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Construction of a new welcome center for UT will begin this spring in the PCL. PA G E 2

Forum contributor Andrew Herrera points out the flaws in UT’s politics. PA G E 4

Put your art where your mouth is: Quadriplegic artist finds solace in painting. PA G E 5

Longhorns extend losing streak against Georgia as team readies for Kansas. PA G E 6

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Labor union hosts food drive, protests government shutdown

Thousands march at Capitol

By Tehya Rassman @tehyarassman

The sounds of blaring bull horns and protesters chanting in unison cut through the air Friday morning as Ed Sills, communications director of the Texas American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, and about 100 other people gathered outside U.S. Sen. John Cornyn’s office to protest the government shutdown. Around 12:30 p.m., Sills received a message saying the government had reopened after President Donald Trump agreed to sign a bill which would temporarily reopen the government. “First of all, the federal workers do not yet have their paychecks,” Sills said, recalling the event. “Second of all, it’s a three week deal, so there’s more to be done before we can really celebrate. But is it a victory? Certainly.” In addition to protesting the shutdown, Texas AFLCIO, a labor union dedicated to helping workers in Texas, hosted a food drive last week in conjunction with the Central Texas Food Bank to provide food for federal workers and to refill the food bank’s depleted stock. The food drive continued through Monday morning, despite the shutdown ending, because federal employees still have not received their paychecks after the 35-day shutdown, Sills said. “There have been many federal workers who work paycheck to paycheck, who have needed the extra assistance to get by,” Sills said. Paul Gaither, director of marketing and communications for Central Texas Food Bank, said that in a normal week without a

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jacob fraga | the daily texan staff Attendees of the Rally for Lives march to the Texas Capitol on Saturday afternoon. The rally was held to promote anti-abortion measures during the week of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.

Annual Rally for Life meets during anniversary of Roe v. Wade court case. By Lauren Grobe @LaurenGrobe

housands of anti-abortion supporters from around the state carried signs reading “Defund Planned

Parenthood” and chanted “We are pro-life” on the steps of the Texas Capitol on Saturday for the annual Texas Rally for Life. The Rally for Life is held to promote anti-abortion measures during the week of the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide. Joe Pojman, executive director of the Texas Alliance for Life, said the march raises awareness for alternatives to abortion such as adoption. “I think women need to know that there are alternatives to abortion, that they are the best alternatives for themselves and for their baby,” Pojman said. Speakers at the event also

drew attention to bills filed for the Texas legislative session that began on Jan. 8. Pojman said it was important to show representatives that voters support anti-abortion measures. In the 2017 session, the Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 8, which restricted second-trimester abortions and required the burial or cremation of fetal tissue. The law was struck down in September 2018 by U.S. District Judge David Alan Ezra. Pojman said the rally’s importance also extends to the young adults and children who were in attendance. “We have to keep people educated,” Pojman said. “I think we’re going to see that the

average age of this rally is very young, a huge number of people who are under 18.” Radio-television-film freshman Ariana Silva attended the rally with a group of students from the UT chapter of Young Conservatives of Texas. “It was really awesome to see that there were other students coming from the University,” Silva said. “But conservatives at UT are definitely in the minority.” Counterprotesters dressed as characters from Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale” stood in front of the gates leading to the Capitol. Texas Handmaid’s organizer Stephanie Martin said she sees parallels between present-day

America and the dystopian version depicted in the novel and television series. “We have people in power who are trying to challenge Roe and passing legislation to make four weeks the cutoff for legal abortion,” Martin said. “They are trying to control our fertility.” Anthropology freshman Layla Spurlock, who participated in the rally, said the counterprotesters were respectful of the march, despite disagreeing with them. “I’m not going to force someone to change their opinions, just like they’re not going to force me to change my opinion,” Spurlock said. “We all have the right to protest.”

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Winter Tree Fest showcases forts designed by architects, UT students

UTPD incentivizes students to report crime By Hayden Baggett @HaydenBaggett

amanda saunders | the daily texan staff Attendees of the Winter Tree Fest at Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center participated in activities such as tree climbing and fort building Saturday. The center, free for UT students, will feature the interactive exhibit “Fortlandia” through Feb. 25.

