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SPORTS Texas Stars garner fan support over successful season, strive for the 2013 Calder Cup. PAGE 6 Despite baseball’s Tuesday-night win, Horns are still way behind in conference play. PAGE 6
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83RD LEGISLATURE
Legislature denies fire department funds By Joshua Fechter Nearly two weeks before the April 17 explosion in West killed 15 people, including 12 volunteer first responders, Texas lawmakers voted against providing additional funds to the state’s 1,505 volunteer fire departments.
The Texas House of Representatives voted April 4 to table three amendments to the Senate’s proposed budget that could have allocated about of $6.5 million to the Rural Volunteer Fire Department Assistance Program. The program provides funding to volunteer departments — such as the West Fire Department
— for firefighter training, protective clothing and rescue equipment. Under current budget proposals, the program would receive $36 million to $37 million in the next two years, less than the $60 million the Texas Legislature allocated for the 201011 biennium, but more than the $27 million allocated
for the 2012-13 biennium. It also falls shy of the $150 million in backlogged requests — some of which date back to 2004 — from volunteer fire departments across the state. State Rep. David Simpson, R-Longview, authored the amendments to the current budget bill. He said he believes some lawmakers
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Texas Exes defends bills, raises funds free from UT
Bare all and run a mile around campus at this year’s Undie Run on Friday. PAGE 10
Editor’s Note: This is one story in a series of features on external UT foundations.
Advances in technology offer new fitness tools that you will probably never make use of. PAGE 10
By Megan Strickland
my family for putting up with 36 years of missing family events when they really wanted me to be there,” Dahlstrom said. “36 years of not being there at night and on the evenings and weekends … I’ve missed holidays — my family’s been really good about that.”
Almost a century after a falling out with the administration spurred the University’s alumni association to become independent, its leadership says its autonomy is critical in allowing the organization to meet its goals and give millions of dollars to the University and its students. A group of alumni formed the Texas Ex-Students’ Association, known as the Texas Exes, in 1885 as an extension of the University. In 1917 the association broke away from the University when former UT System Regent William Hogg led alumni against former Gov. Jim Ferguson after Ferguson vetoed state appropriations to the University. As a separate organization, the association could hold an official position on proposed legislation and administrative decisions — something state law prohibits the University from doing. The legacy of that independence lives on in the organization, Texas Exes executive director Leslie Cedar said. “Our purpose is truly to be
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Louis Menand, author of the book “The MarketPlace of Ideas: Reform and Reaction in the American University” answers the Texan’s questions about the future of higher education in the face of online courses. PAGE 4
voted against the amendments to use funds from the program’s account for other purposes. “Doing this by accident or neglect is bad enough, but to do it knowingly is egregious,” Simpson said. Two of Simpson’s amendments would have
Shelby Tauber | Daily Texan Staff UTPD Chief of Police Robert Dahlstrom is retiring from law enforcement on May 31st. After his 36 years of being a police officer, Dahlstrom looks forward to spending time with his family and exploring Texas history during retirement.
Closing the chapter UTPD chief of police to retire in May, reflects on law enforcement career By Alberto Long From a two-year stint in the Austin Police Department SWAT team to cleaning up gang-ridden streets in Southeast Austin in the early ‘90s, UTPD
Chief Robert Dahlstrom has experienced just about all policing has to offer. On May 31, Dahlstrom will retire from law enforcement, closing out the final chapter in his 36-year-long career as a police officer.
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Dahlstrom said he is grateful to the University for giving him the opportunity to work at UTPD. He called himself “humbled” to have worked with great people in and outside the department, but also thanked his family for being supportive throughout his career. “I think the other people I have to thank are
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International graduates face immigration issues By Christine Ayala Aside from the normal stresses of graduating that include exams, papers and deadlines, Jenny Lo has to worry about whether or not she must leave the country to abide by immigration laws. Lo is a mechanical engineering graduate student and an international student from Taiwan. Lo said international students have the added stress of learning and conforming to the country’s immigration laws for students. “I’m set to graduate in May and I have a job lined up in July, but I can’t apply for my work visa until September, so between July and September I need some sort of valid identification,” Lo said. “If your visa is about to expire you may have to leave the country to go back home. It’s always a hassle to try to get back into the U.S. There’s always that period where you’re hanging in the
There’s always that period where you’re hanging in the air ... should you get your plane ticket yet, should you not, should you wait? — Jenny Lo, mechanical engineering graduate
air, and you’re not sure what to do, should you get your plane ticket yet, should you not, should you wait?” Lo has applied for Optional Practical Training status, which allows graduating international students 12 months in the U.S. to train and find jobs in their field, leading to a work visa.
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Mikhaela Locklear | Daily Texan Staff Psychology junior Victoria Gonzales enters the dunk booth as government sophomore Samuel Velasquez prepares to dunk her at Sigma Phi Omega’s annual S.A.F.E. Street Carnival at Gregory Plaza on Tuesday afternoon.
Funds raised for domestic violence By Barak Bullock The Sigma Phi Omega sorority raised funds for Austin’s SafePlace women’s shelter Tuesday at the S.A.F.E. Street Carnival, while providing food, games and
engaging ways to learn about domestic abuse. The S.A.F.E. Street Carnival, which stands for Stop Abusive Family Environments, was organized by the Sigma Phi Omega sorority as an effort to raise money for and awareness of victims of domestic
violence. Heidi Tso, a social work junior and a Sigma Phi Omega service chair, said the carnival fits into the group’s national philanthropic focus. “Sigma Phi Omega’s national philanthropy is
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CORRECTION Because of editing error, a page one story about foundations in Tuesday’s issue misstated the year LBJ Foundation was founded. The organization was founded in 1969.
