After dropping the first two games in a three-game series against the LSU-Alexandria (LSUA) Generals, OLLU baseball got big plays from its seniors on seniors’ day, winning the third game.
After the series, the Saints drop to 21-24 on the season, including 11-11 in the Red River Athletic Conference (RRAC). LSUA improves to 30-17 and 19-5 in conference, which is good enough for first in the RRACÂ standings. Read full story online.
In the last doubleheaders of the regular season, the OLLU softball team dropped three of four to the University of Houston-Victoria (UHV).
The Saints finish the regular season with an overall record of 22-20 and Red River Athletic Conference record of 14-12. Â UHV improves to 30-17 overall and 21-6 in conference.
Head Coach James Kling commented, “We had a tough weekend at UHV. We will now prepare for the conference tournament and hopefully play well there.” Read full story online.
Antonio Ruiz-Camacho, OLLU’s spring 2017 Visiting Writer, will hold a reading on Wednesday, April 26, at 7 p.m. in Providence Hall, West Social Room.
Born and raised in Toluca, Mexico, Antonio Ruiz-Camacho moved to the United States at the age of 31 and began to write in English at 35. His debut collection “Barefoot Dog” (Scribner) won the Jesse H. Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction and was a Fiction Finalist for the Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards. It was also named a Kirkus Reviews “Best Book of 2015,” a “Recommended Book of 2015” by the San Francisco Chronicle, topped the list of “five books you should know about” from PRI’s The Word and made the list of five favorites from the “Texas Observer.” The book has also been published in Spanish with translations completed by Ruiz-Camacho.
His work has appeared in “The New York Times,” “Salon,” “Texas Monthly,” and elsewhere. He earned his MFA from the University of Texas at Austin’s New Writer’s Project, and has been writer-in-residence at Elisaet Ney Museum and a fellow at the JSK Journalism Program at Stanford, the Dobie Paisano Program, Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, Sewanee Writer’s Conference and Yaddo.
The mobile digital mammography bus will be on campus Wednesday, May 3. The bus will be located outside of the UWAC from 8:30 a.m.-12 p.m. Appointments are recommended. Register online at www.healthyUexpress.com.
For more information, call 210-358-7020.
View flier for more information in preparing for the screening.
Students from OLLU’s CISS program participated in the 22nd Annual Association of Technology Professional (AITP) National Collegiate Conference. The conference provided students with the opportunity to compete in several contests as well as network with professionals from various companies from across the country.
Students competed in the following contests:
Additionally, all 10 students who attempted the Institute for the Certification of Computing Professionals (ICCP) Information System Analyst Certification exams passed and many of them mastered the tests. Students Janina Peterson and Vivek Joseph have the second and third best averages respectively among all students who took the exams.
The Human Resources Office will be providing training sessions on completing annual staff performance evaluations on the following dates and times:
Training sessions are open to employees and supervisors. Learning objectives include:
To RSVP for a training session, email hrteam@ollusa.edu with the training date you will be attending. For more information, contact Human Resources at 210-434-6711, ext. 3970.
The baseball team survived a brief scare in the first game of a four-game series against the Texas College (TXC) Steers, then went on to sweep the conference series, winning 8-1, 17-5, 12-2 and 11-0. OLLU got strong performances from its pitching staff and a dominant performance from Orlando Collado to improve to 20-22 on the season, including 10-9 in conference. TXC drops to 11-32 and 4-18 in conference. The Saints will play their last homes games of the season on Friday and Saturday.
Alex Sattley won his second consecutive Red River Athletic Conference (RRAC) Field Athlete of the Week award for his performances on the week of April 3-9. Last week, Sattley led the Saints in a successful meet at the Seventh Annual Cardinal Invite hosted by the University of the Incarnate Word, earning a first-place finish in the high jump with a 1.90m mark and setting an OLLU record in the triple jump with his mark of 13.72m, finishing second. Sattley also competed in the long jump, placing 10th with a distance of 6.24m. The week before, Sattley set school records in the high jump and long jump, earning the field athlete of the week award for March 27-April 2. This is Sattley’s third weekly award this season, earning his first one for March 13-19, and fourth overall, taking the award for March 27-April 3 in 2016.
All OLLU students enrolled in seven or more credit hours will be required to maintain health insurance for the 2017-2018 academic year. The health insurance policy must be a hospitalization, illness and accident policy.
Once students register for classes, they will automatically be enrolled in OLLU’s student health insurance plan, provided by Consolidated Health Plans. The policy fee will be reflected on the student’s bill. Students who currently have health insurance, or are on their parent’s health insurance, will have the opportunity to submit a waiver to have the fee removed after registration.
Note: This policy does not apply to students taking 100 percent online classes.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS: All international students are required to maintain the OLLU health insurance provided by Consolidated Health Plans. Per Our Lady of the Lake University policy, international students are not allowed to waive coverage. As such, the health insurance policy fee cannot be removed from an international student’s bill.
How to Waive the Student Health Insurance
Students who wish to waive the health insurance provided by Consolidated Health Plans can begin the process 24 hours after registering for classes. To begin the process:
If the waiver is approved, the fee will be removed from the student’s bill.
Note: Please allow five business days from notification of the waiver approval for the health insurance fee to be removed from the bill.
To learn more about the Consolidated Health Insurance plan, visit www.chpstudent.com and read more about the master policy. Use the drop down menu and select “Our Lady of the Lake University –Texas Campus” to get started.
Earlier this month, the OLLU vOLLUnteer Unity Council hosted its 18th annual vOLLUnteer Impact Day. More than 90 students volunteered at various nonprofit agencies on the West Side of San Antonio. Services provided during the day included cleaning and making Fiesta decorations with the residents at Salvation Army; sorting clothes and items for the food pantry at the Guadalupe Community Center; washing mats at Haven for Hope; painting rooms and hallways at American Sunrise; and assisting with the Easter egg hunts and kids activities during OLLU’s Easter Extravaganza.
For more information, or to participate in future volunteer projects, visit the Center for Service-Learning and Volunteerism (CSLV) in Worden School, Room 23 or contact them at vuc@ollusa.edu or 210-431-3990.