By Brenna Hinshaw @brenna_speaks

The Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center hosted its annual Winter Tree Fest on Saturday in the Wildflower Center’s arboretum.

This year’s tree festival was centered around the Wildflower Center’s “Fortlandia” exhibition, a temporary exhibit showcasing 10 different forts built by local architects, designers and students from UT’s School of Architecture. “Most of us spend time

as kids building forts,” said Tanya Zastrow, director of programs at the center. “Fortlandia helps people connect to that part of their childhood.” One fort called “The Rainbow Room” included colorful plastic glass in its design, along with an

old piano to play. Another fort named “Blanket Fort” consisted of three tents and was created using vinyl tarps. “All of the forts have different designs,” Zastrow said. “It’s fun to

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UT Police Department officers not only protect and serve the campus community — they also help feed it. UTPD rewarded undeclared sophomore Whitney Jameson with a cheese pizza Sunday evening after she reported a theft that resulted in the recovery of seven stolen bikes on campus. Jameson, a security coordinator at Kinsolving Residence Hall, said she observed a man cutting bike locks last Monday at 5:45 a.m. outside of Duren Residence Hall and called police in time for them to make a connected arrest. “I felt like such a good citizen,” Jameson said. “Working nights is pretty basic, so stopping something bad from actually happening felt pretty good.” UTPD officer Dustin Farahnak responded to the incident and helped recover the bikes. For over a decade, UTPD’s Hungry for Justice program has awarded about four pizzas a year to people who report crimes on campus that result in an arrest, Farahnak said. “It’s fun for the officers because we get to meet the party who saved the day and buy them lunch, and it gets the word out a little bit,” Farahnak said. “We would like to see a lot more

reports than that. I’d be happy to do this every single day.” Farahnak said officers are still trying to return six of the bikes to their owners and suggested ways to protect bikes on campus. “Double-lock your bike, know your serial number, register it at Parking and Transportation — those things are going to make you a lot less susceptible to being a victim of bike theft,” Farahnak said. “We also engrave driver’s license numbers onto bikes for free at the station because every cop in Texas will be able to identify it after that.” Farahnak said in addition to these safeguards, UTPD relies on the whole community to report and prevent crimes like these from taking place. “There’s a commonality between bike theft and other kinds of crimes,” Farahnak said. “In this case, the criminal had crystal meth and warrants, so calling it in really helped the community.” To encourage more students to report crime, the department is both rebranding and expanding the program, UTPD spokesperson Noelle Newton said. It is now called Safer by the Slice. “We have been rewarding students, faculty and staff with a free pizza for a while now under our Hungry for Justice

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Construction on a new Admissions Welcome Center on the ground floor of the Perry-Castañeda Library will begin this spring. The current welcome center is located off campus at Walter Webb Hall on Guadalupe and 25th streets. Miguel Wasielewski, executive director of admissions, said the location and accessibility of the PCL is ideal to house the new center. “It’s right in the middle of a very vibrant student community with Jester right there,” Wasielewski said. “You have the arts represented with the Blanton and then you have the PCL itself, which is a representation of different academic resources and research available at the University.” Along with a large reception area, office spaces and an auditorium, the center will have admissions counselors on-site, Wasielewski said. “Families will have an opportunity to actually walk in and sit down with a counselor to discuss all of their options,” Wasielewski said. “That’s something we haven’t been able to provide at the current

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explore them and look at them from different viewpoints.” In addition to showcasing the center’s programming, the festival gives attendees the chance to learn about and connect with nature, said conservation program manager Minnette Marr. Activities included a tree and plant sale and informative tours given by arborists and ecologists about trees and native plant life called “Walks and Talks.” “I think the Winter Tree Fest is a particularly important event for the Wildflower Center because it sort of rounds out our programs,” Marr said. “It’s not just about wildflowers, it’s also about native trees and shrubs.” The Winter Tree Fest also encourages locals to help conserve native plant life, Marr said. “By having the tree and plant sales, it gives people the opportunity to have native plant

copyright mckinney york architects, and reproduced with permission The new Admissions Welcome Center is set to open this fall on the ground floor of the Perry-Castañeda Library.

