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Newly proposed legislation would allow students to vote with their student ID. PA G E 3

Undergraduate students with children need priority registration. PA G E 4

A Student Government bill aims to make first-years more financially literate. PA G E 5

Texas baseball improves to 3-1 on road trip with convincing win over Rice. PA G E 6

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Campus living hotspots receive fewer affordable housing units

‘I had no idea what I was doing’

By Jackson Barton @Jackson_Brton

Tess Finnerty and her roommates signed a lease at a large apartment complex in West Campus earlier this year. She wasn’t surprised the cost came out to over a thousand dollars each month. “It was kinda expected that it would be in the thousands, or around a thousand to have housing that is close as well as accessible,” said Finnerty, a textiles and apparels freshman. “It was expected that if you’re living in West Campus, it’s not going to be affordable if you’re on a budget.” Austin City Council District 9, which encompasses West Campus, North Campus, downtown and a portion of the Riverside neighborhoods, will receive 3,635 new affordable housing units, according to the Austin Strategic Housing Blueprint presentation last Tuesday. Sixty-thousand new housing units will be distributed across the 10 council districts. The interdepartemental team behind the project distributed the affordable units across Austin based on four factors: gentrification, access to bus routes, upward economic mobility and a lack of exisiting affordable units. Districts with a high prevelence of these factors were slated to receive more units. Jonathan Tomko, the city’s housing policy and planning manager, said District 9 did not receive as many units because it did not score as high in the key areas as other districts. Tomko said another reason why District 9 might not be receiving as many units is because of how many affordable units are already installed. Young people between 15 and 24 made up over a third of District 9’s population in 2016, according to the City of Austin Office of the

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hannah simon | the daily texan staff Bailey Abramowitz, a junior journalism student, has been in a wheelchair, on crutches or in a boot since her freshman year at UT. Despite her chronic injury, the University has not made any accommodations to assist Abramowitz in navigating campus.

UT lays plans to help students with disabilities get around campus.

transportation accommodations she could get. She said she was told there were none. “They said ‘If it’s raining, maybe you can call the UT police, and they can drive you to class,’” Abramowitz said. “I’m not calling the police to drive me to class. I’ll get a friend to drive me at that point. But it was crazy that they had nothing to help me, and I literally cannot walk. I had just gotten into a wheelchair, and I had no idea what I was doing.” In the University Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan launched in 2017, two items address campus accessibility and transportation for temporarily and permanently disabled students. One of the items outlines the Americans with Disabilities Act transition plan to make sidewalks and paths more accessible, and this plan is actively in progress, according to the action plan. Jennifer Maedgen, UT’s ADA/Section 504 coordinator, said ADA coordinators work with UT’s Project Management and Construction Services to update and complete projects within the transition plan. “Our goals for the next year or two

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fter tearing ligaments in both of her legs while in club team gymnastics her freshman year, journalism junior Bailey Abramowitz has been in and out of using medical walking boots, crutches and wheelchairs to navigate campus. She has yet to find a quick or painless method of transportation, Abramowitz said. In 2016, when she used a wheelchair as a freshman, Abramowitz said she called a University employee, who she believes worked within Services for Students with Disabilities, to see what types of

include broad accessibility improvements in three campus buildings — the (Ernest Cockrell Jr. Hall, Engineering Teaching Center, and Chemical and Petroleum Engineering Building),” Maedgen said in an email. “We are also collaborating with PMCS (Project Management and Construction Services) on a path of travel project that addresses the need to connect (Inner Campus Drive) to 21st Street, and we hope to have that project in the construction phase this summer.” The other item outlines a plan to implement a program called “Longhorn Lift” which would include one or two drop-deck wheelchair golf carts to allow for faster on-campus transportation for students with temporary or permanent mobility issues. The initiative is still in the planning phase, according to the action plan. According to action plan, student leaders and representatives have discussed the program with the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, but Jess Cybulski, the assistant director of

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Fanucci-Ivanova campaign focusing on more student support By Nicole Stuessy @nicolestuessy

