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CalendarNov. 15 – Nov. 20International Education Week hosts various events around campus.

Nov. 187:30 p.m.Practical Ethics and the Realm of the Imperfect in Moody Life Science Center Room 101.

Nov. 2110 a.m. – 4 p.m.6th Annual Learning Traditions Powwow at Pecan Grove.

Nov. 244 p.m. – 6 p.m.SGA Meeting in University Center Conf. Room A.

Prospective freshmen for Fall 2010 make their way into Founders Hall for Sleeping Bag Weekend on Nov. 15. High school seniors spent the night in a freshman residence hall and then made their way to a class the next morning. Photo by Analicia Perez

Police Blotter11/4/08Theft under $50 in the Law Library. Food stolen out of the refrigerator.

11/5/09Theft ($50-$500) in the softball field. Student left wallet at softball field. Wallet recovered, but money and credit cards were missing.

Violation of Student Handbook involving narcotics in Treadaway. Report generated, referred to judicial affairs.

11/7/09Sick/injured person in the AACC. Student cut head while trying to retrieve a soccer ball from under the bleachers. EMS was refused and the Director on Duty was contacted.

11/8/09Sick/injured person in the University Center. Student fell down stairs and bumped head. EMS refused.

11/9/09Burglary of a vehicle in Lot R. Softball equipment, iPod, electronic equipment taken.

Unlawful restraint off campus. Suspect was fight-ing with wife, would not allow her to exit the ve-hicle; suspect arrested, transported and booked in Municipal Detention

Assault-family violence at Java City. Suspect ar-rested, transported and booked in Municipal Detention.

Violation of Student Handbook in Treadaway. Knife found in room, referred to judicial affairs.

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Heavy snow in China causes death and damage

Burrell Edward Mohler Sr. and his five sons have been accused of several counts of sexual assault dating back 20 years in Missouri. All six have been found and arrested, the final man was arrested at his home in Florida. Three of them were lay ministers with the Community of Christ organization. The organization said that none of the men have worked with any youth members. A neigh-bor of one of the men calls the allegations “unbelievable.“

Source: CNN.com

Snowfall that started on Nov. 9 in China has caused 21 deaths so far. The Chinese government has relocated over 100,000 citizens who were stranded in their homes or vehicles. Some 9,000 build-ings have collapsed under the snow and roughly 4.5 billion yuen or $660 million have been done in damages.

Source: CNN.com

Senator announces her plans to leave her seatSenator Kay Bailey Hutchinson recently announced that she will resign her position in the Texas Senate in order to join the race for governor. However she will maintain her Senate position as she seeks the Republican nomination for governor. It is unclear on whether she will still quit if Rick Perry wins the nomina- tion instead.

Source: Mysanantonio.com

Thanksgiving service opportunity available

Thursday, Nov. 26, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m.Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center

Students, faculty and staff in San Antonio for Thanksgiving break can sign up in the Service Learning Center to participate in the 30th annual Raul Jimenez Thanksgiving Dinner. Volun-teers will help thousands of families have a special holiday meal.

Limited transportation will be available.

Decorate wreaths for donation at “Christmas in the Quad”

Thursday, Nov. 19, 6 p.m.The Quad

The campus’ annual “Christmas in the Quad” is coming soon. Student Activities invites as many participants as possible. Recognized Student Organizations donated money to pur-chase Christmas wreaths and a $10 gift card to Wal-Mart. Both of which will be donated to a local family in need. Members of the RSOs will pick up their wreathes from the University Cen-ter and gather in the Quad to decorate them.

Dental outreach program will be on campus

Thursday, Nov. 19, 11:30 a.m.Walkway between Alkek and University Center

There will be a dentistry van from the University of Texas Health Science Center on campus offering information on local, regional and international dentistry outreach programs. The dental van has been used in low income locations to provide some help to families.

Family members charged in sexual assault cases

Rock ‘n‘ Roll draws thousands to San AntonioGilbert Koech of Kenya won the Rock ‘n’ Roll Marathon for the men on Nov. 15 with a time of 2 hours and 14 minutes and 39 seconds. Tatiana Pushkareva of Russia won the women’s race with a time of 2:30.30. The marathon and half marathon included almost 30,000 participants from around the world.

Source: Mysanantonio.com University to host holiday reception for local alumniThursday, Dec. 3, 6 p.m. - 8 p.m.Omni San Antonio Hotel

Alumni are encouraged to attend and bring a guest to the recep-tion. The reception will provide San Antonio alumni with the lat-est information about the campus, in addition to meeting place with colleagues and friends. Those who wish to attend should RSVP the Office of Alumni Relations no later than Monday, Nov. 30.

Saturday, Nov. 21, 8 a.m. - 10 a.m.Cibolo Nature Center Pavilion

“Birders” will take a guided walk of 100-acre Nature Center property to take a look at birds in the different environments the center offers.

