The Lake Front December 2011

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Last Name First Name Active Programs Home City Home State Home LocationAcevedo Lisa BSW/SOCIAL.WORK.O4 San Antonio TX SAAcosta Lillian BA/PSYC.GEN.05 El Paso TX SAAdams Nicole MS/PSY/MAR&FAM.THRPY San Antonio TX SAAguilar Stephany BA/POL.SCI.04 Lytle TX SAAhumada Joelah BBA/MANAGEMENT.04 San Antonio TX SAAkwar Jamelle MS/PSY/MAR&FAM.THRPY Pearland TX HOAlcala, Jr. Benito BS/CISS-CUSTOM.05 Windcrest TX SAAlcoser Rosemary BA/MGMT.04 San Antonio TX SAAldaco Erika BS/BIOLOGY.07 San Antonio TX SAAldana Vanessa MBA/MANAGEMENT San Antonio TX SAAlmanza Noah MBA/MANAGEMENT San Antonio TX SAAlmendarez Cristina MS/PSY/CNSL.PSY Laredo TX SAAlvarado Monica MS/ORG.LEAD/LDRSHP Brownsville TX SAAlvarez Brandi MBA/ACCTNG/FINANCE Universal City TX SAAnguiano Carlos BA/MGMT.04 Houston TX HOAnzualda Alyssa BA/CRIM.JUST.04 San Antonio TX SAAraiza Lisa BS/ORG.LEAD.04 Phoenix AZ SAAranda Israel BA/LIB.STU/KINE.04 Dallas TX SAArista Jackie BBA/ACCT.04 Eagle Pass TX SAArmendariz-Garcia Sanjuanita 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MoreGrads & Grads

Congratulationson your accomplishment.I love you.

Your husband,Ramon Zertuche

Congratulations MED-Integrated Science

graduates from the

Center for Science and

Mathematics Education

Congratulations to all Visual Arts graduating students.

-BrianThe visual arts department

congratulates thevisual arts

majors graduatingthis semester!

April J. Atkinson, M.F.A.Visual Arts Chair

Majors:Crystal A. MaganaVivianna C. VegaNubia L. Waddell-MoranPablo F. NegreteMinors:Monica Gomez

Just as a parent would instruct

his or her child to take caution before

crossing a busy intersection and

to look both ways, the Stop Think

Connect Campaign encourages the

same kind of caution before using the

Internet in today’s lawless cyber-

highway.

The National Cyber Security

Awareness Campaign, Stop Think

Connect, has developed the first

ever awareness program to help

digital citizens to beware of Internets

dangers and to stay safe while online.

The growing number of attacks

on our cyber networks has become,

in President Obama’s words, one

of the most serious economic and

national security threats our nation

faces, according to the Department

of Homeland Security.

In today’s world, a person

will use the Internet for just about

everything; paying bills, checking

bank statements, communicating,

and shopping. Universities today do

everything almost entirely online.

They use an Internet portal for

students to register for classes, stay

connected and check grades.

Jesus Carmona, assistant

professor of CISS at OLLU,

encourages students at the university

to take control of their privacy

online, and to be aware of the

responsibilities that follow your

breadcrumb trail in the rapidly

growing Internet world.

According to Tim Fraser,

national director of the Stop Think

Connect Campaign, 70 percent of

college students are sought after by a

stranger online, 45 percent have been

asked for personal information and

25 percent think it is OK to give out

their information to strangers.

For college students who

have grown up in the skyrocketing

technical revolution, securing ones

information isn’t always a first

priority when using the Internet.

Frequent Internet users are often not

aware of all the risk.

“The extent of threats can be as

juvenile as toilet papering someone’s

yard on the Internet,” FBI Special

Agent Jim Thompson said, “to the

more serious and extreme of cases,

such as identity theft.”

Every three seconds in the U.S.,

an identity is stolen. The Federal

Trade Commission discovered that 31

percent of the identity theft victims

fall into the 18-29 age group, which

would encompass a vast amount of

college students. Texas alone has

the worst identity theft record in the

nation.Shannon O’Dowd, a senior at

OLLU who has had his credit card

information stolen, believes students

are more careless when it comes to

their personal information.

