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SG addresses affordable housing
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President William Powers Jr. addressed affordable housing and the future of the Dell Medical School at a Student Government meeting Tuesday. “There’s a lot of challenges on the campus,” Powers said. “[SG] faces them to try to make the University a better place.” Student body president Horacio Villarreal said Powers attends at least one SG
meeting a year to thank the students for their leadership and service on the campus. After government senior Cortney Sanders raised concerns about more available affordable housing for students at the University, Powers said he thinks freshmen and sophomores who live on campus are much more likely to be successful in their academic careers. “More beds have been added in West Campus than ever before, but one unanticipated consequence of that
is that it’s almost all high-end housing,” Powers said. Newer complexes in West Campus have been increasing rates by 6-7 percent each year for the past 10 years, according to Richie Gill, real estate broker at LonghornLeasing.com, who spoke to The Daily Texan in the fall. The University will be talking to American Campus Communities — which built The Callaway House, an offcampus residence hall in
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President William Powers Jr. addressed Student Government about concerns over affordable housing for students.
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Johnston appointed medical school dean By Madlin Mekelburg @madlinbmek
After a nine-month search by a committee of educators, health professionals and students, the University introduced Clay Johnston as the inaugural dean of the Dell Medical School on Tuesday morning. Johnston is currently the associate vice chancellor of research and director of the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine. He will begin serving as dean of the Dell Medical School on March 1. The Dell Medical School, which went into planning in 2012 and was named last year, is expected to receive its first class of students in 2016. President William Powers Jr.
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The University introduced Clay Johnston as the inaugural dean of the Dell Medical School on Tuesday morning. Johnston previously held a position at University of California, San Franciso School of Medicine.
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The Cockrell School of Engineering unveiled three new labs dedicated to oil and gas drilling technologies at a ribbon-cutting ceremony Tuesday. The labs were made possible by a donation of $1.7 million from Baker Hughes, an oil-field service company. The labs also feature a drill rig simulator — the only one of its kind at any American university — donated by National Oilwell Varco. The labs, which are open to students, are each designed to focus on a different aspect of petroleum engineering. The Drilling Automation Lab, which hosts the drill rig simulator, gives students the virtual experience of actually drilling at a rig site. “Students will be able to get a feel for what drilling is,” said Pradeep Ashok, a research associate in the labs. “The undergraduate students will get a chance to play with [the drilling simulator] and get a feel for what a driller actually does.” The Zonal Isolation Lab allows researchers and students to study the effects of drilling deep underground, with a focus on the problems encountered when using hydraulic fracturing methods. Hydraulic fracturing is more commonly known as fracking. Projects in the isolation lab include the improvement of the relationship between concrete and shale and the elimination of hazardous by-products that result from drilling underground water sources.
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Browns help fund new preschool By Nicole Bueno After years of fundraising, the Rise School of Austin officially broke ground Tuesday on a permanent location in East Austin, due in part to donations from current and former UT officials. The school, renamed the Sally and Mack Brown Rise School of Austin, provides equal preschool-level education and an integrated environment to children with and without special needs. The opening of the new facility in August will make it the first educational campus of its kind in Austin. Rise provides a combination of traditional curricula, therapeutic instruction and community support to both special needs children and average learning-speed children within the same classroom. UT System Regent Steve Hicks and his wife Donna Hicks join former UT football head coach Mack Brown and his wife Sally Brown among the many donors
who contributed to the new school, the construction of which is being privately funded in full. Besides giving Rise a permanent location, the new building will be able to accommodate the special needs of its students, Executive Director Emily Greer said. Rise meets the Texas Workforce Commission’s highest educational standard for special needs children, and the new location will facilitate both physical and social therapy in addition to the already advanced curriculum. Rise will include an indoor physical therapy lab to improve motor skills, a music therapy room, a sensory garden and modified classrooms to accommodate those with special needs. Prior to the acquisition, Rise was taught for years in rented churches around Austin, and Rise music therapy teacher Danielle Saunders said the impermanence detracted from the learning experience. “It’s hard to run a smooth, cohesive day without some-
thing as simple as bathrooms near your classrooms,” Saunders said. Despite the lack of a permanent location, Rise has made a name for itself with a 3:1 student-to-teacher ratio and a “Rising Star” accreditation of curriculum by the Texas Workforce Commission. Donna Hicks, who has also served as a past president and current member of the board of directors for Rise, said she is thankful for the donations driving the project. “We need quality preschools to meet the needs of thousands of children, and Rise can prepare them,” Hicks said in her speech at the groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday. Greer hopes that Rise’s new location will increase its ability to better the lives of children. “It’s wonderful that we can now teach with state-of-theart equipment,” Greer said. “And what we can’t teach them — things like compassion — they learn through their peers.”
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Glynda Groth will retire at the end of this month after 26 years at the Engineering Life Office.
Director retires after 26 years By Madlin Mekelburg @madlinbmek
Although she changed her major in college to avoid taking a single math class, Glynda Groth has made a home in the Engineering Student Life office. At the
end of January, Groth will retire after working at UT for 26 years. Groth worked as a hall coordinator at Jester and as an adviser in the Engineering Student Affairs office before creating the Engineering Student Life
office, which manages all of the student organizations within the Cockrell School of Engineering. Groth said her favorite part of her job is helping students.
