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Erich Weiss reflects on past two seasons.

NEWS Texas Dance competes at the National Dance Alliance competition in Florida, placing in top 10 for multiple categories. PAGE 5 How does the University help service students with visual disabilities?

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SPORTS Barnes swiches philosophy but is the change in time to turn things around for Texas Basketball. PAGE 6

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Fixed tuition bill clears hurdle

By Joshua Fechter The Texas House of Representatives tentatively approved a bill Wednesday requiring universities to offer students the option of a four-year fixed tuition plan in

a move similar to one taken by the UT System Board of Regents earlier this year.

Lawmakers and administrators, including Gov. Rick Perry and President William Powers Jr., have supported the plan before the current legislative session as a method to

increase four-year graduation rates and control costs for students and their families.

Regents preempted legislative action on providing fixed tuition over four years in February by voting to direct all system institutions to offer a four year fixed-rate tuition

plan to incoming freshmen beginning fall 2014.

UT-Dallas and UT-El Paso are the only universities in the system that offer fixed-rate tuition over four years. UTDallas has among the highest

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Rick Barns and DeLoss Dodds consider switching recruiting tactics, focus on keeping players for more than one year. PAGE 6 Rockets drop playoff series to Thunder but avoid the sweep as Oklahoma City wins it 4-1. PAGE 7

LIFE&ARTS Trek to Lost Maples is worth it, just for the red and orange leaves.

PAGE 10 While you read all about vacations in the section, Science Scene reminds us of the one place we can’t go — back in time. PAGE 10

Illustration by Olivia Kwong | Daily Texan Staff

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MATT VALENTINE Lecturer and professional photographer Matt Valentine explains the emotional appeal of the iconic photograph of the Boston bombing aftermath known as “the man in the cowboy hat.”

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Library late nights Campus study rooms extend hours in wake of final exam preparation

By Christine Ayala As students prepare for sleepless nights spent relearning a semester’s worth of class material, facilities throughout campus are making accommodations to help students make it through finals.

Campus buildings are staying open later, expecting more students and aiming to reduce stress for

the next two weeks.

UT Libraries spokesman Travis Willmann said several libraries will be open for extended hours.

Perry-Castaneda Library will stay open around the clock seven days a week instead of five through May 14.

Willmann said the Walter Geology Library in the Jackson Geological Sciences Building will expand hours and the Life Science

Library will provide coffee and cookies during dead days and finals.

“In the final stretch of the academic semester, we recognize the increased need by students for space and access to the libraries and its resources,” Willmann said.

Willmann said staff members will work double-time to keep spaces orderly, while copier services will make extra rounds to ensure adequate toner and paper.

“We also have a new healthy food vending

machine on the first floor of PCL for on-site munchies, and we’re working to organize another visit by the therapy dogs from Austin Dog Alliance on May 6 to help alleviate a bit of the crushing finals anxiety through some quality face time with man’s best friend,” Willmann said.

Crystal King, University Unions associate executive director, said the Student Activity Center will maintain its regular hours of 7 a.m. to 3 a.m.,

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Investigation to find cause of explosion forges ahead

By Joshua Fechter Investigators may find the cause of the fire and subsequent explosion in West by May 10, the state fire marshal told lawmakers Wednesday.

The West Fertilizer Co. plant explosion killed 15 people, injured more than 200 and destroyed 142 homes and several buildings, including a nursing home and two schools.

Speaking to the House Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee, State Fire Marshal Chris Connealy likened the ongoing investigation to an archaeological dig and said investigators — who represent 28 state and federal agencies — are working to reconstruct the cause of the explosion by examining the 14.9 acres affected by the blast.

“This is a very complex event as you can imagine, and we want to make sure we do it correctly,” Connealy said.

The marshal said investigators have ruled out a natural event, such as a lightning strike, as the cause, but three other categories of probable causes — accidental, incendiary and “undetermined” — are still on the table.

Connealy spoke at the first hearing regarding the explosion, where representatives from eight state agencies assessed their role in overseeing and regulating plants such as the one in West.

As of February, the plant contained 270 tons of ammonium nitrate, a chemical with explosive capabilities, said David Lakey, commissioner of the Texas Department of State Health Services. He said 41 other facilities in the state also have large amounts of the chemical.

Lakey said facilities with

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Bike to UT Day, giveaways promote sustainability

By Matthew Hart

Students and staff celebrated biking and sustainability with quick repairs and bicycle-generated smoothies at this year’s Bike to UT Day. Parking and transportation services organized the event for Bike Month on Wednesday afternoon at Gregory Plaza in order to promote cycling on campus.

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RecSports lined the plaza for the cause.

Blanca Juarez, the alternative transportation manager, said UT parking and transportation services puts on the event every year to celebrate cyclists’ choice of alternative transportation.

“In the past we’ve done a free breakfast and a raffle, and this year we tried to do a little bit more,” Juarez said.

“We have t-shirts and tote bags which we think are really important, especially since

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Rhetoric and writing senior Victor Harris, director of the Orange Bike Project, inspects a student’s bike at the Bike to UT event Wednesday afternoon.

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the law just got passed here in the city replacing plastic bags with recyclable ones.

So it gives students and staff members something extra that reminds them of Bike to UT Day.” Juarez said the Green Fee Committee provided the money for the additional expenditures which allowed them to give away free tshirts and food as well as what the additional organizations had to offer. She said the event has been going on for five years.

Mechanical engineering junior Javier Laredo said The Campus Environmental Center brought back the Earth Day smoothie maker for bikers interested in making their own smoothie.

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continues from page 1 “The idea is that you power your own smoothie so the power that you generate on the bike goes to a battery, this charges into the blender and that’s the energy you put into making a smoothie,” Laredo said. “And then you enjoy your smoothie at the end.”

Victor Harris, manager of Orange Bike Project, said he fixed more than 20 bikes throughout the day.

“We are a student organization that runs a community bike shop,” Harris said.

It’s basically a workshop where you come and use our tools to work on your own bike. You can bring in parts to build a bike, and we also rent out bicycles on a semester long basis. If you

need a bike for a semester you can come on in and put your stuff on the waitlist.”

Biology Senior Michael Nguyen said the bike shop has volunteer opportunities where people can come and learn about repairs.

“We do encourage everyone who has a bike to learn how to fix their own bikes, Nguyen said. “At least the basic repairs.”

UTeach institute site coordinator Mike Degraff said he brought his bike to the plaza, and Harris taught him how to properly shift to avoid breakdowns.

