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Perry’s lawyers work to dismiss case

Board backs new degree plan, honors Cigarroa

By Natalie Sullivan @natsullivan94

Gov. Rick Perry appeared in court Thursday as his lawyers attempted to refute indictments for his abuse of power charges.

A grand jury originally prosecuted Perry in August for abuse of an official capacity and coercion of a public servant — Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg. Perry

vetoed state funding for Lehmberg’s investigative unit after she refused to step down following her drunken driving conviction.

Thursday’s proceedings focused on two issues — whether special prosecutor Michael McCrum was properly sworn in as the case’s prosecutor and whether documents relating to the case were filed correctly.

McCrum said the defense was not challenging the oath

properly because there is no law that requires a written order to be filed about it.

“There’s a procedural bar to what they’re trying to do,” McCrum said. “Mr. Perry and his lawyers can’t invent or create a law that’s not there.”

Tony Buzbee, Perry’s lawyer, admitted the defense’s argument was based on a technicality, but he said the

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Gov. Rick Perry, pictured speaking at an election night party Tuesday, is facing abuse of power criminal charges.

CAMPUS

Fifth annual Thanks Day celebrates donors

By Aimée Santillán @aimeesan17

Students signed whiteboards on Gregory Plaza thanking the University’s donors as part of the University Development Office’s fifth annual Thanks Day on Thursday.

Marsha Reardon, the student philanthropy and special campaigns coordinator who organized the event, said Thanks Day was created in 2010 to educate students about the significance of donations to the University’s budget.

“The main idea is for students to say thanks to who makes school happen,” Reardon said. “They can learn that tuition and fees only pay for less than half of what the school needs, and, without donors and other sources, the school would have to

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Accounting sophomore Diane Wu Chiang signs a giant “thank you” card during UT’s Thanks Day on Thursday afternoon.

The annual event allows students to show their gratitude to the University’s many financial donors.

EL PASO — The UT System Board of Regents honored outgoing Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa and approved the establishment of a doctoral nursing program at UT during a meeting Thursday.

Held in El Paso to celebrate the 100th anniversary of UT-El Paso, Thursday’s meeting served as Cigarroa’s last meeting as chancellor, barring any specially called meetings. Cigarroa will step down from his position in December to return to practicing medicine at UT Health Science Center-San Antonio.

“He’s returning full-time to his first love — transplant surgery,” Chairman Paul Foster said at the meeting.

“He never really left it. He’s been the hardest working chancellor in America for the last six years — leading the UT System and performing surgery a few times a month.”

Cigarroa previously served as president of UT Health Science Center-San Antonio before being hired as chancellor in 2009.

“I set out on this remarkable journey with the trust and the support of the Board of Regents, and, for that, I am exceedingly grateful,” Cigarroa said in a speech to the board. “We have truly made higher education in Texas more accessible, and

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ALUMNI

CITY

Texas legend finds peace in coaching

By Evan Berkowitz

Limas Sweed won two Rose Bowls, a national championship with Texas and an NFL Super Bowl. Now, he’s coaching football, track and basketball at a middle school in Kyle, Texas.

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Nathan Wilkes, Austin Transportation Department spokeswoman, talks about the Bicycle Master Plan at City Hall on Thursday.

Council approves bicycle plan, debates CodeNEXT

By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng

At their meeting Thursday in the newly renovated chambers in City Hall, the Austin City Council passed the Bicycle Master Plan and agreed to discuss the land development code rewrite at their next meeting.

The City Council unanimously passed the Bicycle

Master Plan after hearing from three members of the public and amending the resolution.

Nathan Wilkes, Austin Transportation Department spokesman, presented the plan as a reboot of the former 2009 Bicycle Master Plan.

“Bicycling is a way to connect people, and to create affordability and create a healthy

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It was all once so promising for Limas Sweed.

His heroic late fourthquarter touchdown catch against No. 4 Ohio State kept Texas’ undefeated season alive en route to a national championship.

Falling backwards with a defender draped over him, he was able to corral the Vince Young pass to give Texas a one-point lead with just over two minutes left.

His seven straight games with a touchdown catch from freshman quarterback Colt McCoy the following season set a Texas record.

He went on to catch 12 passes that year.

The 6-foot-5 receiver was getting looks in the first round of the draft.

After a wrist-injury ended his senior year, he slid a bit in the draft. Still, the Pittsburgh Steelers took a chance on the high upside receiver

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in the second round.

Everyone seemed to praise the pick.

“Ten years from now, we’re going to say Limas Sweed was the most productive and most talented wide receiver in the 2008 NFL Draft class,” ESPN Analyst Todd McShay noted after the draft.

But that was as good as things would get for Sweed.

Sweed struggled holding on to the ball at the

next level. By the end of his rookie season, he caught a pedestrian six passes for 64 yards to go along with two big playoff drops — one of those being an easy 50yard touchdown in the AFC Championship game.

Yet, the Steelers were able to hang on and lift the Vince Lombardi Trophy, giving Sweed both an NCAA championship and a Super Bowl ring.

His sophomore season went even worse for him individually. In December, the Steelers took him off the active roster. In training camp the next year, he tore his Achilles, ending his season and effectively his NFL career.

“I think every athlete wants to play until they’re about 75 anyway, but I’m

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Austin,” Wilkes said. “In the 2009 plan, it was, ‘What can Austin do to be better for bicycling?’ Now we’re saying, ‘What can bicycling do to meet [Austin’s] goals?’”

