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Blackboard purchases UT’s MyEdu By Madlin Mekelburg @madlinbmek
MyEdu, a free online platform that helps students organize their classes and view career opportunities, has been acquired by Blackboard, a learning-management system from which the University is in the process of transitioning. The UT System Board of
Regents invested $10 million in a five-year agreement with MyEdu in 2011 to provide funding for the creation of new tools targeted toward UT institutions. MyEdu Co-founder John Cunningham is the son of William Cunningham, former System chancellor and UT president. The regents were aware of this connection at the time of the investment.
A UT System press release said the agreement would be honored on a cost-free basis through September 2016 and there will be “no financial return to the UT System as a result of Blackboard’s acquisition.” UT will transition from Blackboard to Canvas, a different learning management system, next fall. Brad Englert, UT chief information
officer, said the University’s transition to Canvas will not be affected by Blackboard’s acquisition of MyEdu. Frank Lyman, chief product officer at MyEdu, said the decision to partner with Blackboard was not influenced by this impending transition. “The UT System has been very supportive of MyEdu doing what we can to help
students,” Lyman said. “We were aware of [UT’s transition to Canvas], but I don’t think it concerned us necessarily. We had assurances from Blackboard that they had no intention of limiting MyEdu students at campuses with Blackboard.” Eighty percent of undergraduate students have
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Author fights to preserve cultural cuisine By Kritika Kulshrestha @kritika88
Author, activist, culinary historian and food journalist Toni Tipton-Martin’s contributions to culinary traditions in America explore the breadth and depth of African-American cuisine. A journalism graduate from the University of Southern California and a former food writer at the Los Angeles Times, Tipton-Martin has spent more than three decades writing about food, nutrition and the impact of African-American cuisine on American culinary history. This weekend, TiptonMartin is speaking at UT Food Lab’s Women & Food Symposium on writing about food in the age of new media. “There was a time when the image of Aunt Jemima, which you can see on Quaker Oats packages, was so negative that it was used as
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In 2010, author Toni Tipton-Martin created The Jemima Code project, curating hundreds of rare cookbooks written by African-American authors.
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TSTV studio engineer to be interim TSM director By Nicole Cobler & Jordan Rudner @thedailytexan
One day after The Daily Texan reported Texas Student Media properties were moving under the domain of the Moody College of Communication, the University appointed TSTV-KVRX studio engineer Frank Serpas interim director of TSM. As he steps into his new job, it remains unclear what the lasting impact of the move to the college might be. In a letter he addressed to TSM stakeholders, Serpas acknowledged the financial issues of TSM and said the communication school has an inherent interest in TSM’s success. “TSM’s charter is to educate students, serve audiences and remain solvent,” Serpas said. “Though the educational mission is paramount, at present solvency is the most urgent concern.” Serpas also addressed certain questions raised by Daily Texan alumni and supporters. Former Editor-in-Chief John Schwartz, who is now a correspondent at The New York Times, said he was unsure of what the Moody college’s involvement would mean for the Texan’s operations. “I have great respect for the UT journalism school — I love the people in it, but not everyone in journalism goes through the journalism
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Blanton exhibit kicks off PrintAustin By Justin Atkinson @thedailytexan
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Meteorologists advise school in poor weather By Julia Brouillette @ juliakbrou
In the case of inclement weather, UT officials meet with local meteorologists to discuss conditions before making decisions about school closures, such as the decision to delay class Dec. 6. Classes starting before 10 a.m. were canceled Dec. 6 because of a National Weather Service advisory. By the time the University alerted students of the delay
at 5 a.m., the light rain had ceased and temperatures had risen from near freezing to above 32 degrees in Central Austin. Despite the fair conditions on campus, storm reports in nearby towns, including Buda, Georgetown and Round Rock, caused University officials to delay opening the campus, according to Troy Kimmel, senior lecturer in the
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The Blanton Museum of Art held an open-house exhibit showcasing its printmaking collection Thursday night as part of a month-long print festival in Austin. The exhibit, under the direction of print-room specialist Kristin Holder, features a collection of 23 pieces on paper ranging from the 15th century to the present. Holder said the universal subject-matter within print work might be the reason for a resurgence of interest. “The underlying theme of printmaking is that it has the ability to be massproduced and reach a large audience,” Holder said. “What is happening now is that recent developments like social media and the internet have exploded along those same lines. It has the ability to reach a large audience.” The pieces drew attention from students, such as sociology junior Brooke Brockman, who heard about the exhibit through email.
