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Frost holds back class schedules By Julia Brouillette @juliakbrou

Students and professors had mixed reactions to last week’s weather closures, with some finding the cancellations easier to cope with than others. Classes on Jan. 24 were canceled the night before as

a result of ice storms that accompanied a Central Texas cold front. On Tuesday, the University announced a delay at 8:20 a.m. and ultimately decided to close for the day around 11:30 a.m. University officials look to local meteorologists — who analyze regional forecast information — when making

decisions about weatherrelated closures. Faculty Council chairwoman Hillary Hart said the University does not reschedule classes after closures; the decision lies solely with individual instructors. “[Professors] don’t get any help, it’s not like the University’s going to tack on

another day at the end of the semester,” Hart said. Hart said instructors have to decide for themselves how to make up classwork. “We are required to have a certain number of days of instruction, and if the weather is bad and the University has to close, everybody’s excused and that

Cops charge student with credit card fraud

day just doesn’t count,” Hart said. “We have to just make it up in our classes as we go.” Labs typically begin in the second or third week of the semester, so professors were more likely affected by Tuesday’s closure, according to Hart.

By Jordan Rudner @jrud

After reviewing security camera footage and records from a card proximity reader at Gregory Gym, police arrested senior Gabrielle Frankel and charged her with credit card abuse, a state jail felony. Frankel was arrested outside the gym on Thursday afternoon. Police had issued Frankel a Class B warrant, implying probable cause but not necessarily determining guilt. On Thursday, Frankel’s bond was set at $25,000 at Travis County Central Booking. At press time, Frankel was no longer listed as an inmate. On Monday, management information systems senior Gabriela Peralta told UTPD officers that her small pink purse had been stolen from the women’s locker room at Gregory Gym. According to the arrest warrant issued for Frankel, Peralta said her Citibank credit card was used repeatedly after the theft. According to the police affidavit, Frankel allegedly spent $129.89 at Tekgnar Skateshop, $54.13 at BC Smoke Shop, $42 at TCBY — all three of which are located near each other on West Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard — and just under $5 at the Texas Union Building. Alex Fuller, a manager at Tekgnar, said police contacted him Wednesday about the shop’s security camera footage. “We use security to monitor everything that goes on,” Fuller said. “[Frankel’s purchase] was pretty standard — she bought a skateboard, a

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Professors tweet about Super Bowl ads By Kate Dannenmeir @kater_tot7

For many TV viewers, the Seattle Seahawks’ 43-8 thrashing of the Denver Broncos in Super Bowl XLVIII Sunday night was a distraction from the real game going on — the ads. At a yearly panel organized by the public affairs, advertising and public relations departments of the Moody College of Communication, seven advertising professors came together to discuss the Super Bowl’s ads via Twitter. University professors and lecturers tweeted their opinions on the Super Bowl commercials under #SBAdJudge. University advertising and public relations students also tweeted under #AdGradBowl and #ADV378S. Public relations junior Hugo Rojo said the Super Bowl is as much of an event for those interested in advertising as it is for football fans. “It’s almost a national holiday for sports aficionados, so you can imagine what it’s like for us advertising and PR folk,” Rojo said. Advertising professor Neal Burns said he thinks

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Undeclared freshman Grace Bellone (left) and public relations plan II freshman Caroline Read (right) watch the final minutes of Super Bowl XLVIII at Tower Pizza Bistro on Sunday evening.

this year’s panel had a nice mix of perspectives, as each contributor focuses on different aspects of the ads. “I’m interested in the brand,” Burns said. “And I’m interested in how well the spot supports the

There’s a way in which advertising on the one hand reflects our culture, and other aspects where advertising helps create or articulate our culture.

image I’ve got of the brand.” Advertising assistant professor Carlos Hernandez said he looked for emotional appeals of the advertisements.

—Neal Burns, Advertising and public relations professor

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Portland natives Gregory and Sarah Camp view artwork at the “Between Mountains and Sea” exhibit at the Blanton Museum of Art on Sunday afternoon. The art in the exhibit sheds light on the behaviors and rituals of ancient Andeans.