“There were some shifting issues on my bike, but it turns out I caused them,” Degraff said. “They did a great job of fixing it up.”

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fewer than 10,000 pounds of ammonium do not have to report possession of the chemical because it is not included on the U.S. Environmental

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Protection Agency’s list of dangerous substances.

Officials said local fire departments are authorized to inspect these facilities. Texas Emergency Management Chief Nim Kidd said he had not directed fire departments in cities with similar plants to conduct inspections but said he could do so upon lawmakers’ request.

State Rep. Joe Pickett, D-El Paso, chairs the House committee and said the hearing was intended to clarify agencies’ role in handling the aftermath of the explosion and overseeing similar plants. He said he did not intend for lawmakers to get involved in the investigation or “to point fingers.”

“I want to take it at a pace that is not a knee-jerk

reaction to things,” Pickett said after the hearing.

Legislators in Washington will also examine the cause of the blast.

On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., who chairs the Environment and Public Works Committee, said the committee would investigate the circumstances surrounding the explosion.

Boxer sent letters to the Chemical Safety Board and Environmental Protection Agency asking how they would follow up on the situation.

“I cannot rest until we get to the bottom of what caused the disaster in West, Texas and the tragic loss of life,” Boxer said in a press release. “It is critical that we find out how this happened.”

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but all meeting rooms will be available to students as study space. The SAC will offer students free breakfast tacos at 11 p.m. on May 6 and free pancake breakfast at midnight on May 7.

“The purpose of these events are to support the four-year graduation rate efforts and provide additional study space for students during this very important time of year,” King said.

Texas Union will have a study break snack room in the Eastwoods room between 10 p.m. and midnight, serving kolaches and fruit May 6, breakfast tacos May 7, yogurt and fruit May 8 and grab bags at the hospitality desk May 9.

King said the Student Services Building will have meeting rooms available for studying through the night, although the doors will lock at midnight.

Facility Services spokeswoman Laurie Lentz said during the exam period, project management and construction services suspends building renovations. Lentz said landscape services decreases its use of noise-producing equipment from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. including blowers, mowers, trimmers and chainsaws. Solid waste and recycling will begin work at 5 a.m. instead of 6 a.m. to reduce noise.

“This type of work is moved as much as possible to areas of campus not being heavily used by students,” Lentz said. “In the areas of facilities upkeep and renovation, we do take some steps during finals to help create a quiet environment.”

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tuition among public universities in the state.

The bill, authored by state Rep. Dan Branch, RDallas, and House Higher Education Committee chairman, must come up for a third reading in the House for a final vote. If the bill is approved, it will likely move to the Senate Committee on Higher Education before coming before the full Senate.

Michael Morton, former Senate of College Councils president, served on the Tuition Policy Advisory Committee and said the University could possibly set a higher rate for students who enroll in the plan to recoup possible lost revenue that would normally be gained from tuition increases. “[Students who enroll in the plan] are probably going to pay more initially because they’re taking a gamble in thinking that their tuition may increase if they don’t participate in the plan,” Morton said.

After residing in West Campus for 42 years, Freewheeling Bicycles, a family-owned specialty bike shop, will close at the end of May. UT alumnus Frank Cook opened the shop in the early 1970s, after his search to buy a new bike led him to buy five instead and become a bike dealer himself. Cook repaired bikes out of a West Campus garage apartment and established a staff of bike enthusiasts who were previously paid in bike parts.

Angela Prescott, Cook’s widow and shop owner, said new high-rises in West Campus have made it too expensive for the shop to continue traditional operation.

“I spent the last five months looking for other locations and basically decided they were too expensive, because I wanted to stay in the University area,” Prescott said. “We were going to have to be much smaller, and we didn’t want that.”

Maxwell Machicek, environmental science senior and a Freewheeling employee since high school, said the shop’s consistency over the years is what appeals to its loyal customer base.

“Things haven’t changed,” Machicek said. “We don’t even have even a computer with a barcode scanner — it’s all typed in manually still. That translates to customer service. If it’s marked under two different prices we’re going to cut you a deal.”

The Austin community will have an opportunity to show their final support for Freewheeling Bicycles by attending their Bike to Work Breakfast on May 17.

The shop is also offering a closeout sale throughout May.

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The man in the cowboy hat Matt Valentine Guest Columnist

Near the finish line of the Boston Marathon, photographers watched the race through the delimiting frame of their viewfinders. They heard and felt two explosions, but most would not have seen the blasts — the magnified perspective of a telephoto lens narrows the field of view, eliminating peripheral vision. As they photographed the chaos of the unfolding scene, they documented the horrific injuries of the victims and the heroic efforts of emergency personnel and bystanders. One photograph has become the iconic image of the attack. In news articles and social media, people have been calling it “The Man in the Cowboy Hat.” Charles Krupa’s photo for the Associated Press depicts a man in a wheelchair being rushed from the scene, escorted by three people: a woman in a tracksuit (furthest from the camera), an EMT in neon with a radio clipped to his chest and another man with long hair and a cowboy hat. This is a photograph of four people — so why is it called “The Man in the Cowboy Hat?” And, among the hundreds of photos of injury and rescue, why has Krupa’s photo become the singular iconic image of the Boston Marathon bombing?

The photo is one of the most graphic images of the attack, and surely that accelerated its viral spread across the Internet. The victim (later identified as Jeff Bauman) is ashen from shock and loss of blood. Shredded tissue dangles from the stumps of his legs, exposing the splintered tibias. His shirt and the side of his face are blackened, presumably by soot from the blast. Too explicit to be published unaltered in most newspapers, editors cropped the photo at Bauman’s knees (just where his legs were later amputated at Boston Medical Center). As in Nick Ut’s iconic photo “Napalm Girl” and

Eddie Adams’s “Saigon Execution,” shocking violence is one part of what makes Krupa’s photo extraordinary — but violence and victimization aren’t the defining characteristics here. People aren’t calling this photo “Man with No Legs” — to most viewers, Bauman isn’t the primary subject of this photograph. It’s that other guy, the one with the hat.

In a story about a bombing, most Americans expect photographs of victims and medical technicians — a decade of photojournalism from Iraq has conditioned us to regard those images with the detached concern of conscientious civilians. To us, the violence of war is comprehensible, but also unimaginable. We read and believe the stories; we see the photos; but those men in uniform and those broken victims are so far away, their lives so unlike our own, that we can’t imagine ourselves there with them. We might likewise fail to empathize with Bauman, not from a lack of sympathy but from a lack of relatable experience. Most of us can’t relate to the EMT, either; his duties are highly specialized. Reacting to this photograph, we see a victim, an authority, and the man in the hat, who could be anybody.

