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Student stabbed in nose with fork By Jordan Rudner @jrud
A female UT student was stabbed in the nose with a fork in the Engineering Science Building on Wednesday night, according to UTPD spokeswoman Cindy Posey. The victim’s name has not been released. Posey said UTPD received a call at 5:45 p.m. about an assault in progress, and UTPD and Austin Police Department officers
were both dispatched to the scene. According to Posey and witnesses at the scene, the assailant, Chenxi Deng — who is not a UT student — stabbed the victim, after which he was restrained by several UT students until police officers arrived. Posey said the victim, who was initially treated by an EMT on the scene, has been taken to St. David’s Medical Center for further treatment. Posey said Deng has been arrested for ag-
gravated assault, though this could not be confirmed by Roger Wade, public information officer for the Travis County Sheriff ’s office as of Wednesday night. Electrical engineering junior Priscilla Chang said she did not see the attack itself but was witness to the immediate aftermath. Chang said she reached the third-floor elevator and saw a bleeding girl sitting on the bench outside the elevator, surrounded by
other students. “She was crying, obviously,” Chang said. “There was a puddle of blood on the floor, kind of off to the side.” Chang said she saw Deng being restrained on the ground by a group of other students. “I saw the guy being pinned down by a few other guys, and he was going nuts,” Chang said. “He was yelling some crazy stuff, but I couldn’t really tell what it was — he seemed incoher-
ent. He was fighting the guys trying to hold him down.” Dylan Zika, an electrical engineering junior, said he was studying in the ENS building when the stabbing occurred. Zika said when he approached the elevator, he was denied access by the police. “They wouldn’t let anyone in the elevator on the third floor for 20 or 30 minutes,” Zika said. “I think they’d already cleaned up the blood by the time I got there.”
CAMPUS
Students recollect cancer experiences By Lizzie Jespersen @LizzieJespersen
Though many children have strong attachments to comfort objects, Kalie Kubes had a special relationship with her stuffed kangaroo: She kept her company during radiation treatment for childhood cancer, sometimes for entire days when she had no significant human interaction. Kubes, an applied learning and development senior, said she remembers the treatment well. “Whenever I went through radiation I would always have my kangaroo stuffed animal with me,” Kubes said. “Through radiation, they would have to put like a tape ‘X’ across my stomach where my kidney was, where the radiation would be done, and I was so scared … So I would have my kangaroo with me and
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Bucky Ribbeck was diagnosed with cancer in 2009 and finished treatment by the end of that same year. While a child diagnosed with cancer today has a 80-90 percent survival rate, many will deal with the cancer side effects for the rest of their life.
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THROWBACK
Coed curfew differences show gender disparities
By Sara Reinsch @sreinsch91
Editor’s note: This is the first in a weekly series in which The Daily Texan looks back at something it covered in its 113-year history. An early morning Big Bite feast after a night of barhopping until closing time is not an unfamiliar scenario to many UT students. But female students in the early 1960s were not so lucky. The Daily Texan ran an article that announced an extended curfew in UT’s women’s residence halls on Sept. 17, 1963. The University-enforced curfews applied only to UT’s female students, an example of the disparity in gender equality at the time. The curfew extension, granted by Margaret Peck, who served as the dean of women, changed the students’ Sunday through Thursday curfew from 11 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. and the Friday and Saturday curfew from 12:45 a.m. to 1 a.m. “Residence halls are being kept open later to make it possible for women to take advantage of the additional study time,” Peck said in the Sept. 17 article. The University imposed curfews on the majority of its female students in 1963. The then-called “coeds” were
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FOOTBALL
McCoy making his case for the starting quarterback position By Garrett Callahan Fans of Case McCoy have gotten their fair share of excitement this season. The senior quarterback has already appeared in three games, including one start, and there’s a good chance that more appearances are coming. Throughout his four-year career, the younger brother of former Texas star Colt McCoy has appeared in 25 games, which is well above the average for a typical backup quarterback. But McCoy hasn’t been a typical backup quarterback. He’s been a starter, a backup and even a third stringer at one point, and his experiences have varied through all those periods. Texas is also no stranger to this issue of quarterback switches. “We play behind all of our quarterbacks,” sophomore running back Johnathan Gray said. “When one is down, the other one comes in, we rally around whoever is in the game.” In his career, McCoy has
completed 178 passes, tallying 2,086 yards on 278 attempts. He has also recorded negative 22 yards of rushing on 46 attempts. McCoy saw little action in his freshman campaign with appearances against Rice and Florida Atlantic, attempting just one pass and one rush through those two games. In his sophomore season, the Graham native helped fill in after the end of the Garrett Gilbert era. He started in five games and appeared in five others, setting the school record that year for the most consecutive passes to start a career without an interception (124). While he only started one game in his junior season, he came into four others, and in just the first four weeks of this season, he has almost matched this number of appearances. In Texas’ loss to Brigham Young University this season, starter David Ash suffered a head injury that took him out of the rest of the game and the following week
against Ole Miss. Against Kansas State, Ash left the game at halftime because of those same injuries. McCoy has appeared in the place of Ash in all of those contests, winning just one. Statistically there isn’t a
huge difference between when McCoy starts and when he comes into games as a backup. When starting he has tallied 1,370 yards with a total QBR of 41.6. When he has come into the game to replace the starter he has
tallied 610 yards with a total QBR of 65.12. In his lone start this season against Ole Miss, McCoy led an inconsistent offense that was held to zero points in the last half. The senior has had good
luck when he gets on the field mid-game. In 2011 — after boos serenaded thenstarter Gilbert — McCoy came in and switched off plays with Ash to lead the
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Case McCoy has made 25 appearences in his Texas career, tallying 2,086 yards while completing 176 of his 278 attempts.
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