By Jori Epstein

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When freshman point guard Isaiah Taylor entered the locker room at Saturday’s halftime, he had much to be proud of: 11 points on 4-for-6 shooting. No. 25 Texas (17-4, 6-2 Big 12) had a 15-point advantage over Big 12 leader and sixthranked Kansas (16-5, 7-1 Big 12). But head coach Rick Barnes wasn’t convinced the effort was enough. “[Barnes] told us that to keep the pressure up,” Taylor said. “We knew we were up double digits at half time and he just told us to keep our foot on their throat and

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Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan Staff Denying Kansas’ Andrew Wiggins the ball, sophomore center Cameron Ridley grabbed 10 boards Saturday in Texas’ 81-69 win.

not to let up defensively.” So the Longhorns did. They didn’t just keep their feet on the Jayhawks’ throats — they kept their bodies between the Kansas basket

and the ball. Junior forward Jonathan Holmes and sophomore centers Prince Ibeh and Cameron Ridley combined

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Pre-Incan cultures revived in art By Natalie Sullivan

exhibit at the Blanton Museum of Art provides a glimpse into the lifestyles of many ancient Andean groups. The exhibit, “Between Mountains and Sea: Arts of the Ancient Andes,”

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continues from page 1 “In big labs with several sections spread throughout the week, if even one day is missing, that really impacts things,” Hart said. “You can’t have just one set of students not learning something that everybody else is.” Biology senior lecturer Ruth Buskirk said she missed three classes on Jan. 24 and one class Tuesday. “I’ll probably have to cut a little bit from the syllabus,” Buskirk said. “But I also did lengthen one of my homework assignments that I had already assigned. … I lengthened that to compensate a bit.” Buskirk said she is still working to compress her curriculum in a way that will be most beneficial to students in each of her eight labs. “It’s too early in the semester to know [how students will be affected],” Buskirk said.

Senior lecturer Raymond Neubauer, who teaches an introductory biology course with eight lab sections, said he does not think the closures will cause significant problems for any of his students. “We had to reschedule things, bump things forward and in one case double up on quizzes that we had in discussion so that everybody had the same number of points available to them,” Neubauer said. “It does make everything a little bit more crowded, but I think we can all adjust to it.” Undeclared freshman Michaela Jenkins said she enjoyed the first day off, but thought the second class cancellation was an unwelcome disruption. “I was happy when it happened Friday, but slightly irritated on Tuesday,” Jenkins said. “I have a test coming up and I knew my professor wasn’t going to push it back.”

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cruiser board.” In a warrant for Frankel’s arrest, UTPD detective Michael Larner said he was able to use security camera footage from Tekgnar and Gregory Gym to determine the identity of the suspect. “The manager was able to locate the suspect on the Gregory Gym video walking into the women’s locker room around the same time Ms. Peralta’s purse was stolen,” Larner said. “I compared the video from Tekgnar Skateshop to the photos of the suspect at Gregory Gym and found a positive match. … The suspect was still wearing the [same] blue sweatshirt and pants with the matching reflective strip.” After Larner identified the suspect, the manager of Gregory Gym compared the time of the theft to records the gym keeps of students checking in with proximity cards. “[Frankel used] her UT proximity card to enter Gregory Gym [on Monday], which corresponded with the photo and time seen on the Gregory Gym video,” Larner said. On Thursday, Frankel was working out in Gregory Gym again when police approached her and brought her outside. History sophomore Cole Wilson, who witnessed the arrest, said police officers questioned Frankel before taking her to central booking. “They were questioning her about a water bottle, and then put her in handcuffs,” Wilson said.

