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Transfer students find transition difficult By Nicole Cobler @nicolecobler
When undeclared junior Joshua Alvarez transferred from Texas Tech to UT, he had to give up his two majors and had trouble finding housing — problems he feels were exacerbated by the University’s treatment of transfer students. “Transfer students don’t fall into four-year graduation rates, so we’ve been pushed to the side in a sense,” Alvarez said. “It’s really unfair.” Transfer students, who are given a much shorter new
student orientation and have no office to specifically address their needs, are 40 percent more likely to drop out after their first year than incoming first-year students, according to the most recent data available from the Office of Information Management and Analysis. Kristen Jones Harris, assistant director of operations at New Student Services, said there is not currently an office dedicated to helping students transition into the University, but the need is being addressed. “There is not technically a transfer office,” Harris said.
“We are still trying to find specific opportunities to support them throughout their college career versus when they just get here.” Harris said New Student Services organizes a nonmandatory transfer student orientation that allows transfer students to meet with academic advisers and plan their schedules. “We have to make different accommodations for their college, but we do feel like a large number of transfer students attend because of those opportunities,” Harris said.
The transfer student orientation is a day and a half long, and Alvarez said he felt like there was not as much information available to him as there would be to freshman. “Not only was there a lack of support at orientation, but here, with that one day and a half, I basically came, registered and left,” Alvarez said. “It didn’t provide me with the resources I was looking for.” Alvarez is on the Transfer Student Board, designed to address the concerns of this small
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Kiefer Shenk, vice president of UT Senate, is heading an iniative to better facilitate students transferring into the University.
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Sixth Street disturbance spurs APD initiative
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At a press conference Monday morning, UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa announced he will be stepping down as chancellor because he feels he has completed significant work on the goals he originally set for himself in the role. Cigarroa, who will become the head of pediatric transplant surgery at the UT Health Science Center-San Antonio once his successor is named, said he came to his realization in December. “I realized I had accomplished every goal that I set out to do,” Cigarroa said. “I’m at a point in my professional career where I need to take a look at the next steps. The type of academic I am is really a surgeon, [and I realized] that, if I didn’t go back to surgery, I think that, long-term, I would have regretted it.” Cigarroa maintained his decision had nothing to do with recent tensions between President William Powers Jr. and members of the UT System Board of Regents, and said he is proud of the work he has done to
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Joint Oversight Committee on Higher Education Governance, Excellence and Transparency. “Although I am confident that he will deny any
On Friday, the Austin Police Department began enforcing Operation Safe Passage, an initiative that positions extra officers on the east end of Sixth Street. APD Lt. Christian Malanka said the operation launch was quickened as a result of a video filmed on Jan. 26 that showed two groups of men engaged in a fight near the parking lots close to I-35. “We’re putting the greatest concentration on areas of high-density parking because those are the areas people are going to travel to after the bars close,” Malanka said. Malanka said the initiative is meant to help officers better deter or respond to incidents that occur as people return to their cars. “When anywhere from 20,000 to 60,000 patrons of bars are pushed into the streets at 2 o’clock in the
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UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa stepped down from his position at a press conference Monay morning. Cigarroa will become the head of pediatric transplant surgery at the UT Health Science Center-San Antonio once his successor is named.
advance UT-Austin. “As it relates to President Powers, this decision is completely separate from that,” Cigarroa said. “I will continue to do my work as chancellor every day until my last day, as I’ve always done,
based on facts and performance. I support President Powers, and I will continue to evaluate all presidents every day.” State Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo, said she believes Cigarroa’s
resignation stems from some regents’ recent behavior. Zaffirini, who served as chairwoman of the Senate Higher Education Committee for six years, still sits on the committee and is also co-vice chair of the
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Journalist discusses the need for foreign aid in rural Africa By Adam Hamze In a presentation at the LBJ School of Public Affairs on Monday, journalist and author Nina Munk said she is in favor of foreign aid for the developing world, but only if it is spent wisely. Munk spoke about her book, “The Idealist: Jeffery Sachs and the Quest to End Poverty,” which is a profile of Jeffrey Sachs, an economist and special adviser to the Secretary-General of the United Nations and author of “The End of Poverty.” Sachs’ work in the rural areas of Africa included launching the Millennium Villages Project, a five-year
initiative to test his theories for combating poverty. Munk said many areas in Africa rely heavily on international aid, which was provided through the project. “Anyone who’s been to rural Africa has seen what I have seen.” Munk said. “These people are alive because of foreign aid.” Munk said it was difficult to collect base data in the rural African villages, which led to skepticism from academics. “Many reports have had to be retracted because of lack of good data,” Munk said. “Almost no one in academia embraced this project and held it up as an example worth following, largely
because of these problems with the data.” Anna Scanlon, an international relations and global studies and government junior and a research assistant with UT Innovations for Peace and Development, said the methodology of the project was flawed. “Munk admitted during the Q-and-A that some of these villages are located in highly remote areas lacking any formal governance mechanism and are highly unlikely to ever develop any sort of industry, sustainable agricultural sector, etc.,” Scanlon said. Scanlon also said it’s
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Journalist and author Nina Munk gives a talk about foreign aid at the LBJ School of Public Affairs on Monday afternoon.
