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dailytexanonline.com Students modify biological organisms at competition.

Big 12 trouble continues as Horns lose again.

NEWS While the HIV rate in the south is on the rise, UHS is diagnosing zero to one cases of HIV per semester. PAGE 5

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About 20 UT students are particpaiting in the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition, where they will modify biological organisms to do certain tasks like machines. PAGE 5

By Alberto Long Austin’s high-profile and proximity to the U.S.-Mexico border may lend itself to drug cartel activity in the city and surrounding areas, officials say. “We’re only 234 miles from Laredo,” Michael Lauderdale, a social work professor who is writing a book detailing Mexico’s political, social and economic development, said. “For all the reasons Austin’s nice, if I’m worth five or ten billion dollars running a cartel, I want to move up here. It’s safer here than it is anywhere in Mexico. There’s certainly reason to worry.” Lauderdale said the last three years have seen cartel activities accelerate in the Central Texas area, with Austin increasingly becoming a command and control center for contraband flowing up and down Interstate 35. “There have been several instances that illustrate the reality of cartel presence in Austin,” Lauderdale said. “A cartel-related case is currently being tried in federal court here in Austin. The Zetas were laundering millions of their dollars through the American quarter horse industry. They were training their horses in cities as close as Bastrop. They owned a ranch in Oklahoma.”

SPORTS Taylor Thom tallies five RBIs to get her season total to 50 as the Longhorns fall to OU. PAGE 6 Texas seed at No. 1 for Big 12 Championships as it looks to capture conference title. PAGE 7 Strong victories highlight season finale for Horns at the Longhorn Invitational before they compete in conference championships. PAGE 7

LIFE&ARTS Media Monday: The International Symposium on Online Journalism brought more than 350 journalists to campus this weekend. PAGE 10 The Record: Two actors are carving out a niche for their craft in Austin. PAGE 10

VIEWPOINT A U.S. district court in Austin has rejected a request by the Son’s of Confederate Veterans to put Confederate battle flags on state-issued license plates. We agree with the decision, but call for the group to appeal. PAGE 4

ONLINE MULTIMEDIA We followed up on the mystery Jester hair balls. Watch the video at bit.ly/dtvid

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Charlie Riedel | Associated Press Churchgoers huddle to pray after a service for the First Baptist Church in a field Sunday, four days after an explosion at a fertilizer plant in West. The church could not meet in their building because it was in a damage zone after the massive explosion.

West seeks answers By Jordan Rudner Five days after a fertilizer plant explosion rocked the small town of West, federal and state investigators are still at a loss as to what started the fire that triggered the explosion. As the investigation progresses, new details are coming to light about the plant’s safety record and reporting, which is managed by multiple state and federal agencies with varying responsibilities. The plant, which was fewer than 3,000 feet from a school, did not

have sprinklers, fire walls or water deluge systems. Last summer, West Fertilizer Co. was fined for improperly labeling storage tanks and preparing to transfer chemicals without a security plan. Marketing senior Hannah Hutyra, who is from West, said she never considered the fertilizer plant a potential danger. Two of Hutyra’s family members, Doug and Robert Snokhous, were West volunteer firefighters, and were among the 10 first responders killed in the explosion.

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Photo courtesy of Karl Stottlemyre This aerial photo shows the site of a fertilizer plant in West where a massive explosion left 14 dead and many more injured and damaged nearby homes, schools and businesses.

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Power plant renovation to repurpose historic site By Hannah Jane DeCiutiis The site of the iconic “City of Austin Power Plant” sign, the Seaholm Power Plant, will soon be redeveloped for use as a pedestrian-friendly public space including shops, restaurants and apartments. The new site, located on Cesar Chavez Street just east of Lamar Boulevard, is scheduled to be completed in June 2015. The site will include the preserved power plant building and two new buildings to serve as

apartment, office and retail spaces. In 2012, Trader Joe’s specialty grocery store signed on to be the site’s first retail location. The historic plant generated the city’s power until it was decommissioned in the late 1980s. In 2000, the city created a master plan that recommended redeveloping the site for urban use and selected the final team to lead the project in 2005. Seaholm Power, LLC is comprised of three organizations

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Maria Arrellaga | Daily Texan Staff The Seaholm Power Plant is being redeveloped into a public space that will include shops, apartments and restaurants.

Freshman environmental sciences major Sahonara Gonzalez removes weeds from a planter at Kinsolving’s Fruit and Vegetable Garden on Sunday morning.

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Students embrace earth week By Miles Hutson

is produced. “We want our gardens to be a teaching platform,” Mangrum said. “You can see, this is where food comes from. It doesn’t come from a supermarket, but it actually grows and there’s a seeding process and there’s a whole system involved in producing food.” Biochemistry freshman Sanghwa Park, who came out to learn about gardening, said she does not have gardening experience, but she likes the idea of helping to build a garden. “If you’ve ever been to the Lady Bird Johnson [Wildflower] Center, the

Students added mulch, new compost and a trellis for climbing plants to grow on to Kinsolving Dining Hall’s garden Sunday morning, in the first event of the Division of Housing and Food Service’s “Earth Week.” The garden workday, a come-and-go event open to students, faculty and staff, was organized by DHFS environmental specialist Hunter Mangrum. Mangrum said the garden is a part of DHFS’s goal to make students more aware of how and where their food

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main message is conservation and you can build your own garden in a small area,” Park said. Environmental science freshman Heather Rovner, who works part-time to maintain the garden, said she enjoys working on the garden because it is sustainable. On Monday, DHFS will follow up its gardening event with an Earth Day Carnival on Gregory Plaza. The next day, it will host a film screening of Y.E.R.T.: Your Environmental Road Trip, a movie about a trip to all 50 states exploring sustainability.

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“I used to run cross country [at West High School], and we would run by it every single day because it’s not far from the high school,” Hutyra told The Daily Texan on Thursday. “We never even thought about our safety.” In a risk management plan submitted in 2011, the company did not list fire or an explosion as potential dangers. The plant was allowed to store up to 270 tons of ammonium nitrate, which the Texas Department of State Health Services

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described as an “extremely hazardous substance,” and up to 54,000 pounds of anhydrous ammonia, which the agency categorizes as flammable and potentially toxic. The West plant had not been inspected since 2006, when a complaint was filed about an “ammonia odor,” but according to a representative from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, this is not unusual. “Inspections are complaint driven,” Ramiro Garcia, the commission’s head of enforcement and compliance, said to The Associated Press. “We usually look at more of the major facilities.”

The explosion on Wednesday killed 14 people and injured 200 more, while also damaging upward of 70 homes in the small town north of Waco. Ethan Sparks, a mathematics and geography senior from West, returned to the town on Thursday but could not go home until Saturday afternoon. Sparks said his own home, seven blocks from the plant, suffered minimal damage — and because residents have not been allowed into the area of West most disrupted by the explosion, the biggest difference he noticed was the influx of people into West. Sparks said the town is

design plans. “This project is unlike any other in Austin’s history, and it took an extraordinary amount of cooperation from the governing bodies and private sector to reach this point,” Rosato said. “Right of way and environmental issues slowed things down, not to mention the collapse of the capital markets. Getting all the moving pieces of this puzzle in alignment was a challenge that took a great deal of ingenuity and time to solve.” Though the total costs for the development have not been made public, figures of more than $100 million have been estimated, according to public relations officials for the project. The city’s $27.5 million contribution will go into rehabilitation of the plant, street infrastructure, underground parking and the creation of the new Bowie Underpass, city spokeswoman Melissa Alvarado said. Jack Tisdale, principal on the project from STG Design, said the team has been in talks with upscale retailers for the area, though nothing

has been secured yet aside from Trader Joe’s. “There have been some very high-end national retailers looking at it,” Tisdale said. “There’s currently a very large user looking at the whole power plant building. They want to be in Austin because of the way Austin is — the entrepreneurial spirit and the creative energy here.” Rosato said the location of the power plant is a feature of the site that will make a positive addition to Austin’s skyline. “Being right along Lady Bird Lake, [the plant] offers the eye a more gradual way to build up to the other, taller structures,” Rosato said. “It also preserves an iconic architectural gemstone that helps keep some history along with the new development.” As ground breaks this month for excavation of the parking garage area, Rosato said the whole team is ready to finally get started on the development. “We’ve reached a historic point, and we’re really looking forward to transforming our vision into a reality,” Rosato said.