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Bird watchers can unite in Boerne

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The number of students recycling across the campus may be increasing — but some of those efforts are literally going to waste.

During the first month of school, Aug. 7 to Sept. 24, about 11 percent of recycled bags filled with plastic and 18 percent of bags filled with paper had to be thrown out because of contamination, according to physical plant reports on recycling in Founders Hall.

Contamination can be as simple as “bot-tles with liquid still in the containers in the bins,” according to Miriam Cruz, a sopho-more political science major who has been a member of the campus recycling commit-tee since last year.

According to Bill Tam, campus fa-cilities administrator, “If liquid is left in bottles, it can contaminate the other material in the bins, causing it to have mildew, leaving it unable to be recycled.”

The paper bins were also contaminat-ed with food containers containing food residue, moist paper and tissues. All such items can cause moisture to collect in the bins, contaminating them.

The problem becomes more apparent through physical plant’s reports on re-cycling activity in Founders Hall. There are recycling pick-ups in residence halls and also in buildings such as St. Lou-is Hall, the University Center, the Bill Greehey Arena and eight other build-ings where recycling is collected more frequently. In all, the pick-ups represent a growing systematization of recycling on campus.

At Founders Hall, university staff col-lected 50 uncontaminated plastic-filled bags and 11 paper-filled 44-gallon bags from Aug. 7 to Sept. 24, according to the first official recycling report for any resi-dence hall on campus. Founders Hall is getting pick-ups three times a week. Other residence halls are getting pick-ups once a week.

Tam credits students who, for the past eight years, have talked about recycling – and who two years ago helped form an organized recycling committee that meets once a month.

Cruz, in the meantime, is trying to reach out to as many students and organizations as possible including the Student Govern-ment Association, Residence Hall Asso-ciation and the Native American Student Association, to make more students aware of the correct ways to recycle, reduce con-tamination and expand the program.

In turn, Evelynn Mitchell, assistant professor of earth sciences, is one of the faculty and staff members engaged with students on the recycling committee. Recy-cling, she said, “is talked about in my class frequently and I try to bring in elements outside of the textbook such as extra credit projects where students can help clean up a park or do restoration on property.”

Mitchell offers this opportunity, she said “to get the students to think about the effects of what they give off to

the environment.” Recycling efforts began in Marian Hall

during the last school year, according to Cruz. She said she “ran from door to door in Marian taking a survey to see if students would recycle.”

The survey proved to be successful, be-cause Marian Hall became an experimen-tal hall with one bin for both paper and plastic materials. The same experiment has expanded to various campus buildings where students have shown an interest, in-cluding the residence halls in the Outback.

Each Outback building currently has a single blue bin being used for both paper and plastic materials.

“This is a trial run,” Tam said. “The more quantity and good quality [recy-clables] a hall has shown, the more the university will provide support to pur- chase containers.”

Tam indicated that if students recycle correctly and show a need for more bins the university will take this into account and provide the students additional sup-port with their recycling efforts.

When the school year began, Cruz said that new students living in the newly-opened Founders Hall came into a build-ing already outfitted with recycling bins, in contrast to other halls.

“The students living in other halls have to be trained in order to get the desired re-sults,” Cruz said.

Most of the Outback students are up-per classmen and have not recycled in their halls, she said.

“If you get into the routine [of recy-cling], you do not think about it — you just do it,” Cruz said.

Then there are students who really want to help but, “by not recycling right, their own effort is being voided,” she said.

Erica Solis, a senior biology major and “go green” chair for the Delta Zeta soror-ity, said she understands the situation Cruz is explaining.

Solis said she is concerned that “many students want to recycle, but some stu-dents do not know what is appropriate to recycle.”

Solis has seen people recycle used pa-per plates with food residue.

Tam said he hopes to challenge students, faculty and staff to reduce the university’s waste stream so that half of all trash is re-cycled by 2012.

“[The university] has a long way to go but I think it is possible,” Tam said. But “in order to expand the program the number of committed people and volunteers will need to expand.”

Trash taints current recycling efforts

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Unclean material in recycling bins contaminates items, sending them to the landfills.

Items that can be recycled

All items must be cleaned and without food residue.

Plastic bottles and containers can only be recycled without their bottle caps and only if they are stamped with the #1 or #2 symbol

PlasticPlastic containersDrink bottlesShampoo and conditioner bottles

MetalAluminum cansTin cans

PaperSoftbound and hardbound books MagazinesNewsprintMailCorrugated cardboard (No wax, no pizza boxes)

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Library:Always online

“We’ve tried about every three years,” said Director of the Louis J. Blume Library Palmer Hall. “We wind up getting nine or 10 students staying in the extra hour or two we stay open.”