The three main points the master plan addresses include creating an infrastructure of protected bike lanes that people would feel comfortable using, connecting the network of lanes to make all of Austin accessible by bicycle, and changing the way people take short trips — 3 miles or under — from automobile to bicycle.

Wilkes stressed that the 2014 bicycle master plan is not the same as the 2009 master plan.

“I wanted to speak a little to the project level implementation process — how we get projects on the ground,” Wilkes said. “This is the master planning process. What’s in the 2009 plan

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is not going to be on the ground verbatim. It has to be tested by the public.”

According to Wilkes, the planning process of the current master plan started two years ago.

“We kicked this off in August 2012,” Wilkes said.

“We started public outreach about a year after we kicked off. Those meetings continued until February 2014.

We received a lot of positive feedback; we received 2,000 some comments in support.”

According to Wilkes, the bicycle plan and the urban trails plan are intertwined, and the success of one relies on the success of the other.

“This network is not just made up of protected lanes,” Wilkes said. “The urban trails are a key component of this network. Without those, it would be fragmented. The investment is a $151 million investment, including the investment in the urban trails.”

The City Council also opened the land development code rewrite, CodeNEXT, up for public hearing. Several members of the community testified about their preferences on how to approach rewriting Austin’s land development code.

City staff and the hired consultant firm Opticos recommended “The Deep Clean” approach as the best way to approach rewriting the code.

“The Deep Clean” would completely reformat and reorganize the code, while only implementing a “medium” extent content rewrite. Some citizen speakers were in favor of “The Complete Makeover” approach, which would consist of a more extensive rewrite and take longer than “The Deep Clean.”

A few speakers advised against the City Council making a decision at all.

Zilker neighborhood resident David King used the tale of Goldilocks as an example of how simplistically the City Council sought to solve the code rewrite.

“I don’t think any of these proposed options reflect Austin’s values and culture,” King said. “I would ask that we take the time to build an Austin option — not a generic one, two, three. If you make a decision on the code alternatives, you are locking the next Council into that decision. What is the rush to make the decision now?

There’s plenty of work to be done on the new project without making a decision now. It can wait until the new Council.”

Without City Council member Bill Spelman on the dais, the City Council stayed divided between the two approaches. They will discuss CodeNEXT again on Nov. 20.

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According to Reardon, activities organized for Thanks Day included writing “Thank You” cards to donors. The day ended with a celebration in front of the UT Tower, complete with fireworks to recognize the success of The Campaign for Texas, the University’s eight-year, $3 billion fundraising campaign that ended in August.

“At the end of Thanks Day, we want to celebrate this by showing our donors the gratefulness of the

students,” Reardon said.

Reardon said colleges, athletic units and various organizations also contribute to the event.

“My signature course encouraged me to volunteer for the event,” said Kayla Marks, speech pathology freshman. “And I have noticed that a great goal for Thanks Day is to form a mutual appreciation for students, campus and faculty.”

In addition to the activities offered on Gregory Plaza, Reardon said students also had the opportunity to get involved in the event by posting on social media

using #UTTHANKSDAY and posting their stories online.

“These activities have left an impact in the community,” Reardon said.

“Students become more aware of how their school keeps on going and also realize the impact they are creating.”

According to Reardon, there has been an increase in young alumni donors since the first Thanks Day. “Students are not the only ones who are participating,” economics freshman Shelby Gaylor said. “Teachers also come and participate, which, for me, shows the event is serving its purpose.”

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Dual-degree plan combines social work, Latino studies

By Wes Scarborough Starting next fall, UT will offer a degree to suit the growing demand of social workers with an understanding of Latino and Latino immigrant culture in Texas.

The School of Social Work and the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies, or LLILAS, will offer a dual-degree program at the graduate level, combining social work skills with competency in Latino culture and languages. Those who complete the program will receive a Master of Science in Social Work and a Master of Arts with a major in Latin American studies. The program is the first of its kind in the country, according to LLILAS spokeswoman Susanna Sharpe.

Jane Kretzschmar, assistant dean for the Master of Science in Social Work program, said there has been a gap between social work in Texas and the needs of its diverse Latino and immigrant population.

Kretzschmar said the new program is looking to attract mostly people who speak a Latin American language.

“I have been in Texas for a long time, and I know a lot of social workers who wish they had that background,” Kretzschmar said.

Former LLILAS graduate student Cintia Huitzil

petitioned for the degree program by working with students from the School of Social Work and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. According to Sharpe, Huitzil started collecting the signatures for a letter proposing the degree program in spring 2013.

“I hope that in combining these disciplines, LLILAS and the School of Social Work can foment a more critical and conscientious student body with the theoretical and practical background to best serve the Latinos and Latin American immigrants in this country,” Huitzil said in a statement.

Huitzil, a second-generation indigenous Chicana, was a social worker based in Los Angeles before getting her graduate degree at UT. She worked with indigenous immigrants to help them gain access to social services.

Sharpe said there used to be a “disconnect” concerning Latin American studies. The degree used to focus on observing the countries from afar rather than actually partnering with the people from those countries in order to understand their culture and politics.

“That’s partly what this degree is about — making [social workers] serve as partners,” Sharpe said. “It would be so much more helpful if we knew more about the social and political context of these people.”

the courthouse in two different places because no case file was created before the indictment.

Richardson said instead of issuing a simple ruling, he would need to issue findings. He said he would talk with both sides and issue a ruling by next Wednesday or Thursday.