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Jeff Dell examines a print at the Blanton Museum on Thursday night. The exhibit is part of PrintAustin 2014, a month-long festival in Austin that celebrates the art of printmaking.
“I get the event emails from UT every day, and I usually just scan through them, but this time I saw the names of Diego Rivera and Pablo Picasso, so I was intrigued and thought I would check it out,” Brockman said. “I’m definitely an art enthusiast. [Printmaking is] an activity my boyfriend and
I like doing ourselves, so we enjoy exhibits. You get to come in and see some works that you may have never known existed.” The exhibition was an early event as part of PrintAustin, a celebration of the art of printmaking within the Austin community. Co-chairs Elvia Perrin and Cathy Savage have been
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preparing the events since last summer. “We started in July and have been working for the last six months,” Perrin said. “We have tons of support from volunteers, from the printmakers, all the galleries and UT. The Blanton and the Harry Ransom Center are all
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continues from page 1 MyEdu accounts according to the release. Lyman said MyEdu sought to establish a relationship with another company in the industry in order to expand its impact to a broader range of students. “We knew that we were doing some great things for students,” Lyman said. “We were looking for ways to really accelerate that. We had a lot of different conversations with partners and investors. … [Blackboard] seemed to be the most compelling of all the options.” According to Lyman, MyEdu will be able to expand its existing functions by using tools and products provided by Blackboard. “One thing we’re very excited about is the fact that [Blackboard wants] us to keep doing what we’re doing,” Lyman said.
“They want to keep it free for students and continue our approach to research and understanding how to help students.” Blackboard CEO Jay Bhatt said the services offered by MyEdu will help to strengthen Blackboard’s existing priorities. “Everyone is looking for ways to help more students obtain degrees more quickly,” Bhatt said in a statement. “MyEdu is highly complementary to our current solution set and will help us drive more value and a higher quality experience for learners and enable new paths to support student goals. This strengthens the focus we have on learner success, which is a big priority for us going forward.” UT spokesman Gary Susswein said the University will be monitoring the acquisition closely to see which changes will take place.
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school,” Schwartz said. “The thing I love about journalism is that it’s more trade than profession, and anyone can walk in through the door. The more closely the Texan is tied to the school, the less likely you are to have those walk-ins.” Schwartz said his main concern as an alumnus is the possibility of restrictions being placed on the Texan’s employment practices. “I don’t want a structure to arise that makes it harder for an idiot like me to walk in off the street and end up changing his life — and his career,” Schwartz said. “I was going to be a lawyer.” In the letter, Serpas said he wants to preserve students’ control of their content and equal opportunity to the entire UT student body. “I was not a communications major, so I appreciate that TSM welcomes students irrespective of their fields of study,” Serpas said. While some administrators and alumni work to address the questions that have arisen as the result of the move, others question how the decision was made in the first place. A.J. Bauer,
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continues from page 1 department of geography and the environment. “Even though here on campus there wasn’t any ice, temporarily closing the University was what we had to do to protect our students, our faculty and our staff,” Kimmel said. In any case of unfavorable weather conditions, Kimmel and a group of meteorologists from local TV stations, UT safety officials and representatives of other schools and agencies throughout the region meet to discuss possible courses of action. “We had a number of storm reports from northern Travis County, including a 50-car pileup and ice conditions out on some of the highways,” Kimmel said. “So, considering the fact that we had to bring in all of the faculty, staff and students who don’t live on campus, I think we made a
pretty good decision.” Music performance junior Brenham Adams said because of the timing of the delay, one of his final exams was moved to the following Monday. “It was an inconvenience for me, and it wasn’t even that cold,” Adams said. The inclement weather meetings usually take place around 3 a.m. on the day the weather event is forecasted to occur, UTPD spokeswoman Cindy Posey said. “All the emergency preparedness people in the region get on a conference call,” Posey said. “They talk about what’s happening, and they make their predictions based on what [National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration] says.” Posey said officials also consider public school closures so faculty members who have children can act accordingly. “We wait to see how all the