“We just don’t think about it like

we should,” O’Dowd said. “We think

it won’t happen to us.”

Ernest Silva, also a senior at

the Lake, experienced a scare last

summer when his identity was stolen,

and six months went by before he had

a clue.After receiving a phone call

from a police officer from another

city, he was informed that someone

had in fact stolen his identity. They

had his Social Security number, bank

account number and a matching fake

ID.After numerous failed attempts

by the perpetrator to cash checks

through Silva’s bank account,

suspicion began to circulate and the

authorities quickly became involved.

“I’m way more cautious online

Flags. Flowers. Terrorists.

These images may come to mind

when one thinks of 9/11. The 10th

anniversary of 9/11 has left America

with one question: How can we best

remember the victims and their

families?

The effects of 9/11 can still be

felt 10 years later. Oscar Martin,

a junior and ex-military, was on

a flight coming home on Sept. 11,

2001 when planes hit the Twin

Towers. He first heard about the

attack when he landed. Martin said,

“It made me think - what if?”

The incident hit home to

freshman Eloisa Trinidad, whose

father was in the military. “I feel

for the families of firefighters.” She

said she was in the third grade and

still remembers teachers tu

rning on

TVs so they could watch the news.

Regarding the anniversary, she said,

“People should reflect on what’s

happened. A lot of people want to

forget.”Others, su

ch as Sara Melchor,

junior, believe that America has

become careless. “Ten years is a

long time. Since then we’ve let our

guard down. 9/11 isn’t front page

news anymore,” she said.

Melchor was in San Francisco

on 9/11 and she remembers,

“Confusion. It was unbelievable.

The city was in a panic. Everyone

thought we were next. There was a

peace rally and it turned into a riot.”

Dr. Kimberly Gibson, director

of Center for Women, shares her

birthday with 9/11. “I share my

birthday with my father as well.

It usually is a joyful day, and the

anniversary of terrorism is an

important reminder why we can’t

ignore other people. Terrorism

grows out of human neglect. We

have to remember to embrace

others.”Martin summarized the effect

9/11 has on us: “It’s like a surgery

scar. It’s healed, but you still

want

to pick at it.”

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Where have the students gone?

This year’s drop in student

enrollment has impacted many

facets of the university, especially

Residence Life and Student Dining.

Despite the decrease in numbers,

these departments continue to move

forward and make improvements,

according to officials.

“We do anticipate a smaller

overall class this year,” Vice

President of Enrollment Management

Mike Acosta said. Official

enrollment numbers have not yet

been released for this academic

year, although there was an overall

increase in enrollment over the

previous three years.

Acosta attributes the sudden

decrease this semester to threats by

the state and national government

to cut funding for financial aid and

grants by as much as 50 percent,

when in actuality, the funding was

reduced by only a relatively small

percentage.

However, “It was fairly late that

we got that information,” Acosta

said. “Just that waiting got students

thinking about other options.”

Acosta maintains a positive

outlook on the enrollment situation.

“Financial packages will remain

roughly the same,” Acosta said.

“I don’t see any changes as far as

moving forward… We’re happy that

a lot of students have decided to

come back.”

Director of Residence Life Mark

Center upholds a similar, forward-

thinking outlook despite the drop

in both freshman and returning

residents.

“As far as the number change,

we have had a reduction of

approximately 100 residents, which

is pretty substantial,” Center said.

“Most of my anecdotal reasoning

appears to be financial struggle by

students.”

The drop in residents has

resulted in the closure of two

residence halls. Center had

already anticipated closing St.

Anne’s Hall because it was a low

occupancy dorm, any ways. The

closure of Ayres Hall, however,

was unexpected. Neither of the

unoccupied dormitories is currently

being used.

“We are in discussion… about

utilizing the space for guests during

alumni weekend and during the

spring when we often have guests

that participate in the Folk Life

Festival through the IFCC during

spring break,” Center said.

Center has still overseen many

improvements to the residence halls,

despite the decrease in residents.

Recent improvements have included

expanded television channel

Courtney Minten

Contributing Writer

Stop.Think.Connect.