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continues from page 1 West Campus — to create a more affordable dorm. “We do not want our low-income students living out away from campus because it’s more affordable,” Powers said. “We want that choice to be theirs.” With Clay Johnston in place as the inaugural dean of the Dell Medical School, Powers also told SG he hopes to make sure the medical school stays relevant as health care goes through rapid change. “This is the chance to design a medical school without the ossified past,” Powers said. To stay on top, he said the new medical school must have the right kind of people to keep that attitude. SG also voted 25-1-1 on a bill that would amend the organization’s election code. The new amendment
would require candidates to disclose the names of all students working for their campaigns. Most changes made to the amendment would not affect this year’s candidates. Villarreal, who is in his final semester as student body president, sent out surveys to gain feedback from students in SG about where they hope to see the direction of organization to head. He said the results showed that students hoped to see it involve itself more in academic services. “We don’t know exactly what that will look like,” Villarreal said. Villarreal and student body vice president Ugeo Williams will discuss these plans Wednesday.
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continues from page 1 said Johnston was selected in part because of his forward-thinking vision for the school. “We had a dozen fantastic people from around the country,” Powers said. “This really garnered a great deal of interest from some very high level people. [Johnston] is innovative and open and wants to help design a medical school in a new way.” Johnston said he will try to use his role as dean to advance the way medical schools approach health care, which he believes should be more patient-centric. “I think medical health
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have their own president, Powers said the Dell Medical School will be a part of the University. Johnston, who plans to continue treating patients as dean, said he will be expected to create multidisciplinary programs, provide excellent care to patients and turn the school and research hospital into mechanisms for economic development. Johnston said one of the first challenges he will face will be prioritizing these objectives. “The school is going to do all of those things, but when?” Johnston said. “You can’t do all of those things from day one or year one or even year five. So the biggest challenge is prioritizing amongst these critical goals and making excellent progress in all of these areas, but managing the expectations so that people understand that it is impossible to grow this thing, even in five years, to the vision that all of us have for it.” Robert Messing, vice provost for biomedical sciences and chairman of the search committee, previously worked alongside Johnston in the neurology department at UC–San Francisco. Messing said he recommended Johnston and one other individual early in the search process for the dean. “Our relationship has always been more professional than personal, and those professional interactions definitely helped me recognize him as a strong candidate,” Messing said. According to Messing, the search committee unanimously recommended Johnston for the dean position because of his work at UC– San Francisco. Seton Healthcare Family, which runs several hospitals in Austin, committed $295 million to build a teaching hospital for students enrolled at Dell Medical School last year. UT also has a partnership with Travis County Central Health, a county organization which works to give health care access to Austin’s poor. Last year, Travis County voters approved a property tax increase to support the new medical school and teaching hospital.
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Architecture professor wins psychoanalysis award By Samantha Grasso @thedailytexan
Adjunct architecture professor Stephen Sonnenberg received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association in New York last Friday. Sonnenberg was presented the award for his contributions to psychoanalysis and service to the association. Psychoanalysis, a field which was founded in the late 19th century by Sigmund Freud, is based upon the idea that some disorders that manifest as physical or psychological conditions are caused by the unconscious. Sonnenberg, who has studied psychoanalysis for more than 40 years, said he first developed an interest in the field while attending medical school. “It was a combination of wanting to help people, feeling I could do that as a physician and, at the same time, having a love of the humanities,” Sonnenberg said. Even though he is a medical doctor, Sonnenberg said psychoanalysis applies to architecture by promoting health and well-being through a physical environment. Sonnenberg said understanding psychology allows architects to be more creative and artful in scientific design. Sonnenberg co-taught an architecture course last year that established the Veterans Community Park and Pavilion project. The project aims to use architecture and psychoanalysis to contribute to the wellness of post-combat
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Dr. Stephen Sonnenberg, adjunct professor for the School of Architecture and the Plan II honors program, recieved the Distinguished Service Award from the American Psychoanalytic Association last Friday.
veterans and their families, Professor Tom Palaima, who teaches the Plan II honors junior seminar course “The Myths of War” with Sonnenberg, said Sonnenberg shows passion for the human intellectual process and brings a
deep sense of the health of the human spirit to the course. “This really is one of the highlights of my career — to teach with him,” Palaima said. Brina Bui, Plan II honors and biology junior, first met Sonnenberg her sophomore
year. Bui said auditing the architecture course Sonnenberg co-taught broadened her educational experience. “It was really cool just seeing … a more artistically creative approach to [medicine],” Bui said. Sonnenberg said in the
future, he would like to contribute to the development of the medical school on campus and hoped psychoanalysis would become an integral part of the University. “Psychoanalysis has been in existence for more than a
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Four representatives from Teach For America, including two UT professors and one graduate student, addressed students Tuesday to explain the organization’s focus on diversity as a critical element of student engagement. Teach For America hires recent college graduates to teach at schools in low-income areas. Since its foundation in 1989, the organization has worked in 30 states to improve the education system. The representatives said one of the largest obstacles to achieving diversity is a lack of a proper definition of the term. “Diversity can be manipulated and diluted to mean nothing,” said Lily Laux, an American studies graduate student who has worked at eight different Teach For America institutes. “Many cannot even comprehend its necessity.” Teach For America representative Alejandro Delgado said insufficient diversity is undervalued as a problem in education. “We don’t think about diversity enough, and it is often oversimplified,” Delgado said. Education assistant professor Richard Reddick said he believes the lack of teacher diversity is harming the students. “Most K-12 teachers are white women. If there is a group of students not being taught by people they can relate to, it is crippling,” Reddick said.
