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One day after Texas surrendered a school-record 550 rushing yards in a 4021 loss to Brigham Young University, Texas relieved Manny Diaz of his defensive coordinator duties. UT confirmed the news on Sunday. “Our performance on defense last night was unacceptable, and we need to change that,” head coach Mack Brown said. Diaz, who will be reassigned to a role in the schools’ athletic department, will be replaced by former Texas defensive coordinator Greg Robinson. Robinson is a veteran coach of 36 years and called the defensive plays for the Longhorns’ 2004 Rose Bowl-winning team. “Greg will be here tonight and get with the staff and players to start preparing for Ole Miss,” Brown said. “He will be running our defense immediately. He knows this place, did a terrific job in leading our defense before and I’m excited to have him back on the field. We’re back at it and working hard to beat Ole Miss this weekend.” Diaz, in his third season at Texas, led the Longhorns to the worst defensive season in school history in 2012, allowing a school record
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5,244 yards. The team vowed change in 2013, but the Cougars compiled yards at will on Saturday evening, breaking numerous BYU records and setting dubious Longhorn marks. The 39-year-old former defensive coordinator guided the Big 12’s top-ranked defense in 2011 but has failed to find that level of success since. When players were asked about Diaz’s job after the game Saturday, his players did voice their support. “We all believe in Coach Diaz,” junior cornerback Quandre Diggs said. “He put us in the right spots to make plays. We don’t make plays, can’t blame everything on him.” Robinson last served as a defensive coordinator at Michigan from 2009
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Manny Diaz was replaced as Texas’ defensive coordinator Sunday after Taysom Hill and BYU ran for 550 yards on his defense, the most rushing yards ever allowed by Texas.
Eduardo Belalcazar, an international relations and global studies junior, is the latest victim to speak out against balloon attacks in West Campus. On Saturday around midnight, Belalcazar, who is Hispanic, was walking in front the 26 West apartment complex when a liquid-filled balloon was thrown from the building and burst a foot away from his group of friends. “It didn’t click at first,” Belalcazar said. “I was in shock. There were two guys in front of us who thought the balloon was thrown at them. They started throwing rocks at the balcony in retaliation. That’s when it clicked.” Belalcazar immediately reported the incident to UTPD and went to the department’s headquarters to deliver a sworn statement. Belalcazar said University police officers collected balloon fragments from the scene. “Maybe the intent wasn’t inherently racist,” Belalcazar said, noting that he cannot say whether bleach was used in the attack. “But that’s the way these [attacks] are going to be taken.” Belalcazar added that the group of friends he was walking with that night was comprised of minority students. “They didn’t want me to call the police,” Belalcazar
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Assistant psychology professor David Yeager is the lead researcher on a study that finds students, particularly African-American, improve their grades upon receiving assurance from teachers.
Students’ grades better with teacher support By Reanna Zuniga @reannasioux
A new psychology research study led by a UT professor finds students may perform better in school if teachers convey both their own high standards and personal confidence in the students’ ability to succeed. In particular, AfricanAmerican students significantly improved their grades upon receiving assurance from teachers that they can meet their high standards. In the first of three studies,
22 African-American and 22 white seventh grade students were instructed to write an essay about a personal hero. In the feedback the students received on those essays, half included teacher reassurance — sentiments such as “I believe you have the ability to do better” — while the other half only emphasized high standards. Among the two groups of students, those who had received assurance alongside emphasis of high standards were significantly more likely
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After the first full week of classes, the world’s first synchronous massive online course (SMOC) program still has fewer than 40 nonUT students enrolled in one of its two classes. Though SMOCs rely on classroom technology integration and are meant for large audiences, they are different than massive open online courses (MOOCs), as SMOCs are live-streamed and involve more individual participation. The program, launched this semester by the College of Liberal Arts, features an “Introduction to Psychology” course first developed and taught by psychology professors Samuel Gosling and James Pennebaker. The program also features an “American Goverment” class taught by government professors Eric McDaniel and Daron Shaw. While only 30 to 40 non-UT students are signed up for the class, there are more than 800 UT students enrolled. Each class session is filmed in a studio designed especially for the program in Mezes Hall, and 24 of the 800 UT students are invited to
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Psychology professors Samuel Gosling and James Pennebaker are the developers of SMOC, a live streaming program that allows students to actively participate in online courses.
attend each class in person and to participate as an audience. Gosling said the SMOC combines in-class learning with online education — using technologies such as online chat rooms, secure testing systems and high-speed live streaming. “The idea is to try and use technology to both retain what is good about in-class teaching, but at the same time, use technology to
scale it up,” Gosling said. Gosling and Pennebaker developed the SMOC in which students watch the course live by streaming it on their computers. During class, students are assessed and participate in group discussions through the course website. Pennebaker said he thinks the small turnout this semester is because the University does not know how to properly advertise this class.
