“It’s tough to, you know, stay above a 3.0 (GPA),” Faulds said. “There’s very significant challenges. You’re basically working two full-time jobs. Professors on campus do a really good job of working with our student athletes to keep them successful, especially in the springtime.”

“Witnessing our players’ annual academic success is one of the most gratifying aspects of collegiate coaching,” women’s soccer coach Nick Cowell said. “I congratulate them on their dedication, time management and focus, and balancing their college lives where there are many potential distractions.”

“I try not to let it consume me because I know that there’s more to life than just getting good grades and things like that,” senior softball player and communication major Maddy Larson said. “I don’t even know how we do it to be honest. As long as I know that I gave it my best effort and really applied myself, I’m going to be happy with the outcome no matter what it is.”

Next fall semester he is going to be part of the returning NCAA St. Edward’s soccer team.

DAY IN THE LIFE: Freshman exchange student pursues passion for soccer in the U.S.

Lone Star Conference recognizes NCAA student-athletes with high GPAs

The Chiefs won the championship with a field goal in the remaining seconds of the game for a 38 to 35 score.

On Sunday, February 12, 2023,

St. Edward’s men’s basketball team fell to fourth in the standings for the Lone Star Conference with a 14-7 record.  The team has one more regular-season game before playing the LSC Tournament.

The St. Edward’s women’s basketball team is now placed eighth in the Lone Star Conference. They need to win the next and final regular-season game against St. Mary’s in order to clinch a position in the LSC Tournament.

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“We just had a great offensive stride going on in the first quarter, and I think that just really boosted our confidence for the rest of the game,” junior Ronnie Cantu said.

With a 13-point lead, the Hilltoppers came out with a valuable 74-61 victory from the Battle of the Saints against the St. Mary’s Rattlers on Tuesday, Feb. 21.

Junior Lauren Catherman jumps for the rim, adding two points to her dominant 15 point night.

“We competed, but at this time of the year, it’s not about competing. We need to win,” Head Coach Andre Cook said.

Graduate student Uche Dibiamaka goes face to face against the Rattlers' highest scorer of the night, Caleb Jordan.

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The Hilltoppers lost 79-76 to the St. Mary Rattlers in a hard fought Battle of the Saints on Tuesday, Feb. 21.

Sophomore Blake Nielsen

GAME DAY: Play twice, win twice! Softball team plays Eastern New Mexico University

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anchored the Hilltoppers pitching staff for the past couple of years

senior from Arizona

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Despite its amazing in-car experience, the lack of transparency in pricing and the wait time for a ride makes the experience less than ideal.

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Hall of Fame: An insider to the 95th Academy Awards Nominations, predictions regarding potential winners

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In  2020 alone, a total of $30 billion was lost from revenue and live event cancellations

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Sundays are for drag: An inside look at one of the many weekend drag shows showcased in Austin

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Ranking best picture nominees from the 95th Oscars

tell you which you should watch and which ones you can just pretend you’ve seen.

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thematic symbolism and graphic scenes of violence and mayhem to accompany it

role as Leonard in “Knock at the Cabin” is by far the best performance of his career

even the camera techniques used were unique in their own right in respect to the film

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Students can find more information about Blue Rhythmic Dance on Instagram @bluerhythmicdance and CollegiateLink.

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Polachek opens up her album with “Welcome To My Island,” a mix of classic pop sounds paired with operatic vocals. This is the ultimate track one and a great way to start the album, as it perfectly braces your mind and your ears for what is to come. The bratty lyrics paint a picture of a woman who knows what she wants and how to get it with the chorus repeating “Welcome to my island / Hope you like me / You ain’t leaving.”

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“Yeah, I’ve been to this area before, but I never knew it existed,” Rogelio said to me as I drove through the bumpy and rugged road. I smiled in excitement, the people I bring here always say the same thing. You know that feeling when you have a favorite place or food item you absolutely love, and whenever you show another person, you get antsy to see their reaction to it? Well, that is quite possibly my favorite feeling when I bring people to Seoulju.