Izzy Fanucci and Elena Ivanova, student government executive alliance candidates, both hope to “recreate” some parts of UT’s campus and the way student government is viewed through their campaign. Because many student government initiatives take longer than a single year to implement, Fanucci, a speech pathology and psychology junior, said they want to continue the work from previous leadership, such as extending Thanksgiving break and reinstating the Texas A&M rivalry game. “If an administration does not agree with certain changes that the executive alliance

wants to make, they will try and wait out that student’s position,” Fanucci said. “In the event that we are elected, just because we are new in office doesn’t mean those issues will disappear.” Along with continuation of previous efforts, Ivanova, a Plan II junior and the current vice president of the Senate of College Councils, said they are passionate about preventing sexual assault because of their work with Not On My Campus. One way they want to achieve this is by increasing the number of confidential advocates students can speak with on campus. “There are 50,000 students on campus and currently only two people on campus that are properly trained,” Fanucci said. “That’s not acceptable. You can’t have two

people for a population where 15 percent of women report experiencing rape.” Fanucci and Ivanova’s platform includes expanding the Counseling and Mental Health Center services to include virtual counseling. Their campaign platform also centers around peer inclusion efforts, such as adding gender-inclusive bathrooms to more buildings on campus and creating an easier way for students to change their names online in the UT system. In order to increase accessibility on campus, the duo would also like to see changes from the 2013 Campus Master Plan implemented near the East Mall fountain. “Currently, that is one

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katie bauer | the daily texan staff Izzy Fanucci, left, and Elena Ivanova are running for SG executive alliance this spring. Their platform focuses on interpersonal violence prevention and peer inclusion efforts.

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Super bacteria cases rise in Travis County hospitals By Rahi Dakwala @Rdakwala

Austin Public Health released a statement Feb. 1 warning the public of increasing cases of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae, an antibiotic-resistant super bacteria, in Travis County hospitals. Kristin Mondy, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Dell Medical School, said Enterobacteriaceae are a class of bacteria that includes E. coli and normally live in the gastrointestinal tract. “If Enterobacteriaceae get in the wrong place, like the urinary tract or in sites of recent surgeries, they can give rise to infections,” Mondy said. Mondy said those infections often include urinary tract infections and even bloodstream infections. While these can be treated with strong antibiotics like Carbapenem, Travis County has noticed an increase in cases where the bacteria is resistant. Because there are very few treatments available beyond Carbapenem, when bacteria becomes resistant, common infections can be life-threatening, Mondy said. Mondy said the warning should not alarm college students and the general public, because it is not easily spread among healthy individuals. Travis County reported four cases in both 2015, 13 in 2016 and 18 in 2017. Data for 2018 is still being finalized. Renee Fleeman, a postdoctoral fellow in the department of molecular biosciences, said bacteria are innately built to develop a resistance to anything opposing them. “(Bacteria) mutate their genome very rapidly when

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they encounter a stress that is killing them,” Fleeman said. “In the context of Enterobacteriaceae, the stress is antibiotics.” This change in the bacteria’s genetic material allows them to resist the antibiotic and survive to produce more antibiotic-resistant bacteria, Fleeman said. The FDA has not approved new antibiotics for Enterobacteriaceae since the early 1980s, Fleeman said. Carbapenem usage is lim-

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on the function of antibiotics, Kirkpatrick said. “Antibiotics are not always the answer, and patients should not pressure physicians to prescribe antibiotics,” Kirkpatrick said. It is important to act while CRE numbers are still low, Kirkpatrick said. “To be clear, we don’t have an outbreak situation in Travis County,” Kirkpatrick said. “We have an opportunity to stop the spread now if we work together.”

