Editorial
Don’t let them eat cake
I work at my family’s cake shop, and one recent quinceañera consultation stands out from the rest. After I tallied up the final price on the five-tier cake, the customer wanted to know if her aunt [...]
Letters from readers 2/16
Response to “Comments show cruel face of online community” I, like the author of this piece, had an opportunity to witness the despicable side of human nature when a tragedy occurs. As the day progressed Monday, [...]
Comments show cruel face of online community
Reactions during times of crisis are often a thermometer measuring the true nature of individuals, and social media has proven to be a powerful tool for collecting responses. The once total anonymity of the Internet is [...]
Letters to the Editor – Trip Tabulation
Funding student travel at UTPA has long been a complicated process requiring students and their professors to go hat in hand to a number of funding sources, including the SGA. Fortunately, supportive Chairs, Deans and other [...]
Can’t learn something? Really O.o?
By: Karen Antonacci To be honest, it irritates me when someone in my generation says they can’t understand something. Can’t? Or don’t want to? Let’s face it, anything that we, the last children of the ‘80s [...]
Ignoring the real problem
By: Erick Gonzalez During the last few months, we have been bombarded with information about the privacy-abridging bills SOPA and PIPA. In a bizarre turn of events, the Internet community – seemingly detached from social and [...]
A chance to learn from our mistakes – again
By Reynaldo Leal An Islamist regime with ties to terror cells wants to create weapons of mass destruction and has become a danger to national security. Sound familiar? Iran – not Iraq – has become [...]
Ban unrealistic, unenforceable
By: Nadia Tamez-Robledo I write this as the orange glow of the cigarette in my left hand creeps steadily toward the yellow filter, turning the paper and tobacco inside to a tiny pillar of ash. It [...]
Smoke ’em if you got ’em, just not at UTPA.
By: Reynaldo Leal Seventy percent of students polled on the myUTPA website have agreed that our campus should be a “smoke-free environment.” The number of students who took the poll hovered above 6,500 before it ended [...]
