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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)
Object Description
Title | Roadrunner |
Creator | University of Texas at San Antonio. Office of Communications |
Date-Original | 1989-10-09 |
Description | Internal faculty and staff newsletter of the University of Texas at San Antonio. Published weekly (except spring break); biweekly during summer sessions. |
Subject | University of Texas at San Antonio--Periodicals |
Publisher | University of Texas at San Antonio |
Type | text |
Format | jpeg |
Language | eng |
Finding Aid | http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utsa/00177/utsa-00177.html |
Rights | http://lib.utsa.edu/specialcollections/reproductions/copyright |
Volume | Volume 19 |
Issue | 7 |
Local Subject |
UTSA History UTSA Records Publishing, Press, Printing |
Collection | UTSA University Publications Collection |
Description
Title | Roadrunner |
Creator | University of Texas at San Antonio. Office of Communications |
Description | Internal faculty and staff newsletter of the University of Texas at San Antonio. Published weekly (except spring break); biweekly during summer sessions. |
Subject | University of Texas at San Antonio--Periodicals |
Publisher | University of Texas at San Antonio |
Type | text |
Format | jpeg |
Language | eng |
Finding Aid | http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/utsa/00177/utsa-00177.html |
Rights | http://lib.utsa.edu/specialcollections/reproductions/copyright |
Transcript | 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) |
Local Subject |
UTSA History UTSA Records Publishing, Press, Printing |
Collection | UTSA University Publications Collection |