UTSA official apologizes for ‘insensitive’ email to donors
Josh Peck, News Editor
April 7, 2020
On April 3, Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations Karl Miller Lugo apologized to UTSA alumni for an earlier email that Senior Executive Director of Gift Planning Kimberly West sent soliciting donations which Miller Lugo called “insensitive.” West’s email began by describing the diffi...
Music Medicine
January 16, 2019
Former music major and Spirit of San Antonio (SOSA) drum major Bobby Joe De Leon Jr.’s life changed forever in August 2018 when he was diagnosed with primary cardiac cancer. “I was first told that it was benign and shortly found out later it was cancerous,” De Leon said. “[The] timing was hor...
Roadrunner wedding
Alejandro Lopez
September 12, 2018
Alexander and Chavez join in matrimony On Sept. 8, Gary Alexander, UTSA 1999 alumni, married Laura Chavez at the Alamodome parking lot while Roadrunner fans were tailgating before the game against Baylor University. Alexander proposed to Chavez during a UTSA tailgate last season before UTSA faced Marsha...
Commit to your college network
Editorial Board and Isaac Serna
April 24, 2018
Soon to be grads may not be prepared for life after college professionally. According to a survey conducted by Gradstaff, a national career matchmaking firm, there are two recurring problems graduates have entering their new stage. Seventy-five percent of students said other than a lack of work exper...
UTSA alumnus creates first local farmers market
April 28, 2015
MariaCristina Moreno, The Paisano UTSA graduate and Sam Houston High School World Geography teacher Rick Trevino is bringing Eastside Pride Market to the city’s food desert. “Why not bring a farmers market to the East Side, and not just any farmers market — there is nothing unique abou...
Shining a ‘Bright’ light from San Antonio to Russia UTSA alumnus discusses transitioning from Texas
April 14, 2015
Photo Courtesy of Anthony Bright Anthony Bright, a UTSA alumnus who majored in Modern Languages Studies and minored in Linguistics, has taken what he learned to the other side of the world. Bright currently teaches English in the northern Russian port city of Murmansk, the largest city ...
