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Money will be on the minds of both the University and the UT System during the 2015 legislative session. Barry McBee, System vice chancellor of governmental relations, said the System will push legislators for additional funding to support institutional growth and programs, particularly for veterans. Meanwhile, UT-Austin President William Powers Jr.
said the University hopes to receive money to provide for faculty salary increases. Powers said the University has been unable to raise faculty salaries for the past few years because of limited funding. “We’re falling behind at a competitive notion,” Powers said. “I think we need to put some resources into that. We need more sections of some classes. It’s been tough managing with flat and actually decreased — even in
nominal dollars — budgets.” According to Powers, UT takes a $40 million hit every year from inflation and another $40 million hit from building and equipment depreciation. “Buildings get old and they have to constantly be renovated with the air conditioning and heating and infrastructure,” Powers said. “We’ve had some deferred maintenance that we’ve got to get done.”
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Stephanie Tacy | Daily Texan Staff With the Texas Legislature set to reconvene in January, the University and UT System look for an increase in state funding.
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Bus driver seeks connection with riders By Danielle Lopez @ldlopz
Frazzled students take refuge from the rain underneath the bus stop. The walk to class never seems as trialridden as it does on days like these. Coming around the corner, maneuvering the monstrous 40 Acres shuttle with a bright smile, is Paula Law Williams. How Williams became a bus driver begins with a love story in Pittsburgh. There was a boy from one town over. After a few hours of talking, she gave him her phone number and address. When she got home that same day, there was a teddy bear and flowers waiting for her. After months passed, she
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Paula Law Williams’ journey to Austin began as a love story in Pittsburgh, as she followed a boy from the next town over to Austin. Williams has been a bus driver for Capital Metro for the past 14 years.
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Students in West Campus now have the option for a gigabit Internet service that, while present in parts of Austin, has not been available in the area for residents to purchase. Grande Communications is the first service provider to bring gigabit Internet to West Campus, beating other providers to the area. Grande said the new service provides Internet that is 10 times faster than its current Internet plan. Grande’s gigabit service has been offered since February in other parts of Austin and costs $64.99 a month. “It’s available now,” said Matt Rohre, senior vice president of operations and general manager for Grande. “Everyone else is talking about theirs, and ours is there. People are using it.” Grande expanded its service to West Campus to reach University students, Rohre said. “We know students, as much as or more than anyone else, truly value a great Internet experience,” Rohre said “It was adjacent to our existing territory and kind of a logical progression for us to go [to West Campus] and make the service available in that area.” Google Fiber announced its Austin pricing plan Monday. The company’s
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Martinez addresses runoff election plan By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng
Mike Martinez, Austin City Council member and mayoral candidate, sat down with The Daily Texan to discuss his plans should he be elected. Martinez faces off against Steve Adler in the runoff for Austin mayor Dec. 16. Early voting for the runoff election begins Dec. 1. The interview is the first of two with the mayoral candidates. The Daily Texan: What are some issues that directly impact students that you plan on working for? Mike Martinez: For me, the things that I’ve worked on is things like our public transit agency, making sure we expand our public transportation and folks have alternatives to paying for cars and car insurance. I’ve just announced we are going to launch the conversation about how we can get to the largest bus service expansions. Prop. 1 failing does not mean we do not try to be better. Students directly benefit from public
Michael Baez| Daily Texan Staff
Mark Strama, head of Google Fiber in Austin, answers questions about Google’s Fiber’s new office in downtown Austin.
Google Fiber to begin service in Austin area Lauren Ussery | Daily Texan Staff
Austin City Council member Mike Martinez will face off against Steve Adler in the runoff election for Austin mayor.
transportation, and it affects their affordability. DT: Why do you disagree with Adler’s proposed 20 percent homestead exemption? MM: I’ve consistently not supported a 20 percent homestead exemption
By Adam Hamze @adamhamz
across the board because it’ll raise rent, and renters make up more than 50 percent of Austin residents. While those policies sound good to homeowners, it doesn’t benefit those who need it the most.
a flat-rate homestead exemption instead. Why is that better than a 20 percent homestead exemption? MM: For oversimplification, if you have a milliondollar home and you have a 20 percent exemption, your
DT: You said you supported
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With Austin set to become the second city in the country to adopt Google Fiber, the new Internet service announced its initial pricing plan and unveiled the location of its downtown office. Mark Strama, head of Google Fiber in Austin and former state representative, also announced the costs
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Wake Forest University assistant professor talks about how racial tensions in the U.S. have influenced welfare programs. PAGE 3
Immigration action brings needed relief. PAGE 4
Javan Felix takes over for injured Isaiah Taylor. PAGE 6
UT student video responds to Mexico kidnappings. PAGE 8
US, Iranian leaders need to cooperate more. PAGE 4
Shipley departure marks the end of an era. PAGE 6
Thanksgiving offers students chance to volunteer. PAGE 8
Snapchat’s Our Campus Story has returned to UT. Find out more in a video online at dailytexanonline.com
for the three tiers of service. The basic tier offers a 5 MB download speed and 1 MB upload speed and will cost a $300 construction fee but will not require users to pay a monthly fee. The second tier offers 1 GB of upload and download speed, and costs $70 per month, which Strama said will be an asset for people who need access
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Jacob Beardsley lights his candle at UT’s Hex Rally in front of the Main Building on Monday night.
