Volume 19, No. 7, Oct. 9,1989
McCombs to speak
on Wednesday
San Antonio Spurs owner and well-
known businessman B.J. "Red"
McCombs will speak on campus as the
College of Business guest professor on
Wednesday, Oct. 11. All students, faculty and staff are invited to attend his
lecture, which will begin at 11 a.m. in
HB 2.01.12.
McCombs, who first began his career
in the 1950s in Corpus Christi, is more
commonly associated with his automobile dealership. But his diversified business interests range from real estate and
oil and gas to broadcasting and ranching.
He was responsible for securing a National Basketball Association franchise
for the San Antonio Spurs, which he
now owns, and was once sole owner of
the Denver Nuggets from 1982 through
1985.
Services available to
ASCE chapter members who constructed the first-place bridge are (standing, from left) Tim
Flores, Shawn Franke, Alan Bast, and (kneeling, from left) Salvador Torress, faculty member
Dr. Alberto Arroyo and Ben Marshall.
improve study skills     Engineering students take
first place at competition
UTSA students are invited to take advantage of a new Study Skills Monitoring Program offered cooperatively by
the Tomas Rivera Office of Student Information and Retention and the Campus Ministry program.
The program will begin the second
week in October and will be held on
Mondays from 2-3 p.m. and Tuesdays
from 10-11 a.m.
Dr. Norma Guerra and Dr. David
Semrad will facilitate the weekly sessions, and Becoming a Master Student by
David Ellis will be provided for use as a
text at no charge to students.
Interested students may sign up in
JPL 1.01.05.
In six and a half minutes, civil engineering students from UTSA assembled
a steel bridge spanning an imaginary
river in Odessa Sept. 30.
The students won three of five first-
place awards in the competition, sponsored by the American Society of Civil
Engineers and the American Institute
for Steel Construction.
The UTSA team took first place overall, beating out UT Austin, Texas Tech
University, UT El Paso and UT Arlington. The UTSA team won first place in
fastest erection, lightest bridge and lowest-cost bridge.
The bridge was designed and built as
part of a competition among student
chapters of the ASCE from across the
state.
The first of its kind to take place in
Texas, the competition required that
students build a one-tenth scale model
of a bridge spanning 200 feet, made entirely of steel.
The contest's categories were: fastest
erection, lightest bridge, lowest cost
bridge, highest capacity bridge, and
highest capacity to weight ratio.
(See Bridge on page 2)