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Peter & Fran Swenson

Dr. Bryan stood for Mike & Mary Terry, Bryan & Allison Wagner, and Edward & Linda Whitacre

Roberto & Trauterose Montoya Foundation

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I. J. “Chip” Berthelot II

Maurice Schmidt & Rebecca Schmidt

International Bank of Commerce Zapata

Jackie Collins & in Memory of Temple “Jerry” Collins

Crystal Zamarron Editor-in-Chief

he 19th annual President’s Legacy Ball was held on March 25th, 2017 for a night of recognition and appreciation for those who have given donations to Texas A&M University-Kingsville.

The items being silent auctioned placed on a table at the President’s Legacy Ball

Photos by Pablo Villanueva

Annual event to give thanks to donors is a hoot!

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resident Steven Tallant began with greeting the guest and to what is to come throughout the night.

“You’re here to have a lot of fun and by the looks of everything we’re going to have a lot of fun,” said President Tallant describing the colorful decoration set up around the grand ballrooms in this years’ theme “fiesta.” “But we are really here because we gather once a year to recognize people who have given a minimum of 100,000 dollars to the university.”

After donating to the university you become archived into the President’s Legacy Society and will be presented with a bronze plaque soon-to-behanged up outside the ballrooms wall in the Memorial Student Union Building along with all the other Legacy Society members.

Over the past 19 years of recognizing individuals or couples, they have had over 150 Legacy Society members.

For President Tallant’s 9th year speaking in the Legacy Ball since his induction as president of TAMUK he explained why the donations are needed.

“Going to college is very expensive and we are very proud that we can have our cost affordable and we do everything we can to keep this university efficiently and affordable to all students but having said that, a thousand dollars is a lot of money for our students,” said President Tallant. “A thousand dollars can change a lot for a student life. To those who have given to the university, I want you to know how much I thank you for helping move our students forward.”

Tallant brought up the budget cuts stating, “we’re not going to get into any politics tonight but the federal budget is going to cut down dramatically on our university. On [something] students, work-study, and financial aid is going to show significant drop… so I

continue to encourage you to continue to give to the university and helping the students.”

As the night went on, President Tallant congratulated 9 honorees. Peter & Fran Swenson, Mike & Mary Terry, Bryan & Allison Wagner, Edward & Linda Whitacre, International Bank of Commerce Zapata, Roberto & Trauterose Montoya Foundation, Maurice Schmidt & Rebecca Schmidt, I. J “Chip” Berthelot II, and Jackie Collins & I memory of Temple “Jerry” Collins.

The program continued to serve dinner and dancing, music provided by Glynn Garcia & The Bay Rock Orchestra, until the end of the event.

To continue the legacy of giving, individuals can visit online at www. javelinagiving.org/ or checks payable to Texas A&M University-Kingsville Foundation, Inc. At Office of Alumni Services & Giving 700 University Blvd., MSC 173 Kingsville, TX 78363 (361) 593-4191

Left to right: Juan Hernandez, Liliana Vela, Josh Sanchez, Tommy Rogers, Benjamin Chi, Jose Raya, and Anthony Garcia

Engineering for the win!

Chemical Engineering team gets 1st place at San Antonio competition Crystal Zamarron Editor-in-Chief Congratulations to our Javelina Engineers at the America Institute of Chemical Engineers at the Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas on Saturday, March 25.

They took 1st place with their Chem-E-Car that was built and designed by Texas A&M University-Kingsville (TAMUK) engineer students with approximately $40. Competing against seven other schools such as Rice University, Texas Tech University, UT- Austin and more.

“This put Texas A&M University-Kingsville back on the map,” said Josh Sanchez, chemical engineering major.

The winning team wanted to be different and use resources that were both reliable and unique than the competition. Recycling last year’s 1st place winning, the process to build a Chem-E-Car deals with two components the starting mechanism and stopping mechanism using chemicals to run it and to stop by breaking an electrical circuit with the temperature.

“We started brainstorming and we decided on temperature something that everyone else was not

doing,” said Sanchez.

TAMUK engineers started with fuel cells and stopped with hydrochloric acid and magnesium that created a reaction, where it increased to a certain temperature, which tells a CPU unit to cut the circuit.