coming together to support the families most affected by the explosion and are collecting money for victims through POINTWEST Bank. “People are already banding together,” Sparks said. “Everyone is ready to get involved, and everyone is working to get things fixed up.” Despite the explosion, Sparks said he harbors no ill will toward the plant. “A lot of people in West are farmers, so it’s almost a necessity to have a fertilizer plant,” Sparks said. “It was an accident. Accidents happen.” Information from the Associated Press was used in compiling this report.

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The Zetas are one of Mexico’s most notorious and violent drug cartels. Their primary base of operations is the Mexican border city of Nuevo Laredo, which borders Laredo. Marcela Ramirez, an anthropology senior, grew up in Laredo and has family in Nuevo Laredo. Ramirez said some parts of Nuevo Laredo can be described as lawless warzones. “It’s been quite a while since I’ve visited my family in Nuevo Laredo,” Ramirez said. “My father was accosted by gang members. They tried to take his car, but he managed to fend them off... A lot of people from Nuevo Laredo that I know moved to Laredo because of the violence.” Lauderdale also cited the police take down of two major drug distribution networks — one of which had direct ties to a Mexican drug cartel — earlier this month. Authorities seized more than $1 million dollars in proceeds and large amounts of cocaine and

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About 200 construction workers and supporters marched in West Campus on Friday in a protest against Callaway House, a private luxury freshman residence hall which they claimed withheld wages from about 30 workers until Thursday. The protest was organized by Workers Defense Project, an organization based in Austin and Dallas that seeks to protect low-wage workers from unfair conditions and treatment. Organizers claimed the wages totaled $24,800 and were paid only when the protest became imminent. Ethnic studies senior Lucian Villasenor said the construction workers came to the Worker’s Defense Project for help. Despite the pay issue being resolved, workers marched around UT’s campus and into West Campus. They also went to the sites of past construction worker deaths in West Campus construction accidents. “Just because they got paid this time doesn’t mean that the situation is never going to happen again,” Villasenor said. Villasenor said chains of subcontracts are routinely used by developers to distance themselves from liability for paying their workers. The Callaway House could not be reached for comment. —Miles Hutson

marijuana, as well as 75 kilos of methamphetamines. According to a report by the Austin-American Statesman, law enforcement officials said the distribution network was managed by a cell of a Mexican drug cartel called Knights Templar. Officials said once the drugs arrived in Austin via hidden compartments shipped to JT Body and Paint, an East Austin body shop, the drugs were then prepped for transport to distributors in Dallas, Oklahoma City and other cities. Lt. Norris McKenzie, who works in the organized crime division of the Austin Police Department, said his intel suggests cartel activity is a real threat in Austin and has dealt with cases directly tied to Mexican drug cartels. “In organized crime we’ve dealt with prostitution, human trafficking and the distribution of narcotics,” McKenzie said of his experience with cartel-related activity. “Human trafficking is just as big a money maker sometimes as cocaine is in these areas. They work with coyotes to smuggle illegals here. Then they hold them hostage till someone, usually the family, pays.” Lauderdale said Austin would provide adequate cover for billionaire cartel leaders. “There’s a fair amount of cover here in Austin,” Lauderdale said. “We got people coming in and out all the time. It’s not like Amarillo, where the population is relatively static and there’s not a ton of strangers. There were 1.9 million visitors to this campus last year — just campus alone. It’s much more likely that a drug cartel leader would go relatively unnoticed in Austin.”

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Guantanamo prisoners on hunger strike MIAMI — The U.S. military says just over half of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay are on hunger strike. A military spokesman says 84 prisoners have been classified as hunger strikers at the U.S. military base in Cuba. The prison’s population is 166. Army Lt. Col. Samuel House says 16 of the 84 prisoners are being force-fed and five have been hospitalized. He says none of the hospitalized men have lifethreatening conditions. About a week after a clash between guards and prisoners, the hunger strike is steadily growing. On Tuesday, the number of hunger strikers was 45. By Friday, 63 prisoners had joined. Prisoners have been on a hunger strike since early February to protest conditions and their indefinite confinement.

Colorado avalanche kills snowboarders DENVER — Authorities have released the names of five Colorado snowboarders killed over the weekend in the state’s deadliest avalanche in more than 50 years. Clear Creek County Sheriff Don Krueger said that search and rescue crews recovered the men’s bodies from a backcountry area on Loveland Pass several hours after Saturday afternoon’s slide, which was about 600 feet wide and eight feet deep. All of the men were equipped with avalanche beacons. The slide occurred on a spring weekend when many skiers and snowboarders took advantage of late season snowfall in the Rocky Mountains. —Compiled from Associated Press reports

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Ng Han Guan | Associated Press A woman walks past tiles shaken from roof tops by an earthquake in southwestern China’s Sichuan province on Sunday. The earthquake struck the steep hills of Sichuan, leaving at least 180 people dead and more than 11,000 injured.

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YA’AN, China — Rescuers and relief teams struggled to rush supplies into the rural hills of China’s Sichuan province Sunday after an earthquake left at least 180 people dead and more than 11,000 injured and prompted frightened survivors to spend a night in cars, tents and makeshift shelters. The earthquake Saturday morning triggered landslides that cut off roads and disrupted phone and power connections in mountainous Lushan county, in Sichuan’s Ya’an city area, which is further south on the same fault line where a devastating quake wreaked widespread damage across

the region five years ago. Hardest hit were villages further up the valleys, where farmers grow rice, vegetables and corn on terraced plots. Rescuers hiked into neighboring Baoxing county after its roads were cut off, reaching it overnight, state media reported. In Longmen village, authorities said nearly all the buildings had been destroyed in a frightening minute-long shaking by the quake. In the fog-covered town of Shuangli, corn farmer Zheng Xianlan said Sunday that she had rushed from the fields back to her home when the quake struck, and cried when she saw that the roof collapsed. She then spent the night outdoors on a worn sofa using a plastic raincoat for cover. “We don’t earn much

