will also require a two-thirds vote by members of each house to grant the power of eminent domain. “They are just trying to clarify the seizure of property,” Knerr said. If this amendment was passed before the Cowboys Stadium was built, the facility would not have the land, political science professor Jose Gutierrez said. “The taxpayers would [benefit],” he
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said. “Jerry Jones wouldn’t, of course he already has his stadium.” He said he supports the proposition. Taxpayers will benefit from its passage, which would stop developers from gaining DOMAIN continues on page 3
SCIENCE
Students meet health profession programs Open House featured more schools than last year, participants say. BY VINOD SRINIVASAN The Shorthorn staff
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Nursing sophomore Anthony Ngoo takes down decorations at the end of Lighting of the Lanterns on Monday at the University Center Palo Duro Lounge. The festivities kicked off Asian Heritage Month and featured halo-halo, which is a Filipino dessert, a trivia game and Asian board games.
Asian Heritage Month kick-off event brings in various nationalities BY ARIONNE WELLS The Shorthorn staff
As the Lighting of the Lantern” parade marched to the University Center, participants recreated the drum beat and vocalized the background instruments from Snoop Dogg’s “Drop It Like It’s Hot.” The Monday night event kicked off Asian Heritage Month. Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is celebrated in the U.S. in May, but UTA observes it in November due to spring’s finals week and graduation. The activities, which include a movie night, are a program of the Student Affairs Division and are largely hosted by the Multicultural Mavericks. About 100 attended Monday’s event. A preview of the month-long celebration was given and month chair Marie Padua opened the ceremony. Asians comprise 10.6 percent of the university student population, according to the fact book. Nine out of the top 10 countries of origin for international students are Asian countries. Padua named a few organizations on campus that embrace cultural education of Asian history and thanked members.
Organizations on campus that assisted with the planning include Filipino, Korean and Vietnamese student associations. The opening ceremony in the UC’s Palo Duro Lounge featured an Asian trivia wheel, music, games and refreshments. Among the beverages and food were rice milk, eggrolls and halo-halo. Halo-halo is a popular Filipino dessert similar in consistency to an Icee. Typical ingredients include condensed milk, ice, macapuno or coconut strings, and nata de piña or pineapple jelly. The turnout was diverse, Padua said. “We are about Asian education, and many of the members of the planning committee were of different nationalities, and they really enjoyed participating,” she said. Multicultural Affairs director Leticia Martinez said organizers embraced the nationalities attending and everyone is welcome to attend every celebration. “Turnouts like this are a direct result of students getting invested in learning about each other cultures, because it is not just the Asian community here tonight,” she said.
UPCOMING EVENTS Cultural Movie Night: Gandhi 6:30 p.m. Thursday Rio Grande, University Center Asian Arts and Crafts Noon Friday Student Congress Chambers Night at the Market 6:30 p.m. Monday Bluebonnet Ballroom, UC Most Awesome Extreme Challenge 6:30 p.m. Nov. 17 Bluebonnet Ballroom, UC
Some students of other nationalities besides Asian were there to show support for their friends. “It’s a good thing that they come together during this month and unite,” Diana Lopez, international business and finance senior. Martinez said the organizers raised the bar for inclusion, and it showed. “You can look around tonight and see the diversity,” she said. “It just shows that everybody can participate.”