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CORRECTION Because of a reporting error, a story about health care for transgender students in the Feb. 6 issue of The Daily Texan misstated a person’s title. Adrienne HowarthMoore is the director of Human Resource Services, an office under University Operations which deals with employee health benefits. Because of a reporting error, a story about a potential kidnapping in the Feb. 5 issue of The Daily Texan misspelled a person’s name. UTPD Lt. Charles Bonnet is the correct spelling.
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disharmony, I am equally confident that [Cigarroa’s] decision was influenced by the continued negative circumstances at hand,” Zaffirini said in a statement. “His action personifies the harmful repercussions of the current attack on those who pursue excellence, protect the privacy of students and strive for true transparency for all.” Zaffirini said members of the board need to express their “strong support” of Powers as they look for a new chancellor. “[Cigarroa] has endured unmitigated stress from the rogue regents who want UT President Bill Powers fired,” Zaffirini said. “Those who were unhappy with his recommendation to continue the heavily supported employment of President Powers reportedly turned their powerful weapons on him.” Board chairman Paul Foster said he did not believe “perceived tensions” between Powers and the regents would impede the search process for Cigarroa’s successor in any way.
Foster said he anticipated the search process would take between four and six months. “This is a tough day for me because it’s difficult to imagine trying to replace Francisco Cigarroa,” Foster said. “Indeed, in my opinion, he can’t be replaced. People with his varied and impressive resume don’t come along every day. … He found common ground where others couldn’t.” In a statement, Powers said he appreciated Cigarroa’s leadership over the course of the past five years and noted his work in helping establish a new medical school for the University. “We are in a better place in Texas because of his leadership,” Powers said. “I will always remember and appreciate his support in a variety of areas — most of all, establishing a medical school at UT-Austin. Likewise, the entire state will always remember and benefit
UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa’s five priorities 1) To position UT-Austin as America’s finest public university. Cigarroa said the soon-to-be-opened Dell School of Medicine and the Engineering Education and Research Center make him confident the University is on track to reaching this goal. 2) To move UT-El Paso, UT-San Antonio, UT-Arlington and UT-Dallas toward achieving Tier One status. 3) To “plant a larger flag” in South Texas. 4) To improve the health of Texas, generally. 5) To establish the UT System as a leader in energyrelated research. from the new University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley, which will soon be a reality because of [Cigarroa].” During Cigarroa’s tenure as chancellor, the Texas Legislature approved the establishment of a new medical school in the Rio Grande Valley in addition to the new University, which will be eligible for
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morning, they sort of go all directions,” Malanka said. “The truth is there is violence associated with large crowd density and high consumption of alcohol.” Bob Woody, who owns 24 establishments in downtown Austin, including several on Sixth Street, said he believes the time period between 2 a.m. and 3 a.m. is the most risky because the bars start to close, leaving many people out on the streets to linger. “That’s when you really have to have your head on straight, and — let’s face it— a lot of folks at that point are drunk,” Woody said. Woody said he believes the increased police presence would help reduce the number of incidents that happen outside of the regularly patrolled area. “There are about 12 officers dedicated to walking around on Sixth Street between South Congress and I-35 every weekend, but the bad guys know that perimeter, and they hang around outside of the perimeter,” Woody said. “A lot of the incidents take place right outside of that area.” In addition to the onfoot patrol officers, APD deploys its mounted patrol unit to monitor Sixth Street on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights to help manage crowds. “Bad people are crazy scared of horses,” Woody said. “If you’ve got a group that’s acting bad and you send a policeman out there, he just blends in with the crowd. But, if you send two horses out there, I guarantee you that crowd will disperse.” Latin senior Dana Ogrin, an employee of The North Door, said her boss witnessed the Jan. 26 fight, which took place about one block from the venue where she was working. Ogrin said her close proximity to the parking lots is a cause of concern. “Every Friday and Saturday night, I get off work around 2 a.m., which is always when the droves of people are heading out from Sixth Street and right around the time something like [a fight] would happen,” Ogrin said. Lt. Troy Officer said the operation is a temporary measure and will cost the department in overtime pay for the officers assigned the task of patrolling east Sixth Street. “If we had adequate staffing, there would [be] something similar in place permanently,” Officer said.
