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Pro-abortion group rallies at Capitol

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By Christina Breitbeil @christinabreit

At a pro-abortion rally and march Saturday, Texas congressional candidates said they were opposed to House Bill 2, though they did not have specific plans to address the bill’s provisions. Louie Minor, a candidate for Texas Congressional District 31, said his purpose in attending the event was to support the people fighting for a “right to choose.” “The good thing about

running for office is that things like HB 2 are taken care of on the judicial side,” Minor said. “With things like this [event], we’re going to keep focusing on upcoming legislation, and that’s what’s going to create a ‘changing of the guards’ from Republican to Democratic control.” The pro-abortion event occurred while the constitutionality of HB 2, which was passed in July, is being considered by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The attorney general placed an

emergency stop on a federal judge’s ruling to strike down certain portions of the bill last fall. HB 2 banned abortions after a woman has been pregnant for 20 weeks and required abortion providers to upgrade their facilities to meet the standards of surgical centers. The rally, organized by proabortion group TX Project Counter, celebrated the 41st anniversary of Roe v. Wade — the Supreme Court case

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Anti-abortion supporters lined the gates of the Capitol to protest an anti-abortion rally Saurday afternoon.

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Texas tops three straight ranked opponents for first time in program history

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Three straight wins over top-25 teams and three different heroes in each game. Perhaps no one description defines Texas’ season more than that unselfishness. There isn’t a superstar on the floor to guide this group or a first round pick to steer it. Instead, head coach Rick Barnes has constructed a young team with a workman-like attitude, unafraid of success. The Longhorns (16-4, 5-2 Big 12) smothered No. 24 Baylor, 74-60, on Saturday afternoon to notch their fifth-straight victory in Big 12 play, the last three of which came against No.

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Sophomore center Prince Ibeh slammed a powerful dunk to reclaim Texas’ lead with 3:35 left in the first half Saturday. The Longhorns retained the advantage against the Bears through game’s end, overpowering them en route to a 74-60 finish.

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As unusually cold weather hit Austin this weekend and forced the University and most city offices to close down, volunteers drove throughout Austin to find and count homeless people for an annual census. The Ending Community Homeless Coalition, a nonprofit organization, conducted its annual count of sheltered and unsheltered transients in Austin on Friday and Saturday. The coalition provides resources to homeless and at-risk populations and collects and redistributes data on homeless populations. According to Ann Gill Howard, ECHO executive director, the organization uses data to develop better strategies to end homelessness. “Good decisions in the 21st century make use of good data,” Howard said. “We must understand the needs of the people in order to provide the correct intervention that will promote housing stability.” Transient Sherry Jones has resided in the vicinity of Guadalupe for approximately a year. Jones said there are limited resources for homeless people during cold weather. Jones said for the past two nights, she stayed with her husband Mike and three other people outside of a church near campus. She said because she and her husband are not legally married, getting shelter together is difficult. “I only go to the shelter when my husband makes me,” Jones, who is pregnant, said. “I go to the shelter when he tells me to because he thinks I’ll get

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Senior lecturer, in-house meteorologist warns, protects students from elements By Julia Brouillette @juliakbrou

As a child, Troy Kimmel cowered at the sound of thunder. Now, according to colleagues in his field, he is one of Texas’s most admired meteorologists. The man with the selfdescribed “longest title on campus” is UT’s incident meteorologist under the Office of Campus Safety and Security and a senior lecturer in the department of geography and the environment. Kimmel said when he first started working at the University, he did not expect he would stay for more than two decades. “I was brought on as faculty in the department of geography in the fall of 1988 and was told it was a one-semester commitment,” Kimmel said. “That was

almost 26 years ago.” As part of the Campus Safety and Security Committee, Kimmel advises University officials — including President William Powers Jr. — when inclement weather strikes. “When they want to know something, they call [me],” Kimmel said. “I’m here to help them.” When Longhorn game days roll around, Kimmel works with officials from UTPD, the FBI and the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to ensure everyone in the stadium is safe. “My concerns are lightning, thunderstorms and severe weather,” Kimmel said. “We come up with scenarios and say, ‘How would we work this? What would happen if this happened?’ We try to be as proactive as we can because, in this business, you

Jonathon Garza / Daily Texan Staff

(From left to right) Farah Anwar, Heba Ahmad, Alexandria Sanchez and Rebekah Voigt sled down Inner Campus Drive on Friday.

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UT’s incident meteorologist Troy Kimmel is also a senior lecturer in the department of geography and the environment.

don’t want to be reactive.” Kimmel began his career in broadcast meteorology in 1978. Since then, he has worked for several local TV stations, including KVUE, Fox 7 and KEYE TV. “I have been at every TV station on the face of the earth in Austin,” Kimmel said. “I’ve been doing radio

stuff for a long time too.” Kimmel left broadcast television in 2012 but still serves as chief meteorologist for KOKE FM radio. “I think the [TV] business has sort of changed, and it kind of changed in a way that I wasn’t as comfortable with as

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Friday’s freezing weather caused roadway mayhem By Julia Brouillette @juliakbrou

This weekend’s frozen roadways caused more than a traffic jam for many people, resulting in 278 crash-related incidents between 6 p.m. Thursday and 10 a.m. Friday, according to Austin police chief Art Acevedo. Sleet began to fall around

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5:30 p.m. on Thursday in Austin, coating the city with a thin layer of ice. By midnight, both UT and Austin Independent School District announced there would be no classes Friday. Troy Kimmel, chief meteorologist for the UT campus safety and security committee,

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continues from page 1 sick or something because of the baby.” Howard said the recent cold weather may influence data collected in this year’s count. She said because more people may take advantage of cold weather shelters, fewer homeless may be counted as unsheltered and more may be counted as sheltered. Howard said the greatest barriers for homeless or atrisk populations getting the resources they need is access to affordable housing and jobs suitable for persons who struggle with addictions or mental illness. “[Chronically homeless people] face many barriers to housing, like poor credit and rent history, low or no income and mental illness that makes relationships with landlords and neighbors difficult,” Howard said. “So, when they see teams of folks walking the streets in January, they recognize them as count volunteers

and often cooperate.” Jones said her godfather is helping her apply for government disability benefits and housing, which she said she will receive in February. She said her godfather’s friend helps her attend prenatal appointments and receive medication for bipolar disorder. Laurent Gandy is co-chair of Hunger and Homelessness Outreach, a student organization that volunteers with homeless populations near campus. Gandy said data collected by ECHO may be helpful to increase awareness of the needs of transients and influence their volunteering and voting decisions.