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Editor’s Note: This is one than $27 million to System story in a series of features on institutions for scholarships external UT foundations. and educational programs. According to the most recent IRS records available, By Andrew Messamore the foundation was valued COPYRIGHT at roughly $17.6 million in While other external net assets in the 2011 fiscal Copyright 2013 Texas foundations at the Uni- year, including an additionStudent Media. All articles, photographs and graphics, versity raise money for in- al $24.3 million in liabilities. Because of the System’s both in the print and online dividual academic units, legal status as a public ineditions, are the property of The University of Texas stitution, it cannot directly Texas Student Media and Foundation supports inmay not be reproduced or accept annuities, real esternal fundraising efforts republished in part or in whole tate and some other forms and provides a go-between without written permission. for donors and the 15 of property. The foundation’s status as a 501(c)(3) UT-System institutions. Established by the UT organization allows it to System Board of Regents take gifts from donors and in 1967, the foundation transfer them to the UniTOMORROW’S WEATHER manages gifts to System versity, said Paul Youngdale Low High institutions and provides Jr., executive director for discretionary funds for use thefoundation. “We’re a helper to camby the System chancellor’s puses in the UT System office. 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dation and several other high-profile donors. One of the foundation’s donations in 2011 was $333,853 for “Chancellor’s Business Expenses,” according to its audit report. Randa Safady, the System’s vice chancellor for external relations and a nonvoting member of the foundation’s board, said the funds are used for an account supporting System fundraisers and other general System purposes. The account was also used to pay for consultants and experts to help plan the new UT Medical School, Safady said. According to a 2002 article by the Austin American-Statesman, the foundation provided funding for the Chancellor’s Council, a collection of endowments held by the System that support the salary of the UT System chancellor, through 1998. System spokeswoman Jenny LaCoste-Caputo said the foundation has not supported the chancellor’s salary for “as long as institutional knowledge is available.” Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa’s compensation by appropriated public funds is today capped at $70,231 by the Texas Legislature. The rest of Cigarroa’s compensation, which stands at $873,570, comes from endowments provided to the System.
an independent and formidable network of supporters to champion the University,” Cedar said. “… Any time there is friction with the System and the University or the University and any governing bodies — that’s the exact reason an independent association should exist. Because we’re independent, we can report on the situation and we can provide an open forum for commentary for alums.” The Texas Exes have openly supported UT President William Powers Jr. in his recent battle between the UT System Board of Regents. Cedar testified before the state Senate Committee on Higher Education on March 26 that a regent she chose not to name left her emails and phone calls expressing displeasure with the association’s support of Powers. Regent involvement in the Texas Exes’ policy decisions is unusual, said Gordon Appleman, former president of the Texas Exes’ board of directors. “The regents have no role in the governance of the Ex-Students’ Association,” Appleman said. Regent interest in the relationship between the University and external nonprofits peaked in late 2011 when Larry Sager, dean of the UT School of Law, was asked to step down after receiving a forgivable loan from the UT Law School Foundation — presumably without University oversight. Joseph Moldenhauer, professor emeritus of the English department,
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said there was no University involvement at all when he took a $14,000 loan to finance his home through a program run by the Exes in 1965. “[The Exes] had money and they wanted to put the money to use,” Moldenhauer said. “I don’t remember having to get permission from anybody in the department or the University. I went there and said ‘I want to talk to somebody about the mortgage.’” The Exes no longer provide loans to professors, Cedar said. Despite disagreement with the regents and the organization’s legal independence from the University, the Exes often work closely with administrators on campus to identify areas in need of support. “Our goal is almost entirely related to scholarships at this point,” Cedar said. In the 2011-2012 academic year, the organization gave $1.9 million in scholarships to almost 700 students, including gender and ethnicity-specific scholarships the University cannot legally administer and full-ride Forty Acres Scholars Program scholarships. When the University identified the need for full-ride scholarships to lure top students to campus, the Exes set
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arship program. After raising $50 million, the organization set up a separate scholarship foundation for the Forty Acres Scholars Program in 2009. The Exes have raised an additional $5 million since then to fund the program and hope to raise an additional $95 million in the next decade, Cedar said. In addition to monetary support, the Exes also help organize its more than 97,000 members to advocate for legislation that could benefit the University, said John Beckworth, president of the organization’s board of directors. “We organized alumni to participate in the advocating for establishing the medical school at UT-Austin through Central Health Prop 1 earlier this year,” Beckworth said. The University has also at times made agreements that helped the association raise funds. For several decades, the Exes ran a company called Campus Services, a taxable entity that provided vending services on campus to generate revenue, Cedar said. Although Campus Services ceased operating vending services on campus in the ‘90s, in 2011, the Ex-Students’ Association reported the organization held $27,270 in deferred compensation for former director Jim Boon. “That was part of a deferred compensation plan set up for Jim some years ago,” Cedar said.
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Study shows Austin prefers rock ‘n’ roll By Zach Lozano
“The Live Music Capital of the World” is a title that has belonged to Austin for many years, and a recent study has proven the city is a good startup location for aspiring musicians in several genres. Graduate student researchers at the University of Toronto recently conducted a study in which they used Myspace as a way to analyze which genres of music were more popular in certain parts of the country. Austin was included in the study, along with other major U.S. cities, such as Houston, Atlanta, Ga., Memphis, Tenn. and New Orleans, La. The data indicated that the trending genres in the Austin music scene were folk, country pop and most significantly, rock ‘n’ roll. In order to determine which genre was popular in a certain city, the researchers from Toronto used five levels of comparison with the help of an algorithm used in another study — which was completed by researchers at The University of Chicago — to analyze music trends. “Overall we found that rock ‘n’ roll was the most popular
genre across all metros followed by urban contemporary,” said University of Toronto graduate research assistant Garrett T. Morgan. “With the remaining genres composing the remaining share of the market.” The study showed that many regional stereotypes remained true, Morgan said. The Northwest preferred rock, while southern cities preferred country pop. Large cities like New York and Los Angeles had diverse tastes in music. “Overall the data shows that Austin’s music scene is centered on folk, rock ’n’ roll, and country pop,” Morgan said. “Reinforcing the city’s reputation as a destination for aspiring musicians keen on breaking into the diverse country music scene.” However, certain locals feel the study does not accurately reflect the music scene in Austin. “The categorization misses blues and indie, which are obviously two popular genres in Austin,” said Joah Spearman, vice chair of the Austin Music Commission. “Austin isn’t really limited by genre. Compared to most markets outside of maybe New York or LA, [Austin] has shown itself to have a great ear for talent regardless of genre.”