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ited to minimize the possibility of bacterial resistance, Mondy said. Betsy Kirkpatrick, founder of the Travis County Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae Task Force, said she started the task force in May 2018 to try to prevent another major increase in CRE cases in the Travis County area. One of the task force’s biggest goals is to educate physicians on the careful usage of antibiotics, as well as to educate the public and patients

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UT to upgrade wireless access points to current standards By Joshua Guenther @yoshguenther

Approximately 1,000 Wi-fi access points are being replaced across campus before they become unsupported by the end of this year. Wireless access points, or WAPs, are devices that connect laptops, tablets and mobile phones to the University’s network through Wi-Fi. The WAPs used at UT need to be updated to be compatible with future network upgrades. “When the University started purchasing the older WAPs, the popular mobile phone was an iPhone 4S,” William Green, director of networking and telecommunications at UT, said in an email. “A typical student today is using four times the amount of Wi-fi as a student in 2012.” Green said these old WAPs have begun to fail at high rates. “Wireless access points are similar to a mobile phone or laptop and face the same obsolescence trends,” Green said. The upgrades were announced in 2017 and are expected to be completed this March, Green said. He said the project includes upgrading every

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communications, said it was unable to locate information about this meeting by The Daily Texan’s deadline. Emily Shryock, assistant director at Services for Students with Disabilities, said while they do not directly work on transportation accessibility, the Longhorn

access point in the Gates Dell Complex and Patton Hall — about 200 WAPs per facility — among many other buildings. “The new wireless access points are faster and support more devices providing needed capacity in the space they serve,” Green said. Computer science junior Neil Patil teaches Wi-fi-hacking workshops as the president of UT’s Information and Systems Security Society. Patil said manufacturers stop providing security updates when support for a product ends. “If you are using an old router that hasn’t been fixed, now you are vulnerable to whatever the new attack is,” Patil said. “It is important that when it has reached the end of its life cycle, you upgrade or replace the piece of hardware in question.” Harel Yedidsion, a computer science postdoctoral fellow, said he is researching how autonomous mobile robots can communicate over networks as a part of the computer science department’s Building-Wide Intelligence Project. He said the robots do not function properly when they lose connection to UT’s network. “With the robots, when they are running around, we can have them

Lift program will likely be a collaborative effort between many offices. “I think definitely having some type of transportation system on campus (would benefit) a lot of students,” Shryock said. “The parking options and the shuttle options (are) only able to access the outer edges of campus. Being able to get to the interior of campus (is) a challenge that we hear frequently from students.”

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losing connections when they switch hotspots,” Yedidsion said. “That is a problem.” Yedidsion said the Building-Wide Intelligence project uses Wi-fi for researchers to connect to the

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robots and see what they are seeing, but it is also a way for the robots to communicate with each other. There are about 8,000 WAPs in total on campus, according to the University Network Report.

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of the most inaccessible parts of campus because it is so steep,” Fanucci said. “Why would you have this unused fountain there when you can help increase the accessibility to the heart of campus?”

Throughout the campaign process, Ivanova said they hope to change the stereotype surrounding dirty politics and student government elections. “We want to make this campaign about our platform,” Ivanova said. “We are here to talk about the issues and the changes that we want to make. It’s not about us.”

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LGBTQ caucus discusses goals

george wunch | the daily texan staff Rep. Julia Johnson, right, looks on as Rep. Jessica González addresses the audience of the LGBTQ Caucus panel that took place Tuesday evening. The panel members, which included Rep. Erin Zwiener, are all openly gay freshman legislators.

was the main motivating factor for the caucus’ creation. “We are part of the population at large, and the government should reflect the people,” state Rep. Erin Zwiener, D-Driftwood said. “That is one of the tenants of American government — of, by and for the people, and that includes every intersection of identity.” The panel spoke about the need to reduce discrimination of the LGBTQ community and ensure the community’s rights. They discussed topics such as the controversial “bathroom bill,” supporting progressive voices and health insurance. However, they emphasized the LGBTQ community also faces problems with race, gender and