Transient Daylan Taylor has lived near Guadalupe for the past eight months.

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“I think it might be helpful to get the number [of Austin transients] to the public

because I don’t think people necessarily realize how many people are homeless,” Gandy

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preventing states from outlawing abortions during the first trimester of pregnancy. The group also advocated for an expansion of access to health care, specifically for Texas women seeking abortions. Attendees also included Chris Osborn, who is running for Texas State Representative District 52, and John Bucy, who is running for Texas State Representative District 136. The candidates said they attended the rally to stand by the pro-abortion advocates, who will be voting in the upcoming November election cycle. Osborn said he does not follow the deliberation surrounding HB 2 but doesn’t agree with A the Texas Legislature’s at-after tempts to “limit women’sand s reproductive rights.” D-Fo “As a general proposi-of he tion, HB 2 is unfortunate,”aimed Osborn said. “The govern-numb ment is trying to createselors inroads to take away wom-dents en’s constitutional right totial im make decisions about their Th own bodies.” “Grea Event organizers warnedis to against possible threats ofteach violence posed by whatTexas they called “anti-choice”versit groups, who gathered atcial in the Capitol — where theed, th march ended — to protestschoo Texas Judge R.H. Wallacemit to Jr.’s order to take pregnantreer — and brain-dead Marliseautom Munoz off life support, ter-Texas minating the pregnancy.propo The Fort Worth hospitala pol took the woman off lifeloan support Sunday. per tw Stacy Guidry, an orga- Sev nizer for the rally, said theplan pro-abortion groups takeDrew a nonviolent approachcamp when rallying. secre “We are about peace,”swer Guidry said. “We are notimple provoked. Let’s send aal d strong message that wefor co promote peace and respect Ky and love.” tiona

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continues from page 1 said the UT community was prepared for the ice storm well in advance. “On Tuesday, I called vice president [Gerald] Harkins and said, ‘We may have a problem Thursday night,‘” Kimmel said. “We maintain a weather email list on campus, and I started cranking things out.” In preparation for the storm, Texas Department of Transportation crews started spraying area roadways with a deicing treatment Wednesday afternoon. By midday Friday, the crews had sprayed 2,500 gallons of liquid deicer and dropped 250 tons of granular deicer on Central Texas roads, according to TxDOT spokeswoman Kelli Reyna. According to Capt. Josh Portie, the Austin Fire Department responded to approximately

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continues from page 1 I had been in the past,” Kimmel said. “In radio, you have to tell a story, and you only have one opportunity to do it. You have to be able to do it verbally. That’s what I like about it.” Kimmel teaches both an introductory class entitled Weather and Climate and an upper-division class called Severe and Unusual Weather. One of Kimmel’s students, architecture sophomore Clayton Cain, said Kimmel’s experience enhances the quality of his lectures. “It’s so cool to have a professor with a background like his,” Cain said. When asked about his hobbies, Kimmel laughed and said

36 vehicle collisions between Thursday evening and Saturday morning. “Based on what was projected, the weather wasn’t anything that our normal operations couldn’t manage or handle, and they were able to,” Portie said. Although some vehicular wrecks resulted in multiple injuries, no weather-related fatalities were reported, During emergency situations, the Travis County Emergency Operations Center is the command center for all Austin-area response agencies. “When the Emergency Operations Center is activated, our people on the fire trucks can actually help keep TxDOT updated on what’s going on with the roadways, even without them having the resources out there,” Portie said. In addition to affecting the roads, the weather posed difficulties for flights. Austin-B ergstrom

the time-consuming nature of his responsibilities leaves him little free time. “Hobbies? What’s that?” he said. If Kimmel is not busy teaching, advising committees or forecasting the weather, he is collecting airline memorabilia. He owns cabinets full of aircraft models and even a beverage cart or two he bought off of an airline. Kimmel, a self-described “airline hoarder,” said the history of U.S. airlines interests him the most. “In 2014, relative to the past, we have few airlines,” Kimmel said. “We have a lot of mergers going on, so the history of those airlines are kind of getting tied up in the mergers. … That history, to me, is fascinating, and to

International Airport, which averages about 280 flights each day, reported more than 60 flight cancellations between Thursday evening and Friday afternoon. This had a minor effect on normal operations, according to Jason Zielinski, public information specialist for the city’s aviation department. “That’s still significant, especially for those whose flights were canceled — but, in the big picture, 60 of 560 isn’t a whole lot,” Zielinski said. Zielinski said, when flights scheduled to arrive Thursday evening were canceled, the lack of available departure planes on Friday resulted in more cancellations. “Since we had so many arrivals canceled Thursday night, instead of having about 45 planes spending the night, we only had about 15,” Zielinski said. Zielinski said, by early Friday afternoon, planes resumed a normal schedule.