Suspects likely planned more attacks WASHINGTON — Investigators believe the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing were likely planning other attacks based on the cache of weapons uncovered, the city’s police commissioner said Sunday. Commissioner Ed Davis told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that authorities found an arsenal of homemade explosives after a gun battle between police and the suspects in the Boston suburb of Watertown early Friday. “We have reason to believe, based upon the evidence that was found at that scene — the explosions, the explosive ordnance that was unexploded and the firepower that they had — that they were going to attack

other individuals,” Davis said. “That’s my belief at this point.” One suspect, 26-yearold Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was fatally wounded in the gun battle, and his brother, 19-year-old Dzhokhar, escaped, authorities said. The two threw explosive devices at police in their getaway attempt, authorities said. “There were over 250 rounds of extended ammunition that was found at the scene. This was a five- to 10-minute gun battle that occurred there, punctuated by loud explosions,” Davis said, adding that the explosive devices were homemade. The scene was loaded with unexploded bombs, and authorities had to alert arriving

officers to them and clear the scene, Davis said. One improvised explosive device was found in the Mercedes the brothers are accused of carjacking, he said. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured Friday evening while hiding in a boat in Watertown after a massive manhunt. He is hospitalized in serious condition and has been unable to communicate with authorities. Davis said shots were fired from the boat, but investigators haven’t yet determined where the gunfire was aimed. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is tracing the weapons to try to determine how they were obtained by the suspects. —Associated Press

money. We don’t know what we will do now,” said 58-yearold Zheng, her eyes welling with tears. “The government only brought one tent for the whole village so far, but that’s not enough for us.” Along the main roads, ambulances, fire engines and military trucks piled high with supplies waited in long lines, some turning back to try other routes when roads were impassable. Rescuers were forced to dynamite boulders that had fallen across roads, and rains Saturday night slowed rescue work, state media reported. At the farming village of Longquan, where all the houses were damaged and some destroyed in the community of about 300 people, rescuers had arrived to collect the bodies

of three dead, but had not yet provided other services as of Sunday midday, villagers said. Yang Shanqing, 37, said his father, brother and nephew were killed when their house collapsed. “Now we don’t have any drinking water or power,” Longquan villager Yang Yiyun, 58, told The Associated Press. “All we can do is wait for the government to come and help us out.” Chinese Premier Li Keqiang had arrived Saturday afternoon by helicopter in Ya’an to direct rescue efforts, the government’s official Xinhua News Agency reported. “The current priority is to save lives,” Li said, after visiting hospitals, tents and climbing on a pile of rubble to view the devastation, according to Xinhua.

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Confederate flags don’t belong on license plates On April 12, U.S. District Judge Sam Sparks of Austin rejected the Texas division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans’ efforts to get the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles board of directors’ approval to issue license plates bearing the Confederate battle flag. The Sons and the nonprofit group’s leaders alleged that Texas DMV board members violated their First Amendment rights by denying approval of the proposed plates and wanted the judge to order the agency to approve the proposed plates. In his ruling, Sparks surmises that the Texas DMV board members rejected the Sons’ plates because of the Confederate battle flag, which he says “is a symbol which conveys different meanings to different audiences.” But Sparks concludes that it is also a symbol that “has been co-opted by odious groups as a symbol of racism and white supremacy.” In November 2011, when the Texas DMV board held a public hearing and voted against approving the license plates, the witnesses were numerous and emotional and included high profile politicians. According to an account in the Austin American-Statesman written at the time of the hearing, U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Houston, testified against the plate as a racist symbol and displayed a photograph of a Ku Klux Klan member in full white-sheet regalia holding up the Confederate battle flag. “Texas is better than this,” she said. Another African-American individual testifying, Sparks writes, echoed the sentiments of many when he told his story, which the judge quotes in footnote to the ruling: “When I was 10 years old we walked to school, to the black school. There was a white school where the white kids rode the bus, there was another white school that was a private school, and every morning as we walked on the sidewalks as black people, the white private school bus would slow down as it passed us,

while the kids on board spit out the window in our faces and displayed a Confederate battle flag. Every year in our school when they talked about the death of M.L.K., the white kids would bring in the Confederate battle flag and hold it up as a symbol of power.” But at the same meeting, Texas General Land Office Commissioner Jerry Patterson, who supported the Sons’ bid for the plates, started off his remarks “by quoting infamously ironic statements by Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee, the former suggesting the Great Emancipator in fact harbored racist sentiments, and the latter tending to show General Lee opposed slavery and desired to see all slaves emancipated,” Sparks writes. The judge then adds, “While these quotes help illustrate the complexity of the causes of the Civil War, they also further confirm the problem with the specialty plate at issue here has nothing to do with the [Sons organization] itself or any viewpoint it holds, but with the meaning of the Confederate battle flag, which has, unfortunately, become inseparably connected with racial tensions.” In his 47-page ruling, Sparks notes that plenty of other states have allowed for similar commemorative plates, including the states of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia. According to Sparks’ ruling, both statutes and regulations govern the Texas DMV board’s review of proposed plates. Those rules, he writes, quoting them, allow the department to “refuse to create a new specialty license plate if the design might be offensive to any member of the public.” Why, then, does the judge agree that such a clause, as applied to the rejection of the proposed license plates, does not trigger a violation of the Sons’ First Amendment rights? The logic of Sparks’ ruling takes three steps — at least.

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First, he concludes that the license plates do not constitute a public forum. “[L]icense plates, rather than being a place for people to gather,” are discrete pieces of government equipment to serve the purpose of vehicle identification, he writes, comparing them to mailboxes. “When the forum is nonpublic, the First Amendment still applies — albeit with reduced force,” he writes. He then concludes that previous precedents have established that “courts must uphold a governmental restriction on speech in a nonpublic forum as long as the restriction is reasonable and viewpoint-neutral.” To illustrate why the Texas DMV board’s decision was viewpoint-neutral and not discriminatory, Sparks offers a hypothetical example of a World War II-focused historical society that wanted a specialty license plate issued with a logo that included the insignia from all sides in that conflict. The United States’ white star, the British tri-colored roundel, Imperial Japan’s rising sun, the Soviet Union’s hammer and sickle and Nazi Germany’s swastika. “If the historical society sought a specialty license plate using its composite logo, the design would properly be rejected under the specialty plate rules, not due to the (entirely unobjectionable) viewpoint of the society, but due to the derogatory content of its logo, specifically the swastika,” Sparks writes. Sparks’ opinion offers much for constitutional scholars to chew on, and the lawyers for the Sons are considering an appeal. The last image we want to see on the back of vehicles as we drive down Texas highways is the Confederate battle flag on government-issued property. We know the difference between a private display and government-sanctioned messaging, and therefore we understand the careful path Sparks has taken on this issue. But at the same time, we would welcome an appeal of his ruling, because First Amendment violation allegations are worth looking at a second — and even third — time.

West, Texas

Down but not out By Melany Jean Guest Columnist

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On Monday, April 22 at 4 p.m., students can attend a conversation with Dr. Paul Farmer of Harvard Medical School on the Haitian earthquake and the human rights implications of health care in the Quadrangle Room of the Texas Union, to be followed by a lecture at 7:30 p.m. in the Grand Ballroom of the AT&T Center. The event is hosted by the UT Humanities Institute. On Wednesday, April 24, the Texas State Employees Union will be available to answer questions at an information and sign-up booth from 11:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. on the West Mall. “The union seeks to improve salaries, benefits and working conditions of all state workers, including faculty, staff and student employees at UT-Austin ... [and] advocates across-the-board flat-amount pay raises and opposes all attempts to remove long-standing protections against arbitrary cuts in benefits.” On Thursday, April 25, Harvard English professor Louis Menand, a writer for The New Yorker and a Pulitzer prize winner, will deliver the annual Glickman Lecture on “The Condition of the Humanities” at the UT Alumni Center, Connally Ballroom. The lecture is free and doors open at 6:30 p.m.

