Category: Garrett McSpadden
Enrollment at Texas State has reached 30,000 students this year. It is not because we are the rising star of Texas, pulling potential students from other colleges.
Our enrollment represents a reality of our time: growing population.
Anyone with a few wrinkles will say our numbers are rising. Technology increases life expectancy, and the Stars and Bars are on the forefront of providing us the longest life imaginable.
M.A. Hatcher describes in her book, The Expedition of Don Domingo Teran do los Rios into Texas, how Spaniards embarked June 1691 on an expedition.
Trudging through the Spanish moss-coated trees of the untouched Hill Country, they stumbled upon a lake unlike anything they had seen. Edward Burleson, Texas Republic’s first vice-president, would later pour the dams at Aquarena. Ancient documentation by the Spanish explorers tell tales of ebullitions from the biggest springs extending “2-4 feet” from the lake’s surface.
Blackwater, a private security force, killed 17 innocent civilians in 2007 in Baghdad.
Thank your lucky stars that summer is over.
Copious amounts of flavorful beers, liquors and the jovial dance of summer-time love tires the soul’s reservoir and leaves a void that can only be filled behind a desk. For most of us, it is time to cinch our belts and move forward into the prominent parts of our lives. For others, this summer has merely been a warm-up for the endless frat parties and keg stands yet to come. For you, I say enjoy the rest of your summer.
A hearty welcome to new students at Texas State. Your wheels have landed on the tarmac of education and it is time to hit the ground at full speed, get caught up in the San Marcos life style and discover what it truly means to be a member of this great community. These attractions are defining characteristics of this, your new zany stomping grounds.
Finals are here and so are the synonymous emotions. The next few weeks carry with them an accumulation of anxiety and relief of another semester completed, for better or worse.
Some of us will breeze through, proudly waving our names on the dean’s list. Others will battle an obnoxious form of anxiety that rears its ugly head only when it becomes apparent all the promises we made to ourselves at the beginning of the semester to study harder, party less and pay more attention have all somehow been swept up in the motions of the college social scene.
Cancer is a plague on humanity that research thus far has been unable to overcome.
Road bikers representing the Texas 4000 organization are planning their fifth annual ride to Anchorage, Alaska, approximately 4,600 miles, to raise hope, awareness, money and most importantly, a combative spirit.
Four cars were involved in a collision occurring just before the hard turn on Sessom Drive at 3 p.m. Thursday, after a shower recently moistened the roads.
Kyle Hinojosa, driver of a blue Ford Focus, said a tan Honda Civic stopped in the middle of the road without a discernable reason. Hinojosa was traveling behind him headed west on Sessom when he hit his brakes to avoid a collision, he said.
An idea popular in the Depression has re-emerged in northeastern progressive towns.
Each news headline across the country rings out that our interests are not being served in Washington.
We voted for Obama because we wanted to see change of any kind really. I think President Obama won because he was more of a rock star than an honest politician. Now we realize what the implications of the arising presidential budget could mean to our future as U.S. citizens, and we are angry.