The library’s current hours are different from years ago. In previous years the library was open until 10 p.m. six days a week and was closed on Saturdays.

Students can also log on to the library’s Web site and view the databases and ebooks from their rooms. This is something previous gen-erations of students did not have access to.

Hall noticed that the students need a quiet space to study more than using the facility’s resources.

“If there was any indication that they were doing research, searching the databases, which they can do from their rooms, going up and us-ing the books or going downstairs and using the journals, then it would be worth more con-sideration,” he said.

To meet student need for space, some resi-dence halls are designating all day quiet hours for their lounges. Outback Hall Director, Crys-tal Valencia, sent an e-mail on Nov. 3 to resi-dents notifying them that study lounges in Cre-mer and Adele are now 24-hour Quiet Study Lounges. The student push for quieter places to study encouraged the change.

Currently, the Outback is the only hall with designated lounges. Students not living in the Outback which have 24-hour visitation as well. However, they’ll need a resident to let them in.

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St. Mary’s students are about 40 percent more likely to obtain full-time employment before graduat-ing than the average college stu-dent this year, according to statis-tics compiled by the university’s Career Services Center.

That conclusion comes from comparing a recent survey of St. Mary’s to national figures. Sur-veyed two to three weeks before graduation last May, about 28 percent of St. Mary’s graduating class reported they had found full-time employment. In contrast, the national average for 2009 college graduates who reported acquiring full-time employment by the time of graduation is 20 percent, accord-ing to Job Outlook 2009, a report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

St. Mary’s graduates are get-ting jobs in the recession more frequently than other students partly because of their grounding in a university of manageable size with accessible resources, accord-ing to Shelley Underwood, career services’ employer relations coor-dinator. The university’s focus on service gives students chances to get involved in community service projects and attain leadership posi-tions in an array of organizations, forming well-rounded students with skills that employers deem crucial, she said.

A 2008 survey of employer opinion by the National Associa-tion of Colleges and Employers ranked the ability to communicate as the quality most sought after in

new hires, followed by a strong work ethic and the capability to work well with others, said Norma Gaier, director of career services.

“Interpersonal skills must be fostered through interactions in class, group-work and leadership in student organizations,” Gaier said – interactions which are easier in an institution of manageable size. Large public institutions may have classes of 400 or more and some students may be overlooked by professors. In contrast, St. Mary’s student-to-faculty ratio of 13:1 makes personal attention nearly inevitable, which is benefi-cial for many students.

Brittany Palmer, an alumna now working as a physical therapy assistant at Methodist Hospital, said, “the individual attention I received from my advisor helped me develop a course of action to reach my future education and career goals.”

“When students need letters of recommendation, faculty mem-bers actually remember the stu-dent’s name and contributions in class, allowing them to write genuine recommendation letters,” Gaier said.

Maintaining a stock of good contacts and references comes in handy when looking for employ-ment, she suggested.

Gaier credits the university’s connected faculty and strong alumni network for the success of St. Mary’s graduates. Because the student body of 3,889 is about 12 times smaller than the state’s larg-er schools, St. Mary’s alumni net-work tends to be unusually close-knit, said Pete Hansen, executive

director of alumni relations.The St. Mary’s Alumni Asso-

ciation has 25,000 active members who help recruit new students, support student organizations and fund the scholarships of some 200 students, according to the Alumni Relations Office.

According to Hansen, alumni and faculty are integrated and co-hesive. “Everyone is here to help out the students,” Hansen said.

The alumni association hosts events such as Fiesta Oyster Bake for alumni to network, encourag-ing them to do business together.

“Alumni relationships are grad-uates’ earliest networks in life,” Hansen said. “The hope is that the alums will take care of the kids coming out of school. When they see that St. Mary’s background, usually [alumni] want to hire one of our graduates over someone from Trinity or A&M […].”

Networking is especially im-portant in today’s job market be-cause a harsh economy creates more job competition and employ-ers might want to hire new gradu-ates who will settle for a lower salary instead of a veteran of the industry, according to Steve Nivin, assistant professor of economics.

However, in a recession as se-vere as the current one, the pres-sure of the multitude of people who are out of work drives down salary demands of even experi-enced people, increasing the com-petition that college graduates face in entering the workforce.

Graduates in the class of 2009 have faced “the brunt of the reces-sion,” Nivin said, but he expects the job market to worsen through

the first quarter of 2010. Even if next year becomes “the year of re-covery,” Nivin said he does not ex-pect the job market to be substan-tially better until 2011.

Seeking employment in Texas could be easier than relocating to another state, he said, as the effects of the recession have been gener-ally milder in this region.

“It’s easier to enter a market with 7-7.5 percent unemploy-ment rather than a market with 12-13 percent unemployment,” Nivin said.

