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INSIDE NEWS While not quite out of a Harry Potter movie, UT researchers have figured out ways to make objects undetectable to microwave detection. PAGE 5 Austin Energy gathers more data before jumping to establishing a new governing board. PAGE 5
SPORTS The Longhorns pound out 13 hits in an 8-5 win over Oklahoma State, their fourth straight victory. PAGE 7
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Ramifications of loans not fully realized By Joshua Fechter Students who receive forgivable loans under the BOn-Time program receive something in addition — an income tax form. Under federal law, forgivable loans such as the B-OnTime loan count as taxable income if the loan is forgiven
under the program’s criteria. Although the information is not new and is available on the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s website, the provision has provoked concern from some Texas lawmakers, such as state Rep. Helen Giddings, D-DeSoto. Giddings, who serves on a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, said she and other members
sent letters to Texas’ congressional delegation in Washington informing them that lawmakers at home hope to see changes. “I think when you sign up for the B-On-Time loan and you’re 17 or 18 years old, even 19, you’re not thinking about the end game,” Giddings said. “If you said to an 18-year-old that it is a forgivable loan, I’m not sure that they understand
that that means it becomes taxable income once it’s forgiven.” The program, established by the Texas Legislature in 2003, administers zero-interest loans to students who complete their degrees within four years for a four-year degree and five years for a fiveyear degree, maintain a 3.0 grade point average and do not exceed their degree plan
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UT striving toward more equality for female staff
Texas Relays continue as the Texas men win the 4x800 relay and sweep the top five in the 10,000 meters. PAGE 8
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together to run,” Ackerley said. “We’re bringing in people from all walks of life, different states and even bachelorette parties. It is just a weird mix of people, but getting to see so many people and meeting them is an added bonus for me.” City Running Tours is a national organization that guides
The University has made slow progress in responding to a report that female professors are paid less, promoted later and more likely to leave before receiving tenure. In a University-commissioned report written by the Gender Equity Task Force in 2008, several issues of inequity were identified, including a wage gap between male and female faculty members at the full professor level. The gap was calculated with a multivariate analysis that used statistical modeling to control for differences in faculty salaries by field, rank and a variety of other characteristics. Even after factoring in these differences, female full professors earned on average $9,028 less than their male counterparts. Janet Ellzey, vice provost of the International Office and mechanical engineering professor, took on gender equity as part of her portfolio in 2009 and also chaired the original task force’s subcommittee on compensation. Ellzey said in 2011, female full professors earned 96 percent of what their male counterparts earned. The University aimed to
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LIFE&ARTS “Game of Thrones” Season Three premieres on HBO on Sunday. PAGE 12 Science Scene reveals scientific blunders. PAGE 12
Sexism and racism share underlying causes, and one won’t be solved without also addressing the other. PAGE 4
Shelby Tauber | Daily Texan Staff Lee Ackerley, Austin manager of the City Running Tours, celebrates the end of the Texas 5K Beer Run with fellow runners at Kung Fu Saloon on Thursday evening. City Running Tours offers runs featuring history and beer at least once a week.
Run, drink, be merry By Jeremy Thomas
TODAY UT Tiene Talento Cash prizes will be awarded to the winning acts of this talent show on Hispanic culture. Open auditions held through March 29, from noon to 6 p.m. in Benedict HAll (BEN).
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Texas softball wins its seventh in a row by shutting out a Kansas team that entered the game with the nation’s highest team batting average. PAGE 7
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by more than six credit hours. Giddings said concern within the committee crosses partisan lines and found the support of state Rep. John Otto, R-Dayton, the subcommittee’s chairman. Thomas Melecki, Office of Student Financial Services director, said discussion
Beer, history and running coincide with one another every week to provide locals and tourists with a unique experience of downtown Austin. The Texas 5K Beer Run allows participants to learn about different historical downtown landmarks
and experience some of Austin’s most unique bars and restaurants. Typically, participants run around a mile from the Texas Running Company to view the Ann and Roy Butler Hike and Bike Trail around Lady Bird Lake. From the trail, there is a stop at Shiner’s Saloon on Congress Avenue, where runners of the proper
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age may receive beer samples. Northbound, the tour goes to the Capitol, followed by more beer samplings at the Cloak Room, near the Capitol, and at Kung Fu Saloon on Rio Grande Street. Lee Ackerley, Austin manager of City Running Tours, said the groups are typically small. “It’s getting all these people
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Lecture Series The McCraw Lecture Series presents Juan Dominguez, who will give a talk entitled “Brain and Hormone Influence on Natural and Artificial Reward” from noon to 1 p.m. in Belmont Hall (BEL) 328.
By Christine Ayala Shooting underwater photography, running marathons and binding molecules to DNA are just a few of Brent Iverson’s interests. Iverson is chairman of the department of chemistry and biochemistry and a chemistry professor. He is also one of five finalists for the deanship of the School
Tavola Italiana The Department of French and Italian presents Tavola Italiana, a weekly meeting for informal conversation in Italian and on Italian culture from 3 to 4 p.m at the Cactus Cafe.
of Undergraduate Studies, and the only one from UT. Iverson, who has been chairman for two years, said he continues to teach chemistry because of his passion for the science and the excitement of seeing students connect scientific fundamentals to the world around them. “We’re in the process of updating our undergraduate curriculum and I think we’re creating the kind of learning
environment that going to be just want the students need especially at the undergraduate level,” Iverson said. “The demands on students after they leave are changing and the though process of what students want are changing.” Iverson said although he is involved in administration, teaching and research, all three areas have a
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UT police to implement new campus PA system By Alberto Long
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A mass notification PA system linking all buildings to UTPD dispatch is the “missing link” in creating a safe campus environment for students and faculty, according to UTPD Chief of Police Robert Dahlstrom. Over the last four years, Bob Harkins, associate vice president for campus safety
and security, has advocated for a mass notification system that would fill a gap in campuswide safety initiatives. “We’ve got about 160 plus buildings on campus and what I want is for dispatch to talk to one or all the buildings at the same time,” Harkins said. Harkins said there are several roadblocks impeding his project, such as the four different
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Jonathan Garza | Daily Texan Staff Chairmen of The Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry Brent Iverson is one of the five candidates for UT’s next UGS Dean.
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common goal of inspiring and connecting students to world-class researchers. “They don’t work for me, I work for them,” Iverson said. “We have top-tier researchers in this department. Really, they are the best of the best, and those are the people students are getting to connect with.” Amy Rhoden Smith, a graduate research assistant, worked with Iverson to develop a molecule that binds to DNA. “He is so able to encapsulate a good idea and communicate something very complex in a way people can understand, even if you’re not a scientist,” Rhoden Smith said. Iverson said although the bond does not have a current practical use, it could potentially be a step toward developing a treatment for Alzheimer’s disease. “That is just really cool,” Iverson said. “It not as though tomorrow we’re going do something with it, but it’s a big step forward.” Biology senior Patrick Hunt, who has Iverson as a faculty mentor and as a professor in a seminar class, said Iverson is an inspiring role model who is constantly encouraging students. “He’s very good at giving positive advice,” Hunt said.
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“He’s full of experience. He just knows a lot about a lot. We try to talk about academics but its hard not to mention hobbies, and he has a lot.” Chemistry professor Eric Anslyn has known Iverson since they were both in graduate school at the California Institute of Technology, and they have even published an organic chemistry textbook together. Anslyn said Iverson is leading the department to better students’ chemistry education. “He has empathy and understanding for the students and dedication to the educational process, making sure students achieve their very best,” Anslyn said. “He sees how decisions have short run and long reaching implications and is able to bring together coalitions of people who will make wise decision about the direction of the department.” As one of five candidates for the undergraduate studies deanship, he will give a presentation to students and faculty April 5. Currently, Lawrence Abraham is serving as interim dean. “Higher education changes and it’s going to continue to change,” Iverson said. “I fundamentally believe that UGS is going to be the beacon of change on this campus. It’s going to enhance what goes on around it. So I hope the right person gets it, even if that is not me.” The candidates include Bernard Mair, the provost of undergraduate affairs and mathematics professor at the University of Florida, who visited campus Thursday; Selmer Bringsjord, chairman of the department of cognitive science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, who will visit Tuesday; Paul Diehl, a political science and law professor at the University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign, who will visit Thursday and Friday; and Steven Brint, the vice provost for undergraduate education and a sociology professor at the University of California at Riverside, who will visit April 1 and 2.