It turns out that the man in the cowboy hat, Carlos Arredondo, has a dramatic story of his own. His son Alexander died in Iraq, and Carlos was so stricken with grief that he attempted suicide by immolation when he heard the news. His other son, Brian, killed himself in 2011. Carlos has become a peace activist and a suicide prevention advocate. But when this photo was flying through social media networks in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, few people knew anything about Carlos Arredondo, not even his name.

His hat indicates that he is not a runner, not a paramedic, and probably not a Bostonian. He’s just a bystander. He’s not supposed to be doing anything in this moment but feeling terrified. But there he is,

pinching closed Jeff Bauman’s severed femoral artery.

Shooting the Marathon for Bloomberg, Kelvin Ma photographed Arredondo and Bauman at the same moment that Krupa captured “The Man in the Cowboy Hat.” But Ma’s photograph will not be such an enduring icon. Iconic photographs are not the product of chance. Yes, Alfred Eisenstaedt happened to be in Times Square at the right moment to photograph an (initially) unidentified sailor as he grabbed an (initially) unidentified woman for a celebratory kiss on V-J Day, but Eisenstaedt wasn’t the only cameraman to capture that moment. Victor Jorgensen photographed the exact same kiss, but the disorganized composition of Jorgensen’s photograph feels like a voyeuristic snapshot. Eisenstaedt’s “V-J Day in Times Square” shows just a sliver of each kisser’s face, and all the bystanders in Eisenstaedt’s photo are facing the camera, as if coordinated in common purpose. Because they’re anonymous, the two kissers are surrogates expressing a national sentiment. Anyone could be, if not one of the kissers, at least somewhere in the crowd.

Ma’s photograph is shot from an elevated position, with a telephoto lens. Krupa photographed at street level, with a lens similar in magnification and angle-of-view to the human eye. When we look at “The Man in the Cowboy Hat,” we feel as if we are just inches away, because Krupa really was. We can imagine ourselves, if not wearing Arredondo’s hat, at least running by his side, pushing the wheelchair from Bauman’s left. That’s why this photograph has become an icon of the Boston Marathon bombing — it unflinchingly depicts the effect of violence, but the central narrative is about the response to violence, in which we are all invited to participate.

Valentine is a lecturer in the Plan II Honors Program who graduated from UT with a Bachelors of Arts in Plan II and English in 2000.

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By Zachary Adams Daily Texan Columnist

UT’s online experience needs a makeover. The UT System Board of Regents attempted to address this problem in 2011 when they invested $10 million in the popular course planning and course review website, MyEdu. They hoped to provide students with a more efficient and userfriendly tool for planning schedules and staying on track for graduation. But whether the investment was worthwhile is debatable. And although complaints persist about MyEdu’s lack of integration with UT’s course schedule, as well as the website’s frequent crashes, an initiative within UT-Austin has begun that’s going to show the regents how a first-rate university solves problems — and it does not include throwing $10 million in taxpayer dollars to a site that still fails to fulfill its basic function two years after our initial investment.

On April 26 Mike Horn, the director of Digital Strategy for University Communications, joined by colleagues in Information Technology Services and the provost’s office, presented a new vision for UT-Austin’s online presence to the Strategic IT Advisory Board, which includes UT President William Powers Jr. Horn’s idea was to create a uniform online experience for UT students using online UT services. The idea for the initiative emerged from the Mobile Strategy Task Force in Communications, which emphasized streamlining UT’s online presence into a more mobile-friendly form, but the project has since expanded into a complete overhaul of UT online, including a redesigned homepage, registration, admission and student services experiences.

UT President William Powers Jr. and the Strategic IT Advisory Board endorsed the initiative on April 26.

Horn’s team has collaborated closely with David Laude, senior vice provost for enrollment and graduation management in communications, Carolyn Connerat, associate vice provost in the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost, as well as associates in ITS, stu-

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dent affairs and the president’s office, to make this new online experience incorporate all of the essential elements of UT’s online services. Connerat explained that when using UT online, “You’re going to all these different websites that seem to be separate. And so the goal is to bring these together using the newest technology and the newest design, to make it a really cutting edge experience for our students.”

Supporters of the initiative believe that the project’s success will not only increase efficiency and productivity, but will also set the standard for what a major university’s online presence should look like. As the regents face mounting criticism for their stated goals of making UT more accessible and affordable, as well as their continued failure to solve our problems in a way that seems fitting for a university striving to be world-class, the widespread support for the initiative shows that we’re not ready to settle for average here in Austin. Our priority is being the best.

The wheels are already rolling on this. Although nothing is going to replace the $10 million haphazardly given to MyEdu by the regents, we can finally rest easily knowing this problem is being solved. It is a big problem, however. Horn and his colleagues have their work cut out for them. Even so, I have faith that within a year or two, our registration system will have a much improved interface with a modern layout and a more user-friendly and integrated system “Everything that we’re doing here is about improving the current student experience, and we also really want to help sell the story of UT so that we continue to get the best and brightest prospective students as well,” Horn says. That sounds like a way better idea to me: Leave MyEdu and the regents in the dust. Their understanding of “world-class” leaves much to be desired.

Adams is a government freshman from Aiea, Hawaii.

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National Sexual Assault Awareness Month is over. Within the month of April, a female American tourist in Rio de Janeiro was raped and robbed on a minibus.

Two girls under the age of 10 were raped in India, one of whom died from her injuries. In Canada, a 17-year-old hanged herself after enduring over a year of bullying since she was gang-raped at a friend’s house in 2011.

To see these incidents in the news and feel helpless to stop their repetition is frustrating. In a disaster situation, money and donations can be delivered, but it appears as if little but condolences can be sent to a rape survivor or his or her family. The world feels pity, but what’s done is done.

Although it manifests itself in different forms and under different circumstances, rape has no preference. It doesn’t prefer developed or developing nations or discriminate against a certain race or identity. Rape happens, and I certainly don’t claim to have a simple answer on how to prevent it. But rape culture — the way in which our societies view and often judge survivors of sexual assault — can be reformed through education about common misconceptions.