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The SMOC emerged out of a series of changes Gosling and Pennebaker made to the “Introduction to Psychology” course they have co-taught over the past eight years. Gosling said they use data they collect from each semester to improve their class. “We didn’t sit down and say, ‘Let’s build a SMOC,’” Gosling said. “Each year,
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we’re improving things, and this coincided with the emergence of these new technologies that suddenly facilitated being able to do things one couldn’t do before.” In the spring 2013 semester, Gosling and Pennebaker ran a scaled-down version of the SMOC before the College of Liberal Arts broadened the format for the fall. The professors said they format the course as a mix between a talk show and an educational program. “We’ve learned a lot from watching Jon Stewart and these others, because it’s a completely different way of teaching,” Pennebaker said. The University also launched a massive open online course (MOOC) program with online education provider edX this semester. Unlike SMOCs, MOOCs do not require live participation from students. These classes are being offered to the
public for free, but cannot be taken for University credit. “There are a lot of different experiments underway and innovative approaches that are being explored across the campus,” said Harrison Keller, vice provost of higher education policy and research at UT. “The University is committed to supporting faculty innovation around teaching and learning.” Although the course shares some similarities with a MOOC, Gosling said the SMOC works differently. “Although our class looks like a MOOC, it’s only a superficial resemblance to a MOOC,” Gosling said. “The inside of it isn’t a MOOC at all.” The SMOC allows for more social interaction between students and instructors and also between the students themselves, Pennebaker said. Additionally, he said SMOCs are more financially sound options than MOOCs for the University. Since
Two types of online learning SMOCs Students participate in real time Offered to the public for $550 per course Students may earn UT credit in the course 30-40 non-UT students currently enrolled in SMOCs Offered exclusively by UT many MOOCs are being offered for free, Pennebaker said they present a financial issue. The SMOC courses are being offered for credit to the public for $550. “The big issue with MOOCs such as Coursera and edX is that they don’t have a really viable business model,” Pennebaker said. Pennebaker said they originally planned on having 10,000 non-University students and using money garnered from the course to fund graduate education. However, less than 40 non-University
MOOCs Students watch pre-filmed video lectures Offered to the public for free No UT credit is offered More than 15,000 students enrolled in MOOCs at UT Offered by dozens of universities globally,
Each year, we’re improving things, and this coincided with the emergence of these new technologies that suddenly facilitated being able to do things one couldn’t do before.
—Samuel Gosling, psychology professor
students signed up because of a lack of advertising. The professors said they would like to see the University continue to expand the teaching format but will remain focused on improving their own course.
“Now that so much is mediated through technology, the distinction between researchers and teachers is breaking down,” Gosling said. “As we teach, we gather data that informs us, [and] we improve our teaching.”
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said. “But if you stay quiet, then things will never change. UTPD told me a lot of these attacks go unreported … You can’t be afraid to speak up.” Meanwhile, the investigation into the similar assault of government senior Bryan Davis continues. Davis had a balloon thrown at him from the University Towers apartment complex on Aug. 22. Austin Police Department detective Paul Bigini, who is assigned to Davis’ case, said all evidence taken from the scene was collected
by UTPD. UTPD spokeswoman Cindy Posey said the department will pay $500 to have Davis’ clothing and balloon fragments analyzed by a forensics lab. On Friday, Bigini said he had spoken with UTPD throughout the week and that he plans to communicate further with the department when the results of the forensics tests are returned. “I can’t give UTPD enough credit for their work in this case,” Bigini said. The Black Student Alliance
will be hosting a second rally at 5 p.m. on Tuesday at the West Mall in response to the recent balloon attacks. According to the event’s Facebook page, rally organizers will voice their opposition to “ignorance and racism” on campus. “I want the people [who] did it to know that I reported them so they know I didn’t take it as a joke,” Belalcazar said. “UTPD told me more balloons had been thrown that night based on all the fragments they collected.