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Until a few days ago, my hometown of West, Texas, was widely unknown. Travelers often stopped at the Czech Stop, located just off I-35 north of Waco, to pick up a kolache or two, maybe, but very few had ventured beyond that or knew the town for anything more. Then, on the evening of April 17, the nation watched with horror as West, quite literally, exploded into a chilling fame. Suddenly, my little hometown was everywhere. Every image in the media conjured a memory in my mind, making me wistfully remember the happiness the places being shown in bits and pieces had held. Growing up in West is a simple childhood. Summers are spent running back and forth between the Playdium pool and the baseball fields. Every school year starts off with Westfest, an annual celebration of the town’s Czech heritage and its parade. High schoolers sneak Gerik Exxon’s burritos into lunch and end senior year with a recital of Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” for Mrs. Doherty’s English class. West is a small town, home to only about 2,500 residents. Beyond that, though, West is home to a vibrant community spirit. The people of West are like a family. Many families have lived there for generations, descendants of the first immigrants from Czechoslovakia, and those new to the town can’t help but be quickly immersed in its idiosyncratic atmosphere. This tragedy has left no one in the tight-knit community unscathed. Every loss is a heavy blow, and this disaster certainly has left the town staggering and wounded. But West will not fall. If I know one thing about the people of West, it’s that they show up. They’re proud, loud and present. At every game, there’s a devoted crowd, cheering until the last second. At every party, there’s a mob of people, hanging out and laughing until the wee hours of the morning. And in the face of every tragedy, great or small, there’s an

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Every loss is a heavy blow, and this disaster certainly has left the town staggering and winded. But West will not fall. army on hand to help however they can until they’re no longer needed. This communal spirit has been exemplified in the past week. Countless residents stayed up all night following the explosion, providing relief wherever they could. There were people fighting fires, working the makeshift triage center set up on the football field, searching collapsed buildings and gathering needed supplies. In fact, many of the lives lost were first responders, heroes responding to calamity with courageous service. In the face of tragedy, the switch from shock to aid was swift. I know that this charisma and perseverance, so characteristic of my hometown, will extend into its recovery. Admittedly, the rebuilding process will be difficult. A lot was lost the night of the explosion, but no one’s giving up hope. Support from all over has been flowing in unceasingly, and that has been heartening and muchneeded. Looking forward, there’s a long road to recovery ahead, and West will never be the way it was before the explosion. The spirit of the town, however, will always endure. West is still strong, caring and persevering, and it will pull through this in the end. Some things, no matter how great the blast that challenges them, simply cannot be shaken. Jean is an anthropology and art history junior from West.

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Austin McKinney | Daily Texan Staff Chemistry senior Marco David Howard and cellular molecular biology senior Aurko Dasgupta present a liquid culture of E. Coli bacteria in the iGEM lab on Friday afternoon.

Group explores synthetic biology projects By Miles Hutson

A team of UT students is working to identify a genetic engineering project to followup on last year’s success at an international competition. About 20 students are members of UT’s International Genetically Engineered Machine, or iGEM, team, which has entered its second year after winning an award for best experimental measure approach in MIT’s international competition last year. The aim of the competition is to genetically modify organisms to do certain tasks like machines. Last year, this meant modifying E. Coli to metabolize caffeine. “The most important thing is that number one, we produce some sort of ilosscience and something interesting and useful to the portscientific community,” said canMarco Howard, chemistry mentand mathematics senior ionand iGEM team member. by a“We’re trying to take stuff rtelthat already exists and put Of-it together in a new way that ugs hidped an the for By Juan A. Lozano s in and

creates new functions.” Michael Hammerling, cell and molecular biology graduate student, said this research experience is invaluable for the team members, who he advises. “It really is more of an independent research for undergrads than your average lab experience,” Hammerling said. “We start out the year with a bunch of ideas ... [and] over time we get ... that some of them are better ideas than others, some are more feasible.” iGEM students are currently in smaller teams working on different projects, but will have to pick a project by the summer so they have time to research it in depth before the competition, which is first regional and then international. Currently, Hammerling said, he is excited about a project that would insert genes from mussels, which produce a cement-like glue, into E. Coli, making the bacteria produce the glue for use in surgeries. “[The bonds from this glue] are very strong, they’re

not [attacked by the immune system], and they’re biodegradable,” Hammerling said. Hammerling said this makes the glue from mussels perfect for surgeries where doctors would want to attach something with a strong bond that would take years to degrade, but the glue is currently too expensive. He said the iGEM team is not the first to notice this, but they think they may have a better solution to the challenging problem. “It requires you to rewire the entire bacterium,” Hammerling said. “E. Coli didn’t evolve to sit in a test tube and produce proteins for us ... you need to try and take the genetic elements that you are constructing and make them in a way that works with the E. Coli host.” Biology senior Benjamin Slater said the process of modifying E. Coli is difficult, but he is excited about how accessible the process has become. “Taking a novel organism that can do something really cool and then characterizing

We’re trying to take stuff that already exists and put it together in a new way that creates new functions. —Marco Howard, chemistry and mathematics senior and iGEM team member

the things about that organism that allow it to do that cool thing, and then moving those things to a new organism has never really been possible before,” Slater said. Slater said he believes the public should come to understand the genetic engineering of organisms and the benefits it can provide. “People are afraid of synthetic biology,” Slater said. “[But it has] the incredible potential to reshape our world and hunger and disease.”

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who were aboard the Nite Owl. “When it hit, it tore the whole top of the boat off.” The captain was sent overboard, and within two minutes, the 50-foot vessel sunk. One crew member tried to reach the captain, while Reynolds and the two others saw a life raft. Reynolds was the only one who reached it. He then spent about two hours floating in the Gulf of Mexico before the Coast Guard rescued him. The Coast Guard scoured a 5,400-square-mile area with planes, helicopters and boats looking for Reynolds’ four crewmates before calling off its search Sunday. “I’m just sorry they didn’t find anybody. I wish all the guys would have been in the life raft with me,” Reynolds told The Associated Press. The Coast Guard has all the pieces come in to play where people know about it,” Mangrum said. Mangrum said greens from local sources often are not as processed as what DHFS normally buys, requiring them to do more preparation of their own. “[Let’s say you buy Swiss chard,] our chefs have to go through and take the spine out and get them into an edible state,” Mangrum said. At the end of the day, DHFS food service unit manager Robert Mayberry said sustainability for DHFS normally comes from small things, including incremental power cuts and using herbs from its own gardens. “There’s just a lot of little things that can make the campus more sustainable,” Mayberry said.

identified three of the missing fishermen as Don Windom, Duoc Dan Nguyen and Jamie Esquivel. Larry Moore, the boat’s owner, identified the fourth missing man as Charles Patrick, the vessel’s captain. Reynolds, 56, from Gaston, Ala., said that after the boat was hit by the “freak wave,” he and three other crew members who had been sleeping below deck, climbed upstairs, pushing debris out of the way. Realizing Patrick was missing, they began calling out for him. Patrick answered them back once, although they couldn’t see him. “The first and only thing I heard him say was he told us to get our life jackets on,” Reynolds said. The life jackets had already been washed away and the men were soon in the water as the boat quickly sank

about 115 miles southeast of Galveston. Reynolds and the three other crew members clung to debris to try to stay afloat. Reynolds spent about two hours floating in the water, firing flares twice into the air, before a Coast Guard jet flew overhead. Reynolds was eventually flown to Houston, having suffered only minor injuries. Reynolds, who has been a fisherman for 35 years, said he is grateful to the Coast Guard for saving his life but is still dealing with the loss of his crewmates and friends. Moore said he had worked with Patrick for about eight years and thought of him “like a brother.” “To all the families of the guys that are gone, if I could trade places with any one of them I would,” Moore said.