By Laura Morales @lamor_1217

Three members of the Texas Legislature’s LGBTQ caucus said their priorities this session were to increase representation for and reduce discrimination against members of the LGBTQ community on Tuesday. The Daily Texan Events and Engagement staff hosted the state lawmakers for a panel moderated by Texan legislative reporter Chad Lyle. The caucus, which was formed in January, is made up of five LGBTQ women state representatives. The three members present at the panel said the need for increased representation

economic inequality. “All issues are LGBT issues,” state Rep. Jessica González, D-Dallas said. “They all affect the LGBT community. They all affect women. We really shouldn’t distinguish them like that.” Along with these problems, the panelists spoke of their developing friendship from their work on this initiative. “The three of us are freshman voices that needed to be heard and would not have been heard if we had not said ‘Ok, I’ll do it,’” state Rep. Julie Johnson, D-Carrollton said. “It’s hard work, but we are becoming very close and we support each other. We are making lifetime friendships.” Olivia Huerta, a local advocate and

survivor of domestic violence and sexual assault, attended the event and shared her story with the legislators. She said she thinks the authorities did not take her as seriously when she reported her case of same-sex domestic abuse compared to if it had been a man who abused her. She said she was optimistic the caucus will help advance legislation to extend the statue of limitation for reporting abuse to a year, but there will be challenges. “The discrimination and implicit biases that people have when there is same-sex crime being reported is going to take a long time to fix,” Huerta said. “There has to be enough people like me who are willing to tell their story and be very specific.”

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Rep. Erin Zwiener files bill to allow voting with student IDs By Chad Lyle @lylechad

State Rep. Erin Zwiener, D-Driftwood, filed a bill to add student IDs to the list of acceptable forms of voter identification at polling locations, according to a press release by her office. This would allow college students to vote after presenting their student IDs. In the release, Zwiener said she introduced the legislation in order to encourage civic engagement among young people. “When young Texans engage in the electoral process, they stay engaged for the rest of their lives,” Zwiener said. “Texas has one of the lowest voter turnouts in the nation.

Let’s fix that by removing unnecessary barriers between our university students and the ballot box.” According to the Texas secretary of state’s office, voters must currently present one of these forms of photo ID before being allowed to vote: a Texas driver’s license, a Texas election identification certificate, a Texas personal identification card, a Texas handgun license, a U.S. military identification card, a U.S. citizenship certificate or a U.S. passport. Zwiener’s bill would add student IDs to this list. Students hoping to use their student ID to vote must be enrolled at a public college in Texas and be registered to vote. Like the other acceptable forms of ID, the student ID must also have a photo of

the individual. Zwiener’s release noted more than 600,000 students are enrolled in a public university in Texas, and said student participation is essential to the health of America’s democracy. “Our democracy is precious, but it’s dependent on healthy participation,” Zwiener said. “Texas has the opportunity to celebrate and protect our democratic traditions by making it more accessible.” According to the Campus Vote Project, out of all the states that require an ID to be shown at polling locations, Texas is one of six that does not accept student IDs. The others are Arizona, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina and Tennessee.

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Auditor. Over one-fourth of the district’s residents earn less than $15,000 each year. Kathie Tovo, District 9 City Council member, said the district needs the affordable housing units. “Every area of the city has a need for affordable housing units, and in an area like District 9 where the market rate housing is so expensive and the land values are so high, you definitely have a need for affordable housing,” Tovo said. Tovo said one of the reasons the district could receive fewer affordable housing units is that District 9 has much less vacant land compared to other districts. However, Tomko said undeveloped land was not part of the distribution calculation. The city’s Neighborhood Housing and Community Development department is aiming to have City Council adopt the preliminary plan for the housing units by

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early June, according to the presentation last week. The housing unit distribution is still subject to change. “We’re still collecting feedback from folks including council members and working with consultants to see if anything can be done to be responsive to the feedback that we’ve heard thus far,” Tomko said. The $250 million affordable housing bond, which was approved by a 73 percent majority last November, will help fund the 60,000 new units.

pedro luna | the daily texan staff Students hold steady as they wait to vote in the 2018 midterm elections at a polling station outside the FAC last fall. A bill filed this session would allow college students to use their student IDs.

