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Campus museum to lose funding

By Anthony Green @anthonygrreen

The Texas Memorial Museum will lose nearly $400,000 in University funds and experience a staff reduction from 11 employees to three as a result of budget cuts, which will be implemented on Sept. 1 of next year.

The on-campus museum, which will celebrate its 75th anniversary next year, currently operates on an annual budget of $600,000. Without University funding, that budget will shrink by more than

two-thirds.

The Museum will continue to receive $108,000 in state funding and $50,000 from gift shop sales, and raises roughly $50,000 in donations annually, though museum administrators hope that number will increase.

The three remaining positions will include a security guard, gift shop operator and one other employee.

“I’m still not entirely sure what the best skill-set will be for the remaining staff member or members to have,” said Edward Theriot, integrative

biology professor and museum director. “The security guard’s job will be security, the gift shop operator’s job is going to be the gift shop and it will fall upon that third person to take care of everything else that the museum does. That’s the hardest piece the puzzle — to figure out what’s going to be the best solution there.”

The Texas Memorial Museum is a part of the Texas Natural Science Center, an organized research

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District judge strikes down abortion bill provisions

By Christina Breitbeil @christinabreit

Jonathan Garza / Daily Texan Staff

The Texas Memorial Museum is set to lose nearly $400,000 in University funds. Because of the lack of funds, the museum plans to layoff a total of nine employees by next September.

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Charlie Bunts plays with mini toy action figures at Toy Joy on Monday afternoon.

A U.S. district judge determined parts of the state’s most recent abortion restriction bill unconstitutional Monday.

U.S. District Judge Lee Yeakel partially granted a preliminary injunction filed

by Planned Parenthood against Texas House Bill No. 2. The bill, which calls for strengthened regulations on abortion, is set to go into effect Tuesday, except for the requirement struck down

by Yeakel’s decision, which states doctors performing abortions are required to seek admitting privileges from nearby hospitals.

The bill has been the subject of significant controversy since before its passage in July, when it prompted a 13-hour filibuster by then-state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, who was attempting to block its passage. The bill also resulted in protests and counterprotests at the Capitol.

Yeakel’s opinion stated the bill’s admitting-privileges requirement is a hindrance to women seeking abortions because it “impose[s] an undue burden on patients.” Additionally, Yeakel concluded the bill’s restrictions on medication-induced abortion do not place such a burden on patients unless a doctor deems it necessary for the life or health of the mother. The bill did recognize the higher dosage, off-label use of abortion drugs is completely safe.

UT sociology professor Joseph Potter, who conducted research used by Planned Parenthood in its preliminary conjunction, said he was glad the admitting privileges requirement of the bill was struck down. In his research,

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Churchill’s descendant lectures on leadership

Transfer students struggle with registration

By Nicole Cobler @nicolecobler

Sixty eight years after the close of World War II, Winston Churchill’s granddaughter said she believes his life and leadership skills are still valuable.

Celia Sandys, his granddaughter, spoke in Bass Lecture Hall on Monday to tell stories of Churchill as a private and public figure.

Churchill, who was prime minister of Great Britain from 1940-45 and an influential world leader during World War II, is well-known for his famous speech, “The Sinews of Peace,” better known as the Iron Curtain Speech, given in Missouri in 1946.

In the speech, Churchill

acknowledged the divide between capitalist and communist countries: “From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the continent.”

Sandys said her grandfather’s influence demonstrates the power speeches have in determining public morale.

“It was during the second World War that my grandfather’s words really came to their own,” Sandys said.

“Their impact was more powerful than any weapons … I believe his principles of leadership are as relevant today as they were in 1940 and are an inspiration to anyone in any field who aspires to lead.”

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By Julia Brouillette

Journalism junior Jessica Brown is among the thousands of students forced to register last because of their status as transfer students.

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Once admitted to UT, transfer students are absorbed into the University’s vast student body. But unlike other student groups, their graduation rates go unrecorded.

Registration for transfer students typically occurs weeks after continuing students pick their classes for the semester, leaving fewer options for those students who register later.

Of the roughly 11,000 students admitted to UT for the fall of 2013, nearly 3,000 of them transferred to the University from another post-secondary institution, according to the UT Office of Information Management and Analysis.

“The first semester can be

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challenging given that new transfer students often register after continuing students and may be bringing in lots of transfer credit,” said David Spight, assistant dean for advising at the School of Undergraduate Studies.

UT’s four-year graduation rate is unaffected by

transfer students. Because the University only measures incoming freshmen, it has no measurement for the time it takes transfer students to graduate.

“Most colleges and universities do not track time to graduation for transfer students,” Spight said.

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City council approves funding for energy companies.

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Decision on HB2 offers (small) pro-abortion victory.

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Cedric Reed making noise up front for Longhorns.

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Journalist talks about Kennedy assassination.

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Students conduct preventative cancer research.

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Sexual harassment in unpaid internships.

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Every transfer student is required to complete at least 60 hours at UT to receive any degree, which sometimes results in transfer students taking a number of electives instead of courses that meet a specific degree

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unit within the College of Natural Sciences. The center was established to promote research and educational activities surrounding biodiversity.

Lee Clippard, College of Natural Sciences spokesman, said the decision to cut the Museum’s funding comes from the College of Natural Sciences dean’s office.

“The [museum] has long been an important fixture on the UT campus and is a wonderful resource for our community and visitors to campus,” Clippard said.