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continues from page 1 At the Board of Regents meeting in November, McBee said the System intends to make receiving state support for the construction of new institutional buildings its top priority. “The principle reason why we need state support is because we haven’t had it in almost a decade,” McBee said. “We’ve added 26,000 students within The University of Texas System since then. We are asking the legislature for
continues from page 1 to an above average amount of content. The third tier includes the 1 GB speed and Google Fiber television service, which offers 150 highdefinition channels and costs $130 per month. Google Fiber’s new workspace, located at the former site of the Austin’s Children
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comprehensive and statewide support to develop new buildings for the 21st century and to replace older buildings.” Along with funding for construction, McBee said the System would be seeking state support for paying the cost of Hazlewood benefits for veterans. The Hazlewood Act, first adopted in Texas in 1929, grants veterans an exemption from paying tuition at public universities. In 2009, veterans’ family members were also made eligible to receive benefits. According to McBee, System
Museum at Second and Colorado streets, will open in December, when the Internet service will become available to citizens living in South and Southeast Austin. Google Fiber uses fiber-optic cables to deliver connection speeds that, according to Google, are 100 times faster than current standard broadband speeds. Strama said the 23,000 square-foot space will not only be a place to experience the Internet and television services — but also a place to host the community. “When Whole Foods opened that store on Sixth and Lamar, they called it their ‘love letter to the city of Austin,’ and I thought that we needed something to capture that spirit,” Strama said. “We anticipate having town hall meetings and political forums, as well as concerts and hack-a-thons and really cool technologycentric events.” Google Fiber spokeswoman Kelly Mason said she believes the product will provide those in the technology industry, specifically application developers, the opportunity to create products that were formerly not sustainable on a typical broadband network. “Google Fiber came about because we saw that Internet speeds in the U.S. were falling behind, and there was an artificial ceiling being put on innovation because of lower speeds in the web,” Mason said. “The future of the web is built on innovation, and these high speeds will support that.” Google Fiber will not be available on and around UT’s campus when it launches in December, although Strama said there is a possibility that surrounding student housing areas will be eligible to get the service if enough people sign up. “We’ve been in ongoing discussions with Google — as we would be with any other service — and are happy to continue that conversation,” UT spokesman Gary Susswein said.
institutions forwent about $42 million in tuition revenue during the 2013-2014 fiscal year because of the Hazlewood Act. He said this amount is expected to increase as more people leave military service. “The UT System has always been in support of [the act], but it is an increasingly expensive benefit,” McBee said. “And it is one where the legislature simply exempts those students from paying tuition and it does not provide, other than in a nominal amount, an offset of other funding. We will ask the
legislature to fully fund the Hazlewood benefit.” McBee said another priority during the 2015 legislative session is to receive state support for institutional research and funding to increase the health care workforce in Texas. “I think it’s a pretty comprehensive list,” Chairman Paul Foster said during the regents’ meeting. “Obviously, it’s a fluid list and one that changes throughout the legislative session as our priorities become more apparent to us.” In an interview Friday, McBee said, although the
legislature should have an extra amount of money to spend because of a state surplus, he is unsure what amount of funding will be allocated toward higher education. “We’ll get a picture of that when the comptroller provides an updated revenue estimate early in the session in January of 2015,” McBee said. “We would certainly hope that legislators see the value of an estimate in higher education as part of the state’s critical infrastructure and would continue to keep the economy strong, given the state surplus.”
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Hana Brown, assistant professor of sociology at Wake Forest University, speaks at the Liberal Arts Building on Monday afternoon about the impact of racial tensions on welfare programs. Brown observed patterns in Georgia and Arizona.
Assistant professor discusses racial tensions, welfare reform By Matthew Adams @matthewadams60
A Wake Forest University assistant professor spoke Monday at the College of Liberal Arts Building about how racial tensions impact the passage of welfare programs. Hana Brown, who works in Wake Forest’s Department of Sociology, examines in her new book, the racial and political impact of the Welfare Reform Act of 1996. Brown used a comparison of racial situations in Georgia and Arizona in the early 1990s to show their influence on the passage of the act. Within these issues, Brown’s focus was on punitive states, such as Georgia and Arizona, that enforced tougher welfare laws, while Alabama and California laws were more lenient. Brown said the issue that led to the passage of the act in Georgia was the state flag. According to Brown, Zell Miller made the issue a priority of his office when he became Georgia’s governor in 1991. Although the flag issue may not appear to relate to welfare programs, Brown said that it raised racial tensions. “At the time, more and more people were getting involved in this issue,” Brown said. “People in the African-American
People in the African-American community were so outraged that groups of students stood on the steps of the Georgia Capitol burning the state flag. —Hana Brown, Assistant professor at Wake Forest University
community were so outraged that groups of students stood on the steps of the Georgia Capitol burning the state flag. As a result, whites became upset.” According to Brown, white people sent letters claiming they lost trust in the governor and were threatening to vote against him. Brown said the letters to the governor were often racially motivated. Eventually, Miller’s philosophy began to shift and he supported more restrictive welfare laws. Brown said in the early 1990s, racial issues guided Arizona laws on immigration. According to Brown, the issues of the 1990s led to the passage of Senate Bill 1070 in 2010 in Arizona, a bill that put stricter restrictions on illegal immigration. “Arizona had a very similar feeling,” Brown said. “Most of their feelings dealt with the immigration and
you could sense the animosity toward Latinos. A feeling was created that those who should be receiving entitlements are whites.” As a result of this, Arizona implemented more restricted laws toward its welfare programs. Comparing the issues in Arizona and Georgia, Brown said three implications prevail, including public attitude leading to political changes, understanding one’s racial status, and their overall impacts on the welfare states. Sociology professor Jennifer Glass said she found it interesting how gender is not an issue in these studies. “It is amazing to me that of the issue of gender and even children have not been brought up,” Glass said. “It is fascinating that the people who are involved in these programs were not mentioned in the letters and they are simply ignored.”