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The president of Central Austin Democrats, known as CAD, attempted to prevent its members who also vote in University Democrats, from voting at the groups’ combined endorsement meeting Saturday. On Friday, CAD President Glen Coleman posted in his organization’s Facebook group and announced that those who are members of both University Democrats and CAD would not be given a CAD ballot to determine the candidates the club would endorse. CAD members must live in Central Austin, while admission into University Democrats is restricted to any current student, staff or faculty members at the University. “I think we can reasonably intuit that if the endorsements of the two clubs jointly form the Austin Progressive Coalition, then members could not, or should not, be voting in both clubs,” Coleman wrote. “I will not be issuing a CAD ballot to individuals with active memberships in UDems.” CAD member David Chincanchan, who was a University Democrats member until he graduated in December, said Coleman’s decision stirred up controversy among CAD members. “A day before the endorsement meeting happened, the president tried to unilaterally decide that he would not be giving ballots to certain CAD members,” Chincanchan said. After an hour of debates at Saturday’s meeting, CAD members rejected the rule change and allowed all members ballots. “I wouldn’t say he’s unfit to lead the club, or anything like that,” Chincanchan said. “After it was obvious the move was not what the membership wanted, he didn’t fight for it.” Coleman said he knew his rule change would face opposition but said he felt it was important to combat the influence of a group of University Democrats members who he alleges vote in CAD elections to influence CAD’s endorsement roster. “I knew I’d be voted down, but I wanted to force the issue into daylight,” Coleman said. “I became aware that there was a walking majority, and I decided to take a stance against it.” University Democrats President David Feigen, a government and communication studies senior, said he felt students had been unfairly singled out in Coleman’s decisionmaking process. “It’s unfortunate that students are being targeted,” Feigen said. “We were also unhappy with the methodology.” —Jordan Rudner

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continues from page 1 Nazca and Moche. Blanton museum docent Connie Shortes said the exhibit’s wide range of history and the perspective it provides into ancient cultures makes it distinctive. “It covers the period before the Inca, which is probably the most commonly known era, so you see a lot of the origins that led up to that,” Shortes said. “Over 2,000 years of history.” The works for the exhibit came from the University’s art and art history collection, which consists of ancient artifacts and historic objects from the Americas and Africa. The exhibit, featuring 80 works from the collection, focuses on the artistic development and traditions of pre-Incan cultures. Art history professor Julia Guernsey said the pieces provide important clues to the behavior and rituals of people in the Americas. “Their designs can be used to help us understand ancient religious beliefs, track shared cultural traditions and explore the range of artistic variation that existed in the ancient past,” Guernsey said. History junior Alex Wendland said he enjoyed seeing different materials used in the construction of ancient art. “I was amazed at how well the textiles were preserved,” Wendland said. “It’s a way to think about art that I hadn’t thought about before.

Massive graves have been found of people who have been sacrificed and chunked off of mountains. [There are] rituals that seem hard to understand, like human sacrifice, which is endlessly fascinating to us because we’re so far removed from it, but it’s part of human history. —Connie Shortes, Blanton museum docent

I usually think about stone and metal being used in art, instead of fabric, so it was a cool approach.” Shortes said many of the behaviors reflected in ancient Andean art, such as those of the Moche, remain intriguing because of their unconventional nature. “The Moche were known for their ritual of human sacrifice,” Shortes said. “Massive graves have been found of people who have been sacrificed and chunked off of mountains. [There are] rituals that seem hard to understand, like human sacrifice, which is endlessly fascinating to us because we’re so far removed from it, but it’s part of human history.”

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was especially clever. “Interesting from RadioShack, leaning into the idea that it’s old and outdated and needs to change. Loved that.” Mackert tweeted. Burns said the Super Bowl commercials are important because they have the potential to not only reflect, but influence society. “There’s a way in which advertising, on the one hand, reflects our culture, and other aspects where advertising helps create or articulate our culture,” Burns said. While the audience

numbers for Super Bowl XLVIII have not been released yet, last year’s event attracted about 108.7 million viewers. Becuase of the large audience size, a 30-second ad cost about $4 million. Mackert said the ads would be a point of focus for him with or without an organized panel. “Since tweeting during the Super Bowl about ads is something I would have been doing anyway, it seemed like a fun way to engage with other faculty and students,” Mackert said.