After the hearing, Perry said he stood by his decision to veto the funding. “[The constitution] clearly outlines the authority of any governor to veto items at his or her discretion,” Perry said. “I stand behind that

authority, and I would make that veto again. Exercising proper jurisprudence is not a technicality. It is a requirement essential for the rule of law.”

Perry said the proceeding would not affect his duties as governor.

“I’m able to multitask pretty good, so the question is, ‘Am I able to get my work done?’ which I am,” Perry said. “Over the last six months, we’ve had multiple issues of pretty major size and scope to deal with. … I think we’ve handled all those pretty well.”

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Outgoing Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa will leave his position in January. The UT System Board of Regents honored Cigarroa at a meeting Thursday.

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Retired Naval Adm. William McRaven will succeed Cigarroa as chancellor in January. McRaven graduated from the University with a degree in journalism in 1977 and is known for overseeing the operation that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden.

“He is an experienced and effective leader with impeccable integrity and a long and distinguished career of service to our nation,” Cigarroa said. “Bill McRaven has my full support, and the System will be in

excellent hands.”

After honoring Cigarroa, the regents approved to establish a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree program at the University.

“This is a professional program, and it is a professional program motivated and designed for workforce needs,” President William Powers Jr. said during a presentation to the board Wednesday.

There are currently 11 doctoral nursing programs in Texas — but none in Central Texas. The program will provide additional doctoral preparation to nurses who will be able to serve as clinical faculty

in other nursing programs across Texas. Nationally, only 14 percent of nurses have a master’s degree or higher.

Powers said the program would start with 12 students but grow to 20.

Tuition is expected to start at $30,000 for five semesters. He said the program would be self-supporting, since its revenues are expected to cover all costs associated with the program — including faculty and staff compensation, materials and required University and student fees, according to the agenda book.

At the regents’ meeting

Wednesday, Bruce Zimmerman, CEO and chief internal officer of the UT Investment Management Company, announced that System endowment funds invested in stocks, bonds and equity interest had a 15.1 percent return for the fiscal year ending Aug. 31.

“I am pleased to report such strong investment returns for the previous fiscal year, which generated approximately $4 billion in additional financial resources for the University of Texas and Texas A&M systems,” Zimmerman said. “Over the past decade, investment returns have surpassed $15.5 billion.”

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“If you’re going to prosecute someone, you’d better follow the letter of the law,” Buzbee said. “If Mr. McCrum did not properly qualify as attorney pro tem, that means everything he’s done up to this point is absolutely void.”

Buzbee also said McCrum did not follow the correct sequence of events when signing his oath and took the oath before signing his anti-bribery statement.

“It’s very clear that he did it absolutely backwards,”

Buzbee said. “That means he failed to qualify. He cannot act. Game over.”

McCrum repeatedly said the defense team was using red herrings to expand its scope of allegations on the oath and discussing matters not relevant to the issues of the case. He said the oath was properly administered and read from an affidavit about the oath of office document in which Judge Bert Richardson swore him in as attorney pro tem.

“The point is — I have the authority; I took the oath,” McCrum said. “This

is a non-issue. The defense is asking the court to create a new law to suit Mr. Perry’s personal situation.”

Additionally, Buzbee called the case “a comedy of errors” and argued necessary documents relating to the case were not in the correct file.

McCrum said all documents were filed, stamped and available to the public.

“Not only do the documents have a file stamp showing they were … filed with the district court, all of the documents were freely open to the public,”

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McCrum said. “All anybody ever had to do was ask for them.”

Several witnesses were called to the stand, including Linda Estrada, senior employee in the Travis County district clerk’s office, and Virginia Vasquez, a court coordinator from the 390th district court who removed herself from the case.

They were questioned about whether documents relating to Lehmberg’s recusal were filed in the right place.

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GamerGate controversy has ramifications in local politics

By Anne Chambers Guest Columnist

Jeff Corwin, the well-known conservation biologist and television personality, visited UT on Monday to present a program called “Tales from the Field.”

As a fellow biologist, I had been looking forward to Corwin’s talk. I have a broad admiration for people who promote a conservationist message to a general audience, especially since I believe that the key to the protection of the natural world is to teach people why they should care about a rapidly disappearing wilderness.

But that’s not what Corwin delivered. In fact, he seemed to offer up his thoughts on everything but.

What struck me first was how poor Corwin’s public speaking abilities were.

Not only did he engage in meandering, all-encompassing monologues, but he also peppered them with obnoxious jokes and stunts, as when he yanked a marine toad out of a small plastic bin and tossed it into an audience member’s hands.

I quickly realized that instead of an educational program, this was a circus act — a comedy show with live animals.

Of particular importance to me, as a herpetologist, is the public’s image of reptiles and amphibians. Though archaic, the public perception of these fascinating animals is still often relegated to visions of slime, scales and creepy-crawling. In fact, this is a very real issue among conservation biologists: Some animals are perceived by the public as being more important, more relatable or more valuable than others. In other words, why protect a nematode worm when you can protect a giant panda instead? The answer is that all species are vital to ecosystem health, no matter their appearance.

Jeff Corwin has long been a fan of herps — reptiles and amphibians — and features them prominently in his programming; in fact, all the animals he brought that day were herps. A giant alligator snapping turtle was poked in the side repeatedly to display its sizable jaws; an alligator, writhing, was thrust into volunteers’ arms. As audience members held each animal, Corwin spurted a few comments related to the life history of the animals on display. But again, he perpetuated the negative stereotypes against the creatures by emphasizing their power to kill, even going so far as to mention alligators and boas consuming humans if given the opportunity (which happens extraordinarily rarely, if at all).