The American South is home to warm summer temperatures, magnolia trees and even the Dallas Cowboys, but it is also home to a high diagnosis rate for the human immunodeficiency virus infection. The most recent HIV Surveillance Report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention revealed a higher rate of HIV infection diagnoses in the South. In 2011, the Carolinas, Georgia and states bordering the Gulf of Mexico possessed a rate of 20 to 177.9 per 100,000 persons diagnosed with HIV infection. Other states such as California, Illinois and New York possessed a similar rate. The report deals with 2011 statistics. A new report releases every summer for the previous year’s data. According to the Texas Department of State Health Services HIV/STD Program, 70,000 people in the state have HIV — 34 percent more than seven years ago. An estimated 17,000 Texans do not know they are HIV positive. Along with the CDC’s report, the State’s statistics are from 2011. DSHS spokesman Greg Beets said stigma and fear pose real challenges for prevention efforts surrounding STIs and HIV. “Particularly with HIV, the stigmatization of HIV positive people can have the effort of discouraging people who may have put themselves at risk from going out and seeking testing or care for HIV because they don’t want to be a person with HIV,” Beets said. “That makes it hard from the prevention perspective to make the case, so to speak, for getting tested and seeking treatment.” DSHS statistics reveal more than 65 percent of new HIV cases result from sex between men, 24 percent from sex between men and women and 7 percent from illegal drug use. Beets said there are a number of factors that are occurring at all levels of society that have an impact on both creating and driving

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The Longhorns dropped the rubber match to West Virginia, 6-3, in 10 innings, dropping their eighth consecutive Big 12 series on Sunday afternoon. The game was tied at 3 going into the 10th inning before junior Corey Knebel gave up three runs to put the Longhorns in a hole going to the bottom of the frame. Texas was able to get two on but couldn’t push a run across to even the score. “This was probably even more disappointing than usual,” junior Mark Payton said after the game. “We have had our ups and of course our downs, but we have got to be more consistent at the plate. I mean, our pitchers pitched lights out all weekend.” Knebel, who pitched his longest stint this season at 3 1/3 innings, took the loss to fall to 3-3 on the season. Junior Nathan Thornhill started on the mound for Texas and pitched six innings, surrendering three runs on five hits. The game was scoreless through the first three innings before West Virginia

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Shweta Gulati | Daily Texan Staff Junior pitcher Nathan Thornhill throws towards the mound in the Longhorns’ loss to West Virginia. Thornhill retired the first nine batters he faced and lasted six innings before getting pulled. He gave up five hits and three runs while striking out five.

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started the scoring off with a run in the top of the fourth. Texas and West Virginia then traded off runs through the next three innings to even the score at three before defense took control

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again for another three scoreless frames to send the game to the tenth. In the top of the 10th, Knebel walked two with one out before West Virginia’s Billy Fleming hit an

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GAME BREADOWN Game One: Starter Parker French set a career high with seven strikeouts and allowed just one run in more than seven innings. The Texas offense was unable to provide any run support, though, as Harrison Musgrave pitched a completegame shutout while striking out nine to lead West Virginia to a 1-0 victory. Game Two: The Longhorns put together back-to-back fiverun innings in the fourth and fifth en route to a 12-0 victory. Jacob Felts and Ty Marlow each recorded four RBIs, and left-hander Dillon Peters struck out six in eight scoreless innings to pick up his fourth win. Game Three: Closer Corey Knebel pitched three scoreless innings before allowing three runs in the 10th to West Virginia in Texas’ 6-3 extra-innings loss. The Longhorns recorded just four hits in the game, with only two coming after the fifth inning.

5: Consecutive batters to reach base against Knebel in a three-run 10th inning Sunday 9: Number of batters starter Nathan Thornhill retired to begin Sunday’s game 4: Combined runs allowed by Texas starting pitchers in 21 1/3 innings in three games against West Virginia 1: Number of triples needed by Mark Payton to break into Texas’ all-time career top ten for triples. After his triple in Sunday’s game, the junior stands at 12 during his three seasons at Texas.

RBI single to put the Mountaineers up 4-3. Knebel walked another before giving up a two-run single to put the game further out of reach. Ty Marlow came in with one out in the 10th to

relieve Knebel and got the final two outs. In the bottom of the frame, West Virginia walked junior Erich Weiss and gave

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Jacob Felts drove in a career-high four runs Saturday, with three of them coming on his first home run since 2011. The catcher added a double on Sunday and has reached base in four of his last six plate appearances.

Weston Hall struck out three times and grounded into a double play Sunday after an 0-for-5 effort on Saturday. Hall is hitless in his last nine at-bats and has just two hits in his last 16 at-bats.

Texas falls to No. 1 Oklahoma in first conference series loss By Evan Berkowitz The No. 6 Longhorns dropped two of three to the No. 1 Sooners at packed Red and Charline McComb’s field this weekend. After losing the opener 6-1, the Longhorns bounced back on Saturday to even the series with a 4-2 win, which left the series to be decided in the rubber match Sunday. After playing with fire and getting through the

first four innings of that rubber match with just two runs given, Blaire Luna finally allowed the big hit. With the Sooners up 2-1 in the fifth, Brittany Williams delivered the back-breaking two-out, two-run double to break the game open. One inning later, Shelby Pendley added her second homer of the game to take the air out of the crowd. With a four-run lead and last year’s player of the year Keilani Ricketts dealing, it looked as though

the game and the series were over. But that’s not the way the Longhorns saw it. “Our team gathered some momentum late in the game,” assistant coach Corrie Hill said. “The spark in our dugout was great. The chatter was great. There was talk about comebacks we had in the past.” After one run in the sixth, the Longhorns staged a furious rally in

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WHAT’S NEXT The Longhorns take on Houston at 6 p.m. at UFCU DischFalk Field on Tuesday night. Texas dropped the first match-up against the Cougars this season, 4-3, on March 19 in Houston. —Peter Sblendorio

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Shweta Gulati | Daily Texan Staff Junior Taylor Thom signals an out to left fielder Torie Schmidt during the Longhorns’ loss to rival OU in Sunday’s game. Thom went 4-for-8 in the three-game series tallying four RBIs. The shortstop is now tied for second in program history for RBIs in a single season, with 50.

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Game One: When Keilani Ricketts stepped onto McCombs Field Friday, she was ready to show No. 6 Texas why her team is No. 1. Karina Scott’s home run in the second was enough to tie the game but nothing else. Blaire Luna started, giving up four runs on four hits and six walks. After the Sooners drove in three runs against Luna in the third, Holly Kern took the mound to finish. Texas’ only remaining offensive threat came with a bases-loaded Taylor Thom at-bat in the seventh, but Thom struck out swinging as OU won, 6-1. Game Two: Luna’s eight strikeouts Saturday stifled the Sooners offense as Texas rallied back for its first win over a No. 1 opponent since 2006. Taylor Hoagland scored on an error for an early first-inning lead and furthered the advantage off Taylor Thom’s two-run single in the fourth. Oklahoma shrunk the gap with a Georgia Casey homer, but after Ricketts came home in the seventh, catcher Mandy Ogle tagged out Jessica Shults at the plate to secure the 4-2 win. Game Three: In a game befitting of a top-10 matchup, the first inning of Sunday’s series finale featured a two-out home run from each team. But a Luna error allowed Oklahoma to score a second run as well, as the team in crimson and cream took a lead they wouldn’t lose. The game kept fans on edge as the Texas defense dispelled threats in each of the next three innings. Thom matched Shelby Pendley’s second home run in the sixth to bring in Hoagland, who tripled. Down 5-2 in the seventh, the Longhorns notched one more run before Hoagland’s bases-loaded pop and Brejae Washington’s ensuing game-ending strikeout left the squad brimming with disappointment. —Jori Epstein

STOCK UP Shortstop Taylor Thom: Whether on the field or at the plate, Taylor Thom was a strong vocal presence at McCombs Field this weekend. She didn’t let the Red River Rivalry hype get to her as she connected on hits in each of the weekend’s matches. Thom hit a home run in the first Sunday as part of her weekend .500 average (4-for-8) and four RBIs brought her single-season count to 50, tied for the second-most in program history.