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continues from page 1 running tours in 11 other major U.S. cities. Ackerley, a Texas native, worked at the organization in Boston while he attended college. Once he moved back to Texas, Ackerley suggested to City Running Tours that Austin should be the next city selected if the organization expanded. The Austin-based tours started in 2012. Austin native Angelina McDonald said it was fun
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continues from page 1 tackle the wage gap through a series of targeted raises, but had to slow their progress after severe budget cuts in 2010. President William Powers Jr. acknowledged the impact of budget cuts on the University’s progress toward achieving equity, but said he was pleased with what progress has already been made. “As we emerge from the budget crisis, we will work to find the money to close salary gaps, promote equity for faculty, staff and students and complete the mission we started in 2008,” Powers said in an emailed statement. The 2008 report also addressed a “promotion and attrition gap” for advancing faculty. The report found more women than men leave the University
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continues from page 1 types of fire alarm systems, or “fire panels,” installed throughout campus which have caused administrative issues. “Technical issues have impeded this project,” Harkins said. “We’ve had the funding and the support. For example, each fire panel manufacturer wanted to protect its proprietary system, trying to deal with the various codes to make sure we’re not violating anything there.” UT’s large infrastructure has posed problems for effective
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in Washington concerning whether to pass legislation making forgivable loans nontaxable income has died down. “That’s pretty much ground to a halt given the current financial situation,” Melecki said. Melecki said students pay taxes on the loan the year it is forgiven and suggested students participating in the program set aside money to try to offset the impact of increased tax payments. “Let’s say that you get out of school and you are earning $25,000 a year and then you get your B-On-Time loan forgiven,” Melecki said. “That would add on $12,000 [if you received the loan for four years], which takes you up to $37,000 in taxable income before deductions.”
Melecki said his office does not advise students regarding the taxability of forgiven loans but said the office would consider doing so in the future. “We do try to be straightforward about loans, but every once in a while, we miss something and shame on us when that happens,” Melecki said. There are 384 UT students who receive an average annual loan of about $6,855 under the program, according to data provided by the Office of Student Financial Services. Isaac Crone, Italian and liberal arts honors junior, participates in the program and said he does not mind paying taxes on the forgiven loan because the cost incurred by the tax outweighs paying back the cost of the loan. “If they could reform the program without the tax, I think it’d be great,” Crone said. “However, if they kept the tax, I wouldn’t drop the loan.”
to combine the history of downtown Austin with the beer samples and the run. “I’ve lived in Austin for a long time,” McDonald said, “but I actually learned a lot of historical information about Treaty Oak and different buildings in the area, so it’s been really neat.” Keith Kauffman said the tour is all about exercise, friends and enjoying Austin. “Yeah, there’s beer,” Kauffman said. “They call it the Beer Run, but you’re not out getting drunk or anything. It’s more about being out exploring
what Austin’s about, meeting new people and getting exer-Evan Joyne cise at the same time.” Ackerley said he hoped people would stick around and enjoy the people they ran with but also remember that it is a unique tour. “It’s a little bit of historic and oral tradition going on,” Ackerley said. “I think people will walk away fully surprised. This tour gives you the true Austin experience and people can feel guilt-free about all the drinking they’re going to do later that night because they’ve run three miles already.”
before receiving tenure, and women who do receive tenure tend to receive it later than their male counterparts. Ellzey said currently, longterm promotion rates are similar for men and women, although she did not provide specific figures. “In the cases where promotion rates for men and women in a single year from a particular college are not similar, [Powers and Provost Steve Leslie] look over the case and confirm that the process was fair,” Ellzey said. Ellzey said more attention is paid to issues of equitable promotion, but confirmed the University has not implemented many of the strategies the report recommended. Recommendations that have not been implemented include providing a semester of sabbatical for tenured and tenure-track faculty members, which would take into
account the “decreased mobility of women faculty members,” implementing neutral third-party exit interviews for departing faculty and improving and standardizing mentoring programs across campus. Gretchen Ritter, the vice provost for undergraduate education and faculty governance who co-authored the original report, said the mentors would not necessarily have to be women, although that would increase familiarity with the issues faced by underrepresented groups. “Having a senior mentor who pays attention is the most important thing,” Ritter said. Earlier this semester, the provost established a University Gender Equity Council, which includes representatives from every college and school. One of the goals of the council is to discuss best practices for recruiting and mentoring.
communication, Harkins said, citing a failed attempt to set up a fully functional campus-wide wireless network that would have facilitated emergency announcements across buildings. “We thought we could do it wirelessly, but we couldn’t get the reliability,” Harkins said, “either because of interference or because of the volume of traffic on campus, we just couldn’t keep the system at an operational level I was comfortable with.” Dahlstrom is aware of the problem and said it is a gap in campus security that would supplement current communication systems like text message alerts and
ad-hoc computer notifications that appear on computers during an emergency. “There are about nine sources of media we use other than the UT loudspeaker to keep the campus safe,” Dahlstrom said. “What we’re talking about is a missing link that we’ve been working on for a number of years, and I think within the next couple of years we’ll get it to where dispatch can talk to these buildings.” Terry McMahan, UTPD assistant chief of police, said emergency transmissions can be muddled via UTPD text alerts as well as email and agreed the text messaging system has been problematic in the past. “We use email, but that’s slow,” McMahan said. “The problem with text messages is that we’re limited in the amount of characters we can use in any one text. So if we send out a massive text and it’s too long, it breaks them down into two. Sometimes the second will arrive before the first. That’s been problematic to work through.” By the end of this year, roughly half of the 167 buildings on campus will have an emergency PA system installed, allowing building managers to make emergency announcements over a microphone. Full implementation of a mass notification system connected to UTPD dispatch will take longer to initiate, but Harkins agreed with Dahlstrom’s prediction of a two-year time frame. “We’re in the process of linking the Flawn Academic Center as our test case,” Harkins said. “Once we’ve done that, it gives us a pathway toward other buildings … When we finish with the mass notification system, we’ll really close the loop on everything.”
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NEWS BRIEFLY Doubling interest may affect loans WASHINGTON — Incoming college freshmen could end up paying $5,000 more for the same student loans their older siblings have if Congress doesn’t stop interest rates from doubling. The same warnings came last year but now the presidential election is over and mandatory budget cuts are taking place, making a deal to avert a doubling of interest rates much more elusive before a July 1 deadline. The difference between 3.4 percent and 6.8 percent interest rates is a $6 billion tab for taxpayers.
Intervention force for Congo approved UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. Security Council authorized a new “intervention brigade” for Congo on Thursday with an unprecedented mandate to take military action against rebel groups to help bring peace to the country’s conflictwracked east. The resolution, which the council adopted unanimously, gives the brigade a mandate to carry out offensive operations alone or with Congolese army troops to neutralize and disarm armed groups. The brigade is unprecedented in U.N. peacekeeping because of its offensive mandate. The resolution, however, states clearly that it would be established for one year “on an exceptional basis and without creating a precedent” to the principles of U.N. peacekeeping.
Surgeon’s tools threaten patients TULSA, Okla. — Health officials on Thursday urged an Oklahoma oral surgeon’s patients to undergo hepatitis and HIV testing, saying filthy conditions behind his office’s spiffy facade posed a threat to his 7,000 clients and made him a “menace to the public health.” The Oklahoma Board of Dentistry said Thursday that state and county health inspectors went to Dr. W. Scott Harrington’s practice after a patient with no other known risk factors tested positive for both hepatitis C and the virus that causes AIDS. Inspectors found multiple sterilization issues at Harrington’s offices, including cross-contamination of needles and other instruments and the use of a separate, rusty set of instruments for patients who were known to carry infectious diseases, according to a complaint.
France may levy tax on companies PARIS — French President Francois Hollande may have finally found a way to tax the really rich: by making their companies pay. In a televised interview Thursday night, he said he wants companies that pay their employees more than 1 million euros ($1.3 million) to pay 75 percent payroll taxes on those salaries. The proposed tax, which still needs to be approved by parliament, replaces one of Hollande’s signature campaign proposals: to tax individuals who earn more than 1 million euros at 75 percent. —Compiled from Associated Press Reports
Denis Farrell | Associated Press A hawker passes portraits of former President Nelson Mandela in Soweto, South Africa on Thursday. Ninety-four-year-old Mandela, the anti-apartheid leader who became South Africa’s first black president, has been hit by a lung infection again and is in the hospital, the presidency said.
Mandela faces health scare By Christopher Torchia Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela was back in the hospital for the third time in four months Thursday, and the 94-year-old former South African president was reported to be responding well to treatment for a chronic lung infection. South Africa’s presidency
said that doctors were acting with extreme caution because of the advanced age of the anti-apartheid leader, who has become increasingly frail in recent years. The Nobel Peace Prize laureate was admitted just before midnight to a hospital in Pretoria, the South African capital. He has been particularly vulnerable to respiratory problems since contracting tuberculosis during his 27-year
imprisonment for fighting white racist rule in his country. “The doctors advise that former President Nelson Mandela is responding positively to the treatment he is undergoing for a recurring lung infection,” the presidency said in a statement. “He remains under treatment and observation in hospital.” Mandela, who became South Africa’s first black president in 1994, is a
revered figure in his homeland, which has named buildings and other places after him and uses his image on national bank notes. “I’m so sorry. I’m sad,” Obed Mokwana, a Johannesburg resident, said after hearing that Mandela was back in the hospital. “I just try to pray all the time. He must come very strong again.” In December, Mandela spent three weeks in a
hospital in Pretoria, where he was treated for a lung infection and had a procedure to remove gallstones. Earlier this month, he was hospitalized overnight for what authorities said was a successful scheduled medical test. Presidential spokesman Mac Maharaj, referring to Mandela by his clan name “Madiba,” said the latest stay was not for previously planned treatment.