Communications senior Noah Solis browses the web in the 26 West study lounge Monday evening. Students living in West Campus will soon have the option for gigabit Internet service through Grande Communications.
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services will start in Austin in December but, at this time, will not be offered in West Campus. Mark Strama, head of Google Fiber Austin, said Monday that the service could become available to students living in the area in the future. Emma Duffy, accounting and finance junior, said the high-speed Internet would be helpful since the Internet in her West Campus co-op is inconsistent. She said she would be willing to pay for the service. “Students use a lot of streaming services and faster speeds are good for that,” Duffy said. “My connection is a bit annoying at the moment.” Despite Grande’s service being available now, Corey Monreal-Jackson, human development and family sciences junior and
We know students, as much as or more than anyone else, truly value a great Internet experience. —Matt Rohre, Senior vice president of operations and general manager for Grande
West Campus resident, said he does not plan to purchase the service from Grande. He said he would only pay for the gigabit services if Google offered them, even if services are comparable. “Google’s a buzzword,” Monreal-Jackson said. “You hear Google and you already are for it because, whether or not they truly are the best, they are going to be known as the best regardless of the services
they offer.” Karen Munoz, undeclared freshman and West Campus resident, said, while services like the gigabit Internet are nice, they are too expensive and are unnecessary for students. “I think that’s too much for Internet,” Munoz said. “Right now I don’t pay anything where I live, and my Internet seems fine. I don’t think it’s slow or anything, so I wouldn’t buy it.”
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MARTINEZ continues from page 1 property tax bill is based off of an $800,000 home. The more value you have in your home, the percentage-based exemption benefits you the most. If you do a flat rate exemption — let’s say you do a $100,000 worth of exemption and you live in a $100,000 house. If you live in that home, your whole tax bill is wiped. We can do it on a flat rate basis for seniors and [those who are] disabled and we raised that to $71,000. You would have that taken off your property tax every year. DT: How would the 20 percent homestead exemption affect renters? MM: It would cause rents to go up. To pay for the $36 million to implement the homestead exemption you’d have to go to the budget; you have to find $36 million somewhere. DT: What are ways the City of Austin can help students? MM: Transportation has a huge impact on affordability. UT students make up 17 percent of our entire ridership, which is huge. But it has dropped significantly over the last six years. If you look at West Campus and you look at the University neighborhood overlay so densification could happen — we said let’s put students nearer campus, let’s create density around and near the campus
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so students can ride a bike or walk. So all the density near campus has worked against CapMetro, but it’s the right thing to do. You don’t want to plan city so that students and residents are dependent on transportation, you want to make them independent of transportation. DT: Water conservation has been tossed around a few times this election cycle. Adler has cited San Antonio’s high rates of reusing their water — 20 percent in comparison to our 6 percent. Can we do better? MM: When you think about [Saturday’s] rain and the amount of water that fell across Austin — if we had policy that asked buildings to have an onsite capture system, we could capture thousands of gallons for gray-water purposes, like irrigating or flushing toilets. It’s not just reusing water — it’s
capturing that precious water instead of letting it flow south of Austin. DT: Since the runoff election takes place during finals, does the possibility of decreased student turnout worry you? MM: It is a concern. The reason I championed moving our elections to November was so students could be involved in making decisions about their local officials. We’ve always had our elections in May and turnout has always been low because students had gone for the summer. In November, students were able to participate at a level they never had. Our goal is to station ourselves on campus every day of early vote and make sure they participate. We know we can still have a strong student turnout; we just need to remind them about early vote.
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To end decades of hostility, US, Obama’s immigration action brings needed relief to millions Iranian leaders must cooperate On Thursday night, President Barack Obama — in a much anticipated announcement — unilaterally issued an executive order that altered the immigration system in significant ways. He shielded between four and five million undocumented immigrants from deportation, albeit temporarily. And while the majority of these migrants in question, all those with American citizen children, may not be University students, they are likely friends and family to many around campus. Additionally, other components of this plan have a far more direct impact on the University. Obama’s plan expands eligibility under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, a similar executive action undertaken in 2012 to shield the “Dreamers,” people brought into this country as children without proper authorization. One of the ways it expands this eligibility is by removing an obsolete requirement in which people needed to have been younger than 31 on June 15, 2012 (the date DACA was announced) to be eligible for the program. Obama’s executive order also ends the misguided Secure Communities Program, which this editorial board has previously lambasted as “Orwellian” and a deprivation of due process rights. While the program merely shared immigration status with the federal government of anyone ac-
cused of even a non-violent crime, Obama has promised a suitable replacement that would actually focus on violent criminals. The president is well within his legal authority to advance this plan. The concept of using the executive branch’s prosecutorial discretion to prioritize the deportation of some people over others is a bipartisan notion that has been invoked by most modern day chief executives. Claims from the right that Obama is ignoring the U.S. Constitution to engage in some type of mass amnesty are patently false, especially since deportation has escalated to record numbers — much to our ire — over the course of his presidency. This country’s immigration system is simply broken, and comprehensive steps are necessary to fix it. Last year’s reform legislation, which passed a bipartisan vote in the U.S. Senate but languished in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives, was a good start. We hope Congress can reach some type of deal on this heavy matter, including a pathway to citizenship for most of the 11 million undocumented immigrants in this country. But we’re not naïve enough to think that will happen with Republicans controlling both houses of Congress. Accordingly, we strongly urge President Obama to defend his plan in the face of the unwavering criticism and pushback it will surely receive from the next Congress.