BY THE NUMBERS .633: Even though she only reached base once Sunday, Hoagland’s is on pace to far surpass both the school and Big 12 single-season on-base percentage records. 3621: The combined attendance for the weekend’s matches. As most season games have attracted closer to 500, the rowdy and spirited stands fueled the Longhorns’ spirits against a long-time rival.

SPORTS BRIEFLY Erich Weiss returns after Friday’s injury During Friday’s 1-0 defeat against West Virginia, junior Erich Weiss left the game early in the fourth inning after being hit in the nose by a pitch. The infielder did not play in Saturday’s game but made an appearance in Sunday’s loss. Weiss did not start the rubber match Sunday but came in as a pinch hitter for Madison Carter. “We thought about bringing him off the bench,” head coach Augie Garrido said. “When they switched to the right-handed pitcher, that was when we went with Erich in a key situation to try and bring in that run.” Weiss ended Sunday with two walks and one assist. —Garrett Callahan

Spaniard youngest to win MotoGP title Marc Marquez became the youngest to ever win a MotoGP race at the Circuit of the Americas track in Austin on Sunday afternoon, beating out teammate and fellow Spaniard Dani Pedrosa for the victory. Marquez, 20, was also the youngest to earn a MotoGP pole position Saturday. Last year’s Moto2 world champion, Marquez lost the lead on the race’s first turn but regained it when he passed Pedrosa with nine laps to go. “It was a dream and now it’s a victory,” Marquez said. —Christian Corona

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Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GOLF PREVIEW | JACOB MARTELLA The Longhorns will look to take their first Big 12 title since 2004 when they compete in the Big 12 Championships in Hutchinson, Kan., Monday through Wednesday. Despite winning the national championship last season, Texas finished the Big 12 tournament as runners up to Texas A&M. The teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s last conference championship in 2004 was the last of three consecutive conference championships. Those are the only three Big 12 titles the Longhorns have. Texas comes into the Big 12 Tournament with momentum on its side. The

Longhorns have won their past two tournaments and have won four tournaments during the regular season. Despite the win, the Longhorns remain No. 3 in the Golfweek rankings behind the University of California and last yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s national championship runner-up Alabama. Freshman Brandon Stone fell one spot to third in the rankings. Senior Cody Gribble is ranked 20th. The Longhorns come into the tournament as the top rated Big 12 team. Texas Christian University is the next highest team in the conference ranked No. 11 nationally. At No. 14,

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Oklahoma State is the only other team in the conference ranked in the top 25. After the Big 12 is over, the Longhorns have to wait until May 16 to compete in the NCAA Regional Championship.

skies as the average score for the day dropped 7.66 strokes from the previous round. In the final round Sunday, sunny conditions with winds over 20 mph dominated. Strauss (80-69-78) carded consecutive birdies at the 10th and 11th holes but bogeyed five times and double bogeyed once to end the tournament. Senior Desiree Dubreuil (81-76-79) was the closest Longhorn behind Strauss with a tie for 22nd. No. 16 Oklahoma State (317-289-299) took the lead in the last three holes

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to capture its eighth Big 12 Championship with a score of 41-over 905. Lauren Taylor of Baylor claimed the Big 12 Individual Title at 1-under 213.

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up a single to freshman C.J Hinojosa to bring the tying run to the plate with no outs. Payton came in to clean up but popped out to shortstop on a full count. Freshman Jeremy Montalbano followed by flying out center field. Marlow came up as the last chance for the Longhorns but hit a soft grounder straight to the first baseman to end the game. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We really did have our chances to win the game. In the eighth I think we could

WOMenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s GOLF RECAP | JEREMY THOMAS Sophomore Bertine Strauss tied for seventh place to lead the No. 23 Longhorns to a sixth-place tie at 72-over 936 in the Big 12 Championship hosted by Iowa State. Drastic weather changes plagued the weekend, as the Longhorns (327-297-312=936) were unable to find consistent play. In the opening round, the Longhorns battled winds in excess of 30 mph and cold conditions to post a 39-overpar 327 on Friday. Saturday brought clear

have won it there,â&#x20AC;? Texas head coach Augie Garrido said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I think we should have won in the ninth had we executed properly.â&#x20AC;? On Friday night, sophomore Parker French pitched a solid game for the Longhorns, but a sacrifice fly off of Knebel in the eighth gave the Mountaineers the 1-0 series-opening victory. On offense, the Longhorns couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t get anything going and were blanked for the third time this season. After dropping the first

game of the three-game series, the Longhorns came back and dominated in Game 2 on Saturday afternoon. The Texas offense put up 12 runs off 14 hits against a struggling West Virginia pitching staff. Junior Jacob Felts and Marlow each contributed a career-high four RBIs in the win. The Longhorns will face Houston on Tuesday before heading to Waco for a three-game series this weekend against Baylor.

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the seventh against arguably the gameâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best pitcher. Karina Scott got hit by a pitch to lead off the inning and Kim Bruins followed that with a single. After a fielderâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s choice, Torie Schmidt singled in a run, cutting the deficit to two and chasing Ricketts for Michelle Gascoigne. Pinch hitter Erin Shireman walked to load the bases for the teamâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s best hitter â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Taylor Hoagland. The players got out of the dugout and began leading the crowd in Texas Fight. The crowd was back into the game.

With a full count, Hoagland saw a pitched she liked, jumped on it and just missed. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have hit that ball 7 million times, and this time it wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t in my favor,â&#x20AC;? Hoagland said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an awful feeling, similar to that last year against Oregon.â&#x20AC;? That left it all up to Brejae Washington. But she struck out to the end the game in disappointing fashion. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s always disappointing to lose a game like that,â&#x20AC;? Hoagland said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;But we can only learn from it.â&#x20AC;? The loss sends the

Longhorns to 39-6 overall and 9-2 in conference. Oklahoma has a full game lead in the division and owns the tiebreaker now, making it very difficult for the Longhorns to claim their first Big 12 championship since 2010. However, the loss doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t crush the hopes for the Longhorns as they still plan on playing deep into the year. â&#x20AC;&#x153;We plan on being in Oklahoma City for the World Series, standing right next to Oklahoma,â&#x20AC;? assistant coach Corrie Hill said.

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Earth Day Carnival to promote UT sustainability By Willa Young There are two types of people on college campuses. The first frantically runs around campus picking up trash and ranting about the upcoming environmental apocalypse, clad in pants made out of recycled grocery bags. The second drags themselves out of bed at 12:30 p.m. and skips the confusing recycling bins for the ease of a trash can whose contents are destined for a landfill. “College students are lazy, it’s as simple as that,” Katherine Crawford, a dance freshman and Campus Environmental Center member, said, “If they have a soda can to throw away but the recycling bin is a few steps farther than a normal trash can, they’ll take the easy way out.” Crawford believes the polar opposite priorities of college students in regards to sustainability prevent progress. She thinks the only time work gets done is when it is forced on students. Faith Shin, director of the Campus Environmental Center, said sustainable living on campus is absolutely

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continues from page 10 over what time they could have Brian or Akasha. They have since pulled back in their involvement at UT, but not for a lack of interest in the industry. “We are doing all of this because we love movies, right? But we haven’t really been in the kind of movies we love,” Akasha said. “Until we’re writing them, we aren’t expressing much, just these little parts of other people’s expressions.” They’ve worked as actors outside of the University as well. Ben Moody, the writer, director and co-founder of Blue Goggle Films, worked