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Several of Dahlstrom’s colleagues commented on the chief ’s legacy and influence on campus. Lt. Gonzalo Gonzalez of UTPD, a department veteran of 25 years, praised Dahlstrom for his commitment to serviceoriented policing and student outreach. “Of all the chiefs we’ve had, Chief Dahlstrom is the guy who constantly reminds us that we’re here for the students,” Gonzalez said. “He stresses professionalism, and constantly reminds us to make connections outside the department and around the campus community.” Pat Clubb, vice president of University Operations, said Dahlstrom came to UT with a high degree of policing skill and competency. “What made [Dahlstrom] unique was that he was a proponent of self-education,” Clubb said. “He made sure each
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member of this campus community had the means to become educated in ways that empowered the individual to feel safe.” When asked what he thought was his biggest accomplishment at UTPD, Dahlstrom denied having accomplished anything on his own and praised his department. “I don’t think I’ve accomplished anything on my own,” Dahlstrom said. “I think the department has done a wonderful job and continues to do so everyday. For me, I’m most proud of the officers and staff at UTPD, and how much they care for the students. They do everything they can for them.” Dahlstrom said he hopes to spend muchneeded time with his family during retirement, especially his wife and two grandchildren, Jackson and Lily. Dahlstrom has two married children who graduated from
Texas A&M. Dahlstrom considers himself a history buff, especially in regard to Texas history — which he hopes to explore during retirement. “I’m interested in seeing how life has changed,” Dahlstrom said. “I like to see where we’ve been and how we ended up where we are now. [My wife and I] made a bucket list together. [We] really want to visit all 50 states, and see all 254 county courthouses in Texas.” Dahlstrom said the biggest problems facing the department after he leaves will be to keep the campus community educated and preparing for new on-campus developments, like the upcoming medical school and engineering complex. Dahlstrom said keeping the community’s issues in mind should be the first priority for the new chief. “My biggest advice to the new chief would be
My biggest advice to the new chief would be to listen ... You can’t be a service organization without knowing the wants and needs of the community you work for. — Robert Dahlstrom, UTPD chief of police
to listen,” Dahlstrom said. “You can’t be a service organization without knowing the wants and needs of the community you work for. You have to be aware of the issues. Listen to what people have to say, and take that into account when you make any decision you make.”
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provided about $6.5 million during the next two years from the state’s Volunteer Fire Department Assistance account, which contains revenue set aside for the program. Another would have allocated $1.2 million to the program from the account. The account will have $80.9 million by the end of the state’s fiscal year, according to the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts’ biennial revenue estimate published in January. “We’re just trying to use money that’s already been
collected,” Simpson said. The budget bill was approved by the House, but differences between the House and Senate versions must now be ironed out in a conference committee composed of senators and representatives. Simpson said he has spoken to state Rep. Sylvester Turner, D-Houston, who serves on the conference committee, to encourage him to consider adding additional funds to the program. While lawmakers debate the increase, the Texas A&M Forest Service,
which administers the program, has had to readjust its priorities in the face of decreased funding. Jason Keiningham, Texas A&M Forest Service program coordinator, said the service has focused on providing training and protective clothing to departments since the Legislature decreased funding in 2011, limiting what the service could provide. “[Firefighters] just want the basic tools,” Keiningham said. “All they want to do is protect life and property.” Chris Barron, executive
director of the State Firemen’s & Fire Marshals’ Association of Texas, said many rural areas do not have the tax base to pay their fire departments like some larger communities. Barron said of the state’s fire departments, 1,505 are composed strictly of volunteers, 140 employ their firefighters and 290 combine career firefighters and volunteers into their force. “That’s why state funding is greatly needed and important,” Barron said. “A lot of people don’t know there are a lot of poor departments out there.”
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Q&A: The future of big, public universities
On April 25, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Louis Menand visited campus and delivered a lecture titled “The Condition of the Humanities.” An English and American literature and language professor at Harvard University, Menand previously taught at the City University of New York and is a writer for The New Yorker. In his most recent book, “The Marketplace of Ideas: Reform and Resistance in the American University,” he poses questions about “the large social investment” Americans make in institutions “whose purpose is simply the production and dissemination of knowledge — that is research and teaching.” Menand talked to the Texan about his ideas about higher education in the context of battles the UT System Board of Regents and the UT administration continue to wage over the future of our University. That conversation, during which Menand spoke frankly about the online world’s pressure on traditional universities, can be found below, edited and condensed. Daily Texan: Are you familiar with UT and the conflict between the UT System Board of Regents and the University’s president? Louis Menand: I know there’s a conflict. I don’t know all the details. DT: The UT administration, faculty, governing regents and state lawmakers are wrestling with big questions about higher education institutions and how they should function and for what purpose. Given your arguments in your 2010 book that 21st century professors are essentially trying to to function in a 19th century system, what do you advise as the path forward for a large public university subject to the influence of a large, conservative southern state legislature and a very empowered governor? Menand: (Laughing) That’s a loaded question. I wasn’t referring in that phrase about it being a 19th century institution to the issues that are confronting people at UT ... [T]here’s always sort of the same tug of war, handoff regarding whatever the state governing agency, regents or whatever they might be, the governor or the legislature. In [the case of the City University of New York iti s] the mayor and the faculty administration of the institution. And it’s always the case that the public officials want to see enrollments, graduation rates, job placements in pretty concrete empirical terms in judging how much they’re going to invest in the institution, because CUNY was 95 percent public money, and the university and the faculty are pushing back and resisting that, because they know perfectly well that not every education can be quantified in those terms and if you try to do that, you’re going to ruin what makes universities places that can produce in all kinds of unpredictable ways people that are very creative and productive members of society. DT: So who’s right and who will win? In the big picture, because you’re saying it’s not just at CUNY, it’s not just at UT. Menand: It’s a large public university question ... and it’s usually the flagship that gets a lot of flak. At CUNY I taught in the graduate center, one of 20 campuses. In bad financial times
[the graduate center] got an enormous amount of criticism because we didn’t teach that much, we were paid more, we admitted students from out of New York City, all the accusations of being elitist and expendable. But it wasn’t ... First of all, it was a way of providing an excellent education for a number of students, and secondly, it was a way of giving the system a high profile, which was important. UT is thought by everybody in the United States to be one of the great universities in the country, so I don’t know why you’d want to mess with it, really. DT: Why is it one of the best universities in the country? What makes that the case? Menand: The quality of the faculty. DT: And, so, is there something incorrect about the argument that it’s not necessarily to the benefit of public university students in the best way possible? Menand: It’s a legitimate question to ask: Is your public university system educating people who will become productive workers in Texas (ideally), or wherever they may go? Or is this a very expensive post-high school something? The university system has to be accountable to the taxpayers through the officials. DT: So what is an example of it working? And why is it a question that’s being raised so angrily right now, at UT, but also at Illinois and Virginia? Menand: So, I think that the period since 2008 has been a period for states of a lot of financial constraints and pressures that cause them to look at the various things that they fund and to try and see if they can reduce costs or increase the effectiveness of what they’re doing. So that’s one piece of it. The second piece of it is the MOOC [Massive Open Online Courses] phenomenon. So the MOOC phenomenon gives people the idea that you could actually educate people a whole lot cheaper by having everything streamed through a computer and you wouldn’t have to pay faculty who are less efficient and can teach much smaller numbers of students ... Unfortunately, that’s become the leverage of this argument — that the MOOCs are going to solve the problem for us, basically automating the teaching process. DT: What do you think about that? Menand: I think it’s a bad idea if that happens. But I think it’s going to happen. DT: When? Menand: Look, I don’t like to predict things, so it’s hard to say. I think that one thing that could happen — not in Austin but at other schools in the UT System — is that they will stop hiring faculty because they’ll be able to for nothing get online instruction from people at Stanford, Harvard and UT-Austin, who will create these MOOCs. And that’s a very low-cost way of getting high prestige faculty to teach your students for you even if they don’t go to that university. Insofar as governors and legislators think that this is a good solution, it’s definitely in the wings.