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Runners don gorilla suits for conservatory By Danielle Lopez @thedailytexan

More than 700 people walked, ran or biked through the streets of Austin on Saturday while dressed in gorilla costumes. The gorilla-suited runners, many of whom decked their costumes out with creative accessories, such as ballerina skirts, capes and angel wings, competed in the Austin Gorilla Run, a 5K sponsored by the Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund, which raises money for a recovering population of mountain gorillas in Africa. Participants completed the 5K Saturday morning at the Mueller Browning Hangar and joined the organization and its many local Austin sponsors for an after-party. Tammy Pirtle, the second-place winner for most creative costume, ran in the race for the first time. “I can’t believe I hadn’t heard of this before,” Pirtle said. “I just came out to support the cause. I’m from Austin, and this is just so who we are.” The Austin Gorilla Run’s growing popularity has brought in all kinds of people to the event. Participating for his second time was 73-year-old Jerry Christiansen from Dripping Springs, who came in first place on his bike. Clad in distinctively pink gorilla suits, given only to those who raised $300 or more, were runners Anna Woodroe and Elizabeth Wood, who visited from Canada. “We thought, if we’re going to go to Austin, we better do something,” Woodroe said. Wood said they wanted to make the most of their

Well, our event is weird enough as it is — might as well go down [to Austin] and make it even weirder. —Frank Keesling Vice president of Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund

trip to Austin. “So, she Googled ‘weird things to do in Austin, Texas,’ and it came up with the gorilla race,” Wood said. The Gorilla Runs originated in Denver, Colo., in 2004, but their success allowed for expansion to other cities, such as Austin, Cincinnati and Edmonton, Canada, in 2009. “We’d met a group of wonderful individuals over here in Austin and I said, ‘Well, our event is weird enough as it is — might as well go down [to Austin] and make it even weirder,’” said Frank Keesling, vice president of the organization and son of Ruth Keesling, its founder. Debbie Wright, development director at the Mountain Gorilla Conservation Fund, said the fund has pledged more than $350,000 in support of the Ruth Keesling Wildlife Health and Research Center at Makerere University in Uganda, Africa. The center has educated more than 38 wildlife veterinarians who have helped raise the gorilla population of 248 in 1985 to an estimated 880 today. “After today, we’ll have raised $35,000 to $40,000,” Keesling said. “And as long as people want to run in gorilla suits, we’ll keep coming back.”

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Although classes and most University offices were closed Friday as a result of freezing temperatures and icy roads, on-campus dining options remained open in a limited capacity. Kinsolving Dining Hall and Jester City Limits were the only two campus dining options to remain open during the inclement weather. “[Kinsolving Dining and JCL] are the two central, large dining areas for the residents,” said Scott Meyer, director of food service in the Division of Student Affairs. “By focusing on these two dining areas, we were able to consolidate the staff who were able to make it into work and be sure to provide the largest number of residents with nutritious, high quality food options.” Cafeteria workers were not surprised when they were asked to come into work because they are classified as essential employees, according to Meyer. This job classification comes with the understanding that workers might be called into work when other University employees have the day off, as they are integral to maintaining many crucial resources for students. Advertising sophomore Tabbi Loter, who lives in Duren Hall, said she was not inconvenienced by the closures because she is already accustomed to limited hours at North Campus dining locations. “I didn’t even realize that there were so many dining halls closed today,” Loter said. “I guess it’s because Littlefield and a lot of other places nearby have pretty bad hours on Fridays and holidays, so I guess I’m used to it.” All dining halls resumed regular operating hours by Saturday morning. —Leila Ruiz

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A little more than a week after gubernatorial hopeful and state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, released part of her educational platform aimed toward increasing the number of teachers and counselors in Texas, graduate students weighed in on the potential impact. The aim of Davis’ proposal, “Great School: Great Texas,” is to increase the supply of teachers and counselors in Texas schools through university admissions and financial incentives. If implemented, the top 20 percent of high school juniors — if they commit to pursuing a teaching career — would be guaranteed automatic admission to any Texas public university. The proposal would also establish a policy by which one year of loan debt would be forgiven per two years of teaching. Several details about the plan are largely vague, and Drew Anderson, the Davis campaign’s regional press secretary, declined to answer specific questions about implementing the proposal despite several request for comment. Kyle Williams, educational psychology gradu-

ate student, said she thinks personal characteristics like patience and creativity are more important considerations of what make an effective teacher. “I think the 20-percent rule will attract smart people to the teaching profession, but that’s not always the key thing,” Williams said. “Most of the teachers I know do the job because teaching is their calling, not necessarily for the incentives, although those are very helpful.” Under the top-10-percent rule, 76.6 percent of all enrolled freshmen from Texas high schools admitted to UT were admitted, according to a fall 2013 enrollment analysis conducted by the University. Kay Randall, communications coordinator for the College of Education, said between 85 and 90 percent of students who complete the college’s teacher education programs become teachers. Ninety percent of this group find teaching positions immediately after graduation. Williams said she thinks Davis’ proposal could increase the number of people looking for teaching positions in Texas but said the measure is different from educating and attracting quality teachers. “I think that [financial and admission bonuses] would

make a great incentive and would be effective in attracting teachers, but, again, part of the issue is attracting students who will make good teachers, not just students who are getting teacher certified as a ‘back up,’ as I often hear it,” Williams said. Andrew Costigan, educational psychology graduate student, said he agrees with Davis’ idea to increase the number of school counselors. Costigan is a co-director for the Consortium for Research in Teachers Education, a student organization that aims to promote teachereducation research. Costigan said Davis’ plan to raise teacher pay may increase the appeal and status of teachers in society. “Teachers are notoriously underpaid and their job is extremely difficult and raising their pay will show that it’s an important job,” Costigan said. Costigan said he thinks the proposal is a good idea in general, but is concerned that some students may take advantage of the relatively lenient admission policy into the College of Education. “How do you account for people who try to take advantage of the loophole?” Costigan said. “I don’t know the answer to that.”