Career Services offers several opportunities for students to make themselves stand out. Students have the opportunity to partici-pate in mock interview sessions, résumé relays and several intern-ship fairs to gain experience in the job hunting and interviewing.

The university also offers “di-rect recruitment,” through which over 200 employers come to cam-pus to recruit for internships and other programs, Gaier said. Ac-cording to Underwood, many re-cruit here consistently. The univer-sity experienced an increase in re-cruiters last year, when many other schools did not, Gaier added.

Recruiters come because of St. Mary’s nationally-accredited programs and strong academic background, Gaier said. Employ-ers also are attracted to “the lib-eral arts foundation provided here, which equips students with com-munication and critical thinking skills, not just technical training,” Underwood said. They also like “the integrity and honesty of the students at St. Mary’s, and how dedicated they are to service.”

By Emily ScruggsStaff Photographer and Writer

Employment likely for St. Mary’s students

Since 2006, the issue of nuclear energy has dominated the political discourse in San Antonio. CPS Energy joined the New Jersey-based NRG Energy,

in effort to construct two reac-tors in Matagorda County as part of the South Texas Project to fuel the city.

At first, they faced only min-imal opposition from anti-nu-clear activists. But as the years went on, the price steadily in-creased from 2006’s $5.2 billion estimate to $13 billion by June 2009, and resistance to the plan only shadowed this increase.

In late October, a new price tag emerged from Toshiba that swelled the cost of the proj-ect by $4 billion. Now deficit hawks are coming out against the plan and it is becoming an even greater political issue. Mayor Julián Castro recently announced that he is willing to scrap the program entirely if the cost cannot be reduced, main-taining that many other options exist, and that the energy needs for the city are not immediate.

In response, CPS traveled to Japan to negotiate with Toshiba in an effort to lower the price. However, despite the fact that Toshiba announced that it will not put forth a new estimate until January 2010, CPS remains optimistic, commenting that the estimates are simply a tactic in the continued negotiations.

But for others, this over-esti-mation is completely unaccept-able. Councilman John Clamp articulated his dissatisfaction with Toshiba’s willingness to “play poker with billions.”

As a result, the city is left with an awkward hand. After wasting hundreds of millions of dollars on development, it seems increasingly likely that the deal will fall through.

But the mayor’s tough ap-proach to the situation is a good bluff. And now it’s Toshiba’s turn.

Should they believe that Castro is being truthful with his threats? Or should they call his bluff and stand firm with their estimate?

At least now there’s a fif-ty-fifty chance that the may-or will be forced to make a hard decision.

But if Toshiba is will-ing to take a chance on Cas-tro’s character, it might be politically devastating.

River City Update

Chris Childree

Job fairs, held by Career Services, are one of the many reasons St. Mary’s University students have an edge over other students in the job market. The university hosts fairs like this every semester. Photo by Robin Johnson

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Judge Karen Crouch, County Court at Law 8, lunched with students and shared personal stories while offering a variety of tips about pursuing a career in the legal system. The Criminal Law Association from the St. Mary’s Uni-versity Law School hosted the luncheon on Nov. 7 at the Sarita Kenedy Law Li-brary’s Alumni Room.

“She has experience in criminal law so she is going to allow people to network and understand a judge’s perspective on criminal law and the field as a whole,” said Criminal Law Association represen-tative Kimbel Ward.

Crouch, who is up for reelection this year, shared insight into the reelection process. She recounted a story about her daughter, who interrupted Crouch’s previous television interview by saying, “We only got 79 percent of the votes? How come we didn’t get 100 percent?”

Crouch advises to “roll with the punches and have fun,” when running for judicial elections. She is used to run-ning unopposed, she said, and her court has the lowest back log that leads to less expenditures. Currently she is still run-ning without opponents and is hoping it stays that way.

She joked that “the court system is more civil than the civil system, so I encourage all to come talk to me if you need any assistance.”

She encouraged all law and under-graduate students to attend a court ap-pointment process and to view a trial. This is also a way for graduate law stu-dents to gain experience, she said.

The judge also suggested a program called the Clinic Scholarship Program

sponsored by the Texas Criminal De-fense Lawyers Asso-ciation. It is similar to what Crouch calls a law student’s “boot camp,” where a stu-dent will spend a full week in Nacogdo-ches, Texas, to focus

on trial cases and how to analyze them. The program covers the student’s sec-ond year of Continued Legal Education, saving them up to $700.

Crouch strongly advises that stu-dents get involved with campaign work for officials running for election. It is a great way to network and gain the ex-perience one needs for the future, she said. Crouch left those who attended the luncheon with a piece of advice that she likes to use during her election runs and her personal life: “You gear up only one way: you gear up for war with full speed ahead.”