All his points encouraged a fearful mindset of these animals, not exactly what you would expect from someone whose supposed purpose is to convince you of their worthiness for preservation.

Finally, the question period arrived.

About half of the questions were typically ones you would expect a TV host to be asked, questions like, “What is your favorite animal?” Others were really good.

For instance, an audience member asked about Corwin’s opinion on conservation efforts directed at Tasmanian devils. Instead of answering the question, however, Corwin engaged in a rambling discourse about the life history of these animals and

how neat they are; he made no mention at all of conservation efforts.

His responses to other questions didn’t make up for this. A colleague of mine asked whether the hands-on approach Corwin employs in these programs is the most effective way to communicate with the public. His response, with no justification whatsoever, was: “I have found that, yes, it is.”

A female first-year graduate student asked if he had any advice for young scientists looking to engage the general public in wildlife conservation. Corwin’s response was a drawn-out argument to support the notion that women in science were rapidly overtaking the field.

Other interesting questions arose, such as, “Why has the Animal Planet network [which supports Corwin’s shows] changed over the years, and begun displaying less educational content?” The response from Corwin was a comment on how helpful an extinction of the Kardashians would be, which led to a listing of his favorite TV shows.

How he thought that his answers were in any way related to the questions asked was beyond me. At best, his responses were tangential and incoherent, constantly avoiding the topic of conservation. At worst, his behavior and treatment of animals seemed to actually damage the preservationist cause.

It eventually became clear that the questions Corwin was most enthusiastic to answer had nothing to do with the conservationist image he promotes on screen. On television, he prides himself on being a champion of the natural world, but nothing he did during those two hours I spent watching him did anything to convince me of this. What’s more, it seems that his talk did not teach much of anything to the audience other than to fear these creatures with reasons that were now justified.

And this, for me, was the most frustrating aspect of all. Most of the people who made up the audience were people who believe the messages Corwin is conveying. These are also the people who care about the fate of the natural world, and can make a difference.

Corwin urged the audience to get children off couches, to stop encouraging a culture disconnected from the natural world. Of course, I agreed. But again, Corwin completely overlooked the most critical element of this entire conversation – he failed to ask why. Why does it matter? Why should we care?

Conservation is, ultimately, about respect – a respect for the natural world and the recognition that we have a duty to protect it. If Corwin’s program taught me anything, it’s that there is a need now more than ever for public education on wildlife conservation, but that it cannot keep taking this form. Education programs should not induce fear of the very animals we are trying to protect, and must instead be informative and clear. If we can achieve this while the cameras are rolling, fine – but let us take care not to let it slip when the show’s over.

Chambers is an integrative biology graduate student from Toronto.

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Retro gaming enthusiast and graduate student of graphic design Rachel Weil founded FEMICOM, a museum to preserve and celebrate feminine themes in retro video games. Feminist issues are a major part of the GamerGate controversy.

By Breanne Deppisch Daily Texan Columnist @b_deppy

It’s a puzzling day when video game culture and politics intersect. So when I caught wind of an Austin politician whose city council platform was largely about the gaming industry, I knew something was amiss. Could this strange combination be chalked up to eccentric politicians, targeting what is perhaps their oddest and most specific subculture yet? Or has something lurking in the video game culture become so dark that our candidates risk delving into a trivially politicized industry by taking a stand?

The latter, it seems, is what many believe, and is likely what prompted Mackenzie Kelly, a candidate from District 6, to risk her entire candidacy on highlighting the flaws within a sexist video game industry as part of a widespread movement that has come to be known as “GamerGate.”

Kelly, an energetic, personable candidate who models in her spare time, has quickly become a prolific and passionate advocate for #GamerGate. When followers learned the candidate was an avid gamer, they urged her to take a stand to promote ethical treatment of women within the admittedly eccentric culture of “gaming journalism.” A curious cause that has never before received political discourse, Kelly knew that choosing to speak up would be a risky political move.

“I know no one in Austin is going to vote for me based on how I believe in ethics in gaming,” admitted Kelly. “But I do what I feel is right. I stick to the facts and the truth of the situation …

I want to see the right things done.”

GamerGate is an odd movement of consumer revolt-turned-viral-Twitter hashtag, a controversy borne in response to the misogyny that some believe riddles the video game culture. When a video game developer took to the web to publicly accuse his video game journalist girlfriend of cheating on him with other developers, diehard gaming groupies everywhere went berserk. They organized a conspiracy against her, with recurrent death threats and even the public release

And while some have dismissed the ongoing [GamerGate] controversy as a ‘tone deaf rabble of angry obsessives,’ the problems it seeks to remedy — violent harassment and sexual threats against women — are certainly worth redress. of her address and phone number. A term first coined by actor Adam Baldwin, GamerGate’s broader goal seeks to combat the marginalization of women in gaming.

And while some have dismissed the ongoing controversy as a “tone deaf rabble of angry obsessives,” the problems it seeks to remedy — violent harassment and sexual threats against women — are certainly worth redress.

“GamerGate has been diluted quite a bit from what its base value was,” said Kelley, addressing the distortion that occurred when the movement went viral. “But at its core, I still believe that there’s a group of people that believe it’s about ethics.”

While Kelly was admittedly a far cry from winning office — her campaign ranked dead last in spending in District 6 with a mere $300, and she earned a mere 9 percent of the vote — her future political efforts have certainly not been thwarted.