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Q&A: Ramey Ko, candidate for Travis Co. Treasurer Editor’s Note: Ramey Ko, UT law lecturer and former candidate for the Texas House, is now running for Travis County treasurer against incumbent Dolores Ortega Carter. The Daily Texan editorial board sat down with him last week to discuss his plans and the importance of the office to students. The answers below have been edited and condensed for clarity and space considerations. The Daily Texan: Why should students care about the race for treasurer? Ramey Ko: The Travis County treasurer handles all money for Travis County. I mean, that, in and of itself, is a huge responsibility. … That means that, even if you’re a student who doesn’t own property in Austin, you pay rent, which means you indirectly pay property taxes through your landlord. If you register your car here, if you do anything like that, those are things you have to pay. If you vote here, if you go to court, if you end up interacting with any of those, the sheriff ’s department. … These are all things that the Travis County treasurer’s office handles. DT: What specifically, though, could you do as treasurer to make Austin more affordable for Austinites and students in particular? RK: The treasurer doesn’t set policy, but the treasurer has the ability to, I think, advocate with the commissioners court for policies that the treasurer believes [create] better economic conditions and climate for the county. A lot of it can just be outreach. … And so that’s something the treasurer’s office can do without any policy changes. DT: Why does Travis County still need a treasurer, given that several other urban counties in Texas have abolished the post? RK: It’s not that many, actually. It’s nine, total. And of those counties, the biggest ones

are Tarrant and Bexar county, so Dallas and … Harris, for example, still have theirs. The treasurer’s office, in theory, is important because it plays a check-and-balance role. The treasurer is an elected representative of the people, so [he is] directly accountable to voters. And the idea in the Texas Constitution and Texas law is that the treasurer is balanced by the auditor. DT: Is there any reason the treasurer’s office couldn’t be merged with the office of the tax assessor collector, who’s also an elected official? RK: The tax assessor collector is a huge office already in terms of responsibilities because the other thing the tax assessor collector handles in Travis County is [voter registration]. So he has to handle the registration, process all of that, the motor vehicles department. … So I can tell you the tax assessor collector has already got their hands full. … But in other counties that have abolished the position, they’ve been able to basically divvy up the responsibilities between the budget office, the auditor’s office, the investment office. … So it is possible. … And so what I’ve told people is that I’m willing to look at abolishing it because I do think that there is the potential for some savings and some benefits, but I’m not ready to make that decision yet. DT: Why are you running for this job? Not long ago, you were running for state rep, but I know you didn’t meet one of the residency requirements. How did you end up in this race, which seems light years away? RK: I started looking at treasurer because I was approached by some folks in the community who had been trying to find someone to run for this for a while. And, in fact, I remember meeting with somebody a few years ago who had been asked to look at the race, and he thought about running in that race but ultimately decided not to, I think because his

HORNS UP: MACK BROWN’S CONTINUING EDUCATION IN TWITTER Former head football coach Mack Brown is slowly getting the hang of things on Twitter (emphasis on “slowly”). Brown started exploring some of the features of the social media platform Sunday, engaging followers in a Q-and-A and even discovering the retweet button. There’s still just one hang-up, though: The former coach’s tweets aren’t reaching all his followers, at least not in their feeds, because he’s leaving out a crucial punctuation mark: the period. As several Twitter users tried to explain to Brown, tweets only appear in one’s feed if one follows everyone mentioned in the tweet, unless a period is placed in front to override that feature. Brown, however, continually placed the punctuation before his own Twitter handle, regardless of where it came in the tweet, even when given explicit formatting instructions. We will continue to support Brown as he learns the ropes of Twitter, and damn if we aren’t impressed by his persistence — the former head football coach even went so far as to retweet a user who had linked to an article explaining just where to place that pesky period. Horns Up, Mack Brown, for being a class act, if not a fluent tweeter.

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own personal political circle overlapped a lot with the incumbent [Dolores Ortega Carter], so I think he thought that would create some issues there. DT: Can you tell me who that was? RK: I’m not going to say … because he didn’t end up coming out and running. … So I knew … that there had been some discontent out there about this office for a while, but, you know, I hadn’t looked at it really closely, so I got approached this summer, last year, by some folks, people I respect, Democratic Party leaders, activists, and said, ‘You know, we think you’d be a great candidate for this office.’ And so I said, ‘OK, well let me take a look at it, do my research. … Let me talk to some folks and get input, see what people think, and I’ll get back to you.’ So I spent about three months researching the position, talking to people in the community, reading about everything I could find about it, just kind of reflecting. And, ultimately, I came to the conclusion that this was a good opportunity and I would like to pursue it. [One of the nice things] about a county treasurer’s office as opposed to a [legislative one] is that it’s a sovereign office, which means if I get elected, it’s my office, my budget, my staff. If I want to implement policies, you know, that’s something that I can do without having to go through a hostile Republican majority. And I won’t have to deal with being a freshman … in the House, which limits you a lot in what you can do. DT: So it doesn’t sound like there was anything specific to the position that drew you to it, and to some it might seem like you were just looking for the easiest race to jump into. RK: I wasn’t going to originally run. … My original thought was that if I didn’t run for the legislature, I would just wait, so the … main reason I did it was because I was approached; I was asked to do it.