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Undergraduate students with children should have priority registration By Son Nguyen Columnist

Student parents have responsibilities beyond those of traditional students. They must take care of their children while balancing rigorous coursework and facing financial pressures that incentivize early graduation. UT should give priority registration to undergraduate students with children to accommodate their parental duties. The current registration system for classes prioritizes students based on their degree progress. The closer they are to degree completion, the earlier they will get access. A student’s parental status is not considered during the registration process. I asked Kendall Slagle, communications coordinator for UT’s Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, if the administration is working on giving priority registration to students who have children. “The University supports all of our students and is committed to helping them however we can,” Slagle wrote in an email. “We will work with students and do all we can to assist them with any issue that comes up during the registration process.” This one-size-fits-all system does not recognize the needs of student parents or the limitations they face. Aerospace engineering junior Jeremy Aubert struggled to get classes that can accommodate his parental duties. “My daughter has volleyball practice Tuesday nights, my son has basketball games

Wednesday nights, so I really need to get my discussion sections like Mondays or Thursdays to try and work around that,” Aubert said. “But it doesn’t always happen. My wife would have to leave work early to take the kids to their things.”

Student parents have responsibilities beyond those of traditional students. They must take care of their children while balancing rigorous coursework.” Unlike student parents who can share responsibilities with their partners, single parents dealing with custody arrangements, such as history and government senior Sean Salome, face a different set of problems. Salome must plan his daughter’s schedule with his former spouse, so the sooner he can secure his classes the smoother the process will be. “If you’re waitlisted in a class or something, that does not help at all when it comes to going to the other parent and saying, ‘Hey, I can’t make a commitment here and here because I am still waiting on school,’” Salome said. “Sometimes that causes lost time (with the child) because the other parent can’t switch with me.”

Geophysics senior Eric Hiatt, a father of three, has priority registration because he’s a student with disabilities, not because he’s a parent. “I don’t know how people do it (without priority registration),” Hiatt said. “Even with priority registration, my schedule every semester gets jumbled up, and then you have to figure out how to do the kids’ stuff and the doctor’s stuff and other types of recurring appointments and to work around that.” Student parents everywhere are struggling to balance schoolwork and parental duties. An Institute for Women’s Policy Research report suggested student parents face a higher risk of leaving college without completing their degrees than students without children. According to the report, “student parents operate under often crushing time demands, with more than 40 percent working full time or more and over half spending 30 hours per week on caregiving activities.” It’s difficult for parents to graduate on time if they can’t get into the classes they need. This issue can cause additional financial pressure because the more time they spend in school, the less time they can spend working. “When you are a parent, you don’t have time to stay in university,” Salome said. “You need to come in, do your studies and then get out so then you can get a job and continue providing for your family.” UT must give student parents priority registration to alleviate the pressure of creating a schedule that works not just for them, but for their families as well. Nguyen is a government senior from Vietnam.

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To combat academic burnout, ditch face masks and Netflix binges By Kateri David Columnist

Near the end of December, I naturally woke up before my 10 a.m. shift with two hours to spare for the first time all semester. I wanted to cook breakfast and maybe fix a cup of tea. Instead, I lay awake, immobile, until the reality of being late for work became all too real. In the following weeks, I noticed my approach to schoolwork was hauntingly similar — I’d feel upbeat with all my study materials ready, only to become paralyzed the moment I attempted to begin working. I’d complete my tasks, but always in a last-minute frenzy. As a result, my whole academic year felt like a blur. Even my reactions to achieving personal goals — transferring into a new major, improving my GPA — seemed dulled. I was more relieved than excited, and I couldn’t understand why. It was only after reading Anne Helen Peterson’s viral article “How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation,” that I could finally put a name to my condition. Fatigue. Burnout. For UT kids with packed schedules, burnout