treasurer of alumni support group Friends of The Daily Texan, said he does not understand how the change can be made without amending the student Declaration of Trust. The Declaration of Trust was created in 1971, when Texas Student Productions — which later became TSM — was engaged in a legal battle with the UT System Board of Regents over the control of its financial assets and student editorial content. Unlike student productions’ earlier charter from 1922, the new trust made the organization an independent entity, although its assets and certain staff positions were still to be controlled by the regents. “I’m waiting to see how they justify [the move],” Bauer said. “The Declaration of Trust is a legal document that can’t just be overlooked.” Gage Paine, the vice president of student affairs, acknowledged that little student input went into the decision, but said this was a result of inaction on the part of the TSM Board members themselves. Paine said when she spoke to TSM Board members at a meeting
in September, she made it clear her office was open to hearing feedback. “We left [the meeting] with a pretty clear message that it was ongoing, that no decision was made that day, and that we were open to hearing people’s thoughts and concerns and ideas,” Paine said. “Not a whole lot of people came and knocked on my door and said, ‘I really need to talk to you about it.’ … It’s true I never contacted them, because I had opened the door.” Paine said, ultimately, it was President William Powers Jr.’s decision. “The president decides [the administrative home of TSM],” Paine said. “It’s his decision. It wasn’t a vote … did anyone pick up the phone and poll the board members? No.” Paine said administrators were planning to tell the TSM property managers about the move to the Moody college Friday. Paine also said she wanted to make clear the decision was not an act of desperation by her office or a power play on the part of college. “The dean isn’t grabbing [TSM],” Paine said. “And I’m not punting it.”
greater appreciation for the art form. “Austin has been a print town for a long time, except no one besides printmakers [have] known that,” Savage said. “This was our opportunity to tell Austin what a rich printmaking community is here.”
Perrin said she hopes the festival will foster a supportive community among Austin artists. “We really just wanted to promote what we love and create an environment where local artists can make prints and sell prints in Austin, Texas,” Perrin said.
school systems are going to react to weather because so many of our employees, of course, have to think about ‘well, if my kids are out of school,’” Posey said. The National Weather Service issues three types of weather warnings, Kimmel said. The weather service issues watches when conditions are conducive to more severe weather, warnings when there is a threat to life or property and advisories when there is a specific risk to travelers. “We try to be as proactive as possible,” Kimmel said. “We deliberate, and in the course of 15-20 minutes, we have a decision made about what we’re going to do.” Posey said the well-being of the students and employees ultimately influences decisions regarding weatherrelated closures. “We don’t want to do anything that is going to jeopardize anyone in our community’s safety,” Posey said.
NEWS BRIEFLY Powers pledges to help underprivileged youth
UT President William Powers Jr. attended the president’s and first lady’s Call to Action on College Opportunity event Thursday in Washington D.C. According to Gene Sperling, director of the National Economic Council, the event focused on increasing the opportunity to attend college for individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds by asking leaders from universities, businesses and communities to make commitments to address this issue in 2014. Sperling said the event “would not be the destination; it would be the launch.” In a list released by the White House containing commitments from all of the event’s participants, Powers outlined a variety of pledges he made on behalf of UT. His commitments focus primarily on expanding existing programs to increase college opportunities for youth in underprivileged areas. Powers’ pledges include a plan to offer students financial aid in exchange for maintaining good standing in the University Leadership Network, a program focused on developing academic and leadership skills. He also included a promise to expand the Path to Admission through Co-Enrollment program to more than 500 students, which allows students to take most of their classes at a community college and one course at UT per semester. —Madlin Mekelburg
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Transcript bill won’t stop grade inflation On Jan 10, state Rep. Scott Turner, RFrisco, announced via Twitter that he would challenge Rep. Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, for the position of Speaker of the House, which the latter has held since 2009. To most students on the UT campus, this out-of-left-field political candidate may not warrant a second look. But his out-of-leftfield policy issue of choice — grade inflation — should. At a Texas Public Policy Foundation panel held in early December, Turner confirmed that he plans to renew his fight to curb grade inflation at Texas universities, a cause he first took up in the 2013 legislative session. Then, Turner filed what has become known as the “Honest Transcript” bill, a bill he will likely reintroduce when lawmakers reconvene next January. The bill — which passed the House before stalling in the Senate Committee on Higher Education — would require transcripts from all public universities in Texas to include a course’s average grade along with the grade that an individual student earned in that course, so potential employers could easily judge where an “A” fell on the course’s bell curve. At first glance, grade inflation — or the idea that average grades have been increasing even though students aren’t spending
