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Vol. 115 Issue 16
Serving Trinity University, San Antonio Since 1902
January 29, 2016
KRTU celebrates forty year anniversary
photo by Claudia Garcia
Trinity radio station prepares for major changes in the upcoming semester BY ALEXANDRA URI
NEWS REPORTER
On Saturday, Jan. 23 Trinity University’s radio station, KRTU, celebrated its 40th anniversary. The celebration was held at the KRTU station in Laurie Auditorium and featured an array of activities for guests. “We’ll have music and food and beverages. We’ll be giving station tours and we just confirmed that we’ll have a recording station upstairs where members, volunteers, and anyone who is involved with the station can go and tell their story, little testimonial recordings to get that history down and preserve it. And then we’ll have a little bit
of a program where we’ll have some really special guest speakers,” said Jaime Lopez, general manager of KRTU. Some of the guest speakers included Jim Blakemore and Ryan Webber, Trinity alumni who were involved with the radio station. “One of our original founders and a longtime supporter, Jim Blakemore, Trinity class of ’77, is coming in to speak. And Ryan Webber, who is still involved with the radio as a committed volunteer on air, is coming in. He was also a student at Trinity and one-time station manager and operations manager,” Lopez said. KRTU also used the celebration to announce big changes with the station’s broadcasting tower. “We’ve got some great news to make. The big announcement is we are moving our tower. We have been working very hard to solidify a good portion of the funds to do
so. We feel confident that by September or October of this year we will make the move,” Lopez said. The tower move should correspond with the second anniversary celebration that KRTU will host this October. “We will have a big community celebration on October 7, alumni weekend. So it’ll act as a big reunion. We anticipate that a lot of the original founding members from ’76 and ’77 will be present. Then we’ll make a huge community announcement and hopefully switch over to the new wattage,” Lopez said. The anniversary marks a huge milestone for KRTU and shows the stations emphasis on keeping up with trends in technology. “When I speak to some of the original founders, all of them have the common thread that technology is what will advance us. That’s been a running theme since the ‘70s. It’s in the department of
communication, which is a department of technology. It’s staying on top of technology and advancement and growth. That’s something that KRTU, as an extension of the communication department, has never lost sight of. So with every decade, [the questions are] what’s the new technology and how do we keep up with it,” said Lopez. Members of the Trinity administration also remarked on the milestone of the radio station. “It’s a tremendous milestone for the radio station,” said David Tuttle, associate vice president and dean of students. “In the time that I’ve been here, to see the visibility of KRTU on campus and in the community and to see the momentum that it has, I just think its become more and more prominent and professional, it’s a great way to break out of the Trinity bubble.”
Trinity hosts competition for young entrepreneurs Hopeful students and alumni seek funding at ongoing Stumberg event BY PHILIP MCKEON
NEWS REPORTER
The second annual Stumberg Prize Competition for aspiring entrepreneurs at Trinity has now begun. Students wishing to enter will submit a business plan, pitch it, and ultimately compete for the chance to win a grant of up to $30,000 to help turn the idea into a reality. Nicole Garbarino, a junior at Trinity and one of the people who helped create the Stumberg Prize, states that the competition is aimed at helping Trinity students pursue their goals and ideas as future entrepreneurs.
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“It’s really to try and help people at Trinity be able to start the [business] ventures that they want to. A lot of people don’t have the capital to pursue the ideas that they have … We’re allowing people to start pursuing what they’re dreaming of … It’s also to try to help entrepreneurship in San Antonio in general, hoping that a lot of these kids who create these great businesses will stay here, so it’s both for Trinity and for San Antonio,” Garbarino said. This is the second year that the Stumberg Competition will be held, and applications are now open. “Last spring was the first competition that we held, and it’s both in the spring and in the fall, so we just finished our first full round, and we just opened up applications for our second year.” Luis Martinez, director of the center for innovation and entrepreneurship,
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believes that the Stumberg Competition is a way for students to become engaged in the learning process. “Entrepreneurship is something that’s done. It’s not something that’s necessarily studied in a classroom. So this is a way of really having our students engaged in the actual learning process of starting and launching their own businesses,” Martinez said. One such student who succeeded in starting his own business is Cole Evans, who won the 2015 Stumberg Prize with his partners Thayer Selleck and Vik Patel and created Plova, a business that manufactures chewing gum that simultaneously cleans teeth. “We created Plova Chewing Gum, and it’s an oral care product in the form of gum. It cleans your teeth while you’re on the go. Kinda like mouthwash, but in the form of chewing gum. I created it in high school with a mentor of mine
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who worked in the oral care business. On the first day of Dr. Martinez’s entrepreneurship class, I pitched it to the class, and we formulated a team and entered it in the competition,” Evans said. After winning the competition in 2015, the Plova team has continued to grow their company, and they are grateful for the opportunities the Stumberg Prize Competition has given them. “We were lucky enough to be admitted to a national pitch competition hosted by Under Armour out in Baltimore on February 19. We get to present to the CEO of Under Armour and some guys from Shark Tank. We couldn’t have gotten to where we are right now without Stumberg, so we are really thankful for the opportunity to be a part of it and being lucky enough to win,” Evans said. “Kids who are trying to create
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something should definitely be a part of it because it can only help.” Martinez encourages students to apply, and explains that he hopes the competition fosters growth in Trinity’s young entrepreneurs. “For those that are applying, one thing we want our students to get out of this is that Trinity is committed to helping them realize their entrepreneurial drives and desires for real while they’re students,” Martinez said. “We hope our students have the opportunity to think about what their passions are, or problems they’d like to solve, and develop new ventures and develop new initiatives that will address and solve those problems. Our hope is that one of the outcomes is that students develop more and better ideas, and put those ideas to a real test.” The deadline is February 29 and can be found at www.tustumberg2016. startupcompete.com
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