Bad people are crazy scared of horses. —Bob Woody, Owner of 24 downtown locations
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continues from page 1 important for the American public to understand that foreign aid is an incredibly complex issue. Taking place in an almost full auditorium, the event attracted a variety of students. Rahima Housaini, global policy studies graduate student, said she came to learn strategies for combating poverty in Afghanistan. “I’m from Pakistan and want to see how it could relate to current development activities in Afghanistan,” Housaini said. Munk said the book was not what she was expecting when she first began writing. “I wanted it to have a hopeful ending. … Who doesn’t want to believe poverty can be ended?” Munk said. “I was either naive or hopeful enough to think that Jeff Sachs could pull this off.”
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Girl Scouts to sell cookies through March By Christina Breitbeil @christinabreit
After several days of inclement weather limited cookie sales, the Girl Scouts of Central Texas have decided to extend sales through March 2. The extension of sales began last weekend, National Girl Scout Cookie Weekend, and will continue for more than three weeks in order to give Girl Scouts more time to reach their sales goals. Sierra Fernandes, the Girl Scouts’ product program manager for Austin, said that the decision to sell the cookies through all of February has been well received by both customers and Girl Scouts. “[The sale extension] got a lot of positive feedback ... because it gives [the Girl Scouts] a change to regain their lost weekends of sales, and it helps the older girls meet their higher goals,” Fernandes said. “They have a reward chart that they base their goals off of.” According to Lucia Weinmeister, public relations executive for the Girl Scouts of Central Texas, the unexpected chance to boost sales hurt by previous inclement weather
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has sparked enthusiam in the Girl Scouts. “We think girls are going to be encouraged to sell some more,” Weinmeister said. “Girls couldn’t make it to their booths this weekend with the cold, [so] we’ve seen a lot of enthusiasm because of it.” Austin’s recent inclement weather has also prompted the option for customers
to purchase a virtual “7th box” which goes to those who were first responders during the inclement weather. The donations will be part of an event known as “Operation Cookie Drop,” which delivers boxes of cookies to American military forces and first responders. “Helicopters [collect] the boxes in a net,” Weinmeister
said. “This happens on a service unit level, so each troop delivers [the cookies], and the service unit delivers [them] to the local first responders.” Rachel Renier, geological sciences and Plan II freshman and a former Girl Scout for 13 years, said that the extension of cookie sales was a smart move. “I think that beyond
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MetroRapid’s effect on routes scrutinized By Jeremy Thomas @JeremyOBThomas
A UT staff member argued that changes to existing bus routes associated with the introduction of MetroRapid have adversely affected Austin commuters at the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization, known as CAMPO meeting Monday. The CAMPO Transportation Policy Board schedules to meet every second Monday of the month to oversee the organization’s transportation programming. CapMetro bus routes changed Jan. 26 with the introduction of the MetroRapid 801 service. According to CapMetro, Route 801 replaced Route
101 North Lamar/South Congress. Routes 1L and 1M combined into Route 1 Metric/South Congress and will keep the former service stops for the new route. At the meeting, Marylin Harris, administrative associate at the Division of Statistics and Scientific Computation in the College of Natural Sciences, said she found problems with the CapMetro changes. “[Commuters] have been impacted because of the change in the frequency of the local buses that make every stop, and the inconvenience of riding multiple buses where one bus used to take us everywhere we needed to go,” Harris said. “Those buses
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UTPD calls for caution in light of suspicious event
UTPD reported a female student was approached by a man who tried to get her to enter his car Friday near Guadalupe and the 2600 block of Whitis around 4:15 p.m. According to the report, the man drove an off-white, older model four-door sedan. He asked the student for directions to the Chemical Petroleum Engineering building, which is located near the intersection of San Jacinto and Dean Keaton. The man stopped his car next to the student and proceeded to tell her to enter his car so that she could show him how to get to the building, according to the report. The student refused to enter the vehicle and left the area before calling the police. UTPD officer William Pieper added precautionary tips to the report. “First and foremost, there is safety in numbers,” he wrote. “Whenever possible, go places with friends. Always have your cellular telephone on you and keep it charged.” Pieper recommended calling the police anytime you feel threatened. “Call the Police Department anytime you find yourself asking, ‘Should I call the Police?’,” Pieper wrote. “Be aware of your surroundings and have an escape route.” —Julia Brouillette First-Year Experience office and are told from the get go they can go there with any issues,” Shenk said. “Transfer students get here and the University seems to expect them to know how to work the system because they’ve been at another school before.” Shenk said the First-Year Experience office hopes to have the transfer student office in place in the fall. “I know the University has a priority on four-year graduation rates, and, if these transfer students are coming in and don’t know who to talk to, that’s not going to help the initiative at all,” Shenk said. Alvarez said the University’s policy towards transfer students contradicts its core principles. “The University stresses equal treatment for all students and I think the transfer students are a population that are currently not being treated equally,” Alvarez said.