On the University of Texas campus, the Voices against Violence organization plans frequent campaigns, theater productions, dialogues and events to engage the entire campus and community about issues of interpersonal violence and sexual assault. One of its goals is to solidify the message that rape is not merely a women’s issue, but one of concern to society as a whole. Dialogue is not restricted to feminists; any humanist has a responsibility to initiate it. VAV staff even provide training to UTPD officers each semester on how to appropriately communicate with survivors of interpersonal violence and sexual assault.

Unlike other crimes, rape often results in the blaming of the victim. Instead of highlighting the wrongful actions of the rapist, the survivor is often questioned about his or her actions at the time of the crime, told to be more careful when walking at night or in dangerous areas and equipped with pepper spray or self-defense classes in case of future occurrences.

After speaking to James Shaw, the founder of the Resist Attack Foundation, I understand the appeal of protective measures

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against rape. Resist Attack is a nonprofit organization that aspires to provide every woman in America with a bottle of pepper spray. The organization has given out 4,600 pepper sprays in Austin to date. Shaw often organizes meet-up locations on the UT campus for women to distribute free spray.

Shaw said that he decided to focus his efforts on pepper spray because he felt it was most practical to emphasize one main aspect (self-defense) and that his natural choice was pepper spray. However, Shaw said that he maintains communication with groups such as Step Up, which focuses on preventative rather than protective measures against rape by working to change the attitudes of young men regarding violence against women.

“Our hope is, of course, that one day our mission is unnecessary.

Until then, we’d rather do what we can to help this way,” Shaw said.

Shaw’s comments illustrate how the preventative approach cannot stand alone in confronting the issue of rape and its side effects. Rather, prevention must collaborate with the message that the responsibility of preventing rape doesn’t fall solely on the targeted person.

I didn’t understand how misunderstood rape is when I first stepped foot onto this campus. Of course, I thought rape was an awful thing, but I didn’t see how I could personally work to stop it. I didn’t know the meaning of the term “victimblaming” and didn’t realize that substituting “survivor” for “victim” can help empower those affected by sexual assault.

My initial ignorance, however, wasn’t the result of a lack of interest, but a lack of exposure. The dismantling of misconceptions surrounding sexual assault is a powerful force on our campus, but it can only work if students confront the ideas promoted by organizations like VAV in their daily lives.

Sometimes, although not always, all it takes to prevent a rape from occurring is a concerned stranger acknowledging that rape culture shouldn’t be the status quo.

National Sexual Assault Awareness Month is over, but its message shouldn’t stop being spread.

Manescu is an international relations and global studies sophomore from Ploiesti, Romania.

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LaCoste-Caputo said the documents would likely be returned later that day, after the documents were copied by System employees. Hall was also on site to begin his review of the documents.

Kevin Hegarty, the University’s vice president and chief financial officer, is in charge of open records requests. According to the Austin-American Statesman, Hegarty initially was hesitant to give access to confidential records to Hall – but system lawyers advised with the exception of Social Security numbers, personal health information -and information about students, Hall is entitled tto see the information ,he requested. a Hall, who had already ybeen granted access to troughly 40 boxes of materials, requested the kfiles earlier this year as npart of a larger conflict sbetween the University eand the board. Hall was -also one of the four reegents who voted for an -external review of the between trelationship -the UT School of Law aand the Law School sFoundation because he dalleged there were documents that were not ,made available for the poriginal investigation -conducted by System ecouncil Barry Burgdorf. e In April, The Texas eTribune obtained documents revealing Hall ehad failed to disclose his rinvolvement in at least -six state and federal lawysuits on his original ap-plication for the regent yposition. In the same ”week, board chairman eGene Powell asked the hTexas Attorney General tif the System is allowed to withhold information ,from legislators.

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Blind UT students seek better accommodations on campus

By Jordan Rudner When Jennifer Applegate purchases her books for the coming semester, she brings the texts to the Student Services Building, where they are stripped from their binding and fed into a scanner. Applegate doesn’t hate books — she is legally blind, and this process enables her to access her assignments through screen-reading software.

Applegate, an English senior, is one of 42 students with visual impairments registered with Services for Students with Disabilities, according to disabilities services coordinator Emily Shryock.

Other students might be visually impaired, but they choose to work individually with professors and not use the accommodations the University provides.

“The only way we can track the numbers is if [students] choose to selfdisclose their disability and register with our office,” Shryock said. “Some students are able to work individually with professors and may not need to use the accommodations or support offered by our office.”

Craig High, the coordinator of assistive technology in the Services for Students with Disabilities office, said he feels the office is successful because

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“We’re 100 percent consumer driven,” High said.

“I’m here to support the students, so I try to mirror whatever strategies they’re already using.”

High said oftentimes, by the time a blind student enters college, the student has already determined successful study methods.

“When we see students, they’re already pretty much an expert, and they already know what works for them,” High said. “My job is to keep my pulse on what students are using at home and try to get those technologies in place here.”

Applegate said she feels the University is generally committed to increasing accessibility for blind students.

“Textbooks from the CoOp get back to me really quickly, although PDF documents can be really slow,” Applegate said. “But in general, the University is really good about being inclusive and diverse — whenever there are stairs, there will also be a ramp.”

Still, Applegate said, there are ways in which

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When college sports teams reach the national finals, coaches normally get the credit for leading the way, but the student-coached and studentled Texas Dance team made it to the finals of the National Dance Alliance competition in Florida by themselves.

For the first time, Texas Dance advanced to national finals at the National Dance Alliance’s competition in April, placing seventh in open and ninth in hip-hop, publicity officer Emily Ybarbo said.

“We’re the only studentrun team that competes in our division, so there’s an overwhelming feeling of excitement and pride to know that we did all that on our own,” assistant director Megan Morgan said.

Texas Dance, UT’s official competitive dance team, has existed since 1977. The team competes each year in a state competition in Dallas as well as at the national competition at Daytona Beach in Florida, Ybarbo said.

“It’s just really cool getting to go to a big place like [Florida] and representing the University of Texas,” Ybarbo said. “Everyone knows who we are ... a lot of people did the ‘hook ‘em’.”

In Dallas this year, the team placed second in both hip-hop

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Earlier this year, Applegate mistakenly entered a men’s restroom in the building as a result.

“I didn’t realize what had happened until I heard men’s voices, and I tried to leave as fast as I could,” Applegate said. “That wasn’t fun.”

Applegate said she contacted Student Services about the incident, but has not had time to follow up on getting braille installed.