“Unfortunately, the budget

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continues from page 1 Potter concluded the previous requirement would adversely affect roughly 22,000 women in the state who would no longer be able to get the abortions they sought.

“I am of course pleased that the admitting privileges requirement was struck down, as it would have led

situation at the University and in the College of Natural Sciences is such that we must make difficult decisions.”

Natural Sciences Dean Linda Hicke was not available for comment.

Theriot, who will also lose his job at the museum, has been tasked with finding alternative sources of revenue and deciding the best strategy for a museum with dramatically reduced staff.

“I don’t doubt that the decision was made with some anguish and difficulty,” Theriot said. “I’m not complaining — my job is to try to find a solution and for the last two weeks that’s what I’ve been out

there trying to do. I’ve met with a dozen stakeholders within and outside the University. In some ways we’ve been anticipating this [but] I do wish it was coming two or three more years down the road where we’d be in a much better position with the things we’re trying to do.”

Theriot said a museum program that employs students may not survive the budget cut.

Holly Hansel, a studio art senior and work-study student for the museum, said eliminating the student docent program would be taking away a rare opportunity.

“As docents, we lead tours

and do a lot of intern-type help and it would be a shame to see the opportunity to be an actual tour leader to be taken away,” Hansel said.

Theriot said the museum, which receives more than 90,000 visitors every year, had been working towards a more stable income involving more outside funding over the past several years.

Hansel, who assisted at the museum’s annual Halloween festival last weekend, said the event was bittersweet. The event was one of several the museum hosts throughout the year to educate and connect with the community.

“[There] was a great turnout, we had over 2,000 kids there,” Hansel said. “I’m glad we got to do that but some of the workers were a bit mistyeyed because this may be their last Halloween even at the museum.”

John Maisano, museum exhibits designer for nearly 14 years, said he is unsure about what the future holds.

“I would love to continue [working] in the museum world of course, but museum jobs are just not easy to come by,” Maisano said. “We’re all just in a really scary place, but I don’t feel like I’m finished here.

There’s so much I wanted to do.”

to the immediate loss of services in a great many places around the state,” Potter said.

Lauren Bean, spokeswoman for the Texas Attorney General’s Office, said Texas has already appealed the court’s ruling in the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

“The court upheld part of the law and enjoined part of the law,” Bean said. “As everyone — including the trial

court judge — has acknowledged, this is a matter that will ultimately be resolved by the appellate courts or the U.S. Supreme Court.”

Savanna Faulkner, president of Texas Students for Life, an anti-abortion organization at UT, said that she wasn’t expecting the bill’s restrictions to be stricken down by the court.

“I’m really shocked that

parts of the bill were deemed unconstitutional,” Faulkner said. “I know that we will be able to appeal it in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.

The bill made higher standards for women and their doctors, so it would be helpful to women’s health.”

The court also ruled that the plaintiffs for the case — Planned Parenthood and other abortion providers — will have

their costs of court recovered.

Renee Paradis, a lawyer representing several plaintiffs in the case, said she was pleased with the results of the case.

“I think it’s a good day for women in Texas,” Paradis said. “It’s really important that the admitting privileges provision was dropped because it ensures meaningful access to abortion services for Texas women.”

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she feels her extended college career can be traced back to her substandard transfer orientation experience.

“You’re treated differently as a transfer student,” Brown said. “I guess they assume that you know [which classes to take] because you’ve been to a college before. If I had known what to do, I might have been done much sooner.”

Niki Pham, a prospective transfer student from UTArlington hoping to major in nursing, said that she is already expecting a delayed graduation date because of

later registration times.

“According to the nursing degree plan, I’ll already be behind in prerequisites when I get to UT,” she said. “And since I can’t register with other sophomores, I’m not sure if I’ll be able to catch up.”

But the setbacks are worth it, Pham said.

“It would be nice if they allowed transfers to register with continuing sophomores … but I’ll take it because I want to be [at UT] more than anything,” Pham said.

Shelby Stanfield, vice provost and registrar, said the registration system is set up

to manage the system load.

“When you have 52,000 students, they can’t all register at once,” he said.

The registration process works well for other transfer students, such as biology sophomore Francie Herriage-Wilson.

“I think — given our huge student population — the registration system works as well as it can,” HerriageWilson said. “I wasn’t able to get one class I need for my degree because it is in really high demand and fills up so quickly, but it won’t affect when I graduate.”

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Journalism junior Jessica Brown said she has been forced to take numerous unnecessary electives during her time at UT. “I have to take so many classes that I don’t need, just to get the hours,” Brown said.

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Brown enrolled at Austin Community College in 2010 and is expecting to graduate from UT in 2015. Brown said

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continues from page 1 Beyond discussing his accomplishments as a political figure, Sandys also talked about Churchill as a private man and relayed her experience with him as her grandfather. She said she thought Churchill enjoyed being around his grandchildren because they did not see him as a political leader.

Psychology freshman Cesar Prieto attended Sandys’ lecture because he wanted to learn more about Churchill.

“The biggest thing for me about this lecture was seeing how Churchill was not only a great leader but also the type of person we should all aspire to be,” Prieto said.

Prieto said he was interested in reading Churchill’s books after attending the lecture.

“I think there’s the kind of education you get from books and the kind of education you get from real life,” Prieto said. “If you

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Cecilia Sandys, granddaughter of Winston Churchill, speaks about the life of her grandfather and his leadership skills at the LBJ School on Monday afternoon.

mix both of those you get a sense of what the real world is like.”