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more time studying — seems like an odd problem for a politician to take up. But Turner’s supporters say that grade inflation places a burden on employers who have to evaluate and hire recent college graduates. If average grades rise to the point where employers can no longer cut through a stack of resumes solely based on GPA, those employers will have to expend more time and resources to distinguish applicants. Second, supporters of the bill argue that grade inflation leads to an under-educated and illprepared workforce, eventually devaluing the worth of a college education. As average grades rise, students study less, which in turn means that they will gain less from their experiences in class. The end result? Students who are less prepared to enter the workforce than in years past, when good grades meant hard work and signaled intellectual progress. One thing is for sure: Average grades around the nation have skyrocketed in recent decades. According to a landmark grade inflation study by Stuart Rojstaczer and Christopher Healy, A’s only amounted to 15 percent of all grades awarded in the early 1960s. Today, 43 percent of all grades awarded are A’s, and a staggering 73 percent are either A’s or B’s. A study by Philip Babcock and Mindy Marks also showed that students are studying less: In 1961, 67 percent of students reported studying more than 20 hours per week. In 1981, that percentage fell to 44 percent, and today, only 20 percent of students do. It is clear, then, that the fundamental claims about grade inflation are true: Professors are awarding more A’s, average grades are going up and students appear to be studying less. But is there more to this issue? To effectively combat grade inflation, someone or something needs to put pressure on professors to correct the grade distributions in their courses. Unfortunately, the major players — students and their professors — instead have an incentive not to change. Namely, most students stand to benefit from rising average grades, and would have no reason to advocate for a solution. And professors, who rely on student evaluations for
HORNS DOWN: TEXAS HEALTH CARE COMES UP SHORT AGAIN Texas is sinking to the bottom in measures of national health care quality according to a study by the Dallasbased American College of Emergency Physicians released Thursday. Currently, Texas ranks 47th in access to emergency care, 42nd in quality care and patient safety, and 38th in failing to support emergency patients. Texas also ranks 49th in public health and injury prevention caused by “extremely high rates of obesity and cyclist and pedestrian fatalities” according to a Dallas Morning News blog. How many times does our state have to get a rough wake-up call in terms of health care? We have consistently ranked near the bottom in terms of mentalhealth funding, and in 2012 the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality ranked Texas last in “delivery of health services.” Our state’s rankings are embarrassing at best, and highly negligent — if not dangerous — at worst. It’s high time we saw some change.
Jonathan Garza / Daily Texan Staff Austin emergency services responds to a car crash on September 3, 2013.
HORNS UP: TEXAS TO GAIN INFLUENCE IN NATIONAL ELECTIONS Everywhere you look in urban Texas these days, the signs of growth are plain as day. Be it in the increasingly long lines of cars on freeways or the new housing developments springing up all across the landscape, the changes are hard to miss. Some of that growth is from the traditional gone-toTexas set, but much of the growth in population is coming from newborns upending the old bumper-sticker slogan, “I wasn’t born in Texas, but I got here as fast as I could.” Together, those forces are adding around 400,000 new people to the Census Bureau’s population estimate every year and increasing the state’s share of seats in Congress. According to a map just released by Ravi Parikh, a co-founder of the analytics firm Heap, Texas is expected to gain two new House of Representatives seats (and electoral votes) by 2030 and a total gain of six by 2060. While we might not agree with all the future legislators’ political views, we’re sure they would fight for greater funds for Texas and work to ensure a robust state economy for years to come.
Bob Daemmrich / Texas Tribune Rep. Scott Turner at a Triblive even on March 31, 2013.
tenure, career advancement and financial incentives, would also not want to risk angering students with a harsh grading curve. Ultimately, there are two groups who stand to gain something from curbing grade inflation that could serve as the impetus for change: The students who are making “true” A’s who would continue to excel even within a normal grade distribution — an exceedingly small group — and employers, who have a price to pay as average GPAs rise and they are forced to find alternative ways to distinguish applicants. Pressure on the academic community to curb grade inflation would therefore have to come from the employers who need traditional grade distributions to make hiring decisions; they are the only ones who have anything to gain. Unfortunately, Turner’s bill has nothing to do with the relationship between employers and universities, and it does nothing to force any substantive change in the classroom. Its impact would pale in comparison to, say, a major employer like Dell telling UT that it doesn’t want to recruit until grade distributions are corrected.
