The South Texan Texas A&M Kingsville News

With the Lone Star Conference Tournament just a week away, the Texas A&M-Kingsville Javelina baseball team played its last games of the regular season this past weekend against the visiting University of Incarnate Word Cardinals, splitting the important LSC series. Both teams were fighting for the top spot in the Lone Star Conference. After the series split, UIW finished third ... Read More »

Last week the Women’s golf team fired an opening round at 347 at the 2012 Firestone Lone Star Conference Championship hosted by the Trophy Club Country Club. The Lady Javelinas were among 7 other teams competing in the annual league event. Playing on the Whitworth course under perfect weather conditions the Javelinas had three players shoot 86 or better. Head ... Read More »

After the tragic murder of Trayvon Martin, America has been forced to look at itself in the mirror and review its racial relations. Out of this homicide has come discussion on one of the most offensive but prevalent words in this society: the N-word. It is perhaps one of the biggest contradictions that our culture has. It’s a term of ... Read More »

After years of jumping between The White Stripes as lead vocalist and guitar, to The Raconteurs as backup/lead vocalist and lead/rhythm guitar and The Dead Weather as a drummer, Jack White finally decided it was time to “paint his own canvas”–and paint it he did. The only thing Blunderbuss seems to inherit from White’s previous projects would be his raw ... Read More »

Well, Hog Nation it looks like this is it. I’ve come into your presence as a naïve music major who didn’t know anything about himself and I leave a Javelina who has a career doing what he loves. I made most of my best memories here on the campus of A&M Kingsville and have, hopefully, left my mark on it, ... Read More »

Have you heard of ‘trolling?’ It originated on Internet message boards, forums, and in chat rooms where anonymity allowed mischievous intentions to fester like so many boils on a particularly randy baboon’s ass. The exact definition of the term has been muddled over time. These days most people think trolling means making fun of someone or playing a prank on ... Read More »

Everybody wants a chance at a college education, but is the debt worth it? Student loan debt in the United States now exceeds $1 trillion; an amount greater than the nation’s cumulative credit card commitment. U.S. Representative Hanson Clark (D-Michigan) introduced H.R. 4170, the Student Loan Forgiveness Act of 2012, on March 8, 2012. If the bill passed, 10 percent ... Read More »

Sometimes those who illuminate the path to goodness on campus are not the professors or top administrators, but people who work quietly at their assigned task day-by-day. Debbie Sholz, administrative assistant for the Marketing and Communications Department, has now been recognized as one of those people. Sholz, approaching her 15th year with the department, was named a “Bringer of Light” ... Read More »

In order to benefit both Texas A&M University-Kingsville (AMK) and surrounding high-needs districts, a $3.8 million grant is underway that would bring the Teachers Earning Alternate Certification Here (TEACH) Project to campus. There will be three informational sessions today held in Room 219C of the Memorial Student Union Building. The TEACH Project focuses on recruiting recent college graduates, as well ... Read More »

The results are in, and A&M-Kingsville placed 7th in district. After all their work and dedication, AMK’s American Advertising Federation (AAF) team has finally come to a stop in their journey. Since the beginning of the semester, the Advanced Advertising comm 4306 class has been preparing for the National Student Advertising Competition. This year, the competition was held in Shreveport, ... Read More »