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Attendees mingle at the second Startup Job Fair on Friday. Thirty Austin startups came to recruit UT students from all majors.
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UT Austin’s Startup Job Fair on Friday welcomed 30 Austin startups that are interested in enlisting Longhorns to their teams. The fair was created and is hosted by the Longhorn Entrepreneurship Agency (LEA) of Student Government and is sponsored by my office, Liberal Arts Career Services (LACS). Last Friday’s fair was only our second ever but we plan on hosting them every semester. The next fair is planned for March 10th, 2015 during UT Entrepreneurship Week. The first thing Bob Metcalfe, UT Austin’s Professor of Innovation, did when he walked into the fair last Friday was tell LEA Director Amanda Barrington and me why he loved the idea of this event. He referred back to when two Y-Combinator partners visited his Longhorn Startup Seminar in October. They told the group of about 100 students interested in entrepreneurship that they probably aren’t the best positioned for being the core founder of a new business. Instead, entrepreneurial students should consider working at a well-funded startup like one of the 27 that their Y-Combinator has produced that are worth over $100 million (according to a 11/21 tweet by Y-Combinator President Sam Altman). Typical college students are committed to a full class load, a few student organizations, a precious social life and recruiting. You can’t just throw your own startup on top of that unless you sacrifice something else. Plus, being paid to work at a startup allows you to learn the entrepreneurial process on someone else’s dime. Working for a startup also gives you the opportunity to play a real role in a special mission to change the world. At our breakfast this semester, I told fellow UT Friar Society members one thing when it was my turn to speak. “If you are in this room, have graduated in the last 5 years and are a consultant then you should quit your job and help start something.” The reason I said that was to combat a disheartening idea put forth by Peter Thiel, one of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley, in his book “Zero to One.” Thiel describes our society as one that thinks optimistically about an indefinite future. Our
best graduates are going into fields where they’ll create few concrete plans to build a better world but still expect it to be better in the future. Management consultants go from project to project implementing operational efficiency procedures with no long-term interest in the future of the business. Lawyers step in and solve other people’s problems then get out of the way. Investment bankers rely on the tenet that nobody knows whether the market will go up and down and therefore rely on diversification of assets. This indefinite optimism is inherently unsustainable according to Thiel. How does the future get better when nobody plans for the improvement? I’ll admit the quickest route to what we traditionally consider success (financial security, job prestige, etc.) is probably a career in consulting, investment banking or law. In that sense, it makes sense the best students are pursuing these fields. However, at a University that prides itself on producing people that will change the world, shouldn’t our graduates enter fields with more agency over the future? Working for a startup, you will have agency not only over your life but a new part of the world. Startups develop a vision for the future and grind it out to make that vision a reality. Founders play the leading role in this but, of course, it couldn’t be done without help. Employees contribute directly to the success or failure of every startup while still earning a consistent salary that can help pay bills and student debt. Good startups set aside stock to offer their employees as an incentive to offset lower salaries. Then once the startup takes off, you can cash those stock options in and use those funds to launch your own company. Hundreds of students visited the Startup Job Fair last Friday in search of a startup to join. If you missed the fair, there is a startup networking event (or ten) happening every night in Austin. Otherwise, join us during UT Entrepreneurship Week on March 10th for the next UT Austin Startup Job Fair. Spiller is a rhetoric and writing alumnus. While a student, he founded the Longhorn Entrepreneurship Agency of Student Government. and worked as a Daily Texan opinion columnist. He writes about UT entrepreneurship on his blog at UThinkTankNick.com and can be found on Twitter @Nick_Spiller.