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Friday Firing Lines: gay marriage, Student Government elections Editor’s Note: Every Friday, the Daily Texan editorial board publishes a selection of tweets and online comments culled from the Daily Texan website and the various Daily Texan Twitter accounts, along with direct submissions from readers. Submissions can be sent to firingline@dailytexanonline.com. Don’t make me abandon traditional marriage Horns up Oklahoma should have been written: “On Tuesday, Federal Judge Terence C. Kern struck down Oklahoma’s ban on same sex-marriage.Though the decision does not immediately take effect and will likely be appealed, it marks a victory for the LGBTQ community. Kerns decision forces Oklahoma to leave the group of 33 states who have same-sex marriage via state constitutional amendments.” ^^^HOLY SHIT, A PIECE OF WRITING THAT’S FACTUALLY ACCURATE AND NOT POLITICALLY SLANTED?!?!?! WHAT?!?!?! IN THE DAILY TEXAN!?!?! (anticipated reaction of a potential lifelong reader) Let’s try and start off 2014 with a smidgeon of journalistic integrity and work our way up from there, shall we? —Online commenter “J.” in response to “Horns Up, Horns Down for Jan. 15” Get it right on Student Government Instead of treating SG elections as a begrudging task for your editorial board, how about treating one of the most influential
I’ve worked in student affairs (which I found to be a square peg in a round hole) and on academic side. I think student media operations are a much better fit on the academic side. —Bradley Wilson, Online commenter
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Turner, however, likely knows that this is the case. Considering his ambitions of unseating current Speaker Joe Straus, it’s hard to see Turner’s anti-grade inflation crusade as anything but political grandstanding — an attempt to resonate with conservative higher education reformers and their “college today doesn’t teach kids anything” talking point. The far-right conservative movement in which Turner has quickly become a rising star has made a nasty habit of sticking hard to that line of argument, particularly when it comes to higher education. But it’s obvious that this bill just doesn’t have the teeth to produce any substantive change in the classroom. To curb grade inflation, a bill would need to do more than simply mandate more complicated student transcripts. While transparency measures like this may sometimes be effective, the solution to this problem needs to come from the one group that has both an incentive to change and the money to lobby for it: Employers. As is, Turner’s anti-grade inflation initiative would do very little to help Texas college students.
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and important student positions with some semblance of respect? Making judgements on the candidates without any kind of policy evaluation is lazy and unethical journalism. The Daily Texan should be a training ground for future journalists. SG elections should be something you cover in depth, because honestly, no one cares about a college newspaper’s opinion on the governor’s race. —Online commenter “David” in response to editorial “The Texan watch list, part two: the Gubernatorial race and Student Government elections” Where is the information on the VPs for the Student Government election? It’s an executive alliance, and I personally believe from years past we see these Vice-Presidents get more done than anyone else! Would love to read up more on the joint alliances instead of figureheads. —Online commenter “Michael S.” in response to the same editorial. TSM moving to Moody is no reason to be moody I know this may not be popular in principle. But in actuality, it’s probably a good move. I’ve worked in student affairs (which I found to be a square peg in a round hole) and on academic side. I think student media operations are a much better fit on the academic side. I also know their are down sides and hope the student, faculty and staff leaders will do their best to retain the professionalism, integrity and profitability of the student media. —Online commenter “Bradley Wilson” in response to editorial “Texas Student Media to be housed under Moody College of Communication as questions loom” Your college newspaper knows nothing about circumcision The article fails to mention several issues with infant circumcision...There are a lot of long term consequences to circumcision, like skin adhesions, curvature, pain during erection, etc...There is no pain management for infants. Numbing creams don’t do a good job.. Unfortunately, all these issues are not very well investigated. One should not circumcise. —Online commenter “European Man” in response to the Life & Arts article “Science Scene: Decision to circumcise is far from clear cut”
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Ridley, rebounds key against Iowa State By Stefan Scrafield
Sophomore center Cameron Ridley will need to play well inside for the Longhorns when they take on Iowa State this weekend. Ridley is currently averaging 10.3 points and 7.3 rebounds per game in Big 12 play.
