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ABC show host shares advice and experience

ASU graduate to ‘learn the ropes’ asnew commander

Lisa DeesStaff WriterDana Choi

Editor-in-Chief

An Emmy award-win-ning ABC news correspon-dent visited the university Wednesday and shared ca-reer advice and life experi-ence with students.

After his flight canceled

due to Hurricane Irene, John Quiñones arrived Wednesday instead of Mon-day as originally planned, Associate Director for Mul-ticultural Affairs Flor Leos Madero said.

The Communication, Mass Media, and Theater Department welcomed John Quiñones to ASU because it connected stu-dents’ programs of study to real world practice, said Shawn Wahl, department head and professor of Com-munication.

“Many of our students

in CMMT compete for jobs in the media industry and having an opportunity to learn and relate to someone as successful as John Qui-ñones adds to their overall academic and professional training,” he said.

Quiñones first visited with mass media students at 10 a.m. to talk about how to make it in the media world.

“If you take anything from this morning conver-sation…get your foot in the door with any kind of in-ternship in whatever field

you believe you’ll go in,” Quiñones said.

Quiñones said people have to get rid of the fear of failure to succeed.

“Failing is what keeps people from taking the jump,” he said. “You get a lot of negative messages from society. You have to turn [that] off. You have to listen to your own heart.”

At noon in the CJ Da-vidson Center, Quiñones shared his experiences as a first-generation student in “Lessons Learned” and dis-cussed his show, Madero said. “Lessons Learned” was part of the Hispanic Serving Institution Speaker Series.

Quiñones later dis-cussed episodes of “What Would You Do?” with rep-resentatives from Student Senate, Multicultural Advi-sory Council, and the Asso-ciation of Mexican Ameri-can Students at 1 p.m. in the Nasworthy Suite, she said.

“What Would You Do?” depicts real-life situations that reveal human nature through concealed cam-eras, Assistant to President for Multicultural Initiatives Joe Muñoz said.

“Having a Hispanic role model such as John Quiñones visit ASU is very significant not just for our Hispanic students but for first-generation students in general,” Madero said. “His story is motivating and en-courages people to keep striving for more.”

Junior Aaron Lozano said he thought students would benefit from hearing from Quiñones.

“We all know right from wrong, but it’s nice to hear it from someone who has a lot of experience,” he said.

Muñoz said he thinks Quiñones’ talk opened eyes to the way people reacted to different situations in his show.

See Personalpg. 3

Tamlin JenningsContributor

An ASU alumnus became the new com-mander of the university’s Air Force ROTC program after the former commander re-tired last semester.

Lt. Col. Stephen W. Magnan, the com-mander of Detachment 847, will have dual responsibilities as detachment commander and chairman of the department of Aero-space Studies.

“Det. 847 at ASU was my first choice since I am an ASU graduate and I received my commission from here in 1992,” Mag-nan said. “I was very pleased and honored to be offered the position here at Angelo State University.”

Cadet Col. Mayra Gomez said it is nor-mal in ROTC to get a new commander.

“The only change is that the new com-mander has to learn the ropes of the ROTC program compared to the actual Air Force,” she said.

Previous commander Col. Michael K. Buck retired at the end of Spring 2011.

Under Buck’s leadership, Detachment 847 was named the 2010 High Flight win-ner as the top medium detachment in the Southwest Region and earned top Arnold Air Society squadron honors in 2011.

Magnan enlisted in the Air Force in 1983. He served seven years as a Russian Crypto-logic Linquist and became Staff Sergeant. He attended ASU, where he enrolled in the Reserve Officer Training Corps and gained his bachelor’s degree in communications

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ROTC: New commanderreturns to university

University forms new international partners

Lisa DeesStaff Writer

Over 85 international stu-dents currently study at ASU through partnerships with uni-versities around the world.

International Student Servic-es Counselor Meghan Pace said about 72 international students are taking traditional courses while 15 are here to learn English.

ASU is partnered with many schools across the globe including the Netherlands, Mexico, Italy, Scotland, Germany, France, and South Korea, she said.

ASU’s partnerships with these universities are anywhere from a week old to 20 years old, Pace said.

The ASU Contract Office is reviewing a new possible part-nership with one new university,

office coordinator Paula Dowler said.