I was the first to call in. If someone had reported it before me, we probably wouldn’t have been attacked.”
“Middle school is a crucial developmental stage and it is when issues of trust start to take over,” Yeager said. “Good teachers already use this system of critique, but not enough teachers use it and it’s hard to make changes.” Sociology junior Jasmine Torain, historian for the Association of Black Psychologist Student Circle, said she agrees that trust is an issue, although she said she never personally distrusted her teachers. “My teachers were there reassuring me and also pushing me along a good track,” Torain said. “[But] I definitely do believe that the trust reassurance has always been there for white students and not for black students.”
Another experiment in the study involved low-income high school students and reflected similar results — an improvement in grades correlating with teachers’ expressions of confidence in their students. Wilson Amadi Jr., a biology senior and vice president of the African Students Association, said he was not surprised by the results of the study. “Teachers [who] set high standards but also reassure the students that they can meet them play a huge part of their school experience,” Amadi said. “Especially for those that come from singleparent households, who may not get that uplifting message that they can achieve higher.”
UTPD told me a lot of these attacks go unreported … You can’t be afraid to speak up.
—Eduardo Belalcazar, international relations and global studies junior
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Sebastian Bruce and Zachary Cook founded the entrepreneurial organization StartATX on UT’s campus in spring 2013.
Local group hosts Dell’s son By Anna Daugherty @daughertyanna
Zachary Dell, son of Michael Dell, will be joining with StartATX on Tuesday evening for a presentation about student entrepreneurship. StartATX is a campus organization founded in the spring as a networking and resources group for students in start-up businesses. It was created and is run by Sebastian Bruce, a computer science and business economics senior, with copresident Zachary Cook, a management information systems senior. Bruce said he was inspired to create StartATX when he learned about similar organizations at schools such as Harvard University and Penn State. He said there are other groups at UT designed for students beginning to consider small business, but there is nothing like StartATX, “We’re hoping to primarily target people who are [already] in start-ups,” Bruce said. Cook said he felt the
organization was important because student entrepreneurs face challenges specific to running a small business. “Starting a business when you’re a full-time student is such a unique experience,” Cook said. “It is a lot of responsibility and risk.” Bruce and Cook said students behind start-ups struggle with finding mentors, co-founders and investors. StartATX provides students with the support, advice and a pool of contacts entrepreneurs need. “There’s a start-up culture [in Austin] but it’s very young,” Bruce said. Bruce said StartATX plans to enrich this culture, and said he hopes to see success stories come from their organization. The copresidents are being mentored by McCombs’ Entrepreneur-in-Residence Brett Hurt and receive input from Michael Dell. Last summer Bruce met with Zachary Dell to discuss the development of Dell’s new business. Dell, a junior in high school, is already working on his second company. Dell’s latest
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Davis: Practice diversity, don’t just preach it By Bryan Davis Guest Columnist
Editor’s Note: UT Government senior Bryan Davis was targeted by a balloon outside of University Towers in West Campus on Aug. 22. He believes he was targeted because of the color of his skin and has sought to increase awareness of racial tensions at UT since the incident. Despite this publication’s statement that I was assaulted with a balloon filled with water instead of bleach, I would like to clarify that, as last week’s story later mentioned, there has been no public statement from APD regarding the possibility that what I was attacked with was a water balloon. This mistake was later corrected, but what has bothered me most is not the misinformation but some of the responses the case has gotten from others in the community. Although many students and faculty members have reached out with words of encouragement and support, I was shocked not by the fact that the story had gotten backlash, but by what it was getting backlash for. I knew after the story erroneously called the assault a “water balloon attack” that people would assume the entire situation was a misinterpretation of
Genuine diversity is about making sure all students acknowledge, understand and appreciate the various cultural backgrounds and histories of their peers.