I would like to mention the one con about Seoulju is their wait times. We planned to arrive as soon as they opened so we could be one of the first names on the Yelp iPad you sign in with. Unfortunately, our 7:38 p.m. arrival had us waiting for 1 hour and 10 minutes.

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dragging exposition, a confusing plot line — which I was only able to follow because I went in knowing what would happen — was slowly introduced. Seemingly unnecessary shots kept us on edge, sure, but it also left room for disappointment, as it never truly followed through with anything it introduced.

The film is set in the mid-90s, so the sound of vintage cartoons often flows throughout the movie as the children continue to find refuge in front of an old-fashioned TV in a space they’ve deemed “safe.” On top of that, a sort of witty take on the sound design comes from the production’s use of Foley, a post-production feature that involves added sound effects. In “Skinamarink,” Foley is clearly used to emphasize the small footsteps made in the carpeted house from the children and each flick on and off of the light switches. It’s one small element that enhances the viewing experience, though not enough to make it revolutionary.

it didn’t make up for the fact that “Skinamarink” fell short of everything it has been praised for.

it is the fault of “Godspell” having little plot as a musical

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“People keep asking me why — because we’ve had ice storms before — this one seems to be so much worse than really anything Austin’s ever seen,” Johnson said. “I can’t say for certain, but I feel pretty confident in saying we’ve had so many back-to-back-to-back disturbances between freezes and droughts that you get stress fractures we maybe don’t necessarily see or detect. Those failures show in a situation like this.”

The recent ice storm that affected Austin in late January and early February was one of the worst storms in the area in the last 15 years.

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“They’re expanding [I-35] towards St. Ed’s,” student volunteer Spencer Lynden said. “We would be able to hear 20 lanes of traffic from our campus.”

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Weekly SGA senate brief: Feb. 15, 2023

March 3 at 12:30 p.m. on Zoom

Senate members gather at the meeting, taking notes of their own

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Students introduces American Marketing Association, host first meeting

some of us aren’t going to get it.”

“It’s an accomplishment for the graduate, and their families should be able to celebrate with them,”

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According to Shah, because St. Edward’s is a Catholic campus, the PHE could not pass out condoms directly to the students because of Catholic restrictions on contraceptives, but RecWell was still able to educate students on their use.

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PHE Paula Sweeny said. “It’s the National College Health Assessment,

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Van Dyne spoke about how sitting in the sun for approximately three hours would exacerbate her seizure disorder and put her health at risk, and that guests, like Van Dyne’s grandmother, would be unable to attend because of the lack of accessibility to the soccer field

A tradition of the university is to avoid walking on the seal. According to superstitious students, stepping on the seal means not being able to graduate. One senior, Bri Boughter, danced to the beat of the drums on the seal to challenge the university’s tradition at the protest.

The wind and cold temperatures made it difficult for the demonstrators to keep standing and drumming at the seal, leading the protest to lose steam approximately an hour after its commencement.

A week ago, St. Edward’s University students protested this semester’s graduation ceremony by gathering at the university’s seal for approximately an hour. Discontent first spread among the senior class when university administration sent notice that their graduation

commencement ceremony would be held on the soccer field.

Upperclassmen protest graduation plans over the seal, spark more conversations

From Greene’s perspective, that’s the big win—not just to fix kids’ behavior problems, but to set them up for success on their own. Too many educators, he believes, fixate on a child’s problems outside of school walls—a turbulent home, a violent neighborhood—rather than focus on the difference the school can make.

His mom, Rachel Wakefield, told me later that CPS had trained Will to be able to talk about frustrating situations and advocate for himself.

Now in fifth grade, he’d made friends at his new school and was proudly riding the bus—something he couldn’t handle before.

Maine’s second juvenile detention facility, Mountain View, also adopted Greene’s method, with similar results. Incidents that resulted in injury, confinement, or restraint dropped nearly two-thirds between April 2004 and April 2008.