Walter Webb area.” Jill Stewart, associate director of project management and construction services, said construction on the center will be completed by this fall. “We still have to move some people around inside the building and there might be some other pre-construction prep work left to do before

we start,” Stewart said. The center will take over space which previously held study spaces, and books from that area will be relocated to an off-site location, Wasielewski said. Because the center will be located on the ground floor of PCL, Wasielewski said there should be minimal noise during construction to distract

life in their own yards and neighborhoods,” Marr said. Attendees also enjoyed a tree climbing area, a campfire to make s’mores and an area to play corn hole. “(The festival) is all about getting outside, connecting with nature and plants and enjoying the trees,” Zastrow said. UT alumnus Aaron Kong had never been to the Wildflower Center before the festival. “The demographic here is mainly kids and parents,” Kong said. “If there was a way to run a bus out here, a lot more students would visit the Wildflower Center.” Zastrow said there are many ways for students to connect with the Wildflower Center. “(The Wildflower Center is) a part of the University, and students get in for free,” Zastrow said. “UT students can connect with nature, relax, get away from campus and have fun.” Th e “Fortlandia” exhibit will be open through Feb. 25.

students from studying. “We don’t anticipate it’s going to be bothersome,” Wasielewski said. “Construction crews are going to be mindful of the fact that there’s going to be high traffic periods and will try to accommodate for that.” Electrical engineering sophomore Kishan Dayananda said when he toured the UT

campus two years ago, the experience seemed unorganized. “If you visit the campus like the way I did, and they just have you meet somewhere and walk around, it’s a little hectic,” Dayananda said. “The new centralized location will be really helpful.” Wasielewski said he hopes this new center will give prospective

students a more accurate representation of what campus life is like at the University. “We had an intentional, thoughtful approach to what we will actually put in that center,” Wasielewski said. “This building is designed to showcase the Longhorn experience and roll out the burnt orange carpet for our visitors.”

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Fourth annual Texas Wildlife Day sees increase in attendance

karla bruciaga | the daily texan staff A family visits an exhibit at the Texas Memorial Museum. The museum held its fourth annual Texas Wildlife Day, a free event where the public can learn about various aspects of wildlife through activities and exhibits.

By Areeba Amer @areeba_amer

On Saturday, the Texas Memorial Museum hosted its fourth annual Texas Wildlife Day, a free event where the public can learn about various aspects of wildlife through activities and exhibits. The event featured a variety of kid-friendly activities hosted by volunteer groups and museum exhibits ranging from prehistoric mammals to gems and minerals.

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government shutdown the food bank serves about 46,000 people. “There are about 26,000 federal employees in the central Texas region that we serve and a great many of them are affected by the shutdown,” Gaither said. “We want to make sure that if these folks need assistance, they can turn to us.” The federal workers who have gone to the food bank for assistance received both perishable and nonperishable foods as short and long-term help, Gaither said. With about 42 boxes full of cereal, soup, peanut butter and more donated to the food drive already, Pooja Sethi, her husband and her son, Jay, came into the AFL-CIO office building to add a bag of goods. Jay, who is 7 years old,

“It’s just nice to remind folks that when we talk about wildlife, we are aren’t always talking about the big, charismatic animals, like deer or a coyote, but we are also talking about insects, toads and snakes,” said Pamela Owens, associate director of the Texas Memorial Museum. “It’s also a chance to interact with scientists, science educators and naturalists to learn something first-hand.” With only four full-time employees, Owens said she relied heavily on volunteer efforts to coordinate

donated his own box of Girl Scout cookies. Sethi, an immigration attorney, said her family is donating because people have been working without paychecks. “We wanted to do our part by giving some food,” Sethi said. “If we had gone more than a month without a paycheck, it’d be really hard on our family.” Now that the shutdown is over, Sills said the drive can help the food bank get back to serving the 46,000 people who need it every week. He also said he learned something from the shutdown and the food drive. “People who you might not expect are living paycheck to paycheck, even federal workers who are considered to have solid, middle class careers,” Sills said. “If you take anyone’s paycheck away for a sufficient period of time, they too might end up at the food bank.”