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continues from page 1 “We were trying to find new formulations to improve the bonding between cement and shale, so that you actually have good zonal isolation,” research associate Sriramya Nair said. “[Zonal isolation] is to prevent contamination of aquifers and also to make sure you don’t have blowouts happen.” The third lab houses the Real-time Operations Center. This lab allows data from wells and digging sites from around the world to be seen by students and researchers. “[Students] will be looking at data coming from the oil and
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UT faculty and community education leaders discuss the disparities in diversity of educators at the Teach for America Diversity in Education Panel.
According to the National Center for Education Information, 84 percent of public school teachers in 2011 were women, and another 84 percent were white. Reddick, a UT graduate, used his personal experience to highlight the consequences of a lack of diversity and culture in the K-12 curriculum. “I didn’t learn about black culture until I got to college, and it was empowering,” Reddick, who is black, said. “The reason kids have bad attitudes is because they miss out on learning about their lineage of greatness.” He said one’s cultural hisgas sector, oil and gas drilling rigs in real-time and analyzing it, seeing if everything is going fine and if they see some issues they report back,” Ashok said. “So that’s a really good learning platform for students.” Eric van Oort, a petroleum and geosystems engineering professor, oversees all lab developments. Oort, who worked for Shell for more than 20 years, said he developed a number of contacts and relationships with Baker Hughes while in the field. “When I came to UT, Baker Hughes indicated that they had opportunities for sponsorship, and they were interested in sponsoring the [petroleum engineering] pro-
Most K-12 teachers are white women. If there is a group of students not being taught by people they can relate to, it is crippling. —Richard Reddick Education assistant professor
tory is a source of motivation and a necessary factor in grade-school education. “[Black youths] begin to think if they are doing something well they beat the odds,” Reddick said. Reddick said diversity is the key to bringing self awareness to the kids accepting their potential and learning who they are. “It’s painful to see students
exposed to narrow curriculum. Many are unaware of experiences other than their own,” Reddick said. Laux said diversity in the classroom is what contributes to a student’s racial identity. “Racial identity and results are mutually exclusive and equally important,” Laux said.
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Research associate Pradeep Ashok shows Mario Ruscev, and Didier Charreton how to work the drill rig simulator in the Drilling Automation Lab.
gram at UT,” van Oort said. According to information provided by Baker Hughes,
the total investment budget for the labs was close to $3 million.
century, but it continues to evolve,” Sonnenberg said. “I feel that today’s version of psychoanalysis deserves a place on the research university campus. I hope that my work here at UT has convinced my colleagues that it deserves that place.”
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“Most of the things I do, I’ve done because I saw a need,” Groth said. “There was no training for student organizations, so I started [the Engineering Student Life office. When we opened this office in 1999, there were 34 student orgs. [There are] now over 80, just within engineering.” Groth established a variety of programs within the engineering school, including Gone to Engineering, a day-long program designed to welcome students to UT and the engineering department. Groth also helped to bring to campus LeaderShapeTexas, an international program designed to teach integrity and ethics to college students of all majors. “[I want students to know] that I really cared for them, about them as people and really cared that they learned about themselves and that they were able to, through the things I did — gosh that’s going to make me cry — gain skills that they could use the rest of their life,” Groth said. “I feel like I’ve done that through things that [the Engineering Student Life office] has done, like Leader Shape-Texas.” Kelly McQueary, undergraduate coordinator in the chemical engineering department, said she has worked with Groth for many years and considers Groth a part of her family. “She’s just a really great person and a good friend that happened to also be a colleague,” McQueary said. “That’s hard to find on campus. I think she’s the real deal. She’s got a great personality, and people love to talk to her. She’s really great at providing constructive criticism that doesn’t feel like criticism. She just reinforces what you already know.” Groth said some of her most memorable moments at UT came when she was working at Jester. “The last year I was in housing at Jester, I caught the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,” Groth said. “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are flood, famine, pestilence and death.”
Most of the things I do, I’ve done because I saw a need. There was no training for student organizations, so I started [the Engineering Student Life office]. —Glymda Groth, Coordinator of Engineering Student Life Office
Groth said she encountered a small flood in the dorms, a less than agreeable co-worker, two student deaths and an ice storm which prevented food from reaching the residence halls. “I had to organize all the resident assistants to run the cafeteria so we could feed people,” Groth said of the ice storm. “I had worked in camps when I was in college, and so I knew how to run an industrial kitchen. We had folks grilling cheese sandwiches and making breakfast and doing all kinds of stuff. It was fun.” Clarke Rahrig, electrical engineering senior and president of the Student Engineering Council, said he has worked closely with Groth in the Engineering Student Life office. “When Glynda’s around, you know things are OK and any problem that comes up she can help you,” Rahrig said. “She has been almost a staple of the student life portion of engineering, with all the different organizations she’s created. She’s always tried to put the students first and I think that’s a really, really awesome thing to do, especially when you’re in a university this big. It makes you feel a little bit less like a number.” Groth said she is planning to spend her retirement traveling. “My husband and I are planning to travel and [play] lots of golf,” Groth said. “We really want to go to New Zealand and see the sets for ‘Lord of the Rings’ — my husband and I both love it.”
