Anonymous attackers infiltrate Black Student Union meeting with racial slurs and racist music
Josh Peck, News Editor
September 25, 2020
Members of the Black Student Union (BSU), a student organization whose mission is to build connections among students of the Black diaspora, were inundated with racial slurs and racist music during a general meeting for the organization on Sept. 22. The BSU was holding its second general meeting of the semester w...
Local philanthropist donates $3 million to UTSA for new Career Advancement Center
Josh Peck, News Editor
September 22, 2020
Harvey E. Najim, a local philanthropist and entrepreneur, has donated $3 million to UTSA to launch the Harvey E. Najim Innovation and Career Advancement Center. The Career Advancement Center will focus on connecting students to career opportunities and is part of UTSA’s Classroom to Career initiative....
Student Government Association allocates $9,000 to support Roadrunner Pantry
Josh Peck, News Editor
September 18, 2020
In their latest general assembly, The Student Government Association (SGA) allocated $9,000 of their nearly $50,000 annual budget to supporting the Roadrunner Pantry. The funds will be used to purchase and donate items to the food pantry throughout the semester. The $9,000 allocation represents 19% of SGAâ...
UTSA begins Hispanic Heritage Month celebrations
Breahna Luera, News Editor
September 18, 2020
UTSA has begun its celebration of this year’s Hispanic Heritage Month. The celebration will be from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 and will include events such as racial justice book clubs, a university relations speaker series and a symposium on the effects of COVID-19 on the Texas Latino population. The th...
Over 1,500 COVID-19 tests administered on campus, only seven students test positive
Josh Peck, News Editor
September 18, 2020
As of Sept. 14, 1,548 COVID-19 tests have been administered on campus by Student Health Services and other UTSA health partners. Approximately 2,300 students are currently living in on-campus housing, and only seven students have reported positive tests as of Sept. 17. Testing has sharply increased since the firs...
COVID-19 Surveillance Testing Program Launches in Student Housing
Josh Peck, News Editor
September 15, 2020
UTSA launched a new COVID-19 surveillance testing program on Sept. 14 for asymptomatic students living in on-campus housing. Participation in the program is voluntary, and the tests will come at no cost to students who are selected and choose to participate. The surveillance testing program is aimed at...
Eighmy says Spring 2021 classes will be ‘mostly online’ in new email sent to UTSA community
Breahna Luera, News Editor
September 11, 2020
President Taylor Eighmy sent an email to UTSA students, faculty and staff with a number of new campus updates on Sept. 8., including information about what the Spring 2021 semester will look like. “At this point we expect that modalities for our spring courses and campus operations will look ve...
UTSA launches COVID-19 dashboard to track cases and on-campus isolation and quarantine
Josh Peck, News Editor
September 11, 2020
UTSA recently launched a COVID-19 dashboard to provide the number of positive COVID-19 cases among students, faculty, staff and others affiliated with the university that have a direct campus impact, as well as the number of students in on-campus isolation. There are six total reported cases as of Sept...
UTSA does not commit to offering housing refunds if students are forced to leave campus
Josh Peck, News Editor
September 4, 2020
At this time, UTSA will not commit to offering prorated housing refunds for students in the event that the university forces students to leave on-campus housing, according to a UTSA spokesperson. UTSA-owned campus housing currently holds 1,027 students. “Our decision would be based on the circu...
No positive COVID-19 tests on campus in first week, but only four tests administered
Josh Peck, News Editor
September 1, 2020
Only four UTSA students have been tested for COVID-19 through Student Health Services (SHS) since testing began this fall, two testing negative and the other two with pending results.  According to data collected by The New York Times, UTSA has had three total COVID-19 cases since the start of...
Two students die from COVID-19
Breahna Luera, News Editor
September 1, 2020
Two UTSA Roadrunners, Raymond Shappa and Rudy Stephen Valenzuela, died, aged 50 and 32 years old respectively, this summer after contracting COVID-19. Shappa, an information systems major, died on Aug. 13. Valenzuela, who was supposed to attend his first semester at UTSA as an economics major this seme...
UTSA welcomes over 71 new faculty members after having to release 69 from their service this fall due to COVID-caused budget cuts
Breahna Luera, News Editor
August 28, 2020
A recent UTSA Today article announced UTSA’s addition of over 70 new faculty members — 68 tenure/tenure-track (TTT) and 3 non-tenure track (NTT) — to seven of its colleges for the Fall 2020 semester. This comes just short of two months after UTSA’s announcement of their fiscal year 2021 (FY202...