the event. The volunteer groups ranged from Texas Master Naturalist chapters to students from UT-Austin. Each group brought its own activity and materials, including live animals and insects for children to hold. Biology sophomore Emily Mitchell, a volunteer who spent a couple hours teaching the attendees about insects, said she enjoyed educating children about her area of personal interest. “I just really wanted to be a part of insect outreach,” Mitchell said. “I really like

seeing the little kids, especially little girls, be very hesitant to touch the hissy cockroaches, but the minute the cockroaches go in their hand, their eyes light up and they start asking questions because they get so excited.” The event also had a new live snake station, where a large group of kids surrounded the table to touch a Mexican Pine Snake. Christine Widmann said she’s taken her family of five to Texas Wildlife Day at the museum for three years. “I thought it was great,

very informative and interactive,” Widmann said. “The kids loved it. Every year, they are really great with the kids.” Owens said attendance at the event was larger than last year. “We have already surpassed last year’s attendance (by noon),” Owens said. “We have well over 700 people here, and that was about the total we had by the end of the day last year.” The event is hosted each year on the last Saturday of January.

george wunch | the daily texan staff A man donates food to a fundraiser held by Texas AFL-CIO, a labor union dedicated to helping workers in Texas. The food drive was held in support of federal worker amid the government shutdown.

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elizabeth garabedian | the daily texan staff Whitney Jameson, an undeclared sophomore who works as a student security coordinator in campus dorms, receives a pizza from Officer Layne Smith. University Police wanted to thank Jameson for reporting suspicious behavior, which led to the recovery of seven stolen bikes.

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program,” Newton said in an email. “The program started with bike theft only, but we have expanded it to

include all crimes.” Jameson said she hopes the program’s expansion will incentivize students to report crime across campus. “Our police department is kind of small compared to how large our campus

is, and I think the program helps people take action when they see questionable things going on,” Jameson said. “At the bare minimum, it helps the police department have eyes everywhere, even if they’re not there.”

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Fight for the rights of all students By Jennifer Liu Forum Editors

The Daily Texan Forum is a space for members of the UT-Austin community to voice their opinions and have them heard. We publish op-eds submitted to us by non-Daily Texan staff members with the goal of fostering conversations and productive public discourse on topics important to the people on campus. This fall semester saw many significant events — some popular, some

controversial — that affected people all across our University, ranging from winning the Texas-OU rivalry game, to the 2018 midterm elections and even to the SAC and Texas Union’s initiative to start offering free menstrual products in women’s restrooms. We hope that we continue to see and encourage positive change this year. The start of this new school semester follows the opening of the 86th session of the Texas Legislature. For the first

Forum page of the year, we’re publishing two opeds focusing on issues relevant to political efforts made by both the immediate UT-Austin community and beyond. Andrew Herrera, a government junior and president of University Democrats, criticizes the lack of University support for issues central to the student population, while encouraging students to keep working to advance the issues they care about. Social work senior Leslie Tufino urges Texas

lawmakers to uphold the Texas DREAM Act and prevent undocumented students from being barred from receiving instate tuition, saying that it is both a moral obligation and in the state’s economic interest to protect the act. Forum is an integral part of the Daily Texan Opinion department and connects students, professors and staff to the greater community. As always, if you have thoughts on this topic or any others, please reach out to us at thedailytexanforum@gmail.com.