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Davis fudged the truth, but where’s the real story? In a series of tweets on Tuesday, state Sen. Wendy Davis took to task critics who have, as of late, questioned the veracity of details in her ragsto-riches personal story, including the date of her first divorce, the amount of time she spent in a trailer park and the extent of her ex-husband’s financial support as she pursued her education. “Throughout this campaign, I’ve shared [my] story — not because it’s unique, but because it isn’t,” Davis wrote in an email to supporters. “The story of my life is also the story of millions of single mothers who feel alone in the world, millions of young dreamers searching for their chance to become something more than what they were born into, millions of families all across Texas who would sacrifice everything to give their children a better future. It’s those sto-
Sure, a story about detailed public policy plans may not be riveting, but it has a place in interviews with the press and on the candidates’ campaign websites, if perhaps not in speeches or email blasts.
ries — your stories — that drive my campaign.” But the ultimate problem with Davis’ story isn’t that aspects of it might not be completely truthful, or that it isn’t compelling — it is, even once you’ve corrected for certain factual errors. It’s that the campaign materials of both Davis and her opponent, Attorney General Greg Abbott, are essentially nothing more than a narrative that ends in the present moment rather than one that extends into the future with concrete policy goals and a clear vision for the state. Sure, a story about detailed public policy plans may not be riveting, but it has a place in interviews with the press and on the candidates’ campaign websites, if perhaps not in speeches or email blasts. There’s a reason we have time to spend debating the exact age Davis was when she first got divorced: The candidates haven’t given us much else to talk about. Veteran political commentator Paul Burka said as much in a Texas Monthly article published Tuesday. “How would I describe the status of Texas politics right now? In a word, irrelevant,” Burka wrote. “By this I mean that there is no discernible interest in developing an agenda that could move the state forward.” The fault lies on both sides of the aisle. On the Democratic side, when Wendy Davis’ campaign manager, Karin Johanson, was asked by
HORNS DOWN: ADMINISTRATORS CAN’T TAKE FALL FOR TSM On Tuesday, The Daily Texan reported that several prominent administrators have denied making the final decision to bring Texas Student Media’s, known as TSM, properties under the domain of the Moody College of Communication. The administrators — including the vice president for student affairs, the dean of the College of Communication and even President William Powers Jr. — seem to have played a large role in the acquisition, so it’s surprising that they are all passing the buck. In an editorial last Thursday, we expressed concern over unanswered questions surrounding the move — namely, that TSM’s new home could potentially threaten the Texan’s editorial independence. And, while we continue to trust that both Powers and Roderick Hart, the College of Communication dean, have nothing but good intentions, we are worried that the confusion over who pulled the trigger could be a sign of what’s to come. We hope a future dialogue between the Moody College of Communication and TSM can be open and free, and we are disappointed by the lack of transparency that has dominated the acquisition.
HORNS UP: NEW METRORAPID ROUTE TO SPEED UP TRAVEL As this paper reported Tuesday, Capital Metro is launching a new service of rapid-transit buses called MetroRapid on Sunday, starting with Rapid 801, which will service the UT area. As befits their name, the new buses are expected to speed up travel along at least some corridors by such methods as limiting stops and prioritizing bus traffic at intersections over regular car traffic. The new convenience, however, comes at a cost, both literally and figuratively. On the literal front, bus fare will increase to $1.50, from the regular $1.00 of the non-express buses. This might not impose a figurative cost on the bus-riding community, however. As Jace Deloney, Urban Transportation Committee member and founder of citizens transit group Austinites for Urban Rail Action, told us, Cap Metro might seen an overall increase in ridership. What will drag the new service down on the figurative front is the fact that at least one of the routes, Rapid 803, which will begin operation this summer, will be formed by absorbing the Pickle Research Campus shuttle route, which currently operates nonstop between campus and the research facility. Still, even with the fare hike, we are enthusiastic about this new option for students and hope that it begins to chip away at the infuriating traffic problems that bedevil Austinites each and every day.
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Students board a Capital Metro bus in September of last year.
HORNS DOWN: STUDENTS FAIL TO FINISH ONLINE COURSES The results of UT’s experiment with Massive Open Online Courses are in, and, unfortunately, the numbers are underwhelming. According to a Texas Tribune report Tuesday, completion rates for the courses — which are free, online classes that UT professors create, supervise and teach — ranged from 1-13 percent. Though the courses boast high enrollment and allow participants to learn at a self-taught pace, they do little to encourage the thousands of enrolled students to stick it out until the end of the semester, raising questions about the expensive course’s value to students. Critics contend that the low completion rates don’t tell the whole story of the system’s value, but, since the courses fail to offer actual college credit, there is little incentive to finish. This online experiment has been far from the smashing success that UT was hoping for and is even further away from being the future of learning on campus like supporters have argued that it would be. These courses have taken unnecessary time and money from other tried-and-true methods of teaching on campus, and students should be more than a little bit concerned at this less-than-great measures of the online system’s present success.
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State Sen. Wendy Davis announces her candidacy in October 2013.
The Texas Tribune to “boil down Wendy Davis’ message to a paragraph,” she responded, “I’m for the regular guy. I mean I think that’s pretty basic. There are all kinds of things that can shoot out from that, but — for the little guy. I think they think of her as brave and principled. I mean, I think that’s what happened with the
filibuster, that people thought she stood up for 13 hours and that she was a principled person.” “Basic” is one way to describe it. Vague is another. But of course, in the classic fashion of an adviser whose race it is to lose, the Abbott campaign manager refused to give an interview at all.