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Texas’ first chance to make a statement in its pursuit of an NCAA Tournament bid will come at 3 p.m. Saturday at the Frank Erwin Center. Eight of the Longhorns’ final 14 games are against teams currently ranked in the AP Top 25 and the first of those games will be at home against No. 8 Iowa State (14-2, 2-2 Big 12). “These conference games will be tough,” sophomore center Cameron Ridley said. “But we’re just going to treat those games just like every other. Play as hard as we can and play with the confidence we’ve been playing with.” Despite what the two teams’ records might indicate, Texas (13-4, 2-2 Big 12) is likely the more confident team heading into the contest. The Longhorns go into Saturday on a two-game win streak, fresh off an impressive road victory over West Virginia in Morgantown, W. Va. Head coach Rick Barnes’ veteran trio of Ridley, junior Jonathan Holmes and sophomore Javan Felix has impressed early on in conference play, averaging 10.3, 10.8 and 15.8 points per game, respectively, through the first four games. Ridley and Holmes are also contributing in the rebounding department, each having already recorded a
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double-double and each averaging 7.3 rebounds per game in Big 12 play. Iowa State, in contrast, enters the game on a two-game losing streak. After starting the season on a 14-game win streak, the Cyclones dropped their last two games, on the road against No. 25 Oklahoma and at home against No. 15 Kansas. The Cyclones rely heavily on senior forward Melvin Ejim, who is second in the conference in scoring with 17.8 points per game. Ejim, the lanky Toronto native, is known
as a physically gifted, insideoutside threat who can score from anywhere on the court. Couple him with do-it-all senior guard DeAndre Kane, who runs Iowa State’s offense, and you’ve got a potent scoring duo. Kane is averaging 16.8 points, 7.3 assists and 5.9 assists per game. The Longhorns and Cyclones have two common opponents so far this season: They each played BYU in non-conference play, and they have each already taken on Oklahoma in conference play. With both teams
having developed significantly since their respective meetings with the Cougars, a look at their respective contests against the Sooners is a much better representation of how the two teams match up. Both Texas and Iowa State lost to Oklahoma. The Longhorns suffered a close 88-85 loss at home while the Cyclones lost 87–82 on the road in Norman. Both teams struggled to slow down the Sooners’ scoring offense, but a closer look at the two games demonstrates where the scoring
came from: second-chance points. Both Texas and Iowa State had better field goal percentages than Oklahoma in those matchups, but each team was heavily out-rebounded. Regardless of their difference in ranking, the Cyclones and Longhorns appear to be evenly matched on paper, so fans should be in for a good one at The Drum this weekend. It may not matter which group hits a greater percentage of its shots, but which team can corral more of the missed ones.
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Sophomore forward Nneka Enemkpali has been the most dominating player on the court for the Longhorns this season, leading the team in both points and rebounds per game.
Texas looks to beat Horned Frogs for 34th straight time The Longhorns won a grand total of 12 games last year. This year they already have 12 wins — thanks to a victory over Kansas on Wednesday — and they have about half of the season still left to play. The biggest difference since last season, according to sophomore forward Imani McGee-Stafford, is that, “we have depth and we all buy in.” The depth has been developed at practice, as head coach Karen Aston has been switching up the starting roster, giving every player a chance to earn playing time. “These players are competing in practice for playing time,” Aston said. “And it’s a blood bath sometimes, and that’s how you know you have some good things going your way and you know you can get better.” Texas is looking to stay on its path toward improvement with a win against
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TCU on Sunday. If the winning momentum and development at practice continues, the team can easily do so. TCU has struggled to find energy early on this season. The Longhorns will need to take advantage and find an early cushion in case they go back to their habit of relaxing at the eight-minute mark or coming into the second half. “They need to understand that Big 12 teams aren’t just going to give up and let you win,” Aston said. TCU is coming off a loss against No. 11 Oklahoma State, giving Texas the advantage in momentum. Although the Horned Frogs may start slow, they have been known to come back after the half with a sense of urgency and power. They did just that against Oklahoma, but still couldn’t manage to come back from the hole they put themselves in.
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TCU also has the home court advantage. The Horned Frogs have won nine of 10 games played in Daniel-Meyer Coliseum. If Texas becomes the 10th win at home for TCU, it will break the Longhorns’ 33-game win streak against the Horned Frogs, which dates back to Jan. 23, 1976. If Texas comes out strong and utilizes its high-caliber defense on Sunday, it should easily increase its win streak to 34.