“I’ve been swamped with schoolwork, and I know it’s an old building, so [the administration] probably thought it wasn’t a big deal,” Applegate said. “I know it’s a big project.”

and open, Ybarbo said.

“Just seeing that improvement from year to year is really awesome,” director Kismet Cuellar said. “It made me feel really proud to be part of such a growing team.”

Texas Dance, consisting of 19 members, is entirely student-run, including fundraising and bringing in choreographers, Ybarbo said.

Members volunteer to choreograph the community performances, and local choreographers choreograph other dances, Ybarbo said.

“My first year was a growing experience, and the team really helped me get situated into the college life because we have members from every almost every major,” Cuellar said.

The team has an April spring show and performs at various events in Austin such as Longhorn Halloween, the American Heart Association Heart Walk and Project Linking the Arts, Ybarbo said.

At Southern Methodist University in July, the team participates in a three-day camp along with other Southern schools to become eligible to compete in nationals, Ybarbo said.

“I always knew we had it, but there was just something about this year ... this was our time to make finals,” Cuellar said.

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Rick Barnes is changing strategies. After watching nine players leave the program for the NBA before becoming upperclassman, Barnes has decided to go with a different recruiting strategy.

The question about this philosophy change is not if it will work, but if it will work in time.

Last season was not a good one for Texas. It missed the NCAA tournament for the first time since Barnes took over and was bounced from the first round on the College Basketball Invitational

by Houston. Not the national tournament — the CBI. This was due, in part, to a lack of upperclassman, which will be a problem again next season with three players having transferred so far this offseason. In light of this, Barnes has elected to take players who are more likely to stay for three or four years and develop some cohesiveness in his program.

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Lawrence Peart | Daily Texan file photo Texas head coach Rick Barnes is trying to change the culture of the Longhorns basketball program, recruiting more players that will play through their senior years, relying less on players that will leave early like Myck Kabongo or transfer like Sheldon McClellan.

Horns to shift from one-and-done

By Christian Corona Rick Barnes has made a habit of losing players before they graduate. It’s a habit that, with a change to his recruiting philosophy, he’s hoping to break.

Sophomore point guard Myck Kabongo declaring for the NBA draft was not surprising. Fellow sophomores Sheldon McClellan and Jaylen Bond electing to transfer was.

But Barnes is counting on

guys like Demarcus Holland, Connor Lammert and Ioannis Papapetro — all freshmen last season — to not pursue a professional career before their senior years and help the Longhorns make a deep NCAA tournament run soon.

For the first time during Barnes’ 15-year tenure at Texas, he didn’t take the Longhorns to the Big Dance.

With Kabongo suspended for 23 games, Texas couldn’t produce a NCAA tournamentworthy resume. Instead, the

Longhorns finished this year at 16-18 following a CBI firstround loss to Houston.

“Making the change is painful, but the result of the change is going to be stability,” men’s athletics director DeLoss Dodds told The Daily Texan in February. “The oneand-done, if you have a couple on your squad, that’s fine.

But I think to build a squad around that is not good.

You’ve got to get kids that want to be at Texas. You’ve got to kids that want a degree, kids that want to get better

every year.”

Like Tristan Thompson, Cory Joseph, Jordan Hamilton and Avery Bradley, Kabongo was a five-star prospect coming out of high school, according to rivals. com, before leaving Texas early. Kentucky, with Anthony Davis and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, the top two picks in last year’s NBA draft, won a national title before losing all five starters and falling to Robert Morris in the

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A baseball crashed into Erich Weiss’s face two weeks ago, fracturing his nose and leaving a cut running down to his right cheek. In an unfortunate way, it’s perfectly symbolic of Weiss’ last two seasons and of his career: another bad break.

“It’s tough to accept,” Weiss said. “The season’s not over yet, we can still make a run for it, but we’ve gone through a lot so far.”

This much is clear: Weiss’ first appearance as a Longhorn, two seasons ago, was no fluke. For his first career hit, he tripled into right field.

He finished the weekend hitting .818. That year, the Longhorns went to Omaha, and Weiss was the star at the plate. He did it again, in 2012, hitting .350. He’s doing it again this time around, second on the team in hitting (.309) as a junior.

The mood the past two seasons, however, is different. At 23-20, the Longhorns are not a good baseball team, despite a very good

pitching staff and the efforts of Weiss and Mark Payton (.379). They weren’t good last season, either, missing the NCAA postseason for the first time since 1998. If the season were to end today, the Longhorns wouldn’t even make the conference tournament.

What looked inevitable two summers ago after the Longhorns lost their first two games in the College World Series has not happened.

“When we left Omaha, we said, ‘We’ll be back,’” Weiss said. “We all assumed we’d be back there. I kind of felt it’d be like that the rest of my time here.”

The loss to North Carolina — the one that sent them packing from Omaha — was made easier to stomach because the Longhorns were young and just scraping their potential. They’d get back, they’d be better, maybe they’d dogpile. The absence of Taylor Jungmann and Brandon Loy would hurt, but not that much — more talent, like Parker French and Dillon Peters and C.J. Hinojosa was on the way — and the core five

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Sophomore Toller Boardman announced Tuesday that he has left the team and plans to transfer from Texas. Boardman announced through Twitter of his status with the Longhorns.

“Thank you everyone at Texas. I’ll cherish my two years here forever,” Boardman tweeted. “Best of luck to all my teammates.”

A Texas spokesman confirmed Boardman’s status with the team on Wednesday. This season, Boardman has compiled an 0-1 record and 9.95 ERA. Across 6.1 innings of work this season, Boardman surrendered 10 runs off 12 hits while fanning five.

—Sara Beth Purdy

Longhorn golfers recognized by Big 12

Freshman Brandon Stone was named Big 12 Player and Newcomer of the Year and Texas head coach John Fields was named Big 12 Coach of the Year Wednesday. Stone, along with senior Cody Gribble and sophomore Kramer Hickok were named to the All-Big 12 team.

The Longhorns captured the team Big 12 Championship with a four stroke victory over second place Oklahoma State. Stone, who is the second-straight Longhorn to be named both Player and Newcomer, captured the individual championship in last week’s Big 12 Championship.

The defending National Champions will attempt to repeat their title with a run at the NCAA Regional Championships May 16-18.

—Sara Beth Purdy

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By Nick Cremona Daily Texan Columnist

Even in the uniforms that make them look like a McDonald’s All American team, the Rockets managed to shut down Kevin Durant in the fourth quarter and pull off an upset in Oklahoma City.