After working in a hospital’s emergency care his freshman year, biology senior Wally Ayankola knew he wanted to work in the medical field. To encourage students like Ayankola to pursue medical careers, the Science Constituency Council held their second annual open house on Monday. Representatives from almost 20 graduate schools from around the country came to the University Center Bluebonnet Ballroom to recruit interested students to their respective programs. Council Vice President Taha Muntajibuddin said the event let the more than 135 attendees interact with professional colleges. “Students can talk and receive information about the particulars in their respective fields of interest thanks to the variety of representatives we have,” he said. Ayankola said he has already attended interviews with medical schools but was interested in the information from Parker College of Chiropractic and free test preparation for the Medical College Admission Test. “It opened my eyes to chiropractic school,” Ayankola said. “They had a lot more schools present this year than last time, plus there wasn’t a free MCAT course raffle.” Ayankola referred to the presence of Kaplan and the
Princeton Review who both offer standardized test preparation classes. Amanda Speir, Princeton Review marketing manager, raffled off a MCAT or Graduate Record Examination course. She said students should take advantage of preparatory colleges because graduate exams are mandatory to get in graduate schools. “The GRE is like the SATs on steroids for adults,” Speir said. Shadi Rahmani, Parker College of Chiropractic recruitment manager, said open houses are important to study in health profession schools. “It has a great impact when we can put a face to an application and remember that that person showed interest in our college by meeting with us beforehand,” she said. “We attend these events to have a presence and show what we have to offer.” Marketing junior Broadrick Umeh said he wants to attend dental school because teeth have always fascinated him. “Even though there weren’t any dental schools here I was still able to talk to medical school representatives who put me in contact with dental school representatives,” he said. Muntajibuddin said he considers this event more successful than last year’s. “We were much more put together and actually one of the schools said we had one of the most organized open houses they had attended,” Muntajibuddin said. VINOD SRINIVASAN news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
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STUDENT LIFE
Gamers prepare for zombie attack Attendees take part in scenarios that encouraged team spirit, mobility and human survival. BY WILLIAM JOHNSON The Shorthorn staff
Zombies taught their human prey a lesson Friday night to help prepare for
the real thing. Angry shouts, barbaric howls and Nerf darts rained against the Maverick Activities Center’s walls in what Gamers on Campus advertised as 2009 Zombie Survival Training Day. The group provided free training scenarios on what to do in the event of a zombie apocalypse. “You learn valuable lessons in avoid-
ing the dead,” said Stephen Scott Ferebee IV, Gamers on Campus president. Humans wore flag belts around their waists. Once a zombie pulled a flag the human died, waiting for the next round. When a human shot a zombie, the zombie died and was allowed to ZOMBIE continues on page 3
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Sarah Curtis, International American University admissions recruiter, talks to students about attending the IAU College of Medicine graduate school during the Science Constituency Council Open House on Monday in the University Center Bluebonnet Ballroom. The event catered to students wanting to continue their education in medical field.
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oday’s election propositions could change eminent domain rules, tax appraisals and the future of Texas higher education. Most would, if passed, amend the Texas constitution. The university hosted early voting Oct. 26 and Oct. 27, but today is the official election day. Summaries of the Texas Secretary of State’s description of all 11 propositions follow.
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Concerns allowing a municipality or county to issue bonds and notes financing purchase of buffer areas or open spaces adjacent to military installations. Those buffer areas would be used to protect or promote those installations by constructing roadway utilities or preventing encroachment. The municipality or county could then pledge increases in revenues of ad valorem tax, a tax based on the value of real estate or personal property, to repay the bonds or notes.
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PROPOSITION 2 Would authorize the Texas Legislature to provide for the taxation of a residence homestead solely on the property’s value as a residence homestead, regardless of whether the property may have a higher value if it were used for other purposes.
PROPOSITION 3 Would require the Legislature to provide for the administration and enforcement of uniform standards and procedures for appraisal of property for ad valorem tax purposes.
“Two Small Pieces of Glass”: 12:30-1:30 p.m., the Planetarium. Tickets are $5 for adults, $4 for children and seniors, $3 for faculty, staff and alumni, and $2 for UTA students. For information contact the Planetarium at 817-272-1183 or planetarium@uta.edu.
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Would reallocate the $500 million Texas Higher Education Fund to the proposed National Research University Fund, which would be usable in the future by emerging research institutions, like UTA. A university would have to meet certain criteria to be eligible for using money from the fund.
Would authorize the Legislature to allow for a single appraisal review board to decide for two or more adjoining appraisal entities when electing to provide for consolidated reviews of tax appraisals.
PROPOSITION 6 Would authorize the Veterans’ Land Board to issue general obligation bonds, subject to constitutional limits, for the purpose of selling land and providing home or land mortgage loans to the state’s veterans.
PROPOSITION 7 Would allow an officer or enlisted member of the Texas State Guard or other state militia or military force to hold other civil offices.