By Austin NewtonStaff Writer

County Court Judge gives advice to students

“You gear up only one way: you gear up for war with full speed ahead.”

- Judge Karen CrouchCounty Court at Law 8

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Anglicans:Double-standard dispute arises with the Church’s ordination exceptionsdeclaration “does not signify any change in the church’s discipline of clerical celibacy.”

The Episcopal Church, in con-trast to the Catholic Church, has been ordaining women since the 1970s and bases its theology of women ordinations on scripture.

According to Father David G. Read, rector of St. Luke’s Epis-copal Church, “Part of our theol-ogy for [women ordinations] goes back to the reality that throughout scripture you find women in lead-ership roles both in the Old Testa-ment, like in the book of Judges, as well as in the New Testament, exemplified by Martha and Mary.” Read was baptized at birth into the Catholic Church but converted during elementary school.

The contrast on the role of women between the two churches is substantial for Semel. Benedict’s latest action causes some to ask, she said, “Why would you accept this Anglican priest, with his wife, as a Catholic priest, but not allow women to be ordained?”

Canon 1024 of the Code of

Canon Law of the Catholic Church states, “Only a baptized male val-idly receives sacred ordination.”

Under Benedict’s new policy, Anglican priests converting to the Catholic Church can retain their tradition of the married priest-hood, while fellow Catholic priests of the Latin rite must continue to be celibate – a change of concern, according to Semel.

“I think it’s going to raise ques-tions,” she said. “Why would you accept these Anglican priests as married Catholic priests with children, but continue to prohibit Catholic priests from marrying?”

It is a question echoed by Father Charles “Kip” Stander, chaplain of St. Mary’s University.

“Non-married celibacy has been such a flash-point for some people and there have been priests who left over that issue,” said Stander.

While some Catholics wonder how the clergy will react to priests married with children, others see less difficulty. Bishop Thomas J. Flanagan, retired auxiliary bishop

of the Archdiocese of San Antonio, said, “The Catholic Clergy will have no objections and will ful-ly accept the Anglican clergy as brothers. However, there must be a more intense catechesis on both sides.”

Some critics accuse the pope of capitalizing on the divisions in the Anglican Communion. His decree “would appeal to very conserva-tive Episcopalians,” he said.

Others suggest the pope is an-ticipating the collapse of the Epis-copal Church, including Father Christopher Phillips, a former Anglican priest and now pastor of Our Lady of Atonement Catholic Church in San Antonio, who heads the first Catholic parish to practice the Anglican usage of the Roman rite, set up by John Paul II.

According to Phillips, “Pope Benedict is responding pastorally to requests that were made by a group of Anglicans and realizes, I think, that it’s becoming evident that Anglicanism is dying. Par-ticularly the Episcopal Church in this country has reached the

point where it’s scarcely Christian. That’s why it’s breaking up into all these different groups.”

“People have accused the Holy Father of trying to steal sheep,” said Phillips. “Well, these are not sheep that are being stolen. These are sheep that came and nuzzled against the door and said, ‘We want to come in.’”

Similar division and loss of church members is international, according to Flanagan.

“Realizing the overall Euro-pean atmosphere and its decline in believers during the past decades,” he said, “Pope Benedict is trying to re-enkindle the faith and build a stronger spirit of unity.”

That has been the pope’s guid-ing motive, according to Mon-signor William H. Stetson, who worked closely with Pope John Paul II for the special provision for the U.S. in the ‘80s and with Pope Benedict XVI for the latest policy.

Phillips maintains that those criticizing the pope for welcoming conservative Anglicans misunder-stand his purpose.

“The whole dissenting crowd has a lot to say about it because they see that all the Catholic Church is doing is just giving a safe haven for misogynists and people that hate homosexuals and that sort of thing,” said Phillips. “That’s the way they think of conservative Anglicans: ‘ oh, those are the peo-ple who are always negative and against women and gays and now the Catholic Church is giving them a safe-haven to escape.’ Well, that says more about the dissenter than about what the pope is doing.”

Jose H. Gomez, the archbishop of San Antonio, sees the latest policy as “just one more step in a long process that started more than 20 years ago” with John Paul II’s making it possible for Angli-can priests in the U.S. to convert to Catholicism. He said the new policy affirms that “The Catholic Church wants to open the doors of the Church to our Anglican broth-ers and sisters who are interested in becoming Catholic. So, it’s noth-ing new. It’s just one more step in that process.”