Derek Fisher always seems to find a way to nag Houston in the playoffs, but neither he nor Durant, who dropped a gamehigh 36 points, could keep up as the Rockets won, 107-100, to force a Game 6 in Houston.

James Harden put up a halftime promotion’s worth of halfcourt shots while Omer Asik was sent to the line on six straight possessions with five minutes left in the game.

Harden also scored 31 points on 16 shots. Someone in the Thunder home crowd could have used a new car or a year’s worth of pizza after Harden hit his first seven three point attempts and silenced them early in the game.

Harden’s resurgence is key to the Rocket’s success. With

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continues from page 6 of freshmen starters (Weiss, Payton, superstar closer Corey Knebel, pitcher Nathan Thornhill and catcher Jacob Felts) would only get better.

Instead, the Longhorns are a combined 53-42 the last two seasons.

“It is sad,” Weiss said. “It’s difficult because we’ve grown so close over the years at Texas, too, and we all want to win — everybody wants to win. It’s just hard when you don’t.”

The Texas players will have you believe there’s a run left in them, that this season shouldn’t be considered dead.

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Jeremy Lin still sidelined, Harden has to open up the floor for Houston’s other guards as well.

This time around, the shots were falling. Francisco Garcia made 5-of-12 three pointers and Patrick Beverley added a bevy of shots beyond the arc. But Houston has lived by

the three all year, ranking in the top 10 in three point field goal percentage during the regular season.

New York showed in its Game 5 at home against Boston that dying by the three is just as easy. The Rockets have a chance to extend their

postseason past the first round for the first time in four seasons. A young, scrappy team showed up to Chesapeake Arena in Oklahoma City and smacked the Thunder. James Harden made a statement, and the fans in Houston will be happy to welcome him home.

“The team we have is really good,” Knebel said weeks ago. “It just hasn’t gone our way sometimes.”

With Weiss and Payton the only players hitting above .300, it’d be a miracle if the Longhorns were to win their next two conference series, against Kansas State and TCU, after not having won one all spring.

If they get in the Big 12 tourney, they’d likely have to win it all to make an NCAA Regional.

“Hopefully we can make a stand,” Weiss said.

For Weiss, the last two years have been unlike anything he’s ever experienced. He was a winner right out of the chute in college. At Brenham High School, he said the varsity won 18 straight games while he

was a junior and won the State Championship his senior year.

“I had gotten used to winning, I had never been on a team that lost a lot,” Weiss said.

“It’ll be okay after we’re gone, in the future.”

Ah, the future. In a December interview, Weiss intimated to me that this season would be his last in Austin, as he’ll be selected in the earlier rounds of June’s MLB Draft. But Wednesday, in a brief break before a workout and Texas’ practice at Disch-Falk Field, he didn’t balk at the suggestion he might return for his senior season if this campaign leaves too bitter of a taste. He’s gotten through this one by his love of baseball and of his school — “We still get to play at the University of Texas,

and that’s still unbelievable” — and, when asked what will be the biggest takeaway from his time on the 40 Acres, Weiss sounded like a man still with plenty to accomplish and like a man who knew how good he had it.

“I wish there was a memory of me holding a trophy up,” he said with a sigh. “But it’s hard to say it’s gonna be that much better after college — you don’t get to stay at the (supposedlyhaunted) Skirvin Hotel in Oklahoma City, you don’t get to eat all this good food.”

And with that Erich Weiss stood up, said goodbye and walked back into the clubhouse to get his practice gear, presumably ready to finish what he started.

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Louisville just won the national championship with five upperclassman averaging at least 10 minutes a game.

The Kentucky/John Calipari system is more glamorous and brings in highprofile players, but it has the tendency to fall flat on its face as it did this past season. The national championship team two years ago had a senior guard that averaged significant minutes and several sophomores and juniors that had Final Four experience on the team. Without that kind of seasoning on the team, Kentucky floundered on the bubble almost all season before being upset in

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first round of the NIT this past season.

“You can be really successful like Kentucky was,” Dodds said. “They had five freshmen. That worked for them … But if I were doing that, I wouldn’t feel good about that. I wouldn’t feel good for the university. I wouldn’t feel good for the kids. I wouldn’t feel good for the fans that just barely get to know them before they’re gone.”

Texas signed Demarcus Croaker, Kendal Yancy and Isaiah Taylor, decent guards but not blue-chip prospects, to play next year while missing on in-state five-star prospects Julius Randle, Andrew Harrison and Aaron Harrison. But if Dodds had his way, Barnes would model his program after another perennial contender.

“I like the way [Michigan State head coach Tom] Izzo does it,” Dodds said. “He builds the team and they’re

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by Robert Morris out of the Northeast Conference.

Switching recruiting styles to the more consistent system cannot be a bad thing. The consistency it will bring will start to come with wins at some point.

But will it be soon enough for Barnes to take advantage of it? He cannot afford to have another season similar to this past one. Texas has to be relevant in the Big 12 and has to be in contention for an NCAA tournament spot if he wants to avoid the hot seat.

This new system is not a quick fix. It will take time to get the kind of players that the roster will need and for them to develop into the kind of players that can start on a championship team. Time is not a luxury Barnes and Texas have right now. there and he gets them tough.

You do not want to play Michigan State.”

Another change Dodds would like to see is college basketball adopting college baseball’s rule of allowing a player to turn pro right out of high school but, if he decides to go to college, mandating that he stay there for three years.

“I like the baseball rule,” Dodds said. “The players association in the NBA caused the rule to be the way it is now. It’s not the players that want the rule. It’s the agents that want the rule. It’s the agents that tell the players how to do their votes. And the agents want one-anddone. The owners probably prefer the baseball rule but it’s a negotiation between agents and the owners.”

Until then, Barnes, with the support of Dodds, will continue recruiting more guys that aren’t done until they’ve been at Texas four years and do his best to limit the early departures, all in an effort to limit the kinds of seasons like the Longhorns had this year.

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continues from page 10 According to Einstein’s Theory of Special Relativity, under certain circumstances, time itself, and not just your perception of it, can slow down.

In effect, whenever you travel at any speed relative to the earth, you age slower than the world around you, though this is completely imperceptible when driving a car or traveling in an airplane. Even the fastest object created by man, the Helios 2 Solar Probe, which orbits the sun at more than 150,000 mph, only experiences a loss of about a second over the course of a year, relative to us here on Earth.

In order to feel just a one percent decrease in time, you’d need to floor the accelerator until you reached a speed 500 times faster than that.