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In Texas Senate, “two-thirds” rule preserves minority power By Noah Horwitz
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There are four Republican candidates for lieutenant governor this year: incumbent David Dewhurst, Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples, Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson and state Sen. Dan Patrick. With all four vying to win the Republican primary — a contest determined by the just over 10 percent of voters, many of them passionate conservatives — the candidates have unsurprisingly been taking political positions further and further to the right. Most of the lieutenant governor’s powers involve the position’s role as the president of the Texas Senate. The lieutenant governor presides over the chamber, names the chairmen of the ever-powerful committees and helps to craft the rules at the beginning of each session. Accordingly, many of the far-right ideas propagated by these candidates will involve changing the way the Senate works and runs. And in Texas, where the state Senate features a Democratic Party that is in the minority and desperate to use every dilatory maneuver at its disposal, this could mean big changes to the rules in the legislative process that currently benefit the minority. According to the lieutenant governor hopefuls, the most odious abuse of power from Democrats in the Senate stems from the use of the dreaded two-thirds rule. The idea is actually quite simple: A supermajority of the Senate — 21 of the 31 senators — must agree on a bill before it is brought to the floor. The rule, which originated when Democrats held all 31 seats in the Senate, is designed to protect minority interests and viewpoints in the deliberative body. Despite the fact that Dewhurst was strongly in favor of this parliamentary hurdle earlier in his lieutenant governorship, the policy’s fate now looks much more uncertain, no matter which Republican candidate takes the reigns. But to remove it would eliminate some sacred safeguards in our system of checks and balances, which protect both geographical and political minority interests. Of course, if you ask any of the Republicans running for lieutenant governor, they will not admit that they want to vanquish this protection of minority interests. Patrick, in a push that has been affirmed by the other candidates, said he believes 60 percent should be the new threshold. The percentage conveniently works out to 19 senators, the exact number of members in the Senate Republican caucus. In other words, make no mistake: Lowering the threshold by even those two votes would have the capacity to
Democrats and urban Republicans will team up. Mark my words, we will run this state together.
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I don’t want to see anyone get steamrolled. — David Dewhurst, Lt. Governor
completely eliminate any semblance of power or relevance that the Senate Democratic caucus may currently have. Despite these concerns, the big pushback against the two-thirds rule fails to take into consideration the myriad other functions of the policy besides blocking controversial red vs. blue bills. Historically, the rule was designed to protect rural interests against those of urban concerns. So with approximately 19 senators hailing from the cities and suburbs today, changing the two-thirds rule may disadvantage not only Democrats, but also rural areas. “Democrats and urban Republicans will team up,” said state Sen. John Whitmire, D-Houston, and dean of the upper chamber. “Mark my words, we will run this state together.” This view has been reaffirmed by other Democratic state senators, who appear rather confident that a change in the rules would foster positive benefits for them in addition to the obvious drawbacks. Simply put, while the more controversial social issues come up every once in a while, the vast majority of the Legislature’s business is mundane, day-to-day financial measures that split legislators more geographically than politically. Especially when it comes to important monetary choices on water and transportation, an urban coalition would have the capacity to steamroll over the rural minority. When I mentioned this to Dewhurst, he simply said, “I don’t want to see anyone get steamrolled,” but avoided being specific as to how that would be avoided. Dewhurst, of course, is a Houstonian, as are Patterson and Patrick. Dewhurst was adamant that this possible harm to rural areas or other minority interests would all be worth it because the Democrats are unreasonably stubborn in their demands, “not even coming to the table.” Whitmire would definitely disagree with this assessment. He spoke of Democrats and Republicans coming together to reform gun laws, appeasing conservative demands while still placating liberal concerns. Specifically pertaining to UT students, in the compromise he claims credit for, students may now bring their handguns to campus in their locked cars, while a more ambitious proposal to allow concealed carry on campus was tabled. “The system worked,” Whitmire said. “And Republicans were content with what we accomplished, so ‘campus carry’ was not resurrected in a special session.” The two-thirds rule is an important tradition with honorable motives in our state Senate. It protects both political and geographical minorities, and it encourages collaboration and bipartisanship. The rule should not be eliminated or diminished, no matter the desires of the current Republican leadership. Horwitz is a government junior from Houston.
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COACHES continues from page 6 successfully revived his coaching career following Texas’ defensive turn-around in 2013. If Robinson is unable to land the job, it is unknown what and where he will be coaching in the future, and his prospects may be pretty limited despite a successful 2013 campaign. Major Applewhite Rumors circulated that Applewhite would rejoin Will Muschamp at the University of Florida, but that door closed before the Alamo Bowl was played. On Jan. 2, it was reported by SBNation that Applewhite had accepted a one-year severance package, but details of his future are uncertain at this point. Manny Diaz After being demoted following an embarrassing
showing in Provo, Utah, Diaz fell off the coaching radar. So it came as a bit of a surprise when it was announced Tuesday that his next coaching job will be defensive coordinator at Louisiana Tech. Duane Akina Reports on Cal’s SBNation website indicate that Akina could be bringing the “Defensive Back U” to UC-Berkeley. If Akina is hired at Berkeley as defensive backs coach, it seems logical that Robinson would make the move as well. Bo Davis On Jan. 7, Davis was named USC’s defensive line coach, after Strong decided to combine the line position. That stint lasted one week before he bolted to Tuscaloosa after Texas hired
Chris Rumph from Alabama. The two switched places, reuniting Davis with Nick Saban and the Crimson Tide for the foreseeable future. Darrell Wyatt After not being retained by Texas, Wyatt’s name has come up in numerous offensive coordinator searches and he is a finalist for the head coach position at Sam Houston State. Stacy Searels On Jan. 5, it seemed Searels was the front-runner for Florida’s offensive line job. But, just a day later, the Gators went in a different direction. With that opportunity gone, Searels is now a candidate to coach Virginia Tech’s offensive line. Larry Porter Since losing his job, there
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Former Texas defensive backs coach Duane Akina does not have a new job yet, but there are reports he could accept the same role at UC-Berkeley.
