WHERE NEWS HAPPENS IN WEST TEXAS
Moldy Dorms at SRSU
By Maya Tinajero, Skyline Reporter
ALPINE – Walking through Lobo Village two dormitory lately requires residents to dodge areas blocked by paper sheets and tape where there used to be walls.
New Cafe, ‘Vise Coffee’ Opens in Alpine
ALPINE - Just as this school year at Sul Ross began percolating, so did a new coffee shop in town.
El Futuro es Brillante para los Deportistas de Sul Ross al Ingresar a la Era DII
Por Dawson Beard, Editor de Skyline
ALPINE - Con el inicio del primer juego de la temporada de fútbol de 2024 el 29 de agosto, la Universidad Estatal de Sul Ross lanzó oficialmente la era de la División II de Atletismo. La nueva era trajo oportunidades y ayuda a los estudiantes deportistas de esta universidad que antes no habrían estado disponibles en la División III, también trajo nuevos rostros al mando de varios programas.
Texas Judiciary Partnership with Sul Ross State University
By Gisselle Rueda, Skyline Reporter
ALPINE – In a unique collaboration between the Texas criminal justice system and Sul Ross State University, the Court of Criminal appeals will relocate to the Alpine campus to hear oral arguments in two high-profile murder cases.
The Future is Bright for Sul Ross Athletics Entering the DII Era
By Dawson Beard, Skyline Editor
ALPINE - With the opening kickoff of the first game of the 2024 football season Aug. 29, Sul Ross State University officially launched the Division II era of Athletics. This era brings with it a bevy of new opportunities and aid for Sul Ross student-athletes that were not available to them in Division III, along with some new faces at the helm of various programs.
Skyline Desk Chief Dawson Beard Announces for National Softball Tournament
By Brooke Manuel, Skyline Editor
ALPINE – Dawson Beard, a Sul Ross State University senior and Skyline Desk Chief, was hired as the Public Address Announcer for the 2024 NCAA Division III Softball National Championship in Marshall, Texas.
Border Dispute: What You Need to Know
By Viviana Sanchez, Skyline Reporter
ALPINE - Sul Ross State University’s Rio Grande Campus in Eagle Pass, Texas, currently bears witness to a state and federal confrontation at the Texas-Mexico border.
El Diario de Sul Ross Launching Fall of 2024
By Brooke Manuel, Skyline Editor
ALPINE – Sul Ross State University will be launching El Diario de Sul Ross, a Spanish version of The Skyline, during the Fall 2024 semester.
Sul Ross State University Teams Up with the University of Córdoba
By Brooke Manuel, Skyline Editor, and Gisselle Rueda, Skyline Reporter
ALPINE – Two Sul Ross State University faculty members and 13 students are traveling to Spain in May to kick off the collaboration between Sul Ross and the University of Córdoba that was made official in November of 2023.
Sul Ross Skyline Brings Home Four Statewide Awards
San Marcos – Sul Ross State University’s student newspaper, the Skyline, won four prestigious awards at the 2024 Texas Intercollegiate Press Association (TIPA) Convention, twice the number awarded at last year’s convention.
Retention At Sul Ross
By Viviana Sanchez, Skyline Reporter
ALPINE - Sul Ross State University has launched a new program aimed at improving retention called Connecting Students for Success.
US TikTok Ban: What You Need to Know
By Dawson Beard, Skyline Desk Chief
ALPINE - To the dismay of social media influencers and young adult media consumers across the nation, TikTok may finally be meeting its end in the United States as the House of Representatives has voted to ban the app in a decisive 352-65 vote.
Enrollment Continues To Increase at Sul Ross
By Viviana Sanchez, Skyline Reporter
ALPINE – Sul Ross State University’s impending transition to Division II sports, marketing efforts in El Paso, Midland and Odessa, the growth of online master’s programs, dual-credit partnerships, and improved financial aid counseling have boosted the university’s enrollment by almost 40%, university officials said.
SRSU Music Professor Nicolas Hurt Releases Album
By Brooke Manuel, Skyline Editor
ALPINE – More than a month after a screening of his short film, “Serenade, I Miss You,” at the Museum of the Big Bend, Nicolas Hurt, a music professor at Sul Ross State University, released the film’s companion album of the same title on March 15, 2024.
Skyline Editor Brooke Manuel Sparks A Movement
By Dawson Beard, Skyline Desk Chief
ALPINE – It was Oct. 31, 2023, and McNair Scholar Brooke Manuel was getting ready to speak on a panel over the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman crisis in front of an eager Atlanta audience. Among the sea of faces in the crowd was Kathe Lehman-Meyer, a communications professor at St. Mary’s University, who, like everyone else in attendance, is deeply passionate about the subject. However, it was as Manuel presented her three-part series written as a McNair Scholar and published in the Sul Ross Skyline, “America’s Shame: The Silent Tragedy of Indigenous Women,” that passion turned into action.
Double, Double Toil and Trouble: Witches Make Their Way to Sul Ross
By Brooke Manuel, Skyline Editor
ALPINE – In alignment with the return of witches and witchcraft in contemporary American culture, Rosemary Briseño is now teaching a Witches and Witchcraft in American Literature course at Sul Ross State University.
SRSU Writer-In-Residence Sidney Balman Jr. Nominated for Prestigious Award
By Dawson Beard, Skyline Desk Chief
ALPINE - Sul Ross State University’s writer-in-residence, Sidney Balman Jr., was nominated for the fiction category of the 34th annual Reading the West Book award for the final installment in his “Seventh Flag” trilogy, “Algorithms.”
SRSU Spent $2 Million On Real Estate In Alpine
By Ryan Weyl, Skyline Reporter
ALPINE - Sul Ross State University recently acquired two buildings off campus in the heart of Alpine but plans for future use of the properties remain a mystery.
BREAKING NEWS: COVID and Flu Outbreak in the Trans Pecos Region
By Viviana Sanchez, Skyline Reporter
ALPINE - As students have settled into their classes for the spring semester, the seasonal cold, the flu and COVID have settled in with them.
Recreational Program Creates Women’s Only Gym Hours
By Gisselle Rueda, Skyline Reporter
ALPINE - Sul Ross State University’s department of recreational programs has implemented two women’s only weight room programs to provide a more comfortable space for women to workout.