Nationwide cuts affect immigrant detainees By Christopher Sherman & Cristina Silva Associated Press
PHOENIX — Marco Antonio Durazo had been awaiting deportation from an Arizona detention center for six months when an officer came to get him from his cell. “Obama doesn’t have any money,” the officer said. “We found it very funny,” Durazo said, but it wasn’t a joke. Soon, he was free along with more than 2,000 other illegal immigrants who were released by the Obama administration because of budget pressures. Officials have also scaled back border agent hours, drug patrols and staffing at border crossings — all during the peak illegal border-crossing season. While prompted by the nation’s money woes, the changes also come amid the nation’s shifting immigration policy after years of mass arrests and deportations and billions spent on border security. The long-term impact of that change has yet to be seen.
The Border Patrol said January and February numbers showed a nearly 10 percent increase in apprehensions along the Mexico border for the first two months of the year, compared with 2012. There could be several factors for the rise, including immigrants motivated by an improving U.S. economy or those anticipating congressional action that could create a path to citizenship. The cuts come as lawmakers are struggling to work out a comprehensive immigration reform package whose success may ultimately be tied to questions of border security. On Wednesday, Sen. John McCain led a bipartisan group of senators on a tour of the border, and they said they were close to a deal but continued to tie it to keeping immigration in check. They promised more details next week, but McCain said that there’s “no doubt” in his mind that the border is less secure because of the budget cuts. The release of more than 2,200 immigrants like Durazo drew headlines this month as the government prepared for looming cuts that began in March.
Bruce Fealk, a protester dressed like Michigan Governor Rick Snyder, flips flapjacks during a demonstration at the Detroit Athletic Club on Thursday.
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Michigan now right-to-work By David Eggert & Mike Householder Associated Press
LANSING, Mich. — A right-to-work law is on the books in Michigan, a mainstay of organized labor, but those considering opting out of paying union dues will have to wait months or years to do so. The law, which lets workers choose not to pay the unions that bargain on their behalf, applies to labor contracts that are extended or renewed starting Thursday — meaning many employees will not be affected until existing collective bargaining agreements end.
“I’ve got a long way to go until I can exercise my right,” said Terry Bowman, 47, who works on the line at a Ford Motor Co. plant in Ypsilanti. Contracts between unions and Detroit automakers are effective until September 2015. Bowman, who founded a group called Union Conservatives, said he is leaning toward ending his membership in the United Auto Workers — of which he has been a member since 1996 — unless it drops its “political agenda.” He said there are many more blue-collar people like him, but they are scared to publicly support right-to-work because of pressure from
union leaders after the law won quick approval in December from the GOP-led Legislature and Republican Gov. Rick Snyder. Although Bowman does not expect a “mass exodus,” he said some unions could lose a quarter of their membership. Michigan, the 24th rightto-work state, has the nation’s seventh-highest percentage of unionized workers. Neighboring Indiana enacted a right-to-work law in February 2012. The early results: Union membership declined to 9.1 percent of the workforce last year from 11.3 percent in 2011, according to federal statistics — a loss of 56,000 people.
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Editor-in-Chief Susannah Jacob
We Asked: Powers vs. Regents? THE QUESTION: What do you know about the Board of Regents’ conflict with President Powers? How do you feel about what you know? bit.ly/dt_askBoard Well, I actually just got out of a little discussion with [President William Powers Jr.]. He came and talked to a group of us, and he talked a little bit about this topic. Basically what I know about it is that, I think, the Legislature’s trying to cut funding, and some of the regents are trying to get him fired. Because what the regents are trying to do is trying to have the cheapest degree possible. They’re trying to make more practical degrees, and they want everyone to graduate in four years, all that kind of stuff. And I think what Bill Powers is trying to do is trying to give us a better foundation, rather than give us just pure practical knowledge, trying to encourage critical thinking. And while he’s preparing us for our first job, I think more than anything he’s trying to give us a foundation where we can move forward. He’s trying to encourage leadership, things that can, I think, separate us from the average workforce. I think it’d be a mistake to fire him for what he’s doing. I understand trying to keep tuition rates down, but when it comes to universities like UT, you’re paying a little bit more but you’re getting a lot more out of it, rather than just simply getting a degree. You can do that anywhere. —Pavit Patel Biology and sport management freshman from Houston
I don’t really know anything about this topic. Sorry. —Seungyeon Lee Nutrition junior from Ft. Worth I don’t know anything about it. Sorry. —Angie Li International business junior from Houston To be honest, I have no clue. —Vishakh Shukla Computer engineering sophomore from Cedar Park I have not heard anything about that, which kind of makes me a little bit uneasy. I feel like students should definitely be updated with all the goings-on of the school, especially when the president is involved. —Claire Ricke Journalism sophomore from Austin
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I know a little bit from a couple of the Daily Texan headlines that I’ve picked up in passing, but I didn’t know a lot of detail. I knew that there were issues, obviously, and I have the Texas Monthly magazine with the article about it sitting on my nightstand, and I’ve been intending to read it for about the past four months, and I just haven’t had time. Then, at a Rice young alumni panel discussion featuring a political science professor from Rice and one of the editors of Texas Monthly, I learned more about the different issues between Gov. Perry and the regents, and essentially how it appears that Bill Powers is no longer going to be here. And the judgments that the two panelists gave are that they’re very much on the side of Bill Powers, and that they don’t want Rick Perry to take over the University. They were very worried about UT losing its designation as a top-tier school in the state of Texas, and how Rice being the only premier school in Texas would actually be detrimental to its reputation. —Maggie Hereford Historic preservation graduate student from Pensacola, Fla.
Campus from your computer screen Laura Wright Daily Texan Columnist
Confronting racism and sexism demands civility Jenny Kutner and Jordan Greenberg Guest Columnists
On March 21, members of the Tejas Club, a men’s student leadership and social organization at UT, asked Robert Jensen, a UT journalism professor, to leave the group’s West Campus house after he delivered a talk about rape culture and the perpetuation of violence against women in our society. The Texas Orange Jackets, a women’s leadership organization, co-hosted Jensen with the Tejas Club as part of the Orange Jackets’ Week of Women, which took place March 18 to 22, and consisted of daily events aimed at raising the UT community’s awareness of issues facing women and celebrating campus female leaders. In his talk, Jensen offered a critique of the normalization and relative societal acceptance of violence against women. Specifically, he spoke about violent pornography and its harmful effects. During the question-and-answer period that followed, an audience member and one of the two authors of this column asked Jensen to clarify a comment he had made earlier in the evening about the Tejas Club calling members “braves.” Citing the disturbingly successful campaign to exterminate Native Americans throughout much of U.S. history — as well as our society’s inability to come to terms with that history — Jensen argued that the Tejas Club’s name for its members is racist and called for the organization to change it. In response, several Tejas members called Jensen “a shithead,” and asked him to leave the house. No one was talking about violence against women by the end of the night. Jensen spent 90 percent of his talk deconstructing our society’s acceptance of violence against women as a normal occurrence. He spoke directly to the men in the room when he argued young males watching violent pornography is one root cause of rape culture. And, for 90 percent of Jensen’s talk, no audience member audibly protested. We believe the uncivil behavior following Jensen’s later allegations of the club’s racism shows that his point about society’s inability to confront challenges to socialized norms, such as rape culture and racism, was lost on the
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angry audience and Tejas Club members. In a subsequent interview for this column Jensen acknowledged his tone shifted when he stopped speaking on rape culture and started speaking on racism. The journalism professor acknowledged his tone may have contributed to the unreceptive nature of the Tejas Club members’ response to his larger point. Yet, the outburst and territorialism exhibited by specific Tejas members still only reinforced Jensen’s claims that men in our society are plagued with an inability to move past a harmful, socialized idea of masculinity — a masculinity that requires violence, a need to assert power, and an inability to confront the racist and sexist problems that male privilege causes. The Tejas Club calls itself the “premier men’s social organization” on campus, seeking to help its members achieveleadership, scholarship and honor. The group hosts weekly coffee meetings with the intention of intelligent debates — one part of the club’s efforts to put itself above the status quo of West Campus fraternity life. By hosting a talk for Week of Women, we believe the club tried to stand in solidarity with female empowerment and against male-perpetrated violence against women. Acknowledging the problem of normalized violence against women and acknowledging the problem of systematic racism require the same process of reflection: Recognizing that hierarchies exist, and that they have harmful consequences. The road to “solving” sexism, a subject one Tejas member inquired about before Jensen made his allegations of racism, does not begin when we yell, scream, curse and threaten. While defending the Tejas club against Jensen’s provocative and accusatory rhetoric, members noted their racially diverse membership, but pointing to nonwhite members in the club doesn’t amount to evidence that solutions to racism have been achieved, just as hosting a coffee about feminism doesn’t constitute evidence sexism has been overcome. Jensen did not connect his two points about racism and sexism last Thursday, but we want to make sure the connection was not missed. Kutner is a Plan II and women’s and gender studies senior from Houston and Greenberg is a Plan II and Middle Eastern studies sophomore from Austin.