Among students and professors was the youngest audience member and “Churchill-buff,” fourthgrader Coley Cowden and

his mother Heidi Cowden.

Nine-year-old Coley Cowden chose to report on Churchill for his biography report at Regents School of Austin last year and has read several of Churchill’s books.

“He has a really good style of writing that I enjoy,” Coley Cowden said.

“He finds a very good balance of not making it action-packed but at the same time is interesting.”

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By Amanda Voeller @amandaevoeller

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Motivated by her father’s battle with cancer, studio art junior Emmy Laursen is participating in Texas 4000 to raise money for cancer research. Texas 4000 funded graduate student Avinash Gadok’s research project that looks to inhibit tumor growth.

Students expand cancer research

By Leslie Zhang @ylesliezhang

A UT graduate student is exploring a method to inhibit tumor growth by reestablishing cell communication between healthy and cancerous cells.

Healthy cells communicate with each other and regulate neighboring cells’ growth.

To grow rapidly, a cancer cell must sever its connection with other cells. Gap junctions, channels in connecting cells’ membranes, facilitate communication between cells. Avinash Gadok, biomedical engineering graduate student, is examining these junctions in her work.

“Tumorous cells stop making junction proteins,” Jeanne Stachowiak, the faculty sponsor of Gadok’s research project, said. “We’re working to develop a prosthetic material that can go in and reopen junctions between neighboring cells.”

Gadok is 1.5 years into her research project, which involves creating vesicles — membrane-coded particles that contain gap junction proteins — to reopen communications between

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awareness and funding for cancer research. Studio art junior Emmy Laursen, a participant in Texas 4000, became involved with the organization because of her personal ties to the cause.

“My dad was diagnosed when I was 16, and I’ll never forget the day he told me,” Laursen said. “He had stage four cancer for 12 years before he was diagnosed.”

Laursen said she is excited to see the money she and her teammates raise leading to progress in cancer research.

“To see a tangible result of what we’re fighting so hard to do [has such a large impact] not only to me and my teammates, but to everyone that supports us,“ Laursen said. “That’s what makes everything we do worth it.“

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owned utility company in the future to save energy or to use it more efficiently,” Jacobson said.

Webber said the incubator helps the University achieve success in its commercialization efforts.

“UT has major priorities for teaching and research, but it also has a priority for commercialization, and we’re part of helping UT fulfill its mission,” Webber said.

“We also help those students who become entrepreneurs find pathways in life that are fulfilling and important and successful, so we like being part of that.”

The incubator usually works with companies, which include both UT students as well as alumni and other residents of Austin, for a time period between nine and 24 months, Webber said.

“It’s exciting to see companies graduate from the incubator and raise millions of dollars in funding that they use to hire people, ramp up and sell products around the world,” Webber said. “We like being part of the economic development story in Austin.

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“We’ve made our materials and now we’re testing its interactions with cells, and we’ve found it’s capable of delivering molecules to cytoplasms of cells,” Gadok said.

Stachowiak said currently, doctors are taking a reactionary approach to cancer treatment, removing tumors once they are found.

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“What we’re working on is an alternative way to treat tumors before they become dangerous,” Stachowiak said. “We’re taking a biochemical approach, not a surgical one.”

Gadok’s research project began with a $25,000 grant from Texas 4000, an organization that bikes approximately 4,500 miles to Alaska to raise

Clean energy innovation in Austin will continue with $530,000 in approved funds

by Austin City Council for research at the University’s Clean Energy Incubator, an organization which helps new clean energy companies expand.

The agreement was originally scheduled to come up for a renewal vote on Oct. 1, but it was not on the city council docket until Thursday, Mitchell Jacobson, co-director of Austin Technology Incubator, said.

The funding is disbursed sporadically throughout the year, so there was not a delay in receiving funds, Jacobson said.

The funds, which are split into $265,000 per year for two years, will enable the innovation incubator to continue partnering with early-stage clean energy companies to help them raise money and find employees, Jacobson said.

The city is not the organization’s only source of funding. According to Michael Webber, Clean Energy Incubator co-director and associate mechanical engineering professor, the State Energy Conservation Office and the fees paid by the companies who utilize the incubator also help the Clean Energy Incubator run.

The $530,000 is divided into $100,000 for infrastructure and staff salaries, $80,000 funds the South

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manager at Austin Energy. “[The incubator has] a mission to help UT companies and entrepreneurs, but it’s not just for UT,” Webber said. “It’s also for companies in Austin and entrepreneurs in Austin. We help recruit companies to Austin, and that’s why Austin Energy and the city of Austin supports us.”

Austin Energy has been supporting the incubator since 2006. Webber said the council’s repeated investments in the organization demonstrate the council’s focus on clean energy projects.

“The city’s not overflowing with money, so if they invest money this way, that’s a sign they [support this] investment for the city of Austin,” Webber said.

Morgan said the goal of the incubator is not conducting research but rather promoting the growth of new energy companies.

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HB2 decision offers small pro-abortion victory As of Tuesday, abortions performed after 20 weeks are illegal in the state of Texas. That change comes by way of House Bill 2, the same piece of omnibus abortion legislation that set the Texas Capitol ablaze in a flame of orange and blue-clad protesters this past July. This development was set to be a clear win for antiabortion advocates, but a U.S. District Court decision has cast a shadow over that victory.

The decision, made less than 24 hours before portions of HB 2 were set to go into effect, blocked one provision of the legislation and partially blocked another in response to a lawsuit brought by a group of plaintiffs that included Planned Parenthood, the reproductive health organization.