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Oscar Giles The hiring of Rumph resulted in Giles being let
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accomplished things in 19 games that last year’s didn’t in 34. The 2014 Longhorns have won four of their five away games, including an 86-83 victory over No. 14 North Carolina. Road games were a challenge for last year’s team, as they won just two all year — neither of which were against a ranked opponent. What has spurred this turnaround? One factor has been offensive balance. Last year’s team struggled to find an offensive rhythm, which led to poor shot selection and ball distribution. As a
The Longhorns open the dual-match season at home Wednesday against UTSA. No. 17 Texas endured a rough 6-24 record this past weekend in Miami against three other topranked universities. Today, the team matches up against one of the two unranked opponents it will face during its nonconference schedule. All-American sophomore Breaunna Addison was 1-1 in singles in Miami after she lost to a lower-
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player averaged more than six rebounds a game. Led by Holmes and Ridley, who both pull down more than seven rebounds per game, the Longhorns are averaging nearly 42 a game, good for eighth in the country. What all this boils down to is a revived men’s basketball program, something that no one saw coming entering a season that many believed could be Barnes’ last. With 12 conference games remaining, including two against AP’s eighth-ranked Kansas, we’ll see what these guys have up their sleeves next.
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result, only three players averaged double-digit points per game and no player who attempted more than 60 shots had a shooting percentage more than 50 percent. This year’s team is far more balanced, resulting in more scoring across the board. The Longhorns currently have four players averaging more than 10 points per game and a whopping five who are shooting over 50 percent from the field having attempted more than 60 shots. Another factor is toughness. Last season, no Texas
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The Texas bench and fans react after Jonathan Holmes’ buzzer-beating 3-pointer against Kansas State, which gave Texas a 67-64 win. The victory moved the Longhorns to 4-2 in the Big 12, a marked improvement from their 1-5 start in the 2012-2013 season.
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The scene at the Frank Erwin Center was a familiar one for the Longhorns on Tuesday night. Texas and Kansas State traded baskets all night, with neither team ever leading by more than six. The game would come down to who could hit the last shot. This time, with 1.9 seconds remaining on the clock and the ball on the sideline, junior forward Jonathon Holmes received an inbound pass in the corner and drilled a fade-away 3-pointer to give the Longhorns another close win, 67-64. “The shot was exciting just because it was great to get the ‘W,’” Holmes said “It’s hard to win in the Big 12, so to get a win against Kansas State — a ranked team — is very big.” Texas, who is now 11–2 in 13 games decided by 10 points or less this season, led for the majority of the first three quarters of the game, but terrible shooting plagued the Longhorns in the final 10 minutes of the game and kept the Wildcats in it. After converting 51.7 percent of their field goals in the first half, the Longhorns went cold in the second half, hitting a miserable 39.3 percent of their attempts. Sophomore point guard Javan Felix, who shot
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Jonathan Holmes and Texas teammates sing “The Eyes of Texas” after the Longhorns’ 67-64 win over Kansas State. Holmes had eight points and 10 rebounds in the victory.
the ball well in the first half, opened the second half with a series of misses, and his teammates followed suit. Texas made just seven of its first 21 secondhalf attempts. “Those missed shots are just part of the game,” Barnes said. “You’re going to miss some shots, but you just have to keep shooting.” Despite their struggles early in the second half, the Longhorns made enough stops on the defensive end to give themselves a chance to win it at the end. Leading by two with 12 seconds to go and a chance to seal the game, Felix missed two free throws. Kansas State’s Shane Southwell grabbed the rebound off the second miss and took the ball coast-tocoast, throwing up a prayer in the lane that splashed through the mesh, tying
the game at 64 with seven seconds to go. After advancing the ball and calling a timeout with four ticks left on the clock, Texas failed to execute and was forced to call yet another timeout, this time with just 1.9 seconds left. “The first time it was supposed to be for [Felix],” Holmes said. “So I knew they would be thinking about [Felix] again after the second timeout. I was the second option on the play, and I knew, if my guy went with [Felix], I would be open.” The remaining seconds were all the time the Longhorns would need. Freshman point guard Isaiah Taylor found Holmes, who had rolled to the corner after setting a screen, and the team’s only upperclassman hit the biggest shot of his three-year career on the 40 Acres.
Fresh off an 86-76 victory over No. 8 Iowa State — its first win against a top-10 opponent in three years — and an upset victory over Kansas State on Tuesday night, the Texas men’s basketball team is relevant again. To appreciate this team’s suprisingly hot start to the 2013-2014 season doesn’t require a lot of searching — last year’s team was the worst in Rick Barnes’ tenure at Texas. What a difference a year can make. At this point last January,
Texas was 9-10 and 1-5 in conference play. Its offense was anemic — topping 80 points just once — largely a product of having seven freshmen on the roster. Fast forward to this season. The Longhorns own a 15-4 record, including a 4-2 record in conference play. Much of this can be attributed to a short uptick offensively, which has flourished thanks to strong play by junior forward Jonathan Holmes and sophomore guard Javan Felix. Already, the team has scored 80 points or more nine times this season, a clear sign the team has moved past last year’s growing pains. In addition, the current Longhorns have
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Freshman point guard Isaiah Taylor has played a large role in Texas’ offensive surge in 2013-14. Texas averaged 65.6 points per game last season. This year that total is up to 77.7.