PROPOSITION 8 Would authorize the state to contribute money, property and other resources for the establishment, maintenance and operation of veterans’ hospitals.
PROPOSITION 9 Would give the public, individually and collectively, an unrestricted right to use and access public beaches bordering the shore of the Gulf of Mexico. It would also authorize the Legislature to enact laws to protect these rights.
PROPOSITION 10 Would restrict terms to not exceed four years for members of the governing board of an emergency services district, a political subdivision established by local voters to raise money through ad valorem taxes on all real property located within the district.
PROPOSITION 11 Would mandate that the taking of private property for public use, eminent domain, be authorized only if it is for the ownership, use and enjoyment of the property by the state, political subdivisions, the public at large, entities granted the power of eminent domain and for the removal of urban blight. The amendment would also increase votes needed to approve eminent domain to a two-thirds vote of all the members elected to each house.
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respawn on the field’s other side. Trainees separated into zombies and apocalypse survivors, taking part in scenarios to encourage teamwork and mobility. One such objective included retrieving a flashing light from a zombie’s side. The light represented a human in need, food or ammunition. The survivors’ job was to bring the zombie-defended item back to their goal. “The number one rule has been cardio,” political science freshman Aaron Gill said, paraphrasing the movie Zombieland. Gamers on Campus quickly ran out of the originally purchased 50 name tags. More than twice the 30 participants from last year came out. “This has actually been more than I expected,” engineering freshman Marco Adriana said. Gill and Adriana said they found out about the event from
posters throughout campus. Their Friday night started off with nothing to do and turned into excitement, they said. This is the event’s fourth year. In previous years, the camp was held in the Campus Recreation Fields Complex. Ferebee requested the grounds be moved to the soccer field behind the MAC because the darker atmosphere set a better mood, he said. He said he’s been preparing for the event since last year. He explained the finer points of his improved zombie-hunting tactics, like switching to a two-barrel Nerf shotgun from last year’s single-shot. Students flowed in and out of the field throughout the night. Humans and zombies switched roles in between rounds, and collected the Nerf darts littering the grass. “I just shook about 20 zombies from my tail,” Gill said. “I definitely feel prepared.” William Johnson news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
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The human survivors gather together to fight off another wave of zombies on Friday at the 2009 Zombie Survival Training Day behind the Maverick Activities Center. Human survivors attempted to vanquish zombie foes with shots from Nerf guns while zombies attempted to take the survivors’ flags.
student governance
SC and volunteers will check the campus tonight looking for possible safety concerns Students interested in venturing out in the dark to improve campus safety can attend Student Congress’ Night Walk. SC and volunteers will meet 6 tonight in the SC chambers located in the University Center lower level. They will then walk around the campus to look for areas of concern — such as dark corners or unsafe walkways. The annual Night Walk started in the 1980s.
“If students want to come and get their concerns heard, we’d love to have them,” SC President Kent Long said. He said last year they had about five students attend. There will be three groups — two shuttle groups that will go to the east and west part of campus and another that will walk around central campus. He said they will also test the emergency call boxes to
make sure they are working. The participants will then make an observations list and send them to UTA Police, Campus Operations and the Division of Student Affairs. SC will also write resolutions. Parliamentarian Marcia Vasquez said some things fixed from past Night Walks include repairing cracks on the north side of University Hall and increasing lighting in front of the
night Walk When: 6 p.m. Tuesday Where: SC Chambers, University Center lower level Those who cannot attend the Night Walk can e-mail safety@ uta.edu with their concerns.
Maverick Activities Center. She said last year’s big focus was lighting dark areas.
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NASA maintenance chief to speak about agency, aircrafts and spacecrafts Wednesday Gary Ash, a NASA aircraft maintenance chief, said he would discuss why aircrafts are necessary for the agency’s missions, during his talk Wednesday titled Maintaining NASA’s Aircraft Fleet. Ash, an engineering alumnus, works at the Johnson Space Center and
ensures contractors stay on track with federal government building. “I’m interested in letting people know about NASA’s capability and history of operating aircraft in support of the space program,” he said. “People need to know what we’re doing and what we’ll potentially be
doing.” More than 100 people are registered to attend. Only people interested in aircrafts and spacecrafts will enjoy the talk, Ash said. “There will be no charts, numbers, or names,” he said. “It’ll all be done with photos.”