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Texas lawmakers must learn from Marlise Munoz At 11:29 a.m. Sunday, officials at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort Worth discontinued the life support of Marlise Munoz, a brain-dead, pregnant Texas woman who had been kept breathing for two months against the wishes of her family but, according to the hospital, in compliance with the laws of the state of Texas, which prevent a hospital from withdrawing or withholding “life-sustaining treatment … from a pregnant patient.” It took a court order from district Judge R.H. Wallace Jr. to convince the hospital to fulfill Munoz and her husband’s wishes. Now, Munoz’s family, according to a statement from their lawyers, will “proceed with the somber task of laying Marlise Munoz’s body to rest, and grieving over the great loss that has been suffered.” In the body of Marlise Munoz, Texans have a poignant and cruel example of the clash between the ideals of a law — in this case, to protect a human life at all costs — and their practical application. Disturbingly, the behavior of the county-owned John Peter Smith Hospital and the reaction of anti-abortion

politicians and lobbyists show just how far some Texans are willing to go to subvert a woman’s control over her own body. When Erick Munoz found his wife unconscious on the floor of their house, struck by an apparent blood clot, he, himself a paramedic, knew how to act. Marlise Munoz was quickly taken to the hospital, where she was placed on life support. Erick Munoz told the court that doctors told him his wife “was for all purposes brain-dead” and that she had “lost all activity in her brain stem.” In all 50 states, being declared brain-dead is tantamount to being declared dead. The fetus that the technically-dead Marlise Munoz was carrying had been harmed by the mother’s fall. According to Munoz’s attorneys, the fetus was described by doctors as “distinctly abnormal” and had a severely deformed lower torso. Knowing all this, the hospital still refused to take Marlise off life support, citing the Texas Advance Directives Act. That act states the wish of a woman to be

HORNS UP: UNIVERSITY RECASTS ‘IN THE HEIGHTS’ MUSICAL In November of last year, the College of Fine Arts promised to recast its upcoming production, “In the Heights” — a musical that follows the lives of 12 Dominican-American teenagers living in New York — after receiving backlash for casting professional guest actors instead of students. In the original casting, nine of the 12 lead roles were given to professional actors, as the outside creative team felt there were not enough qualified students of color in the theatre department to fill the need. On Friday, The Daily Texan reported that the theatre department both recast the production with minority students and hired an entirely new creative team to oversee the play’s production. Not only are we pleased that the college has made good on its casting promise, but we are glad that it has chosen to start fresh with a new director, musical director and choreographer, signaling that they aren’t afraid of making drastic changes in response to well-deserved criticism.

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HORNS DOWN: MACKLEMORE BEATS OUT KANYE AND KENDRICK On Sunday, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis won three Grammys for Best Rap Album, Best Rap Song and Best Rap Performance, effectively sweeping the rap categories at this year’s ceremony. And while Macklemore is certainly a talented artist worthy of the accolades he’s gotten over the past year, it’s both disappointing and disheartening the awards didn’t go to Kanye West or Kendrick Lamar. Sure, The Heist is a great album, and “Thrift Shop” will go down in history as the first single to reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100 without the support of a major record label. But at the end of the day, Macklemore’s fun, accessible pop pales in comparison to the heartfelt and deeply meaningful music of the other nominees. The intense racial commentary of West’s Yeezus is definitely harder to listen to than The Heist, and the harsh narrative of Lamar’s Compton upbringing on Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City is less accessible than a silly song about buying second-hand clothes. But the path of least resistance is seldom the most worthwhile, especially when it comes to art. Horns down to the Grammys for overlooking two veritable hip-hop masterpieces in favor of Macklemore’s easily digestible pop.

The path of least resistance is seldom the most worthwhile, especially when it comes to art. Horns down to the Grammys for overlooking two veritable hip-hop masterpieces in favor of Macklemore’s easily digestible pop. HORNS DOWN: STUDENTS DON’T KNOW MUCH ABOUT RECYCLING Though Austin continues to encourage recycling efforts and reduce wastefulness, information on how and where to recycle properly is not reaching UT students living in high-capacity dorms and apartments, according to an article by The Daily Texan released Friday. The city requires complexes with more than 50 units to allow 25 percent of waste disposal space for recycling, but the city’s policies and ordinances are not well enforced. Property owners and managers, consequently, don’t put in the effort to inform student tenants, who are often unaware of these recycling opportunities. Any student who has gone grocery shopping since last March is aware of the city’s stance on limiting wasteful plastic bags, and many students make an effort to utilize the recycling containers on campus. Educating students about apartment recycling options could lead to a similar surge in compliance. Property owners should take the time to point students in the right direction, instead of assuming that they already know their recycling options.

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taken off life support is invalidated if that woman has been “diagnosed as pregnant.” Never mind that this law invalidates advance directives in a gender-biased way and fails to specify what trimester of pregnancy a woman must be in to fall under the statute. (Under the present law, a woman at any point in her pregnancy, no matter how young the fetus, would be kept on life support until the 23-week point of viability.) This anti-abortion law, as well as the hospital’s interpretation of it, was supported by local lawmakers. “My deepest sympathy goes out to the family enduring this tragedy. My heart goes out to them. But the law’s clear that you can’t withdraw life support,” state Rep. Stephanie Klick, R-Fort Worth, who represents Erick Munoz in Austin, told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. The law, in reality, is anything but clear. There is controversy in the medical ethics community over the criteria for “brain death.” The law itself does not make clear whether the pregnancy clause is applicable to a woman who is dead, even if her fetus remains alive. “There is controversy about the definition of

brain death,” Bill Winslade, a professor of medical ethics at the University of Texas medical branch Galveston, told the Texan. “But brain death in Texas is based on the current medical criteria. It was clear Munoz was brain-dead because her body was decomposing … the [county] clerk was very clear that whatever criteria of brain death was being used, [Munoz] met them.” Ultimately, it was these criteria that allowed Wallace to rule that “life sustaining measures” could not be performed on a patient who was dead. On Sunday, both Marlise Munoz and her unborn child were finally allowed to die. Munoz’s difficulties, yes, were born out of an extremely rare and unfortunate set of circumstances, one that most women wouldn’t ever have to contemplate. But the law that put Munoz and her family in the midst of that two-month-long tragedy could affect any woman in Texas. It shouldn’t take extraordinary circumstances like Munoz’s for anti-abortion lawmakers to recognize that ambiguous, ill-defined laws that interfere with sound medical practice shouldn’t be on the books. Hopefully, it will take only one tragedy to convince them.