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Where are they now? An update on former UT coaches By Drew Lieberman @DrewLieberman
When Mack Brown announced his resignation Dec. 14 it was clear there would be massive changes in 2014 for the entire coaching staff. New head coach Charlie Strong only retained Bruce Chambers for his first staff at Texas, meaning everyone else was forced to find somewhere else to coach or something else to do. Mack Brown Since leaving the Longhorn
program, Brown has stayed in the public eye via Twitter. Brown live-tweeted the BCS Title game, as well as the Broncos-Patriots AFC Title game. He recently used the platform to state that he is not interested in coaching in the NFL and looks forward to attending tailgates with Texas fans this fall. Greg Robinson Robinson is a finalist for the California defensive coordinator job, after he
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Former Texas defensive coordinator Manny Diaz found a new job Tuesday. Diaz will be Louisiana Tech’s defensive coordinator in 2014.
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SPORTS BRIEFLY Jury deliberates former Cowboy Brent’s trial
Jurors on Tuesday began deliberating the intoxication manslaughter case against former Dallas Cowboys player Josh Brent, who is accused of drunkenly crashing his car during a night out and killing his passenger, who was a close friend and teammate. The jury got the case after lawyers delivered their closing arguments to a packed courtroom. Among those watching were Stacey Jackson, whose son Jerry Brown was killed in the December 2012 wreck, and Cowboys linebacker Sean Lee. Jackson has publicly forgiven Brent, whose sentence could range from probation to 20 years in prison, if he is convicted. Brown, a linebacker on the Cowboys’ practice squad who also played with Brent at the University of Illinois, were headed home from a nightclub where they had been partying with fellow Cowboys when Brent lost control of his Mercedes, causing a fiery accident. Officers who arrived on scene said Brent was seen trying to pull Brown’s body from the wreckage. Prosecutors say Brent was driving as fast as 110 miles per hour at the time of the crash and that blood tests showed his blood alcohol content was 0.18 percent, which is more than twice Texas’ legal limit to drive of 0.08 percent. Prosecutors allege that the burly, 320-pound defensive tackle had as many as 17 drinks on the night of the crash. Brent’s attorneys contend that the blood tests used by police were faulty and that Brent couldn’t have drunk nearly that much alcohol. —Associated Press
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Students master classical guitar By Kritika Kulshrestha @kritika88
Stephen Krishnan was 4 years old when he first began playing the classical guitar. Krishnan — now a UT senior pursuing his Bachelor of Music in guitar performance — met classical guitarist Robby Brown, who is pursuing the master’s degree at the Butler School of Music, when he came to UT. Brown and Krishnan perform back-toback at the Cactus Cafe on Thursday, setting the stage for acclaimed classical guitarist Alexander Milovanov from Belarus. As a freshman in high school, Brown began playing the electric guitar, became interested in jazz guitar and began to study jazz music in his senior year. “I just wanted to explore music in a deeper way and learn different styles of guitar playing,” Brown said. Hailing from a family of artists and musicians, Brown began his undergraduate studies at The University of Southern Mississippi as a jazz studies major, learning classical guitar on the side because it was a required elective. “As time went on, I realized I love to play it, and I just kept on practicing and practicing, and eventually classical guitar took over,” Brown said. Brown switched his major to guitar performance his junior year. He later
auditioned for and joined UT’s master’s program. Krishnan, on the other hand, has been playing classical guitar since childhood. He began training in classical guitar with the Suzuki Program, an early childhood music program, when he was 4. “I never went into taking guitar lessons with the expectations of becoming a professional guitarist,” Krishnan said. “My family wanted me to learn to play a classical instrument, and it was originally going to be violin. None of us had any idea what the classical guitar was at that time, but, when we went to a music school in Connecticut and heard one of the performers play the classical guitar, my parents and I just fell in love with the instrument instantly.” Krishnan continued the Suzuki Program until he was 16 years old. He knew he wanted to pursue his undergraduate studies in music, and he began applying to various schools. He finally chose UT because he wanted to train under guitar professor Adam Holzman. The classical music scene in Austin also offered him numerous opportunities to teach and learn the classical guitar, according to Krishnan. Both Krishnan and Brown now compete in guitar competitions. Krishnan competes as a part of the UT Guitar Quartet, an undergraduateonly ensemble, while Brown
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Classical guitarists and music students Stephen Krishnan and Robby Brown will perform back-to-back at the Cactus Cafe Thursday. Initially both Krishnan and Brown had no intentions of becoming professional guitarists, but now hope to teach classical guitar.
competes in solo competitions. He recently won the Classical Minds Festival and Competition held in Houston in June 2013. Krishnan and Brown are both part of the UT Guitar Studio led by Holzman. They each spend up to six hours every day perfecting their craft. “Classical music is seen as an elite form of music, but people should seek out and experience classical music for what it is,” Brown
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said. “Being surrounded by all the great guitar players in the studio and having a good teacher who knows how to make a guitar player sound great is a really great motivator.” Holzman has been working with Brown for a year and half and with Krishnan for three and a half years. “They are both hardworking,” Holzman said. “You have to be incredibly inquisitive, talented, musical, disciplined and hardworking
to succeed.” Krishnan has also been a volunteer at the Austin Classical Guitar society, which hosts several concert series for performers and organizes events and education outreach programs for the community. “He’s someone who welcomes the audience into the experience,” said Matthew Hinsley, executive director at ACG. “He’s one of the most kind, patient individuals. Outright mastery of the
subject is a critical element that’s going to make him a successful teacher.” Brown and Krishnan both hope to become more involved in teaching classical guitar in the future. While Krishnan hopes to give more performances as part of a guitar ensemble, Brown aspires to be a concert artist and also pursue his doctorate degree in music. “Music means a lot to me,” Brown said. “Music inspires me to live life.”
