Melissa Greene

The 11th ranked University men’s golf team advances to the NCAA Golf Championship after winning the team’s first-ever American Southwest Conference Championship last week at Horseshoe Bay.

The ASC championship is the team’s seventh consecutive tournament win, a streak Head Coach King Campbell said is the second-longest in the nation.

“This is the best team I’ve ever had in terms of team unity and team chemistry. They are the hardest working young men I’ve ever had, and the best

The UT Tyler Longview University Center is open to all students, even those taking classes only in Tyler. Essentially the same services available at the Tyler campus are available in Longview, which can cut commuting time considerably.

LUC services include study rooms, recently installed wireless internet access and a library. John Williams, LUC director, an administrative staff and on-site faculty and support operate the LUC.

University administration is planning for the future guided by information gathered from students in last spring’s National Survey of Student Engagement.

While overall scores have steadily increased since the survey was first administered in 2001, this year’s benchmark report shows scores for the Enriching Educational Experiences section of the survey are slightly lower than those in the previous year.

The Enriching Educational Experiences section of the survey asked students how learning opportunities inside and outside the classroom contribute to their overall academic program.

Results of the National Survey of Student Engagement conducted last spring show a steady growth in student satisfaction levels since the survey was first offered in 2001, said Dr. Peter J. Fos, provost and vice president for academic affairs.

The survey is conducted each spring and is only open to freshmen and senior-level students in order to paint a fair picture of an overall collegiate experience, according to the survey’s Web site.

This year, 140 first-year and 465 senior-level students took the online survey, according to the data.

By themselves, the news stories I read were informative, but dull. It was the order I read them in that set me off.

The first story focused on Army Sgt. Kristofer Goldsmith’s struggles with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, an anxiety disorder that often occurs after experiencing a traumatic event. Depression almost always accompanies PTSD.

In January 2005, Goldsmith was stationed in Sadr City, assigned to document the Iraqi violence occurring at that time.

It’s only a few hours before that writing assignment is due, but every sentence making it onto the screen sounds too much like a third-grade book report. Anything longer than three sentences makes no sense at all. The flow of creativity has dried up and the brain is burned out. Frustration mounts. No amount of coffee can help.

Blame yourself. Blame the professor. Blame the computer program that fails to write the assignment for you.

Engineering professor Mike McGinnis keeps a newspaper from 2007 in a file cabinet close by his desk.

Yellow marks highlight information he doesn’t want to forget, but he hopes he never sees again.

The front-page clip from The Tyler Morning Telegraph describes the results of an investigation into the deaths of Noonday firefighters Austin Cheek and Captain Kevin Williams.

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Evacuee shelters opened throughout Tyler for the second time this month to offer a safe haven for some of the nearly one million people in the path of Hurricane Ike.

The Patriot Center served as a shelter during Hurricane Gustav, but got a break during Ike. This time University nursing faculty and student assisted by preparing the Glass Recreational Center on North Broadway in Tyler as a special needs shelter, said Dr.

Dozens of black rectangles containing the names of Hurricane Gustav evacuees covered the dry erase board. Each small shape representing a life temporarily reduced to a cot in the Maytee Fisch Convocation Center.

Anne Viviano was served as Charge Nurse for the shelter.

“I make sure that all the patients that are here are really here, kept a list of them updated, and if somebody goes to the hospital I keep track of that,” she said.