feels inevitable. Forty-eight percent of UT stu- lives around the relentless demands of our dents reported feeling overwhelmed, while nearcoursework. We’re always focused on the next ly 50 percent felt exhausted for reasons other quiz, the next essay — instead of fulfillment. than physical activity. In doing this, however, we no longer conWhile self care enthusitrol our life’s pace. asts might advocate for faWe’re dragged from cials and juice cleanses to one obligation to the fight exhaustion, this issue next, spurred by anxirequires more than a topety rather than intrinsic We no longer control ical remedy. Burnout isn’t enthusiasm or curiosity. some punchy buzzword “In my major, assignour life’s pace ... We’re to excuse procrastination. ments kind of snowball,” dragged from one It’s a steady internal weasaid Hayden Green, a riness, a state of being. rhetoric and writing seobligation to the next, Loosely defined, burnout nior. “Sometimes a paspurred by anxiety rather per will be worth 30 peris a state of emotional or physical exhaustion resultcent of the grade, but I’ll than intrinsic enthusiing from prolonged stress. be so overwhelmed by asm or curiosity.” Unsurprisingly, it’s a relaevery other minuscule tively modern phenomenon. assignment that I feel While Americans drained writing it.” glamorize being overworked and job prosDespite feeling burned out, Green said he pects for recent grads shrink, neither trend feels like he’s constantly running through upis lost on students. We’ve internalized the coming deadlines or uncompleted tasks on his idea that being highly successful involves to-do list in his head, creating a disconnect emptying oneself. between himself and his surroundings. In college, this amounts to centering our “From when I get up to when I go home, I

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have a set route,” said Green. “But there’ll be days when I realize I didn’t notice anything, like I hit fast-forward and ignored an entire segment of my day.” If we want any chance at a secure future, hard work and the stress accompanying it are, of course, unavoidable, but there are ways to succeed while remaining grounded and minimizing anxiety. The first solutions that come to mind are the self-care staples we see broadcasted across blogs and social media — face masks, Netflix binges, bubble baths. While these practices reduce stress, they’re mostly sedentary and indulgent, which can feed into feelings of isolation. If we want to combat burnout, we need to make consistent, deliberate efforts to jolt ourselves from our usual routine and into a more aware experience. Take a new route to class, intently focusing on your surroundings along the way. Explore a new part of Austin. Have a meaningful conversation that doesn’t involve school. Take a photo. Remind yourself you are here. David is an advertising sophomore from Allen.

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Financial illiteracy affects futures Resolution aims to give students skills for personal budgeting, planning. By Denise Emerson @kaonashidenise

tudents can face repercussions for credit mistakes they made at 18, such as missed payments, until they are 25 years old. Credit card debt has hit a record high, while 43 percent of people with student loans are not making payments on them. Financial illiteracy is common in college students because they have little knowledge on budgeting, said Terri Holbrook, accounting professor and certified public accountant. “(Students) don’t keep track of their expenses,” Holbrook said. “Whether it be coffee at Starbucks or going out with friends or calling an Uber, all those little things that they don’t necessarily think of being expenses and don’t blow their budget add up.” Ashish Dave, first-year representative for Student Government and business and Plan II honors freshman, authored Resolution 12, a bill to renovate Bevonomics, a defunded financial literacy program. He said the bill aims to educate first-years after noticing how little students knew about loans, credit and investment. Dave said he watched his peers blow through their Bevo Bucks early on in their first semester. “The lifelong implications (are that) bad from the University and from parents is credit can affect your ability to get a home, more useful. to save for your children’s college, (and) to “Just like the University offers grief take out loans for a car,” Dave said. counseling and offers different kinds of Dave said UT has a responsibility to emotional support … financial counselmake informed citizens out of its students. ing would be great, especially if you’re a “If you (have) a bunch of students student that finds yourself underwater,” paying you to receive education, I think Holbrook said. it’s a pretty good bet that you as the reParents tend to cover all their chilcipient of those checks should educate dren’s expenses instead of teaching them your students,” Dave said. “It should be a about monthly and weekly budgets, reciprocal process.” Holbrook said. “(Children should) have this allowance Holbrook said will monetary Student Media keepaid youfrom connected that they can use to spend for certain parents is an advantage, but education

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things, and if they run out of money, they don’t get any more,” Holbrook said. “That’s how you teach a child, and that kind of lesson then sticks with them as they get into college.” Radio-television-film sophomore Ben Harizman also receives support from his parents. Harizman’s father helped him purchase property in Austin to establish in-state residency and pushed him to use a credit card, he said. “My dad (said,) ‘Most kids in college aren’t going to have a good credit score or even a credit score when they come out of college, so you might as well just

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start building one now,’” Harizman said. “But it backfired because I missed a bunch of bills.” Harizman tries to maintain a good score but said he has very slim knowledge of financial planning. Dave said he hopes to continue work with the Office of Financial Aid and believes the key is to educate impressionable firstyears before they form bad habits. “Our public education system has failed our students and has not prepared them to become effective adults,” Dave said.

