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Film program goes to work.
Ex-NFL coach speaks at UIW
McNay Museum marks ‘Nightmare’
STUDENT MEDIA @uiwlogos | www.uiwcommarts.com/the-logos/ @uiwtv | www.uiwcommarts.com/uiwtv/ @kuiwradio | www.uiwcommarts.com/kuiw/ Vol. 124, No. 1 | AUG.-SEPT. 2023 STUDENT-RUN NEWSPAPER FOR UNIVERSITY OF THE INCARNATE WORD
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UIW official: Race no factor in admissions By David Peters LOGOS STAFF WRITER The University of the Incarnate Word does not factor race in admissions – and thus is not affected by the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent ruling restricting affirmative action, a spokesman said. “The University does not use race as a factor in admissions, so the decision did not affect our admissions
process,” said Michael Valdes, media and public relations manager for UIW’s Office of Communications & Brand Marketing. In a long-awaited decision, the court ruled 6-3 on June 29 that the practice of including race in admissions decisions violated the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause, in effect striking down four-and-a-half decades of legal precedent allowing
institutions to consider race as one of the many factors in their admissions decision-making. The court was ruling in a case brought by the plaintiff Students for Fair Admission against Harvard University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Affirmative-action policies considering race emerged in the 1960s as a means to right the historical wrong
of segregation. In a 1978 decision, the court ruled colleges could use race as one of the factors to achieve educational benefits, but not to remedy past discrimination. The decision has many college officials across the country fearing this will shift the way many admissions offices access students and will likely change dramatically the racial and JUMP TO PAGE 2 “ADMISSIONS”
Project Helios: Workspace to run on solar power Possibly before the fall semester is over, University of the Incarnate Word students might be plugging into an offgrid, solar-powered outdoor workspace on the Broadway Campus. That’s what planners for Project Helios – a project driven by students in the senior engineering capstone class over three semesters – are hoping for in a space between the AT&T Science Building, J.E. and L.E. Mabee Library, and the Administration Building. “The project is on track,” said Dr. Okan Caglayan, an associate professor of engineering, who has collaborated with Daniel Potter, UIW’s sustainability operations manager, in helping the students involved develop the concept, design and groundwork for Project Helios, which would be a first for the campus. In a joint report prepared for The Word magazine published by UIW’s Office of Communications and Brand
Marketing, the project was inspired by issues that grew out of the COVID-19 pandemic. At the beginning of the Spring 2022 semester, Broadway Campus students were required to go online for two weeks of virtual instruction. Many times, students were forced to be close to charging outlets to power their laptops while in their residence halls or hallways, and this did not always allow for social distancing. The problem with staying indoors during the pandemic was the potential likelihood of disease transmission. The idea was born of having a sheltered outdoor workspace with charging capability that would lower transmission risk and do so using renewable energy. In addition, such a workspace would help raise awareness around campus about green energy and the commitment the City of San Antonio has made to diversifying energy sources. JUMP TO PAGE 2 “HELIOS”
Project Helios will allow students to plug in outside at its solar-powered workspace.
Peace Prize winner to discuss Indigenous peoples’ rights
A Nobel Peace Prize winner will be speaking Wednesday, Oct. 4, for the second Leaders of the Americas Speakers Series at the University of the Incarnate Word. Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú Tum will be speaking in Diana Benneck Concert Hall. Her presentation also will be livestreamed. “(She) is “one of the most important champions of native peoples’ rights in the modern history of the Americas,” said Dr. Rafael Hoyle, director of UIW’s
Liza and Jack Lewis Center of the Americas. The center created the speaker series to allow the UIW community, students, faculty and staff to hear from leaders and dignitaries who have impacted society through their life work, said Hoyle, who brought in ex-Mexican President Vincente Fox to kick off the series last fall with a presentation on immigration issues. “The opportunity to bring Rigoberta Menchú to our campus is special and
timely for so many reasons,” Hoyle said. “First of all, her lifelong dedication to service and her defense of human rights align directly Rigoberta Menchu Tum with the work that UIW’s founders -- the Sisters of Charity of the Incarnate Word -- have advanced for
decades in Indigenous villages and communities of the Americas. Our founders inspired UIW’s tradition of international service programming.” Hoyle pointed out that two UIW faculty members – Sister Martha Ann Kirk, a longtime religious studies professor, and Dr. Beth Senne-Duff, an associate professor of nutrition -- led some students on a mission in May to Menchu’s native Guatemala in collaboration with an agency co-founded by JUMP TO PAGE 2 “NOBEL WINNER”