Dongguk University in South Korea has been partnered with ASU for two years, she said. Cur-rently, one ASU student is study-ing at Dongguk and several stu-dents from Dongguk are here at ASU this fall.

Junior Wook Rae Cho from Dongguk said he arrived in San Angelo a week ago and has since learned that Texas is hot and huge.

He said he lives in Vander-venter apartments, where he is quickly learning about different cultures because his roommate is American and his housemate is German.

“Coming from South Korea to Texas was a hard transition,” Cho said, “but I expected that and was ready. It is hard to go somewhere without a car. In Korea there is transportation by buses and cars.”

Junior Sungin Kim from Ul-san University in South Korea agrees that change is difficult.

“Changing is hard, scary and challenging,” she said. “It is con-fusing because of cultural differ-ences, but I’ve learned to respect others because of it and am figur-ing out myself.”

Pace said it is vital to bring international students to campus so native students can experience international cultures at home since not everyone can travel abroad.

“Studying abroad is also im-portant because we want our students to leave Texas and the U.S. to learn about other coun-tries, new people, and to see how they live so they will have a better understanding of the world,” she said.

Assistant Professor of Gov-ernment Dr. Won-Jae Lee said there is a mutual benefit for bringing international students to ASU.

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Globalization: University reaches out through partnership

Testimonial: Journalist sharescareer, life experience

Photo by Mark McDanielJohn Quiñones shared his experiences as a first-generation student Wednesday, at noon, in the CJ Davidson Center.

Photo by Pam BelcherInternational students Dong Hyeon Nam, Yong Min Kwon, and Jae Yun Lee.

Photo Courtesy of Aerospace Studies ROTC Lt. Col. Stephen W. Magnan

Friday, September 2, 2011Page 2 NEWS

Drew BrownContributor

A closed-off intersection near campus re-opened Wednesday morning after a semi-truck struck a power pole on Vanderventer.

Electricians sent by the city of San Angelo re-placed the power pole Wednesday morning.

The intersection was shut down for about an hour because a power line was on the street and electricians did not know if the wire was still active, Chief of University Police James Adams said.

The university police department notified stu-dents and faculty Tuesday afternoon that three power poles were damaged in the 2200 block of Vanderventer.

A Mayflower moving truck trailer got caught on power lines at around 3 p.m. Tuesday and knocked them to the ground. The intersection of S. Lincoln Street and Vanderventer Street were closed after the wires fell on top of the ground wires.

“The driver of the truck was driving through the alleyway of the street and the back of its trailer struck the pole,” Adams said. “No injuries hap-pened from the accident.”

Several people saw the accident and contacted university police and city police. No power outages occurred on campus.

Replaced: Next day service saves traffic

Intersectionreopens after power poles damaged

Dana ChoiEditor-in-Chief

The university clinic will not partner with a local medical center even though students voted in and paid increased fees in Spring 2010.

“It’s a good idea, but it’s too expen-sive,” said Greg Pecina, executive direc-tor of Business Services. “We cannot do that right now.”

Pecina said he made a recommen-dation to the administration in Janu-ary to deny CMA partnership with the clinic. Within the next 60 days, he will make a proposal that instead requests

the pursuit of an ideal “wellness cen-ter.”

Community Medical Associates was the only medical facility out of eight that responded to the univer-sity clinic’s proposal for partnership, Pecina said. CMA would have provided similar services for higher rates than the university can afford.

The $15 increase in student fees created an additional $150,000, Pecina said, but that is not enough to continu-ously pay CMA’s rates. The rate would be $839,733 for the first year, $941,058 for the second, and $1,055,868 for the third.

Pecina said the university currently generates about $790,000 for student medical services.

“I can’t assure that our students would continue to keep voting for in-

creases [in fees] for medical services,” he said. “So I talked to the community medical hospital about that and they said that’s the cost of health care.”

Even if students continued to vote up prices, the Board of Regents could say no, Pecina said.

“I try to be a good steward of the students’ money,” Pecina said. “How much more real, good health care do we get by [paying CMA’s price]?”

Pecina said the university clinic already has professional service, but students have mixed feelings about it.

Junior Ginelda Lopez said she thinks the clinic is convenient and helpful.