With trials and errors the team knew the certain amount of all chemicals to input. The team had a lot of setbacks with knowing since February and not starting until the week before Spring Break. Having little time to perfect their Chem-E-Car for competition at Trinity University.

“Even though we were at a competition we were still learning and talking through it and that’s the best part about it. We figure out the problems during the distance and with the competition like what’s going on with your chemicals which is why you need to work with your team,” said Liliana Vela, chemical engineering major.

“We were the only Division 2 school there and it goes to show that A&M Kingsville is a school that shoots above the weight class like our engineering school is able to compete against the big school who have 10 times as more funding that we do, including

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The Chem-E-Car that won 1st place for the designed by the seven Javelina Engineers

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Policies talk of forum Trump policies take center stage at “Clashing Values” forum

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Dakota Roberts Editorial Editor The Student Government Association (SGA) hosted “Clashing Values” this Tuesday, a forum-styled discussion concerning topics such as: the building of a 2,000-mile wall on the border of Mexico and the United States, the mass deportation of undocumented immigrants, and the proposed travel ban on anyone trying to enter the United States from Muslim majority countries.

The forum was put on behalf of the Social Justice and Advocacy Committee of the Student Government Association. President of SGA David Barrera stated that the purpose of the meeting “is meant to generate discussion and address some of the issues surrounding some of the policies and rhetoric of the Trump administration.”

The association welcomed many speakers from the TAMUK community to lead the discussion. Members included Chief Felipe

Garza (head of the University police), Dr. Terisa Riley (Senior Vice President of Student Affairs), Dr. Alberto Rodriguez (Mexican American History professor), and Dr. Barbara Cooke (Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice).

Barrera continued on the subjective nature of the discussion, “It is important to note that this Forum aims at discussing the implications of some of the Trump administration’s policies, and any side to the argument whether agreeing or disagreeing is valid is valued. With all the confusion occurring in our nation and the world at the moment, at the very least we must be able to come to civil disagreements, and work through them, here at Texas A&M University-Kingsville.”

The topics eventually spanned to Social Security for undocumented immigrants that pay income taxes, as well as answers to the problems in immigration. Dr. Rodriguez stated, “Deportation of Mexicans in the

Rio Grande Valley is going to cost $54 million in tax revenue, $54 billion. There is an old myth that immigrants don’t pay taxes, but what happens every time they go to H.E.B. or buy groceries.”

Dr. Cooke elaborated on the allusion that a Muslim ban will protect American citizens, “Actually ISIS takes us back in history a lot, ISIS is actually a political organization whose roots go all the way back to the Ottoman empire… Its very easy to take religion and people’s passion about religion and use it to have them join the caliphate but you will find their motivations are much more political then religious.”

The night continued as described, questions being answered by the panelists before being turned over for to the audience for questions and opinions.

Clashing Values was the final work of Ebenezer “Tosin” Eloba and had to be postponed until after Spring Break when news of his death reached campus.

Left picture: The Javelina Engineer Team putting their Chem-E-Car to run at Trinity University

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private schools as well.” Jose Raya, chemical engineering major.

With recent news of the budget cuts with TAMUK and other universities affected by Senate Bill 1 the accredited Engineering Department, Raya said, “If we can’t find any other source of funding we might get cut but it’s all up to Texas politics right now.”

“It sucks but this school emphasis on engineering compared to other departments here and it is where the most money is spent so taking away [engineering department] money we can still flourish,” said Tommy

Rogers, chemical engineering major.

With concern in the horizon the chemical engineering team still had 1st place and will now be hosting the America Institute of Chemical Engineers conference and competitions in the next year to come.

“We encourage all engineering students to attend and we are excited to host it. We are already planning ahead and trying to get all engineering students to participate. We’re making a name of our university and so we will like ourselves to be known,” said Vela.

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Josh Sanchez and Liliana Vela with the Chem-E-Car

Jack is back: A review

Samurai Jack returns with a darker tone but doesn’t sacrifice its signature style Robert Breedlove Entertainment editor @breedlovecam When Samurai Jack premiered in the summer of 2001 on Cartoon Network there wasn’t anything quite like it.