The College of Engineering and the Arlington Technology Association will sponsor Ash’s visit. Attendance is free for Arlington Technology Association members and UTA students, but others have to pay $5 for admission.
— Johnathan Silver
intramural sports
After 4-week postponement, flag football and softball resume, playoffs start Thursday The outdoor intramural season has been cut short this season due to excessive rain drenching the area since the start of school. Sports involving flag football and softball have been postponed for four weeks causing the regular season to be shortened and the playoffs to start Thursday, said Drew Barfield, assistant director for intramural sports and sport clubs. Teams involved are starting and finishing the regular season this week by playing doubleheaders to make up for the games teams missed earlier in the regular season. Barfield said the playoffs are usually done by now. “We were scheduled to have started the playoffs last week or the week before,” he said. Traditionally, the teams that go to the playoffs have a .500 or better winning percentage, but due to some game cancellations, all the teams involved in flag football and softball will advance. “Everybody goes to the playoffs,” Barfield said.
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land at lower values by government purchases, he said. Lana Wolff, councilwoman of District 5, which includes the university, issued a statement to The Shorthorn saying she is in favor of Proposition 11 and she urges people to vote for it. Earlier this year, the Texas Supreme Court declined to hear a case challenging the use of eminent domain to take 17 properties and use them as the Cowboys Stadium’s land. The property owners’ lawyer had argued that the lease gave the team too much control, The Dallas Morning News reported. Finance graduate student Yue Zhao said he is against the proposition. He said the private sector could make better use of government-acquired land. He said the private sector
could use the land more efficiently than the government. “Private companies can use strategies that can boost the market,” Zhao said. Anthropology senior Andrea Russell’s family owns land in a location inside Fayette County that the Texas Department of Transportation wants to use to create a new highway. She said she and her family are opposed to the request. “I understand the idea of bringing a major team to Arlington, and that boosting sales in that area, but with major projects like roadways it’s taking land away from a lot of people who are using it,” Russell said. She said voters should think about others prior to voting. “Your vote affects the entire state and people,” Russell said, “in a whole lot of different situations.” lataisha Jackson news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu
crime
Student reports a threat to be killed Officers investigated a report of a terroristic threat filed at 1:45 a.m., Thursday from 501 Nedderman Drive. A female student reported that an ex-boyfriend had threatened her after she went to the police to report of an assault, police assistant chief Rick Gomez said. The student, an Irving resident, previously told Irving Police Department that a man she had been dating assaulted her, the police re-
port stated. Since then, police have been investigating the case. Thursday, she reported that the man had called her and said that if she would not drop the investigation, he would kill her, according to the report. Gomez said a terroristic threat is when a person threatens any physical harm.
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Architecture freshman Zech O’Rarden attempts to juke through defenders during his intramural team’s game Monday at the Intramural Sports Complex. O’Rarden’s team, MAC Lovin, beat the ASO Gorillas 42-0. O’Rarden, the quarterback, commented that they still had things to work on.