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DT: And why do you think it’s a bad idea? Menand: Because, for one thing, it’s going to really disrupt the professional ecology of the academic business because our graduate students, the people we’re training to continue to teach what we teach won’t be able to get jobs. Those are the schools where Louis Menand people get jobs. And if those jobs are starting to disappear Pulitzer Prize-winning author because those faculty are being turned into basically teaching assistants or they’re being phased out, then our graduate students won’t be able to get work done and the profession will start to whither because we need something like a robust economy. The second reason why, I think, is that for many fields, obviously there’s some courses in some areas where MOOCs are probably an adequate form of pedagogy, but for many fields, certainly the stuff that I teach, you can’t do it that way, you need to have interaction in a classroom with human beings.
DT: What forces exist today that you think will contend with the force that is the argument in favor of MOOCs? What optimism do you have that it won’t become totally automated? Menand: I think that the reason I would worry about it is that there’s always been distance learning, and for most of the time, the elite institutions have always just looked down their noses at distance learning. Now, suddenly, who are the people who are the big movers in the MOOC world? Stanford, Harvard, [UT-]Austin, Wesleyan — the big name schools are trying to get involved. And they have the capital to make it happen. [Harvard] plunked down $30 million to be part of edX, which is our MOOC, [and UT’s], so we can get in where smaller schools and less wealthy schools can’t get into the game, we can get our brand product out there. So when you’re taking a course on Henry James and you want to MOOC it, you’ll get the Harvard Henry James.
DT: This digital revolution in the context of higher education is one area, but is there any other historical precedent, not for the digital revolution, but for these kinds of changes? Menand: Well, one parallel is in the 19th century when the research university became the model institution and replaced the old college. And the research university was, as the name implies, founded on the assumption that the chief business of the academic mission was to produce research and scholarship, and so teaching was always part of that but the main thing was to produce knowledge. And the norms for knowledge production at that time were heavily scientific. ... There was a real struggle in that period to try to establish a place for the arts and humanities and the non-hard sciences in the university system, which is really set up ideally to produce science and scientific knowledge. And it was partially successful. But basically, the research model won. That’s the model that we have.
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Stephanie Eisner Daily Texan Columnist
It’s 4 p.m. in Madrid, and you’re halfway into your first real conversation in Spanish with a couple you think just may have taken you for a local. They invite you back to their apartment to try some of their famous paella, and you’re about to accept — but then you freeze. You recall scenes from the movie “Taken” and the show “Criminal Minds,” and you remember that your group of fellow American travelers are all back at the hostel. This couple seems friendly enough, but then again, isn’t that always how the story starts? Your mind rushes to the travel advisory warnings you scanned while on the plane, and you clutch your purse a little tighter. If you find yourself in this position while travelling this summer, don’t be rash, but take chances more often than you decline them. A little risk taken while studying abroad is a smart investment. Sure, at times it may seem like the stakes are higher while you travel. Comparatively, however, you may be safer away from home than you think. In the Mexican Yucatán Peninsula, a region of that country perceived as highly dangerous, the homicide rate is approximately 1.4 times lower than it is in Austin. Using data collected from the World Health Organization and national statistics, opentravel.com revealed the top 10 safest destinations to travel — and no U.S. cities made the cut. Three of the cities that did were in Europe (specifically, in Switzerland, Luxembourg and Ireland), the continent most popular among UT students studying abroad. It is always smart to be aware of the danger of your surroundings. Don’t assume, however, that you will be at a greater risk just because you leave the United States. Sometimes, the best tool you could have to combat fear abroad is the experience of a person you trust. Connecting with someone who has been
to the country you plan on visiting is as easy as signing up online for an appointment with UT’s own Study Abroad Office. If you would like to talk more casually with a student, you can ask to chat with a student mentor. Rhonda Waller, the study abroad advisor assigned to students interested in travelling to the Nordic countries, Eastern Europe and some European countries shared with me that the comments she hears most from students returning from their travels was that they “wish [they] would have made more of an effort to make friends in the host culture” and “wish [they] would have taken the opportunity to practice [their] language skills more.” When I was in Bangladesh for an internship, I made friends with my Bengali translator. Because of that bond, I was able to attend a family wedding, visit her mother’s rural village in the North and cook for her brother with her in the traditional style (which included using a sickle-shaped knife on the ground). Many of those excursions required me to trust strangers, take unofficial vehicles, swallow some pride and yes, even drink unfiltered water to be polite. In exchange for a little discomfort, I earned a glimpse into the real Bangladesh. You may hear that studying abroad is the “chance of a lifetime.” It will only be so if you remember that being cautious is good, but being stunted by fear is not. If you are offered a ride on a back of a motorcycle this summer while abroad, let go of those inhibitions and grab hold of that waist. Keep your pepper spray and your wits about you, but don’t prevent yourself from having the greatest adventure of your life. Eisner is a public health sophomore from The Woodlands.
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Students in science, technology, engineering or mathematics can apply for an additional 17 months. Lo must apply for the status to legally stay from July to September, although her application may not even be looked at or approved by the time she can apply for a work visa. “The waiting period is really long, so I probably won’t get the OPT in time and have to return to Taiwan,” Lo said. “Hopefully it is all set by the time I need to return, otherwise I won’t be able to come back Jonathan Garza | Daily Texan Staff President of Holistic-Safety Dr. Martha Romero stands by her table prepared to greet visitors. Romero particapted in the 20th annual Historically Underutilized Business Vendor Fair, which is a one-day exhibit that promotes equal opportunity for businesses.