The decision by District Judge Lee Yeakel, though hailed by many pro-abortion rights advocates as a victory, will not stop the unchallenged portions of HB 2 from going into effect.

The state of Texas has already filed an appeal with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which, as the Texas Tribune’s Becca Aaronson reported Monday, “has recently up-

held numerous laws that restrict abortion.”

Still, despite the decision’s potential impermanence should it be overturned, the ruling still offered a refreshing outside acknowledgement of the actual purpose of the law: to restrict reproductive freedom.

Moreover, the decision made Monday in no way impacts the two most controversial provisions of HB 2: the ban on abortions after 20 weeks — which, as previously mentioned, is effective as of Tuesday — and the requirement that abortion providers upgrade their facilities to meet the standards of ambulatory surgical centers by September 2014. The latter is expected to force abortion centers across the state to close should they be unable to fund upgrades to their facilities. Neither of these provisions was challenged in court by the plaintiffs.

Of those provisions that were challenged, however, only one, the requirement that doctors have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals, was struck down completely. The other, which makes it illegal for doctors to prescribe that women take abortion-inducing drugs

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outside their doctor’s office — a practice which is against FDA protocol but which allows women to go through the painful side effects of the medication in the privacy of their own home — was declared constitutional only in the case that the mother’s life or health is in danger.

In other words, if this ruling is upheld, the number of doctors that qualify to perform abortions will not be reduced by HB 2 and doctors may still prescribe abortion-inducing medicines for at-home use if the mother’s life or health is in danger.

So yes, the victory for pro-abortion rights advocates is partial and potentially temporary, should a higher court side with the state’s appeal. But the decision offers a confirmation of what pro-abortion rights advocates suspected all along: Despite the claims of the bill’s supporters that HB 2 was an attempt at improving women’s health, the admitting privileges provision failed the legal “purpose” test. This means that the underlying purpose of the law, in Yeakel’s opinion, was not to improve wom-

en’s health, but “to hinder autonomous reproductive choice.”

And though Yeakel didn’t overturn the provision relating to abortion-inducing medicine, he did so on the basis that the state had the right to prefer one medical procedure or protocol over another, not on the basis that the state was protecting women by doing so. In fact, the ruling explicitly stated that the FDA protocol required by HB 2 “is assuredly more imposing and unpleasant for the woman.”

The language of the district court’s ruling validates the frustration of those who spent the summer protesting against legislators who claimed that HB2 was “for the good of women.” HB 2 isn’t that great for women, after all, but that doesn’t necessarily make it unconstitutional.

“No ruling of this court will sway the opinion regarding abortion held by anyone,” Yeakel wrote in his opinion. Sure enough, with the ruling out, opinions have yet to change and both sides will continue waging wars over abortion rights.

GALLERY

By way of omission, the NSA on Sunday all but confirmed allegations that it had spied on the German Prime minister Angela Merkel’s cell phone. In response to a report in a German newspaper claiming that President Obama had been briefed on the surveillance, first alleged by another German source who claimed to be working from Snowden-provided documents, the NSA officially denied allegations of the President’s involvement but conspicuously left out any denial or clarification of the program itself. The White House, in response, seemed a tad confused, stating “it’s not that the NSA or the intelligence community were going rogue or operating out of bounds,” while simultaneously alleging that the President was working “to ensure that the intelligence community is getting the appropriate guidance from policy makers.” Well, which is it?

COLUMN

Internships aren’t a solution

By Lauren Franklin Daily Texan Columnist @franklin_lauren

College students are no strangers to internships. In our quest to have productive summers, meaningful college experiences and dazzling resumes, many of us have found ourselves interning in a company or organization that we feel suits our interests and our career goals. Some of these internships are paid, but many are not.

Recently, the question of rights for unpaid interns has made headlines. Starting with the “Black Swan” lawsuit in June, in which two unpaid production interns who worked on the film filed a lawsuit for compensation and won, unpaid interns have started filing lawsuits against their former employers. The main question in these cases was the legality of using unpaid interns for jobs that paid employees would normally do.

However, in the case of Phoenix Satellite Television intern Lihuan Wang, who was sexually harassed by her boss, the question of fairness takes on a new form. Because Wang was not a paid employee, she was not protected from sexual harassment under law. Although Phoenix investigated the matter and fired her harasser, her harasser was not held legally responsible for his actions. According to an article on the matter by USA Today, Oregon was the only state as of June to protect unpaid interns from sexual harassment by law.

The sexual harassment of unpaid interns is not a new phenomenon. In 1994, nursing intern Bridget O’Connor was also similarly harassed and brought her case to court. Her case was thrown out, too, on the grounds that she was unpaid, did not receive employee benefits and was therefore not an employee. In 2007, a claim by an intern working in a chiropractor’s office was also dismissed. The list goes on.

In these cases, interns receive no protection in their work environment, even though they

[Because] internships are expected of young workers, the fact that interns are unprotected from sexual harassment means that most young workers are unprotected from sexual harassment.

still view their harassers as employers.

Clearly, this news is shocking and frightening for those persons whose only pathway to their chosen field is through unpaid internships. Internships started out as a type of apprenticeship in which people were trained for a particular type of job. They were not the norm, but rather used for specialized sectors of an industry. Now, however, internships often take the place of entry-level positions — making getting a job in certain businesses difficult, if not impossible, without internship experience.

Another problem with unpaid internships?

If they really do act as a stepping stone between college and a full-time job, those who need to support themselves may be unable to participate in this “essential” experience.