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Sophomore Breaunna Addison gets a homecoming of sorts today as she returns to action in the Miami Spring Invite. Addison burst onto the college tennis scene at last year’s Invite with a 3-0 performance in singles play. In just her first semester at Texas, Addison became an All-American in singles with a 30-7 record. She also appeared in the semifinals of the NCAA Championship. Addison, ranked No. 22 in singles, will need another season like that if she and the Longhorns want to return to the NCAA Tournament. The team enters the spring season 17th in the ITA Team Rankings. The Longhorns face a brutal non-conference
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schedule, with 10 of their first 12 opponents currently ranked inside the top 36. Their first challenge will be No. 9 Miami (FL) followed by either No. 16 Vanderbilt or No. 31 Memphis. The Miami Spring Invite begins Friday and will conclude Sunday.
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SPORTS BRIEFLY Dallas defensive tackle Jason Hatcher has been added to the Pro Bowl and will be a first-time participant, along with teammates Dez Bryant and Tyron Smith. Hatcher led the Cowboys with a career-high 11 sacks for an injurydepleted defense, making the transition to a fourman front. He is replacing Baltimore nose tackle Haloti Ngata. The 31-year-old Hatcher is set to become a free agent after spending his first eight seasons with Dallas. Bryant had 1,233 yards receiving and set career marks with 93 catches and 13 touchdowns in his fourth season. The 23-year-old Smith allowed a career-low 1½ sacks in his second season at left tackle. He moved from right tackle after his rookie year.
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injury — and sophomore heptathlon competitor Johannes Hock. Although it’s his first year as head coach of both the men’s and women’s teams, Sategna has been a fixture of the program for the last decade as an assistant to the men’s team under previous coach Bubba Thornton.
MEN’S TENNIS / MATT WARDEN The Longhorns (1-0) look to continue winning when they travel to Houston to face Rice on Friday before hosting Arkansas on Sunday afternoon. Texas, ranked No. 20 in the country after winning its 17th consecutive seasonopening match, will be led by No. 24 singles player George Goldhoff and the No. 5 doubles team made
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TRACK AND FIELD / GRANT GORDON The Texas women’s indoor track & field team was tagged as the one to beat after the Division I ranking were released earlier this week, placing the Longhorns first. Led by new coach Mario Sategna, the Longhorns return a nation-best five scorers from the 2013 NCAA Indoor Championships to go along with incoming transfer Ashley Spencer, the two-time defending outdoor national champion in the 400 meter. The men enter the season ranked No. 15, an improvement over their 23rd place finish last year. The team will be led by Ryan Crouser — the favorite to win the shot put title despite missing last indoor season because of an
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up of Lloyd Glasspool and Soren Hess-Olesen. Texas has held the advantage against both opponents in recent history, winning eight consecutive matches against the Owls and six of the last seven contests against the Razorbacks. After this weekend, the Longhorns will compete in the ITA Kickoff Weekend event in Nashville, Tenn.