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In her visit to the Senate of College Councils last Thursday, Student Regent Ashley Purgason was quick to say that online courses “are here to stay.” More grim than enthusiastic, she assured students that online courses represented the way of the future and that faculty and students are being actively consulted about the courses’ development. The students, for the most part, seemed nonplussed by this announcement. Why is online learning the way of the future? When I asked other students if they like online courses, their responses universally lukewarm included the following: The courses are easy to game. They’re what you make of them. They’re easier. One student responded by saying he had never taken an online class, only to remember that he had, and the experience had been so unremarkable that he had completely forgotten about it. They had all taken online courses. Why? Because they were accessible, and these students needed the course credits the online courses provided to complete their real-life degrees. The accessibility of online courses makes ignoring their rise impossible (or at least foolish). And the UT System has already made a move to develop online courses. Last October, UT invested $10 million in the nonprofit online course platform edX, joining Harvard, MIT and the University of California at Berkeley in developing massive, open online courses that could be taken for free — although not for credit — by anyone in the world. The move, as The Texas Tribune reported, was praised by Gov. Rick Perry, who said that the partnership was “great news for Texas” and “exactly the type of effort [he hopes] more schools will consider.” The editorial board of this paper, however, took a more skeptical view, saying that “fully online courses, like those that will be offered through edX, are as yet unproven substitutes for in-person learning.” The UT System would be wise, suggested the editorial, to provide a vision for what online learning might look like before they pony up the money for a new delivery system.
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In the five months since the partnership, eight more universities have jumped on the edX bandwagon, including Australian National University, Wellesley College, and Rice University. UT is planning to launch four courses through the edX platform in the fall. Given the enduring appeal of online courses and the suggestion last Thursday by Purgason that they are the future, what should a brickand-mortar university like UT do to prepare for the rise of online education? When asked about how UT -Austin can better prepare for the rise of online courses, Harisson Keller, vice provost for higher education policy and research, suggested that UT do three things: Engage faculty and students in course development, establish new partnerships with other educational institutions, and invest in technological infrastructure on campus. I suggest we do a fourth: Define the values of a UT education we want to persevere in this rapidly changing educational climate. What do I mean by values? I mean, how much do you value sitting in a Welch lecture hall and listening to your professor speak? How much do you value retrieving a book from the PCL stacks or studying in the Hogwarts-esque Battle Hall reading room? How much do you value living in an on-campus dorm like Jester? All these are linked to the idea of college as a campuscentric experience in which you interact face-to-face with other students and your professors. And while I could never claim that online courses present an immediate threat to this experience (edX courses aren’t even offered for credit, after all), every day a student completes their coursework online, from home, is a day they don’t come to campus and walk past the Tower, past the South Mall, past 60,000 other students who have come from somewhere else to learn here, in a classroom on the 40 Acres, instead of through a website that just happens to bear the school’s name. Wright is a Plan II and biology junior from San Antonio.
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Gabriella Belzer | Daily Texan Staff Evan Smith, Texas Tribune founder and CEO, expressed optimism about the future of journalism Thursday in a lecture in the Joynes Reading Room. He argued that the digital transformation of news is an important part of the industry’s future success.
Tribune CEO sees bright future for news By Barak Bullock Journalism trailblazer Evan Smith showed optimism for the future of digital news during a lecture Thursday in the Joynes Reading Room. In “The Evolution will be Digitized: The Future of New News,” Smith explained how the digital transformation of news should be met by current and aspiring journalists. The Texas Tribune is a nonpartisan, nonprofit me-
dia organization, using an all-digital platform to cover state government and public policy in Texas. According to Matthew Valentine, senior program coordinator for the Joynes Reading Room, as the editor-in-chief and CEO of The Texas Tribune, Smith has experienced the new frontier of journalism firsthand. “By creating The Texas Tribune, Smith was a pioneer in this transitional period in journalism,” Valentine said. Simply put, Smith’s view
of future journalism and the opportunities for future journalists is optimistic. “I do believe that, contrary to what you may have heard about this being the worst possible time to be both in school and to be getting out of school and look for work in the media, I think this is the absolute best time for that, that I’m aware of,” Smith said. “I envy the kids getting out of school today.” Smith said current students have the advantage of growing up in a technological world, making the acquisition of
competitive skills more natural to them. Additionally, he warned that those skills have now become necessary for work in journalism. “You are first-generation technophiles ... You have skills we need to be competitive,” Smith said. “You get out of school today, you better be able to edit video, edit audio, you gotta be able to do a little bit of HTML coding, you gotta be able to write, you gotta be able to take photos, you’ve got to be a Swiss army knife.”
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UT researchers work on invisibility cloaks By Barak Bullock Invisibility cloaks continue to move out of science fiction and closer to reality thanks to new research by UT scientists. Although researchers still have a long way to go before making 3-D objects invisible to the naked eye, the group has successfully masked objects from microwave detection, The new development is the work of electrical and computer engineering assistant professor Andrea Alu, Dave Rainwater and Aaron Kerkhoff, research associates at Applied Research Laboratories, electrical and computer engineering graduate students Jason Soric and PaiYu Chen and physics graduate student Kevin Melin. Their research, published Monday in the New Journal of Physics, marks a step forward from previously bulky cloaks to an ultra-thin, flexible “mantle” cloak. The new cloak can conform to the shape of a cylindrical tube, hiding it from microwave detection. According to Alu, the group began working on cloaking technology in 2005, though this week’s
research stemmed from a paper he wrote in 2009. “We have worked on invisibility since 2005, when we theoretically proposed the first concept to achieve transparency and invisibility using metamaterials,” Alu said. “The mantle cloaking idea was originally published in a theory paper by myself in 2009.” Alu said the cloak works by keeping microwaves from reflecting, or “scattering,” after hitting an object. “We see an object by collecting with our eyes the waves that is scattered around by the object,” Alu said. “By designing a cover that scatters a wave with opposite phase compared to the object, we can cancel out the total scattered wave and suppress the detectability of the object.” The cloak’s innovative design uses “metascreens” thinner than one millimeter. These metascreens consist of copper tape layered on a polycarbonate cover, which is essentially a
transparency sheet, Melin said. Rainwater said the mantle cloak effectiveness is still somewhat dependent on the viewing angle. “Our cloak works better in some directions than others,” Rainwater said. “But roughly speaking, it’s about 90 percent dimmer with the cloak at the microwave frequency we designed it for.” Melin said he worked on cloaking with Alu and Rainwater while studying as an undergraduate. Melin clarified that the mantle cloak does not actually hide objects from light waves, only microwaves. “This is not visible cloaking, this is not something like ‘there’s the object and now it’s gone.’ It’s a different part of the spectrum,” Melin said. “So if you’re talking about a Harry Potter cloak, yes that’s misleading.” Going forward, Alu said invisibility research will focus on cloaking antennas,
So if you’re talking about a Harry Potter cloak, yes that’s misleading. —Kevin Melin, physics graduate student
which could mitigate problems like radio interference.