Genndy Tartakovsky took his blocky, minimal detail design from Dexter’s Laboratory and Powerpuff Girls and made it kinetic while infusing it with a cinematic flair not seen since Batman: The Animated Series.

In Samurai Jack’s 13-year absence there have been 3D animated TV reboots of Transformers, Teenage

Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Tartakovsky’s own Clone Wars, but the 2D animated action genre has been all but abandoned by the West.

But now Jack is back to reclaim that throne with a ten-episode final season run on Cartoon Network’s late night Toonami block.

With its shift to a more adult-oriented programming block, the series has taken on a darker and more violent tone.

The very first episode sets this tone immediately when it opens with a figure masked in a traditional samurai helmet riding in on a spiked-wheeled motorcycle to rescue a mute alien and

her daughter from a pack of robot beetles.

The action is classic Jack: sharp and simple expressionistic movement and a shifting aspect ratio that puts emphasis on specific objects, actions, and compositions.

But the action is nastier than the original 2000s run; the inside of the robots’ exoskeleton is blood red and wires spill out like viscera as the figure rips them apart with the tires of his cycle.

Finally, the mask is shattered revealing a disheveled and bearded Jack who resembles Tom Hardy’s Mad Max from Fury Road more than the stoic time-travelling ronin we’ve become familiar with.

The show makes it’s return after being off the air for thirteen years.

It’s been 50 years since Jack was thrown into the future by Aku, the evil shapeshifting master of darkness, and mysteriously he has not physically aged.

Like Max Rockatansky, he wanders from battle to battle haunted by the lives he couldn’t save and by visions of his future as a soulless monstrosity riding on a black horse.

With Jack’s magic sword gone, Aku has been able to comfortably rule over his domain without challenge.

About midway through the first episode I began to wonder if the show had completely lost its sense ofoddball humor from the original run and if it could sustain a 10 episode season under this dreary self-serious tone.

Then a flamboyant Sammy Davis robot assassin shows up to battle Jack and the show finally regains its sense of fun.

The comedy moments are fewer and farther between than before, but they’ve become more pronounced as relief to the more tense moments.

Aku himself was the best comedic part in the original

run, but he doesn’t make an appearance until the second episode.

I love this take of a bored deity going through ennui as he wakes up to his alarm clock every morning, puts on his big flaming eyebrows, and receives tributes from his puny subjects.

The animation is big and expressive, putting emphasis on Aku’s shape-shifting powers, however the loss of the original voice actor Mako is heavily felt as soon as Aku speaks.

Greg Baldwin had replaced Mako’s roles in the Avatar and Legend of Korra series and even took on the role of Aku in video game form in Cartoon Network’s Fusion Fall, but here he sounds like an imitation.

He can’t seem to capture Mako’s bigger moments or his unique laugh. It’ll take some time to warm up to the voice, but the animation more than makes up for it.

Samurai Jack has also taken on a serial format that gives each episode more weight and consequences, while also allowing more time to flesh out Jack’s enemies. The three episode arc to open the season introduc-

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es the Daughters of Aku, a set of septuplet sisters birthed by a priestess of Aku trained from birth to hold no empathy and to accomplish only one goal: kill the samurai.

Their design is pure Tartakovsky: sharp, sleek edges and a monochromatic palette that looks great in motion.

There’s a great bit of comedic dissonance in how psychotically devoted the Daughters are to their dark lord Aku who by comparison has nearly forgotten about Jack and probably is completely unaware of the assassins’ existence.

We’ve never seen Jack pushed this far to his limits before and the Daughters of Aku are easily one of the most compelling villains the show has ever produced.

Three episodes in and Samurai Jack already has its hooks into me. The darker tone pairs well with Tartakovsky knack for expressionistic animation and visual metaphor, but is measured enough that it doesn’t betray the show’s fun pulpy roots.

With seven episodes left, this is shaping up to be a perfect farewell for the fearsome Samurai Jack.

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Tu named ‘Person of the Year’

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March celebrates Women’s History Month, a time to commemorate the women who have made an influence in the lives of others.

The National Organization for Women (NOW) at Texas A&M University-Kingsville awarded Dr. Catherine Ming Tu as the Person of the Year for 2017.

The TAMUK’s NOW organization is part of a national organization that has 500,000 contributing members and 550 chapters.