World Youth Day

enlivens students

September 11 attacks

resonate a decade later

Traveling across the Atlantic

and through several times zones, a

few Our Lady of the Lake University

students made the journey to Madrid,

Spain, for World Youth Day (WYD).

Over 1 million of the world’s young

people gathered on Aug. 16 through

21 to be in the presence of Pope

Benedict XVI.

WYD dates back to 1985 and

is an encounter with the pope that is

celebrated every two to three years in

a different country. The experience is

available to all young people from 14

to 30 years old who want to commit

themselves to Christ and share it with

other people from all over the world.

The majority in attendance ventured

to Madrid as pilgrims, a few with

the only luxury being the ride there

by airplane. They would spend their

days with bags on their backs while

sleeping in hostels or community

buildings at night.

Besides the papal meetings

and daily masses, the pilgrims were

invited to enjoy the sights and sounds

of Madrid. The youths were able

watch movies at local cinemas, have

access to art at prestigious museums,

view and celebrate Mass at different

churches, attend concerts and indulge

in Spanish cuisine. Many also visited

other countries such as France, Italy

and Portugal.

OLLU junior psychology student

Brenda Martinez, an associate

with the Congregation of Divine

Providence (CDP), discovered the

pilgrimage from Sister Gloria Anne.

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Freshens Smoothies located in the UWAC recently closed due to financial reasons.


The ‘http’ is used for unsecure browsing, but sometimes ‘https’ is

required

to browse on websites that have sensitiv

e information.

Valerie Cowan

Editor

Gianna Rendon

Reporter

Collette Orquiz

Assistant Editor

»Security is

a growing

concern on

the Internet

Every three seconds

in the U.S., an identity is

stolen. The Federal Trade

Commission discovered

that 31 percent of the

identity theft victims fall

into the 18-29 age group,

which would encompass

a vast amount of college

students.

“It’s like a surgery scar. It’

s

healed, but you still want

to pick at it.”

-Oscar Martin, junior

September 2011

Volume 53, Issue 2

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N E W S F O R T H E S T U D E N T S . BY T H E S T U D E N T S .

THE LAKE FRONT

O U R LA D Y O F T H E LA K E U N I V E R S I TY, SA N A N TO N I O , T

X

24th Street bus stops relocated

The Center for A

rchaeological R

esearch and Departm

ent of A

nthropology for the University of

Texas at San Antonio (U

TSA) visited

OLLU

on Sept. 28 to view and take

samples from

the Jack and Joyce C

oleman skeletal collection housed

on campus.

The Colem

an Collection is an

array of human rem

ains excavated back in 1995 from

the Hidden Valley

RV Park located in Von O

rmy.

Dating back to the prehistoric tim

es, the C

oleman C

ollection features over 21 full-body skeletons, including an infant. O

LLU is the only university

in the state to possess such a collection.

Dr. Jennifer R

ice, the program

director and assistant professor for the anthropology program

at the Lake, w

as thrilled to host researcher C

ynthia Muñoz and U

TSA

Anthropology graduate student

Kirsten Verostick as they collected

data for their research on diets of populations through different tim

e periods.

“We’re interested in this

collection because it dates to the

late prehistoric and most cem

eteries in Texas are a lot earlier,” M

uñoz said. “W

e don’t really have any good representations of cem

eteries in that tim

e period.”A

fter gathering hair and bone sam

ples and performing m

inor procedures, U

TSA w

ill send them to

a mass spectrom

etry machine located

in Arizona w

here they will undergo

tests to assess their carbon and nitrogen content. This inform

ation w

ill tell the anthropologists what

kind of plants and proteins these prehistoric people ate, as w

ell as details of the environm

ent they inhabited.

“The UTSA

research on the skeletal collection is im

portant because the inform

ation they get from

the Colem

an Collection w

ill be part of a m

ajor research study on diet (isotope study) of Prehistoric People in N

orth Am

erica,” Rice said.

Besides providing sam

ples for U

TSA, the C

oleman C

ollection is used as a teaching aid for classes such as forensic anthropology and osteology. The num

ber of anthropology students continues to increase at O

LLU. Plans are in the

works to offer A

nthropology as a m

ajor in the coming years.

Bones to

revea

l past

What’s SG

A been up to?

