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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

Independent Student Newspaper for the University of Texas at San Antonio

The Paisano

Presidential bribe for universities

Presidential bribe for universities

Editorial Board October 14, 2025

President Donald Trump’s administration has sent The University of Texas at Austin and eight other colleges a letter requesting agreement to a “set of operating principles” in exchange for federal...

Education or oppression?

Education or oppression?

Editorial Board April 9, 2024

Following threats made by state lawmakers to universities not in full compliance with the controversial SB 17, the University of Texas at Austin announced that they would fire 60 more employees holding...

Forget football, preserve the past

Forget football, preserve the past

Laynie Clark, Editor-in-Chief February 27, 2024

Much like the rest of America, The University of Texas at Austin has prioritized football over mental health. With the announcement of the demolition of UT’s historic social work building came the curiosity...

Ethan Pham, The Paisano

CAP students anonymous

Mackenzie Dyer September 27, 2017

What is CAP? The term is a familiar one at UTSA, but few people completely understand what it entails or how it affects their campus. The Coordinated Admissions Program (CAP) expands admission options...

UTSA Hopes to Phase Out CAP Program by 2017

November 11, 2015

Andrea Velgis, The Paisano The Coordinated Admissions Program (CAP) allows students who were not immediately admitted into UT Austin to complete their freshman year at another UT school,...

Board of Regents should let UTSA move on without CAP

October 22, 2013

When the Coordinated Admissions Program (CAP) began in 2001 UTSA’s admission rate was essentially 100 percent, fewer than 20,000 students were enrolled here and we were without a football team, a...

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