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Why McCombs students should support Millennium Lab changes By Rachel Huynh

Daily Texan Columnist @racheljhuynh

Rarely do infrastructure changes galvanize business students to the point of petition. The McCombs School of Business’ Millennium Lab transition is the exception. Though the plans to convert the Mill Lab, now a computer lab, into active learning classrooms by fall were only recently announced, rumors and petitions to save the lab have been circulating since last spring. Now it’s official: Two high-tech classrooms will replace the lab, and these classrooms might not be for everyone in McCombs. What students have to realize, though, is that this is a forward-thinking attempt to transform McCombs into what Undergraduate Programs dean David Platt calls the “best forum for undergraduate business education in the country.” While McCombs makes these changes, which Platt has described as a “pilot” for larger renovations to come, business students will have to take a loss. A cursory look around the Mill Lab at a peak hour reveals just how dependent business students are on the facility. The lab is often the liveliest place in McCombs, serving as a haven for students collaborating on group projects as well as those using specialized business software and desktop computers to complete class projects. “Students depend on this collaborative environment where you can be loud, meet in groups and utilize resources that not all students have,” marketing and Plan II honors senior Satvika Anantharayan said. The uproar that ensued when rumors spread about the change last spring should have been expected; almost immediately, there was a 600-member Facebook group, an extensive Google Doc discussing the plan and a formal petition to ‘save the Mill Lab.’ Although the onslaught of complaints did not change administrators’ plans, those complaints have not fallen on deaf ears. Platt has been incredibly receptive to student feedback, working with a Mill Lab Transition Student Advisory Committee, hosting a town hall meeting and inviting students to personally email him with comments. “When we have this once-in-a-30-year opportunity to renovate a building, we want to do it right,” Platt said. At a town hall addresing the planned changes last Tuesday, Platt revealed that 20 percent of the current lab would be reserved for group collaboration space and that definite plans for a variety of facility improvements, including a software cloud that will give students remote access to the specialized programs that are currently in the lab, were being made. “The fixes they’re making are really intended to address the students’ problems — not just offer a Band-Aid fix,” said Anantharayan, who also sat on the student advisory committee. Despite the thorough attempts to make the transition as smooth as possible, McCombs is being very particular about who

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will have access to the $500,000 active learning classrooms. For the first year, one of the rooms will be used normally as a space where classes meet for the entire semester. The other room will be used by different classes for a few days during the semester as needed. In order to determine which classes will have access to the classrooms, faculty members are being asked to create proposals, with BBA capstone classes getting priority. Outside of class, business students will not be able to use the classrooms the way they currently use the Mill Lab. In fact, students won’t be able to use the classrooms at all. When asked about this at the town hall, Platt explained that full student access to the expensive technology in the active learning classrooms was too significant a liability. Though reasonable, this means that students who are not enrolled in the lucky classes chosen for semester-long active learning classroom use will likely see the new classrooms for only a few days of the year, if at all. This is a tough pill to swallow. Students are expected to deal with the loss of a valuable computer lab, even though some business students will be unable to reap the full benefit of the classrooms. But equal access, one of the current benefits of the Mill Lab, is not what the administration ever intended. What it’s ultimately about is shaping the McCombs education to create a more valuable degree. The active learning classrooms are more than just a flashy corporate donation — they are modern feng shui masterpieces, designed to maximize the classroom experience for all types of learners. The unique layout means the classrooms have no front or back; instead, there is a center podium, scattered group tables and projection screens for each table that facilitate collaboration and engagement in ways traditional classrooms cannot. “These classrooms would definitely promote more group-style learning,” committee member Ryan Morris said. Multiple studies have found that active learning methods “produce both statistically significant and substantially greater gains in student learning than those associated with more traditional instructional methods.” “We’re hoping it’ll inspire teachers to revamp their curriculum, and we’re certainly going to give priority in awarding these classrooms to teachers that are going to take advantage of them,” Platt said. “We’re definitely looking to influence behavior.” While fancy classrooms do not add value to a degree, revamped curriculum does. Resistance is inevitable in the face of the change, but McCombs students have been too worked up, and for far too long, about this one in particular. Students will never be completely happy when they are losing a valuable computer lab without a suitable replacement. But the bulk of the criticism stems from short-sighted thinking about where they’re going to complete that next statistics assignment. What students should be thinking about is the value of their degree 20 or 30 years down the line. McCombs is leading the way for undergraduate business schools across the country by adopting a modern, business-savvy approach to pedagogy. McCombs is on the brink of a more inspired, collaborative education, and it’s time students aligned themselves behind it. Huynh is a Plan II and business honors sophomore from Laredo.

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continues from page 8 festival in 2010, where artists including Pavement, Sonic Youth and Belle & Sebastian played. In Austin, they have done residencies at clubs such as Hole In the Wall, Headhunters and Dive, but the only time

and place to regularly catch the program is the first Saturday of every month at Nomad, where it has been for about five and a half years now. “Nomad had just opened at that point,” Asplund said. “I think they thought we were Karaoke Apocalypse, who have a live band and are really good

friends of ours, but Nomad booked us. We did the show, and it was a great turnout, and we’ve been doing the first Saturdays there ever since then.” Karaoke Underground has also hosted events at Spiderhouse Ballrooom, where it often partners up with Pop Quiz, a group that puts on

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trivia nights around Austin. “There is no place in the world like Karaoke Underground,” said Dylan Garsee, who runs Pop Quiz. “I hate doing karaoke at other bars because if you’re not doing Bon Jovi, no one cares. Everyone that goes to [Karaoke Underground] is super into it no

matter if you’re doing Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy or Scratch Acid.” Asplund adds new songs to the list as often as he gets a chance and is trying to fill out a request queue of more than 800 songs. He describes the list as one-third indie-rock staples, one-third his personal preferences and one-third requests.

