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UT, city bike programs may not mesh
Court to decide on cell phone seizures
By Alyssa Mahoney @TheAlyssaM
Austin will add three new bike kiosks near campus to its bike sharing program, but the additions may conflict with an existing student-run bike-rental program.
B-cycle manages the Bike Share of Austin, an Austin government-sponsored program that began in December. The program allows users to pay a day rate or buy an annual membership to rent a bike, which can be returned to any of 11 bike
kiosks throughout the city. By Sunday, B-cycle will construct 15 additional kiosks, two of which will be located on Guadalupe near 21st Street and the West Mall. One other will
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Multimedia Austin’s new bike share program is tested to see if it is a viable transportation alternative for students. Watch online at dailytexanonline.com
undergraduate students, faculty and staff. Louise Meeks, manager of the museum’s gift shop, said her job would most likely remain intact because the gift
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Petition to save museum gains traction By Nicole Cobler @nicolecobler
Eunice Ali / Daily Texan Staff
Because of a $700,000 budget cut in the College of Natural Sciences, Texas Memorial Museum is close to letting go eight of its 11 employees. More than 1,750 people have signed a petition opposing the cut in an attempt to preserve the 75-year-old museum.
budget cut would harm the important educational tools the natural history museum provides. “It’s been an important resource for local school children and teachers, as well as students at the University
studying paleontology, biology or art,” Newcomb said. Newcomb said she is worried that, if budget cuts are implemented, exhibits will not be maintained as well. Hicke was not available for comment, according to
natural sciences spokesman Lee Clippard. Clippard said larger state budget cuts over the last several years have made the museum difficult to fund. Clippard said the college wants to focus its funding on its
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When questioned by the police, one has a constitutionally protected right to remain silent, but the contents of one’s cell phone may speak for themselves. The Supreme Court agreed to hear oral arguments on two cases last week, both of which center on the authority of police to search phones without a warrant — a practice that dates back to the 1970s. A Supreme Court ruling in 1973 established law enforcement officers’ right to perform searches of any containers found on a person they had arrested. In April, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for one state case, Riley v. California, and one federal case, U.S. v. Wurie — each involving a different type of mobile phone. U.S. v. Wurie involves an outdated flip phone, but, in Riley v. California, the device in question is a smartphone, which is capable of holding much more personal data. Austin Police Cpl. David Boyd said Austin Police Department officers must at least have grounds for searching a person’s cell phone, but what constitutes fair grounds is determined by the circumstances of the arrest. “Officers won’t search cell phones each and every time they make an arrest,” Boyd said. “It depends on the crime or the situation at the
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More than 1,750 people have signed a petition opposing the budget cut to the Texas Memorial Museum, which would cause eight of 11 employees to lose their jobs, according to UT alumna Mary Newcomb, the petition’s founder. In September, the College of Natural Sciences announced plans to cut approximately $600,000 from the Texas Natural Science Center, which includes the Texas Memorial Museum, according to Edward Theriot, director of the Natural Science Center. Currently, the center’s total budget is $860,000. “We will be able to make up some of the University’s cuts but not all of them,” Theriot said. “It will have a traumatic effect.” Newcomb will be meeting with natural sciences dean Linda Hicke on Monday to raise concerns about the cut. “It seems that, if you’re cutting the museum funding back that far, you’re basically giving it a death sentence,” Newcomb said. Newcomb, whose father was director of the museum from 1957-1978, said the
By Julia Brouillette
CAMPUS
THROWBACK
Talk examines MLK’s iconic speech
‘Our three Russians’ reveals cultural misunderstandings
By Nicole Stiles @thedailytexan
When Martin Luther King Jr. first delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech, it wasn’t immediately considered iconic, according to British journalist Gary Younge, who spoke about his research on the speech Wednesday. Younge said King delivered his speech to a crowd that was passionate — but also overheated and tired. Younge said many audience members traveled all night to be at the March on Washington, D.C., on Aug. 28, 1963. “It was a hot day — 87 degrees by noon — and King was the 16th of 18 speakers,” Younge said. Younge said King had hoped civil rights could be achieved without holding a march. Activists and politicians were anxious in the
Brianna Holt / Daily Texan Staff
British journalist Gary Younge discusses his newest book, “The Speech; The Story Behind Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s Dream” with Eric Tang, director of the University’s Social Justice Institution, at the Joynes Reading Room on Wednesday evening.
days prior to the March on Washington. “There was actually a kill switch planted inside King’s microphone,” Younge said. King had given similar speeches hundreds of times before — even the week before, during a march in
Detroit — but the well-known “I Have a Dream” section was not in the final draft of his intended speech, Younge said. According to Younge, this speech in Washington, D.C., was neither the birth nor the
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Texan First Pitch
Samuel Robinson, Louis Moses Chokla and Solomon Lifshitz (right to left) were the three Russian students at UT in 1912. All three were respected engineering students.
By Brett Donohoe @BrettDonohoe1
With the upcoming Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia, it is easy to forget how inaccessible Russian culture and society once was to the U.S. — and to UT students. In a Nov. 30, 1912, article published in The Texan, three Russian students were profiled for their achievements in the engineering department. The men, labeled
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as “our three Russians,” became “bona fide Varsity Engineers” in their time at UT. While the October Revolution had not yet taken place at the time of publication, the article nevertheless approaches Russia as
an enigma. “Each man has known the bitings [sic] of poverty, and each has gone through intellectual civic fire,” the article said. “Each has worked his
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