“They’ve been able to help me ev-ery time I’ve gone,” she said. “There was just that one time that they sent me to the hospital to get a blood ser-vice because they don’t have that ser-vice at the clinic.”

Lopez said she finds the fee in-crease reasonable.

“If you were to go to a regular doc-tor [off] campus…it’s going to cost you an arm and a leg,” she said.

However, other students are not satisfied with the services.

“I think the current clinic is un-derstaffed and completely unable to deal with anything more serious than a runny nose,” graduate student Kevin Fowler said. “I think we pay a lot of clinic fees for almost no services…and if ASU is unable to provide more pro-fessional service, which is obviously what the students want, they should negate the fee increase.”

Even though students will not see a brand name attached to the clinic, Pecina said the fee increases will be put to good use.

The university clinic will take a dif-

ferent approach to students’ health is-sues, he said.

“Instead of just waiting for you to come in, we’re starting to be aggressive and go out and talk to you,” he said. “I like that idea, because we’re an educa-tional institution, and we should be teaching you all the time.”

Pecina said he wants ASU to develop a student wellness center over the next 18 months, which means the university will provide more women’s services and collaborative wellness education.

This approach produced initiatives such as Girls’ Night Out and Health: A Fresh Start.

“Maybe when you leave here, not only did we teach you to be a better mathematician, teacher or physical therapist, we taught you how to take care of yourself,” Pecina said. “Often-times this is the healthiest you’ll ever be in your whole life. This is the time to learn to stay healthy.”

Pecina said the second thing he wants to do is replace the building that houses the university clinic.

The 61-year-old university clinic building, which houses the counseling center and medical services, is the old-est building on campus and needs to be replaced in the near future, Pecina said, but that will depend on construction funding.

The plan is to develop cooperation between UREC, counseling, ASU Fit, Nursing, Physical Therapy and medical services to develop the wellness center, Pecina said.

“I’m hoping we can do all of this within the next two or three years, so eventually we’ll have a new building and we’ll be able to provide our students more services that I think are higher quality,” Pecina said.

Clinic takes on wellness, women’s health

New approach: Local medical center will not run university clinic

Lisa DeesStaff Writer

The university hopes students will do their part to conserve energy to prevent brownouts, momentary in-terruptions of power, and to save the school money as the campus continues to ex-pand in the upcoming years.

Director of Procure-ment and Energy Services Bruce Flage said that fund-ing is becoming more diffi-cult to get so it is important that the university saves as much as possible.

He said he noticed peo-ple made an effort to cut unnecessary power after receiving an e-mail to con-serve.

“However, we need to get people to be in that mindset all the time, not just when the possibility of power loss is on their mind,” Flage said.

Sophomore Selena Mar-tinez said she turns every-thing off when she leaves her dorm.

“It’s important to con-serve electricity to save money,” she said. “If it were my mom’s house, she would flip out, so I’ve learned from her to conserve as much as possible.”

Spending close to $4 million each year on utili-ties, the university has up-graded equipment with more efficient models to help cut down on costs, he said.

For example, the uni-versity has replaced incan-descent light bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps, an energy-saving light,

Flage said. Incandescent light bulbs use 60 to 100 watts, whereas fluorescent lamps only use seven to 32 watts.

“All utilities considered we have been reducing our usage each year the past four years,” he said. “However, considering the climate we are currently in, had we not taken the measures we did to save electricity we prob-ably would have seen a 20 to 30 percent increase.”

Because the days are so hot and the nights do not cool down much, the build-ings retain the heat making them difficult to cool down so more is spent on air-con-ditioning, Flage said.

Usage will increase as the university expands, he said. The idea is to use utili-ties as efficiently as possible so usage will rise at the slow-est possible rate.

Conservation: University more aware of electricity usage

University increases utility efficiency

Turn off any electronic device when not in use(including lights).

Learn to live with it a little warmer in the summer and colderin the winter–a few degrees on the thermostat really saves.

Dress for the appropriate weather and don’t use spaceheaters in the winter.

Don’t prop open doors or have them open for long periods of timewhen you are running the A/C or heater–same goes for windows.

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“They expose us to diversity and increase enrollment,” he said. “International students are very en-thusiastic about a high education in the states. More than 90 percent of exchange students make the Dean’s List.”

