April 25, 1940: American actor Alfredo James “Al” Pacino was born.
Pacino was born to Italian-American parents in East Harlem, New York, and was raised in the Bronx by his mother and her parents,...
April 11, 1970: Apollo 13 was launched.
After the successes of the Apollo 11 and the Apollo 12 missions, Apollo 13 was set to be NASA’s third moon-landing mission. The mission was manned by astronauts...
March 21, 1806: Benito Pablo Juárez García, the 26th President of Mexico, was born.
Juarez was born in Oaxaca on March 21, 1806. He was the first Indigenous president of Mexico from 1861 to 1872....
March 7, 1936: Germany violated the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Pact under the authority of Adolf Hitler.
The Treaty of Versailles was signed by the Allied Nations and Germany in 1919 and formally...
From Feb. 27 to March 5, we celebrate National Eating Disorder Awareness Week (NEDA). This week is about celebrating those in recovery, those who are searching for recovery and those who have yet to begin...
Where does life begin and work stop? The American philosophy ingrained deep within society is that an individual has to work extremely hard in order to receive an ounce of success. While I find this value...
It’s three in the morning and I’m walking home from another long night of bad decisions. On my way back to my apartment I see a plastic bag on the ground, so I pick it up. A few minutes later I see...
There I stood on the edge of something incredible. Perched above a ravine of words, thoughts, and actions entirely my own, I could finally see the end. If not the end, then it might’ve at least been...
It’s easy to ruin a good thing. All it takes is three words in a moment of passion or as we hold each other in the stillness of the night. When you realize you’ve finally found a soul worth knowing....
It’s 2 a.m. on a Thursday morning, the sky is clear and the apartment complex around me is mostly silent. We’ve all been wasting away for hours, but as that high turned into a buzz that turned into...
It has been almost a year since UTSA closed its campuses and moved all learning online because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Even as facilities reopened in the fall, the course structure, protocols, and precautions...
This semester is the first time I’ve felt stress this intense. I’ve always been a self-starter and rarely felt the expectations of others on me in my day-to-day life, but this semester is different....