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No problem in Houston for Texas Pierce, Longhorns complete fourgame road trip with 11-4 win at Rice. By Daniela Perez @danielap3rez

he Longhorns beat Rice 11-4 on a cold, wet Tuesday night at Reckling Park in Houston as part of their opening slate of road games this season. Rice attempted to stop a powerful Texas offense with four different pitchers, but the combined effort fell short as the Owls allowed 13 hits and 10 RBIs. “We came out here ready to go, and we understood that after this game we could get a little rest,” head coach David Pierce said in a postgame interview with Texas Sports. “The intent was to road trip and get back home.” Texas initially fell down, 1-0, after an unearned single in the bottom of the second inning. But the Longhorns rode a string of successful at-bats to close the gap in the third. The third inning brought five runs on four hits for Texas. After two walks put shortstop Bryce Reagan and center fielder Duke Ellis on base, outfielder Eric Kennedy materialized with an RBI single that brought Reagan home. After the 1-1 tie, designated hitter Zach Zubia came back from a two-out deficit with an RBI single that gave Texas a 2-1 lead. Catcher DJ Petrinsky later secured the 5-1 lead with a three-run triple after hitting a bullet into right field for one

Anthony Mireles | the dAily texAn file Infielder Zach Zubia was pivotal to the Longhorns’ 7-run victory at Rice. The sophomore finished a stellar Tuesday night with two hits, two runs, three RBIs and a solo home run in the sixth inning. Zubia is one of three Longhorns to hit a home run in the young season. of his two hits of the night. “We put some at-bats together, back to back, and we had some quality at-bats,” Pierce said. “Just a very good night for us in a wet, nasty condition, but we got the win.” The scoring barrage extended into the fourth inning when the Longhorns made it an 8-1 lead after a three-run, three-hit inning. Defensively, the Longhorns were strong throughout with only a few, quickly corrected issues. Pitcher Ty Madden had a solid two innings before

falling apart in the bottom of the third. A wild pitch, which placed a Rice batter on first, snowballed into a bases-loaded situation after two walks. “I felt like Ty did a good job early and just getting out there. We have so many good, young arms and we got to get them out there,” Pierce said. With the Owls looking to cut into the Longhorns’ lead, pitcher Beau Ridgeway held off the effort and struck out the following batter. But pitching issues returned in the bottom of the fifth when

Ridgeway gave up three runs on three hits and put the score at 8-4. Replaced by pitcher Cole Quintanilla, he assisted the remaining two outs. “Cole was outstanding, he looked like he has been out there,” Pierce said. Quintanilla’s time on the mound opened the door for Zubia to continue his successful day, hitting a solo home run that gave Texas its ninth run. The last run of the night came in the ninth inning with an RBI single by pinch hitter Tate Shaw.

With an early 3–1 record, the Longhorns could build on their strong start with a three-game series against the 0–3 Purdue Boilermakers beginning Friday. “It’s a tough stretch,” Pierce said. “What we’ve got to do is start a little later in our practice tomorrow, only go a couple of hours, and really we’re looking at some of our coverages and calls and being sharp with that. Then, a regular Thursday getting ready for Purdue.”