“Personally, one of the most rewarding things of Karaoke Underground is when people come up and tell me, ‘Hey, here’s a new band, check them out,’” Asplund said. Asplund’s aim is to create an inclusive karaoke night for fans of underground rock and punk.

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continues from page 8 Since the luminarium is only in town for a limited time, it tends to draw large crowds. Visitors will wait in line for hours to get a chance to walk through the colorful dome. “Austinites are looking for a unique experience,” said Karen Jantsch, programming manager at the Long Center. “Kids love it. Adults love it. Photographers love it. It’s just so universally appealing.” The luminarium is popular among all ages, and offers a positive experience for both the visitors and the staff behind the event. “Seeing the joy that it brings to people that get to experience it, as a

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continues from page 8 do that,” Ackors said. “You can do anything, but you can’t do everything.” Though Irvine expressed excitement for Ackors’ opportunity, she said his readjustment to student life was difficult. In addition to Ackors being at home in Austin permanently, he also had to find a job and move into an apartment closer to campus, all before the semester started. “All these things that were miniscule while you’re on the road now become a pretty big deal,” Irvine said. “When

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he came back to school, his parents helped him a little bit, but he had already made that step out of childhood in his parents’ eyes [when he left school to tour], so he had to set everything up.” Although Ackors is not with any act specifically, he continues to play music on the side for different groups around town. “I just can’t tour,” Ackors said. “If Quiet Company gave me a call and wanted me to play a show, I’d absolutely do it. … I just needed to stay in Austin. I’m still doing all the music stuff I was doing while I was in Quiet Company, just not with [them].”

While touring taught him the difficulties of the music business, Ackors said it was some of the most fun he’s had, and expressed a similar humorous sentiment about his solo career as a student. “[Going back to school] really didn’t have anything to do with Quiet Company. It had more to do with me picturing the next 10 years of my life and what I wanted it to look like,” Ackors said. “It’s a little weird not having every day revolve around the same five people. … I’m spending a lot of time bouncing ideas off my own head, and I seem to think they’re all very good.”

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WACO — Texas pulled off yet another upset Saturday, knocking off No. 24 Baylor (13 – 6, 1–5 Big 12), 74–60 at the Ferrell Center in Waco. Led by freshman point guard Isaiah Taylor’s career-high 27 points, the Longhorns (16-4, 5-2 Big 12) won three consecutive games against AP Top25 teams for the first time in program history. “It’s a pretty big accomplishment,” junior forward Jonathan Holmes said. “But our mindset all year has been to not be content with how we are doing. We really haven’t done anything yet. We are trying to win a Big 12 Championship. We haven’t done that.” Taylor had the best game of his young career. Baylor head coach Scott Drew tried to slow down the speedy youngster with different combinations of man and zone defense, but nothing worked. Whether he was getting to the rim in transition or hitting his signature floater in the lane, Taylor found ways to score. When Baylor was in man defense, he used his quick feet to beat his man to the rim. Against the zone, he found the gaps on the perimeter and got off a floater before the posts could get to him. “A lot of teams are kind of focusing on [Holmes and sophomore guard Javan Felix] so it’s opening lanes up for me,”

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continues from page 1 8 Iowa State, No. 22 Kansas State and the Bears. It’s a stretch unmatched in program history; never have the Longhorns toppled top-25 teams in such rapid succession. Entering the season, Texas had just one upperclassman on its roster, Barnes was on the hot seat and the Longhorns were projected to finish in the bottom half of the Big 12.

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Fueling Saturday’s offensive production, freshman point guard Isaiah Taylor contributed a career-high 27 points in Texas’ 7460 toppling of No. 24 Baylor. Sophomore center Cameron Ridley finished with a balanced eight points and 14 rebounds.

Taylor said. “I really struggled with the zone early in the season. In practice, I have just been harping on the zone and penetrating gaps and that’s what I did today.” Holmes and sophomore center Cameron Ridley — who have both played well in conference games — continued to make their presence felt inside against the Bears. Holmes, who

has been Texas’ most consistent player all season, had 14 points and eight rebounds. Ridley had eight points and 14 rebounds to go with a couple of blocks. Ridley was aggressive on the offensive end, pulling down four offensive rebounds in the game. “We knew they were a pretty tough team down low,” Holmes said. “They have some big guys down there, and they are a

good rebounding team. We just wanted to establish ourselves on the boards and show them we are tough, too.” After winning a mere 16 games all of last season, this year’s Longhorns have already reached that mark. It is just the seventh time during head coach Rick Barnes’ tenure that Texas has won at least 16 of its first 20 contests. When asked about the

difference between this year’s team and last’s, the head coach didn’t hesitate. “The bottom line is the players,” Barnes said. “These guys have done it all year. They made a commitment as soon as the season was over with and those guys, they have been unbelievable. The young guys, you have to give them a lot of credit too because they came in with no

Now, three months later, they’ve almost completely eliminated each of those critiques. The Longhorns’ youth has almost transformed into a positive — they don’t know how to lose. Barnes has likely coached himself into another season at Texas, and a Big 12 title seems more likely than a poor in-conference record. Last season, the Longhorns were marred by talent that didn’t transfer to on-court gains, causing Texas to miss the NCAA Tournament for the first time in Barnes’ 15-year tenure

in Austin. When five scholarship players left the program during the last offseason, Texas appeared to have a rebuilding season ahead of it. Nonetheless, the departure of those players seems to have lifted a weight from it. All of the current Longhorns talked about a new attitude surrounding the team before the season. Words like that rarely translate to much, but Texas provided evidence to back up the talk against Baylor. Sophomore guard Demarcus