The Student Governm

ent A

ssociation (SGA

) has much in store

this semester, as one of its m

ain goals is to expand its outreach and accessibility to students.

SGA

Vice President Ryan R

ojas said the SG

A has both inform

ative and fun events planned this sem

ester that w

ill promote SG

A and allow

students to get m

ore involved with

the OLLU

comm

unity. “SG

A is pretty m

uch the go-to guys,” R

ojas said. “If there are any types of concerns…

we’re here to

educate (students) and show them

the w

ay. We’re here to advocate for

them and be their voice. A

t the same

time, w

e’re also here to become

aware of the things that are available

on campus, so they can also excel

academically.”

SGA

Director of R

ecords and Finance Jeffrey M

artinez said he enjoys SG

A because, as a voice for

his peers, he likes to help resolve the issues his fellow

students may have.

He explains that students can

get involved with the SG

A w

ithout becom

ing an officer.“W

e really advocate that, as a student here at the Lake, no m

atter your classification, you’re a m

ember of SG

A because you are a

student here and you are a part of the decisions that are being m

ade,” M

artinez said. “You’re getting involved the second you voice a concern.”

The SGA

works in close

collaboration with the U

niversity Planning C

omm

ittee (UPC

) in order to prom

ote and plan campus events.

President of UPC

Lela B

ocanegra said new events this

semester include a M

ovie Night

outdoors at the Library Circle outside

Centennial H

all on October 26.

“We’re going to show

A

mityville H

orror, the first version,” B

ocanegra said. “We’re going to

have a whole bunch of H

alloween

snacks.”The U

PC w

ill also host a C

offee House on the Pacelli Patio

on Novem

ber 2 with G

aby Moreno,

a blues, jazz, and soul artist and songw

riter. “She does…

songs that relate to students and their culture,” B

ocanegra said.The SG

A has its ow

n events planned for this sem

ester, as well.

One of its goals is to becom

e more

accessible to weekend college

students by having a table set up on the w

eekends to pass out cookies and have conversations w

ith the students that m

ay not have a chance to come

to campus events or voice concerns

to the SGA

during the week.

Rojas said the SG

A is planning

a campus-w

ide Veterans Day event,

possibly collaborating with the

parade in the outside comm

unity. “This is a new

thing we’re

trying to bring to campus so students

be aware of w

hat’s going on with our

troops and also show som

e support,” R

ojas said.The SG

A w

ill also host A

cademics and A

ppetizers on Oct.

24 at 12:15 p.m. in PW

SR. D

uring this event, students w

ill have free food and an open forum

with the

deans of the university. Academ

ics and A

ppetizers gives students the opportunity to voice their concerns and ask questions.

The SGA

is coming up w

ith new

, creative ways to get involved

with student body this sem

ester in order to give students a w

ell-rounded college experience.

“One of our new

ways to

advertise is one of our guys is going to be running around dressed like a jalapeño, and if you can catch him

, you get a prize,” R

ojas said. “We’re

pretty much trying to get m

ore involved w

ith the students and make

our outreach a little further.”For m

ore information on how

to be an officer or a m

ember of the

SGA

, visit the Student Leadership and D

evelopment O

ffice located in the U

WA

C.

Let me begin by saying that I am

a bus rider m

yself; I rely on my bus

following its route and schedule so

that I make it to school right on tim

e. So w

hen I heard the rumors about

bus stops being moved or com

pletely closed, I had a very personal interest in investigating w

hat changes were

occurring and how it w

ould affect us, the student body.

First rumor to clarify: B

us stops w

ill not be closed. R

achel Miranda, secretary of

public affairs for Vía, said, “B

us stops on 24th Street have been m

oved tem

porarily due to construction.” C

onstruction is estimated to be a

nine-month process and is supposed

to be completed at the end of the

academic year.

Secondly, the only bus stops that are going to be affected are the ones follow

ing route 522. The bus stop on the side of the library is going to be m

oved about 50 feet. Across the

street on the Providence side, the stop w

ill be moved slightly further dow

n. The change is so slight that it is very unlikely for anyone to com

plain. “I can not im

agine any negative effect,” D

irector of Physical Plant D

arrel Glasscock said. “W

e are talking about very negligible…

distance.”