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Anthony Mireles | the dAily texAn stAff Sophomore Kaitlyn Papp recorded her fifth top-20 finish this season with the Longhorns. The 2018 Big 12 Player of the Year finished in a tie for 17th with a (+6) showing in New Orleans. I’m proud of this group.” The Longhorns have relied on their depth throughout the fall and spring semesters. But their performance in New Orleans perhaps best repreThe football team was not the only group of sented their overall strength. With as many as six athletes from Texas to win the Sugar Bowl this golfers on the team capable of takseason, as the No. 3 women’s golf ing over a tournament at any secteam captured its first title of the ond, Texas is in a strong position new year at the Allstate Sugar Bowl moving into the rest of the season. Intercollegiate Golf Championship That kind of depth chart will on Tuesday. The Longhorns followed up their We’re all able to pay dividends later on when golfers take time off for tournaments top-five finish from two weeks ago in California with a dominant per- push each other unrelated to Texas’ season. formance in New Orleans as four “I think it’s great that we have and be super of the five golfers finished in the top such tremendous depth on our competitive in 20, including a top 10 finish from team,” sophomore Kaitlyn Papp senior Maddie Luitweiler, who did practice. It’s just said. “We’re all able to push each not play in the last tournament. great to have a other and be super competitive Tuesday’s result was Luitweiler’s in practice. It’s just great to have first start of the spring, and she group of people a group of people who have the made it count. who have the same goals and vision as you.” “I’m super proud of Maddie this While the team slipped one week,” head coach Ryan Murphy same goals and spot in the rankings following the said. “She’s been working hard on vision as you. her game and doing everything she last tournament, the win should can to be her best and to help this move them right back into the team. Tied for eighth in this field No. 2 spot. If Texas can string toK A I T LY N P A P P is outstanding.” SOPHOMORE gether another win or two, it could While no Longhorn finished be the highest ranked team in within the top five, the team was the country. overall very consistent across the week, winning Texas has a long break before it resumes tourin wire-to-wire fashion. nament play, as the next event will be held on “It was a terrific team effort this week March 12. The team will travel to Kailua, Hawaii, in tough conditions,” Murphy said. for the Dr. Donnis Thompson Invitational in an “Everyone contributed and we needed every bit of it. It was a great win against a great field, and effort to extend the current win streak.

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Effectiveness of tech monitoring Students ask whether or not tracking phone usage makes them change habits. By Romi Geller @macaromes

alking around campus, it’s difficult to find an area free of people glued to their phones. Over the last several years, the smartphone industry and social media platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, have created features to help users track how much time they are spending on their phones. Keri Stephens, UT organizational and communication technology associate professor, has done extensive research on the way people interact with communication technologies. Stephens said a downfall to a tool that helps analyze screen time is “habituation,” a theory that could lead to individuals not even acknowledging the tool as their exposure to the feature increases. “Over time, people may become habituated unless they consciously want to monitor their activity,” Stephens said. “If you are trying to monitor your activity and limit it, this feature could be helpful over time. Otherwise, it is an annoyance and a very easy thing you can click off before you even look at it.” While habituation poses a potential challenge to successful use of these features, history senior Brittany Smyth said her justification for not using the feature is built upon its low levels of accuracy. “(When discussing screen time), I think they’re usually talking about Facebook, Instagram — that sort of thing,” Smyth said. “The feature isn’t going to be

accurate for what people are concerned about: wasting time.” Despite the question of accuracy, business junior Christian Vega said he uses his iPhone’s analytics feature to help him manage his time and productivity. For Vega, this has been particularly helpful in minimizing his screen time during the pockets of time he spends waiting throughout the day. “Apparently, it is those times (when you’re waiting) that wire your brain not to be able to focus,” Vega said. “If you pick up your phone every time you were waiting or don’t want to be in the present, it becomes a habit of just picking up your phone constantly.” Vega said that through his continuous effort he has been able to skim one hour of phone time off his day. Though this may seem like a small step toward productivity, Vega said he feels the impact of his efforts and challenges others to take the opportunity to minimize their own phone time. “You should definitely look into your phone usage because there’s so much technology that has come into our lives. It’s honestly kind of scary,” Vega said. “We could end up in a world like WALL-E where everyone is just sitting down and the computers do everything for you.” Through her research, Stephens has created a strategy that enables people to limit the instinct of reaching for their phone and derive meaning from that instinct.

“I tell them to get a sticky note pad and every time they are tempted to look at their phone, make a tick mark,” Stephens said. “They’ll get to the point where they make that tick mark, ask themselves why they had that temptation and go on to actually learn to better control their own behavior.”

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