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Texas scores just four runs as Bears sweep UT.
Student filmmaking trio at it again.
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UT films leave foundation defunct
Marquise Goodwin is drafted by Buffalo in the third round of the NFL Draft while Alex Okafor is picked by Arizona in the fourth. PAGE 6
Editor’s Note: This is one story in a series of features on external UT foundations running through Wednesday.
Texas softball sweeps Texas Tech in Lubbock as Horns head into home stretch of regular season. PAGE 6
When UT set out to offer students a way into Austin’s independent film scene in 2003, it was easy for administrators
Longhorns women’s tennis wins second straight Big 12 title, sweeping Oklahoma State in the championship match. PAGE 7
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to get swept up in Hollywood ambition. They formed a public-private partnership that resulted in four feature films that flopped financially, but offered students a glimpse into how a traditionally funded project operates. Creating a financial and legal framework to allow private investment in UT-affiliated films meant forming the
UT Communication Foundation, said Jeff Graves, UT associate vice president for legal affairs. Since UT cannot legally own a for-profit company, the foundation was formed and owned nine corporations that produced the movies, Graves said. The parent production corporation was called Burnt Orange Productions, LLC.
When it comes to measuring the success of the company’s four years of filmmaking, opinions vary depending on who is asked and what metric is used. University officials, investors, students and filmmakers agree that establishing the foundation to fund feature films — possibly a first by a public university — provided
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Fine Arts Foundation to transfer works to UT
App development class in Journalism School presents apps made in class to the public. PAGE 8
Editor’s Note: This is one story in a series of features on external UT foundations running through Wednesday.
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of the space and spend all our efforts on the displays and the interior instead of having to split our efforts.” Newsome said they’re working with their new landlords so that the new
Created solely to acquire the $33 million Suida-Manning Art Collection for the Blanton Museum of Art in 1998, the UT Fine Arts Foundation is paying off the remaining balance on the collection and is expected to transfer full ownership to the museum by 2016. The UT Fine Arts Foundation is one of several nonprofits that manage gifts to the University. UT President William Powers Jr. appointed University administrators to lead the UT Fine Arts Foundation, but most external foundations, including the School of Law Foundation, are governed by an independent board. The independent boards often include University employees, but most are not appointed by the University. The University holds the collection through a lease agreement with the foundation, and it is housed and displayed at the Blanton Museum. The foundation is still paying off the collection in quarterly payments. UT pays
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The 82nd Texas legislative session is nearly over, but our legislators still have work left to do when it comes to funding Water and Transportation and providing justice to the victims of the West fertilizer fire. PAGE 4
MULTIMEDIA At the Moontower Comedy and Oddity Fest, we interviewed some of your comedy and oddity heroes. Watch our chat with Myq Kaplan at bit.ly/dtvid
TODAY CMAS hosts Américo Paredes The Center for Mexican American Studies is pleased to welcome Abel Valenzuela, Jr., Chair of the UCLA César E. Chávez Department for Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, to give the 2013 Américo Paredes Distinguished Lecture, titled “Chicano Studies, Hispanic Studies, Latino Studies: Naming and the Future of Chicano Studies.” The lecture will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Texas Union Building (UNB), Santa Rita Suite 3.502.
Austin McKinney | Daily Texan Staff Customers Adriana Dominguez and Joshua Reeves browse a plethora of tiny trinkets inside Toy Joy on Saturday afternoon. After more than a decade at its Guadalupe Street location, Toy Joy will be moving downtown to 2nd Street on June 1.
Toys enjoy new home Toy Joy moves from iconic location, will expand offerings in new locale By Jourden Sander After years of supplying college students with concentrated unicorn farts, plastic mustaches and Hello Kitty merchandise, Toy Joy will be moving downtown.
On June 1, the store will move from its home on the Drag to Guadalupe and 2nd streets below Violet Crown Cinema. Lizzy Newsome, Toy Joy’s toy curator, said the move is mostly because their lease is up. “What we’re saddest about
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Watch our interview with Toy Joy manager Vineet Gordhandas bit.ly/dtvid is losing a building that we can do whatever we want to the outside,” Newsome said. “But there are negatives and positives to having your own building. It’s a lot of work to maintain the outside of the building and so we’ll be able to focus more on the inside
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Caffe Medici to reopen in May after renovation By Hannah Jane DeCiutiis As the approach of finals week has students taking shelter in coffee shops, renovations brewing at Caffe Medici may not be ready until mid-May. The cafe’s Guadalupe Street location, which opened on the Drag in 2008, has been closed since March 7 to renovate an issue with the store’s sinking floor
structure and make several cosmetic changes to the location’s interior. Thomas King, general manager for Caffe Medici’s Guadalupe location, said he anticipates the cafe to be reopened around the second week of May, though the exact date is difficult to anticipate between issues with city permits and work being pushed back with the contractor.
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opportunities to work in a professional environment that otherwise would have been inaccessible to students. Hart said it was also a learning experience for the administrators. “It’s like taking a course, you know,” he said. “You got a C on that first exam, but
Lieutenant Gonzalo Gonzalez has been with UTPD for nearly 25 years. Despite retention rates of police officers being historically low, Gonzalez plans on giving his time to the University for as long as he can.
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UT lieutenant serves selflessly By Alberto Long
Austin McKinney | Daily Texan Staff Cafe Medici, on Guadalupe Street, remains closed for remodeling. The coffee shop is expected to reopen the second week of May.
When Lt. Gonzalo Gonzalez of UTPD was first employed by the University in 1981, he began as a dishwasher inside the Jester cafeteria. By the time he left the world of student dining, Gonzalez was a supervisor. His career as a police officer has played out in a similar manner. Gonzalez, who said his life-long interest in law enforcement began when he was four years old, is
approaching his 25th year with UTPD. Gonzalez said he has personal and professional ties to the University and the campus community that have solidified his affinity for university policing. “I met my wife here and my oldest daughter graduated here ... I have a great job and I work for a great place,” Gonzalez said. “Some people want to retire from their jobs as soon as they can, not me. Not me.” Gonzalez began as a guard at UTPD while enrolled as a student and later
I have a great job and I work for a great place. — UTPD Lt. Gonzalo Gonzalez
dropped out to attend the UT System Police Academy. He later earned a degree in criminal justice from Texas
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