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In the world of international politics, allies and adversaries seem static for long periods of time, but then they shift quickly and decisively. American relations with Russia are an excellent example of this phenomenon. The countries were Cold War enemies in the 1980s, strategic partners in the 1990s, and now they are antagonists again. Iraq is another prime example. In the 1980s Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was an American ally, in the 1990s he became a strategic threat, and in 2003 Americans labeled him an enemy in the “Global War on Terror.” Britain’s great nineteenth century prime minister, Lord Palmerston, put it best when he observed that countries do not have permanent allies or adversaries, only permanent interests. During the 1970s, Iran was one of the United States’ most important allies in the Middle East. Under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s dictatorship, the government in Tehran used its vast oil wealth to build a modern state that imported technology from abroad and contained both communism and Islamism in the region. The United States, Israel and Saudi Arabia worked closely with Iran to protect the flow of oil and maintain political stability. When the Islamic Revolution in Iran overthrew the Shah in 1979 and held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days, the United States and Tehran became mortal enemies. Iran’s new leader, the Ayatollah Kohmeini, called America the “Great Satan.” Presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan labeled Iran a “terrorist state” and they worked to overthrow the regime. Carter and Reagan also negotiated with the Iranian government when they felt the regime could facilitate the release of American hostages in Tehran and other parts of the Middle East. These negotiations, however, did not reduce the enmity between Washington and Tehran. Iran’s effort to develop nuclear power, and an accompanying weapons capability, crossed both periods, before and after the 1979 revolution. Encouraged by the United States, the Shah used his wealth to purchase capabilities and resources from foreign suppliers, including France, Germany and the United States. Cut off from many of these suppliers after 1979, the Islamic government turned to other sources, including the illegal network run by Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan. During the two periods Iran’s partners changed dramatically, but its nuclear ambitions remained consistent. This often neglected history brings us to the current moment in relations between the United States and Iran. Years of sanctions and isolation have taken their toll on an Iranian society that struggles to access foreign supplies
and technology. Internally, citizens have shown frustration with an Islamic regime that is unable to deliver an improved standard of living for its growing population. The Arab Spring began in Iran in 2009 with street protests against an election stolen by the Islamic leaders. In 2013, Iranians elected a foreign-educated president who promised reforms and an opening to the West, despite the continued domination of religious mullahs in the country’s politics. The United States remains firmly committed to both the denuclearization of the Islamic government in Iran and democratic reforms. As it negotiates for these goals, Washington has found itself cooperating, at least informally, with the Iranians on a number of common strategic challenges. In Iraq and Syria, the United States and Iran share a strong interest in defeating the radical Sunni Islamic State. Washington and Tehran have shared intelligence and cooperated on the battlefield. The United States and Iran both support the new Shiite government in Iraq, and they are both training the new Iraqi military. Of course, the two countries are on different sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and Iran continues to support Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad; but in the struggle for Middle East stability, Washington and Tehran find themselves frequently working together. The current negotiations between the United States and Iran on nuclear non-proliferation and economic sanctions reflect these circumstances. After months of intensive discussions, the two sides seem so close to agreement. Iran needs international trade and Washington is keen to offer that. Washington is determined to prevent an Iranian nuclear bomb, and many in Tehran seem to recognize that a nuclear capability is not worth the overwhelming costs. What keeps the two sides apart is something other than the details, but a bigger question of trust. Can Washington and Tehran find a way to trust one another? Trust does not come overnight. It requires a sustained relationship, consistent goals and clear expectations. More than anything, it requires the personal outreach of leaders who are willing to put themselves on the line. After more than 30 years of hostility, relations between the United States and Iran can and will shift when the leaders of these two powerful states commit to work together. Such a commitment will make the details fall into the place and the common interests rise above all else. To insure that outcome, we must maintain our toughness but also reach out. Americans want better relations with Iran, and we must show that, as we also show that we will not tolerate the extremism that brought us to conflict in the first place. Suri is a professor in the Department of History and the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
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continues from page 8 “Pre-registered runners come to get their number, T-shirt and a race guide.” Capital Area Food Bank of Texas The Capital Area Food Bank of Texas will be opening its doors all week to volunteers interested in helping with the food bank’s product recovery. Students will help inspect food coming in from grocery store donations or food drives. Paul Gaither, director of marketing and communications for Capital Area Food Bank, said they are always in need of volunteers who can help out with this activity. “We look at things like expiration dates and damaged or opened packages,” Gaither said. “From there, we sort that food into 30-pound boxes
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that can be distributed.” Gaither said students can visit the Capital Area Food Bank of Texas website to see which shifts are available for volunteering at food pantries near them. Meals on Wheels and More Meals on Wheels and More, an organization that aims to deliver food to Austin’s hungry population, has a lot of volunteer opportunities for students. Lydia Kelley, director of volunteer services, said that, while their volunteer roster is full for Thanksgiving Day, they still need help other days during the holiday season. “We’re always looking for volunteer drivers who can help us deliver meals to the needy,” Kelley said. “They can come to training in the morning and then deliver meals right after that. Volunteers can also help us with other services, like pet food delivery and grocery shopping.”
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Shipley’s ship sails away from Texas By Drew Lieberman
The departure of senior wide receiver Jaxon Shipley marks the end of an era. Shipley and his brother Jordan played for the Longhorns for a combined 10 years. The brothers both rank in the top five in all-time receptions at Texas.
