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POLICE
911 triggers coordinated response By Jordan Rudner @jrud
Emergency response vehicles navigate through traffic on Guadalupe Street with sirens blaring on a regular basis. There’s a chance they’re headed to an urgent scene, but more likely, the barrage of trucks is dealing with something simple — something most students will never hear about — because even in cases of
minor incidents, emergency response personnel tend to work together. When a student is injured on campus and a 911 call is placed, this call triggers a process involving the coordination of two police departments, Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Service and the Austin Fire Department. Even a minor student injury will catalyze a process dependent on thousands of
variables and complex matrices. The student will then likely meet firefighters, EMS workers and a UTPD officer within minutes. The first variable that affects the path of a 911 call is geographic — where the call was placed determines who receives it. On-campus landline 911 calls go straight to UTPD, but the majority of emergency requests, made on cell phones, are routed to the nearest city Public Safety
Access Point. Adam Johnson, acting division chief of Austin-Travis County EMS, said the routing is based on cell phone tower geography. “If you hit in one of the areas on campus where you’ll hit a cell phone tower not associated with UT, you’ll be routed to APD,” Johnson said. Calls about incidents on campus are transferred back to UTPD.
Once the call has been transferred to the appropriate agency, UTPD dispatchers will ask questions and conference in the Austin Fire Department and EMS, if necessary. To avoid confusion, only one dispatcher asks questions. After a round of initial questioning, AFD or EMS will take over as secondary dispatchers. “It’s confusing [for the
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FOOTBALL
RED RIVER REVELRY Longhorns silence critics, keep Big 12 hopes alive
By Chris Hummer Daily Texan Columnist @chris_hummer
DALLAS — Head coach Mack Brown fumbled a bit, but he eventually snagged the Golden Hat and lofted it proudly with a smile so bright it took years off a face withered over the past few seasons. Texas’ convincing 36-20 win over No. 12 Oklahoma is huge on its own. It’s the Longhorns’ first victory in four years against their rivals
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Chelsea Purgahn / Daily Texan Staff
The Longhorns celebrate with the Golden Hat, the trophy for the winner of the Red River Rivalry, for the first time since 2009. For the seniors, it was their last attempt to beat Oklahoma and despite being 13.5 point underdogs, they did.
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POLICE
APD: Drunk driving not the norm for students By Alberto Long @albertolong
The University’s student population maintains a reputation for partying and drinking heavily, but Austin police say in reality, collegeaged persons are less likely to drive drunk. According to Lt. Derek Galloway of the Austin Police Department, of the 12,831 individuals cited for a DWI in the past two years, only 925 were younger than 21 — a ratio of just more than 7 percent. “We don’t see a large number of college students arrested for DWIs,” Galloway said. “It could be that the majority of them don’t have cars, and most of them live close to where they’re going to be partying so they don’t travel very far. Also, a lot of them use public transportation.” Galloway said the legal drinking age factors into the low statistics, noting that most undergraduates can’t buy alcohol legally. He also said college kids tend to “get it” more than adults. “College kids know a DWI could ruin the rest of their lives,” Galloway said. “It’s very devastating for a young person to get a DWI. It’ll just ruin so many opportunities. I think people before didn’t understand the full extent of a DWI, but now the effort that is being put forth is having some impact and younger people are understanding that better.” Sarah Moore, a bartender
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CITY
UNIVERSITY
Heavy rains prompt ACL cancellation
UT to reduce 500 jobs via attrition, retirement
By Amanda Voeller @amandaevoeller
Organizers cancelled the final day of the Austin City Limits Music Festival on Sunday because of heavy rain and flash flooding at Zilker Park. “Our first priority is always the safety of our fans, staff and artists,” Shelby Meade, C3 Presents communications director, said in a statement. “We regret having to cancel the show today, but safety always comes first.” Smallpools guitarist Michael Kamerman, whose band was scheduled to play Sunday, said the band members realize there is nothing they can do about the festival’s cancellation. “We are definitely upset about the circumstances that led to ACL being cancelled for the day, but when Mother Nature calls there isn’t much to argue, unfortunately,” Kamerman said. “We flew in from New York, and our crew drove out from
By Madlin Mekelburg @madlinbmek
Ethan Oblak / Daily Texan Staff
A passerby talks to an event staffer at the ACL main gate on Sunday afternoon. The final day of the music festival was cancelled because of flash flooding.
Los Angeles just to be here, so we feel the pain of all who came to town this weekend for a concert.” The Mowgli’s, another band that was scheduled to play Sunday, played two alternative shows, including a last-minute acoustic set
for charity at a downtown homeless shelter. “We’re gonna play at/ near a shelter [downtown],” the band said in a tweet sent from its official account. “Admission is anything a homeless person might need.”
Melissa Meyer, radiotelevision-film sophomore, said she felt the bands who scheduled last-minute performances helped keep music fans’ spirits high.
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A draft of the “UT Shared Services Plan,” designed to reduce costs at the University, outlines the elimination of 500 jobs and a centralization of certain university services, according to a draft of the plan obtained and distributed by the Texas State Employees Union. The plan is set to go into effect as early as spring 2014 and would take four to five years to execute. The goal, as outlined in the report, is to create this elimination mainly through attrition and retirement. University spokesman Gary Susswein confirmed the “UT Shared Services Plan” calls for the elimination of 500 jobs and said UT could not promise that layoffs would not take place to meet this quota. The plan is a part of a larger report titled “Smarter Systems for a Greater UT,” which was put together by a group of prominent business leaders
The plan is set to go into effect as early as spring 2014 and would take four to five years to execute.
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Plans aired for new engineering building. PAGE 2
Gender gaps in higher ed lead to inequality. PAGE 4
Seniors claim first Red River Rivalry Golden Crown. PAGE 6
Will ‘Gravity’ sweep the awards season? PAGE 8
Check out our slideshows of ACL and OU Weekend taken by our staff.
Undocumented students focus of symposium. PAGE 5
What Miley Cyrus’ behavior says about millenials. PAGE 4
Volleyball atop Big 12 after win in Lawrence. PAGE 6
All the sights from two weekends of ACL. PAGE 10
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— many of them UT alumni — and released in January. The draft of the plan states these job losses will occur in human resources, finance, procurement and information technology, as the University seeks to centralize the services offered. Currently, an estimated 4,500 people are employed in these fields. It states that by centralizing these services, there is a potential for improvements in the services’ organization and workforce impact because of the creation of new career path options and a redefined focus on service and
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