Members have the opportunity of deciding on issues that matter most to them and work on creating a change.

Tu is an Assistant Professor of Music Education. She teaches to become knowledgeable music teachers. Tu is very pas-

sionate about the early development of music learning in toddlers and children, a feeling she hopes to implement to her college students.

“My passion is seeing my students change in their behavior from a freshman who just graduated and has no clue what education means. I enjoy seeing them change their attitude towards teaching and have them really work on the skills and attitudes of professionalism.”

Tu said.

Aside from teaching college students, Tu works closely with newborns and children under the age of 12 at the Javelina Music Play.

The program is designed to help children develop music skills through social interactive music activities such as singing, chanting and movement.

Children who attend the program have higher music ap-

titudes and develop long-term music skills that help them have a greater appreciation of music.

This is the 3rd time the NOW Person of the Year has been awarded. When Tu first heard that she won the award, she was relatively surprised, but was honored to have been chosen. Tu summarized her work as being the result of years of teaching, researching, and, and contributing to the community.

Tu has a goal of introducing music to children throughout the Kingsville area. She believes that there should be a greater emphasize on music for children in elementary schools.

“Music is a strong force. It’s a special force that will help children develop their intelligence and become holistic people.” Tu explained.

Her research has been featured in Research Perspectives in Music Education, the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education and Perspectives: Journal of the Early Childhood Music and Movement Association. Her hope is to give equal opportunity for all early childhood students.

Hinojosa debuts published work Tu’s goal is to introduce music to children throughout Kingsville.

Clarissa Madrigal Reporter

The English department hosted a Reading event, which took place in the Blue Room located inside Sam Fore Hall at TAMUK. On Monday, Dr. Christopher B. Hinojosa was the person responsible of the readings because he was the author of this book.

The title of the book is Journeys Past the Edge of the Universe, this book contains short stories which Dr. Hinojosa demonstrates to the audience his passion expressing the stories to them.

As Dr. Hinojosa was reading, he involved the audience with his stories and took them to another place, as if they were in the story.

Dr. Hinojosa had the audience intrigued and pay very close attention to every single detail that he was say-

ing as he was reading.

He was able have the audience laughing at almost every paragraph the short stories contained a sense of humor.

Dr. Hinojosa shared with us that this is his first book that has been published and decided to read stories from it. He states, “I am reading from this book because it’s my first to be published, and it was published just a few weeks ago, my favorite story from this book is: The last story, “Sh’DigDug’s Children” is my favorite. It was the easiest to write and helped me through a rough spot.”

Jilma Vinson an English lecturer and PHD student in Education share with us that her favorite stories was the one that is about a dog that got converted into a god. “ Yes, I would like that the department promote more of

this events because having more faculty presenting their readings should be able to encourage the students to create their own because most of the times when we study or when we teach on the classrooms we teach some masters, but there were some students too, there were some faculty too, so who know some of our students can go for a master writer too and is good for them to see that our faculty are very good writers,”said Vinson.

Cruz Armas majoring in Kinseology-Excersise science/Pre-PT said, “What I like of this event is that you are able to come around and like enjoy the stories that the professor read and talk about and you are pretty interested you learn not only that you start learning you start imagining all this stories and is a great

opportunity to practice your imagination skills” Cassandra Vega an English major with teacher certification commented that she would like that the department keep housing event like this one.

“I think is really cool to see what teacher write

and how they creative side shows, well I really like his stories and I will like to herd other profeesor to present their reading, more variety like French, Spanish, Russian.”

Students, Faculty and Staff could get refreshments while there where listening

to the reading. Copies of the book were available at the end of the presentation in case that the audience was interested on buying one.

For more information, you can contact Dr. Christopher Hinojosa at 362-593-2516 at the Language and Literature Department.

The Texas A&M UniversityKingsville Presidential Performing and Visual Arts Series Presents

Bailey shines light on politics in Mexico

Dakota Robert Editorial Editor

Texas A&M University-Kingsville’s International Affairs Group hosted Dr. John Bailey, emeritus professor from Georgetown University, this last Friday to discuss the contents of his new book, The Politics of Crime in Mexico: Democratic Governance in a Security Trap.