my assault on my part. However, what I didn’t anticipate was the degree of indignation, rejection and denial the issue would receive from various students and commentators. There seems to be a consensus among some students who are aware of my case that my assault isn’t really indicative of any issue at all. The most common response from these individuals is, “I’m white, this has happened to me before, therefore it’s no big deal.” Although many of these people are individuals who have not taken the time to carefully and thoroughly understand the details of my case and whose uninformed comments usually wouldn’t merit any attention, they make for a great example as to why these assaults are indeed more significant than they believe them to be. These commenters’ ignorance of and insensitivity to the social experiences and histories of minorities locally and nationally mirror the same insensitivities that led to myself and other students of color being assaulted in West Campus recently. When you’ve been insulted and denigrated because of the color of your skin and are aware of the heightened racial tensions reflected in controversies such as the Trayvon Martin and Larry Jackson shootings, trust me, you don’t want to be anyone’s target — no matter the situation. It is not, however, the individuals targeting minorities who should be faulted for this kind of unawareness. The blame instead lies with the educational institutions that let such ignorance go unchecked. For so long, we’ve been told that cultural diversity is simply a matter of getting students of color into institutions of higher learning, but cultural diversity
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is not only about fostering a socially and ethnically balanced student body. Genuine diversity is about making sure all students acknowledge, understand and appreciate the various cultural backgrounds and histories of their peers. Consequently, it is not until we are forced to sit down and learn about the issues that concern all of our fellow students, not just those with similar cultural backgrounds, that we will begin not only to learn but also to practice cultural diversity. Why expect someone to know something they haven’t even been told about? Recently, I discovered that two friends of mine didn’t
know who Trayvon Martin, the black teenager who was shot by George Zimmerman last year, was, or how his case affected other black males such as myself. Unbelievably, they thought he was a comedian from a TV show. But we reach that level of unawareness where there is no forum for students to discuss and comprehend each other’s complex and different cultural backgrounds. Because of UT’s refusal to more effectively address the issue, students are led to become ignorant and/or simply indifferent to these kinds of community problems. I wouldn’t be surprised if another assault happens because of it.
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How to survive this season: stop thinking of it as football Last Saturday night’s whooping on the football field at the hands of the BYU Cougars had us hiding under our tables out of embarrassment. Given how painful it was to have our dreams of a comeback dashed in only the second game of the season, it’s understandable that you might want to avoid every game from here on out. But you shouldn’t let the fear of failure on the field keep you from cheering in the stands. To dull the potential pain that may result from attending a Texas Longhorns football game, try re-conceptualizing the situation. In other words, stop thinking about it as football, and start thinking about it as almost anything else. To help, we’ve prepared a few alternative ways of thinking about UT football: 1. A character-building exercise in which you watch something you love die a slow and embarrassing death. Like crunches, but for your moral core. 2. A new reality show titled “Who will
Mack fire?” where the twist is that it’s everyone but himself. Available exclusively on the Longhorn Network. 3. A universal study on how well burnt orange T-shirts absorb tears in which you are an involuntary participant. 4. The re-enactment of an episode of “Friday Night Lights” that went unaired after being deemed “too heartbreaking” for network television.
To dull the pain that may result from attending a Texas Longhorns football game, try reconceptualizing the situation. In other words, stop thinking about it as football.
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HORNS DOWN: GERRYMANDERING AIMED AT MINORITIES A federal panel of judges ruled Friday that the voting maps adopted by the Texas Legislature this summer will be used in next year’s primary elections, saying they needed more time to sort out a lawsuit over whether the maps limit minority representation. Even if we accept as true Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott’s claim that the maps were drawn on partisan lines rather than racial ones, we can’t ignore the effect such gerrymandering has on minority populations. With blacks and Hispanics tending to support the Democrats, there’s no such thing as a strictly partisan change.
HORNS UP: GRIDIRON ACCOUNTABILITY In keeping with the storied college football tradition of sacrificing coaching staff to appease the faithful, UT’s Manny Diaz, a defensive coordinator in the loosest sense of the word, was demoted yesterday. It’s hard to win football games when your defense adopts the Betty White tackling method and opens holes you could sail barges through, so we’re glad to see a change in direction. Consider these fans appeased. At least until next Saturday.
HORNS : BETTER FOOT CHASE RULES NEEDED On Sunday the Austin American-Statesman ran an in-depth investigative piece on the danger involved in local police foot chases. In recent years, nearly 20 percent of fleeing suspects have been injured, including those who ran after committing relatively minor crimes. Remarkably, no disciplinary action has ever been taken against an officer for violating the department’s foot pursuit policy, which gives wide latitude to officers in making these admittedly split-second decisions. However, as the recent case of the purportedly accidental shooting death of Larry Eugene Jackson has demonstrated, APD needs to tighten its policy to prevent more unnecessary deaths.