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In summer 2003, Jordan Shipley, senior receiver for Burnet High School, committed to Texas. Shipley was a four-star recruit who held nearly every Texas high school receiving record. But few could predict that Shipley’s commitment would have a profound effect on the Longhorn program for roughly the next decade. After six seasons, Shipley left his mark as arguably the greatest receiver to ever play at Texas. Roughly a month after Jordan exhausted his collegiate eligibility, the Longhorns received the commitment from his brother, Jaxon Shipley, who, at the time, was a junior at Brownwood High School. Now Jaxon Shipley, set to play his final game at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium on Thursday, acknowledges the end of his collegiate career as the end of an era. “It’s going to be pretty sad, especially for me being around here pretty much my whole childhood — watching my brother play and then me coming through here,” Shipley said. Jaxon Shipley knew he wanted to follow in his brother’s footsteps to Austin since Jordan’s early playing days at Texas. Growing up around the
football program made some game-day routines very special for him. “I still remember the first time I came out of the tunnel against Rice, and it was surreal,” Shipley said. ”It was amazing. It’s the same way every time I walk out; it’s just this awesome experience.” The Texas faithful will remember the Shipley brothers for their steady hands. Those hands have led to prolific production in their careers, as the
brothers currently sit at first and third places on Texas’ alltime career-receptions list. Despite playing with four different starting quarterbacks in his career, “Mr. Reliable,” as head coach Charlie Strong calls Shipley, enters Wednesday’s game 25 receptions away from placing only behind his brother. However, the brothers are not the only Shipleys to be associated with Texas football in recent years. In 2013, their father, Bob Shipley, served as
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a football analyst for the Longhorn program. Jaxon cherished being able to spend so much time with his father last season and knows how fortunate he was to have the opportunity. “It was really cool to be able to have my dad up here and just know that I can just walk into his office anytime I want to talk about something,” Shipley said. “It was a really cool year and something I know, [for] both of us, it’s a year that is really
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special to us.” Now Jaxon Shipley prepares to finish a chapter of his life, and, with it, the Shipley chapter of Longhorn football. And while his teams never were as successful as his brother’s, the younger Shipley has created plenty of memories. “I’ve just had a great experience,” Shipley said. “It’s been rough here and there, but overall, I wouldn’t trade if for anything.”
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It was already a beautiful day: sunny, 70 degrees and a cool breeze after days of thunderstorms. College Station almost could have been nice. Except that it’s College Station. On Sunday, the Texas’ intramural flag football champions trekked to College Station for the second annual Lone Star Intramural Showdown, a matchup of the two rivals’ intramural powerhouses. As the two schools’ flag football teams faced off, it was clear this was far more than just another game of intramural football. The Longhorns repped black Nike Dri-FIT shirts, bold burnt orange “WE’RE TEXAS” running across the shirts above a Longhorn decal. Their Aggie counterparts donned various maroon shirts, white writing bearing some indication of their own identities: Texas A&M, the Aggies. The 120-year-old rivalry still holds much clout. The intramural showdown captured that energy. If only SEC officials were there to see. Following Texas’ 28-7 drubbing of Oklahoma State and subsequent ascent to bowl eligibility, rumors surfaced that Texas and Texas A&M might face each other in a Big 12-SEC bowl matchup, sending fans abuzz with excitement. But soon after, reports said the SEC shut it down. Chip Brown of Scout’s HornsDigest reported
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that the SEC officials said it’d be bad for recruiting. According to Brown, two sources told HornsDigest.com that SEC officials will not arrange a Texas-Texas A&M bowl game should the opportunity arise. Although the conference places its teams in six of the postseason matchups, it appears not to focus on rivalry benefits or fan excitement. Instead, recruiting remains its main concern. Mark Womack, SEC’s executive associate commissioner, said the conference hasn’t made a decision either way. “It’s way too early at this point to start looking at what potential matchup in games could be,” FoxSports reported Womack saying in Wednesday’s SEC conference call. “The first thing we have to do is determine what is the pool of teams we have available after the College Football Playoff bowl games are filled. … It’s way too early to start talking about particular matchups and particular games.” But other reports say the SEC won’t risk A&M’s recruiting pipeline by pitting it against a Texas team that has the potential to win. Texas officials, too, have shown scattered disinterest in playing the Aggies since A&M left for the SEC in 2012. But it’s time for the rivalry to resurface. Texas abounds with traditions, many of which link directly to the rival Aggies. Monday night’s pre-Thanksgiving Hex Rally was initiated in 1941 to hex the College Station opponents, and the Texas fight song explicitly says, “goodbye
to A&M.” Texas has maintained many of its traditions even without the rivalry. But it’s not the same, and a bowl-game rivalry would bring much of the excitement back to the Lone Star State’s athletics. Sure, a UT-A&M bowl game matchup may have recruiting implications. But it’s just a single game, post-season, that might not even feature new play. College football hooks fans because of its school spirit and amateurism — what should be the last vestige of non-commercialized competitive sport. And it’s time for the bowl game to revive the controversy and readdress which Texas public university truly dominates the college football landscape. Neither school is ranked nor playoff-eligible, and neither is even the best in Texas, thanks to Baylor and TCU. During Sunday’s Lone Star Intramural Showdown, Kyle Field towered over the intramural turfs. Its prestige seems almost ironic as Texas’ coed and men’s squads executed 24-0 and 27-0 shutouts, respectively. Leaving the field, Longhorn competitors chanted the fight song and pronounced “goodbye to A&M” with extra clarity. A white decal on the maroon stadium sign visible from the turf said “Welcome to Aggieland, Home of the 12th man.” Aggieland, it appears, is ready to welcome home the Longhorns. Texas players are ready to meet their longtime foe. And the SEC should let the opportunity happen.