Holland shadowed the Bears’ 3-point specialists Brady Heslip and Kenny Chery, holding them to a combined five points. Sophomore center Cameron Ridley showed incomparable growth from last season with a 14-rebound performance against Baylor’s superstar center Isaiah Austin. And, perhaps most impressively, freshman point guard Isaiah Taylor, an unheralded 3-star recruit, notched a career-high 27 points. The next game, this cast of characters might, and probably

will, step to the side for another set. Five Longhorns have led the team in scoring this season and four players average double figures. It’s a nightly version of Russian roulette for the spotlight, but no one on the roster shies away when it’s his turn. Texas goes 10 deep, and each of its scholarship players has made a significant contribution at some point this year. The impossible has become historic for the Longhorns. Only one question remains: Who will step up next?

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Coming off a loss against TCU, Texas knew what happens when it doesn’t play well for a half. It also knew what No. 18 West Virginia (17-3, 6-2 Big 12) was capable of, as the Mountaineers had handed the Longhorns a painful overtime loss just two weeks earlier. So Texas did what head coach Karen Aston has been begging it do: It got hungry. Texas (13-6, 4-3 Big 12) topped West Virginia, 66-63 at the Frank Erwin Center on Saturday, handing the Mountaineers only their third loss of the season. “Last time we played them at West Virginia, they won all the hustle plays,” junior forward Nneka Enemkpali said. “At home, we answered to them. We showed heart, and we played selfless.” Grabbing a Big 12 seasonhigh 21 rebounds to complement 15 points and two blocks, Enemkpali played with “motor and intensity,” Aston said. “My job for the team is to be the big girl and be the aggressor,” Enemkpali said. “I knew I had to go in there and match [the aggression]. I couldn’t play timid.” Enemkpali’s defensive efforts fueled freshman forward Nekia Jones’ and sophomore guard Brady Sanders’

Shweta Gulati / Daily Texan Staff Junior forward Nneka Enemkpali weaves through West Virginia defenders to score on Saturday. Enemkpali had 15 points and secured a Big 12 season-high 21 rebounds in the Longhorns’ 66-63 win.

offensive production. Jones scored nine first-half points en route to her third game scoring in double figures. Sanders finished the first half with 12 points on 80 percent shooting from the field and 75 percent from the free-throw line. “It was a complete team effort in the first half,” Aston said. “I thought especially Brady [Sanders] and Nekia [Jones] gave us a lift and that everybody that came in in the first half really gave us great energy.” That energy — along with 50 percent shooting and four 3-point shots — put Texas

up 40-33 in halftime. But a 10-0 West Virginia run to start the second half shifted the momentum against the Longhorns. The two Big-12 contenders juggled leads for the remainder of the game until Texas denied all Mountaineer field goals for the last 7:49. The Longhorns regained their advantage with just over three minutes remaining. A big block from Enemkpali and shutout defense gave Texas the victory. “We’ve learned that execution is really important,” Aston said. “Every game is going to take execution in the last

three or four minutes … making free throws and crucial rebounds down the stretch. That’s what all of these games are amounting to, and that’s probably how this is going to be.” The Longhorns finished 14for-19 from the charity stripe and outrebounded the Mountaineers 46-27. West Virginia’s rebounding total fell 10 below its Big-12 average and 15 below its season average. With its third win over a ranked opponent this season, Texas will take on Kansas and Baylor this week as it hopes to improve its 1-4 road record.

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With a third-set tiebreaker in the No. 6 singles, junior Clement Homs rallied from a 5-2 deficit to advance the Longhorns to the indoor championship. Trumping Vanderbilt 4-0 Saturday, No. 20 Texas continued to avoid losing a single point in dual-match play. On Sunday, No. 5 Soren Hess-Olesen/Lloyd Glasspool defeated Wake Forest’s No. 30 Adam Lee/ Pedro Dumont to clinch the doubles point, a day after knocking off the nation’s No. 2 duo. Sophomore Nick Naumann upped the Texas lead to 2-0 with a straight set win over Dumont. Junior Hess-Olesen followed with an upset of No. 20 Romain Bogaerts. But when Glasspool fell in straight sets, the Longhorns suffered their first lost points of the season. The Demon Deacons tied the match 3-all after two more victories. That left the No. 6 singles as the deciding match. Homs lost the first set but pulled off a comeback in the second to force the tiebreaker. Down 5-2 in the third, he won four straight points and saved Texas (50) from defeat. Texas will compete in the 2014 ITA National Team Indoor Championship Feb. 14-17.

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Texas women’s golf head coach Martha Richard will step down after the 2013-14 season, she announced Friday afternoon. Richards began her tenure as head coach in 2007 after eight seasons at Vanderbilt. She guided Texas to the NCAA Championship five of the last six seasons, boasting a highest finish of tie for 13th in 2012. Richards also led the Longhorns to their third-ever Big 12 Conference Championship in 2011. A two-time cancer survivor, Richards said health reasons motivated her decision to leave. “We have determined it is in the best interest of my health in the long term to step away from coaching,” Richards said. “I am cancer-free to this day and in no immediate danger where my health is concerned, but the longevity and cumulative effect of the coaching profession is not advisable.” Chris Plonsky, women’s head athletic director, said a national search for Richards’ replacement will begin at the appropriate time. Richards’ fall squad concluded its season with a 6-over-par 294, its low team score at The Alamo Invitational. The Longhorns open spring play Feb. 9 at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif. —Jori Epstein

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Joshua Cooper’s son Landin Cooper points to the ceiling of the Miracoco luminarium Saturday afternoon.