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BYU runs through Texas FOOTBALL
By Garrett Callahan
Texas quarterback David Ash takes one of many hits in the Longhorns’ loss to BYU on Saturday. Ash left the game with an apparent head injury, and his status for the Ole Miss game is up in the air.
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It was deja vu on Saturday evening. Texas appeared to be the 2012 team it didn’t want to be. After close to a two-hour weather delay, Brigham Young University and Texas took the field for a game that the Longhorns definitely want back. The 40-21 loss for Texas brought flashbacks of the 2012 team, the same defensive unit that was the worst in school history. “We didn’t get done what we needed to do on either side of the ball,” head coach Mack Brown said. “They’re smart. They understand that we didn’t get our job done as players or coaches.” Texas started slow both offensively and defensively. The Longhorn defense gave up 349 rushing yards to BYU in the first half alone, the most it has allowed in one half in the last 10 seasons. In total, the defense of now-relieved defensive coordinator Manny Diaz gave up 550 yards on the ground, which broke a dubious record for the most rushing yards allowed in a single game in program history. Texas’ offense was without star Daje Johnson, who left the game in the first quarter with
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Just one week after an inspiring win over New Mexico State, the Longhorns took a major step back in their 4021 loss to Brigham Young University. Here are four things that stood out in Saturday night’s game: Ineffective run defense The Texas defense relinquished 550 yards on the ground against BYU, setting a school record for most rushing yards allowed in a game. The Longhorns struggled with poor tackling and runs up the middle, and the Cougars capitalized with an average of 7.6 yards per carry. Sophomore quarterback Taysom Hill took advantage with 259 yards and three touchdowns on the ground, the second highest rushing total for a quarterback in BYU history.
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an ankle injury. It got worse for Texas when David Ash eventually left the game after being shaken up on a scramble in the fourth quarter. Co-offensive coordinator Major Applewhite’s offense struggled without Johnson, who is a key weapon for the Longhorns on the ground and in the air. Texas capitalized on only three drives in the game, which was a problem Brown hoped to
solve with the team’s new uptempo offense. “When you lose a guy that’s involved in packages, like Daje, obviously you’ve got to find somebody else to put in that place, and certain things immediately go out the window,” Applewhite said. In the second half, Texas showed no improvement. BYU quarterback Taysom Hill was able to lead his team
down the field for another 13 points while the Longhorns failed to produce points on offense. Diaz’s defense has faced criticism in the past for not being able to stop the run game, and the unit struggled once again Saturday night. Hill ran over Texas’ defense, recording 259 rushing yards — the second most yards in a single game in BYU history. “They got after us,” Diaz
Texas had trouble stopping the BYU zone read. This poses a significant problem moving forward, as many of the Longhorns’ upcoming opponents feature that system in their offensive playbooks.
Texas line with relative ease, and Ash rarely found time to locate his receivers. The junior quarterback failed to get comfortable in the pocket all night, and he took more hits than usual because of poor protection.
Former Texas players react to Texas’ loss and the Diaz news. Kenny Vaccaro @KennyVaccaro4
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said. “They outplayed us. The quarterback obviously was the difference in the game. We just could not execute getting stops. Very disappointing.” All Brown could do was explain the obvious and he did it quite simply. “I didn’t think our coaches and our players lived up to what we needed to win tonight, including me,” Brown said.
Offensive line woes The veteran Texas offensive line had no answer for the Cougars’ front seven, as David Ash and the running backs battled pressure in the backfield throughout the game. BYU racked up four sacks, five quarterback hits and eight tackles-for-loss while limiting the Longhorns’ run game to just 3.4 yards per carry. At the forefront of this was senior All-American linebacker Kyle Van Noy, who lit up the Longhorns with eight tackles, one sack and four quarterback hits in the game. The Cougars’ ferocious pass rush broke through the
Wide receivers impress Despite the ineffectiveness of the running game, the Longhorns’ starting wide receivers each provided strong performances. Senior wide receiver Mike Davis built on an impressive Week 1 with eight catches for 114 yards and two touchdowns against BYU. Much of his yardage came on a 57-yard bomb down the left sideline for his first score of the night. Junior wide receiver Jaxon Shipley recorded a big game as well, working the underneath game to haul in eight passes for 105 yards. In addition, sophomore wide receiver Kendall
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Sophomore quarterback Taysom Hill evades a Texas defender, leading BYU to a 40-21 victory. Hill tallied 259 yards on the ground, the most of any quarterback since Vince Young in 2005.