UT helps minority businesses By Alexandra Dubinsky In an effort to uphold its commitment to diversity and promote equal opportunity for businesses, UT helped sponsor the 20th annual Historically Underutilized Business (HUB) Vendor Fair — a one-day exhibit focused on giving minority business owners the chance to market their products to departments within campus. The HUB Program, an initiative executed by the state of Texas, is a policy promoted by the UT System to purchase services and products from minority owned companies. According to Arthur McDonald, HUB director and small business plan administrator, UT sets a goal to make 20 percent of its purchases from HUB throughout the year, totaling to approximately $50 million. “By statue, rules and regulations, we must have an outreach, a venue, a program for HUBs and this serves that purpose. It’s also really a networking event,” McDonald said. “It gives the HUB community the chance to meet the
UT community and showcase their goods, which range from computers to office supplies to construction and furniture.” According to McDonald, Tuesday’s fair featured a total of 167 businesses. Businesses must follow several requirements to become certified and have at least 51 percent of the business owned by minority groups including women, black Americans, Hispanics, Asian Pacific Americans and Native Americans. Additionally, the business must have an owner residing in Texas that actively participates in the “control, operations and management of the entity’s affairs.” Jennifer Cartlidge is a 1996 UT graduate in interior design and an account specialist at Herman Miller, a femaleowned furniture company which has helped to design the Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex, the Belo Center for New Media and the dining facilities at the Texas Union. She said UT purchases approximately $7 to $8 million dollars in Herman Miller furniture each year year. “Anything the client can
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envision, we make happen,” Cartlidge said. “Being HUB certified definitely gives us more of an edge. We were successful before, but now it’s just one more aspect of who we are as a company.” Shanna Overholser, business development manager for OfficeSource Ltd., another Austin-based furniture company, said the company has been working with UT for years. “UT is good about spreading its wealth and everyone gets a little piece of the pie,” Overholser said.
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on work opportunities and required authorizations of workplaces can restrict professional and research experience students can gain before graduating. A group of Graduate Student Assembly members lobbied in Washington in April to authorize dual intent for the student visas and to lift work restrictions for students and their dependents. They also asked for an increase in the cap on H-1B visas, which are three-year work visas aimed at foreign students entering the workforce.
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domestic violence awareness,” Tso said. “S.A.F.E. Street is an annual event, and it is a shortened version of our S.A.F.E. Week event every fall.” All of the carnival’s proceeds go directly to SafePlace, a local shelter for women and children who are victims of domestic violence, according to Tso. The carnival featured games, food and even a dunk tank. An Nguyen, a supply chain management junior and Sigma Phi Omega service chair, said although the games are fun, their purpose is to spread awareness of domestic abuse. “Every game, if they win it or even if they lose, they
have to answer a domestic violence question just to promote awareness, because a lot of people get it wrong actually,” Nguyen said. “In order for you to win something from that food vendor, you have to answer the question correctly.” Tommy Cao, an economics senior volunteering at one of the booths, described the kinds of questions asked of carnival-goers. “One of the hard questions was numeric, where it asks how many people are affected by domestic violence, and one out of three women are usually affected by domestic violence,” Cao said. “Another question was does it only affect women?
It affects males and females and kids and adults.” Andrew Ho, an undergraduate studies sophomore who attended the carnival, said he believes the carnival effectively taught students about domestic violence. “They have a really good way to teach us about domestic abuse,” Ho said. “It’s a fun way to get information about domestic violence.” Although she doesn’t know how much money to expect from the carnival, Nguyen said previous carnivals have collected between $600 and $1000, and this year the crowd was much larger than in previous years.
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Longhorns blank Panthers By Peter Sblendorio Texas has not had much luck in one-run games of late, losing its last three contests coming into Tuesday night’s game. The Longhorns were able to reverse this trend against Prairie View A&M on Tuesday, beating the Panthers 1-0 behind strong pitching and timely hitting late in the game. Texas put together a twoout rally in the seventh inning to break a scoreless tie. Designated hitter Jacob Felts reached base on a fielding error by Andre Oliver to start the scoring threat, and second baseman Brooks Marlow followed with a single to left field. With runners at first and second, catcher Jeremy Montalbano delivered a linedrive single to left field to drive in Felts and give Texas the 1-0 lead. The freshman is hopeful that his clutch hit will be the first of many for the Longhorns in their remaining games. “It wasn’t pretty but it was
For a Texas team whose NCAA Tournament chances are hanging by a thread, its sense of urgency should be increasing with every loss. But despite their baffling inability to win a series in Big 12 play this year and Tuesday nights usually serving as a victorious reprieve for the Longhorns this season, all they could manage against a Prairie View A&M team with a 5.33 team ERA was one run — ONE run — on five hits. “I doubt that they’ll ever
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something we needed because we’ve been lacking the two-out hits,” Montalbano said. “It was nice for myself to be able to get that two-out hit and it will hopefully lead to more at-bats like that for the whole team.” Prairie View A&M
threatened to tie the game in the eighth inning. After Greg Salcido doubled with two outs, Dominiq Harris flew out to center field to end the inning. Starting pitcher Josh Urban turned in another strong outing in his fourth-consecutive
have the courage to walk back on this field after that,” head coach Augie Garrido joked after his team’s 1-0 win over the Panthers. “We’re talking about a 10-run rule before the game starts and we’re holding on for dear life in the seventh inning. It surprised me a lot.” Struggling to push runs across while getting swept by Baylor like Texas did last weekend is one thing. Scoring just once against Prairie View A&M is an entirely different matter. Prairie View A&M senior Stephen Lunsford, making just his second career start, had a 5.00 ERA in 13
outings this year before holding Texas scoreless through six innings to begin Tuesday’s game. The Longhorns had just two hits, one of which didn’t leave the infield, going into the seventh. It took a two-out error by Panthers second baseman Andre Oliver in that seventh frame to spark the only run-scoring rally of the game. Jacob Felts reached on the play and scored on a Jeremy Montalbano single two batters later. “The problem is that we didn’t put a lot of difficult balls in play with a lot of backspin on them, really hard line drives,”
Texas Stars goalie Cris Nilstorp is expected to start for the remainder of playoff games. Nilstorp, originally from Sweden, said fan support has greatly aided the Stars in their success this season.