What does all this mean for college students? I am graduating from UT in less than two months, so I am venturing into the job market. However, with my liberal arts degree, I often feel unprepared for a job in the “real world.” I ask myself at least once a week, “What can you do professionally?” Whether this feeling of unpreparedness is founded or not, it is a feeling that many liberal arts students have.

These sentiments about job-readiness only serve to further the growing number of unpaid internships that may have serious consequences for both those who intern and those who cannot. If we are convinced that our education is not enough to deserve a paying job, we will not get paying jobs. Instead, we will accept unpaid positions, because we feel that is what we deserve.

Yet to be an unpaid intern is to be vulnerable to abuses. In an age when internships are expected of young workers, the fact that interns are unprotected from sexual harassment means that most young workers are unprotected from sexual harassment. In addition, these young interns occupy a sort of professional limbo. They do not have job stability and may see their internship as their only path to success. Therefore, interns may be unequipped to deal with and speak out about their harassment, feeling that they will lose their chance to “make it” in their profession if they do.

Despite the lawsuits and the increasing awareness about the possible injustices of unpaid internships, there will continue to be unpaid interns who suffer injustices in the name of success, as well as those who are barred from success because they cannot afford to work for free. Until changes are enacted, young people will continue to face huge, if not insurmountable, hurdles in the form of unpaid internships.

Franklin is a Plan II, linguistics and Middle Eastern languages and cultures senior from Sugar Land.

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Superheroes as entrepreneurs

By Nick Spiller

Daily Texan Columnist @Nick_Spiller

A new school is in session in San Mateo, Calif. Draper University of Heroes is an unconventional boarding school for young entrepreneurs, and the goal is simple: Take creative innovators and turn them into superheroes. Each student accepted into the eight-week program will create a company, which they will then pitch to Silicon Valley venture capitalists.

Draper University administers an innovative, educational curriculum meant to bring out the “superpowers” inside each student. The future superheroes are ushered through an intense experience of surprises and entrepreneurial activities. They speak publicly nearly every day and benefit from world-class mentors and coaches. UT’s very own Professor of Innovation, Bob Metcalfe, visited Draper University to speak and work with students in mid-October.

But not everybody is convinced the startup university will produce the super heroes it claims it will. Cal Newport, author of “How to Win at College” and other studentadvice books, said in a blog post on his website that Draper is focusing too much on soft skills like networking and idea generation and too little on the technical mastery required for innovation. Students targeted for Draper have big dreams, but they haven’t yet achieved the level of familiarity with their product that a Ph.D. or graduate student developing that product would have.

As a global research university, UT has one of the most robust arrays of program options for potential entrepreneurs. But we need to more consciously connect these academic programs to commercialization and entrepreneurial education initiatives, and for that, we could take a lesson from Draper

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University’s playbook. The key is creating an innovative ecosystem where engineers, creative and business-minded students alike can collaborate to bring ideas to life.

Considering the scope of an institution like UT, we have all the ingredients to build such an environment. UT’s academic programs have experienced 25 percent growth in top-five programs in eight years, according to U.S. News & World Report. The McCombs School of Business has a top-10 graduate entrepreneurship program, according to the rankings of both Forbes and the Princeton Review. UT marketing material won’t let us forget that the University has already produced many heroic figures, such as Michael Dell and Red McCombs. The goal is to shift gears and accelerate this phenomenon by connecting our doctorate, masters students, faculty and staff with our biggest dreamers and achievers.

As I described in a previous Daily Texan column, UT remains unranked by the Princeton Review for undergraduate entrepreneurship programs. Let’s rectify that by building the UT School of Undergraduate Entrepreneurship, which could strive to harbor the same heroic spirit and out-ofthe-box curriculum of Draper University.

The school would attract our most innovative undergraduate entrepreneurs and accept them as they enter their junior and senior years. The University should incorporate projects from our world-class research enterprises and existing startup programs, such as Texas Venture Labs and the Longhorn Startup Program. Opening a specialized entrance track for incoming students who intend to apply to the entrepreneurship school would increase demand and quality of students.

The marriage of the disciplined mastery of our researchers and the ambition and energy of our budding undergraduate entrepreneurs will force a shift in the gears of innovation at UT, and that’s a good thing. A few more figures like Michael Dell and Bill Gates coming from the 40 Acres could be pretty useful.

Spiller is a rhetoric and writing senior from Grand Blanc, Mich.

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Junior defensive end Cedric Reed didn’t realize how effective he could be at swatting down passes before being inserted into the starting lineup this season.

In fact, he didn’t even consider the importance of pass breakups until a local NFL player earned national buzz for the same feat.

“It just kind of came to me,” Reed said. “I’m from Houston, and I watch the Texans a lot, and J.J. Watt is pretty cool. I didn’t notice it until he started doing it.

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“He’s making a great name for himself, and tackles hate going against him,” senior safety Adrian Phillips said. “He’s a person who

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Junior defensive end Cedric Reed has enjoyed a seamless transition into the Longhorns’ starting lineup this season, leading the team with 42 tackles while racking up three sacks and four pass breakups in seven games.

can stop the run and get to the quarterback, and really that’s what you look for in a D-end. I think this is a great start for him.”

Reed entered the season with the tall task of filling the starting role vacated by Alex Okafor, a fourth round selection by the Arizona Cardinals in the 2013 NFL Draft.

Despite this, senior defensive tackle Chris Whaley said he expected Texas’ defensive line to remain just as strong

with Reed in the lineup.