Sanders showed promise in his first game of the season with four catches for 36 yards. Offense starts slow After failing to score on their first five possessions last week, the Longhorn offense was stagnant to start the game against the Cougars.
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Amy Neal, Sarah Hattis and Hannah Allison celebrate a point against Stanford on Sunday. Texas had plenty to celebrate this weekend, knocking off No. 1 and 2 ranked teams.
In Game 5, the Longhorns, sparked by the deafening crowd, outplayed Penn State down the stretch pulling away for a 15-10 victory. “We got in a good rhythm and controlled the match in every game but Game 3,” Elliott said. “I also liked our mentality throughout the match.”
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battle, holding on for a 2725 victory, but the Longhorns came back firing, tying the match with a 2517 Game 2 victory. But the back-and-forth battle continued with the Nittany Lions winning Game 3 25-13 and the Longhorns staving off defeat with a 25-21 emotional Game 4.
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In back-to-back matches, the No. 6 Longhorns knocked off the top two teams in the country in front of sold-out home crowds. As part of the Nike Volleyball Big Four Classic, where four of the top schools in the country come together, No. 1 Penn State, No. 2 Stanford and No. 8 Florida each made the trip to Austin. The Longhorns started the weekend by knocking off top-ranked Penn State on Saturday in a fiveset thriller, in front of a record-setting 4,373 fans at Gregory Gym. “I want to thank the fans and the alumni for coming out,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “We’ve been striving to get sold-out crowds and that was a big part in us being able to pull this match out.” Last year the Longhorns lost in three sets to the Nittany Lions, and Elliott summed up the difference between the matches in simple terms: “We’re at home.” Penn State took the first game in a back-and-forth
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On Sunday, the Longhorns closed their weekend with a 3-1 victory over the Cardinal. “I think later in the season [Stanford and Penn State] will be way better than what they are now,” sophomore outside hitter Amy Neal said. “But so will we.”
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On its first three drives, the Texas offense managed just 23 yards and went three-and-out on each possession. The Longhorns woke up on their fourth drive with a touchdown strike from Ash to Davis, but they were forced to punt for a fourth time in their fifth possession of the first quarter.
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continues from page 1 to 2010, following a stint as Syracuse’s head coach from 2005 to 2008. The 61-year-old Robinson also has 14 years of NFL experience, including a stint as the Broncos’ defensive coordinator when they won a pair of Super Bowls. Robinson served as Texas’ co-defensive coordinator with Duane Akina for the team’s 2004 Rose Bowl victory over Michigan. Texas held its opponents to 320.1 yards (23rd in FBS) and 17.9 points per game (18th in the FBS) that season. “I need to get with the staff, work with them to get a plan in place and hit the ground running,” Robinson said. “I think very highly of the defensive coaches I’m working with — Duane [Akina], Oscar [Giles] and Bo [Davis] — so it’s critical for me to get with them and figure out what specifically we need to do moving forward.” Diaz is the first coordinator or assistant Brown has removed or fired in-season throughout his 16-year tenure at Texas. Robinson’s first job will be to prepare for Ole Miss’ explosive attack, which arrives in Austin on Saturday.
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The number of yards Taysom Hill ran (most for a quarterback in a game since Vince Young in 2005) after scrambling for just 42 the week before.
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Taysom Hill’s throwing percentage in a game the Longhorns still managed to lose, actually bringing up his completion percentage for the year.
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The number of yards allowed by the Longhorns, the most ever surrendered by Texas.