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Stars shine in quest for Cup The Dallas Stars, Texas’ lone National Hockey League team, took home their only Stanley Cup in 1999. Since then however, it seems that many Texans’ appreciation for hockey has bowed in the presence of their true love — football. Missing the playoffs for the fifth season in a row this year, the Stars didn’t do much to win back widespread Texan support from 13 years ago. But there’s another hockey team in Texas that might be up to the task. Allow me to introduce the Texas Stars, Dallas’ America Hockey League affiliate. Formerly known as the Iowa Chops until 2008, the team was renamed the Texas Stars in 2009, and in the same year relocated to Cedar Park, Texas. The move from Iowa gave hockey fans in Central Texas a new team to cheer for. Playing in the then-brandnew Cedar Park Center in front of a fresh fan base, the
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Junior catcher Jacob Felts scores on freshman catcher Jeremy Montalbano’s single for Texas’ lone run and the only run scored by either team during the game. Texas still sits at last place in the Big 12 and holds a 23-20 overall record.
Tuesday start, pitching five scoreless innings while allowing just four hits. Following the game, head coach Augie Garrido said he was pleased with the right-hander’s start and will use him this weekend against Kansas State if needed.
“He’s been very effective every time he’s walked out there on Tuesdays,” Garrido said. “He’s been very consistent. The only reason we didn’t let him go farther was
Stars won the AHL’s Western Conference in their inaugural season. Although they fell in six games to the Hershey Bears in the 2010 Calder Cup Finals, the team’s success that season was promising. This season was the Stars’ most successful one in their brief history. Finishing with a record of 43-225-6 (22 regulation losses, five overtime losses and six shootout losses) this year is the first time they have finished in first place in the South Division. Their 97 points also earned them the Western Conference’s top seed in the 2013 Calder Cup Playoffs. Overall, the Stars finished this year’s campaign tied for the third-best record in the AHL. The Stars have already begun their quest for the 2013 Calder Cup. They are currently in a best-of-five series against the Milwaukee Admirals, the west’s eighth seed. Differing from the bestof-seven series format of the
NHL’s Stanley Cup Playoffs, the AHL uses a best-of-five format for its first-round series, and a best-of-seven format for the remaining rounds. As is the AHL playoff format, the Stars played the first two games of the opening round on the road in Milwaukee, Wis., where they left with the series tied 1-1. They will be back home in Cedar Park for games three, four and five if necessary. Stars head coach Willie Desjardins admitted that his team is in a tough battle with the Admirals. “The first two games were tight, and we thought they would be,” Desjardins said. “Milwaukee has played well down the stretch, they don’t give up a lot and both teams are geared up for the playoffs.” With the series squared at one, the team says it’s excited to be back home for some playoff hockey in Texas. “It’s always good to play at
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Garrido said. “They made a lot of plays. All but that one.” In the series against Baylor over the weekend, starting pitchers Parker French, Dillon Peters and Nathan Thornhill posted a collective 1.96 ERA — each picking up a loss. Despite boasting a combined 2.27 ERA this season, they are a mere 9-12 on the year. Josh Urban, who may be used out of the bullpen this weekend against Kansas State, followed suit, tossing five scoreless innings. But, because of Texas’ inept offense, he didn’t pick up the win as the Longhorns could not score until the seventh. “Our pitching has been
outstanding,” Urban said. “Hitting, they’ve helped us some games but we’ll need them in the long haul. They’re going to have to do their job and we’re going to have to do our job.” As has been the case after most of Texas’ midweek contests, the Longhorns have shown that they still have a lot of work to do before being NCAA Tournament-worthy. After the last Tuesday night game of the season, that still rings true. Because if all Texas can muster is one run on five hits against a 20-21 Prairie View A&M squad, it doesn’t belong in the postseason.
Texas manages meager Tuesday-night victory GAME BREAKDOWN Innings 1-3: Not much happened during the first three innings. The teams combined for three hits but neither scored a run. Junior Josh Urban started on the mound for the Longhorns, surrendering no runs off of two hits. Innings 4-6: The middle three frames were much like the first three. No runs came from the four hits. Freshman Travis Duke came in as relief for Urban in the sixth inning and struck out three through two innings of work. Duke finished the game with the win to improve to 3-0 on the season. Innings 7-9: Freshman catcher Jeremy Montalbano drove in the Longhorns’ only run of the ballgame in the bottom of the seventh inning. Montalbano plated junior Jacob Felts with an RBI single to left center. Junior Ty Marlow came in as relief in the eighth before Corey Knebel closed for the Longhorns in the ninth.
STOCK UP Corey Knebel: The junior came in to close for the Longhorns on Tuesday night and faced the minimum in his one inning of work. Knebel has been rocky in his last few appearances, posting a 3-3 record with a 2.68 ERA and several blown saves. Though he once led the conference in saves, he was ranked third in the Big 12 with seven saves before this week. With the victory over the Panthers, Knebel earned the save to tie for first in the Big 12 with eight saves on the season.
WHAT’S NEXT The Longhorns will host Kansas State this week in a three-game series starting at 6:35 p.m. on Friday. Texas is still looking for its first conference series win of the season to try to qualify for the Big 12 Championship in May. The Wildcats (31-14, 9-6) defeated TCU 2-1 at home this past weekend and are No. 3 in the Big 12 behind Oklahoma and Baylor.
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Texas assistant men’s golf coach Ryan Murphy received the 2013 Jan Strickland Assistant Coach of the Year Award, the organization said today. The award, chosen by the Golf Coaches Association of America, is presented to a coach that helps foster strong athletes and students. Murphy has coached at Texas since 2008 and helped guide the men’s golf team to a 2012 NCAA Championship. In 2013, the Longhorns already have five victories under their belt in addition to a Big 12 Championship. “I know that [the award] is due in large part to the efforts that our players have made over the past few years,” Murphy said. “I am very grateful to be at such a wonderful university and to have the opportunity to work in a profession that I love.” —Rachel Thompson
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to be able to use him in the weekend series.” Travis Duke struck out three in a pair of scoreless innings in relief to lower his ERA to 0.58 on the season. Ty Marlow would limit the Panthers to one hit in the eighth inning to preserve the lead, and Corey Knebel pitched a perfect ninth inning to pick up his eighth save and clinch the win for Texas. Despite picking up the loss, Stephen Lunsford had a solid start for the Panthers. The right-hander pitched an eight-inning complete game and allowed just five hits while striking out two. The only run he allowed was unearned. With the win, Texas improves to 23-20 with the win and 19-8 at home. Despite this, the Longhorns’ struggles in conference play have them one game out of the last spot in the Big 12 Conference behind Texas Tech, who owns the tiebreaker. The Longhorns will have the chance to improve their place in conference standings this weekend when they host Kansas State for a three-game series. The first game is scheduled to begin Friday at 6:35 p.m. at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.
