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By David Leffler
NEWS
Students looking to pursue a graduate business education at UT may have to look beyond the iconic Red McCombs School of Business on 21st Street and Speed-
UT is taking measures to accommodate one of the largest freshman classes on record
16 SPORTS
How David Ash is adjusting to being Texas’ new quarterback
24 LIFE & ARTS
The top 10 freshman mistakes (and how to recover from them)
4 OPINION
A column published in 1957 offers advice to today’s freshman
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Today in history In 1859
Edwin L. Drake became the first to drill for oil in the U.S., near Titusville, Pa.
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Quote to note “We’re still going to be focused on getting more students, particularly African-American and Latino students, to college. We’re going to continue to tell the Texas Legislature to give more financial aid for these poor students. For us, it’s business as usual.” — Dominic Chavez
spokesman for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board
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way. To be specific, they may only have to walk a few extra blocks to get to the glossy new building dedicated to graduate students. In its August meeting, the UT System Board of Regents approved plans for an estimated $155 million to spend
on a new building, parking garage and an expansion of the AT&T Conference Center to be completed by February 2017. The new building falls under the System’s Capital Improvement Program, an initiative to enhance and renovate UT System facili-
ties. It will specifically house the Master in Business Administration program. According to the board’s Facilities Planning and Construction Committee proposal, they hope the new building helps attract professionals returning to school to
get their degrees. In addition, the proposal also emphasized a separation between business undergraduate and graduate students. “The mixture of professional graduate students with
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ACL doubles up next year CITY
By Joan Vinson
Austin City Council approved the extension of ACL Aug. 16 after C3 Presents, the entertainment planning company that produces ACL, and the City of Austin finalized negotiations. The expansion will bring ACL to Austin for two weeks beginning next year. Holding ACL for two weekends will give more students the chance to attend the TX-OU game, allow for greater sales opportunities for Austin businesses and give pedicab drivers an extra weekend to take advantage of the flux of people in need of rides. “We are pleased that the Austin City Council passed the resolution to negotiate a new contract for the rental of Zilker Park for the Austin City Limits Music Festival,” C3 Presents spokesperson Sandee Fenton said. According to a 2011 KXAN news story, ACL rakes in more than $73 million in visitor spending and total economic impact for Austin, so many expect the extra weekend will increase this number. The extended ACL will operate exactly like traditional festivals, giving some people a
Thomas Allison | Daily Texan file photo A Audience members cheer for TV On The Radio Saturday afternoon at the Austin City Limits festival.
second chance to attend. The TX-OU football game is taking place Saturday, Oct. 13 this year, right in the middle of the ACL festival — students and football fans will have to
choose between the two. Although students have the opportunity to attend both the game and the festival, psychology junior Paige Schutze said the price of each ticket might
hold them back. “Both the TX-OU game and ACL are expensive, so I think students will still end up having to make a choice between the two events,” Schutze said.
Advertising junior and pedicab driver Colby Belcher said ACL is probably the busiest time in Austin for pedicab
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STATE
West Nile strikes in Texas By Sarah Kuta
Associated Press
DALLAS (AP) — Communities across North Texas are boosting efforts to educate people about the West Nile virus as health officials await results of a weeklong aerial assault on a mosquito population that has put Texas at the center of a nationwide outbreak.
Workers in Dallas are passing through neighborhoods to hand out educational materials, drain standing water and apply larvicide to puddles. Other suburban communities are providing tablets to kill mosquito larvae and using automated phone messages and social media to spread word about the mosquito-borne illness. The strategies were imple-
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mented this summer as the virus has infected hundreds of people and killed more than 20 others across Texas — more West Nile deaths than all other years combined. The Dallas County area has been the hardest hit, with about 300 falling ill and the death count around a dozen. The illnesses prompted
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LM Otero | Associated Press Mosquitos are sorted at the Dallas County mosquito lab in Dallas, Thursday, Aug. 16.
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Hispanic business face UT on track for medical schools challenges, survey says By David Leffler
By Alex Raisch A new survey by the McCombs School of Business has identified specific challenges faced by Hispanic business owners in Texas. The study was performed by mail-in survey to Hispanic businesses in Texas between July 2011 and August 2012. The survey was done to benefit the Texas Association of Mexican American Chambers of Commerce and was presented to them Aug. 17 at a conference in San Antonio. Renee Hopkins, a spokeswoman for the McCombs School of Business, said the ultimate goal of the study was to identify how to help expand the employment opportunities
Hispanic businesses offer. “The reason we did the study is because Hispanicowned businesses play such a large part in the Texas economy, and to help that demographic create more employment in the state we had to understand it’s challenges,” Hopkins said. One of the main challenges the study identified was that while many of these business owners have education beyond high school, their employees do not have sufficient training to perform their duties. 24 percent of respondents indicated a need for team leadership training, and 16 percent indicated a
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Although plans for UT medical schools in Austin and South Texas are being carried out simultaneously, each comes with its own set of questions. The UT System Board of Regents announced plans for a new medical school in South Texas Aug. 17. These plans come three months after the board announced support for a UT-Austin medical school. Although they are being created simultaneously, the Austin program and the South Texas program are not identical, differing in areas such as their funding, infrastructure and expected completion date. UT System spokesman Anthony de Bruyn said the two medical schools differ in their funding and scope.
“These are two independent programs. The school in Austin is directly linked to UT-Austin, a tier-one research university,” de Bruyn said. “The other is very regional in its scope. Both incorporate very different approaches.” Long-term funding for both institutions has not been set in stone. While there is some uncertainty regarding how both programs will be fully funded long term, De Bruyn said a large portion of revenue for each school will come from their surrounding economies. The UT System has pledged to fund $30 million annually to cover operating costs for a UT-Austin medical school. In South Texas, the system is relying on existing UT and state resources. “Along with the UT System and the state of Texas, a large
percentage of the funding for the medical programs will come from both commercial and private sources in their respective areas,” he said. The Seton Healthcare Family, a Central Texas health care provider, has pledged $250 million for a new teaching hospital in Austin to replace University Medical Center Brackenridge, a public teaching hospital. The health care provider already has a relationship with UT and currently funds 200 UT-Southwestern Medical Center residents along with hundreds of UT medical faculty members. At a conference earlier this month, UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa said the infrastructure for the South Texas medical school will come from existing UT facilities and other
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