SPORTS BRIEFLY Ash sustains injury, status in question
Quarterback David Ash scrambled in the fourth quarter of Texas’ lost to BYU and came up hurt. After walking off the field, he was taken into the locker room with an apparent head injury, according to ESPN’s Max Olson. It is still unknown on the specific injury that Ash received but he has yet to be ruled out for this week’s game against Ole Miss. If Ash is unable to start, then senior Case McCoy will most likely take the starting reigns in his place. McCoy came in after Ash’s injury on Saturday and completed five of 10 passes for 62 yards. —Garrett Callahan
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Longhorns victorious after late save, sweep By Brittany Lamas @brittany_lamas
Texas soccer finally capitalized on outshooting its opponent this weekend, beating Samford 2-0 on Friday and Illinois State 2-1 on Sunday at Mike A. Myers Track and Soccer Stadium. “It’s definitely a good way to respond, especially from our weekend in Oregon that was not what we were looking for,” junior midfielder Sharis Lachappelle said after beating Illinois State. “We have better momentum going into home games, and we knew that we had to execute.” The Longhorns had 12 shots to Samford’s seven, which helped enable both sophomore forward Kelsey Shimmick and senior midfielder Gabby Zarnegar to land goals in the first half. Both scores were the two players’ firsts this season. Shimmick’s goal came in the 18th minute on a rebound after Samford’s keeper couldn’t hold on to freshman defender Isabelle Kerr’s corner. Zarnegar capitalized on a one-touch shot off a cross
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continues from page 5 So, while the wins are significant, finding a solid lineup might be the biggest success of the weekend. Earlier in the week, Elliott talked about working to find a lineup that gelled, and it appears he has found it. “We got a unique situation with two of the best outsides in the country, and we need ball control around them,” Elliott said. “We developed a system to give us more ball control, and today I thought our defense was exceptional.”
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from freshman midfielder Katie Gernsbacher. Illinois State provided more of a challenge for Texas. Despite a goal in the second minute of the match by Illinois State’s Rachel Tejada, the Longhorns responded with two first-half goals as they outshot the Redbirds 20-8. Lachappelle evened the score in the 12th minute with a header on an assist by Shimmick. In the 43rd minute, junior defender Brooke Gilbert got a header off a Kerr corner kick to give Texas a 2-1 halftime lead. The Redbirds had a chance to even the score late, after they were awarded a penalty kick in the 86th minute. Tejada took the shot, but sophomore goalkeeper Abby Smith guessed right, preserving the lead. “I think they did very well to come back with two goals in the same half,” head coach Angela Kelly said. “I think that’s something that perhaps we have not been able to do last year. As the head coach, I see development within the mentality. I see a perseverance and a fortitude.”
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Artists create dead animal prints By Jourden Sander
UT biology alumni Ben Labay and Adam Cohen, pictured with Haley Gillespie, the owner of Art. Science.Gallery. fuse art and science into their “Inked Animal” exhibit. The duo uses dead animals that would otherwise decay to create artistic prints consisting of clay, ink and acrylic paints.
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Dead animals may decorate a rustic fireplace mantle, but it isn’t common to find them displayed as works of fine art. Japanese artists created Gyotaku, a traditional art form that dates back from the mid1800s and involves putting ink on a dead fish, and then pressing it on rice paper to create an ink impression of the original specimen. “Inked Animal” is a collection of art that was inspired by Gyotaku and has evolved into an exhibit that displays two disciplines, art and science, working together. Adam Cohen, collections manager of the Ichthyology Collections at Texas Natural History Collections, works with partner Ben Labay, research associate and fisheries biologist at UT’s Texas Natural Science Center, to create lasting impressions of dead animals that would otherwise be lost to decay. “On one level, the prints are simply realistic documentations of the specimens,” Cohen said. “We see these prints as crossing a blurry line into art in that they provoke people to appreciate the unique and sometimes haunting beauty of the specimens. Many of our prints are of partially dissected animals and capture unusual positions or body parts.” Traditionally, Gyotaku was most commonly practiced with fish, but the prints in “Inked Animal” range from fish and birds to rodents and insects and many other specimens. The two scientists have found ways to print bones,
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feathers and fur, allowing an internal and external look at animals. “Many pieces have blood, guts, feces or fur that are a visible part of the art,” Cohen said. “At first we sought to print intact animals in a very pristine way, as in the tradition of Gyotaku. Now we are starting to realize that some of the damaged specimens — mummified, rotten or dismembered — make the most interesting prints and tell more interesting stories. Our tolerance for ‘gross’ is very high.” This tolerance for “gross” may be needed to extract the animals and create the art, but Cohen said