Lee said he traveled to South Ko-rea with Pace in September 2008 to participate in the Study Abroad Ex-hibition on behalf of ASU and to visit several Korean universities.

They set up booths at the ex-hibition to give information about ASU to Korean students and visited Dongguk, Ulsan, and Kyungnam Universities to raise a foundation

that would bring students to ASU in 2009, he said.

Since 2009, ASU has taught around 150 students from South Ko-rea, Lee said.

“It is fun to meet new people and see how international students interact with each other,” Pace said. “It’s fun to see their life-changing ex-periences.”

Photo by Pam BelcherInternational students from South Korea socialize in class.

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and he served as an international diplo-matic clearance planner. He has deployed and provided various levels of support throughout his career to Operations Deny Flight, Delib-erate Force, Provide Promise, Allied Force, Southern Watch, Northern Watch, Desert Strike, Noble Eagle, Enduring Freedom, Iraqi Freedom, and New Dawn.

This year, the detachment will participate in numerous competitions along with build-ing the homecoming bonfire and marching in the homecoming parade, Magnan said. They also sponsor a Junior ROTC drill meet every spring. However, the detachment’s No. 1 goal is to stay focused on education.

“We simply want to improve on what we had last year, prepare cadets to go into field training and become officers,” Gomez said. “But education always comes first.”

Magnan said he hopes to maintain the good relationship Det. 847 has with the uni-versity, Goodfellow Air Force Base and San Angelo.

“This detachment could not have had the great successes it has experienced without this tremendous support,” he said.

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“Mr. Quiñones’ road to success includes a per-sonal story that can inspire and motivate ASU stu-dents across all majors,” Wahl said.

According to ABC News, Quiñones, a native Texan, received a bachelor’s degree in speech com-munications from St. Mary’s University in San An-tonio, and a master’s degree from the Columbia School of Journalism. He has worked for ABC News since 1982.

The next HSI Speaker Series will feature Diane Ariza, associate vice president for Academic Af-fairs and chief diversity officer, from Quinnipiac University in Connecticut, Madero said. Ariza will speak Sept. 6.

Get back into school with a splash

Detachment’sNo. 1 goal iseducation

Personal storiesinspire listeners

Mark McDanielPhotographer

A new health aware-ness program for students kicked off Wednesday in the University Center.

The Freshman 15 program, spearheaded by Associate Director for Special Events Facilities/Services David Rosipal, is designed to keep students aware of how to maintain a healthy lifestyle in col-lege.

The event featured presentations from sev-eral organizations on campus that aim to keep students active and offer

information on how to maintain a healthy diet.

Rosipal said because students are involved in so many activities, they need to eat properly in order to have the energy to make it through their day.

“If you are really go-ing to maximize your ex-perience here, you have to have energy,” Rosipal said. “That is what the Freshman 15 program is about. Getting good fuel in the tank, getting en-ergy and enjoying all the university has to offer.”

Sophomore Em-ily Snyder said she be-lieves the program will help promote the idea of good health to the whole campus.

“It will help make students aware of their

health,” Snyder said. “Not only the freshman, but everyone else as well... Everyone needs to make healthy choices, and some students grow up not knowing how to do that.”

Rosipal said one of the main things he want-ed to inform students about is the new version of the food pyramid, which is no longer a pyra-mid at all.

“They’ve changed [it] from a pyramid to a [din-ner plate diagram],” Rosi-pal said.

Many people relate to the idea of a dinner plate rather than a percentage-based pyramid, Rosipal said.

“They say to fill up half of your plate with vegetables and fruit, a

quarter of it with lean protein, and the other quarter with complex car-bohydrates, and then you throw in a glass of water or skim milk and there you go,” Rosipal said.

Rosipal said he be-lieves students also need to be educated on the ef-fects of alcohol on one’s diet.

“Many students don’t know that alcohol is a metabolic destroyer,” Rosipal said.

Graduate Assistant for Fitness Matt Bates said UREC is a great way for students to stay active.

“We have the new CHP, fitness classes, out-door adventures, and others,” Bates said. “We just want the students to know their options.”

Program kicks off with health fairFreshman 15: Not just forfreshmen anymore

Photo by Mark McDanielSenior Stephen Henry calculates how much water he needs per day at Freshman 15.