And most of all, she is proud to embrace her passionate, pro-gaming identity.

“There’s no reason not to be proud of being a gamer,” laughed Kelly. “I’m not in my mom’s house eating Cheetos. I’m in real life, making a positive influence on society, and I play video games.”

An unexpected candidate seeking to champion a little-known cause; a social movement with only a hashtag as its manifesto, it seems that for both Kelly and GamerGaters everywhere, their promising futures have only just begun.

Deppisch is a government senior from League City.

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After Tuesday’s Democratic loss, party can still move forward

By Katherine Adams Guest Columnist

I spent Tuesday night at the Driskill in a circle of Democrats as we all swapped our phones out with the one charger someone had brought along so we could continue poring over election returns as they rolled in.

As the night progressed, the atmosphere became more grim. You can’t sugarcoat Tuesday night — it was bad for Texas, and it was bad for the country. But I can’t think of anyone I’d rather have spent the evening with than my friends, whom I’d been standing alongside for the past 18 months, as they poured their hearts and their passion and their energy into what President Dwight Eisenhower once called “the noblest of professions”: politics.

You see, my friends believe in a dauntingly brilliant future. They envision a Texas with bright skies, clear air and clean water. They want to see a Texas that ranks first in voter engagement, not dead last.

They envision a Texas in which public schools are celebrated and supported because they know a well-educated populace

plants the seeds for the prosperity of the next generation. They want to see a Texas that supports minimum wage workers and the elderly and people who can’t access the healthcare they need. In short, they want to see a Texas that works on behalf of all its citizens.

And they believe our government can help us do all these things and live up to our potential. They believe in government as a tool to achieve great and noble goals, because they know that no single entity is ever as strong as our collective hearts and minds. And so in the face of Tuesday night, my friends are going to fight on.

Because let me be clear: The Republican party hardly has a mandate in this state.

Twenty-eight percent of voting-eligible Texans voted in the election, which means that less than a fifth of eligible Texans voted for Greg Abbott, the Republican candidate. Young people and people of color overwhelmingly supported Wendy Davis, the Democratic candidate, and demographically speaking, that’s where this state is headed.

We’ve known for years that Texas has a serious problem with voter engagement.

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That’s why organizations such as Battleground Texas and the Texas Democratic Party worked tirelessly to register citizens in the face of harmful, repressive and disenfranchising legislation, because we believe in the right of every citizen to make their voice heard.

Our home county, Travis, is a fantastic example of this. We registered almost 50,000 new voters this cycle, which helped Davis see an increase of 27,000 Travis County votes over Bill White, the previous Democratic gubernatorial candidate, in 2010. Our get out the vote efforts have re-elected a slate of wonderful progressive candidates and managed to flip the only elected office in the county with a Republican incumbent.

And we plan to continue the fight. Travis County shows that it isn’t enough to register as many voters as you possibly can before the deadline. The Democratic Party’s message is one of diversity and inclusion and opportunity for all, and during the past six years we’ve had the chance to pass terrific legislation that works to achieve just that. Since President Barack Obama has taken office, 4.5 million jobs

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have been created and unemployment is predicted to drop to 5.4 percent next summer. Now, it’s our job to share that message with the American people.

But we also have to spend the next two years engaging the American public on the issues. To start, we’re going to continue to register as many people as we can. If Tuesday night showed us anything, it’s that the American public overwhelmingly supports progressive issues, even as they elect Republican candidates. We’ll save that dissonance for another article. In the words of Jeremy Bird, senior advisor to Battleground Texas, “We’re not going anywhere.”

I was so proud to be a part of this progressive movement in Texas. Together, thousands of Texans fought for a future they knew to be worthy of the great state we live in. And as Ted Kennedy once said, “For all those whose cares have been our concern, the work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives, and the dream shall never die.”

Adams is the communications director for University Democrats. She is a mechanical engineering senior from Dripping Springs.

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By Cat Cardenas @crcardenas8

Formed in Santa Barbara, California, indie rock quintet Gardens & Villa recently released their second album, Dunes, and will be performing at Fun Fun Fun Fest on Sunday. Their first self-titled studio album came out in 2011 under the record label Secretly Canadian. The Daily Texan spoke with Adam Rasmussen, one of Gardens & Villa’s founding members, about the band’s origins and its latest album.

The Daily Texan: How did Gardens & Villa come together?

Adam Rasmussen: Chris [lead vocalist] and I had met down at the harbor in Ventura, and we ended up going out one morning. We started talking about music and had a lot of similarities. We started a musical friendship, and we’ve been making music for about 10 years or so, and Gardens & Villa is one of those incarnations. Levi, the drummer, was also part of that original crew, and, about five years ago, we met Shane and Dustin.

DT: Who would you say are your major influences as artists?

AR: I really love Brian Eno’s work, especially records like Another Green World or Taking Tiger Mountain (by Strategy). We also really love soul music and a lot of proto- and post-punk bands from the mid ’70s.

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Indie rock band Gardens & Villa is playing on the Orange Stage at Fun Fun Fun Fest at 1:30 p.m. Sunday. The quintet released its second album earlier this year.

DT: How have you all developed as artists since your first album?

AR: We learned how to play our instruments. I mean, I’m joking, but that’s honestly part of it. When we put out the debut, we were all working as mechanics or bartenders and all sorts of stuff, so making a record in that environment is a lot of work. Now, we’ve restructured our ideas and transitioned to more of a music-structured lifestyle and had a chance to explore the potential of the project.