Executive Vice President D

avid C

. Estes, Ph.D., explained the reasons

behind these changes.“They chose these bus stops so

that the front of the university, from

Main to the library, w

ould be better connected, very sim

ilar to the Mall

Area,” Estes said.

After the construction is done,

there will be only tw

o lanes instead of four, and the university is going to reclaim

the central area for trees and natural grass.

Aesthetic appearance is not

the only motive for m

oving the bus stops. A

nother reason is safety. It is

planned for buses to have a turning lane, w

hich means that they w

ill have the ability to pull over, out of the w

ay of traffic.

“Bus turnouts are safer,” G

lasscock said. “Police and fire trucks w

ill never be stuck behind the bus.”

Bus stops on 24th Street are

definitely going to be a lot safer, how

ever both Estes and Glasscock

pointed out that they are not the most

popular bus stops. The bus stop on the cross-section of 24th Street and C

omm

erce, where bus routes 75 and

76 stop, are a lot busier. There are various things being done to m

ake these bus stops safer, as w

ell.“I know

Vía has plans for the

future to have major transit stations

installed over here that will m

ake these bus stops safer,” G

lasscock stated.Estes talked about the plans of redesigning the w

hole area of Elm

endorf Park using bond money

and money from

the county. He said

these proposed changes would attract

people to park. “W

e are going to have new

hiking and biking trails from 24th

Street Bridge all the w

ay up to C

omm

erce Street Bridge,” Estes said.

“That’s going to bring so many m

ore people from

the neighborhood to w

alk the circle.” A

ccording to Estes, lighting will

also be added across these trails.O

LLU is m

aking major changes

to promote safety. H

owever, students

need to take a responsibility in participating in safe traffic habits.

“I do want to m

ake a serious request that the students push the w

alk button and wait to cross w

ith the signal.” Estes said.

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Although the fall semester is

halfway through and registration

for the spring semester has already

begun, one thing will remain relatively constant throughout both

academic seasons – the number of

full- and part-time professors that

make up Our Lady of the Lake’s

faculty. Why should this be of concern to the student body?

It shouldn’t.But in a concocted scenario,

a student who is facing a problem

while carrying out an assignment,

project or, more simply, is having a

hard time understanding a concept

would best attain answers to their

questions through contacting their

professor. Contacting a professor

can either be an easy task that would

involve setting up an appointment or

getting questions answered through

e-mail, or a hard task if the professor

is employed part-time and does not

have office hours.“Part-time faculty members are

often stretched so thin that it’s hard

for them to devote the same number

of hours to students that full-time

faculty members do,” said Professor

Michael Lueker, head of the English

Department. “It’s often tougher for

students to find part-time professors

on campus.”Although Professor Lueker’s

department is made up of seven full-

time and two part-time professors,

the ratio for OLLU at large is somewhat different. According to Cindy Vazquez

in the Office of Academic Affairs,

OLLU is made up of 121 full-time

and 114 part-time professors, with

a total of 2,614 undergraduate and

graduate students; almost half and

half, allowing some 10 students per

professor.In comparison to OLLU, sister

schools St. Mary’s University (SMU)

and the University of the Incarnate

Word (UIW) do not fall far behind. According to UIW Provost Dr.