The treasurer has the ability to, I think, advocate with the commissioners court for policies that the treasurer believes [create] better economic conditions. —Ramey Ko, Canidate for Travis County Treasurer

I’m one of those people who feels that elected official positions, despite having different functions, actually have a lot more in common than people think … because I think at the end of the day, being a treasurer, yeah, the function of the office is financial, and there are a lot of duties that are specific, but … the elected official is not just an employee. The elected official is a manager and leader, so there’s a responsibility to set strategy, to set vision, to set long-term goals. … It’s just like a good manager can manage a group of engineers or a group of accountants, you know? DT: Is there anything else you’d like students to know? RK: As someone who teaches at the University, who’s been very actively involved in student organizations, like UDems. … Since I’ve been here in Austin, I’ve been very passionate about working with young people, and I continue to be passionate about that. This is a great chance to get somebody who has a very direct tie to students at the University into an important public office, one that maybe people haven’t heard so much about but, you know, can really have a big impact.

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The first time I voted in a general election (2012), I was shocked at just how long the ballot was. The presidential election had obviously garnered a fair amount of coverage, as did local races for Congress, sheriff and the state Legislature. However, what took up the vast majority of the ballot were the myriad judicial contests. Pages upon pages of district and county benches were to be filled by the voters, in partisan elections. Democratic and Republican nominees had been selected in their respective parties’ primaries to run for the posts: civil, criminal, family, juvenile and probate courts. Texas is one of only a handful of states that choose their judges by this method. From the county courts to the state Supreme Court, every judge must pick a party and face the voters. If you think this is a rather inefficient way of selecting judges, you are definitely not alone. Indeed, even Wallace Jefferson, the former chief justice of the Texas Supreme Court, has disavowed the age-old practice repeatedly, perhaps most notably in a Houston Chronicle op-ed he penned in 2009. “My success depended primarily on a straight-ticket partisan vote,” Jefferson wrote in the aforementioned op-ed, shortly after being re-elected to a third six-year term at the helm of the court. Jefferson asserted that, despite his arguably impeccable credentials, he was elected time after time “because Texans voted for Rick Perry, Kay Bailey Hutchison and John McCain.” The drawbacks of this system are somewhat apparent, as partisan tides are an unreliable and untrustworthy way to choose such an invaluable arbiter of justice as a judge. (In a spirit of full

From the county courts to the state Supreme Court, every judge must pick a party and face the voters. If you think this is a rather inefficient way of selecting judges, you are definitely not alone.

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disclosure, I should note that my father is a candidate for judge in my native Harris County.) There are, of course, some benefits to the policy as well. With literally dozens of judicial posts up for grabs every few years, nonpartisan elections would produce utter pandemonium, as low-information or otherwise casual voters would have little way to discern the plethora of candidates from one another. Then there is the issue of local control. In Massachusetts, for example, where I previously attended college, all judges are appointed by the governor. Under the current system, progressives in Austin, Houston and other settings are free to repudiate the politics of the state government, and other remote areas may feel free to make their own decisions. However, there exist countless real examples of these issues of local control. Last Monday, Perry filled an opening in the 212th District Court in Galveston County, recently vacated by Judge Susan Criss, a Democrat. Not only did the governor replace her with a Republican, but he picked this particular replacement over the objection of the region’s state senator, who is also a stalwart conservative Republican. “It is an unprecedented action for a Governor to overrule the objection of the hometown Senator whose district includes the appointee,” State Sen. Larry Taylor wrote in a press release. Unprecedented, maybe. But this would be the rule — not the exception — if we moved to a Massachusetts-style system of judicial selection. “I am in favor of electing judges,” Judge Mike Engelhart recently told me. Engelhart, a Civil District Judge in Harris County, qualified his remarks by noting that a nonpartisan election, one even guided by a nominating committee (a diverse group of appointees with some discretion over the candidates) or the State Bar, would be preferable. However, he strongly reiterated his support for elected judges, noting, “I am in favor of democracy; I think voters should have a say in the judicial branch.” The common consensus among many observers, including Jefferson and Engelhart, seems to be that Texas’ current process is imperfect. Engelhart firmly believed corruption is inextricably attached to the money inherent to politics. “We need to get the money out of these races,” he said. “Strict fundraising and spending limits are needed.” I agree. Fundraisers and corporate campaign donations are surely the type of influence we want out of our judicial system, whether it is one elected by the people or not, and the improvement needed will be one that retains local control but curbs the corruption of politics. Horwitz is a government junior from Houston.

