Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio

The Paisano

Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio

The Paisano

Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio

The Paisano

The state of COVID-19 in 2024

The state of COVID-19 in 2024

Faith Kouadio, Staff Writer March 19, 2024

It has been four years since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The week following the announcement, institutions and organizations worldwide shut down...

Crush the corporate culture

Crush the corporate culture

Allana Llabres, Social Media Manager January 30, 2024

In the past four years, workplace culture has completely changed. Thanks to the COVID-19 Pandemic, more people have begun working from home on their own time, increasing mental health awareness in the...

Online education gets a failing grade

Online education gets a failing grade

Abraham Roman, Staff Writer September 12, 2023

Dark room, bright screen, 2 p.m., but you still have pajamas on and are in bed. You hop onto the third Zoom “class” of the day to use as background noise while you do something else, anything else....

UTSA’s chief medical officer discusses upcoming end of pandemic emergency measures

UTSA’s chief medical officer discusses upcoming end of pandemic emergency measures

Faith Kouadio, Staff Writer April 25, 2023

On April 10, President Joe Biden signed Bill H.J.Res. 7 to end the COVID-19 national and public health emergencies beginning May 11. The declarations allowed the federal government to temporarily modify...

Restricting the press restricts democracy

Restricting the press restricts democracy

Editorial Board January 24, 2023

The Texas Legislature, which commenced its biannual session earlier this month, announced that it would continue a measure from the COVID-19 pandemic that protected members of the legislature. The measure...

Has COVID-19 been confined to the history books?

Has COVID-19 been confined to the history books?

Ismail Hussain, Contributing Writer October 11, 2022

The wait is over. President Joe Biden finally declared the pandemic to be over, but is it really? If you want to oversimplify the issue, then the deaths and cases are much lower than at the pandemic’s...

Post-pandemic precautions

Post-pandemic precautions

Chloe Williams, Assistance Web Editor March 1, 2022

COVID-19 in America has changed pretty much everything. What we once did without a second thought now disgusts us and we cannot imagine how we used to be “so gross.” With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations...

UTSA Professor part of local health literacy initiative

UTSA Professor part of local health literacy initiative

Gauri Raje, News Editor February 15, 2022

Erica Sosa, Associate Dean for research and associate professor for public health at UTSA’s College for Health, Community and Policy, will lead a research team from UTSA in a project that aims to improve...

How students can stay safe as they return to campus

How students can stay safe as they return to campus

Editorial Board February 1, 2022

While the surge of Omicron is still on the rise, UTSA administrators plan to continue with the original plan of returning to in-person modalities on Feb. 7. Students are filled with a mix of excitement...

The A, B, C’s of the Biden Administration: a Year into the Presidency

The A, B, C’s of the Biden Administration: a Year into the Presidency

Bella Nieto, Managing Editor January 31, 2022

On Nov. 7, 2020, I, and I assume many other folks, breathed a huge sigh of relief when several national media outlets projected Joe Biden won the presidency and “The Donald” was officially out of a...

Spring 2022 operations largely determined by Public Health Task Force recommendations

Spring 2022 operations largely determined by Public Health Task Force recommendations

Gauri Raje, News Editor January 31, 2022

UTSA’s Public Health Task Force serves the primary goal of “[helping the University’s] tactical teams as they explore how best to protect the health of the UTSA community” in light of the COVID-19...

State of the City: Week 01/24/2022

State of the City: Week 01/24/2022

Gauri Raje, News Editor January 25, 2022

Local News: The city of San Antonio was under a winter weather advisory due to a strong arctic cold front from Thursday, Jan. 20 into the early hours of Friday, Jan. 21. As of Thursday, the impact of...

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