Denise Doyle, with 5,691 students,

UIW counts with a total of 492

professors divided into eight schools

– not a bad number before separating

the number of full-time professors,

252, with the number of part-time

professors, 244. That equates to a

ratio of 50.8 percent versus 49.2

percent (almost half and half), and an

11.6 student-to-teacher ratio.At SMU, there are 196 full-

time professors and 157 part-time

professors available to 4105 students,

according to the SMU Office of

Institutional Research website. Whereas their student-to-teacher

ratio is the same as UIW’s, the full-time, part-time ratio has an 11

percent difference: 55.5 versus 44.5

percent.Highly varying from these

ratios, Trinity University (TU) is made up of 246 full-time and

69 part-time professors available

for 2417 undergraduates and 202

graduate students; a significant

ratio of 78 percent full-time versus only 22 percent part-time

professors, according to Dr. Michael

Fischer, Trinity’s Vice President of

Academic Affairs. This also leaves

an average of eight students per

professor. Fischer attributes this to

the 26 academic departments at the

University.But it is important to remember

that private schools – like OLLU,

SMU, UIW and TU – do not receive

funds from the State and therefore

must charge a considerably higher

tuition to the students in order to

hire a larger number of full-time

professors. In other words, the budget

of a private institution needs to be

balanced with the tuition price for

students by carefully considering the

amount of full-time employees they

may have.At the same time, the roles of

both types of professors should be

taken into account. Full-time faculty

members are entitled to four classes,

whereas part-time professors are

hired by contract and may have only

one or two classes. “Full-time faculty control

the curriculum, are responsible for

assessing our programs, advising the

Do you feel safe at Our Lady

of the Lake? Do you take late night

walks around the campus? Do you

ever leave your purse unattended? Do

you keep cash in your dorm room?

Should you?According to the 2010 Annual

Security Report, in 2010 there have

not been any sex offences, robberies,

car thefts or drug violations. However, there were four cases of

aggravated assault and one burglary.

This compares to one sex offence, one robbery, one burglary

and one motor vehicle theft at St.

Mary’s University campus in the

same year and two sex offences and

21 burglaries at Incarnate Word.According to these reports,

OLLU campus seems the safest from

the universities of about the same

size. Lieutenant Ramon Zertuche

encourages students to take action

and report everything they think is

illegal and unjust. “Report anything that happens,

either on campus or off campus,”

Zertuche said. He explained that most of the

times, after encountering a crime,

students think there is nothing that

can be done about it. If someone

steals cash or is guilty of harassment,

a report should be filed even if they

guilty party is unidentified. Zertuche

said that any information is helpful

because if there are repeated reports

of a crime in the same neighborhood,

SAPD will keep an eye on the area,

patrolling and protecting.“I think over the years we

have gotten better, and I say that

because of technology: we have

surveillance cameras, we have better

equipment…” Zertuche said.Zertuche said he thinks OLLU

has a very safe campus, overall. He

said that students trust the officers,

and the most of the phone calls

OLLU police department receives

are related more to customer service,

rather than crime.“On campus here in the past, we

have had vehicle burglaries. That’s

probably the biggest crime we have

had in years,” Zertuche said.However, he thinks that no

matter how hard campus police tries,

there is no universal way of absolute

crime prevention.

Besides gaining a whole new

staff, Project Student Excellence

(PSE) has undergone numerous

changes since last semester. PSE, a program under the

federally funded TRiO Student

Support Services, offers personalized

support to first-generation and low-

income students. This support comes

in the form of advising sessions,

tutoring, competitive scholarship

opportunities, financial aid and

literacy assistance, workshops and

cultural activities. In order to qualify for PSE,

students must be a U.S. citizen or

permanent legal resident and have

a clear need for academic support.

PSE members must also either be a

first-generation college student, fall

under a low-income status as per

the U.S. Department of Education

or have a documented physical or

learning disability filed with the

Office of Disability Services or Texas

Rehabilitation Commission. PSE Coordinator Jody Crenshaw

said the goal of the TRiO programs,

which also include Upward Bound at

the high school level and the McNair

Scholars Program at the graduate

level, is “to help first-generation,

low-income students with academic

need increase their academic success

to get into college or to stay in college.”

Crenshaw recently transferred

from her position as an academic

advisor at OLLU to her new position as PSE coordinator. PSE

Project Specialists Martha Guerra

and Jennifer Martinez, an OLLU

alumnus, are also new to the PSE

program. “I worked in the financial aid

area,” Guerra said. “I wanted to do

more advising and working with

students on that level.”As a PSE Project Specialist,

her responsibilities include advising

and organizing workshops for PSE

students on topics like applying

graduate school, financial literacy

and budgeting. “We’ll follow up on [PSE students] and make sure they get

the help they require, and it’s great

to establish that relationship with

them,” Guerra said.Crenshaw said the new PSE staff

members have worked well together

so far, and the workshops have been

well-attended. However, the grant received by

PSE from the U.S. Department of

Education states PSE must strive to

service 180 students. Crenshaw said

PSE is currently serving around 109

students. “We want to encourage students

to apply. Even if they’re not sure if

they’re eligible, I’d say come in and

let’s talk, and let’s see what we can

figure out,” Crenshaw said. “We have

a lot of spots to fill. We really want

to encourage students to come in and

seek out services.”PSE/TRIO continued on page 2

Availability continued on page 2

Safety continued on page 2

PSE targeting first-generation

Adjunct professors on the rise across board

Report: stats positive

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Mariam KevlishviliReporter


PSE can provide support, both financially and academically, to freshmen like Adison Pachecano (above).