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for an impressive nine secondhalf blocks. “They definitely had a big lineup,” Kansas sophomore forward Perry Ellis said. “I tried to continue the attack, but we did not come with a lot of energy tonight. The loss is the result of that.” That big lineup and energy is what sets the 2013-2014 Longhorns apart from their last season counterpart. Texas’ 41.8 rebounds on the season is up from last year, and it is now outrebounding teams by almost seven per game. On

proud of what the team has done and earned — but half of conference play remains. “It is such a fine line between winning and losing,” Barnes said. “If you start drinking the poison and think that you are there, it all gets away. This is one game, and I want them to enjoy it because they should. But we have a long way to go.” Against Kansas, Texas didn’t seem to be drinking any poison. The Longhorns were just caught up in offense and letting the hype get to them. The hype motivated disciplined play and Texas showed its defense would lay

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Texas fans witnessed a sight they haven’t seen in quite some time Saturday at the Frank Erwin Center. In front of an electrifying, sold-out crowd, the No. 25 Longhorns overpowered No. 6 Kansas, 81-69, for their first win against the Jayhawks since 2011. “I am very happy and excited for our guys because they went and earned it,” head coach Rick Barnes said. “They worked hard and deserve this kind of atmosphere. I told them before the game that they deserve it but are going to have to earn it.” Texas and Kansas traded leads to start the game as the teams exchanged several fastpaced, sloppy early possessions. With 15:18 remaining in the first half, freshman guard Isaiah Taylor hit a 3-pointer to give the Longhorns the lead — a lead they would hold for the rest of the game. Texas held the Jayhawks to just 23 points in the first frame, Kansas’ second-lowest point total in a half this season. The Jayhawks produced more offense in the second half, but failed to slow down the Longhorns’ scorers or create any real momentum as Texas outplayed the reigning Big 12 champions. Barnes used a combination of man and zone defense to hold Kansas to a shooting percentage of just 38.5 percent on the day. Sophomore guard De-

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marcus Holland led the squad on defense, helping contain the Jayhawks’ star freshman Andrew Wiggins, who had just seven points on 2-for-12 shooting from the field. Wiggins, who came into the contest averaging 16.5 points per game, failed to record a field goal in the first half and fouled out of the game late in the second half. “[Holland] was outstanding,” Barnes said. “All year long,

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I am not sure if people have appreciated what he does. I’m telling you, though, his teammates and our staff appreciate him. He understood what he needed to do.” Texas was just as impressive on the offensive side of the ball, highlighted by performances from Taylor and junior forward Jonathan Holmes. Taylor finished with 23 points while Holmes poured in 22. It was the first time this season that

two Longhorns have surpassed the 20-point mark. “They had us on our heels the whole game,” Kansas head coach Bill Self said. “Their speed offset our length. I thought Taylor was the best player in the game. It was pretty much a dominating performance by the Longhorns over us today.” A star-studded crowd came to watch Texas (17-4, 6-2 Big 12) earn its fourth

consecutive win against a ranked opponent, a first for the program. Notable attendees included former Longhorns Colt McCoy, Fozzy Whittaker, Roger Clemens and Green Bay Packers coach Mike McCarthy. The Longhorns travel to Fort Worth Tuesday to take on TCU (9-11, 0-8 Big 12). The Horned Frogs are dead last in the Big 12 and are without a conference win. The game starts at 7 p.m.