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Ginny Min, choreographer at Austin Swing Syndicate, teaches members dance moves for a flash mob that will take place May 10. The Austin Swing Syndicate is performing the flash mob to promote swing dancing to the public.
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would be like, ‘Oh, awesome, Count Basie.’” Jow believes that swing is a naturally athletic dance, explaining that many guys have to change their shirts halfway through the night because they sweat so much. “It’s almost like going out for a jog in your normal clothes,” Jow said. Paula Martin, a flash mob group member who has been dancing for two years, said that swing dancing helps her stay in shape. Martin noted that her step counter calculates her walking 2.5 miles per hour while she dances. One day, she said she danced more than 12 miles. “It’s a very aerobic exercise,” Martin said. “You get done and you’re hot, you’re sweaty and you’re like ‘My hair is all dripping,’ and there’s no other exercise I’ve ever enjoyed sweating to in my life. If I was in my 20s, I’d
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want to be doing this.” Ginny Min, a member of the flash mob, acknowledges the health benefits of swing dancing, but said it is not the reason she likes to dance. “It’s more just so much fun, and I don’t know how else to describe it,” Min said. “I guess it’s just so simple, but it’s the feeling you get. Different types of activities have that feeling, like the runner’s high. It’s a similar type of feeling you get when you dance.” The Syndicate is trying to make the flash mob an alllevel dance, according to Alexander Cloutier, an English senior and dance instructor at a studio called Four on the Floor. Cloutier thinks, however, that the Syndicate may be taking for granted a certain amount of knowledge. “I think there are some people who, if it’s their first day, they’ll walk in and feel a little bit intimidated, and of
course, no one will keep them out,” Cloutier said. “I’m thinking of it more as an outreach thing. Rather than something to bring the community closer, it’s more to show people. There are other ways to include the new people than this.” Cloutier hopes that the flash mob will bring in a better historical perspective to the dance that is more consistent with the swing community’s. “Anything that can show people that this is our art, our passion, what we care about and it’s a real thing that has a lot to it, rather than just whatever you see on ‘Dancing with the Stars’ or ‘So You Think You Can Dance,’” Cloutier said. “[We have] more of a knowledge that this is a living thing rather than just a historical thing. It is something that’s still living and growing and changing as we do it, and that’s the big difference.”
for iPhones and iPads, this is made possible. Using a sensor that clips to the earlobe, Inner Balance helps people who struggle to relax measure their emotional state. Once the heart rate slows to the correct level, users are rewarded with chimes and visual indicators. Soon, iPhone apps will teach us how to sleep.
5. A Wi-Fi-connected scale The Aria smart scale is a nifty gadget for measuring a person’s body weight, body mass index and percent fat, but dropping $130 on a scale may not be worth it. Since the device relies on electrical signals to measure body fat, it’s not as accurate as other technology. The scale also
all shapes and sizes participate in the run. In addition to running the race, he looks forward to seeing the costumes. “When people start showing up, it gets really exciting and kinda sexy,” Mirabella said. “You can see all kinds of undies there — normal whitey tighties and sexy lingerie to something outrageous. Last year, there was a guy in a diaper and another guy in the brightgreen Borat swimsuit.” The run is only around 1 mile long, but last year some students decided to
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Wednesday, May 1, 2013 go the extra mile. Dylan Goldman, a mechanical engineering senior, said he and his friends decided to put on their big-girl panties and make a pit stop in the school library. “Some people, including myself, took a slight detour through the ground floor of the PCL,” Goldman said. “We quickly ran out before anybody yelled at us. I’m sure it was entertaining for all the students studying for finals.” Recently, the Undie Run has adopted Will Ferrell as the celebrity face of the organization due to his famous streaking scene in the movie “Old School.” There are even whispers of Ferrell
showing up to the university that donates the most clothing next spring. The Undie Run begins Friday at 7 p.m. at The University Co-op. This year, Carls said the Austin Undie Run is hoping to have more than 500 participants. “I’d like for people to step out of their boundaries to help others,” Carls said. “It’s such a weird sensation when you first come to our Undie Run, take off your clothes and proceed to have fun in your undies. My hope is that people come away from the Undie Run feeling liberated, stress-free and happy they just donated for a charity while having the time of their life.”
you’re really just thirsty. Every time you get the impulse to snack, try consuming an 8 ounce glass of water instead and see if that subsides your hunger. Whatever you do, do it safely. There is a difference between the soreness and tightness you feel when working out and the pain associated with damaging your body. Not-Just-OnWeekends, a blog for those who enjoy the outdoors, urges new runners to gradually ease into running by keeping their running sessions short at the beginning, and to focus on pace, not speed when you start out. Always be sure to stretch before and after your workouts, as stretching helps keep soreness down and will ensure that you are able to keep
up with your routine from day to day. If you do find that you get sore easily, mix up what you do each day. If your upper body is sore, focus on your lower body with lunges and squats so that your upper body has a day to rest. Changes come slowly, so don’t be discouraged. Being fit isn’t something you do for a few weeks in the summer; it’s a lifestyle. Make changes to your routine gradually in order to let changes stick. Replace snacks with fruits and vegetables you like. Go out and toss a Frisbee with friends. The important thing is that you enjoy whatever you do to be fit and healthy. That’s the only way these healthy habits will stick, and the only way you will achieve your fitness goals.
good enough, eating habits should be monitored by a fork. At last, America’s obesity epidemic has a worthy adversary: the HAPIfork. In order to prevent eaters from shoveling their faces with food too quickly, the HAPIfork vibrates and lights up to advise them to slow down. By taking more time to eat, the
fork promotes better weight control, healthier digestion and smaller portions. Since nutrition is a key aspect of fitness, the HAPIfork acts like a pedometer for food by measuring the number of total “fork servings” and collecting information over a period of time to assess an eater’s diet.