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continues from page 10 vegetables for 15 food markets and 200 restaurants and grocery stores in Austin. Johnson, a Southern boy with a soft-spoken drawl and a sheepish chuckle, describes his younger self as a hippie who used to sell grilled cheese sandwiches and follow the Grateful Dead in a tie-dye Volkswagen. While working as an engineer in Austin, Johnson began to grow vegetables in his garden. He wasn’t sure what to do with all of the vegetables he was growing, so he had the idea to sell them at the farmer’s market. The first day, he earned more than $100 from his vegetable sales.

feasible. She said that over the years UT has made environmental progress readily available, especially in dining halls and waste management. More than anything, she believes celebrating Earth Day is the best way to promote environmental awareness. The University of Texas will have many events to participate in for those students who are interested in environmental progress. Shin and the Campus Environmental Center have been promoting Earth Day all April by kick starting an “Earth Month” campaign. Shin’s efforts are most focused on an Earth Day Carnival on April 22 which will span the length of Speedway. “We hope to showcase what different departments and organizations are doing to increase campus sustainability,” Shin said. To do this, Shin has collaborated with more than 20 campus organizations. She hopes to show that a large portion of the student population is unified in its efforts to save the environment. Each student group involved has prepared various activities to educate students on how to reduce their

carbon footprint and increase their sustainability. Shin and the Campus Environmental Center are currently building a bicyclepowered blender. They will have carnival visitors ride the bicycle and power the machine in order to receive the smoothie they want. “Maybe by putting them through this manual labor of sorts, they will understand how much energy it takes to fuel even small household appliances, like a blender,” Shin said. Earth Day was created in 1970 by Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin. At the time, growing clouds of smog were not seen as an issue — it was a symbol of America’s growing prosperity. Senator Nelson decided that change was needed in our perception of environmental issues and used Earth Day to spur young people to make a new movement to save the planet. Forty-three years later, Earth Day is celebrated in 192 countries and brings together the environmentally conscious in one day of festivities. “Today we are constantly bombarded with the decline of our environment,” Reed Sternberg, Austin Earth Day festival

Pearce Murphy | Daily Texan Staff Director of the Campus Environmental Center Faith Shin has been promoting an upcoming Earth Day carnival that will showcase what different organizations are doing to increase campus sustainability on April 22.

director, said. “Austin Earth Day is an opportunity to stop and celebrate the good stuff about the Earth.” Shin believes the various events in Austin for Earth Day have the ability to unite the community and push them toward environmental progress. “Students aren’t apathetic

with Brian and Akasha in a web series “BIT Parts” and on short films. “The two of them do have a short-hand between one another and can almost complete each other’s sentences,” Moody said. “Watching them work together is inspiring as they are both bursting at the seams with creative energy.” They realized early on that Austin was not New York City or Los Angeles. Narrative film directors and producers come through to cast small speaking roles, but they are few and far between. Most of the work is in commercials. As Akasha said, the chance of being right for a role is slim to none. “I’m not holding out in the hopes that it will

become this ‘third coast.’ I’m not waiting for it to become some sort of film metropolis,” Brian said. “I’m staying because I really love this city. I’m staying because I want to make some things here.” The high school film class has given Brian and Akasha a taste of what it’s like to be on the other side of the camera. “This is my first taste of producing something I didn’t write and direct, and it’s crazy,” Brian said. “It’s so much easier to show up on set and act and leave.” But they know themselves well. As soon as either one of them becomes disenchanted with acting, an opportunity arises that they can’t turn down. “[Filmmaking] is our true true love, but it’s

surrounded by stuff that keeps trying to convince you that you’re not in love with it,” Brian said. “Like a relationship.” Brian and Akasha laughed realizing the hot and cold relationship they have with filmmaking is much like their own relationship. The pair met while acting in a play in 2001. Early on, their relationship was an awkward back and forth of friends who want to be more but can’t find the right moment. They broke up a series of times, never following through because of a shared lease or simply missing each other too much. It was love that brought Brian and Akasha together and it has continued bringing them back to film.

Eventually his garden took over his yard, so Johnson expanded to 20 acres. In 2008, Johnson quit his job to farm full-time. Since then, he has acquired nearly 200 acres with the help of the community’s monetary contributions. Johnson believes that if he were in any other city, he wouldn’t have been able to do it. “If I were doing something else, and if I were in another city, it just [would] not work,” Johnson said. “I didn’t get into organic farming to be a big farmer or get rich. I got into it because it’s something I really believe in.” Sonya Slegers, the crop and field coordinator for Johnson’s Backyard Garden, was a waitress who regularly volunteered, and eventually, was offered a job. She said that

it is rewarding to work exhaustively because at the end of the day, she feels like she’s done a good thing and can see the result of her work. “It’s easy to forget that when you go to the grocery store and put stuff in your bag and you’re just like, ‘Tra la la,’ but it’s just crazy, especially trying to do it the right way,” Slegers said. “The business is set up to be really nice to the big companies and the chemical guys and so it’s just a hard fight. So I guess that’s what I would like you to take away from this, is a bigger appreciation for what goes on behind the scenes.” Daniela Macgregor Sevilla, a Spanish and Portuguese graduate student, receives a weekly vegetable box and eggs from Johnson’s because she believes “happy chickens make

happy eggs.” “It’s nice to know that my products have only passed through one or two hands before getting to my own,” Sevilla said. “[Johnson’s] seems to be interested in [creating] a sense of community that draws from a sustainability mind set. Sustainability is not just about eating local. It’s about getting to know the faces of your community and working together to keep the things you love going.” According to Johnson, his 200-acre farm only produces enough food to feed less than 1 percent of the Austin population. His goal is to eventually acquire 10,000 acres of farmland in Austin. “I think you’d have to be a little crazy to do this,” Johnson said. “Can you believe all of this just started in a backyard?”

to sustainability, and I doubt that any one wants to harm the planet,” Shin said, “They just have to make the conscious effort to live ‘green.’” College students’ active resolve is perhaps in question, but Shin believes UT will take the opportunity to do its part this Earth Day. Perhaps Monday’s festivities will

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continues from page 10 has worked better than previous attempts. “Context is everything to him,” Garcia said. “He can look at the human emotional piece, he can look at the programmatic piece, he can look at the dollar motivational piece, he can look at the absence of the science and he can hold all of those things simultaneously and still work toward solutions.” Melissa Smith, a physician at the Seton McCarthy Community Health Center,

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continues from page 10 ined how the Monitor has succeeded in surpassing their goal of hitting 40 million page views a month, but is struggling to engage its readers. Getting millions of page views may keep a news publication in business, but it does not mean journalists are truly serving their readers by informing and engaging them. 2. ‘If you aren’t on Twitter ... you’re a bad journalist.’ During a Q&A session, Clark Gilbert, president and CEO of the Deseret News Publishing Company and Deseret Digital Media, said the following: “If you aren’t on Twitter, if you don’t follow the social flow, if you don’t curate, you are a bad journalist.” This is old news, but it is important to rehash and repeat it until everyone is on board. Twitter is not some silly social media site. It is a serious tool that every journalist should be using. Using Twitter should be automatic, like breathing. 3. ‘The best of times and the worst of times’ Jill Abramson, executive editor of The New York Times, said this in reference to the past week of news coverage. In an era where anyone can make a blog and call themselves a journalist, there is a lot of bad journalism online. At the same time, digital platforms give journalists the ability to report faster and with more information than ever before. These digital tools are also inspiring expansive and ambitious multimedia projects, such as The New York Times’ “Snow Fall,” a 17,000 word story complete with videos and photographs presented in a way that is only possible online. On the other side of the coin, these digital tools like Twitter allow false