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University should have more carefully vetted Accenture Since October 2013, one of the most contentious administrative issues on campus has been Shared Services — an initiative that will centralize the University’s finance, human resources, procurement and information technology services in an attempt to save more than $30 million per year. The centralization will likely eliminate 500 university jobs, primarily through natural attrition and retirement. When Kevin Hegarty, the University’s executive vice president and chief financial officer, first addressed the shift to Shared Services last year, these lost jobs seemed to be the most controversial aspect of the proposal, at least in the eyes of students. Soon after, though, faculty and students alike pointed to other concerns, including the hefty price tag of the implementation — $160 million combined for both Shared Services and switching to a new business-management software system — as well as the University’s decision to hire consulting firm Accenture to assist with the project’s implementation. The University’s decision to hire Accen-
This is worrisome because we are using a private model for a public institution; there’s a great deal of money going into this and the published figures are incorrect. — Anne Lewis, Senior Radio-television-film lecturer
ture has been a heated issue because of the close relationship many of the individuals on UT’s Committee of Business Productivity have with the firm, as well as Accenture’s involvement in past mishaps in the public sector. As the Daily Texan has reported, the committee chair, Stephen Rohleder, served as chief executive of Accenture’s Health and Public Service division. The subcommittee that recommended that UT’s operations be centralized into shared services was chaired by Stephan James, a 38-year Accenture veteran. And three of six people on the Shared Services Steering Committee are Accenture employees, with one being a former Accenture executive. As for Accenture’s contentious history, in 2006, a Texas Medicaid and Children’s Health Insurance Program run through Accenture encountered so many problems, including long-wait times for callers and unreceived medical benefits for children, that the contract was canceled prematurely. According to Hegarty, who spoke to the editorial board about Shared Services on Thursday, the University hired Accenture to implement the beginning stages of Shared Services because the consulting firm had an existing contract with a Texas agency, and the University could easily latch onto the same contract without having to initiate a competitive bidding process separate from the one that had already occurred. Yes, as Hegarty repeatedly said Thursday, this action was a completely legal one. But we don’t believe the legality of the decision makes it any less an example of partiality on the part of UT officials. Friday, more than 300 students protested
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against the University’s relationship with Accenture, despite the fact that the campus was closed for winter weather. The protest’s goal was to encourage the University to terminate its relationship with Accenture. Anne Lewis, a senior radio-television-film lecturer who spoke at the rally, told the Texan editorial board that her biggest concern about UT’s relationship with Accenture lies in the “DNA alteration of the University we love and value in support of a corporate project. … This is worrisome because we are using a private model for a public institution; there’s a great deal of money going into this and the published figures are incorrect.” In other words, Lewis believes that “both the model and the specific company are troublesome.” To remedy the situation, both Lewis and Bianca Hinz-Foley, Plan II junior and a spokeswoman for United Students Against Sweatshops (a student group that took part in the protest), want the University to terminate its relationship with Accenture. But that’s both unlikely and unreasonable. The truth is Shared Services is not and should not be an issue. Given the University’s current budget shortfall, it may very well prove to be a reasonable, timely and cost-saving initiative. With rapidly declining state funding and a freeze on tuition, it’s imperative that the University consider cutting costs in administrative areas, rather than cutting back on the quality of education that it provides students. And in regard to the new ERP system: It’s about time. Our current system is 25-30 years old. For technology, that’s ancient. So yes, UT needs to spend the money on an
