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Volume 59, Issue 10  - October 30, 2006

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Elizabeth A. Perez/Collegian

Playmaker Danny Lucio flags Thundercat Jorge Ochoa during Wednesday's flag football game at Scorpion Field. The Playmakers won the game, 32-18.

Hear steps behind you?  You're not   alone
By Graciela Salazar
Staff Writer

A ghost is an unexplained presence that’s not human.

This is what John B. Hawthorne, special collections archivist for the Arnulfo L. Oliveira Memorial Library, said Thursday at the Gazebos during a discussion and book signing for “The Ghosts of Fort Brown” to a group of students.

“I thought it was very informative,” freshman education major Michael Aldape said during the presentation. “I thought it was really interesting to hear about the history of the school, and things that people have … experienced.”

 "The Ghosts of Fort Brown and Beyond" is the third volume of stories people tell about experiences on campus and in the Valley. Hawthorne compiled the stories.

Hawthorne finds the repetition of stories the most intriguing.                                                          
 
                                                      
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 Front Page

- Early closing of SET-B discussed at SGA meeting
- ATM in the Union to be reconnected
 

 On Campus

Luis F. Peña/Collegian

Engineering Professor Guillermo Weber (right) shows off the $40,000 centrifuge UTB/TSC received under a new partnership with Lockheed Martin, which designs and manufactures advanced technology systems. The university will use the machine in engineering courses to design, calibrate and test micro-electro-mechanical systems, according to a news release from the News & Information Office. Shown with Weber during the Oct. 23 unveiling are Eric Fox (from left), senior director of government relations for Lockheed Martin; Mario A. Ramirez, manager of Lockheed’s small business innovative research/mentor protégé program; and U.S. Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-Texas).

- New phone system expected in '07
- Briefs
- Candidates discuss economic development, tax rates
- Professor of the Month
- Shall we dance?
- County judge votes on campus
- UTB/TSC grad working for Smithsonian
- Art professor to discuss work
- Engineering students attend Dallas seminar
- Campus to host collegiate chess tournament
- Junior college graduated first class in 1928
- Scholarships
- Club Spotlight
- Police Reports






 

 Viewpoint

 Noticias en Español

- A complicated dish of charm,
   intelligence and know-how
- Viewpoint cartoon

- Graduada trabaja para museo Smithsonian
- Estudiante de Hoy
- Primeros auxilios

 Sports

- Scorpions prepare to finish season on winning note
- Golf team 11th in tourney
- Getting flagged
- Flag Football Results

 Arts & Entertainment

- Fall-ing for fashion
- Art for a cause
- Bachelor of the Week


 


 





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