The lecture centered around crime and Mexico’s democratic development, highlighting the relationship they have and how they affect one another. Bailey identified three major problems within contemporary Mexican politics: a missing social contract between the citizens and the government, the slow reform of the current justice system, and the significant ideological polarization of the nation’s party system.

“The Mexican system has a problem with legitimacy, they try to make themselves legitimate but it seen in the eyes of the citizens as illegitimate,” said Dr. Bailey, outlining the distrust civilians have with the current system. Bailey continued, “In 2006, the center right won the election by less than one percent and the force that it beat was the populist left which said let’s resurrect the old pact and go back to the old system. My hypothesis is the old pact is broken and a new pact has not been substituted and therefore what the government does is not necessarily legitimate.”

Bailey described the problem with Mexico’s party system, being that no dissident parties can arise among politicians and a

created. Bailey stated, “These parties have very effective control over state and local politics… [you] want to get into politics, great. You can join one of four parties, you want to be an independent, good luck. Join a party, become disciplined, deliver the votes, rise up in the system. And it creates a centralized party system even though they are federalists. The message is clear: no dissident factions in my party.”

The problem with this type of system, as Dr. Bailey describes, is that it can make it impossible to reform parties and change party policies. Criminal groups have been proliferating and infiltrating parties and it creates a mixture of party members and convicts.

Bailey added, “it’s hard to figure out who’s who.” A criminal group can use local police and reconfigure a state, causing confidence in Mexico’s justice system to plummet.

Bailey concluded with the crimes that do involve the elites and citizens alike, particularly kidnapping. He described many different forms of kidnapping such as virtual kidnapping, wherein someone calls a victim claiming to have a loved one, and express kidnapping, where someone is grabbed off the street and forced to withdraw money.

Other forms of kidnapping such as targeted kidnapping were discussed, where politicians can be targeted for political intimidation.

Bailey’s book is now available online on Amazon and other published sites. IAG is a lecture series that hosts many different speakers and professors for a lecture luncheon. Be on the lookout for their next speaker.

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FBI Probe: Things to Consider

Dakota Roberts Opinion Editor

A staple of Trump’s presidency is misdirection.

It is his ultimate tool, the one thing I can count on in any story about Trump: the response and what topic he brings up to change the story. His latest attempt, his claim that Obama wiretapped him during his last few years in office, really shocked me. This is a current president claiming that the former administration didn’t just break the law but targeted him personally. I could write a column on this but instead we need to talk about what is going to be a major note in Trump’s legacy, what he is trying to divert our attention from.

Trump and his administration have been tied to Russian governments and businesses for a while now.

Trump himself held his Ms. Universe pageant in Moscow back in 2013. Now before I get into this topic there is something that I should say.

This story is in development right now and there are still a lot of questions to answer and many connections that are unclear. What I want to do is clarify what connections Trump’s administration has to Vladimir Putin and what actions have been taken that should be scrutinized. The thing to think about in all this is not just the connections but the possibility of Russia legitimately interfering with an American election, something every American should be concerned about, regardless of whether or not Trump was your candidate.

Let’s start with Jeff Sessions, who is trying to

disconnect himself as much as he can from this story.

Sessions on January 10 answered a questionnaire provided by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy that asked “Have you been in contact with anyone connected to any part of the Russian government about the 2016 election, either before or after election day?”

The candidate Sessions simply answered “No.” Before this Sen. Al Franken asked Sessions directly, “If there was any evidence that anyone affiliated with the Trump campaign communicated with the Russian government in the course of this (2016) campaign, what would you do?” Sessions answered that he was unaware of any activities.

It has since come out that Sessions met with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambassador to the US. One of these conversations was back in September, during the what US intelligence officials have dubbed the “Russian cyber campaign.” Now during the time Sessions was a senator was a member of the Armed Service Committee as well as Trump’s policy adviser.

Now I cannot say what was discussed at either of those meetings, as far as I have read no media or official can say; they were fairly private meetings. However, the fact that Sessions did not disclose this during the meeting is surprising; Sessions had joined the Trump campaign back in February 2016.

Now I would like to pause and go over Kislyak for a second because he will return in this story later.