The technology’s not nearly there yet, but in theory, if you can get your spaceship moving fast enough, you can

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continues from page 10 acres of natural bird watching sites, complete with boardwalks, hiking trails and observatories.

“We have enhanced and preserved many of our natural areas with regard to bird watching,” Vaughan said.

“City leaders have been instrumental in preserving natural areas for people to enjoy.”

The Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center is just one of the several nature preserves on the island. A nearly mile-long boardwalk allows

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Smith first discovered the

travel to any point in the future that you’d like. Want to see the world in 500 years?

Spend a day traveling nearly 100 times the speed of light and you can. There’s no guarantee of a return ticket, but maybe they’ll have backwards time travel figured out by then.

Of course, in order to reach that speed, you’ll need to deal with acceleration.

And unless you want to endure a substantial increase in G-forces over a prolonged period of time, even just reaching such a spectacular speed would take close to a year. Slowing back down would take just as long and that’s to say nothing about the massive amount of energy required for the process.

So as of right now, depending on how you look at it, literal time travel is either completely impossible or extremely unlikely, especially over the course of our lifetimes. But look at it this way: In 1860, it took California more than a week to learn the results of the tourists to view birds from an up close proximity. Not only are visitors able to observe birds in their natural habitats, but there can also be sightings of the center’s resident American alligators.

San Jose Island Boasting 21 miles of pristine Texas coastline, San Jose Island is just a short ferry ride away from Port Aransas.

The beaches of this uninhabited island are open to visitors, but closed to vehicles, which allows for a largely untainted environment perfect for swimming, surfing and camping. Located in an area known as the “Fishing Capital of Texas,” some of park on a trip organized by UT RecSports. Each fall, the RecSports Adventure Trips program braves the swarms of tourists and treks to Lost Maples to see the trees. These trips offer students an affordable opportunity to explore Texas.

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in Fredericksburg, Mooring spoke of the town as if he had lived there his entire life. Over the years, he has become just as much a fixture in the town as his store, which is filled to the brim with decorations for every holiday imaginable.

Mooring’s store is located on Main Street, which is a segment of Highway 290 that slows down as it weaves through Fredericksburg. Main Street serves as the primary stretch for shopping and dining in the city, but Mooring’s homemade list of Fredericksburg attractions extends much further.

If you plan on making the hour-and-a-half-long-trip to Fredericksburg this summer, the month of June is when you will find the doors to most of the roadside peach stands open. Also consider stopping by The Christmas Store and ask to talk to John about the town’s nightlife for a thorough dissertation on local attractions.

Arrive early enough in the day, before the stores begin closing around 5 p.m., and you have the chance to wander in and out of the stores and boutiques along Main Street. The music of Patsy Cline can be heard drifting through the speakers of The General Store, where you can buy everything from mango salsa to slingshots. For dinner or a late lunch, stop by Der Lindenbaum, which is located in a historic building on Main Street. The restaurant serves authentic German cuisine, ranging from schnitzel to bratwurst.

For those of legal age, Fredericksburg has even more to offer. Behind Napa Valley in California, the Texas Hill

Country is the highest wineproducing region in the country. Mooring’s tailored list of personal favorites includes Housewine, a retail store and wine bar combination.

The live music scene in Fredericksburg is also something to admire, at least according to Mooring. For a “rowdier” experience, he recommends Buc O’ Brian’s.

About 10 miles west of town is the Hill Top Cafe, which is owned by Asleep At The Wheel band member Johnny Nicholas and his wife Brenda.

Mooring said that some lucky guests get to enjoy entertainment by Nicholas himself.

For the true, down-home Texas experience, drive the dark road south to Luckenbach, which has more buildings in its vicinity than residents.

The 15-minute drive from Fredericksburg to Luckenbach feels like sneaking off to a secret tree fort you and your friends built in the woods. There are no streetlights, and the only indication that you have arrived at the tiny Texas town is a flashing arrow on the side of the country road.

Inside the dance hall that Saturday night was blues musician Marcia Ball, along with about 50 guests, some of whom brought their dancing shoes with them.

The atmosphere inside the hall, which is otherwise completely surrounded by darkness, is something similar to the intimate living room feeling that usually accompanies family gatherings. As the saying goes, everybody is somebody in Luckenbach, and it also feels safe to say that everyone is familiar in Luckenbach.

Even though the peaches will not be ripe for another month or two, Fredricksburg still has more than enough to fill up a weekend trip.

so the majority of our day and weekend trips are between one to five hour drive, with some of our extended trips in Big Bend and Grand Canyon taking one to two days to drive.”

While Lost Maples may be too far for an overnight

getaway, it provides enough trails and sights for a weekend in the country. Whether traveling with the RecSports Program or venturing out alone, the park’s proximity to Hill Country havens allows visitors to make the most of a long trip.

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presidential election — and this was considered remarkably fast at the time. Today, if someone you barely remember from high school cooks a meal, a picture of

it arrives instantly on your cell phone no matter where you are. Put away the tweed jacket and bow tie: We don’t need to travel to the future; we’re already there.

the best fishing around takes place from the rocky edges of the North Jetty, where anglers can find speckled trout, redfish, flounder and more all up for grabs.

and onshore tent camping is permitted.

Mustang Island State Park Mustang Island State Park allows visitors vast opportunities for bay fishing, kayaking, birding, golfing, hiking, camping and more. The state park encompasses a whole barrier island ecosystem, containing dunes, coastal grasslands and marshes, which allows ample chances to see wildlife and enjoy impressive vantage points to bird-watch. The park is also a popular place to camp, with electrical hookups available Because of Austin’s proximity to parks like Lost Maples, these excursions stay inexpensive. Next fall, RecSports plans to offer Guide School Outdoor Leadership and Training Program for students hoping to become trip guides.

UT Marine Science Institute Situated on a 3.5-acre salt marsh surrounded by dunes, the Wetlands Education Center at The University of Texas Marine Science Institute serves as an educational resource for visitors.

While UT scientists and students research marine life on the grounds, visitors can explore the marsh area and learn about local plant and animal species.

The public is invited to participate in seasonal walking tours to learn about the importance of the preservation of wetlands.

“Well, honestly, our geography has everything to do with the trips we offer,” Chris Burnett, senior assistant director of RecSports outdoor recreation and community outreach, said. “Travel expenses are the most expensive cost for a trip,

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Illustration by Ploy Buraparate | Daily Texan Staff

Today’s Life & Arts section provides a smattering of options for a weekend adventure away from Austin.