Shared Services is not and should not be an issue. Given the University’s current budget shortfall, it may very well prove to be a reasonable, timely and cost-saving initiative. updated system. UT needs a Shared Services model. But that doesn’t mean everything in this arrangement is kosher. As Hegarty said repeatedly, “The devil’s in the details.” The details indicate that hiring Accenture without a separate competitive bidding process was inappropriate; a separate bidding process would have insured that no nepotism was at play in hiring the firm responsible for implementing Shared Services. Although paying for Shared Services or the ERP system won’t cut into our University’s operating budget now, it easily could if something goes wrong. After all, the money has to come from somewhere. Shared Services and the much-needed ERP upgrade should benefit the University, both in terms of efficiency and profitability. But, by not competitively bidding out the contract for the Shared Services implementation, the University has increased the risk, however small, that the system or the ERP software isn’t the best one for UT. This irresponsibility is the main issue at hand, and it’s one that should not be acceptable.
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This year, make SG representative A modest defense of creationism By Suchi Sundaram Daily Texan Columnist
Today could be considered an average Tuesday for most people. But, for Student Governments candidates, it is Judgement Day: the day when filing closes. As of right now, only two candidates, both of which can be described as decidedly traditional, are running: Kornel Rady, a government, corporate communications and communications studies senior, and Kenton Wilson, a government senior. By the end of today, the candidate pool will be finalized and the nominees for elected positions revealed. Some regard SG elections as a way to drive change to the University, while others see it as a validation prize for being popular. Some see it as a joke, while others place a high value on the need for an organization like SG to represent their needs and ideas. But what exactly is the state of elections at UT? At UT today, there is an increasing pessimism towards SG elections. Rising cynicism for the election cycle could be attributed to the lack of true change in student-body representation. Who do we think of when we think of student-body representatives? White males in Greek organizations or traditional spirit groups. Who do we think will run this semester? White males in Greek organizations or traditional spirit groups. Who do we think will run next year? Candidates with exactly the same profile and platforms as the ones running this year. The Greeks have ultimately created a dynasty out of a democracy. Year after year, there are a disproportionate number of students in SG who are in Greek organizations. But, rather than disparaging them, I wish to commend them. No other organization on campus has had such a consistent history of victory, and no other organization on campus has created a situation in which the only qualified candidates for higher office are the ones who have already been elected — leading to a seemingly never-ending cycle of Greek overrepresentation in SG. Similar to popular political parties, the
The dominance of Greek organizations in the election process is perceived as unfair, but why should we hate organizations that are simply successful at networking and voter outreach?
Greeks have driven out the competitors due to the sheer amount of people they can reach. Through blitzing and social media, the Greek candidates manage to reach the 7,000 students involved in sororities and fraternities. Non-greek candidates cannot dream of such a scope. The dominance of Greek organizations in the election process is perceived as unfair, but why should we hate organizations that are simply successful at networking and voter outreach? Why do we keep railing against the inequality of representation in SG rather than identifying its causes? Why do we not realize the ultimate reason for this inequality is us? Simply put, all we need to do to fix the inequality in SG is to care. Elections are important. Democracies have lasted thousands of years for a reason. It’s because they drive change. The representative nature of SG has been a catalyst for reform and campus improvement for years; In the 1940s, students organized a rally to support NAACP efforts to desegregate the university. In the 1970 SG elections, the unusual vote for a cartoon character over a legitimate candidate helped drive SG to reform itself to actually represent the opinions and ideas of the students. I am not asking us to throw a revolution but, rather, to acknowledge that the only way we can drive change is to first change ourselves and decide to care about the future of our University and about how our representatives are representing us. Rather than berating the Greeks, we should learn something from them and adapt. They elect their candidates through the Intra-Fraternity Council endorsement list, but that doesn’t stop the rest of UT from electing its representatives through our own free choice. Ultimately, the students who are elected are our representatives, and that idea is what we should consider. How can we make sure the representatives have strong sustainable platforms? We should actually bother to vote. Vote for the ones who do and encourage others to do the same. How can we make sure representatives are actually following their platforms? Email them and hold them to their promises. Encourage SG to improve communication and raise its accountability policies. How can we drive change? Again, by caring. As can be seen by the current vice-presidential nominees, both of which are female, change is here. We just have to continue spearheading and demanding it for the change to both grow and be sustained. This upcoming election season, we should consider an important idea: For better or for worse, these representatives are tasked with the daunting task of providing a voice for 50,000 students. Let’s choose the right ones. Sundaram is a business honors, finance and international relations senior from Austin.