“I wasn’t expecting a big drop off,” Whaley said. “I know what kind of player Ced is, and I know what he can do. He’s really stepping up to the table, and he’s making big contributions to the defensive front.”

Regular playing time is not entirely new for Reed, as he filled in last season after defensive end Jackson Jeffcoat missed the final six games with a torn

pectoral muscle.

Reed racked up 46 tackles and 2.5 sacks in 2012, and head coach Mack Brown believes his experience last season eased his transition into the starting lineup this season.

“Cedric Reed probably got a break last year when Jeffcoat got hurt because he played more at an early age than a lot of sophomores do,” Brown said. “He’s steadily becoming one of the best ends in the country.”

Reed believes he has made considerable strides over the past two seasons, and he said his hard work is paying off this year.

“I feel I’ve came a long way since my freshman year, especially last year playing last year when Jackson went down,” Reed said.

“I just see things better, I feel more confident out there, and I’m stronger. Everything is coming together for me.”

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Longhorns improve at weathering the storm

By David Leffler

Daily Texan Columnist @leffler_david

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Junior cornerback Quandre Diggs (6) may not be the biggest player on the Longhorns, but his impact has been huge as a leader and playmaker on the Texas defense.

Diggs standing tall as leader of dynamic Texas secondary

By Garrett Callahan @CallahanGarrett

While Andre the Giant stood at 7-foot-4-inches.

“Quandre the Giant” — as junior defensive back Quandre Diggs likes to be known — stands at just 5-foot-10-inches.

Size difference aside, the defensive back has become one of Texas’ strongest defensive players in his three years on the 40 Acres. Whether it’s his ability, work ethic or desire, Diggs earned his reputation because of his attitude and fearless nature.

“Quandre has a passion for the game,” senior cornerback Carrington Byndom said.

“He is going to play hard every snap and every down.”

Diggs plays with a consistent chip on his shoulder, occasionally using negative attention and criticism as motivation. Diggs likes to prove people wrong.

“He’s just a player,” Byndom said. “He’s trying to go out there, and he’s trying to prove a point. If you want to say it’s a chip on his shoulder then there it is. I guess you can call it that.”

Teammates gravitate toward Diggs’ outspoken personality, which has established him as an unquestioned team leader. When Greg Robinson took over the defensive play-calling duties from Manny Diaz, head coach Mack Brown and his staff went to Diggs to convince the players to buy into the new coach.

“He’s one of the guys that [defensive backs coach] Duane [Akina] would bring in and say ‘We need your help. You have a voice on this team,’” Brown said. “‘You and Adrian Phillips are the two they are going to listen to. So here’s what we need, and here’s what we need you to do.’ He has really taken that role and stepped up and have been key to getting this team back on top.”

One of Diggs’ role models is his brother Quentin Jammer, who was a safety for Texas from 1997-2001 and currently plays for the Denver Broncos after 11 years with the San Diego Chargers. Jammer, who will be inducted into the Texas Hall of Honor this Friday, continues

to teach Diggs even while he’s in college.

“I couldn’t even point out one specific thing because he’s taught me so much,” Diggs said. “He’s a father figure to me even though he’s my brother.

Words can’t describe all the things my brother has done for me. I’m thankful to have a brother like him in my life.”

The pair are similar in stature and their impact on the field, but Brown said Diggs has a much larger leadership role than his brother did.

“Quandre is a much better communicator than Quentin was,” Brown said.

“Quandre talks all the time.

He’s very positive and upbeat. Quandre is in the middle of that defense and really leading a lot. Quentin wouldn’t have said much.

That’s the biggest difference between them.”

Diggs may not be the largest Longhorn in stature, but no one on the team would dispute his nickname. The fleet-footed, sharp-tongued junior stands nothing short of a giant.

Less than two months ago, the Longhorns suffered one of the most embarrassing defeats in program history at the hands of BYU following a one-hour 47-minute lightning delay. Fast-forward to Saturday’s game in Fort Worth, where Texas overcame a similar lightning delay, longer this time at three hours and six minutes, to maintain its undefeated Big 12 record.

The biggest distinction between then and now is defense, especially against the run. The Longhorns were throttled in their loss to BYU — the Cougars racked up nearly 700 yards of offense, including a school-record 550 rushing yards. The Longhorns’ tackling was awful, allowing BYU to average 7.6 yards per carry. Things were much different against the Horned Frogs, though. Texas’ defenders tackled well and rallied to the ball, limiting TCU to a season-low 45 yards on the ground.

The Cougars were able to control the clock and run 99 offensive plays, but the Horned Frogs held the ball eight minutes fewer than the

Longhorns and ran only 63 plays from scrimmage. This is a direct result of an increased emphasis on the running game, as they ran the ball 13 more times against TCU than they did against BYU. Because it was able to stop the run and force TCU to throw the ball, Texas was able to generate consistent pressure, recording three sacks, a stat the team failed to record against the Cougars.

This trend is reflected in Texas’ offensive numbers too.

In their loss to the Cougars, the Longhorns were held to 21 points and struggled to generate explosive plays after a 57-yard touchdown pass to senior wide receiver Mike Davis in the first quarter. This was hardly the case against TCU. Senior quarterback Case McCoy completed four passes of 33 yards or more, including a 65-yard touchdown to sophomore wide receiver Marcus Johnson. Although McCoy completed went 9-for-19, he still finished with 228 yards and an average of 12 yards per attempt.