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Bill Greehey School of BusinessTanuja Singh, Ph.D., Dean

Highest HonorsStephanie M. BaumgartKelly M. DowdMegan A. HaleyAlan D. HooverLauren N. KingAmanda L. KroppLori N. MayfieldSarah E. RocheErick D. RodriguezJoshua E. SotoValeria VillanuevaChristopher R. VinsonChristina A. WallSarah K. Weynand

Sara J. WilkinsonMichelle M. Wolford

High HonorsPreston J. AkromAnosh N. AnthonyAlexia BalliAdrienne N. BalsamoJames E. CarterRose V. EstradaDyana GarciaPatrick R. GavinThomas F. HuttenhoffRachel JonesKristina K. LindseyEileen C. Lopez-BuesoNora I. MartinezFrancine M. MassoAndrea MitraSandra M. Montoya

Lyla M. MoonEric NarvaezKevin D. PeggFrancisco J. Ramirez-GastonMelissa RecioRoxanne O. RodasJoseph D. SantosMatthew H. SisnerosPatricia TerrazasRebecca A. TrevinoTami N. TydlackaSara G. Vara

HonorsSylvia AguirreDanielle N. ArellanoSteven A. BrooksLizeth G. BrownMaritza Cabrera

Daniel R. CantuArheanna M. CardenasJohn M. CaseAlex CelerierLorna V. CruzRaquel CruzJessica M. DaviesRoberto R. DiazErica DominguezSissi P. FernandezLoriann L. GarsesMinerva J. GorjonLance S. GossenChristina V. GoveJames M. GrantBerta GubiAmanda C. GuerraRaul A. HernandezScott R. HilliardKari L. Hulsey

Samuel W. JerniganKatrin A. KuestermannCristabel LermaOliver LongShannon I. LowryLeslie A. LuBrett MannersConsuelo N. MartinezWendy D. MartinezAlexander G. MaurerElva A. MauricioAmanda D. Meier-McMullanGabriela MoralesMiguel MoralesValeria MunguiaBessie A. MunozElizabeth R. PerezBret R. PetersLorena A. Ransom

Stefanie Ransom-BeckerCatherine N. ReillyJames U. RossChristopher M. RuesewaldCrystal R. SaldanaJenna L. SaucedoValerie A. TeterAaron A. ThomasTruc B. TranMatthew D. TurnerArees S. UrestiDelissa A. VillaKimberly D. VillalpandoBraxton C. Watson

Science, Engineer-ing and TechnologyWinston Erevelles, Ph.D., Dean

Highest HonorsStephanie Y. AnnorDanielJ. AraujoMiguel A. ArroyoPuja J. BhaktaRobert W. BoydPaula J. BumgarnerDavid C. CadenaNicole E. CavazosCourtney M. DeaneJasper J. FerminChristopher E. FloresMegan S. FosterArthur FurlongAraceli A. GarciaCesar A. GarciaAlex D. GarzaAlyssa R. GonzalezDaniel P. GonzalezVictor N. GonzalezZachary J. HarrellMatthew D. HnatowTiffany R. JanskyPeter A. JohnsBrandon M. KeyChristine N. KhongChristopher P. Lasko

Tiffany P. LeAmy Q. LuuCarissa A. MadridViolet M. MaldonadoShehfina K. MamdaniCourtney M. MasseyVi D. NguyenDaniel A. OchoaNadia E. PerezRobert F. PerezRebecca RodriguezLauren A. ScalercioNoel L. ShaheenVanessa W. ShollesKelby M. SkidmoreJessica SolisCassandra A. StefanovicCamila TulyaganovaMichelle R. Van HeckeVitas VanDijkCarmela Andrea P. VerAriel VinasShannon WarrenShemeka L. Woodson

High HonorsAlvaro AguilarVictor E. AguilarAdrian A. AguirreBrenda N. AlvarezAndres BarreraAmanda M. Benavides

Alix S. CaveAmy L. CrissmanAnalicia G. De Los SantosSylvia C. DeSolaSharlene N. FlesherDavid W. GaitherAnissa A. GonzalezLorena S. HepburnAngelica M. LopezMonique M. MendozaRichard E. MolinaBarbara NeuschSamantha K. NicholsAnastasia M. PembertonLauren M. RomeroGabriel Rosado

HonorsHenrietta D. AbodakpiJessica AcostaChristina A. AdameTurki Z. Al LelahCassandra A. BailyVictoria D. BalderasAustin W. BeattyJaclyn Y. BermudezDeven R. BhaktaDhruv V. BhaktaCasey M. BrittenGina M. BuffaloeGilbert T. BustamanteAmanda M. Chavez

Nathan T. ChurchwellKelly L. CooperServando CordovaElizabeth CortezSandra M. CrusaStephanie N. DeLaRosaAimee D. DiazJoseph D. DiazTracy R. ElizaldeHeather L. FermanDavid FrancoJose L. GarciaRebecca L. GarciaTriparna Ghosh-ChoudhuryGabriel A. GonzalesDante A. GonzalezDeborah J. GonzalezLauren N. GuzmanJustin L. HalootPeggah HemmatZachary R. HernandezCatherine A. HoffmannJessica D. JohnsonStephanie M. KeysInez C. LealTanya LermaWendy LinKarla LopezChrystal LoyaOmar A. MaganaMarcin J. MarczewskiSarah M. McCurdy