Taylor out, Felix aims for smooth transition By Peter Sblendorio @petersblendorio
No Taylor? No problem. At least, that’s what the Texas men’s basketball players are saying right now. The Longhorns acknowledged they’ll miss sophomore point guard Isaiah Taylor, who expects to be out for an extended amount of time after suffering a broken wrist on a hard foul by Iowa center Gabriel Olaseni on Thursday. But the players aren’t panicking without their secondleading scorer in the lineup. Junior guard Javan Felix gets the first chance to fill Taylor’s vacated spot at point guard. He played admirably in Taylor’s place on Friday against California, tallying 9 points and four rebounds in 35 minutes to help lead the Longhorns to a championship in the 2K Classic tournament in New York City. “Our mentality’s the same,” junior forward Connor Lammert said. “We’re going to run. Javan knows what to do just as good as Isaiah. Javan’s one of our best three-point shooters, and that opens the floor a lot.” Felix has actually started his fair share of games at point guard for the Longhorns. He was pressed into action as a freshman when Myck Kabongo was suspended, forcing him to start 23 games at the point. He played well during that stint, averaging 5.5 assists in 34.4 minutes, and he said he believes that experience will help him now that he’s rejoined the starting lineup. “It’s really valuable,” Felix said. “I believe everything
happens for a reason, and maybe that was that reason. I’m ready to do whatever for the team. If that means me playing a lot of minutes and just running this team, then I’ll do it.” The Longhorns are an undeniably different team without Taylor in the lineup, however. Taylor, who averaged 15 points and 2.3 assists in his three games this season, looks to run the floor and make things happen in transition, while Felix prefers to slow things down and set up the offense. “I’m a fast guard, so I like to push it,” Taylor said. “Javan likes to slow it down a little, and that’s fine. That makes us a better half-court team. Knowing that Javan can shoot the ball, people can’t go under screens. It adds a different dynamic to the whole team.” Sophomore guard Kendal Yancy figures to back up Felix until Taylor returns, and Demarcus Holland, starting junior shooting guard, will likely get some time at the point as well. Sophomore guard Damarcus Croaker could also see a boost in his minutes although he didn’t see the floor Friday in Taylor’s first game out. Texas will be thin at the guard spot until Taylor is healthy, but the Longhorn players say they believe the guys behind him are ready to step up. “Isaiah’s going to be back soon,” Lammert said. “We’re just going to have to have that ‘next man’s up’ mentality until he’s back.” Texas gets its first chance to play without Taylor at home Tuesday, when it hosts Saint Francis at 7 p.m.
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Sophomore guard Isaiah Taylor broke his left wrist against Iowa, pushing junior guard Javan Felix into an old role.
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The Longhorn volleyball team is still ranked third in this week’s AVCA coaches poll. Texas (22-1, 14-1 Big 12) has now been ranked third for the second consecutive week. Stanford remains atop the poll — it has been ranked first since Sept. 8. Wisconsin is behind the Cardinal. Penn State and Washington round out the top five. —Nick Castillo
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Students organize video, group ‘#Ayotzinapa UT’ By Brigit Benestante
History freshman Dan Luiton holds up a sign in protest for the 43 students who went missing in Mexico over a month ago. Luiton formed an awareness group on campus that aims to produce a video seeking justice for the students.
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Three years ago, history freshman Dan Luiton’s uncle disappeared in Mexico. When Luiton heard about 43 students who went missing in Mexico over a month ago, he said it hit close to home. “I’m from the border,” Luiton said. “I’ve seen it happening — people disappearing.” The case of the missing students of a rural teaching college in Ayotzinapa has sparked global attention. It is suspected that the students were kidnapped during a mass protest and handed over to a local gang by police. Many universities, including MIT, Boston University and Harvard, recently made a video together in support of finding justice for the missing students. Luiton said this video inspired him to make a similar one at UT. “I was like, ‘Where’s UT? UT should be there because we’re in the South,’” Luiton said. “I was thinking we should bring more people to this cause.” After seeing the video, Luiton started the “#Ayotzinapa UT” initiative on Facebook by inviting students to help him make a video in support of seeking justice for the Mexican students. The group, which is composed of about 30 members, plans to produce a video by the end of the semester. Undeclared freshman Devany Cantu used to travel to Mexico every weekend with her parents but said they stopped going when the gang violence worsened. She said
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she joined the initiative because of this experience. “I wanted to join as a way for me to contribute in any way — whether it’s speaking my mind that would help this cause,” Cantu said. “Just knowing that there are students speaking up for Mexico can allow the word to be spread.” Luiton said the main purpose of the video is to inform people because he thinks the news is not informing people enough on the issue. In the video various
students will hold up posters saying, “#Justice for Ayotzinapa.” He also plans on having them hold up signs numbered one through 43 each, representing one of the missing students. “[The news] is just hiding it,” Luiton said. “I just want to raise awareness. People need to know about this. We want justice.” Santiago Rosales, business and economics freshman and member of Student Government, said he joined the initiative because he
believes SG can do something to support this cause. He cited a one-day fundraising initiative called “Hold Up for Haiti” put on by SG and more than 15 other campus organizations in 2010 as an example of a successful initiative. “I myself am of Mexican heritage, so to know that students who are pursuing similar interests in a similar institution to that of UT down in Mexico aren’t able to do so because of political and organized crime reasons
is a very detrimental thing for me to hear,” Rosales said. “I believe that Mexico deserves justice for the crimes that were committed against the people. We, as students who do have the freedom to express — we have an obligation to do so.” Through the sharing power of social media, Rosales hopes the video will go viral. “Given that we are in a different country and we don’t have any legislative authority or any voting rights in Mexico, we can’t do anything
politically,” Rosales said. “Voicing our opinions in support and in unison with all university students across the globe is a very powerful statement that we can make.” Luiton, Cantu and Rosales hope that the video will bring them one step closer to getting justice for those who have disappeared in Mexico. “We’re just letting everyone know that we’re here ,and we know what’s happening, and we’re tired of it,” Cantu said. “We’re standing up for others.”