Photos by Mark McDaniel

Students participate in “Back -to-School Bash” with a pre-paint party and black light dance Aug. 26.

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Chy Hall and Jacob Ebanks utilize CHP treadmills.

Myles Hernandez lifts weights in the new weight room.

Canyon Spurrier enjoys a game of disc golf.

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“It’s not that difficult and if I don’t find one I wait patiently for one.”

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Review: “I’m With You”

Patrick McKeownContributor

Ladies and gentle-men the funk has re-turned, so break out the black lights and plug up the lava lamps while get-ting down to the new Red Hot Chili Peppers record.

The Alternative Mas-ters of Funk have their new album “I’m With You,” which released on Monday.

Along with the new album were also new changes.

The Chili Peppers split with old guitar-

ist John Frusciante and hired a young gun named Josh Klinghoffer. Al-though this is Klinghof-fer’s debut album, he has played with the Chili Pep-pers since their Stadium Arcadium Tour in 2007. Klinghoffer was trained by Frusciante, so he was an easy fit with good re-sults on the album.

“I’m With You” shines with Klinghof-fer on board, but bass-ist Flea and vocalist An-thony Kiedis captain this groove ship.

“Monarchy of Roses” starts us off with fuzzed guitars and gritty vocals that remind me of “To-morrow Never Knows” by the legendary Beatles, before giving way to vin-tage 70s funk.

The old Chili Pep-pers return with their vintage 1991 sound for the new classic “Factory of Faith,” on which Fleas

bass jumps with attitude and is smoothly comple-mented by Chad Smith’s steady drumming pace.

Bob Marley’s pres-ence is felt with Ethiopia’s sweet haze and memora-ble back-and-forth guitar solo.

My favorite track on the album, “Even You Brutus?”, is dipped with Mick Jagger lyrics and a lick that Keith Richards

might have dreamt up at 2 in the morning after an all-nighter.

Without a doubt, the album is unforgettable with each song leaving a different taste in the mouth.

On some songs there are pianos, others have saxophones, but all songs form a long five-year -awaited gift for fans and newcomers to connect.

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“It’s not too hard and I don’t like using laptops.”

Gwen Lancaster,senior

“I never looked for one. I live off campus.”

Colin Shaw,freshman

“It is really difficult. I don’t think they should have taken the other computers out.”

Rebecca Jones,senior

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Staff Editorial

Notworth

Shortage of computer stations

itWe think the loss of the computer lab on

the third floor of the library is frustrating.Even before the third floor of the library

replaced the computers with the tutor-ing labs, students were constantly buzzing about in the computer labs and lining up for an open station.

Tutoring labs are beneficial, of course, and creating one was not a waste. However, taking away one of the main computer labs to do so was not the best way to go about it. There are now two main computer labs on campus: the lab in the MCS and the lab in the learning commons of the library. Just like with parking, expect to either wait a

long time or arrive at least 30 minutes ear-lier just to print out an assignment or check e-mail.

We also question the placement of the tutor lab. Why math, and why here? The Mathematics-Computer Science building is located on the other side of campus.

Maybe, somehow, converting the com-puter lab into a tutoring lab was convenient… We don’t really see it. Was this the only place that could have been used? Do the positive results outweigh the drawbacks?

In short, a change was made that did not need to be made, and it was made ignoring the voice of us, the students.

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It is a shame that the bill did not pass. As usual, the criminals still have weapons, I was hoping we might be able to defend ourselves.

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Friday, September 2, 2011Page 6 SPORTS

Jason HelmsSports Editor

The Rams open their 2011 season this weekend in Gunnison, Col., facing last season’s 1 – 10 Moun-taineers of Western State College.

For the Rams, the game will not only mark the sea-son opener, but also the be-ginning of a new era under first-year head coach Will Wagner.

Wagner replaced Dale Carr, who accumulated a 28 - 36 record in his six sea-sons as head coach.

“It has always been a goal of mine to be a head coach, so this is a great op-portunity for me person-ally,” Wagner said. “But I’m looking down the road to build this program to be one of the top Division II programs in the country... and to get there we have to take it game-by-game starting with this first one,” Wagner said.

Wagner said the team is very close to where they need to be at this point with the exception of a few minor mistakes that the team needs to iron out be-fore Saturday’s game.

