Female students can now obtain Gardasil, the vaccine for cervical cancer, at Student Health Services. Each year 3, 700 American women die from cervical cancer, according to the AP/Daily News. It is most often caused by the Human Papillovirus. The Center for Disease Control reports that one out of every […]

Planetary geologist Eddie Hrncir returned Saturday, Sept. 14, to the planetarium for the presentation, “The Sky Tonight.” About 30 students, children, and members of the community saw an educational presentation, followed by gazing at constellations, planets, and moons. Hrncir began the presentation by using a sky map to teach star […]

The women’s volleyball team played their first conference match of the year versus UT-Permian Basin on Thursday, Sept. 13. Both teams started off strong and held a close race throughout the entire first game. A serving ace by Ladys Montano tied the game at 25. However, mental lapses on behalf […]

The women’s volleyball team faced the Incarnate Word Cardinals in their third conference match of the year on Thursday, Sept. 20 on campus. Though the Dustdevils had first serve, they quickly lost it because a side-out from the Lady Cardinals led to an early lead of 0-1. The first part […]

Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst, State Sen. Judith Zaffirini and Texas A&M University System Chancellor Michael D. McKinney joined students, faculty, staff and alumni in the dedication of new Kinesiology, Wellness and Recreation Center Monday, Sept. 24. The group also broke ground for the new Student Success Center. The 47,973 […]

Laredo mourned the loss of Radcliffe Killam, a driving force of higher education in Laredo, on Sept. 8. According to University President Ray Keck, Killam was “warm and modest…impatient for progress and proud of the heritage and people of Laredo.” Hubert Humphrey once said, “There are incalculable resources in the […]

At age 29, in a race against an incumbent Republican, Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. became one of the youngest people ever elected to the U.S. Senate. Shortly thereafter, the young senator lost his first wife and daughter in a tragic car accident. For the next five years, he raised his […]

With hopes of winning over the nation’s 44 million Latinos, Democrats running for president squared off in the heart of Florida’s Cuban-American community in what is likely to be their only debate in Florida until January’s primary elections. Non-Spanish-speaking Floridians would have struggled to follow the debate, which was translated […]

The Manhattan Project, the country’s project to develop the atomic bomb in the mid-20th century, was the topic of discussion in the 10th anniversary of the university’s lecture series. Dr. Martin J. Sherwin, first lecturer in the A.R. Sanchez Distinguished Lecture Series, talked about his recent book at the Center […]

In his new book The Age of Turbulence: Adventures in a New World, Allen Greenspan wrote, “I’m saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: The Iraq war is largely about oil.” Greenspan retired in Jan. 2006 after more than 18 years as chairman of the Federal […]