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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

Dissecting the chaos of debate #1

Dissecting the chaos of debate #1

Joseph Hernandez, Junior Copyeditor October 4, 2020

In September 1960, the first U.S. presidential debate on live television was held between candidates John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon. This debate is famous in political circles for the impact that...

Illustration by Amber Chin

Nobel Nonsense

Isabella Nieto, Contributing Writer September 29, 2020

The Nobel Peace Prize, created in 1895, has, for over a century, been given to the individual who has “done the most or the best work for fraternity between nations, for the abolition or reduction of...

Illustration by Analisa Sulacia

POTUS takes ‘Teflon President’ to new heights with release of ‘Rage’

Alex Hanks, Opinion Editor September 22, 2020

Last Tuesday, Washington Post’s Associate Editor Bob Woodward published “Rage,” a tell-all book giving a synopsis of various interviews between Woodward and President Trump. The president’s love...

What impeachment could mean for Democrats, and America

What impeachment could mean for Democrats, and America

Alex Hanks, Co Opinion Editor January 21, 2020

The disunity in the U.S.’s political arena is increasing — House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has officially sent the articles of impeachment to the Senate, and the Senate has sworn an oath to be fair jurors. This...

Photo courtesy of Creative Commons

Government shutdown continues

Arnulfo Caballero January 16, 2019

On midnight, Dec. 22, 2018 EST, the government was shut down for the second time in 2018. This shutdown has continued forward into 2019, and is now the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. The...

Kanye wearing his MAGA hat

Wake up Mr. West

Adrianne Kristianto November 1, 2018

Rapper. Record producer. Fashion designer. Entrepreneur. Misunderstood. While everyone’s mind is racing in fear for this nation’s condition, Kanye West – a pillar in today’s hip-hop and rap world...

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The resistible rise of Donald J. Trump

Sandy Norman March 28, 2018

These days the last of the Holocaust survivors are blinking out of existence; the details and horrors of the rise of Hitlerism are, for most of us, veiled by the mists of time, unknown, unremembered and...

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Borderwall

Lizvette Hernandez February 6, 2018

The Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge in the Rio Grande Valley will be compromised if the construction of President Donald Trump’s notorious border wall begins. Santa Ana is the home to over 400 bird species,...

The FBI searches the premises of the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs after Sunday’s shooting.
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Church Massacre

Samuel De Leon November 8, 2017

26 people dead after gunman opens fire on First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs In what Texas Governor Greg Abbott called the deadliest mass shooting in Texas history, 26 people died after a gunman...

Graphic by Chase Otero, The Paisano

UTSA is not a sanctuary campus

Ben Shirani August 30, 2017

Sanctuary campuses are universities which abide by similar rules as sanctuary cities; on sanctuary campuses, students rights are prioritized over the desire of federal agencies like ICE to query the immigration...

Photos courtesy of the Woodlawn Theatre.

This week on stage: Vol II

Eric Pitty August 30, 2017

For just $20, you, dear student, can learn to manipulate your way to the top as the Pulitzer-winning musical “How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying” busts onto the Woodlawn Theatre mainstage...

The difference in sounding and being presidential

The difference in sounding and being presidential

Jeremiah Hobbs March 8, 2017

President Trump gave his Joint Address to Congress last Tues., Feb. 28. He said a lot of patriotic phrases, repeated his campaign promises, reminded America why he thought President Obama was bad for...

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