EARTH DAY CARNIVAL When: 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Where: Speedway Plaza convince lazy college students to take the extra step toward the recycling bin. is excited to see what impression Farmer will leave on UT students. “We have an opportunity with the new Dell Medical School at UT-Austin to train new physician leaders to respond to the challenges of the 21st century,” Smith wrote in an email. “Dr. Farmer’s approach of working in partnership with communities, to focus on the root causes of health problems and to find innovative, cost-effective ways to provide high quality medical care, would transform medical education and ultimately, the health of our community.”

information and bad journalism to be spread faster than ever before. It’s important for journalists and media consumers to remember this and to always take breaking news reports with a grain of salt. 4. It’s a new era of news Emily Bell, the director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, gave a presentation called “Post-industrial present.” At the talk, Bell said the “industrial” age of journalism is drawing to a close. “We can’t really describe the industry anymore,” Bell said. “It’s so fragmented now.” What Bell meant is there are so many different types of journalism and so many different mediums to deliver journalism. It’s hard to define just what journalism is and what journalism isn’t anymore. 5. Social media even troubles the top dogs Andy Carvin, who leads NPR’s social media strategy, gave a moving speech at the ISOJ on social media and the troubles it presents for journalism. In his speech, Carvin spoke about how journalists are pressured to break news quickly, but that does not mean they should sacrifice accuracy just to be first. “We messed up. We didn’t always get the story right. We didn’t serve the public as well as we could have,” Carvin said, referencing both the Newtown shooting and the Boston Marathon explosion. Carvin was the reporter from NPR who sent the Twitter message falsely reporting Gabrielle Giffords died at the 2011 Tucson Shooting. He knows both the pressure of reporting breaking news and the consequences of falsely reporting it. When social media is troubling for even the best in the business, we can rest assured that we all have some learning to do.

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Andrea Macias Jimenaz | Daily Texan Staff Renowned local actors Brian Villalobos and Akasha Banks Villalobos re-enact the infamous shower scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1960 film “Psycho.” The pair has been featured in numerous UT and local productions, earning them a coveted and much-respected place in the Austin film industry.

Actors find passion in Austin By Sarah-Grace Sweeney As hard as they tried, Akasha and Brian Villalobos couldn’t get away from filmmaking — or each other. The couple has been married for six years but are still on rocky ground with their favorite art form. Both Akasha and Brian graduated from UT. Akasha

studied radio-television-film with hopes of becoming an editor, and Brian studied journalism with the belief it would lead to a more successful career than acting. Even though both of them aspired to act, continuing to audition for plays, the fear of instability kept them from being theater majors. Since graduating in the early 2000s, Brian and Akasha have worked a variety of odd

jobs: waiting tables at Pluckers, ushering at an IMAX theater and writing for the San Antonio Current. Today, Brian and Akasha co-teach a film class at Gonzalo Garza Independence High School in partnership with Austin Film Festival. Their students write scripts and are involved in all aspects of production. “It’s like parent-producing,” Brian said. “A lot of these kids, it’s their first time

making a movie, so we are trying to strike a balance of shooting a movie in a day and trying to make it as good as possible. And to give them intense experience and to come away with a love of it and feel like they’ve done something they can be proud of.” If either of them had wanted Hollywood-level superstardom enough, they would have moved to New York or Los Angeles. But the do-it-

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yourself atmosphere of Austin has inspired new ambitions in both Brian and Akasha. “I have something very specific to say and I can’t sit around and wait for someone to say it for me,” Brian said. “I feel like that’s what pulls me to want to make movies.” While Brian and Akasha avoided acting through teaching and writing jobs, they started missing it in early 2011. They started acting

heavily in UT student films. “The great thing about UT stuff is they finish it because it’s due. Other things just go nowhere,” Akasha said. “It’s less intimidating when you are starting because you’re learning, they’re learning. It’s perfect. My best stuff is still UT stuff.” Akasha remembered being so busy in one semester that filmmakers would argue

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Health activist to speak Monday By Stuart Railey

As the director of Partners in Health and United Nations Deputy Special Envoy for Haiti, Paul Farmer has a legacy of healing and activism that spans from Mexico to Russia. In celebration of his new book “To Repair the World,” the author and medical anthropologist will speak about his experiences as an international health advocate on Monday. Farmer’s success in the realm of public health stems largely from his ardent convictions about medical treatment in general. “The fight for health as a human right ... has so far been plagued by failures,” Farmer said in an interview with National Public Radio in 2008. “Failure because ill-health, as we’ve learned again and again, is more often than not a symptom of poverty and violence and inequality. We do little to fight those when we provide just vaccines.” The Partners in Health organization that Farmer cofounded in 1987 takes this

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idea a step further. According to the organization, medicine isn’t the solution to a country plagued by disease, malnutrition, violence and lack of infrastructure. The solution, they argue, is giving each community the tools necessary to combat poverty. Among the Creole-speaking population of Haiti, “Dokte Paul” has attained somewhat of a celebrity status. Many other health care professionals had written off the Caribbean island as a lost cause, but Farmer saw an opportunity to reach out and bring advanced medical care to an undeveloped nation. “The assumption that the only health care possible in rural Haiti was poor-

Conference analyzes digital journalism By Bobby Blanchard Photo courtesy of PBS Working through Partners in Health, medical anthropologist Paul Farmer has established a dozen public health care clinics around the world to combat a variety of infectious diseases and empower poverty-stricken communities.

quality health care — that was a failure of imagination,” Farmer writes in “To Repair the World.” Farmer’s visit is part of a biannual lecture series hosted by the Humanities Institute and comes in the context of planning for UT’s new medical school. He currently holds a Ph.D. in anthropology and a degree in medicine from Harvard University. According to Lynn Selby, a graduate student in the

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Austin garden continues to grow By Juhie Modi People are surprised to find that Johnson’s Backyard Garden, a community-supported organic vegetable farm, started in a 1,500 square foot backyard of an East Austin home. The first agriculture initiative of founder Brent Johnson was even smaller — it was closet-sized.

“In college I was growing in my closets a little bit. I was growing herbs. I had all my practice growing hydroponically for a long time,” Johnson said. “It’s like I’ve been on a euphoric high just ever since I’ve been farming because I love it so much. This is way better [than getting high the old-fashioned way].” Now, Johnson’s Backyard

Garden is a nearly 200-acre organic farm east of downtown Austin that produces a variety of certified produce year round. According to Johnson, the farm, which has 80 employees and nearly 2,000 community volunteers who earn vegetables in exchange for labor, supplies

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department of anthropology, Farmer works as a medical anthropologist examining the “social and cultural dimensions of illness, health and medicine,” and often advocating the idea of social justice. For Deliana Garcia, director of the Austin-based Migrant Clinicians Network, Farmer’s humane and pragmatic model in Haiti and other countries

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This past weekend more than 350 journalists converged at the Blanton Museum of Art for the annual International Symposium of Online Journalism. This year a record-breaking number of editors, reporters and academics attended the conference to discuss changes to the digital journalism industry. And they could not have come together at a more important or interesting time. Examples of great and horrible journalism were prominently displayed this past week in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombing and the West fertilizer plant explosion. It would be impossible to

sum up the ISOJ quickly and do the entire conference justice. Instead, here are five big takeaways from the ISOJ for journalists and consumers of media: 1. Journalists are still struggling at engagement Every time The Christian Science Monitor’s website hits 1 million page views in a day, a bell goes off in the office, according to Jonathan Groves, one of the authors of the research paper “40 Million Page Views is Not Enough.” The Christian Science Monitor is an online news site devoted to covering national and international news. Groves’ paper exam-

ONLINE continues on page 8 Brent Johnson initially founded Johnson’s Backyard Garden in a small space where he grew vegetables behind his East Austin home. He has since since expanded to a 200-acre property.

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