CITY
Austin cultural center SouthPop hosts street art exhibit By Cat Cardenas @crcardenas8
As a more widely respected art form, street art is no stranger to Austin. From the HOPE Outdoor Gallery to the famous “Hi, How Are You?” mural, street art pops up all throughout the city. SouthPop, a cultural center committed to documenting Austin’s art and music scene, is contributing to this positive view of street art with its latest exhibit. The center, located on South Lamar, documents people and places that have shaped Austin over the years, usually through photography. Its current exhibit, “Austin Graffiti Art: Celebrating Austin’s Street Art,” is a compilation of photos that capture a wide array of the city’s street art. Leea Mechling, the cultural center’s director, hopes the pictures will help to establish street art as more highly regarded. “Street art is a worldwide phenomenon,” Mechling said. “We’ve just been watching it transform here in Austin, and I think that once people see this exhibit they’ll start to see it as its own distinct art form instead of destructive tagging.” The idea that the
photographs could preserve a type of art that is traditionally so temporary is equally important in Mechling’s eyes. To ensure this preservation, the cultural center included some photos of the HOPE Outdoor Gallery, a graffiti park. “We feel like that section is really important,” Mechling said. “Shortly after the art is painted on one of the areas, it’s quickly painted over. For this art form, whose nature is really temporary, it’s really important to document it.” The non-permanent nature of the art form is not something that phases Austin-based artist Cody Schibi. Schibi said the idea his work might not last forever is just something that comes with the territory of being a street artist. “The couple of times I did something over at the HOPE Outdoor Gallery they lasted a couple of weeks,” Schibi said. “Recently, people have started providing walls where the art will stay up for a while. It’s hard to make it stay, but that’s expected.” Although Schibi has been commissioned as a muralist for festivals such as Austin City Limits Music Festival and South By Southwest, he works primarily as a
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freelance illustrator. “I like the scale of street art,” Schibi said. “Making it on a wall or anywhere you can put it. I like the spontaneity of it; you have to keep adjusting. I’m used to illustrating and doing things on a small scale, so painting something that’s like 12 feet tall is pretty cool.”
For Austin artist Federico Archuleta, who is also featured in SouthPop’s exhibit, it wasn’t the size of street art that appealed to him — but rather the size of his potential audience. “The biggest difference between street art and other art forms is that you’re presenting it to the
public,” Archuleta said. “You’re taking your art to the people instead of waiting for them to go see it in a magazine or online. You get to use a public space as a canvas.” Archuleta said places such as SouthPop, that are taking the time to document street
art, are helping artists like himself gain more recognition. “Street art is starting to come full circle,” Archuleta said. “Even though you could say it has been around since the cavemen, it’s starting to be viewed as a modern art form.”
CITY
Thanksgiving brings volunteer opportunities for students By Lauren Velez @laurenvelez
`With Thanksgiving right around the corner, many Austinites are looking to get into the holiday spirit by giving back to the community. Students who want to get involved have many volunteer opportunities available, ranging from turkey preparation to running 5 miles. Here are a few of The Daily Texan’s suggestions:
Operation Turkey For the 15th year in a row, Operation Turkey is hosting a two-day event to serve food to the homeless. Students interested in volunteering can help out Wednesday or Thursday, but giving time isn’t the only way to help. The organization will also be collecting donations of food, clothing and toiletries to give out to the homeless while serving meals. Students who volunteer
Thanksgiving morning can arrive at 8 a.m. and will be done in less than four hours. Executive director Brian Tolbert said they will need help all day Wednesday. “Wednesday is our Turkey Tailgate, where we smoke and prepare 500 turkeys,” Tolbert said. “During the day, we’ll be getting food prepared and sorted. That night, we’ll move the food from the Turkey Tailgate to the locations where we’ll be
distributing the food.” El Buen Samaritano El Buen Samaritano is an Austin organization dedicated to providing education, health care and financial services to Latino and other local families. Ivan Dávila, director of communications and community engagement, said that, while the food pantry is closed on Thanksgiving, they are always in need of volunteers during the week to help
sort donations. “We would love help in our food pantry,” Dávila said. “We always need about five people per day to help us with stocking, bagging and distributing the groceries.” Thundercloud Turket Trot Students also have an opportunity to give back while completing their Thanksgiving morning workout. Thundercloud Subs is hosting its annual Turkey Trot, a 5-mile
run in downtown Austin. All proceeds go to Caritas of Austin, which aims to end homelessness and hunger Mike Haggerty, co-owner of Thundercloud and director of the Turkey Trot, said students who don’t want to run can help by volunteering at package pick-up stations. “We run two locations of pick-up: one at Luke’s Locker and the other at First Texas Honda,” Haggerty said.
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