With ample support from residents, the Austin City Council is taking extra steps to gather data before deciding on whether or not to approve an unelected governing board for Austin Energy. Austin Energy, the city’s municipal electric utility, is currently run by the council. A resolution passed in February directed the city manager’s office to outline an ordinance for an independent governing board of the utility that will be appointed by the council. Several Austin residents spoke out against the resolution at the Feb. 14 meeting, concerned about the accountability of a governing board unelected by citizens. In a resolution unanimously passed by the council at the council’s March 21 meeting, city staff have been directed to perform a study looking at other municipallyowned utilities nationwide to see how Austin Energy compares in metrics such as rates, revenue, staff, efficiency and consumer satisfaction. According to the ordinance, the metrics concerning transparency and accountability are “to be determined based upon availability of information across all utilities surveyed.” Larry Weis, general manager of Austin Energy, said the utility is willing to put forward what it can to make the study happen. “We operate in a very close peer industry in the
public power industry and municipally-owned industry, and we have a lot of resources available to us,” Weis said at the meeting. “We will call upon those to do the very best job we can to pull the data together and be responsive.” Austin resident Lynetta Cooper, spokeswoman for the Gray Panthers of Austin, said the study is a step in the right direction for the council’s decision. “We wholeheartedly support this resolution — it is just plain good public policy,” Cooper said. “Before we take such an important step as removing our direct ability to hold the board of directors accountable, we should see where Austin Energy stacks up against other utilities.” The results of the study will be released by the second week of April, when the council will move forward with its decision. Several speakers at the meeting expressed a wish for the data to be published in advance of a public hearing. Mayor Lee Leffingwell said at the meeting that he hopes to make a decision on the governing board as soon as possible. “I want to hold as close to an expeditious timeline as we can,” Leffingwell said at the March 21 meeting. “The city of Austin has been studying this for a couple of decades now — I really don’t think that we’re going to hear much new out of it. I think we’ve basically studied this to death and I see no reason to continue to delay this again.”
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By Rachel Thompson Down three points in the fourth quarter of the last game of the season, Johnathan Gray’s moment had come. After quarterback David Ash hit him with the ball, the freshman running back bolted 15 yards for a touchdown. Several minutes later, he converted a fourth down that allowed wide receiver Marquise Goodwin to score one last touchdown to earn an Alamo Bowl victory over Oregon State. It was his first year on the team and the 13th game he’d seen action in. Shying away from big moments was never an issue for the Aledo native. Gray, who made his football debut at age 8, set the national record with 205 touchdowns in high school.
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Elisabeth Dillon | Daily Texan file photo Johnathan Gray takes off his helmet before Texas’ 31-22 win over Texas Tech last November. Gray ran for 106 yards in the victory over the Red Raiders, his father’s alma mater. After running for a team-high 703 yards last year, he’s looking to have a productive sophomore season.
“The most amazing thing is how durable he has been because he’s carried the ball so many times,” head coach Mack Brown said upon signing Gray. “You can see he has got vision, he has got power, he has great speed.” He didn’t settle down once
he arrived in college, either. After serving as a reserve back in the first seven games, Gray was named a starter and led the team in rushing yards by the end of the season. His visual skills and ability to accelerate quickly earned him praises as a freshman.
“I feel like I have to get acquainted with this game,” Gray said last season. “I feel like I’ve done that, and it shows. Pass throw is getting better. Hands, feet, vision [are] getting better each week.”
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By Sara Beth Purdy The Texas offense carried the Longhorns to their fourth straight victory Thursday night. The Longhorns defeated Oklahoma State 8-5 on the road in the first game of a three-game series. Freshmen C.J. Hinojosa and Jeremy Montalbano each had three RBIs on the evening as the Longhorns (16-9, 2-2) cruised to 13 hits on the night. Junior
Mark Payton went 2-for-5 on the evening, extending his hitting streak to 14 straight games. Junior Erich Weiss led all Longhorns by going 3-for-4 on the night. The Longhorns got started quickly with Weiss pulling in an RBI double to plate Hall in the first. Payton then plated Weiss with a single on the next at-bat. Oklahoma State (19-6, 1-2) starting pitcher Jason Hursh struggled to contain the Longhorn offense,
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surrendering all eight runs off 13 hits through seven innings of work. After the Longhorns put up two in the first, the Cowboys responded with a run in the first and two in
the second for their only lead of the ball game. The Longhorns then put up four in the third to take the lead for good. Freshman Travis Duke got the win after
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Sam Ortega | Daily Texan file photo Shortstop Taylor Thom takes a swing at bat during last weekend’s game. Thom is one of many veteran leaders for Texas.
Horns overpowering teams with experience Sam Ortega | Daily Texan file photo Senior Torie Schmidt slides into home base during last Sunday’s game against Baylor. Schmidt scored three runs and had four stolen bases as Texas beat the Jayhawks in the first of three games.
Texas shuts out Jayhawks to start second Big 12 series of the season By Jori Epstein In a game of records for No. 8 Texas, starting off the season 3-0 wasn’t one of them. The squad has opened with a trio of victories for four straight seasons now — but only tonight’s featured a program-high nine stolen bases. The speed helped Texas (30-4, 3-0 Big 12)
shut out the Jayhawks 5-0 in the first of a three-game weekend series. Big 12 Pitcher of the Week Blaire Luna threw the first six innings, allowing just two singles and two walks to join her nine strikeouts. Kim Bruins closed out, delivering the loss to Alicia Pille (7-4), who gave up five runs on seven hits. The Bruins also connected on a fifth-inning
hit against Pille, as the Big 12 Player of the Week brought her average to .474 in the last four contests after a zero-fornine skid. Torie Schmidt tallied the Longhorns’ first run of the night when Hoagland walked in the second. En route to home plate, Schmidt stole her first of four bases,
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numbers each game. Four of these upperclassBy Garrett Callahan men hold top spots in the Daily Texan Columnist Longhorns’ statistics this season thus far — senior If there is one thing that Taylor Hoagland, junior people can say is wrong Taylor Thom, junior Brewith this Texas team, it def- jae Washington and senior initely can’t be leadership. Blaire Luna. The Longhorns are comHoagland sits atop six ing off a seven-game win- of the 13 offensive leader ning streak in which they spots for her team, includclaimed their first three ing batting average (.463), games of Big 12 play. Need- runs scored (38) and slugless to say, Texas’ veteran ging percentage (89%). players had a large part to For the month of March, do with those wins. the Flower Mound naThe Longhorns’ have tive is batting .465, has 18 only eight upperclassmen runs while driving in 12 on their roster, four of and hit six home runs. On whom are seniors. Despite top of that she leads all this low number they still LEAD continues on page 8 continue to produce solid
Sophomore Sheldon McClellan confirmed that he had elected to transfer Thursday, a day after news of his decision broke. “I want to thank everyone who supported me while at The University of Texas,” McClellan said. “I enjoyed my time at Texas. I just need a change of venue.” The Houston native started in just 15 games, playing in all 34, and spent most of the season as the team’s leading scorer, averaging 13.5 points per game. Earlier this month, sophomore forward Jaylen Bond also announced that he will be transferring from Texas after he had limited playing time in his two season with the team. The Longhorns are coming off a disappointing 16-18 season this past year as they missed the NCAA tournament since the first time in head coach Rick Barnes’ tenure at Texas. —Garrett Callahan
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continues from page 7 But Gray isn’t the only talented back on the roster. Both junior Malcolm Brown, who played in eight games before suffering an injury, and junior Joe Bergeron, who started six times last season, are also returning, meaning Gray will be kept on his toes.
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tying Brejae Washington’s school record. Schmidt also matched a career-high three runs against the Jayhawks. When a groundout left Alex Jones in scoring position in the third and a fourth-inning sacrifice bunt
Gray’s speed and depth of vision will also aid him in Mack Brown’s tempo offense that the team has been drilling this spring, which will be showcased at the Orange-White Scrimmage on Saturday. “I’m excited with our offense that we’re getting the tempo thing, and we’ve got a lot of fast guys on the field getting the ball and that’s fun,” Brown said. “It’s forcing
Malcolm [Brown] and Johnathan [Gray] to block better.” The sophomore-to-be finds inspiration from a mentor who guided him from Day One: his father, a former AllAmerican running back at Texas Tech. “I learned a lot from him, as far as football goes,” Gray said. “He taught me the game and he just said when you get to college, get better and it’s up to you to decide your future.”
was credited with the save in Game One. The Texas defense held the Cowboys to five runs despite surrendering 11 hits. “You saw some great defensive plays up the middle. We talked about getting the middle
infielders to another level and they certainly showed it tonight,” Texas head coach Augie Garrido said. “That was a big part of it to go with the offense.” The Longhorns take on the Cowboys again in Game Two of the series Friday night.
advanced Chanin Naudin to second, Luna didn’t bat an eye. She swiftly struck out batters in both instances to preclude a scoring threat. After each save, the Longhorns retaliated with runs. Stephanie Ceo sacrifice bunted to bring home Schmidt in the third, her sixth straight hit at-bat. A groundout in the sixth lowered her four-game average
to .857 with four RBIs. “My focus is to see the ball all the way to my bat and just put it in play,” Ceo said. “That’s my game — put the ball in play and make the defense handle it.” The Longhorns resume play in Lawrence with a doubleheader Friday beginning at 1 p.m. Its Saturday match was moved up because of a forecast of inclement weather.
