“It’s like we’re all connected somehow.”įamilies, friends, and strangers replenish each cross with an endless supply of handwritten cards, bouquets, and stuffed animals. “Everybody knows a relative of everyone,” one local tells me. Uvalde’s identity is best understood by longtime residents, who agree that this is a small, quiet community - 15,000 people in all - bonded by time, proximity, and routine. Still, many families, even those here for decades, have held on to their roots, contributing to a culture that’s distinctly Mexican American. There’s an immigration checkpoint in town, but Uvalde isn’t a border town, as it’s often painted - it’s more than 60 miles from Piedras Negras, Mexico. The rest of the city is starting the day, too: Cars move up and down Main Street, a short strip dotted with a leafy park, an H-E-B grocery store, and an old-school soda fountain with a mural on the side of it, proudly honoring Uvaldeans like Oscar regular Matthew McConaughey and the Grammy-winning Tejano band Los Palominos. By the time he arrives in Uvalde, the sun has come up. Instead, he makes plans, deciding which song his kids might learn next or thinking through upcoming performances. The radio would be a distraction - it’s almost impossible for him to listen to anything without counting in time or wondering why an instrument wasn’t tuned more tightly. Martinez is a 50-year-old music teacher in Uvalde. 90, which starts near the Mexican border and ends in Florida, is infinitely dark and leaden, the tiny farms along the way covered in shadows. So if you really want to sample Greek life at IU, go to the IMU event and meet some people – I’m sure you’ll get invited to a few functions or at least get on an email list for rush events coming up.Every weekday at 5:30 a.m., while most of his San Antonio, Texas, neighborhood is still asleep, Albert Martinez gets into his silver Nissan Sentra and starts the drive to Uvalde, 70 miles to the west. I don’t know the exact date, but it should be listed somewhere. It is spring semester now, and there is an event in the IMU similar to Dunn Meadow (the fall recruitment ‘fair’) if you want a chance to meet/talk to brothers from every fraternity. I had fun on the team, and ended up rushing/pledging that spring. It’s really all about who you know – I picked my frat at IU because I played sports with a bunch of them as a freshman. Guys are definitely more limited than girls in terms of options, though. With guys, if you know someone in the house and try to rush, there’s a decent chance you’ll get a bid if you met enough people and made a decent impression on them. Girls have to do that whole annoying recruitment process before spring semester and rank houses, etc. I have to disagree with Leila – personally I think it’s easier for guys to get into frats than girls into sororities. Not worth the trouble – frats have to really watch themselves as IU continues to crackdown on the social part of Greek life. I wouldn’t bother going to a frat party at IU (and i’m in a frat) unless you know a brother who can get you in.
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