Safety is key here at Our Lady of the Lake University, as recent statistics have shown.

Valerie CowanEditor

Angelica CasasContributing Writer

November 2011

Volume 53, Issue 4

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You might have noticed recently that hallways are filled with people walking around with smart phones in their hands and their eyes fixed on the screen. It does not necessarily mean that they are engaged in intense texting. It is very likely that they are using the new MOX app developed for OLLU students to navigate their way through the university or to take a look at their schedule. “(The) app MOX was developed by Datatel,” Senior Programmer Analyst Paul Lamping said. “It is our ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) system; WebAdvisor is one of their products. MOX was a natural fit and we decided to take it.” MOX is an application for smart phones that allows OLLU students access necessary information anywhere and anytime in the most rapid and comfortable way. The application includes all the important numbers and extensions at OLLU, news and updates about the university, a map of the campus with a nice visual of all the buildings, a list of events and most importantly, a list of student’s current courses and a roster for each class. “MOX was introduced on Aug. 1,” Web Manager Lizette Yanes-Lew said. “It is a source of major communication readily available for them.” Lamping and Yanes-Lew do not have an exact number of how many students downloaded the app, but they know that the majority of the freshmen with smart phones who heard about it during orientations already have it. Out of the 30 students the Lake Front interviewed, 11 did not have a smart phone, but from the 19 that had one, 10 had MOX downloaded. “It helped me learn the names of my classmates,” said John

David Hernandez, a freshman who downloaded the app. Daisi Torres, a junior, is also pleased with the new app. “(The MOX app) makes it a little easier to get a hold of my teachers or classmates for projects,” said Torres. Patrick Lloyd, a junior, also found it very useful. “It is easier than having to track down a computer every time you want something off the portal,” said Lloyd. It was not only students that downloaded the apps, but also the professors. Dr. Oswald Nira uses MOX as well, although he does not know how to post events for classes on the app. MOX is not going to be the only innovation for OLLU students this semester. Programmers are also planning on updating the portal. “We want to make it more secure, faster,” says Yanes-Lew. The major change the programmers want to implement before midterms is a single sign-in capability to the OLLU e-mail. There is also a possibility that students will be able to connect their Facebook accounts to myOLLU accounts.

Hot Start for the Fall Semester!

Sounding Off on Page 2 withStaff Summer Stories

John Quiñones on Page 3


With start of school, the Mall Area receives more traffic as students and professors walk to class, chat with each other, eat lunch, and share stories from the summer. Despite the blazing Texas heat, the Mall Area is still a popular place to convene.


A student makes use of the new MOX app for OLLU.


Lizette Yanes-Lew and Paul Lamping discuss the advantages of MOX.

Mariam Kevlishvili

Reporter

FasgwggCalendar of Events for August and September:

• Wednesday August 31 - Club Rush• Thursday September 1 - R.A. Block Party 7 p.m. - 9 p.m.• Monday September 5 - Labor Day Holiday• Wednesday September 7 - SAFE Event 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.• Tuesday September 13 - Brown Bag Concert• Tuesday September 20 - Career/Internship Fair• Thursday September 22 - Spirit Day

* Call Ext. 2445 or e-mail [email protected]

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NEWS FOR THE STUDENTS. BY THE STUDENTS. THE LAKE FRONTOUR LADY OF THE LAKE UNIVERSITY, SAN ANTONIO, TX

OLLU: �ere’s an app for that

Congratulations to all graduating seniors from

The Lake Front!

FelicidadesTeresa López Matthews

From

Sr. Maria Eva Flores

and

Dr. Jane Grovijahn

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