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Though junior forward Nneka Enemkpali grabbed 15 boards to complement 19 points, Texas (14-7, 5-4) couldn’t maintain its halftime lead against No. 9 Baylor (18-3, 8-1). The Longhorns fell 87-73 to their in-state rival. “I’m very proud of our effort, but I don’t think we played very intelligently today,” head coach Karen Aston said. “Our guards will play and can play and have been playing a lot better than they played today, in particular [with] shot-taking and decision making.” Texas outrebounded, outshot and outscored the Bears in a close first half that featured six lead changes and competitive play. A buzzer beater by freshman forward Nekia Jones gave Texas a 36-35 advantage to finish the first half. Texas’ pressure defense restricted senior guard Odyssey Sims to 6-for-18 from the field in the first half. The defense denied Sims’ teammates as well. The Bears connected on only nine field goals

— their lowest first half total in conference play this season. “We didn’t shoot the ball particularly well in the first half,” Baylor head coach Kim Mulkey said. “We knew, though, that we were still in the game, and that we had a chance to win it, [even with] shooting 28 percent in the first half.” Texas allowed the Bears a boost of confidence as it plunged into foul trouble. The Longhorns committed 20 fouls in the game to help Baylor finish with 37 points from the charity stripe. “We didn’t make adjustments to the way the game was being officiated,” Aston said. “Baylor did a better job of making adjustments in the second half and not putting us on the line.” Texas ushered one Bear after the next to the freethrow line. The rampant fouls allowed Sims to compensate for 22 missed field goals, as she sunk 14 second-half free throws. She finished with 44 points, her fourth game with more than 40 this season. Sophomore guard Celina

Rodrigo, who finished with 10 points and seven assists, said Sims posed a multifaceted challenge that Texas couldn’t handle. “If you go over the screen, she’ll shoot a three, but if you go under the screen, help has to be there,” Rodrigo said. “Our defense struggled; our help wasn’t there, and we didn’t make the right rotations.” Although Texas didn’t make the necessary team adjustments on defense, numerous players contributed to its offensive threat. Five Longhorns reached double figures. Enemkpali — who led all Longhorns in points and rebounds — echoed Aston’s concern that they “lost the possession game very clearly.” “If we had responded the way we should have responded [in] the second half and found a way to … secure the offensive rebounds, that would’ve helped,” Enemkpali said. “Offensive rebounds really hurt us late in the game.” Texas resumes conference play at 7 p.m. Wednesday night against Texas Tech at the Frank Erwin Center.

Topping five separate events, No. 3 Texas pulled off a 194-153 victory over No. 5 Arizona in the teams’ two-day dual meeting at Arizona’s Hillenbrand Aquatic Center. Texas nearly doubled Arizona’s score after a 121-65 Friday session, and it maintained its lead Saturday. “We swam well in tough conditions,” head coach Eddie Reese said. “We had good splits all the way through the [400 medley] relay to win it. I don’t believe Arizona has ever lost that event with [American record holder] Kevin Cordes swimming breaststroke.” Texas claimed all three top spots in the 1,000 freestyle and later declined its point allotment from the final two events. The Longhorns will host the Big 12 Championships Feb. 26 in Austin at the Lee and Joe Jamail Texas Swimming Center. —Jori Epstein

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Road trip spurs Earthworks show By Eleanor Dearman @EllyDearman

For their senior spring break in 2012, UT studio art alumnae Ally Acheson-Snow, Karina Eckmeier, Maia Schall, Allie Underwood and Chantal Wnuk used their undergraduate professional travel grant to travel 3,600 miles and visit famous Earthworks. These pieces, located in New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and Texas, are artworks created from the materials found in the surrounding environment. The trip resulted in a final gallery exhibit, “Girls Gone West,” which opened at the Visual Arts Center on Friday. “A lot of students want to go to New York or Los Angeles or other big art capitals and go to museums and galleries, and we decided we wanted to do something different and see these other artworks that weren’t accessible in that same way,” Schall said. Over 10 days, the girls visited “Spiral Jetty” and “Amarillo Ramp” by Robert Smithson, “Double Negative” by Michael Heizer and “Sun Tunnels” by Nancy Holt. They also later visited “The Lightning Field” by Walter de Maria in New Mexico a little more than a year after the first trip, since the piece was closed during their spring break. The pieces were completely set in nature. For instance, “Spiral Jetty” is a large spiral made from basalt rock that can be seen in the Great Salt Lake in Utah. “It’s totally different than going to a gallery and seeing a painting on the wall because the trip there is part of the experience; also, the context of the work is extremely important, so the surrounding