In both of these weather-delayed games, Texas’ players were forced to endure long delays in hostile environments on the road, which can put a team’s focus and resolve to the test.

The situations were similar, but the results make it clear: Texas is a much different football team.

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Texas played much better after a lengthy weather delay on Saturday than it did in September against BYU.

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SPORTS BRIEFLY Women’s golf falls to last after second round

Texas fell to last place after the second round of the Alamo Invitational in San Antonio on Monday.

The team ended the day 23-over-par to give it a total score of 599. Sophomore Tezira Abe, who ended with an even scorecard Sunday, struggled on Monday in shooting nine shots over par for with a mark of 81.

Freshman Julia Beck provided a positive note for the team, finishing two shots over par, the highest score for the team in round two. Beck recorded three birdies and five bogies for the day. She ranks highest among Longhorns on the overall leader boards, sitting in a tie for 43rd and six strokes behind the leader, LSU’s Lindsay Gahm.

Oklahoma, Arkansas and LSU battled for first place throughout the second round, with the Razorbacks moving into the top spot with a total score of 283 for the day.

The Longhorns hope to catch up in the third round and final round of the tournament Tuesday.

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ALBUM REVIEW | TRANSATLANTICISM

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Arcade Fire experiments with sound, new tracks

By David Sackllah @dsackllah

Photo courtesy of Autumn de Wilde

Death Cab for Cutie’s album Transatlanticism turns 10 years old today and still resonates.

Death Cab’s landmark album surpasses genre

By Sam Hays

@samingtonhays

Transatlanticism is Death Cab for Cutie’s saving grace. It is the band’s opus. It is their finest collection of songs, cover to cover, laden with melancholy melodies, unbridled emotion and some of the best lyrics that frontman Ben Gibbard ever wrote. Tuesday marks the 10th anniversary of Transatlanticism’s release, and even now, the songs are as emotionally piercing and powerful as they were before.

Death Cab for Cutie comes with a stigma: emotional teenagers, the early high school years, all the feelings of puberty everyone was too young to understand. It was the band equivalent of slamming the bedroom door shut when a teenagers’ love wasn’t reciprocated, and they couldn’t tell if they were going to scream or cry.

Transatlanticism covers all of those events and their accompanying emotions, but it goes further. It was the album where Death Cab stopped being just teenage angst and brought smart instrumentation, effective song structure

and an expanded scope of sound. Gibbard became a respected writer. The band didn’t just write simple-structured pop songs, it wrote songs that crescendoed when they needed to, receded when they didn’t and affected their audience because of it. Is there a song more subtly mind-blowing than “A Lack of Color”? Probably not.

Transatlanticism makes its audience think. The album’s opener, “The New Year,” triggers a revelatory introspection in its listeners. Gibbard is feeling down, and he takes his listeners with him. The album’s most recognized track, “Title and Registration,” uses elaborate imagery to connect to listeners.

In “Tiny Vessels,” Gibbard sings of love for the wrong reasons in a beautifully orchestrated tune, constantly reiterating the most memorable line of the whole album, “You are beautiful, but you don’t mean a thing to me.”

In a way, listeners feel like they are growing up with Gibbard. The snippets of his personal life are universal. The primitive physicality of “We Looked Like Giants,” the desperation of “Expo ‘86” and the candor of “Passenger Seat”

DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE Album: Transatlanticism Label: Barsuk Songs to Download: All of them

— everyone has been there before but has never heard someone describe it the way Gibbard does.

That’s what makes a good album great — its ability to communicate a message in a way never heard before, to make people think old thoughts in new ways. When listening to Transatlanticism, listeners feel every bit of what Gibbard feels.

So critics can hate on the cheesiness of “I Will Follow You Into the Dark,” they can call Gibbard a whining teenager who will never grow up, but they can never touch Transatlanticism because it is and probably will always be Death Cab for Cutie’s finest moment.

BOOK REVIEW | ‘THE FLAMETHROWERS’

‘The Flamethrowers’ novel proves to be an electric, fast-pace read

By Dylan Davidson @davidson_dylan

Some novels don’t stand still.

Rachel Kushner’s second novel, “The Flamethrowers,” moves abruptly but smoothly between several different worlds: from the New York art scene of the 1970s, to Italy, the backdrop of the growth and expansion of the Valera motorcycle company and the fierce political turmoil of the “Years of Lead” in the ’60s and ’70s.

At the center of this sprawl is a character referred to as Reno because that’s where she’s from — the reader never learns her real name. Reno travels to New York City to explore her art career and make something of her fascination with motorcycles and speed.

She quickly falls in with a perplexing group of people who insist that life and art do not need to be separated.

As Reno meets these intriguing characters she remarks, “One was left unsure:

if the thing observed was performance or plain life.”

Everything in Kushner’s novel balances on a thin line between fact and fiction. The fictional Valera company’s history is so convincing that one would really believe that they had used Indian slave labor to harvest rubber in Brazil to make tires for German vehicles in World War II. Reno’s story about Flip Farmer, who set the land speed record in 1965 traveling 522 mph, feels like it is resurrected from some neglected corner of history. But none of it is real.

The novel’s characters tell magentic stories that move forward quickly and intensely. The rapid movement of the story is often manifested in actual speed, as Reno races across desert highways at 150 mph and remembers cutting through the snow on skis, “tracing lines that were already drawn.” But the pace of the story can also be felt in the brisk progression of events and ideas, the scarcely connected collections of thoughts that make up so many of the stories in the book.