MEN’S Swimming & DIVING recap| Rachel Wenzlaff The NCAA Championship meet currently being held in Indianapolis is the last for seniors Austin Surhoff and Michael McBroom, and they are motivated to make it count. In merely the first day, both Surhoff and McBroom accomplished times not only good enough for personal bests but also top-four individual finishes, putting the Longhorns in fifth after one day of events. In the 500 freestyle, McBroom fell just short of first, taking second in
4:11.39. In addition to being a personal best, the time was good enough to make him the 11thfastest performer alltime in the event and the third-fastest Longhorn. Despite the impressive finish, head coach Eddie Reese appeared to have expected nothing less. “Michael has done it right all year, and he has worked really hard,” Reese said. “He’s very determined to have a real good meet here and he will.”
Surhoff, the former event champion, finished the 200 individual medley in 1:42.63. The only other Longhorn to ever post a faster time in the event was Ricky Berens in 2009. Top-six finishes in the 200 freestyle and 400 medley relays and freshman Cory Bowersox’s eighth-place one-meter diving finish added to the Longhorns’ total 99 points. In Day Two’s events, starting at 10 a.m., Texas looks to improve on its fifthplace standing.
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continues from page 7 Division 1 players in on-base percentage (.646). Another offensive trailblazer is Thom. Thom has 40 hits on the season with nine of those being home runs. She also leads the Longhorns in RBIs (40). But the biggest impact of the junior has been her consistency. Thom has been a force at the plate all season for Texas. Her extra-base hits this season have already tied two NCAA records — a record of three doubles in a single game in late February and a two-grand-slam and eight-RBI performance earlier that month. Luna is also once again having an outstanding season at the mound. After
finishing third in the nation in strikeouts per seven innings (10.6) last year, the Austin native leads the Big 12 in three categories this season so far — wins (16), batting average against (.110) and strikeouts (208) — giving the Longhorns the defensive power they need. This leadership acts as a perfect example for the younger players on this Texas team. Underclassmen such as freshman Stephanie Ceo have looked up to these veterans for advice and encouragement and have improved in the last few games. Ceo, who sparked two rallies with hits off two of the best pitchers in the league last week against Baylor, has continually used the older players on the team to her advantage. She frequently bounces ideas
off them and uses their encouraging words to make herself better. These veterans have also shown that hard work will pay off even in slumps. Thom came into her sophomore season with high expectations but failed to meet a lot of them. She had an unproductive year compared to her freshman year with only 28 RBIs and seven stolen bases but came back this season after an intense offseason producing those customary results. The Longhorns should continue to use this leadership to their benefit, not only learning from the veterans’ mistakes but also improving off their accolades. If that happens, Texas will continue to be one of the most unstoppable teams in college softball right now.
MEN’S track & FIELD recap| Louis San Miguel The second day of Texas Relays action kicked off Thursday and the Longhorns’ distance runners grabbed most of the attention, taking the first five spots in the 10,000-meter run and setting an important mark in the 3,000-meter steeplechase. Ryan Dohner won the first ever 10,000-meter race at the Texas Relays and set a Texas Relays record with a time of 29:34.34, followed by fellow Longhorns Craig
Lutz (29:39.22), Daniel Vertiz (29:55.62), Rory Tunningley (30:07.35) and Mark Pinales (30:08.09). Austin Bussing’s time of 8:52.05, which won him second place in the steeplechase, set a new personal record and is currently the third-fastest time in the nation. The 4x800 relay team, composed of a trio of seniors — Kyle Merber, Trevor Van Ackeren and Patrick McGregor — and
sophomore Kyle Thompson clocked in at 7:29.51, beating out Texas A&M by seconds. Senior Isaac Murphy was neck and neck with the eventual winner of the decathlon, Duke’s Curtis Beach, but wound up in third at the end of the day. The Texas Relays continue bright and early tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m. with running and field events.
Women’s Track & FIELD recap| SEBASTIAN HERRERA The Longhorns began their 2013 Texas Relays campaign Thursday afternoon when the 400-meter hurdle preliminary race took place. Junior Danielle Dowie clocked a preliminary best time of 58.22 and has made herself the favorite heading into finals Friday evening. Close behind her, however, was Iowa State’s Eseroghene Okoro, who ran a 58.24 in the preliminary race.
In the 3000-meter steeplechase later in the day, junior Brittany Marches broke the school record by running a 10:31.59. Her time earned her a fourth-place finish and was good enough for the fifth-fastest time nationally in the event. Marches’ strategy of keeping calm and running at a steady pace propelled her to an impressive performance. “Keeping my breathing under control is the most
important thing for me,” Marches said. “[Coach Stephen Sisson] just told me to relax and catch people, and that’s just what I did.” Between a few scratches and events in which they didn’t participate, the Longhorns have yet to really showcase what they have in their arsenal. That will change Friday as the women’s 4x100meter relay kicks off in the morning.
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continues from page 12 acting. It wasn’t until his sophomore year at Texas State University that he first started creating music. “It just sounded like a very stripped-down version of the kind of stuff I do now,” Zamarron said. “It was me and my roommate. He didn’t really make music. He just kind of had fun watching me do it.” Zamarron put his advertising degree on hold in order to dive into music. For now, a career in music is Zamarron’s first priority. He also works as a social media consultant for a Houston- and Los Angeles-based company, despite
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character engaging. The sly Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) is an easy fan favorite, and his scenes are dependable highlights in a cluttered landscape. More surprising are the adventures of Stark
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having left his advertising degree unfinished. “I haven’t officially graduated,” Zamarron said. “I took all of my upper-division classes. … The only thing keeping me from graduating is Spanish.” Before working for Amy’s, Chumley was in the Marines, which is where he first began spinning on turntables. “I was in the military and the base got locked down, and it was something I always wanted to do when I was in high school,” Chumley said. “When the base gets locked down, you can’t do anything for like months at a time, so I bought some turntables and learned how to do it.” Chumley has his own job as a DJ and DJ instructor for the Dub Academy on East Fifth Street, but he said his
work with Zamarron has helped his solo career. Zamarron recently snagged an opening spot on the AWOLNATION and Imagine Dragons tour with the help of his manager, who also manages AWOLNATION. Although Chumley was not with Zamarron on the tour, the two are working and performing together again. According to Chumley, the group, which also includes drummer Gibran Nassif, gives a very dynamic performance, which can be different each night. “He actually lets me break down certain parts of the song and manipulate it live while he’s playing,” Chumley said. “He gives me solos and I use that time to
stronger and more powerful. Daenerys cleverly used her dragon’s newly developed breath of fire to kill Pyat Pree and escape from the House of the Undying. After escaping, Daenerys locked the king of Qarth, Xaro Xhoan Daxos, into his empty vault to slowly die. Her soldiers gathered as much precious material as they could in order to buy a ship that would take her across the sea, and to her destiny as queen of the Seven Kingdoms.
Photo courtesy of Keith Bernstein Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen is one of the many competitors in “Game of Thrones.”
On the Wall Ygritte, a Wildling, took Jon Snow captive north of the Wall. Jon found that his fellow night watchman, Qhorin Halfhand, had also become a prisoner. Halfhand
determined that the best course of action was to get the Wildlings to trust one of them. The only way to do this is for one to kill the other. Halfhand sprang loose and attacked Jon, and forced
Jon to slay him. In turn Jon gained the Wildlings’ trust. Jon is now off to meet the King Beyond the Wall, Mance Rayder, at the Wildling camp. At the Wall, an army of White Walkers attacks.
knight Brienne (Gwendoline Christie) and her prisoner, Jaime Lannister (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau), an exciting buddy comedy that gives the season some of its most surprising, intense moments. Other characters occasionally disappoint, especially Theon Greyjoy (Alfie Allen), whose scenes in the opening episodes are oddly circular
and disjointed. “Game of Thrones” has stacked its cast with dozens of compelling figures, each of them making their own argument for viewers to tune in next week. Because the average episode spends less than 10 minutes with any given character, “Game of Thrones” works best when viewed in concentrated
bursts, especially since every episode makes sure to end on a tantalizing cliffhanger. Even though episodes can feel distractingly scatterbrained, the show still knows how to sink its hooks in, and “Game of Thrones” returns to television with an entertaining premiere that promises a bloody, fascinating season to follow.
ZEALE Genre: Indie hip-hop Where: HSM When: Sunday, Doors at 9:30 p.m., show starts at 10 p.m. Cost: Free make solo performances.” According to Zamarron, the modern music industry doesn’t necessarily demand extensive recorded work. The limited number of recordings Zamarron has released are more of the indie hip-hop beats that artists such as Childish Gambino have been releasing in recent years. “If I never had to be in the recording studio, I wouldn’t be,” Zamarron said.