The Rams return 39 let-termen from last season’s 5 - 5, 3 - 5 LSC squad.

Junior defensive end Austin Benson said the

team will benefit from those players.

“We are definitely ahead of where we were last season with so many guys coming back,” Benson said.

Coach Wagner has also had a big impact on this team so far, Benson said

“He has us headed in the right direction and it already feels like he has turned the program around.”

Benson and the Rams plan to take the confidence gained from that with them to Colorado, he said.

“We are going to put it on them,” Benson said of Western State.

“We are expecting a big win to get this season start-ed the right way.”

Kickoff is scheduled for 2 p.m. at Western State’s Mountaineer Bowl.

The 4,000-seat stadi-um is the highest collegiate football field in the world at 7,750 feet.

Wagner said the eleva-tion could present a prob-lem for the Rams.

“Hopefully, it won’t af-fect us too much with us being in such good shape,” Wagner said.

Rams confident as new era beginsFootball: Team looks to ‘put it on’ first opponent

Season set to start after first meetingIntramurals: Flag football kicks off semester activi-ties

Jason HelmsSports Editor

Fall intramural events began with the first regis-tration meeting for flag football Tuesday.

In the meeting, team representatives and in-tramural administrators discussed various league divisions, team sched-ules, field locations, and a broad overview of the rules of the game, league administrator and as-sistant director for in-tramural sports Jeromey Whitaker said.

“It is not too late for teams that failed to regis-ter at Tuesday’s meeting,” Whitaker said.

“We usually give

teams a few weeks into the regular season to reg-ister as long as there are slots available.”

However, Whita-ker recommended that teams register as soon as possible to avoid sched-uling issues.

The flag football sea-son begins Sept. 6, with men, women and co-ed teams competing.

The regular season is four weeks long and will go until Oct. 3 end-ing with an elimination tournament, including all teams.

The tournament will end with Championship Night on Oct. 13, weath-er permitting, Whitaker said.

Registration meet-ings for tennis, badmin-ton, and disc golf take place Sept. 6, in the CHP, Room 203 at 7 p.m. Competitions for each of those sports will start on

Sept. 12. Season length will

depend on the number of participants involved, Whitaker said.

“If you love sports, then it’s just another way to get out there and play the game you love,” soph-omore Coulter Payne said of intramurals. “You also meet new people and de-velop a sort of camarade-rie with your teammates.”

Students can also get involved by officiating league games.

Students interested serving as a referee or umpire should either go by Whitaker’s office, Room 117 in the CHP, or call 325-942-2034.

Student officials earn $8 per hour for officiating intramural competitions.

Registration meet-ings for volleyball, soc-cer, ultimate Frisbee, and kickball are all scheduled for October.

Week at a Glance

Friday, Sept. 2VOLLEYBALL: @ West Texas Lady Buff Classic - Canyon, Tex.Western State - 11:30 a.m.Missouri Western - 4:30 p.m.

SOCCER: @ St. Edward’s - 4 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 3

FOOTBALL: @ Western State - 2 p.m.

VOLLEYBALL:@ West Texas Lady Buff Classic - Canyon, Tex.Western State - 11:30 a.m.Missouri Western - 4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, Sept. 6SOCCER: UTPB - 4 p.m. (Home)

VOLLEYBALL:@ Incarnate Word* - 7 p.m.

Thursday, Sept. 8

VOLLEYBALL:Tarleton State* - 7 p.m. (Home)

*Denotes conference game

“We are expect-ing a big win to get this season start-ed the right way.”

- Junior Austin

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TONIGHT!

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THURSDAYSeptember 8thSeptember 2nd

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Photo by Pam BelcherRedshirt freshman Jared Ross performs a drill during practice.

Photo by Jason HelmsWagner instructs a group of players during a practice in prepara-tion for the team’s season-opener.

To listen to a live audio broadcast of the game

Saturday, visit http://www.angelosports.com

For more information about intramurals and other services offered by UREC activities visit http://www.angelo.edu/dept/university_recreation

Photo by Jason HelmsFirst-year head coach Will Wagner watches his team perform drills during practice Tuesday. Wagner and the Rams play Western State in the season-opener Saturday, 2 p.m. in Gunnison, Col.