viewers find the final prints to be “cute.” Still, the up-close view in such a vulnerable, and occasionally violent, state can surprise viewers. “Sometimes people look very closely at a hair or blood stain and they realize that the animal was in fact right there touching paper,” Cohen said. “Many of the prints were created from animals that were disfigured, long dead and putrefied — not cute for sure.” An animal’s death being published as art may seem cavalier to the animal itself, but the prints serve as an exhibition that allows the life of the animal to be
GAME REVIEW| ‘TOTAL WAR: ROME II’
Total War sequel needs work By Stuart Railey @stuart_railey
Political assassinations, provincial strife and pivotal battles in “Total War: Rome II” bring back the familiar empire-building game play that drew critical acclaim to the series more than 10 years ago. But “Rome II” falls prey to its own ambition, with too many disjointed elements ruining an otherwise polished game. Mixing turn-based strategy with real-time battle tactics, “Rome II” requires players to master their chosen faction on a macro and micro scale. Whether it’s mustering a legion through a mountain pass in the dead of winter or besieging an enemy stronghold in Northern Africa, “Rome II’s” sense of scale sets it apart from rival games like “Civilization.” The campaign mode, which includes a rim of territory to be conquered around the Mediterranean Sea, is still the bread and butter of the “Total War” experience. After playing through a brief tutorial prologue, “Rome II” allows gamers the chance to choose their military faction and expand aggressively. This can mean garnering political backing as a Roman family or assembling the Celtic Gauls across Northern Europe. Regardless of which faction
players choose, controlling new provinces means conquering four cities at a time. Spacious terrain and urban combat then provide a decent assortment of skirmish scenarios. Despite its title, “Total War” also emphasizes the player’s role in maintaining order and peace across an empire. Attention spent solely on military-related activities will likely foment internal disarray and invite enemy invasion. Peasant revolts, food shortages and roving marauders add a separate layer of managerial complexity and historical accuracy to “Rome II,” so players need to pay close attention to public order and imperial infrastructure. From a technical standpoint, “Rome II” completely falls short of its idealized talking points. User interface, the spine of every real-time strategy game, happens to be the game’s biggest blunder. Overseeing an expansive political entity requires a set of simplified micromanagement tools, but developer Creative Assembly somehow managed to undo its previously intuitive design. Now players will have to endure disorienting camera angles, boring enemy turns, and inefficient overlay menus. Cinematics would be much
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Developer Creative Assembly brings an unprecedented level of detail to its new game, “Total War: Rome II.” Even individual character models are visually diverse and delicately rendered.
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more impressive if it weren’t for “Rome II’s” incredibly choppy graphics engine. Gamers not equipped with a topof-the-line PC should prepare to weep as they continually lower their graphics settings. But for those among us who are blessed with high-end gaming rigs, watching a battalion of elephants collide with enemy infantry never seems to get old. If players are looking for a stimulating battle, it’s more likely to occur in online play than against the game’s artificial intelligence (AI) software. “Rome II’s” built-in AI is still not quite up to snuff, since a small group of cavalry is enough to draw out and flank enemy forces. Online matchmaking servers will likely remain stocked with eager opponents for some time to come, but the excitement of one-on-one battles is shortlived since it doesn’t incorporate broader elements of the campaign mode. On day one of the game’s release, Creative Assembly sought to assuage grievances with a general software patch. If there’s any lesson to be learned here, it’s that players need to delay their purchase of “Total War: Rome II.” In six months’ time, the game will include the necessary patches to make it a more enjoyable game at a lower price point.
appreciated and studied. “I’d like for the public to look closely at our art and notice details in the animals that they might not have otherwise noticed,” Cohen said. “Some of these animals are shy or nocturnal and the prints can allow people to experience those animals that they might not have [an] opportunity to see alive.” Both Cohen and Labay have extensive backgrounds in science, each having a bachelor’s degree in biology from UT, but they also have roots in art. “I’ve been drawing and painting most of my life, but only as a hobby,” Labay said.
“‘Inked Animal’ has been great in that it has allowed me to simultaneously explore my scientific and artistic interests. This is pretty common, I think. There are many scientists that are great artists, and I think many artists would make great scientists.” Labay said most artists have a high capacity for detail and exploration with techniques, and being biologists, he and Cohen start from a place of curiosity and appreciation with regard to the animals. “Both our art and science benefit from constantly exploring and testing,” Labay said. “I think they each, in
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their own way, help to keep me creating and thinking about different ways to go about things. Art is always being related to creativity of course, but I’d say there is a need for just as much creativity in science, and that great scientists show extreme creativity in their exploration and discovery.”