“We went ahead and took everybody to make up for the games that have been missed in the regular season.” Originally scheduled to be played outdoors, 3-on3 basketball, which started
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NSPIRING ARTISTS Students discuss exercises they use to generate ideas into her work. Her usage of bright yellows, pinks and purples are now muted hen Lupe Zacarias and subdued tones. She paints, she likes to said having a say in someseparate herself one else’s life changed her from the world. But she perspective. “You grow as an artist,” cannot escape the classroom, instead she plugs she said. “You need to use discreet earbud head- different colors to convey phones into her ears and feelings and experiences like that.” blasts electronica music. Biana Bodwin, painting The painting and ceramics senior channels her and drawing senior, said inspiration through the the exercises help when techno dance beats flood- developing an art piece. ing her ears during her They help to loosen her up to concepts that help Advanced Painting class. “I don’t think other her get through painter’s people would like hear- block. Not all of Bodwin’s ining it though,” she said. spiration comes from the “That’s my music.” Art associate profes- exercises. She said she sor Marilyn Jolly assigns pulls ideas from food and the class themed weekly nature, but mostly gets exercises. This semes- them out-of-the-blue like ter’s themes include self from a simple paint swirl portraits, light, impasto, on her palette. She also repetition, figure, favorite uses a technique to focus color, collage, spontaneous on certain scenes — placmarks and recycled mate- ing her hands in front of her eyes and rials. All on using her fina postcardgers to box size piece of WHEN AND WHERE out excess paper. Small Work/Big Ideas scenery. Jolly’s This seclass will disWhen: Nov. 2 – 6 mester Bodplay its work Hours: 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. win has until Nov. 6 Where: Gallery West, centralized in the Small 810 S. Davis Drive her artwork Wo r k / B i g Admission: Free around abIdeas exhibit stract symat Gallery bols, which West. The themes focus on others have called her generating ideas, Jolly form of hieroglyphic letsaid, to benefit the stu- tering. She said she has a dents while they create lot of confidence painting. “I know this is what I’ll their final project that has be doing for a long time,” one conceptual theme. Jolly created the con- she said. Painting senior Wayne cepts before the semester’s start and randomly picks Cornwell said the exerthem weekly from a fish- cises help him let go of planning his artwork. bowl. Zacarias said she uses Cornwell has noticed his the exercises to test limita- geometric-style paintings tions within painting. The becoming more loose and collage exercise, in partic- fluid. “Before I would try to ular, forced students to use solve it before mixed media I started,” he elements like said. “Now paper, magaI’m solving zine clippings “You grow as an my paintings and paint. artist. You need as I go.” “The collage to use different Pa i n t i n g exercise gave senior Ryann colors to convey me a chance to B r a t c h e r ’s see what mate- feelings and artwork in rials work with the gallery each other,” experiences like incorporates Zacarias said. that.” fabrics as well “Since they as paint. She [the weekly Lupe Zacarias enjoys the assignments] painting and ceramics senior challenge of are a smaller sewing fabric scale, I’m not into her artafraid to exwork. periment.” “I’ve always sewed,” she Zacarias’s painting style said. “It is a craft that I takes an abstract stance, focusing on expressing would like to have viewed feelings. She uses scenes as a fine art.” Bratcher has worked like her bedroom window or curtain patterns to with fabrics for several semesters using scraps frame ideas. Much of Zacarias’s in- pulled from her grandspiration comes from her mother’s closet. She enjoys Mexican cultural back- using the fabric in a way ground, or lack thereof. it otherwise would have For one or two weeks a never been used, she said. year Zacarias heads to Bratcher uses patterns Mexico to connect with and repetition to create her culture, but those ex- her pieces, which are creperiences show her how ated more for design prinlittle she knows about her ciple rather than evoke roots, she said. Her paint- emotion. ings reflect those feelings. Other experiences, like being a juror on a murKEGAN SANDOVAL features-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu der trial, have transitioned KEGAN SANDOVAL
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Above: Painting and ceramics senior Lupe Zacarias listens to techno and trance music to inspire her while she paints. Zacarias and her classmates exhibit a series of small paintings at the Studio Arts Center Gallery West from Nov. 2 until a reception on Nov. 6.
Painting senior Ryann Bratcher paints on linens to develop her sequence for the exhibition.
Painting senior Wayne Cornwell incorporates 3D elements into his artwork to portray texture.