Kushner’s prose flourishes at every opportunity, though at times, her indulgent descriptions can cause the novel to drag. Too many opportunities are taken to point out the savage, industrial beauty in a land-

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scape or a piece of art. At one point Kushner describes a floor as “an interlocking map of various unmatched linoleum pieces in faded floral reds, resembling a cracked and soiled Matisse.”

The novel slows toward the end, losing the rhythm of its seemingly disparate chapters that make the beginning so electric. But the effect is only weak by comparison, and the book is anything but underwhelming.

The novel’s epigraph is Latin: “Fac ut ardeat,” or “make it burn.” Whether it refers to Molotov cocktail-throwing political dissenters of 1970s Italy, the motorcycle battalions of World War I or the hip, avant garde artists of New York, “The Flamethrowers” is always burning — issuing hot, magnetic sparks of details that can’t help but set fires of their own.

For a while, Arcade Fire was touted to be the new saviors of rock ’n’ roll by the kind of people who claim that rock ’n’ roll is dead. But even the most ardent Arcade Fire fan can admit it comes off a bit too grandiose at times. The band can be earnest and hopeful enough to make up for it, though.

To be fair, its debut album Funeral was a near perfect record and one of the best in the last 10 years. The band’s following albums, Neon Bible and The Suburbs, were just as impressive. After a couple of years off, Arcade Fire has returned to the mortal realm to deliver Reflektor, a complicated and overblown record loosely based off a Greek tragedy, which achieves greatness at times but does not sustain it throughout.

Many will call Reflektor the band’s dance record, and while the record displays a sizable shift in style from the heavily Springsteen-influence of The Suburbs, a dance label isn’t entirely accurate. Featuring a good deal of production from LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, Reflektor is a throwback to a different element of ’70s rock, citing David Byrne, David Bowie and Brian Eno. Reflektor finds the band taking more stylistic risks than it ever has before.

As a whole, Reflektor is a good album, albeit not the second coming of Funeral that everyone was holding out for. Some

of these tracks stack among the best the band has ever written.

The title track is a swirling odyssey of disco and stadium rock featuring backing vocals from David Bowie. It is one of Arcade Fire’s most exciting songs.

Strong cuts including the astoundingly beautiful and grand “Afterlife,” are understated and dramatic with a steady groove that finds the band creating a lot of tension. “Here Comes The Night” is more fun than usual.

The beat speeds up to an exciting dance number, building to a rousing finish before faking out the listener and going back to the steadier, almost reggae-like sound it began with.

“Porno” works excellently as a dark and moody post-punk jam and is the only time listeners might think of Win Butler’s delivery as containing sex appeal.

Among these tracks are plenty of forgettable ones that could

ARCADE FIRE Album: Reflektor Label: Merge Records Songs to Download: “Reflektor,” “Afterlife” and “Here Comes The Night Time”

have been cut, including “You Already Know,” “We Exist” or “Joan of Arc,” which is the only showcase of the sadly under-utilized Chassagne on vocal duties.

The album is a risk in a stream of otherwise impressive records. On Reflektor, the band that always takes itself too seriously learns to cut loose a little bit.

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Arcade Fire’s new album Reflektor takes more risks and has more fun than previous work.

Q-AND-A

Journalist, witness to JFK assassination recounts experience covering the scene

By Eleanor Dearman @EllyDearman

Fifty years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, four-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Hugh Aynesworth published “November 22, 1963: Witness to History.” As the only reporter to witness JFK’s assassination, Lee Henry Oswald’s arrest and Oswald’s assassination by Jack Ruby, Aynesworth gives a factual recounting of what he has uncovered after a lifetime of reporting.

The Daily Texan interviewed Aynesworth at the Texas Book Festival this weekend.

Daily Texan: First, can you describe what you witnessed the day of John F. Kennedy’s assassination?

Hugh Aynesworth: The day it happened, I wasn’t assigned to it, but I just thought I had to go see the president.

I just walked over close to the depository building, really because the crowds were a little less over that way. I hadn’t been over there but, oh, probably five minutes when the motorcade passed me with the Kennedys. They were so happy. The crowd was, too. But then I heard what I thought was a motorcycle backfire, but it wasn’t.

That was the first shot. And I didn’t know that for three or four seconds, then I heard another shot, then a third in I don’t know how many seconds. I probably would have run if I’d had a place to run, but we didn’t know because we didn’t know who was shooting, how many were shooting, where they were shooting from or why.

DT: In all of this chaos, what made you

instinctively go into reporter’s mode. Can you explain your mindset during both of the assassinations?

HA: I really can’t. I was puzzled. I didn’t know what to do. I was a little bit scared, not totally, but I just knew that I had to start interviewing people, and it just kicked in.

DT: I read that you were the only reporter invited to Ruby’s funeral. What do you make of that?

HA: I gave them some information, Ruby’s lawyers.

He got the death penalty in March of ’64. He’d been in jail until January of ’67 when he died, had cancer. I helped

the Ruby family, I saw them as they came out of the hospital, and they took me with them to help plan the funeral. They didn’t know how to do it. They didn’t know his birth date. They didn’t know about his army record, or that he had certain benefits.

So I helped them with that, and so they said, “You’ll go to the funeral with us, won’t you?” and I had just joined Newsweek magazine and I called the editor and he said, “My god, why aren’t you on the plane already?” Conspiracy theories were already being formed and I talked the family into letting three news people in to view the

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Hugh Aynesworth recounts working as a journalist and covering the Kennedy assassination 50 years ago.