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UT’s administration is not as liberal as you think it is By Andrew Herrera Forum Contributor

The City of Austin and UT’s student body are in all truths overwhelmingly “liberal” — possibly even defined as “progressive” (about 75 percent according to 2016 Presidential voting numbers for Hillary Clinton in UT adjacent areas). However, for many on-campus activists, there is a real disconnect between the issues students care about on the ground and the positions frequently taken by UT’s administration. And above that, an even bigger and more disheartening disconnect between the extent to which we as Longhorns have had to care for each other in the aftermath of offensive incidents on campus, and the response of UT’s administration to those very same events. The Young Conservatives of Texas are a familiar group to those who are politically involved here on campus, as well as those who have been unfortunately drawn into their “dialogue.” The registered student organization’s previous “activism” includes hosting Catch an Immigrant Day, an Affirmative Action Bake Sale, celebrating the anniversary of the death of a leftist political figure and a pro-Kavanaugh demonstration in which dialogue bordered on rape apology. Their most recent stunt — an insensitive protest of “illegal aliens” benefiting from in-state tuition benefits — took place just days after asylum seekers were teargassed along the southern border. The University has, at every turn, passively defended these actions under the banner of free speech, even when actions seems to violate the very values of diversity and inclusion UT praises. There simply cannot be a reconciliation between these decisions to turn a blind eye to hatred, and UT’s frequent messaging that we care about survivors of abuse, minorities, undocumented youth, workers and women. On top of that, UT’s administration has shown a near-invisible support for civic engagement outside of the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life, which does fantastic work where it can. It perpetuates unnecessarily strict and often burdensome policies for room reservations, political guest speakers and activist events; policies that have been in place since the 1970s in an effort to curb liberal-based activism such as anti-war protests which influential conservative forces, such as the Texas Legislature, deem to be “inappropriate.” I’ve been quoted in several pieces now regarding this, and I fully stand by what I said there: We are legal adults at a publicly funded university. To ask us for logistical information is totally acceptable, but to demand that our political guests and events be approved for content is an affront to the First Amendment rights of students, or at a minimum, it makes a mockery of them.

As long as a former Republican Texas House member sits on the Board of Regents and the Texas House continues to hold us hostage through our appropriations, nothing can be done to move UT in the morally right direction. As long as current legislators can readily complain to UT’s administration when they feel that conservative students are being “oppressed,” such as State Sen. Bettencourt did following the pro-Kavanaugh demonstration, the power difference between outside interests and the students that UT purports to serve will be insurmountable. We have to recognize that at a deep level, there are some voices at UT that are not intended to be heard, amplified or affirmed. Plain and simple, as long as students of color continue to be disproportionately punished for counter protesting and expressing emotion toward hatred while promises of state funding bribe our administration, we shall remain in a dark place. I hope that this op-ed leaves two very distinct messages. First, to the current Longhorns who advocate for important issues: Thank you for your tenacity and your courage, even with such a lack of institutional support. The second is to those who hope to join us on the Forty Acres eventually. While you consider attending the University of Texas as a prospective student, it’s important to recognize the fundamental truth about this institution: The peers that you will work with here are some of the most amazing activists that you’ll ever meet. They put everything they have into their causes with left-leaning solutions in mind. They lead the way on issues of immigration, social justice, healthcare, combating rape culture and many more problems. The vast majority of them will be progressive. However, UT is not a liberal campus, its administration does not always prioritize the well-being of its most vulnerable students and while supposedly “What starts here changes the world,” we are unlikely to see a shift in UT’s priorities from appeasing conservatives to acknowledging the ugliness anytime soon. There are so many groups and individuals at the University of Texas that are fighting to change our world for the better. We will continue to persist, and we can only hope that one day the campus that we love, the place that we call home, will join us in that mission. Herrera is a government senior and president of University Democrats.