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At the Texas Republican Lieutenant Governor Primary debate Feb. 2, four candidates stood against the backdrop of a colossal Texas flag and bandied about phrases like “true conservative,” while roundly lauded the merits of teaching creationism in public schools. If God shaped man in His own image, surely Rick Perry shaped these Republican lieutenant governor candidates in his. This debate revealed that all of these candidates have remarkably similar views on most issues, including the teaching of creationism as a science, which three of the candidates agreed is acceptable. Only Jerry Patterson, the financial underdog in the race, disagreed, saying it should instead be taught in social studies. Some people might take issue with the way the candidates seem to have fashioned their platforms entirely out of divisive cultural issues. Some people might object that the teaching of creationism in schools is explicitly unconstitutional. And some people might even accuse them of naked, shameless, embarrassing, disingenuous pandering to reactionary Republican primary voters. However, I disagree and think we should applaud these brave men for standing up for creationism, despite the fact that 97 percent of scientists support evolution. That kind of blind adherence to politically convenient beliefs is what belongs in science classrooms — not evolution. I have a modest proposal to ensure the future success of the next generation of young Texans: Drop evolution from the statewide
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curriculum and immediately adopt creationism as the standard teaching. I believe that David Dewhurst, Jerry Patterson, Todd Staples and Dan Patrick prove that repeating claims to appease ideological primary voters is far more important to a student’s success than understanding science. Understanding evolution isn’t important for a child’s education. Sure, a grasp of evolution and its mechanisms is necessary to develop vaccines, decode the human genome and design more efficient agricultural methods, but it won’t get you the Republican nomination for statewide office. Giving children an education grounded in the scientific method is important, but putting forth religious ideas under the guise of legitimate scientific theory is a more pragmatic skill for our leaders of tomorrow to know. This slate of lieutenant gubernatorial candidates have clearly demonstrated that. Even The Texas Education Agency, which administers all primary and secondary schools in the state, promises in its mission statement to “prepare [students] for success in the global economy.” While “success” is obviously not an objective metric, certainly anyone would acknowledge that election to high state office represents some degree of professional success. Our students need to be taught to reject critical thinking the way Staples, Dewhurst, Patrick and Patterson have and, instead, publicly say only the things that their most important fundraisers want to hear. In fact, I propose that we abandon science-based education all together. Instead of science textbooks, children should be issued a copy of “Atlas Shrugged,” campaign literature from the local Tea Party outfit and an American flag lapel pin. It’s very clear that those things have been more influential in the development of this year’s field of Republican candidates than any textbook. Matula is a finance junior from Austin.
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Members of the UT Kendo Association practice the sport during one of the team’s meetings. Participants in the sport use kendo as a way to achieve relaxation and build confidence.
