Green and blue balloons hovered at the corners of booths representing countries such as Chile, China, Holland, France, England, and Spain. This was not a United Nations meeting but instead was the Office of International Education’s Study Abroad fair on the second floor of the Student Center Thursday, Sept. 11. […]

The following is a response from Matthew Hall, Student Government Senator at Large, to an issue addressed in Mike Herrera’s interview with Senator Juan Sebastian Mendive. “The issue over the Executive Order had been brought up by a number of Senators, and I had agreed to serve as the voice […]

#8220;Being gay is just a small facet of who I am, and it doesn’t even begin to skim the surface,” said Lorraine Ramirez, a senior English major.Why do people stop at the surface and attach labels or stereotypes, rather than getting to know the person? Perhaps they have been heavily […]

On Sept 2, Texas A&M International University received a $229,997 grant from the U.S. Department of Education aimed at under-represented ethnic minorities, both men and women. The grant is intended to support students who have an interest in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).The grant supports a three-year project under […]

Name: Dennise Yvette PerezAge: 20Birthplace: Rio Grande City, TX Where are you from? I am from Roma, TX. Why did you decide to come to TAMIU?Meeting new people and being in a different environment is basically what motivated me to come to TAMIU. That and my recruiter played a major […]

On Friday, Sept. 12, the Department of Fine and Performing Arts presented its first ever Cello Extravaganza, which featured Assistant Professor of Music, Brendan Townsend.According to Townsend, “The Cello Extravaganza is a concert of chamber music written specifically for combinations of cellos. It is intended to highlight the many wonderful […]

How does the best man win? Surrounding the timely issue of a presidential election, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man was presented by the Laredo Theater Guild (LTG) as a preview of the fall 2009 season at the Sam Johnson Experimental Theatre, also known as the Black Box Theatre, on Thursday, […]

I’m no stranger to five a.m., though we haven’t met in quite a while. I used to greet the early morning with an invigorating 60-minute run, but in the spring semester all that stopped, and, consequently, so did my metabolism. So with droopy eyes and a sleepy haze hovering over […]

Every band has talented individuals that emerge to create phenomenal music. For the past 12 years, local band Supaphat has been producing funky, psychedelic, jazz music, but vocalist Erik Gonzalez is prepared to step out for a bit and carry out his dream of becoming a solo artist as Erik […]

Music is usually the main attraction at clubs and bars. If the DJ entertains a full crowd, mission accomplished. Most DJs are men, such as DJ Flaco and DJ Big Lou, but this summer one special DJ caught my attention. For the past year, Tania Denise Plasencia, a.k.a. DJ Tanki […]