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Abortion case to use UT research By Christina Breitbeil @christinabreit
Planned Parenthood will use research from the Texas Policy Evaluation Project, headed by UT professor Joseph Potter, to justify a request for a preliminary injunction against a set of new abortion restrictions passed by the Texas Legislature in July. Renee Paradis, a lawyer
representing Planned Parenthood, said her client is challenging two provisions of the bill: strengthened restrictions on medicationinduced abortions and new requirements for doctors who perform abortions to acquire admitting privileges from hospitals. Potter’s research — which used information provided by the plaintiff — culminated
in an expert report showing how the bill would affect Texas women. “Dr. Potter’s research has been extremely helpful,” Paradis said. “It has allowed [the plaintiff] to demonstrate the unconstitutionality of the bill in its infringement upon the rights of women in Texas.” Planned Parenthood’s official request for a preliminary
injunction against the new bill included several citations of Potter’s research with the project. Referencing the “Potter Declaration” — a term the plaintiff uses to cite Potter’s research — the injunction states, “Out of the approximately 68,900 women who are expected to seek an abortion annually in Texas, a full 22,286 will not be able to do so because of
the privileges law.” Danielle Wells, representative of Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas, said the state of care for Texas women is already in jeopardy because the legislature cut funding for family planning programs by twothirds in 2011. Wells said the decrease
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Parking fees help fund University Operations
By Brett Donohoe @BrettDonohoe1
A UT parking ticket plastered onto a windshield is not something most people on campus look forward to seeing upon returning to their car — they can cost as little as $35 and as much as $400. Fees from these tickets fund UT’s Parking and Transportation Services, the same group that dishes them out. Bobby Stone, Parking and Transportation Services director, said ticket prices around campus are decided by a transportation committee — made up of faculty, students and staff — and can fluctuate often. A portion of Parking and Transportation’s revenue is fueled by citations, according to presentation notes from the department’s transportation committee meeting in April. Tickets contribute 7 percent to the department’s revenue, according to the notes. Public and event parking and parking permits account for 92 percent of the revenue and brought in a daily average of nearly $2.5 million during the 2011-12 academic year. Alternative transportation services suvh as the department’s carpool program make up the remaining 1 percent. Parking and Transportation’s duties extend beyond what its name implies; the department also oversees the regulation of vending machines around campus. “The campus needed a group that was well-versed in handling budgets, contracts and other financial manners to oversee the university vending program and P&T volunteered,” Stone said. “P&T only receives [revenue from vending machines] to cover the cost for oversight with the remainder of the funding going back to the University to be disbursed to various University programs.” Stone said the department issues 35,000 to 40,000 tickets per year, but could not provide an average of daily citations. Stone said Parking and Transportation does not enforce a citation quota around campus. Stone said ticket prices changed many times on a caseby-case basis over the years. In accordance with fees incurred from the Americans with Disabilities Act, citations for illegally parking in a handicap-accessible parking spot have doubled in recent years from $100 to $200. Stone said repeat offenders risk
While many people may take the presence of a daily paper as a given, UT students 100 years ago were not so lucky. Back in 1914, a new paper hit the stands of UT titled The Daily Texan. The UT newspaper entity had existed since 1900, but the paper was only biweekly, publishing wide-sheet, fourpage prints on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Today, The Daily Texan fights to maintain this 100-year tradition of daily printing. UT followed the pattern of Kansas University in Lawrence when it transitioned the daily paper all those years ago. On March 1, 1913, the editorial board of the Texan published a how-to letter on the logistics of a daily paper, arguing that “Kansas University [was] only a little larger than Texas.” When Kansas University premiered its daily paper, nearly every faculty member became a subscriber, and the number of student readers increased dramatically. In a letter from Kansas, the costs of producing a daily paper were broken down, with advertising and subscriptions covering the total cost. The Texan received its first published comment on the plan to make a daily paper a month and a half after its announcement. In mid-April, a man wrote to the Texan in the “Firing Lines” section to
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Librarians sell plants for Hearts of Texas
Local makes it as photographer
By Niq Velez @knyqvelez
Library employees sold cacti, bromeliads and other plants outside the Perry-Castaneda Library on Wednesday as part of the Hearts of Texas Campaign, a recurring initiative every October to incite charitable donations from UT employees. UT Libraries spokesman Travis Willmann said the library faculty is directly involved in the campaign, taking the plants from their own gardens. “Most of the items sold at these events are made — or in the case of the plants, grown — by our 300 staff members,” Willman said.
By Hillary Hurst @hillary_hurst
The event raised $811 for the Sustainable Food Center, which seeks to increase Austinites’ access to local, healthy and affordable food. The center is about $300,000 away from having enough funds to build a $4.5-million facility in East Austin, according to the organization’s website. Milly Lopez, a staff member at the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement, said she is happy about the progress the Hearts of Texas campaign has made. “We are one and a half weeks in and we’re already at 25 percent of our $615,000 contribution goal,” Lopez
Greg Davis calls them “God winks”: Little connections in life that are too significant to be brushed off as mere coincidences. Davis quit his corporate job to chase these “God winks” on a year-long photography journey around the world and has gone from selling his prints out of a chicken coop to being a professional photographer for National Geographic. In 2004, after working in Austin for nine years in technology marketing at Dell, COMPACT Technologies and Hewlett-Packard, Davis reached a low point in his life.
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After selling all of his belongings, photographer Greg Davis traveled around the world for one year with a $400 point-and-shoot camera and no formal training. He is currently an active National Geographic creative photographer.
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