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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

Texas gov’t breeds tyrannical oversight

Texas gov’t breeds tyrannical oversight

Cooper Bryant, Staff Photographer April 21, 2026

The Texas State Board of Education on April 3 gave preliminary approval to a mandatory book list that all public schools will teach starting in 2030. The list includes the Bible and prohibits books by...

Democracy has no God

Democracy has no God

Cooper Bryant, Staff Photographer April 7, 2026

As the rise of Christian nationalism charges forward like a runaway train, and figures within the movement continue to grow in power, the question of religious political endorsement makes its answer obvious:...

America, let them speak

America, let them speak

Emma Cavanaugh, Distribution Manager April 7, 2026

America runs on freedom. Any act that prohibits or discourages the ability for a group to exercise their freedom of speech should be strongly condemned. The Internal Revenue Service has finally discarded...

Balancing blasphemy

Balancing blasphemy

Allana Llabres, Assistant Social Media Manager November 14, 2023

The boundaries between religious freedom, the separation of church and state and the principles of public institutions have been debated for years. In the United States, the First Amendment assures the...

Graphic by Enrique Bonilla/The Paisano

Resist the binary

Mauro Vasquez November 15, 2017

Computers are coded with binary sequences. In the mind of a central processing unit, you and I exist as a sequence of ones and zeros. To a certain extent, you too are coded. Our coding consists of many...

Religious phenomena at UTSA explained

Religious phenomena at UTSA explained

Jessica Salinas December 17, 2016

UTSA has 26 recognized religious student organizations. This is the premise for the 16 Apples Production documentary, “Religion in Rowdyland” released on YouTube in March. The UTSA student documentary...

Pursuing truth

February 24, 2015

We know to be wary of impossible advertisements such as weight loss pills. We are taught to be dubious of gaudy sources of information such as The National Inquirer and we are encouraged to...

Roadrunner Roundtable: Atheist Christians

January 25, 2015

The Paisano/ Edidiong Adiakpan In this episode of Roadrunner Roundtable, Peter Sanchez speaks about his experience as a person who identifies as Atheist and Christian. You...

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