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End of and Ear’s expansion opens new music horizons By David Sackllah @dsackllah
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Crime series explores human mind By Wyatt Miller @wyattamiller
In the short span of two episodes, HBO’s crime anthology series “True Detective” introduced viewers to the most intrinsically complicated duo since “Breaking Bad”’s Walter and Jesse. “True Detective” can be considered HBO’s answer to FX’s “American Horror Story.” Each season will serve as its own self-contained narrative with a definite beginning, middle and end. The first season zeroes in on detectives Rust Cohle and Martin Hart, whose investigation of a grisly murder evolves into a 17-year search for answers. While the whodunit aspect of the premise is the superficial drawing point for viewers, the show’s most essential aspect is its psychological exploration of its two leads. Cohle and Hart, played with fiery chemistry by Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, respectively, are polar opposites. Hart is the good cop, a man who claims to live simply. He adheres to the
stability of a married life and fits the mold of a good father to his two daughters. He serves as an entry point for viewers, and, at first glance, he appears to serve the role of an everyman counterbalance to McConaughey’s eccentric Cohle. As of the second episode, the thin veil of this self-purported family man has been all but torn away through his steamy love affair with a much younger woman. Rather than acknowledging this misstep, Hart instead justifies it as a means of keeping his marriage alive. This believable reversal of viewer expectations in the span of two episodes is a deft feat of writing prowess coupled with a passive aggressive performance by Harrelson. Rather than continuing to explore Hart, episode two shifts narrative gears and brings viewers into the bleak and kaleidoscopically disturbed mind of Cohle. After a life of great tragedy and emotional upheaval, Cohle is a shell of a man who exists because he must. He enters the story following a failed marriage perpetuated
by the accidental death of his 3-year-old daughter. This event spiraled Cohle into a whirlwind of drug abuse and violence, which further stoked his inner workings. The show has its share of dark humor, with Cohle often spouting his dogma of depression much to the hilarious chagrin of the more grounded Hart. From Cohle’s existential musings comes the show’s best writing, exhibiting a brooding tone that carries with it a hauntingly insightful wisdom. McConaughey is brilliant here, giving an unusually subdued but altogether commanding, performance that is unlike anything he’s done before. “True Detective” is shaping up to be one of the best shows of 2014. In just two episodes, the stunning performances of its two leads have shown that this is not only a show about solving a mystery. “True Detective” is a show about solving the minds of two men by uncovering the skillfully hidden clues within human relationships. The mystery is just icing on the cake.
With close to 10 record stores, Austin has many opportunities for music collectors to find rare albums and discover new music. One of these stores that has become a local institution over the years is End of an Ear. Located on South First Street among an assortment of taco joints, the store has won The Austin Chronicle’s award for “Best Small Record/CD Store” for the past six years in a row. In December, the store underwent a large expansion that allows it to carry a wide range of audio equipment on top of its already expansive music collection. End of an Ear specializes in selling new and used vinyl, but also boasts a robust CD collection, an assortment of DVDs, VHS tapes, books and various independent zines, along with a newly improved selection of audio equipment. Previously crammed into a tight space toward the back of the store, the audio equipment — which includes receivers, speakers and turntables — is now prominently displayed along a wall of shelves in the new back room. The back room was added after the owner of the vintage clothing store next door decided to relocate. End of an Ear purchased the space, and
the addition gave the store about 1,000 extra square feet of room, bringing its size up to about 3,000-4,000 square feet. Aside from housing the expanded audio equipment selection, the add-on is also the new home for the store’s shipping and receiving area. With about 45,000 records in stock at any given time, vinyl makes up the majority of the store’s sales. The selection is large, but carefully curated. Blake Carlisle, who co-owns the store along with Dan Plunkett, explained that the wide variety is mainly due to the staff actively seeking out good music from smaller labels around the world. “We try to have quality used records rather than having the same ones that everyone else has,” Carlisle said. Carlisle and Plunkett are picky when it comes to buying inventory, often relegating less interesting records to the dollar bin section in a separate part of the store. Carlisle’s reasoning is that he doesn’t want customers to flip through Doris Day or Reader’s Digest records to get to what they really want. Carlisle and Plunkett acknowledge that everyone’s opinion is different, which is the main reason why they carry such a varied selection of musical styles, selling as many interesting jazz, new wave and hip-hop records as they do
metal or dance. End of an Ear also boasts a large cassette collection. But specializing in this medium was not something the owners originally set out to do. “It just sort of happened,” Plunkett said. “There were a lot of artists and labels. We liked putting out material that was only on cassette, so that’s how we ended up carrying so many.” Aside from its vast inventory, End of an Ear also plays host to intimate live shows throughout each year. Some past performers include artists such as Kurt Vile, Speedy Ortiz, Fear of Men and Perfume Genius. As far as upcoming shows go, the store expects to have some in-store performances for South By Southwest, even though nothing has been finalized yet. One upcoming event it has definite plans for is Austin Psych Fest in May. There are a few in-store performances scheduled, and Plunkett said that the festival always brings a lot of new customers to the store. “Last year we could tell a notable difference,” Plunkett said. “The people who come to town for [Austin] Psych Fest tend to be more of collectors. There were a lot of people who came in from France shopping here last year.” Customers Ronnie Miller and Valerie Hernandez browse through the vinyl selection at End of an Ear on Thursday afternoon. The record store underwent an expansion to accommodate a wide range of audio equipment last December.
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