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Texans need to stand up for the Texas DREAM Act legal status. If these children have been educated in Texas for K-12, as Biedermann noted, then why should they stop there? A Texas lawmaker has filed a bill that During a 2011 GOP primary debate, would bar undocumented students in TexRick Perry famously said, “If you say that as from receiving in-state tuition at colleges we should not educate children who come and universities. Texas Rep. Kyle Biederinto our state for no other reason than that mann is proposing this bill under the guise they’ve been brought there through no fault that such benefits are “magnet policies” for of their own, I don’t think you have a heart.” illegal immigration. As a social work student, community activist Just two months ago Fredericksburg Reand aspiring immigration attorney, I agree publican Biedermann said, “We’re educating with Gov. Perry. them with K-12 right But the Texas now. And they can be DREAM Act is more educated in college. than a moral obligation Why should we give to our students. It is them a deduction or a essential to our state’s subsidy at taxpayer execonomic prosperity. The Texas DREAM Act is pense when other TexAccording to the more than a moral ans could use the funds Center for Public Polalso to get educated?” icy Priorities, undocobligation to our But Biedermann umented immigrants students — it is essential failed to address the in Texas pay about moral and economic $1.5 billion in state to our state’s economic benefits of allowing all and local taxes annuprosperity.” Texans access to highally. These taxes help er education, including support public instiundocumented students. tutions and higher Former Texas Gov. education in Texas. Rick Perry signed HB 1403 — the Texas With the ability to attend and finance their DREAM Act — in 2001. The law makes un- post-secondary education, undocumented documented immigrants eligible for in-state students have more purchasing power. In tuition if they have lived in Texas for three 2015, Texas immigrants earned nearly $119 years, graduated from high school or rebillion in wages, with their purchasing powceived a GED and are seeking legal status. er estimated to be between $95.5 billion and Texas became the first state in the country to $100 billion. pass a law like this. Repealing the Texas DREAM Act would Many of the undocumented immigrants more than triple the cost of tuition for our that benefit from the Texas DREAM Act were undocumented classmates. The 86th legbrought to the United States as children and islative session began this month. As their do not recognize any other country as their peers, we must continue supporting our home. They have lived in Texas for years and undocumented students by preserving the share the same goals and aspirations as their Texas DREAM Act. classmates. They feel as American — and Tufino is a social work senior from as Texan — as their peers. But unlike many Austin. classmates, undocumented students are uncertain about their futures because of their

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FEATURE

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After injuring his spinal cord during a camping trip in 2000, Jared Dunten became quadriplegic. Now he paints masterpieces with his mouth.

Man creates pieces of art with mouth After an accident left him paralyzed, man finds new way to make masterpieces.

paint brushes to create masterpieces. His work has been displayed in multiple locations, including Bass Concert Hall. fter a diving accident in “The art, for me, is both therapeu2000, Jared Dunten had tic and maddening,” Dunten said. to learn how to paint with a “I’m still learning and practicing. new tool — his mouth. Every piece is preparing for the next When Dunten began working one because you learn something full-time at an advertising agenevery time.” cy in Austin, he and his friend went Dunten hadn’t always painted. Afon a camping trip to Big Bend ter his accident and several months National Park. After arriving at the Rio in a Houston rehabilitation hospital, Grande, Dunten dove into the river, his mother encouraged him to begin hit aStudent sandbar and broke his neck. In you Texas Media will keep connected painting in 2002. instant, Dunten’s life completely doing a little bit at a time, withthatdaily links to the news, sports“I started and culture changed, leaving him paralyzed from and then I got to where I was like, stories shaping the UT community. the neck down. ‘Okay, this is more fun, and I’m enjoying it more,’” Dunten said. Today, he works without his Dunten said painting without hands, using his mouth to hold

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able-hands is a challenge because using his mouth becomes tiring and using big motions would be much easier. “I have such a romantic notion of being able to use your arm,” Dunten said. “It would be so nice to do because I’m just grinding away a little section with my head.” Dunten’s condition also poses obstacles in everyday life. Living in Spicewood, Texas with his wife and two kids, Dunten sticks to schedules and routines to adapt to each situation. His wife Kimberly Dunten said everything requires extra planning that wouldn’t normally be required for an able-bodied person, including their trip to Chicago in a couple months. “All those things for able-bodied people might just be, ‘We bought

tickets. We’ve got a hotel room. We’re going,’” Kimberly said. “(For us), there’s a lot of logistics and planning and all those things take time and energy.” Despite Jared’s disability, the fact that he’s able to create beautiful things is what draws many people to his story, including Mitchell Chavez, a Texas State University student who traveled 50 miles to Spicewood to see Jared’s unique artworks. “Often people get put in that kind of situation where they have something traumatic happen to them, and they just spend the rest of their life sulking about it,” Chavez said. “He’s taken it and has done something amazing with it.” With this sense of perseverance,