DT: Do you think it’s hard to make a name for yourself in the industry?

AR: I think music has always kind of seemed exponential. Like in the ’60s, as many sound. We also listen a lot to Fleetwood Mac. We love Stevie Nicks. There’s this Canadian sister duo, Kate and Anna McGarrigle. Everyone tells us, ‘Your harmonies are really cool, and you’re sisters,’ but it’s hard for us to grasp what that means. But listening to other sibling duos, you can tell there’s something special about it.

records came out in a year as many records come out in like a week now. So that’s crazy, but there’s also the force of changing and evolving as a musician, and, unless what you’re trying to do is exactly what someone else is trying to do, you can kind of do your own thing and not have to pay attention to every banjo-centric band or saxophone resurgence that comes around.

DT: What are your future goals as a band?

AR: We’re kind of just trying to open up, or evolve and focus on music that gets played more and more. To make music that’s aware and genuine. We’d also like to tour to Asia and Australia. We’ve spent a lot of time in Europe DT: What has been your favorite moment in your career so far?

JS: It’s really hard to pick, but I’ll never forget when we performed for Patti Smith.

There’s this thing in Sweden called the Polar Prize, and it’s basically the Nobel Prize for music. Smith was awarded the prize, and we got to perform her song

and the States, and we’d like to continue seeing the world to change as artists and as people.

DT: What kind of impact did the change in recording venues from Santa Barbara to Lake Michigan have on the band?

AR: They’re like different worlds in the truest sense. Even though they’re contained within the same grouping of states, they feel like worlds away, as far of being a creative platform for projects and musical expressions. I think we’re gonna bring the next record back to the west coast. Michigan was cool, but it was also very cold, and this next record we’re working a lot more on more of a self-produced record.

‘Dancing Barefoot’ for her.

She cried when we played the song. It was intimidating, but she was so sweet.

We got to open for her on her tour later.

DT: How have you and your music changed since your first album?

JS: I think in many ways, we’ve grown more

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Who: Yelle When: Friday at 6:15 p.m.

French techno-pop duo Yelle has taken the world by storm since their 2005 MySpace debut single “Je Veux Te Voir” became an Internet hit. They have been producing upbeat electronic pop albums ever since, influenced by an ever-present Euro-pop house music vibe that is universally accessible, Francophile or not. Complètement Fou, their 2014 album release, is perhaps the duo’s most relaxed, defined effort so far.

Orange Stage Who: The Pains of Being Pure at Heart When: Saturday at 4:40 p.m.

Since 2007, The Pains of Being Pure at Heart have been one of the most consistent indie-pop bands in the United States, from their distortion-filled debut to the now jangle and dream-pop influence on this year’s Days of Abandon. No matter which direction band mastermind Kip Berman and his cohorts head in, the result is still just as hookfilled and glorious as it was before.

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confident on stage and in our songwriting and singing. Our voices have grown even more attuned to each other, and our harmonies are even tighter. This record is more about us. I think if you feel like you’ve experienced something to write about, then write and dare to be more private in your songs.

DT: What can the audience expect from you guys at Fun Fun Fun Fest?

JS: A lot of harmonizing.

A lot of head banging. Gold outfits. Hopefully, they’ll be moved by our songs. Pretty much our only goal in playing is that we give an honest performance and that people feel something when they hear our music.

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Karen Aston brings the program back

By Jeremy Thomas

Three years ago, head coach Karen Aston inherited a Texas team that hadn’t won an NCAA tournament game in eight years. Now, her team is ranked No. 9 in the Associated Press Preseason Poll.

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Nearly three years ago, newly named women’s basketball head coach Karen Aston sat in front of a room of familiar faces, thanking them for their belief in her and her efforts to make the team a traditional power in the sport.

“My job is to make Texas proud of the women’s basketball program,” Aston said.

“I will do everything I can to get Texas where it needs to be again.”

Aston, a Texas associate head coach in charge of recruiting under Hall of Fame coach Jody Conradt from 2000 to 2006, took over a program that had not won a tournament game since 2008.

Aston believed the program needed a new direction and a change in culture.

“There is work to be done,” Aston said. “I understand that.”

The 2012-2013 season, Aston’s first full season as Texas head coach, ended with the Longhorns finishing at 12-18 overall and eighth place in conference with a 5-13 record.

“Those were the times that were difficult,” Aston said.

Despite the losing season, Aston said the coaches and the players learned how to deal with adversity and grow

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as a program.

“Last year, that was the elephant in the room. We were unfamiliar with each other,” Aston said at the 2013 Big 12 Media Day. “I didn’t know the players, and the players didn’t know me. Everyone has bought in now.”

That buy-in for Texas resulted in a 22-12 overall record in the 2013-2014 season — good for third place in the Big 12. Aston’s philosophy of aggressive and competitive play showed as the Longhorns

topped the Big 12 in field goal percentage defense and rebounding margin.

Texas also made the postseason and won its first round game before it lost to Maryland in the next round.

Now, in year three, Aston and her coaches have a program selected as the preseason favorite to win the Big 12 and have preseason ranks of No. 9 in the Associated Press Poll and No. 12 in the Coaches Poll.