Marcos Y. MendozaRuby MendozaAndrew MenezesIsela C. MenjivarRenato S. NavarroNina Y. OlveraJulianna B. PadillaAmar S. PatelClaudia P. RamirezWyrene M. RamirezJose D. RetanaSarah C. RozinekAudry M. RubioCristine D. SaksSamantha L. SaldanaJeanette SanchezStacey D. SaundersEverardo C. SilvaJessica E. SmithColin D. StockAmanda L. StoneAlbert A. StuderHector A. TrevinoArmando UrrutiaSarah T. VegaGabriela A. VillanuevaArthur R. WagnerOlga A. Zavala-Handal

To earn the honor of be-ing on the Dean’s List at St. Mary’s, different criteria ap-ply to the different schools of the University.

To be eligible for the Deans’ List in the Schools of Humanities and Social Sci-ences; Science, Engineering and Technology; and Bill Greehey School of Business,

students must be full-time status (12 earned hours) and earned a grade point average of 3.60 or above. The Dean’s List for these Schools consists of three categories: Highest Honors, student must earn a grade point average of 3.90 to 4.00; High Honors, student must earn a grade point aver-age of 3.80 to 3.89; Honors,

student must earn a grade point average of 3.60 to 3.79.

Graduate students who earn a grade point average of 3.9 or higher in the Gradu-ate School, have accumu-lated eight hours of gradu-ate study, were enrolled in at least six hours, and did not have an IC at the time of con-sideration are selected for the

Dean’s List.Students who made the

Dean’s List may request a certificate in the Dean’s office of their respected major.

Bill Greehey School of BusinessALK 203

Humanities & Social Sciences CF 2

Science, Engineering & Tech.MT 201

Graduate School REIN 105

Note: The Deans’ List, pub-lished in The Rattler, Fall 2009 is based on Spring 2009 grades provided by the Registrar’s Of-fice and the Graduate Dean’s Office as of October 14, 2009.

Undergraduate Dean’s List

Dean’s List Criteria

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Humanities and Social SciencesJanet B. Dizinno, Ph.D., Dean

Highest HonorsDanielle M. AdanAllison N. AvalosJake A. BecerraSarah E. BenavidesMajel E. BradenSteven O. BrzezinskiQuinn CaruthersChristopher M. ChildreeHillary B. CigrangVanessa D. ColonKristen M. DaggettJasmin R. DeanAlfonso DeLaTorre-NarvarteChristine J. DuchouquetteAlissa N. EckhartValeria EscobedoAndrea E. FernandezAndrew D. FletcherAshley FloresEmily M. FlowersColby B. FosterChristopher E. FremauxNatalie C. GamezStephanie D. GarciaElvira D. GonzalezShawna M. GoodwinAaron C. HannaCarolina HernandezEvelia HernandezRuben J. HernandezMary K. HestilowKelly M. HigginsJames F. HopkinsPeter N. HouhoulisKenneth A. Howell

Marco A. IbarraRebecca N. IbarraJonathon B. JamesSean S. JonesCraig A. KinnebergChristine P. LeSarah D. LinaresOliver M. ManglonaAna L. MarquezKristyn M. MathewsonDaniel E. McCarthyAlexandra E. McCoyAndrew MedinaMaegen V. NeuschLorenzo C. NicholsIris M. PerezLeslie P. PlantStephanie N. RamosNancy RealyvasquezJoshua L. ResendizEunice ReyesMark A. ReynaRowena G. RodriguezMichelle Y. RomeroStephanie Ruiz-AlbaDanielle I. SaavedraAnthony A. San MiguelAngela M. SantanaJared R. SelmanScott J. ShimekSean M. StilsonDavid A. StryculaJoao ZampierAlvaro A. Zapatel-MalpartidaSharon Zaragoza

High HonorsJessica L. AguileraMagdalena AlvearKelly N. BakerEleonora BassLinzui K. Berumen

Brynna R. BooseStephanie J. CarneroEmily CastanedaJenny K. ChavezValerie L. CobosYadira E. DeLunaVerenice D’SantiagoTiffany C. EdwardsMegan A. FosterFarren N. FoxKelly H. GalloAlyssa R. GarciaYadira S. GarciaChrystalla K. GeorghiouCaitlyn H. GeraciElsa I. GonzalezChristina E. GuzmanStephen R. GuzmanNatasha R. HamiltonShevez L. HardinWoodrow E. HardinDiana H. HelmGabriela HernandezZayra J. HernandezCheryl L. HoelscherRyan HullAshley N. IbarraPatricia JassoElizabeth A. JoyceMonica M. LackupsSinthya E. MaldonadoChristine M. MalloyChristina M. MaresCrystal M. MaresJessica M. MartinChristopher A. MedinaMelody R. MejiaLorena S. MendezJesus A. MendozaAlice A. MeyerNoelia N. MontezMegan R. MyersLaura J. O’Bar