Luminarium comes to Austin By Vanessa Sliva @DailyTexanArts

For the third year in a row, the Long Center for Performing Arts and the Architects of Air are joining forces to bring together the Miracoco, the most elaborate, advanced luminarium so far. The Miracoco luminarium is engineered to be one of the largest-domed luminaria ever built. Within the inflatable structure is a design influenced by the Lotus Temple of India that covers the ceiling and incorporates spiral lattices that allow sunlight to penetrate the luminarium material. Alan Parkinson, the founder of Architects of Air, first started

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making the inflatable dome structures in 1992 with no expectations that luminaria would gain the amount of attention they have. “When I first started doing them, it was very much in a small community context and I was making them for school projects in Nottingham in England and to go to institutions for people with disabilities,” Parkinson said. “Very occasionally we did public events, but I don’t think I ever thought it’d be something which would grow and have the sustainability it has.” Parkinson’s luminaria are made from plastic that is made specifically for the Architects of Air, which is currently the only group creating luminaria. Each structure takes up a space of about 1,000 square meters and is assembled on site. They are made from only four different colors that overlap and combine

to create a full color spectrum inside each tunnel of the dome. Today, the luminarium exhibits tour the world. They have traveled to large cities such as Honolulu, Hawaii and Sydney, Australia, and have been visited more than 2 million times. Visitors come to these exhibits with scattered expectations, but Parkinson said each experience offers new insight. “If [the guests] are first-time visitors, what they see is usually beyond their expectations; that is because it is a light and luminous space inside,” Parkinson said. “What I want this structure to arouse in people is an awareness of the phenomena of light and color. That is the prime intention.”

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Karaoke Underground offers indie sing-a-longs By David Sackllah @dsackllah

For die-hard fans of indie rock and punk, there aren’t many opportunities to belt out alternative classics by bands such as Minor Threat or Belle & Sebastian at karaoke nights around town. For an alternative to the top-40 hits that dominate most karaoke bars, there is Karaoke Underground, an Austin institution hosted by Kaleb Asplund and his wife Hannah Ford. Founded in 2004 by Asplund when he and Ford moved to Austin, Karaoke Underground was inspired by a similar punkrock karaoke in Minneapolis and the couple’s time abroad in Japan. Asplund, who spent his college years as a music director of a student-run radio station that didn’t keep up with pop music, used karaoke as a means to socialize with other English speakers while in Japan. “I didn’t know what ABBA sounded like,” Asplund said. “I kind of knew Bon Jovi, but I didn’t know the songs that well. It’s really fun and exciting to learn this stuff that I had been missing and share

After touring with his band, Quiet Company, fine arts junior Cody Ackors returned to UT in the fall. Ackors plans to pursue a career in advertising.

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that with everybody.” The couple started doing Karaoke Underground events at private parties, slowly expanding to public events. They put up flyers, but mostly it was friends and word of mouth that brought people to their events in the early years. They used this mentality to play plenty of different shows around the city, including a couple of rooftop shows at the old Factory People store on South Congress, a benefit at Scoot Inn, Austin City Limits Music Festival and Fun Fun Fun Fest aftershows. Asplund has taken Karaoke Underground outside of Austin a few times, playing in Denton and his hometown of Madison, Wis., as well as tours of the Northeast and Midwest. The biggest crowd they ever drew was at the Matador 21

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After tour, musician returns to UT By Samantha Grasso @DailyTexanArts

For many musicians, touring the country, performing for devout fans and sleeping on strangers’ floors is essentially “living the dream.” For musician and music performance junior Cody Ackors, that dream has changed direction. In August 2012, Ackors withdrew from UT to pursue music full time as the trombonist of Austin-based Quiet Company. This semester, Ackors returned after reapplying to UT last fall. While he is still a fine arts junior, he plans to pursue advertising and apply for transfer to the Moody College of Communication this spring. “Design has always been a really huge part of my life,“ Ackors said. “Trying to just figure out the way to make something look the way it is in your head is really appealing.” Ackors said he first noticed

a bridge between his hobby and his future while traveling the country with his band and working with music marketing and advertising agencies. “I got to see a ton of places, and I think I got a little more perspective on what I actually want to do,” Ackors said. “I saw a very visible line [suggesting], ‘You should maybe think about advertising. You like design. You like creativity and its real-world, economical application.’” Ackors joined Quiet Company during his senior year of high school. After his freshman year at Baylor University, he transferred to the Butler School of Music to be closer to the band. While he felt he gave his full effort to the school in practice, Ackors said he did not feel the same effort in culture, which helped justify his decision to withdraw. “That kind of made sense when I had the opportunity to leave and tour and make

that my job,” Ackors said. “I said to myself, ‘You’re not going to have that opportunity again. You’re not guaranteed it.’ It just felt like the right thing to do.” While on tour, time between shows gave Ackors time to explore his interest in design on his laptop. He worked with local photographer Julie Cope to create mock show posters, which allowed him to test his visual style. His work includes the artwork for Quiet Company’s fifth album A Dead Man On My Back: Shine Honesty Revisited. “He showed me where he wanted to go with the photographs he had taken [for the cover], and I sort of helped him [improve] his design,” Cope said. “It’s rare, the kind of tenacity that he has.” Dorothy Irvine, Ackors’ girlfriend and student at the University of North Texas, said she remembered his enthusiasm for the field after

the band’s performance at Austin ad agency GSD&M. The show gave Ackors the opportunity to collaborate with designers at GSD&M and make his own poster for Quiet Company. “I remember him going and telling me afterward, saying it was so cool,” Irvine said. “He had talked to some of the head designers there and he just fell in love with it.” After spending more than four years playing with Quiet Company, Ackors made the decision to leave the band to stay in Austin and go to school full time. Ackors said it was difficult telling his band mates he was leaving, but that their response was positive, telling him they thought it was the right thing from him to do. “I wanted to be able to be in Quiet Company full time touring and to be studying advertising … but you can’t

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