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UT alumna Maia Schall works on setting up the exhibit “Girls Gone West” at the Center Space gallery at the Visual Arts Center on Wednesday afternoon. The exhibit, created by Schall and several friends, will be on display from Jan. 31 to March 8.

landscape is a huge part of it,” Wnuk said. “Those are all things you can’t experience just through photos. You actually have to go and see the work.” The artists got lost on multiple occasions and had many unanticipated roadblocks during their trip. Some of these were just bad luck, such as when the girls were forced to sit in their car and wait for a herd of about a thousand sheep to cross the road. Other challenges occurred

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artists’ separate works of art. “I think each piece is really our individual reactions and the way that we approached the pieces and the way that we think about them afterwards,” Schall said. “I think that trip really affected a lot of the things that we think about as artists and that has continued on to what we’ve made since the trip.” One of the pieces is a series of videos featuring Eckmeier’s alter ego, Corey, a strong and feminine character

named after a body builder. In these videos, Eckmeier sets up difficult obstacles for Corey to complete. “For ‘Spiral Jetty,’ I swam the jetty, using the jetty as a lane because we found it underwater,” Eckmeier said. “For ‘Amarillo Ramp,’ I ran the ramp and touched the end.” The drive from location to location became just as important as seeing the pieces. “Another important thing about the trip is it wasn’t just

going to the works,” Wnuk said. “We really embraced the journey in between.” Wnuk, Eckmeier and Schall all said that some of the best parts of the road trip were the things other than the Earthworks. “So we went places like the Grand Canyon, Cadillac Ranch, et cetera,” Wnuk said. “We embraced the idea of the American westward road trip, which is kind of a romantic thing.”

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Group empowers young girls By Kat Sampson @katclarksamp

While many of her fellow classmates were concerning themselves with J2’s everchanging menu, nutrition junior Lauren Caton, the founder and current president of GirlAdvocates! was seeking out UT students to join her in an effort to reform societal standards. GirlAdvocates! is a UT organization focused on empowering young girls through education, positive self-image and health. Like many young girls, Caton experienced a lack of self-confidence during her adolescent years, which led to a desire for guidance and need for support. She was able to emerge from her negative experiences with a goal in mind. “These experiences helped me realize how much support one needs during this vulnerable time period,” Caton said. “Since then, I have always been passionate about helping young adolescent girls develop their potential.”

The members of the organization serve as mentors for girls in the sixth, seventh or eigth grade at Webb Middle School. Mentors have to go through a training session with Austin Partners in Education, which fosters volunteer-driven mentoring programs in Austin Independent School District. The sessions help the mentors improve their communication skills. “[We] try to be on their level so they think of us as peers, not teachers,” GirlAdvocates! Vice President Anna Marie Pratas said. “Potential members must understand that it is an open discussion with the mentees.” While participating in GirlAdvocates!, members become role models and friends with their mentees, meeting in weekly mentor lunches. On any given Friday, Caton, along with two or three other members, drive to the middle school around noon. They often promise their mentees the week prior that they will bring Chick-fil-A or candy with them to their next visit.

GirlAdvocates! makes an effort to introduce the girls to the concept of going to college. By tuning them in at a young age, GirlAdvocates! hopes to inspire them to consider it a feasible option. Caton and her mentee Ashley Ortiz frequently talk about the UT campus, and more recently, Ortiz’s application for Breakthrough Austin, a local summer program that helps to prepare students for college. Ortiz is interested in the college experience. While the art school sparked her curiosity, she was quick to bring up an interest in chemistry. Caton and her fellow mentors make an effort to be there for the girls every week. Role models do not come in the form of acquaintances — they form through consistent exposure and reliable support. GirlAdvocates! takes pride in creating and fostering these relationships in an attempt to prevent the negativity that Caton and so many others dealt with during these same impressionable years.

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GirlAdvocates! President Lauren Caton eats lunch with her mentee Ashley Ortiz at Webb Middle School on Friday afternoon.