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failed to completely explain the movement of the planets. Instead of admitting that he hadn’t worked every piece out, he offered a divine explanation: Every so often a supernatural force had to intervene and adjust the planetary orbits, just as humans needed to periodically wind their watches. It wasn’t until after Newton’s death that a mathematical explanation for planetary motion by Pierre-Simon Laplace offered a more useful and complete model for studying the heavenly bodies without invoking heavenly beings. Scientists have also fabricated evidence to strengthen their claims. Desperate to validate Charles Darwin’s belief that man is descended from apes, early 20th century archaeologists scoured the earth to find the predicted missing link: the skeleton of an ape/man hybrid. And they unearthed it in 1912. Unfortunately, the fossil they found was a poor fake: a combination of an orangutan’s jaw, a modern human’s head and teeth taken from a chimpanzee or orangutan. The forger stained the bones with acid and filed down the chimp teeth to make them appear as if the creature had a human-like diet. It took scientists more than 40 years to conclude that “Piltdown Man,” as the fossil was dubbed, did not represent a genuine ancestral species. We now have a more complete fossil record of human lineage and know that our ancestors were by no means half-man, halfape abominations. They were creatures that didn’t exactly resemble anything alive today, and Piltdown Man wouldn’t fool an archaeologist today for more than a few seconds. But for the one-two combination of fraud and lazy research, one need look no further than the recent case
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of Andrew Wakefield, whose study on the effects of vaccinations not only exemplifies shoddy experimental design, but also suffered from conflicts of interest and resulted in tragic consequences. In 1998, Wakefield published a paper claiming to have found a link between childhood vaccinations and autism. The paper, whose results couldn’t be replicated, only had a sample size of 12 children. Aside from a miniscule sample size and results that couldn’t be replicated, the study suffered from outright fraud. An investigation revealed that Wakefield altered the medical histories of those children: five of the 12 showed symptoms of autism before receiving vaccinations and three never actually developed the condition. Additionally, Wakefield received money from a group of lawyers hoping to sue vaccine manufactures. Despite obvious problems with the research, its results still reached the ears of cautious parents, who refused to vaccinate their little bundles of joy. Rates of potentially fatal, but completely preventable, diseases such as pertussis and measles have increased, and even today, 15 years later, we’re still dealing with honest, though misinformed, parents who support the “anti-vax” movement. Alhough reality may be etched in stone, our interpretation is sketched in pencil with frequent erasures. Our scientific findings are fragile, but that’s what makes our confidence in them so strong — at any moment, with the right piece of evidence, centuries of knowledge could be knocked down. If despite looking, however, we can’t find that evidence, then our faith in the underlying method becomes stronger. There’s no question that there are current scientific beliefs that are incomplete if not completely wrong, but the system works, on the whole, and our current understanding of the world is more accurate than ever before.
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MOVIE REVIEW | ‘WRONG’
Director of ‘Rubber’ releases surreal comedy WRONG
By Alex Williams When a film opens with a shot of a group of firefighters watching one of their own poop in the middle of a street while a car burns to a crisp in the background, you know that it’s going to operate on its own level of logic, and Quentin Dupieux’s “Wrong” is a wonderfully bizarre comedy. Dupieux’s last film, “Rubber,” was a surreal piece about a tire with psychic powers, and with “Wrong,” the odd writer-director continues his streak of purposeful nonsense. Dolph (Jack Plotnick) spends much of the film searching for his lost dog, a hunt that puts him in contact with the mysterious Master Chang (William Fichtner), an alluring pizza shop employee (Alexis Dziena) and inept private eye Ronnie (Steve Little). The amount of absurdity that Dolph is exposed to over the course of “Wrong” requires Plotnick’s straight-faced ability to take everything in stride. The most interesting thing about “Wrong” is the way it frames a perfectly relatable
Director: Quentin Dupieux Genre: Comedy Runtime: 94 minutes conflict, like losing your dog or moving in with a new girlfriend, in an absolutely ridiculous context. The film happily exists in a dimension where everything is simply a few degrees off from normal, and Dupieux creates a parade of memorable moments and characters, all of them in service of the sharply realized but totally abnormal world in which his films exist. William Fichtner embodies one of “Wrong”’s wackiest elements with Master Chang, a facially scarred man with an unconventional approach to pet ownership. Chang is the antagonist in a roundabout way, but Fichtner makes him the most hilarious figure in a film full of hilarious figures. Fichtner delivers his dialogue with confidence, completely aware of how little sense it makes but totally invested in what he’s saying anyway.
Photo courtesy of Drafthouse Films Dolph (Jack Plotnick) has a rainy day at work in Quentin Dupieux’s “Wrong.”
Little’s bumbling private detective is an uncharacteristically confident role for the dopey comedic actor, and Little is at his funniest when he’s getting more and more flustered by the oddities of “Wrong”’s plot. Trying to figure out what
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Dupieux is trying to say with “Wrong” is probably a lost cause, and the film seems to pride itself on how little sense it makes. However, Dupieux is a strong visual storyteller, bringing a disorienting crispness to the film’s images, and his
handle on tone is remarkable. His script shines as well, each character given eloquent dialogue that manages to make even the most opaque scenes human in one way or another. Judging “Wrong” as a traditional narrative, or much
of a narrative at all, is sure to be a frustrating exercise in futility. The film’s oddball momentum and the consistently unexpected and interesting storytelling choices from Dupieux make it a singular expression of a twisted, gleefully nonsensical voice.
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Artist embraces social media By Stephanie Robalino
Photograph by Jan Sturman, courtesy of Ekso Bionics Ekso Ambassador Jason Gieser walks in the exsoskeleton at a private event in May 2011.
New shifts shake up tech world Editor’s Note: Tabs on Technology is a weekly update on the latest news in the tech world.
By Stuart Railey Executive director behind Wikipedia decides to step down Sue Gardner, one of the galvanizing leaders behind the nonprofit Internet database Wikipedia, announced in an interview Wednesday that she will step down from her position in the organization. Citing Wikipedia’s increasing success and self-reliance, Gardner explained that her job is largely over and she hopes to turn her attention toward combating anti-piracy legislation and advocating an open, free Internet. As executive director of the Wikimedia Foundation, Gardner helped transform Wikipedia from a small nonprofit into one of the Internet’s largest compiled resources for information. Wikipedia is currently the fifth most visited site on the Internet, after Facebook and Google. Exoskeletons allow paraplegics to walk again Companies such as Ekso Bionics are vying for new ways to market their exoskeleton suits. For paraplegics around the world, this carbon fiber assistance structure means not only walking again, but also running, jumping and carrying heavier weight than before. Because exoskeleton technology is still rather pricey at about $150,000 up front, it may not be marketable for general consumers for some time to come. Instead, this robogear made its debut in the military and in hospitals. For soldiers who need to haul
large amounts of equipment over miles of rocky terrain, exoskeletons make foot travel almost effortless and minimize long-term damage to the spine. Lockheed Martin, a global security and aerospace company that has licensed the technology from Ekso Bionics, is currently developing the Human Universal Load Carrier, which is an exoskeleton that can actively anticipate a soldier’s movements to create the walking motion. Windows Phones outsell Apple iPhones According to Frank Shaw, head of public relations at Microsoft, Windows Phone 8 has been outselling the Apple iPhone in the last quarter — but only in seven international markets. Although this news may be an encouraging accomplishment for Microsoft, Apple Inc. has a long-standing choke hold on the mobile device market and is only being outshipped in countries such as Croatia, India, Argentina and Poland. Windows Phone comprises 10 percent of all mobile devices market share in these countries. Because the iPhone only contracts with a handful of wireless providers, Windows Phone 8 has had a leg up in locations where Nokia is popular. In addition, Microsoft sells its mobile device at half the price of an iPhone. Mark Zuckerberg makes plans to enter political realm Teaming up with his college roommate Joe Green and a number of other close associates, Facebook’s chief executive Mark Zuckerberg is in the process of forming a political action group that will be officially announced
in the next two weeks. By raising and investing more than $50 million, the young executive hopes to advocate immigration reform and promote scientific research. Many technology moguls have pushed for immigration reform in the past to help encourage foreign-born entrepreneurs to come to the U.S. Since founding Facebook in 2004, Zuckerberg has largely stayed out of the political arena and focused more on the financial well-being of the company. But over the last couple of years Zuckerberg has taken a more noticeable role in the realm of politics. Having met with President Obama a number of times and even fundraised for New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, Zuckerberg’s bold step into the spotlight will likely draw comparison to activists such as Bill Gates. Battlefield 4 reveal trailer released As promised by a teaser trailer last week, Dice Game Studios released a 17-minute gameplay reveal for “Battlefield 4” on Wednesday. Using the Frostbite 3 graphics engine, “Battlefield 4” features a very apparent upgrade in photorealism from its predecessor and features the familiar combination of first-person action, vehicles and incredibly intense cut scenes. Although the game was announced for PC, it has yet to be confirmed for either the PS4 or the nextgeneration Xbox. More likely than not, DICE is required to keep its lips sealed until Microsoft announces its next console in April. No release date for the game has been announced, but it is anticipated to ship before the 2013 holiday season.