Jared said he is incredibly grateful for the life he’s had. It wasn’t until two years after his accident that he first met his wife, later creating a family. “I wouldn’t change it because I wouldn’t want to not have my wife, children, the experiences I’ve had or the people I’ve met,” Jared said. “I wouldn’t want to sacrifice and not have those.” Jared said he continues to wait patiently for the day he can walk again and relies on the idea that life is unpredictable. “My whole life changed in the blink of an eye, the snap of a finger,” Jared said. “Why couldn’t it change back just as quickly?”

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Bulldogs run Longhorns out of Athens Longhorns drop fifth game in previous six contests.

By Steve Helwick @s_helwick

t the beginning of the month, Texas and Georgia clashed in New Orleans for the Sugar Bowl. The night began in dramatic fashion, as Texas’ Bevo XV charged at Georgia’s Uga during a meeting of live mascots. Bevo’s combative attitude set the tone for the contest, driving Texas to a statement 28-21 upset. Roan cattle and bulldogs aren’t inhabitants of basketball arenas, so the sequel of the mascot meeting was called off. But the Sugar Bowl spirit lived on as a significant upset transpired on the hardwood in Stegeman Coliseum. Georgia (10–9, 1–5 SEC) upended Texas (11–9, 3–4 Big 12) in the SEC/Big 12 Challenge, 98-88. “Yeah, we’re at a crossroads right now,” power forward Dylan Osetkowski told the Austin American-Statesman. “It’s cliché, and it’s what everybody says. But we’ve really got to figure out what kind of team we want to be, how we want to finish off conference ... We say it every single day. What we want to do is still right there in front of us to go do. But something has to change.” The Bulldogs committed an alarming 26 turnovers, but that didn’t affect the outcome. Georgia shot lights out from the floor, connecting on 12-of-17 3-point attempts and outrebounded Texas, 36-22. Georgia’s efficient offense connected on 66.7 percent of field goals, and once the Bulldogs were able to break Texas’ press in the second half, a series of easy fast breaks sealed the upset. “They were focused in on me which really opened things up for our post players,” Georgia point guard Tyree Crump told the

joshua guenther | the daily texan file Senior forward Dylan Osetkowski goes up for a layup against a West Virginia defender during Texas’ 61-54 win over the Mountaineers on Jan. 5, 2019.

Statesman. “Also, Turtle Jackson and Teshaun Hightower hit some threes for us. Then, Texas couldn’t focus on one guy. They had to worry about all of us.” Behind point guard Matt Coleman’s eight points in the first eight minutes, Texas created a 21-13 advantage. Georgia responded with a barrage of triples, sinking five threes to construct a 17-to-2 run and a 30-23 lead. The Longhorns, who led 19 seconds the rest of the afternoon, managed to tie the score at 46 before halftime, thanks to a Courtney Ramey

fastbreak layup. A Jaxson Hayes dunk to open the second half appeared to be the momentum-swinger Texas desired. But Georgia’s immaculate 3-point shooting on its homecourt sustained and the Bulldogs leaped back in front with a 9-0 run. Although Texas’ offense shined with 88 points and 42.9 percent 3-point shooting, the inability to contain Georgia beyond the arc and in the paint forced the Longhorns to play from behind. The Longhorns turned the ball over 15 times, fouled Georgia en route to