Ambassador Kislyak is often described as a gracious diplomat, opening embassy doors for American poli-

ticians and press. He is a well-known figure amongst the DC community, he can be seen all over the discrict going here and there for business purposes. He bounces back and forth from here and Russia on a regular basis. Accroding to a CNN report, “current and former senior US government officials” consider Kislyak to be “one of Russia’s top spies and spy-recruiters in Washington.” Now I would treat the CNN report with skepticism. Many US ambassadors and analysts deny the claims against the Russian ambassador, as do the Russian government. The FBI is not investigating Kislyak for espionage in anyway.

However, ambassador Kislyak does have another tie to the Trump campaign and this one had to resign, Michael Flynn. Flynn was the former Trump national security advisor who resigned this last February.

Flynn has been shown to take money from Russian entities such as the government controlled propaganda network RT. This was back in 2015 and attended a gala where he celebrating the network’s 10th anniversary.

He was seated close to Putin who he met at the event. The controversy here is that there are laws currently placed in the system that prohibit retired military officers from accepting payments or gifts from foreign governments.

Flynn had lied during a Yahoo interview about the payments nature, claiming that he had been paid by his speaking bureau directly.

He later admitted that the network did pay for the trip and emails were eventually released by his speaking

bureau that shows that his fees were covered by the RT network directly as well as accommodations for his son, who was serving as chief of staff. Flynn is said to have resigned after failing to disclose this information with vice-president Mike Pence.

The RT network is a Kremlin funded organization that is part of other propaganda networks. In January, US intelligence officers concluded that RT propaganda played a role in influencing the 2016 election.

Again, Kislyak met with another political advisor to Trump, Carter Page; whom also met with managers from Rosneft, an oil company in Russia that for the most part is owned by the Russian government. Page also owns shares in the energy giant, Gazprom. Gazprom is an energy giant owned by the Russian state as well. Page is known in the campaign as both a policy advisor and an oil industry consultant. The story around Page mostly comes down to: did he open private communications with Russian oligarchs over the possible lifting of economic sanctions if Donald Trump won the election.

Page did write to Comey back in September to clear him of these allegations. No word has come from the FBI on the status of the investigation at this point.

Now we get to the last advisor we will talk about, Paul Manafort. Manafort was Trump’s campaign manager back in 2016. Manafort has agreed to testify in front of House Intelligence Committee, as have the Roger Stone and Carter Page.

Manafort himself is connect-

ment, he supports president Donald Trump with his idea of deporting all the immigrant people to their country as soon as possible.

President Trump decided to put holds in Federal Funds to those states that are considered Sanctuary Cities; an unethical incentive to reconsider the support that they are giving. We know that as a community we can decide what to do or what to avoid depending on if it is a benefit for us or not. Even though people know that the president does not support undocumented people, the community still wants to help. We decide that supporting the Sanctuary Cities will be the best option now that they are becoming more essential in this country.

The Federal Funds are very important and by making

people choose between the Federal Founding and helping undocumented immigrants the community did not know which side to take.

We also know that there are pros and cons about the Sanctuary Cities, but we are still supporting that charity.

Some of the pros that we found are: The country is saving money. The other one is, we are helping people that do not have money. The country is saving money because without the Sanctuary Cities, the undocumented people need to be in detention. All this cost money and sometimes they had to be in those places for weeks or months. The money that is invested in detention is a waste of money; the money can be designated for something else that will have a better impact on the

community. The second pro is that we will be helping the undocumented people by giving them a place to stay, and food. We need to consider that because they are living with fear every day when they have to go work. In many cases, they prefer not work or get out of their houses because felt safer. Not working means no money, if they do not have money they will not be able to buy food, and pay rent.

The Sanctuary Cities are for that, to help them. The Sanctuary Cities will provide food and are safe place without risking their status.

The cons are: lack of accountability and that they do not pay many taxes. In some cases, the undocumented people had never been arrested, so they do not have criminal records; in this

ed to a couple of oligarchs such as Dmirty Firtash and Oleg Deripaska.

Comey has not clarified which individuals are under investigation and in order to keep a level head we need to think about some things.

Even if the probe comes back with connections to the Kremlin, does not mean that criminal charges will be filed. What I believe is important in this entire development is the fact that many lied about their connections and have been very candid with the fact that an election could very well have been messed with by a foreign entity. However, this is not a witch hunt, there are a lot of questions left unanswered and I hope this probe does disclose some things.