The coaching staff also signed a top freshmen

recruiting class with forward Diani Akigbogun, Gatorade Colorado Girls Basketball Player of the Year; guard Ariel Atkins, Morgan Wootten National Player of the Year; Tasia Foman, a top-25 guard in the class of 2014 by ESPN; and guard Brooke McCarty, a top-15 overall recruit

by ESPN. “You can tell the upperclassmen get what Coach [Aston] wants, and they’re just trying to coach and help us through that,” Akins said. “I want to contribute

as much as I can and get them to go as far as they can possibly go. It’s Krystle and Nneka’s senior year, and I look up to them a lot. They deserve it, so just to get as far as we can.”

Reflecting back on the past two years, Aston said she thinks the team has a good blend of players for the first time in three years.

“It feels a little better than it did three years ago when I sat in this chair — a little less nerve-wracking,” Aston said in October. “I’m excited about the season beginning.”

Longhorns return home, set to battle Kansas State

Texas tips-off new season Sunday as favorites to win conference title

The last time the Longhorns played a Big 12 match in Gregory Gym, they left the game with a bad taste in their mouths.

After beating Oklahoma in every match in Austin since 2008, Texas finally fell 3-0 due in large part to unforced errors, including seven service errors.

“The girls were very upset about it, and the coaches thought about it and looked at a lot of film [to] evaluate everything,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “But at the end of the day, you get back and understand that losses are a part of college athletics.”

Since that loss, the Longhorns have won their past four matches, including games against Texas Tech and Iowa State on the road and the two exhibition matches against Zhejiang.

But Texas will now face its toughest Big 12 match since that loss when it goes up against No. 22 Kansas State at home Friday.

“That game against Oklahoma — we did not play our game at all, and we played a little intimidated, and we were just shaky,” freshman libero Cat McCoy said. “So we’re just going to come out and dominate and play how we normally play.”

Before the loss to Oklahoma, the Longhorns were undefeated and running through conference play with relative ease. Even at the start of the match, Texas had a 10-5 lead in the first set before it all went downhill with errors.

However, the Longhorns

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have rebounded well after the loss. Despite dropping a set, Texas took care of business against Iowa State, a team that has been difficult for them in the past. On Wednesday night, the Longhorns dominated every facet of the game in a clean sweep of Texas Tech in Lubbock.

In those two road games, Texas posted hitting percentages of .259 and .262 and combined for nine service errors and two reception errors — two things that hurt in the loss to Oklahoma.

“It just shows that we’re doing the simple things right,” McCoy said. “We’re executing at a high level right now, which is good.”

The going is about to get a little bit tougher with Kansas State coming into town. While the Wildcats will likely fall from their No. 22 ranking after losing to Iowa State on Wednesday, they remain a contender for the conference title if Texas were to stumble again down the road.

Kansas State also ranks second in the conference in kills, assists and blocks per set.

Offensively, freshman outside hitter Kylee Zumach, who is third in the Big 12 with 325 kills and fourth with 355 points scored, leads the Wildcats. On the defensive end, senior middle blocker Natali Jones leads the conference with 114 blocks.

Still, Elliott said the team’s focus is on the Texas side of the net and being more consistent.

“We’ll have a game where we’ll hit .400 or .500 and then hit .200,” Elliott said. “So it’s coming out and managing our game.”

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Freshman libero Cat McCoy is averaging four digs a set on the season and will look to increase that number against No. 22 Kansas State on Friday.

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It’s a new season for Texas women’s basketball.

After losing to Maryland in the second round of the NCAA Tournament last season, the Longhorns will open their season Sunday with the hope of grabbing a third Big 12 title.

After a strong finish last season and a long offseason, Texas is now the preseason favorite to win the Big 12 conference title for the first time since 2004. The Longhorns have an impressive No. 3 preseason national ranking from SLAM Magazine and are ranked No. 9 by ESPN. “I’m really, really looking forward to seeing what this team is capable of doing,” head coach Karen Aston said.

After two home games, the Longhorns will have early tests this season when they travel to the west coast to play No. 6 Stanford and No. 23 UCLA. In addition to the games on the west coast, Texas will also battle No. 4 Tennessee and No. 5 Texas A&M before the conference season begins.

Aston, in her third consecutive season as head coach, said she favors the

SWEED

continues from page 1 extremely grateful for the opportunity that I had and the chance to be on a great team that made it to the Super Bowl; it was all a blessing,” Sweed said.

Whether injuries or his five drops in 20 targets, Sweed was unable to catch onto another team. After failed tryouts with the Bears, Bengals and Giants, Sweed looked to Canada.

The Saskatchewan Roughriders signed him, but, before he even played a game, he left for “personal reasons.”

“The media never really knew, but my daughter’s mama had thyroid cancer,”

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Freshman guard Ariel Atkins looks to help the Longhorns build upon last season when they went 22-12.

tough start in non-conference play.

“We are in better shape this year and that probably comes from the third year of training,” Aston said. “We have a base now, where we can really play a lot of different ways.”

However, Aston isn’t afraid to admit her freshmen players — including High School Player of the Year and freshman guard Ariel Atkins — don’t have all the plays under their belts yet, and, despite the confidence boost from high expectations, the team still has a long road ahead.

“One game at a time — that’s really the only thing we need to focus on,” Aston said.

Texas has 10 returning letter-winners this season, including 6-foot-7 junior center Imani McGee-Stafford, who fouled out in the final minute against Maryland.

Stafford was given preseason All-Big 12 honors while Atkins was named the Preseason Freshman on the Year.

In addition to the Longhorns’ strong returning core, ESPN recently ranked Texas’ recruiting class No. 11, giving Aston more confidence in her team.

“We have experience to go along with some young ones that will bring us a different level of energy and, to say the least, talent,” Aston said.