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remember Check out Friday’s basketball preview highlighting the men’s, women’s and Movin’ Mavs basketball teams. Tuesday, November 3, 2009
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Team hits stride as fall season closes
Mavericks’ road woes continue The team has yet to win a conference game while away from home. By Clint Utley The Shorthorn sports editor
the volleyball team continued its poor road play this weekend by losing to McNeese state and stephen F. Austin. the Mavericks (9-14, 5-6) fell to McNeese state in three sets on Friday night in Lake Charles, La. the Cowgirls defeated the Mavs with 43 kills and a .261 hitting percentage compared to 34 kills and a .168 hitting percentage for UtA. sophomore outside hitter tara Frantz led the Mavs with 11 kills and sophomore libero Alicia shaffer led all players with 14 digs. the Mavs never scored more than 20 points in a set and recorded three total team blocks compared to seven from the Cowgirls. Friday marked the first time the Mavs were outblocked since oct. 2. In saturday’s match against sFA, the Mavs’ five total team blocks didn’t match up to the Ladyjacks’ 11. the Mavs tallied 31 kills on a .102 hitting percentage in relation to 45 kills and a .276 hitting percentage from sFA. Frantz led the Mavs again with eight kills but posted a .032 hitting percentage. For a team that hasn’t
won a southland Conference game on the road this season, a three-game home finale this week has the feel of a must-win, junior hitter Bianca sauls said. “these three games are really important and they’re completely doable,” she said. the Mavs host texas state on tuesday evening, sam Houston state on thursday night and Lamar on saturday afternoon. Head coach Diane seymour said her team will need to adjust its practice schedule to handle three games in five days. “We’ll go really short in the gym on practice days and be really specific about what our upcoming opponent’s going to do,” she said. “Hopefully it will be fresh on their minds.” After the Lamar match on saturday, the team will play its final two sLC matches on the road at texas A&M-Corpus Christi and UtsA. Junior setter raegan Daniel said she told her team not to think about its past losses and stressed the importance of concentrating on the upcoming matches. “If we’re going to lose on the road, we have to win at home,” she said.
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idriBBle Undeclared freshman Derric Chambers dribbles a basketball on Monday at the Maverick Activities Center. Some students use music for extra motivation throughout their workout.
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Young teams look forward to next year The cross country season came to a conclusion Saturday as the women’s team finished third and the men’s team finished seventh at the Southland Conference Championships in Corpus Christi. Head coach John Sauerhage said last week that the women’s team had a shot at finishing in the top three, and they did that Saturday with sophomore Jennifer Carey leading the way for the Mavericks for the fifth consecutive meet. Carey finished in 11th place and had a timed finish of 21:41. Sauerhage
said his team is building for next year. “We have a young team that gained a lot of experience this year and we are going to use that and build for next year,” he said. The women had three runners finish in the top 20 with junior Perri Ford finished 17th with time of 21:53 and junior Amanda McMahon finished 19th with a time of 21:57. On the men’s side, junior Zach Zura finished 30th with a time of 25:51 and freshman Eric Montou clocked in at 26:03, finishing 34th.
The next two runners to finish from UTA were freshman Ken Wallace, who had a 49th place finish with a time of 26:37, and junior Heinz Schwarzkopf who finished in 50th place with a time of 26:45. For the fourth consecutive year, the conference title was won by the Lamar men’s team, with four runners finish in the top ten. The women’s title was won by Texas A&M-Corpus Christi, which marks the third consecutive conference title for the Islanders.
As the end of the fall season approaches it seems as though the men’s and women’s tennis teams saved their best for last. For the men, the Texas Invitational in Austin was the last tournament for the fall season. Six of the seven players picked up at least one victory in the tournament, including sophomore Jason Lateko and senior Gonzalo Bienzobas. Lateko came out with two victories before getting knocked out in the quarterfinals. Bienzobas advanced the furthest of any of the UTA men as he reached the semifinals of the B Draw consolation. He was able to pick up two victories in the bracket, but withdrew in the semifinals. The men will begin spring season and conference play in January. The women endured a tough battle in the H-E-B Baylor Invitational last weekend, but the team saw success in both singles and doubles competition. Sophomore Maria Martinez-Romero advanced to the round of 16 in the open singles bracket but lost in three sets to Abigail Guthrie of Ole Miss. Romero and her partner, sophomore Katarina Micochova, have been a force this season in doubles and they showed it this weekend. The tandem made it to the consolation bracket finals where Romero had a rematch with Guthrie and her partner Pippa Reakes. Ole Miss came out with an 8-3 victory, ending UTA’s run. The tough competition in the fall has assistant head coach Marco Matteucci believing his team is ready for the Southland Conference. “We just have to work on a few things and get healthy, but we should be OK,” he said. “I think we are still one of the favorites to win the conference.”
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