As a nation, we have to answer something ourselves, what kind of relationship do we want with Russia? Many saw the Obama administration alienate Russian officials and would like a much friendlier relationship with the country. I would say that its not that easy. Russia is a country that is known for racist and homophobic ties that also has a history of harming members of the press. We are currently bombing areas that Russia I also bombing and that also makes it difficult to determine who we are to the nation, let alone Crimea and Ukraine controversy that hang over US officials heads every day that goes by.

One of the most importnt qestions to me is Trump’s relationship with Wikileaks.

What becomes the million dolar qustion, the one that could easily amount to treason is did Wikileaks pubish

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Trump has had a vey candid attitude towards asking Wikileasks for information, and this can be dangerous.

Wikileaks publishes all regardles of the danger of it, at times breaking even our own consitutional ideas of a free press. Again though, this is a topic for another issue.

Sanctuary Cities: The Pros and Cons Clarissa Madrigal Contributing Writer Since the new president took the office of the White House, the laws started to changed. One law that was always relevant, but has become even more controversial is the deportation of undocumented immigrants.

Today, many Cities among the United States had decided to support those people.

37 cities around the United States have already certain places that are considerate to protect immigrants with or without the president’s consent. Texas, had more than one city considered a Sanctuary and some of those cities are San Antonio, Brownsville, and Dallas. According to the information obtained from sources Governor Greg Abbott is against this moveThe South Texan is a student publication produced by Texas A&M University- Kingsville students. The views, opinions and commentary do not necessarily reflect the views of the Texas A&M University system. The South Texan uses student fees in part to publish.

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case, how will the Sanctuary Cities know if they are criminals? Since the immigrants cannot prove criminal records, they can live without problems there. In some cases they can continue doing what they did, because nobody knows their criminal background. It is easier for undocumented and criminals to live in a Sanctuary City. The other con that we think of is that the immigrants do not pay as many taxes as the citizens. They are not contributing to the Country, they are working, but they are not getting any deductions for the money that they take home. Sometimes they can pay taxes, but at the end when they had to claim they do not received money back. We understand that they pay city, state, and sales taxes like us, but still not everybody had the same

rule because some of them are getting pay in cash and that money does not get reported to the IRS. By paying taxes we are contributing to our country for improvements that they probably will take advantage of it without contributing as the citizens does.

To conclude we the class decided that we support the Sanctuary Cites, but that we have to bring pros and cons. We need to look both sides to consider what will be best for them and for us.

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Javelinas sweep Texans; extend win streak

Baseball defeats Tarleton State in four-game, Lone Star Conference opening series

Photo By: Juan Turrubiates

Junior Isaiah Lybarger releasing the pitch on the mound.

Travis Demas Sports Editor @travisdemas

The Texas A&M University-Kingsville Javelina baseball team (16-7) started conference play undefeated (4-0) as they swept Tarleton State (16-12) at home this past weekend.

It was a four-game series in which the Javelinas seemed to have the upper hand the whole weekend, starting with a close game one in which the Hogs won, 5-4. The

Javelinas would start off hot by scoring five runs in the first inning to take a commanding 5-1 lead and never looked back. Christain Caudle was key in the Javelinas success going 3-for-3 at the plate.

In game two the Javelinas trailed the Texans, 1-0, after the first, and would have to rely on their pitching to keep them in the game. After giving up a run in the first, left-handed sophmore pitcher Preston Plovanich would go the next six innings surrendering only six hits, and two walks, while strik-

ing out two batters.

In all Plovanich would throw 61 of his total 87 pitches for strikes.

The Hogs offense would start to pick up in the fourth as Levi Zents hit one to center field, bringing in Caudle to tie the game, 1-1. Later in the inning, Pablo Hernandez would double to left field to give the Javelinas the lead and eventually the win, 4-1.

Pitching was the key to success for the Hogs again in game three as right-handed junior Isaiah Lybarger threw a one-hit shutout against

the Texans. On his way to his shutout, Lybarger struck out nine batters, walked three, and allowed only six base runner. The Javelinas would score on single runs in the second, third, and fifth inning to win the contest 3-0.