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because he knew it would thrive in a culture that embraces weird, fun and creative events. “I believe that Austin’s a caring city,” Carls said. “It shows by the fact that this is our sixth consecutive year to host this event.” Mirabella said Austinites of
The main theme of salsa is sexiness, and of tango is seriousness, according to Jonathan Jow, UT alumnus and Austin Swing Syndicate Board vice president. But the world of swing dancing — with men clad wearing newsboy caps and bow ties and girls in wide, flaring skirts — is simply about having fun. And that’s exactly what the Austin Swing Syndicate plans to do. On the weekend of May 10, after practicing weekly for nearly a month, members of the Austin Swing Syndicate will perform a flash mob at a location to be decided upon. Anywhere between 70 and 100 members are expected to perform, according to Jow. Jow said that the purpose of the flash mob is to internally build community with the members of the Syndicate, to bring awareness to the public about swing dancing and to have fun. “A lot of people think swing dancing is like the old Gap commercial-people flying in the air,” Jow said. “That’s not quite what it’s all about, but it’s a common perception. We want to educate the public.” Like hip-hop dancing, Jow said that swing dancing is one of the few distinctly American dances. “That popularity [of hip hop] is equivalent to how [swing] was back in the day,” Jow said. “So if you put on Justin Timberlake, people would be like, ‘Oh, Justin Timberlake, this is my jam,’ and back then, you’d put on Count Basie and they
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Runners bare all for cancer By Katie Paschall
Showing up to school in your underwear is not just a nightmare anymore — it’s a reality. Dressed in their bedroom best, UT students will strip to their skivvies and streak down the Drag for the sixthannual Undie Run on May 3, the last day of class. Students will donate the clothes off their backs to raise money for Cancer for College, a scholarship program dedicated to sending cancer survivors to college. Undie Run co-founder Weston Carls, said the run is meant to spread good
karma in college communities. Carls said many people are willing to participate because it’s a fun and charitable event. “When have you ever had the opportunity to run through campus with your classmates, on the last day of school, in your underwear, while still contributing to your local community?” Carls said. “It’s freedom for college students.” Jordon Nevins, a computer science senior, is running the Undie Run for her first time this year. He is most excited to dress down, cause a scene with his friends and run free after a long semester. “Is there a better way to
relieve a stressful spring semester?” Nevins said. “Stripping down to practically nothing alongside hundreds of other sexy college students couldn’t entice me more, plus everyone is running for a great cause.” Since Carls and his friends started the Undie Run at San Diego State University in 2006, the event has sent more than 200,000 pounds of clothing to social service agencies. “We went international with the Toronto Undie Run in 2012 and also the Santiago, Chile, Undie Run this year,” Carls said. “So, we’re not slowing down. This is very much a global
movement. I think we’ve started more than 100 Undie Run[s]. It’s tough to keep track now.” Although the Austin Undie Run takes place on the perimeter of the UT campus, St. Edward’s University and Austin Community College students are encouraged to join. Adam Mirabella, a kinesiology student at ACC, has run the race for three years. “I think the idea of it is a blast,” Mirabella said. “Even though they do these things all around the United States, it’s such an ‘Austin’ thing to do.” Carls said he brought the Undie Run to Austin in 2008
UNDIE RUN
What: 1-mile run around UT campus Cost: Free with clothing donation When: Friday, 7 p.m.
Summer tips for staying fit away from campus By René Castro Daily Texan Columnist
Summer is traditionally known as bikini season. By this time of year, people who were serious about their New Year’s resolutions to lose weight or be healthier have turned those aspirations into habits. For these weight-room warriors, leaving the University for the summer means not having access to the free gyms and recreational areas it provides. Often students cannot afford a pricey gym membership or don’t have access to gym equipment or even tracks to run on. It is possible, however, to stay fit and healthy without weights or equipment, the only weight you need is your body. As I began training for my 4,500-mile bike ride from Austin to Anchorage, Ala., I realized that it’s one thing to push yourself through a workout and a completely different thing to push your body to extremes; to get up the next morning and do it again, and again. I decided to do my research and make small changes that gradually became my lifestyle, and here are some tips on how you can do the same.
Body-weight exercises, or calisthenics, are a fantastic alternative to exercise equipment to get toned and lean muscles. The general consensus from many different sources, including livestrong. com, is that if you are looking to get large muscles, then weight training is the most direct way to get there. It is possible to get larger through calisthenics, but not to the size of a bodybuilder. The list of body-weight exercises is endless, from planks, bridges and crunches for abs, to push-ups, pull-ups and dips for chest and arms. If you have a chair and a floor, there’s no excuse to not get a good sweat going. Pair this with running around your neighborhood and you’ve got the key to a leaner, more capable body. You’ve probably heard the saying “30 percent gym, 70 percent diet.” What you put into your body is crucial. A good rule of thumb is to stop eating when you feel 80-percent full. It takes the brain 20 minutes to realize that the stomach is full, dietitian and nutritionist Cara Stewart said in an article on livestrong. com. In a study published in
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German company GoStBarefoots puts to use technology in its latest line of footwear: chainmail.
Photo courtesy of GoSt-Barefoots
Fitness gadgets trend futuristic, medieval By Stuart Railey When Americans express an interest in their fitness, their first step is usually buying something to make necessary exercise less strenuous and more convenient. Here are a few products that you may decide to purchase, but will never actually use. 1. Chainmail socks Fitness technology has progressed so far that it has begun to regress. Using a patent originally filed in the middle ages, German company GoSt-Barefoots released its line of chainmail socks
earlier this year. Since rubbersoled shoes deprive feet of tactile stimulation, the protective socks allow wearers to experience the temperature, moisture and humidity of the natural ground, minus the shooting pains caused by razor-sharp debris. But if having a cheese grater strapped to your foot doesn’t sound appealing, remember that stepping on a cactus would render the sock equally as useless. Not to mention that just one pair of the socks starts at around $260. 2. Underwater heart monitor The market for underwater heart rate monitors
may be small, but that hasn’t stopped Instabeat from creating the first device designed for and by swimmers. Capable of attaching itself to any pair of goggles, the Instabeat device rests against the temporal artery and flashes green, red and blue lights to denote various phases of fat-burning. Unfortunately for Instabeat, which is still trying to raise funds, demand has yet to make this product a reality. 3. Headgear heart monitor Health monitors and pedometers are now so small that they can be worn on virtually any part of the body.
From the chest to the heel, electronic devices can be conveniently placed and concealed so they don’t intrude on a person’s workout. But not Spree. Assuming that users have an insatiable desire for attention and friends who aren’t critical, the Spree device throws subtlety out the door. The cynosure wraps around the head, measuring heart rate, body temperature and other minor data that could be collected literally anywhere else on the human figure.
4. iPhone app for meditation When trying to escape
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