Syrita R. OwensDaisy ReyesChristina RodriguezGuillermo RodriguezDenise SalasEmily J. ScruggsCandice N. SlaughterDaniela TrevinoAllison M. VandeHeyRegis J. VelascoLynzee L. VillafrancaStephanie M. VillarrealLatez M. Williams

Honors Ben F. AbilaLaci S. AlexanderDominique AveryBobby A. Baiza, MusicMatthew R. Barrios Criminal JusticeAshton K. BenfordPaola F. Betancourt-MethvinMaria P. BorreroJose G. CadenaGreg D. CamachoDiana P. CanalesNicole M. CardonaErica L. CarmonaJessica M. CastanonCrystal CeballosMireya A. ChavezRozzane A. ChavezPhilip M. CoutureDaniella CovarrubiasThomas J. CronnonLynda J. CruzWilliam D. DeanCharles T. DevineCaleb DiazChristina DominguezRoberto Dumke

Kirk P. DunlapAaron A. DurandChristian EkleberryMelinda I. EnriquezMaria Fernandez-MerloLarissa C. FloresAmber L. FlyMegan E. GalvinRuby GarciaRenee A. GardeaKatelyn C. GarrisonAlberto L. GarzaJessica M. GentzelAmy GonzalesErica N. GonzalezMario E. GonzalezGentry M. HaaseRachel J. HaritakisCaroline A. HartmannElizabeth M. HendersonDenice C. HernandezCassandra HuertaTyler C. IngrahamMelissa KavetskiKatelyn S. KershnerSarah T. LangKristopher P. LevyTalitha D. LewisWilhelmina F. LorenaJuliana LunaOscar R. MagureguiAverie E. MaldonadoMelissa MartinezEsmeralda McKinneyEmily S. MedranoAdam M. MeyerNerissa A. MisuelaMallory M. MoellerDenise V. MolinaHeather M. MonroeZachary G. MooreStephen R. Moreno

Stacey L. MossCassandra D. MunozRene R. MunozGregory E. MurphyAnna S. NuzzoMelissa Y. OlmosCeleste V. OlveraMariana OrtegonClarissa PenaAshleigh R. PepperBriana J. PerezShanik R. PipkinJoseph-Terry S. RaineyMartha L. RamonGillian L. RedshawJohn J. ReyesAmanda RiojasAngela J. RiveraJocelyn RoblesStephanie J. RochaLauren M. SanchezRichard M. SanchezTina M. SanchezKristin R. SepulvedaCristina V. SerranoBurton G. ShawPatricia A. SipesVeronica SosaWilliam J. SotoLivia R. SpilotroDavid J. StalzerKiersten M. SwanierAnne M. SwensonAugustus TorresTobias P. TruffnerClaudia L. ValladolidItalia C. VanciniAngelica M. VillarrealTrinae M. Weldy

Dean’s List

Graduate SchoolHenry Flores, Ph.D., Dean

Nakisha T. AcostaChristopher T. AlexanderKelly M. AlexanderMary E. AlmanzaKamil A. AlotaibiChristy AlvarezKhalid A. AlyahyaRaul AriasRichard S. ArndtAllison K. Bailey

Amanda BatyVeronica C. BeckSusan A. BolintVincent BordenPatricia A. BrittonJason S. BuellJuan C. CarrilloAreetha M. Carter-StewartJoshua A. CavazosJoanne ChambersJaclyn T. CollinsKelly J. ConveryMark CrumptonSteven E. Deater

Sara A. DegenhardtVeronica DeLeonGordon J. DenningJamie B. DunlapLeticia G. EspinozaJared FaisonAlma FernandezRachel M. Florence-MartinezAngela Nicole L. GarciaSandy GuerguesJessica M. HarbinMegan N. HaynesHeidi HoodJames A. Jones

David C. KaiserJoshua K. LindenElizabeth LyneLauren I. MarkKeith T. MarkesonAmber G. MartinDawn M. McguirkAli N. MeshkinAmber R. MessaGwendolyn K. MooreJoy L. NelsonSarah B. PachecoDesirae M. ParkerLaura K. Parker

Allyson M. PerezPatrick C. PiperNorma RiderPriscilla M. SigalaMaria A. SmithStephanie J. SmithChristopher L. StevensonJustin D. SultzbachJeannette D. TappeJames TempleMichael C. ThompsonElizabeth A. TurnerKathryn M. Werner

Graduate School’s Dean’s List