In these stories, we explore places and spaces to take a deep breath away from the grime of the city and recover after finals.

German town is far from the wurst

By Hannah Smothers FREDERICKSBURG — Located about 80 miles west of both Austin and San Antonio is a small Texas town with a long German name.

On any given Saturday afternoon in Fredericksburg you can see tourists walking up and down the sidewalks of Main Street with cups of beer or wine in their hands.

You can find a friendly staff of local high school-aged employees working behind the counter at the Fredericksburg Ice Cream Parlor.

Wait until around 6:30 p.m. and you can find John Mooring closing his store and getting ready for another night out in the town that stole him away from sunny Los Angeles.

Mooring, co-owner of The Christmas Store, moved to Fredricksburg from Los Angeles years ago and has no intention of returning. Fresh summertime peaches and the friendly charm of a small town in the Texas Hill Country have won him over.

“I love being in the city,” Mooring said. “But the city comes to us here.”

Although he was not born

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Zachary Strain | Daily Texan Staff Couples dance to live music performed by blues musician Marcia Ball at the Luckenbach Dance Hall on Saturday. The dance hall, located about 15 minutes west of Fredericksburg, hosts live music and weekly dances.

Port town offers array of sights

Visitors find Lost Maples to be good destination

By Stephanie Robalino

By Olivia Arena Red and orange leaves set the normal vegetation ablaze.

The vibrant hues of the maples cannot be seen anywhere in the southern United States but here. These “lost maples” attract nature enthusiasts from around the world to hike the trails crisscrossing the Texas Hill Country. Lost Maples State Natural Area is home to rare maple trees usually only found in the northern United States and Canada.

“The park is gorgeous,” UT biology alumnus Lane Smith said. “Definitely one of the prettiest in this area of Texas.

We went in October, right as the maple leaves were starting to change their colors to brilliant hues of orange and red. We took trails on the perimeter of the park, but some of the best trails are right at the beginning.”

These serene 2,174.2 acres offer an escape from city life.

Visitors can expect to see some distinct Texas wildlife like the species of endangered

Photo courtesy of Texas Parks and Wildlife Department Lost Maples State Park offers escape in the Texas Hill Country.

birds, the golden-cheek warbler and the black-capped vireo, who call the park home.

Fishing is allowed in the numerous ponds, and primitive camping sites can be found throughout the park.

Though the park is three hours from the Austin, travelers can stop in distinctly Texas towns like Fredericksburg and Bandera along the way. Lost Maples is also only 30 minutes from Garner State Park and the Frio River. Garner draws on the best of Texas culture and history with Saturday night summer dances to the tubing the Frio River.

“Lost Maples is a great showcase of Texas geography and flora,” Smith said. “As far as culture, the trip to Lost Maples is full of it.”

Walking into the visitor center at Lost Maples, a single room filled with

hiking memorabilia, the small-town feel is overwhelming. The rangers make small talk about the local rodeo, and visitors ask questions about the best swimming holes. During the slower parts of the year, the trails are largely unoccupied, and the park offers a serene retreat for locals. But come October, the maples begin to change.

Jennifer Manis, Lost Maples assistant office manager, said in the fall visitors must book a year in advance, a month in advance during spring and only a week in advance during the off-season. According to Manis, at the end of October and beginning of November, nearly 1,500 guests visit the park daily, but UT RecSports Adventure Trips offer students the chance to visit

Soft sand and warm gulf water draws countless tourists to Port Aransas every summer. Conservation efforts made by the city allow visitors to enjoy clean, wellmaintained beaches that are teeming with coastal wildlife.

“As far as accessibility and quality of water and sand go, Port Aransas is the greatest beach in Texas,” said Ann Bracher Vaughan, president and CEO of the Port Aransas Chamber of Commerce.

With a variety of possibilities for how to spend your lazy days in the sun, the

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By Robert Starr

The International Journal of Modern Physics published a strange paper in 2008. In it, the authors proposed that the reason the Higgs Boson, sometimes called the “God Particle,” remained so elusive was that influences from the future had sabotaged its

If influences from the future are preventing the LHC from functioning correctly, then you will deal those hands, no matter how unlikely.

Now, several years down the line, with the Higgs Boson detected, the paper sounds even sillier than it did upon publication, but it does bring up an interesting question: Will scientists one day create a DeLorean, TARDIS or hot tub capable of taking its occupants back in time?

spots worth checking out when you’re looking to take some time off.

Leonabelle Turnbull Birding Center Birding aficionados come to the island from all over the world to see a variety of Coastal Bend nesting species including the roseate spoonbills, reddish egrets, least grebes, black-bellied whistling ducks and many others. Situated in the Central Flyway, Port Aransas is a base for hundreds of native and migrating species.

There are more than 1,500

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Time travel technology remains in the future SCIENCE SCENE discovery. Though there are simpler explanations for why a project as complicated as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) encountered problems, the paper proposed an elegant solution to test its bizarre claims: Take a deck of cards and shuffle them several times.

Before distributing the cards, propose that if a sufficiently unlikely event occurs, such as dealing four hands of all royal flushes, you will shut down the LHC.

island offers an environment that emphasizes preserving the area’s natural habitats and native species.

“Nature tourism is definitely a big draw for us,” said Sheri Henneberger, communications manager for the Port Aransas Chamber of Commerce. “We’re a fun family beach town, and we strive to protect the environment we enjoy as well.”

Port Aransas’ conservation efforts allows abundant opportunities to observe diverse wildlife, hike in state parks, or simply spend some time sunbathing on miles of pristine coastland. Here are a few

Though one can’t rule anything out, the answer is that they probably won’t. One would expect that, if they could, the world would be inundated with visitors from the future, though maybe they’re just very quiet or uninterested in the time we live in.

Additionally, laws of causality (i.e., events from the past can influence the future and never the other way around) suggest major paradoxes for those who choose to go back

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All of that applies, however, to traveling backward in time.

Traveling forward in time is paradox-free and definitely possible, albeit trivially so: Time clicks forward, whether we want it to or not — slowly during this last week of lectures and mercilessly fast during the few months of summer.

This is all perception,

however. No matter how much fun or boredom we fill our lives with, we won’t get to see much more than 80 or so years of what our planet has to offer.

Barring some major medical breakthrough, it’s unlikely many people reading this will live to see the year 2100.

That is, unless some of them gain access to a vehicle that travels at close to the speed of light.

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