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Students protest sexual misconduct at Tower By Lauren Grobe & Graysen Golter
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Students gathered in the Tower Friday and chanted phrases such as “Abusive professors deserve to die!” and “Kick out abusive creeps!” during the second Sit-In for Student Safety. Around 20 students called for the firing of English associate professor Coleman Hutchison and Sahotra Sarkar, integrative biology and philosophy professor, who were both found guilty of sexual misconduct by the University. The protesters also requested a campuswide email explicitly naming the professors and a University apology for employing professors guilty of misconduct. A 2018 University investigation found Hutchison violated UT’s sexual misconduct policy after making sexual comments to students and failing to disclose a relationship with a graduate student. Sarkar was suspended for one semester in 2017 after a University investigation found he violated UT’s Title IX policies by making inappropriate comments to students, according to the Austin American-Statesman. Hutchison and Sarkar did not respond to requests for comment before publication. Around 60 students previously held a sit-in in the Tower on Oct. 25, where they requested the University acknowledge allegations of sexual misconduct in a campuswide email and release a report of all professors found guilty of sexual misconduct by UT. During Friday’s protest outside the provost’s office, students posted signs on the walls outside of the provost’s office, the president’s office, the accused
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Defensive back D’Shawn Jamison celebrates with fans following the Longhorns’ 27-24 win over then-No.16 Kansas State. The game ended following a walk-off field goal from sophomore kicker Cameron Dicker.
Texas is ranked No. 22 in the AP poll following its win against the Kansas State Wildcats. By Donnavan Smoot @dsmoot3D
or the second time this season, fans at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium left feeling relieved after watching sophomore kicker Cameron Dicker kick a game-winning field goal. This time, Dicker hit it into the south
end zone, gifting both sets of field goal posts with the joy of having a game winner kicked through it in the last three weeks. As great of a moment as it was for Dicker, Saturday night wasn’t about him. It was about how Texas got to that moment and what comes next. Texas was “on the ropes” — as head coach Tom Herman regularly phrases it— for the majority of the first quarter. The Longhorns had a blown assignment that lead to a 70-yard touchdown, a missed 55-yard field goal from Dicker and then proceeded to give up another score to the Wildcats to dig a 14-0 hole. The problems Texas struggled with going into the bye week were making a ferocious return. But the Longhorns turned it around. They outscored Kansas
State 27-10 for the remainder of the game and walked off the field with their sixth win of the season. “Teams that (aren’t together, don’t love each other), they splinter, and it turns into a blowout,” Herman said. “They wave the white flag, and it could have been a really, really bad scene in DKR.” Texas was able to right the ship primarily off the strength of its defense. For the first time all season, the defense was able to hold a Power Five opponent to under 30 points. It isn’t a coincidence that this all comes with the return of safeties B.J. Foster and Caden Sterns. “We showed y’all that this is what happens when (we’re) fully healthy,” freshman defensive lineman Keondre Coburn said. “This is a very great team, unbelievable
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Insomnia Cookies celebrated its grand opening in West Campus Sunday after three months of delay. The Daily Texan previously reported the late-night cookie delivery company intended to open its location on 2323 San Antonio St. by the end of summer, but complications with utilities during construction delayed the opening. Hazi Ortiz, a call center supervisor for Insomnia Cookies, said completing the location was a relief. “We didn’t want to have to push anything off into the start of next semester,” Ortiz said. “We got a lot of pushback from the delay, so getting all together before Thanksgiving was better than anyone here could have imagined.” Ortiz said now that the company has opened its doors, it can focus on
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Insomnia Cookies celebrates grand opening after delay By Sara Johnson
team, and that’s what we did.” Coming into the Kansas State matchup, Texas had focused on its leadership throughout its program. One of the key leaders Herman says tends to be overlooked is senior defensive lineman Malcolm Roach. Herman said Roach’s vocal presence was evident throughout the game, even offering him a coaching spot once his playing career is over. “This means a lot to him,” Herman said. “He has the ability to relate to everybody in that locker room. That things that he says are very passionate, but also very poignant.” His leadership isn’t evident to only Herman. It is felt by everyone on the team.
establishing a relationship with the University community. “The whole company is based around college students, since that was where the idea for Insomnia Cookies came out of,” Ortiz said. “Without students, we wouldn’t be anywhere near where we are now.” Texas Royals spirit group hosted a profit share fundraiser for the Darrell K Royal Research Fund for Alzheimer’s Disease as part of the grand opening, becoming the first campus group to partner with the new Insomnia Cookies location. Petra O’Brien, Texas Royals’ public relations officer, said the group has had previous success fundraising with restaurants near campus. “One of the ways we see students interact with our philanthropy the most is when there’s food involved,” advertising junior O’Brien C O O K I E S PAGE 2
California clothing retailer Chubbies uses sale to mark Austin arrival By Sara Johnson @skjohn1999
A California-born online clothing company introduced itself to Austin this weekend with a sample sale on The Drag. The company, Chubbies, sells men’s casual clothing, including shorts and swimwear. The sample sale was held at the former Co-op Art Store location, and it was the company’s first in-store event since its headquarters moved from California to Austin in late September, said co-founder Kyle Hency. “(The move) was the best way to make sure all of our employees had the resources to live comfortably while working for us,” Hency said. “Me and the others who started this are younger than a lot of other executives, so we’re thinking about living costs above everything else.” Hency and three other Stanford University
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Customers sift through bins of swim trunks and casual shorts at the Chubbies sample sale on Guadalupe Street on Saturday, Nov. 9. graduates founded Chubbies in 2011. Hency said college-aged men are the company’s target audience and played a role in their
decision to host a sale event near campus. “It seemed like the best way to get people talking about Chubbies being
here,” Hency said. “We may not have any plans to open a store on the C H U B B I E S PAGE 3