Game four of the series would be a high scoring one as wind played a key factor hitting wise for both teams. The Hogs would take a 1-0 lead after a scoreless first inning to give the Javelinas their first lead of the night, before the Texans would bring in five runs in the fifth

to take a 7-5 lead. Zents would keep the Hogs close bringing in a run in the sixth to cut the deficit to 8-6, but the Hogs would allow another score giving the Texans a three-point cushion in the top of the seventh. The Javelinas would rally in the bottom of the seventh to score six runs, completing the sweep, by defeating the Texans 12-10.

The Javelinas look to continue their current five game-winning streak into today’s match up against St. Mary’s (12-14) at 6 p.m. at Nolan Ryan Field.

TAMUK tennis tops Prairie View Team wins close matchup against second Divsion I opponent of season Staff Reports

Kelby Sprinkles and Gaby Atchley celebrate after they score.

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Hoggies struggle in Houston road trip

The Javelina tennis team (9-5) beat the Prairie View A&M University Panthers (6-22) this past weekend, 4-3, for its third straight victory since being swept in their previous loss against Florida Southern University.

Ericka Larrea took the victory in singles competition 6-2, 6-2. Also in the mix

with wins was Julia Rauer with a 6-1, 7-6 (7-3 tiebreak), and Victoria Romanovskaia 3-6, 7-5, 6-1.

In doubles play, the Javelinas would earn two victories, which helped to give the Hoggies the advantage when the day was done.

Tabata Lua and Lisa Carvajal would win their matchup 6-3, and Larrea alongside Viviana Ortiz, would finish it off winning 6-4.

Although the Panthers were able to notch three wins of their own, it was not enough to overcome, and the Javelinas would bring home their second victory against a Division I opponent this season.

The Hoggies next test, will be a Lone Star Conference matchup against Cameron University, Mar. 30, at 1 p.m.

Beach volleyball team losing streak continues Staff Reports The Javelina beach volleyball team took a trip up to Houston for the Third Coast Classic, in which they took on University of New Orleans (5-7), University of Louisiana-Monroe (8-5), and Houston Baptist University (86). The Hogs would end up losing all three matches.

Day one featured a matchup against the University of New Orleans privateers. Haley Hutchinson and Maelee Sowa were first up in the number five showdown with Lauren Levy and Rhyan Rand, losing the first set 2116, but swiping the next two 21-17 and 15-11.

Morgan Broussard and Madison Brabham dropped two of three in the number four matchup against Madison Miller and Brianna Vega, as did Kat Evans and Kadi Shipman in the number three match against Samantha Uline and Brook Frank.

Gabby Atchley and Kelby Sprinkles were swept by Veronica Corcoran and Rachel Kuhn 21-12 and 21-13. Finally in the number one match, Lexi Wick and Kyra Henderson swept in two sets, 21-19 and 21-16.

Broussard and Brabham secured the only win the following day versus the University of Louisiana-Monroe Warhawks winning two of three sets in the number four matchup.

Atchley and Sprinkles stepped in the pit

on Saturday, falling in a narrow first flight loss 25-23 followed by a 21-14 defeat in the second flight. In the number one match, Wick and Henderson took it to three sets, but ultimately fell.

The third and final matchup came against the Houston Baptist University Huskies.

Brabham and Broussard moved up to the number three spot and earned their second win of the weekend with 22-20 and 21-17 flight wins against Bailey Banks and Melissa Fuchs.

Hutchinson and Sowa kept it close against the Huskies, but dropped the first two flights 21-17 and 22-20 in the number five match.

Finally Evans and Shipman took HBU to three sets, losing the first flight 21-17, winning the second 23-21, and dropping a close final flight 15-12.

After starting their inaugural season with a 4-0 sweep, this is the Javelina’s eighth straight loss, a slide dating back to March 8 versus Grand Canyon, giving them a 4-8 overall record.

The Javelinas return home to square off with the Royals of Warner University and the Lewis and Clark College Pioneers this weekend Mar. 31 and Apr. 1. Day one competition begins at 3 p.m. versus Warner followed by an early 9 a.m. start versus Lewis and Clark.

Tabata Lua sets up to hit ball back over the net.

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