But remarkably, the relationships changed. Kids began to see the staff as their allies, and the staff no longer felt like their adversaries. The violent outbursts waned. There were fewer disciplinary write-ups and fewer injuries to kids or staff. And once they got out, the kids were far better at not getting locked up again: Long Creek’s one-year recidivism rate plummeted from 75 percent in 1999 to 33 percent in 2012. “The senior staff that resisted us the most,” Bouffard told me, “would come back to me and say, ‘I wish we had done this sooner. I don’t have the bruises, my muscles aren’t strained from wrestling, and I really feel I accomplished something.'”

It wasn’t hard to see why: Instead of restraining and isolating a kid who, say, flipped over a desk, staffers were now expected to talk with him about his frustrations. The staff began to ignore curses dropped in a classroom and would speak to the kid later, in private, so as not to challenge him in front of his peers.

A subsequent five-year clinical trial at Virginia Tech involving 134 children aged 7 to 14 validated the method as an effective way to treat kids with oppositional defiant disorder.

Children can actually reshape their brains when they learn and practice skills. What’s more, Dweck and other researchers demonstrated that when students are told this is so, both their motivation and achievement levels leap forward. “It was all sitting there waiting to be woven together,” Greene says. He began coaching parents to focus on building up their children’s problem-solving skills. It seemed to work.

Will’s breakthrough session happened in first grade, after several failed attempts, when D’Aran, then a guidance counselor, and his teacher sat down with him. He’d been refusing to participate in writing lessons with his classmates. Over 45 minutes, they coaxed Will through the initial moans and “I don’t knows” and finally landed on a solution: Will said if he could use lined paper that also had a space to draw a picture, it would be easier to get started writing. Before long, he was tackling writing assignments without a problem.

This all requires a dramatic change in mindset and workflow. Central School diverted building improvement funds to divide one classroom into two spaces. One side was called the “Learning Center”—a quiet spot for kids to take a break, maybe have a snack, and problem solve before going back into the classroom. The other area became a resource room. The school also committed to 20 weeks of teacher training, with an hour of coaching each week from Greene’s trainer via Skype.

CPS method hinges on training school (or prison or psych clinic) staff to nurture strong relationships

During the 2009-10 school year, kids were referred to the principal’s office for discipline 146 times, and two were suspended. Two years later, the number of referrals was down to 45, with zero suspensions, all thanks to focusing more on “meeting the child’s needs and solving problems instead of controlling behavior,” principal Nina D’Aran told me. “That’s a big shift.”

Out on the playground, she approached the boy reassuringly, like a trained hostage negotiator. “Do whatever you need with the belt,” she told him gently. “Just keep it away from people.” Slowly, Will began to calm down. They walked over to some woods near the school, and she let him throw rocks into a stream, scream, and yell until, at last, he burst into tears in her arms. Then they talked and came up with a plan. The next time he felt frustrated or overwhelmed, Will would tell another staffer that he needed his helper. If Robinson were off campus, they would get her on the phone for him.

is one of a few hundred schools around the country giving Greene’s approach a test run—in this case with help from a $10,000 state anti-delinquency grant.

He explains that focusing on problem solving instead of punishment is now seen as key to successful discipline.

Under Greene’s philosophy, you’d no more punish a child for yelling out in class or jumping out of his seat repeatedly than you would if he bombed a spelling test. You’d talk with the kid to figure out the reasons for the outburst (was he worried he would forget what he wanted to say?), then brainstorm alternative strategies for the next time he felt that way. The goal is to get to the root of the problem, not to discipline a kid for the way his brain is wired.

His model was honed in children’s psychiatric clinics and battle-tested in state juvenile facilities, and in 2006 it formally made its way into a smattering of public and private schools.

The results thus far have been dramatic, with schools reporting drops as great as 80 percent in disciplinary referrals, suspensions, and incidents of peer aggression.

When PBIS works, it doesn't just improve the school environment; with positive behavior reinforcement, students typically feel better about themselves.