Sweed said. “That’s why I left Canada. I needed to be there for my family. It was unfortunate, too, because they won the Grey Cup. I would have had the three major championships.”

With that, his playing days ended.

Now, at 29, he roams the hand-drawn, uneven sidelines of the Chapa Middle School football field in Kyle, Texas, a small town less than 30 miles south of Austin.

“I like coaching these knuckleheads,” Sweed said, teasing three of his students that followed him out to the bleachers after school. “I can lead them in the right direction. I’ve been there and know what it takes.”

He’s been there just three

months — his first stint as a coach and teacher — and is still getting used to it.

“The hardest thing is adjusting to the administration,” Sweed said. “It’s like being a rookie all over again. The coaching part is easy to me.”

But most importantly for Sweed, he gets to be there for his kids.

“I’m at peace here,” Sweed said. “It allows me to see my children as needed and watch them grow up and not miss out on their lives.”

However, Sweed can only look back on what was once such a promising career.

“I can still play, man; I can still play,” Sweed said, mentioning that he can still probably run a 4.47 40. “Injuries, though. Injuries.”

Jessica Glennie, varsity rower and architecture senior, became the 29th Texas student and the ninth Texas athlete to be awarded a Rhodes Scholarship on Thursday.

Glennie will study at the University of Oxford, focusing on environmental policy and change.

“On behalf of the whole Longhorn family, I congratulate Jessica on this great honor,” UT President William Powers Jr. said.

—Evan Berkowitz

Texas soccer ready for semifinal matchup

The women’s soccer team will play a semifinal match against No. 9 West Virginia on Friday at 5:30 p.m. in Kansas City, Missouri, after advancing on penalty kicks against No. 10 Texas Tech in the quarterfinal round of the Big 12 tournament.

Texas dropped a 2-0 home contest to West Virginia back in September that started an eightgame Mountaineer winning streak that shows no signs of stopping.

A confident Texas team will not be able to rely on stout defense alone to upset the top-seeded team in the Big 12 tournament.

The West Virginia offensive machine is averaging 2.37 goals per game, and four Mountaineers have at least five goals on the season.

Fortunately for the Longhorns, junior midfielder Chantale Campbell has played her best soccer in the Big 12 Championship, notching five points over her career in the tournament, including a crucial penalty kick against Texas Tech on Wednesday.

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music did for us when we were younger and still does.

It makes you feel less lonely, and that’s what we wanted to do. We wanted to give that gift to people.

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Fun Fun Fun brings in lesser-known gems

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Fun Fun Fun Fest is upon us again, overtaking Auditorium Shores this weekend with a multitude of headliners and smaller, lesser-known gems appearing at the Black, Blue, Orange and Yellow stages.

Here is The Daily Texan’s list of not-to-be-missed shows this year: Black Stage Who: Iceage When: Saturday at 4:05 p.m.

Iceage, who were originally one of the most

cathartic and noisy post-hardcore bands in recent memory, have changed into something much more dynamic with their newest album, Plowing Into the Field of Love. Infusing stronger Gothic influences while incorporating the likes of horns and violins into their music, Iceage forged ahead with a more mature sound.

The band was already a force of nature when it performed previously, so it will be interesting and well-worth it to see how the set changed to fit Iceage’s new style.

Anaiah Lei make up the Los Angeles grunge rock band The Bots, who released their first full-length album, Pink Palms, just last month. New to the music scene, the two produced their first album when they were still in grade school, and they have since performed alongside renowned bands, such as the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. The album draws on punk, rock and some blues and folk influences to create a modern and energized garage band sound.

Who: The Bots When: Sunday at 12:45 p.m.

Brothers Mikaiah and

Blue Stage Who: Run the Jewels When: Friday at 4:15 p.m.

Although technically

only formed in 2013, Run the Jewels have decades of experience behind them.

The duo is the coming together of southern hiphop extraordinaire Killer Mike and New York City mainstay El-P. Together, they make hip-hop that is even more intense, brutal and unrelenting than they do on their own.

Their latest album, Run the Jewels 2, manages to build on everything they accomplished with their self-titled album from last year. It’s a grimier, crueler and bleaker collection of tracks, with the spitfire in each verse more palatable

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When Johanna and Klara Söderberg of the Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit began planning their current tour, they told their manager they had to find a way to come back to one of their favorite cities — Austin. In 2008, the two sisters, at 17 and 15, began touring after their covers of country and indie ballads gained popularity on YouTube. The duo came to America in 2010 after the debut of their first album, The Big Black and the Blue.

This summer, the band released its third album, Stay Gold. The Daily Texan spoke with First Aid Kit about their work and their upcoming performance Saturday at Fun Fun Fun Fest.

DT: What’s it like working with each other?

KS: Horrible. The worst.

Johanna Söderberg: Yeah.

We hate each other.

KS: No, no — Johanna and I know each other better than anyone else in the world. It’s a very intimate relationship, and, when we sing, it’s great because we don’t really have to talk to each other. It’s just something that comes so natural to us. It’s just a very, very special thing, and I’m just so lucky to have a sister with such a beautiful voice.

DT: What or who are your music inspirations? Is there anything particular that inspired Stay Gold?

JS: We have so many influences; it’s an endless list.

The Daily Texan: Where did the name ‘First Aid Kit’ come from?

Klara Söderberg: The idea behind it is that music really helps you. That’s what

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Swedish folk duo First Aid Kit is on tour and will make a stop at Fun Fun Fun Fest on Saturday.

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