The prosecution rested its intoxication manslaughter case against former Dallas Cowboys defensive tackle Josh Brent for a wreck that left a teammate dead. Brent is charged in the December 2012 death of Jerry Brown in a crash as the two were driving home in the Dallas suburb of Irving. Prosecutors presented a four-day case that Brent was drunk at the time. Jurors heard from police officers who administered field sobriety tests to Brent and later took him for a blood test that showed his blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit. The defense denies Brent was drunk. Brent faces 20 years in prison if convicted. Brown was a linebacker on the Cowboys’ practice squad and was a teammate of Brent’s at the University of Illinois. —Associated Press
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Action film fails on all fronts MOVIE REVIEW | ‘JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT’
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Action films are a lot like pizza: cheesy, nutrition-free, covered in red sauce and delicious nonetheless. The greats, such as “Die Hard” and “Terminator 2,” are gourmet pies, made with the best ingredients possible and cooked to perfection. Then there are the Papa John’s and Pizza Huts of action cinema, entertaining but disposable works such as last year’s underappreciated “White House Down.” But the truly forgettable pizza and action flicks have the most in common — stale, greasy slices of lukewarm mediocrity. “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit,” unfortunately, falls into that undesirable category, and its tepid story and nonsensical action sequences render it the rough equivalent of a burned slice of Little Caesar’s. “Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit” casts Chris Pine as the famed Tom Clancy character, telling the story of Ryan’s
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propaganda to keep black women in their place, which was in the kitchen — usually someone else’s kitchen,” TiptonMartin said. “When I was at the LA Times, in the vast cookbook library, there were very few contributions made by African Americans, and, even in the Southern books, we were mentioned as an afterthought.” Tipton-Martin didn’t experience a traditional Southern upbringing because her parents left for California when she was still young. “Any of those foods that were the emblems of Southern cooking — like corn bread or fried chicken or greens or sweet potatoes or beans — they
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happy face like they’ve both forgotten the banker tried to have him killed a few scenes ago. The movie is clumsily tied together by a barrage of convenient expository bursts late in the film, but the plot doesn’t even have a handle on its own time line. An early scene informs us that Ryan has been on the job for a full decade — despite not aging a day — yet Muller and Ryan repeatedly state they’ve known each other for only three years. If the cast was a bit stronger, these logical inconsistencies would be easier to overlook. The reliably charismatic Pine is dead in the water here — the charming, funny personality he brought to his role in “Star Trek” replaced with dutiful, unambiguous heroism. Knightley seems to have been cast solely so Branagh could get as many unflattering reaction shots as possible, but, even when she’s allowed to act, the only thing more unconvincing than her performance is her ludicrous character arc. Meanwhile,
Branagh generically glowers as the film’s villain, and Costner ably plays Ryan’s loyal mentor. But even the lousiest action films should shine when it’s time for their hero to brawl. For one sequence in which Ryan breaks into
Cherevin’s office while Muller improbably distracts the villain with whispered flirtations, “Jack Ryan” comes alive, and there’s a glimpse of a taut, exciting espionage thriller. The rest of the film’s action scenes range from adequate to incompetent,
especially in the finale, which cuts between several action beats with a stunning disregard for geography, coherence and logic before ending on a moment that makes no sense on its own and even less when tied to the rest of the sequence.
were never called ‘soul’ food or Southern food. It was just dinner for us,” Tipton-Martin said. It was while working as a food writer for the LA Times that Tipton-Martin met Ruth Reichl, former editor of Gourmet Magazine. “She saw the work that I was doing — it was really kind of perfunctory and dull — and she called me into her office the first week she started working at the Times, and she asked me, ‘What do you want to do?’” Tipton-Martin said. Reichl told Tipton-Martin to go out and find what exactly she wanted to do. It was then that Tipton-Martin realized her love for how certain communities eat and prepare food. “At that moment, I knew that I was much more passionate
to tell the story of people and their successes and their accomplishments and using food as a mechanism for drawing others into that story,” TiptonMartin said. Shortly after, Tipton-Martin left the LA Times. Between 2005 and 2007, she served as the president of the Southern Foodways Alliance, an organization that documents and celebrates the different food cultures of the South. It was while she served on the board of the Southern Foodways Alliance and Foodways Texas that she met Elizabeth Engelhardt, a professor in the department of American studies and the Center for Women’s and Gender Studies at UT. “[Tipton-Martin] does truly, deeply believe that the foods
that we share, the foods we value, the foods we remember, the foods we don’t like, the foods that we just found, the foods that we’ve eaten our whole life, they tell us something about who we are as people and they can bring us together,” Engelhardt said. “They can remind us about ourselves. Using food as a lens for culture is what [Tipton-Martin] is all about.” In 2008, Tipton-Martin founded the SANDE Youth Project, a nonprofit organization aimed at promoting health and nutrition among the younger generation, and teaching them how to lead healthier and more productive lives. As director of SANDE, she is involved in fundraising and spreading the message of good food and nutrition.
In January 2009, when Tipton-Martin met Peace Through Pie Social Founder Luanne Stovall at the organization’s first public pie social, she joined the board of Peace Through Pie soon after. “[Tipton-Martin has] mentored me,” Stovall said. “She’s been a supporter. She struck me so much with her passion and her deep connection to history.” In 2010, taking one step further toward preserving the South’s culinary traditions, Tipton-Martin began curating cookbooks written by AfricanAmerican authors. She called this project The Jemima Code. The Jemima Code, an upcoming book and pop-up exhibit, focuses on the 150 cookbooks that are a part of Tipton-Martin’s personal
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