Whether in a school or detention center, Wallace says the PBIS model works best with the right leadership.

the school's PBIS system helps build trust among students and adults at school, too.

But despite PBIS' success at schools, scary events still sometimes occur. Sgt. Damon J. McDaniel of the Gulfport Police Department told the Jackson Free Press he couldn't remember the last time a student was violent at PBIS School North Gulfport 7th & 8th Grade School in the Harrison County School District—but that didn't stop a student from bringing a 22-caliber weapon, a mask, 100 rounds of ammunition and two magazines to school with him last month.

Dr. Margrit Wallace, executive director of student academics and behavioral support at Jackson Public Schools, says PBIS not only improves the social-emotional mindset of students, but also makes schools safer and more structured for everyone.

Instead, the district-wide PBIS, or positive behavior and instructional support model, has curbed behavioral issues at many JPS schools, and has even turned many of its elementary schools into model sites of positive behavior reinforcement. It can also keep young people from getting into worse trouble—like juvenile detention.

According to the program’s Spring 2020 report, in the approximately one-month trial run, SafeWalk SEU volunteers gave 74 rides and transported 98 riders. Their average response time was 2.89 minutes and the riders gave an average safety rating of 4.7 out of 5.

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the student-led program SafeWalk SEU has resumed escorted walks and golf cart rides to students, faculty and staff members around campus

Nov. 2

This is about the support of someone who threatens the lives of those around me, the ones he claims to care about

So while I think it’s important to love thy neighbor, I can’t be your friend. And no, I won’t come to your barbeque. Sure, I’ll wave when we both grab our newspapers, but I’ll make sure to make a donation under your name to the Biden/Harris campaign when I order my sign to counter yours in our adjoining yards. I know this election has been divisive (again), and I won’t antagonize you, but I don’t agree with you and I never will. 

But there is too much at stake with this election (again) for us to remain friends with people who are voting to actively remove protections for women, the LGBTQ+ community, and minorities.

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hammers another Trump sign into her perfectly manicured grass.

However, I can no longer entertain the opinions of those who continue to threaten the livelihood of those I love. 

During the 2016 election, I tried to remain close to my friends and family that planned to vote for Trump, hoping that in the end, our differing opinions would not affect our relationships.

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“I believe that if we can make relationships, listen and be willing to change, we can really do something special for the next generation.”

We sat down for a chat

Former Longhorn, NFL star Will Matthews on Black Lives Matter, sports’ role in invoking change

Cornelius Carter is hopeful for the “work in progress” when it comes to the American Dream and the experience of the African-American.

“I wanted to make a painting that was poetic and controversial at the same time,” Carter says in a video featured in the exhibit. “[Lady Liberty] wants to feed us equally from the beginning. She also gives us freedom, including the responsibility to learn, educate ourselves and make our way in the world.”

Local Austin exhibit explores balance between American dream, African-American experience

unprecedented times, which has become annoying to say and hear

Travis County breaks voter registration record, sees surge of early voters

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When it comes to St. Edward’s, professors have different outlooks when it comes to hate speech in their classes.

While free speech is one of our most important and basic human rights, it should not extend to promoting false information regarding significant historical events.

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What’s the backstory on the band? Like many millennial match ups, we found each other on a Facebook musicians forum for the Austin area. It was a long process and took a lot of patience to find our guys, but once the five of us were in the room together, there was no denying that there was something special there. Not only did we click musically, but our personalities really gelled and we all shared a common vision for where we wanted to take the band.

the Austin Roller Rink

Funded by a generous donation from Bill and Pat Munday, the library was renovated and reopened as the Munday Library.

A tornado wipes out portions of the main building and damages other buildings around campus.

Made from local limestone and designed by architect Nicholas J. Clayton, the iconic main building takes shape

student newspaper and baseball team

Father Edward Sorin, CSC, founded St. Edward’s Academy in Austin on land donated by Mrs. Mary Doyle. St. Edward's Academy in honor of his patron saint, Edward the Confessor and King.

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A Battery That Could Change The World

But if the battery performs as advertised

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