28 free throw attempts and ineffectively ran a full-court press. Ramey led all Texas scorers with 19 points, shattering his previous career-high of 13. Ramey was active for 38 minutes, receiving a chunk of Coleman’s playing time at point guard. Coleman racked up his fourth foul with over 14 minutes left and eventually fouled out of the contest after eight points in 18 minutes of action. “I’m tired of losing, too,” Coleman told the Statesman. “Individually, I’ve always been a winner. I’ve never liked losing. It always

comes down to doing little things better. It’s always something that you can do.” A brief respite from a challenging Big 12 slate did not bode well for Texas’ chances. The Longhorns have now dropped five out of six games, and this loss classifies as their second double-digit defeat of the season (Michigan State on Nov. 23). Texas, fighting for a second-straight March Madness bid, has a daunting schedule ahead. No. 9 Kansas visits on Tuesday, followed by a road trip to No. 24 Iowa State.

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Longhorns rally past Red Raiders behind Williams’ 16 By Stephen Wagner @stephenwag22

In a rollercoaster season filled with countless injuries, inconsistent play and transfer students, nothing has been guaranteed. Not even a game against the last-place team in the Big 12. On Saturday afternoon, the Longhorns were coming off a game where head coach Karen Aston apologized to fans for the team’s poor offensive performance and lack of focus, despite the Longhorns winning by 19 points, their largest margin of victory in Big 12 play. In Lubbock, it didn’t look like Texas regained its focus at all early on in their 78-71 victory. The Red Raiders nearly shot the lights out in the first quarter, connecting on their first six 3-pointers of the game and led 27-16 after the first period. “Texas Tech is trying to win basketball games. They’re tired of losing,” Aston said. “It’s a competitive league, I didn’t think we were very competitive in the first half.” As the Longhorns scratched their heads searching for answers to Tech’s first quarter onslaught, Texas fans were left sweating bullets again.

We found a group that provided some energy and tempo to the way that we played and gave us a little bit of breath.” KAREN ASTON HEAD COACH

To make matters worse, the scrappy but invaluable Audrey Warren, who has played crucial minutes for Aston this season, was taken off the floor with concussion-like symptoms. Unable to match Tech’s 3-point shooting in the first half, and with most of Aston’s “four-headed monster” of Jatarie White, Olamide Aborowa, Joyner Holmes and Charli Collier benched due to foul trouble, Destiny Littleton had her number called.

The sophomore exploded for 11 points in the second quarter to cut a once 14-point Raider lead down to five at halftime. “I thought that the flurry that we had at the end of the second quarter probably saved us,” Aston said. “We found a group that provided some energy and tempo to the way that we played and gave us a little bit of breath.” Texas seemed poised to make one of Aston’s signature third quarter runs. Coming out of halftime, the Longhorns appeared to have regained their focus. Now revamped with the shotmaking and lockdown defense they sought in the first half, the Longhorns erupted for an 11-to-2 run to help Texas take its first lead since the first quarter. Using their newfound sense of focus and grit, the Texas lead grew to as many as six points in the third quarter before the Raiders retaliated, tying the game at 55 going into the fourth quarter. With the Red Raiders 1–6 in conference play prior to today’s loss, and first-year head coach Marlene Stollings in search of a signature win, Tech retaliated relentlessly, going up by as many as five points with 6:37 left. As the mayhem ensued, guard Danni Williams emerged and took control for the Longhorns down the stretch, scoring eight of her 16 points in the

carlos garcia | the daily texan file Graduate transfer guard Danni Williams drives toward the basket during the Longhorns’ 62-43 win over the Kansas Jayhawks at the Frank Erwin Center on Jan. 23, 2019.

final period, including a layup to put the Longhorns up by five with just over a minute remaining. “We’ve had a couple of games where we’ve experienced this back-andforth,” Williams said. “I think that allowed us to stay together. I knew we needed a bucket, and I just had to go get one.” While Texas will take any victory it

can in Big 12 play, slow starts and close finishes with the two bottom-dwelling teams in the conference must raise some level of concern for Texas fans, with matchups against West Virginia, Oklahoma and Baylor over the next three games. The Longhorns will take on West Virginia, a team they previously defeated 70-58, on Monday in Austin.

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