Milwaukee-based artist Joseph Reeves is out to prove that anyone actually can be an artist with his current exhibit, “The Cell Phone Photo Gallery,” at Co-Lab Projects in East Austin. Reeves, a filmmaker, music journalist and studio arts graduate of the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, first came up with the idea for “The Cell Phone Photo Gallery” during his senior year of art school, when he constructed a small-scale version. Interested in rejecting the typical, stuck-up character the art world seems to project, he set out to assemble a community-wide project to which everyone could contribute. “The Cell Phone Photo Gallery” amounts to a gallery space transformed by several hundred community-submitted cell phone photos that reveal an enormous collection of digital memories from people all over Austin. “Organizing a community-wide art project really takes away the ego you find so readily in art sometimes,” Reeves said. “By engaging a typically non-art audience, it opens up the dialogue about what art really means.” Reeves explained that because cameras have become so readily accessible
on phones, the cell phone photograph tends to be dismissed artistically as inferior to “real” photography. “The project refutes this notion by organizing large scale, city-specific, cell phone photo exhibitions that call upon the everyday citizen for their own unique interpretation of art, photography and meaning,” Reeves said. In a wider context, “The Cell Phone Project” aims to document, explore and question the rising sense of sociocultural awareness that is occurring in part from easier access to technology, including the camera phone. An entire generation has almost universal access to a simple and effective tool for documenting their experiences and expressing their thoughts at any given moment. Reeves explained that he does not mean to support or challenge the debatable worth of this technological shift, as much as invite conversation about its implications and artistic value. “The main idea behind the project is mainly to get people talking about art,” Reeves said. “In my opinion, art doesn’t need to fit in any specific box. It is what you make of it.” To spread the word about the project, Reeves used a variety of tactics to spark interest and to get people to submit. The massive collection of cell
THE CELL PHONE PROJECT When: Through Saturday, Where: Co-Lab, 613 Allen St. phone photos was gathered through direct, alternative and above all, creative submission strategies. Such strategies included handwritten letters left on car windows, notes in plastic eggs scattered around Zilker Park and of course, through social media. The assortment of photos Reeves received was eclectic, ranging from classic scenery to the unbelievably awkward. “Despite how different each photo I received was, every one made me think, ‘What’s the story here?’” Reeves said. “Seeing a snapshot into someone’s life just offers you a whole new perspective on people in general.” When choosing a location to exhibit the project, Reeves noted that he immediately thought that Austin would be the perfect place to do so, citing a technologically savvy and receptive audience, and a certain regional color he has yet to find elsewhere. “Seeing people get excited about finding their photos among the masses was definitely the best part of it all,” Reeves said. “It proved that this is Austin’s project, not just my own.”
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LOCAL LIVE | ZEALE
Artist rises from odd beginnings By Hannah Smothers Up-and-coming bands sometimes list purchasing a van as a goal, but local indie hip-hop group ZEALE was born in one. Valin Zamarron and Kellen Courtley Chumley were fellow ice cream scoopers for Amy’s Ice Creams when the spark that led to the creation of the hip-hop group was lit. “I remember the first time [Zamarron] and I ever kicked it: We were in the Amy’s van leaving ACL,” Chumley said. “We didn’t know each other, we were just in the back of this van and I started beatboxing and he starting freestyling over it.” After that fateful day in the back of an ice cream truck, the two started “kicking freestyles” on a semi-regular basis, Chumley said. Zamarron and Chumley have since traded in their scoops for microphones and turntables in hopes of pursuing professional careers. Zamarron was born and raised in Austin. Throughout high school, he expressed his creativity through poetry slams and
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Chelsea Purgahn | Daily Texan Staff Valin Zamarron is the lead man of ZEALE, a hip-hop group that has toured with AWOLNATION and Imagine Dragons. Before deciding to pursue a music career full-time, Zamarron was involved in acting and poetry slams in high school and studied advertising at Texas State University.
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Scientific discoveries continue despite numerous shortcomings SCIENCE SCENE By Robert Starr
Last week, cosmologists made a stunning discovery: The universe is nearly 100 million years older than we had previously thought. Although that sounds like a lot, it’s less than a 1 percent adjustment from the previous estimate of 13.73 million years, and still technically within the previously
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We’re no frauds though, check out the week’s Science Scene video: bit.ly/dt_frauds predicted range. Science’s march forward appears to be one of steady progress, although a closer inspection reveals jagged lines of ups and downs. And even the big dogs of science can make mistakes. Isaac Newton single-handedly brought science into the modern era with his laws of motion, formulation of the
theory of gravity and development of calculus. The discoveries we remember him for now show that he was very much ahead of his time. But not every one of Newton’s ideas was a slam dunk. Aside from his support for the failed science of alchemy, Newton also
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TELEVISION REVIEW | ‘GAME OF THRONES’
Recapping Season Two Series continues intrigue in third season journey of Ice and Fire By Alex Williams
By Willa Young The first two seasons of HBO’s adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s series of fantasy novels included incestuous twins, pushing children out of windows, beheadings and terrifying ornithology. A recap of where we left off in each of the Seven Kingdoms is essential. Spoilers ahead for all who do not live and die under “Game of Thrones.” King’s Landing Stannis Baratheon’s army stormed King’s Landing. Tyrion Lannister’s clever use of “wildfire” kept much of the forces at bay, but a large portion of the fleet made it to shore, where cowardly King Joffrey fled to the safety of the throne room. When all hope seemed lost, Tywin Lannister and the remaining Tyrell forces galloped into King’s Landing and fought off Stannis Baratheon’s army, and the Battle of the Blackwater was won. After sustaining major injuries, Tyrion woke to discover that he had been replaced by Tywin as the Hand of the King. As a repayment to House Tyrell for saving
King’s Landing, King Joffrey agreed to marry Margaery Tyrell, therefore freeing Sansa Stark from their abusive engagement. Sansa was thrilled, but Littlefinger warned her that she would likely still be bound under Joffrey’s terror. Winterfell Theon Greyjoy took control of Winterfell, and the little lords Bran and Rickon Stark are still on the run. Osha and Hodor snuck the boys to the Wall for safety. Five hundred of Stark’s bannermen surrounded the castle, prepared to take back Winterfell. Theon attempted to rally his troops but ended up embarrassing himself. His first mate knocked him unconscious just to end the madness of Theon’s rule, and Winterfell was burned to the ground. Stark Camp Robb Stark, the king of the North, has led his army to several victories against the Lannisters. Robb pledged to marry the daughter of the House Frey. In defiance of his mother, Catelyn, Robb married Talisa instead, and ruined the alliance between House Stark and House Frey.
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As our government continues to fight a War on Drugs, HBO has quietly figured out the science of the televised equivalent of crack cocaine, and it’s called it “Game of Thrones.” Anyone who’s ever binged multiple episodes of the show, an adaptation of George R.R. Martin’s fantasy novels, can speak to its addictive nature, and the show’s third season, premiering Sunday, is as compulsively watchable as ever. Last season focused on a brewing war between several self-proclaimed Kings of Westeros, and this season deals with the aftermath of a major battle and the farreaching effects of the royal struggle for power. Stannis Baratheon (Stephen Dillane) licks his wounds and plans his next move, Robb Stark (Richard Madden) struggles to maintain his Northern kingdom while suffering betrayals from every angle and the despicable King Joffrey (Jack Gleeson) continues his reign of terror in King’s Landing. Those three story lines could probably drive a season of television by themselves, but “Game of Thrones” juggles a gargantuan cast of characters and a massive set of
Photo courtesy of Keith Bernstein Jack Gleeson as Joffrey Baratheon and Natalie Dormer as Margaery Tyrell in Season Three of HBO’s “Game of Thrones.”
interlocking story lines, letting roughly a dozen narratives unfurl at once. Season Three also introduces a wealth of new characters, such as the savage Mance Rayder (Ciaran Hinds) and cunning Olenna Redwyne (Dame Diana Rigg), making for a season premiere that often feels overstuffed with characters moving into place for the coming season. Even as Sunday’s premiere jumps around Westeros, it’s hard to deny that “Game of Thrones” has expanded to a stunningly massive scale,
something reflected in its globe-trotting story lines. The show bounces from one exotic locale to another, and the majestic imagery in each scene never fails to impress. The icy wastelands of the North are just as gorgeous as the sprawling King’s Landing, and the show even manages to find time for Daenerys’ (Emilia Clarke’s) quickly growing dragons. There’s a real sense of a world communicated here that functions even when the cameras aren’t rolling, and it makes “Game of Thrones” an
GAME OF THRONES Network: HBO When: Sunday, March 31 immersive experience. In adapting “Game of Thrones” for television, producers David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have taken on a story so dense that the third book can’t possibly be condensed into a single season, but they still manage to make every
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