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Shrieks fill the arena. As bare feet pound the floor, screams accompany every strike of the shinai — a bamboo sword. Protecting a kendoka — one who participates in the sport — is armor, complemented by a metal grille helmet and hard leather flaps that guard the torso, forearms and legs. “Like in a game of chess …,” one must mentally outmaneuver one’s opponent, strategically engaging the challenger and thinking ahead to the next move. But notions of winning or besting an adversary are not the most important aspects of the sport of kendo. “I feel, when you go to the dojo, you must shut everything out,” design senior Janet Shim said. “Practicing kendo clears your mind and releases tension. Otherworldly problems take a backseat. With kendo, I feel like a better person.” Before practicing kendo, Shim said she lacked selfconfidence and “allowed
people to run all over her.” The sport gave her confidence and a new perspective on life. Now, Shim is the president of the University of Texas Kendo Association. In Japanese, the word “kendo” means “way of the sword.” In accordance with the tradition of Japanese martial arts, key aspects of kendo include integrity, respect and sportsmanship. Although it is nice to win matches, kendo is not about beating other players, but about helping each other grow. “There is a sense of nonverbal communication with your opponent,” Shim said. “You can tease your opponent into their weakness to show them, which allows them to learn how to improve and defend against that weakness the next time.” Kendo provides not only a mental challenge, but also physical demands. The first player to tactically strike the opponent twice wins the match. According to International Kendo Federation regulations, the target areas to strike an opponent are the top, sides
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or front of the head protector, as well as the armor that protects the arms, neck, shoulders and torso. A complete strike consists of various components. “In order for a strike to be valid, the person performing the strike has to show ki, ken, tai and ichi,” Shim said. Ki refers to the shout and is how a person shows his or her spirit. Ken refers to the bamboo sword, which must hit the intended target. Tai refers to the full body, which is represented by the foot stomping. Ichi, in this case, means “as one” — spirit, sword and body working as one. Then, after striking, the person must show zanshin — following through the strike — for the hit to even count.
Head coach Charlie Strong has been unable to escape the topic of recruiting since he replaced Mack Brown as Texas’ football coach. Unsurprisingly, this has only worsened in the week since the Longhorns have accrued the nation’s 20th ranked recruiting class, according to recruiting website, Rivals. But what will be the primary focus here, though, is not the players Strong brings in, but his ability to cultivate their talent and return this program to the elite status it once held. Critics of Strong’s hiring have asserted he has weak connections in Texas, which will hurt his capacity to recruit against the likes of Texas A&M, Oklahoma and LSU. This argument has merit; Look at what happened with Sione and Maea Teuhema, two brothers who recently dropped their commitments to Texas in favor of LSU. Overall, six Longhorn pledges have decommitted in the last month. The discussion neglects the primary criteria of coaching: winning. Brown
Displaying a complete strike may seem complicated, but it is about letting the body learn the actions on its own. “Once you practice a lot and learn the techniques, it is just training your body to perform muscle memory,” Shin said. Brittney Boles, a biochemistry senior who serves as the organization’s vice president, said the practice of kendo gave her a chance to try something new and explore herself in different ways. “Kendo is a mindset,” Boles said. “It is not about being great, but about improvement. What you put into kendo is what you get out of it.”
led the Longhorns to nine consecutive 10-win seasons and two appearances in the BCS National Championship. But with seven top-five recruiting classes from the stretch of 20022013, most Texas fans expected more championships. While many of Brown’s teams did not live up to lofty expectations, Strong’s have made a habit of overachieving. Despite having no top-25 recruiting classes at Louisville, he coached the Cardinals to four straight winning seasons, including a 23-3 record from 2011-2012 and a win over heavily favored Florida in the 2011 Sugar Bowl. His coaching ability was best displayed last season, when Louisville boasted the nation’s top defense without a five-star recruit on the roster. Of course, when given premium talent, Strong has produced premium results. While defensive coordinator at Florida, Strong put together several top-five defenses, including stifling units on the Gators’ championship teams in 2006 and 2008. Strong has shown a far greater ability to translate high-school recruits into stars at the college level, and, if he can display the leadership and intellect he did at his previous coaching stops, the Longhorns will be rewarded with elite players defined by success on the field — not the other way around. Charlie Strong speaks to the media as the defensive coordinator at Florida during a college football media day in 2009.
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Horns look to rebound against Cowboys By Garrett Callahan @CallahanGarrett
Through August 3 This exhibition illuminates the experience of World War I from the point of view of its participants and observers, preserved through letters, drafts, and diaries; memoirs and novels; and photographs and propaganda posters. Free public tours on Tuesdays at noon, Thursdays at 6 p.m., Saturdays at 2 p.m., and Sundays at 2 p.m. 21st and Guadalupe Streets Free admission, donations welcome www.hrc.utexas.edu 512-471-8944
After the seven-game winning streak that put it in the rankings, Texas rolls back into action Tuesday, looking to prevent the start of a losing streak. The Longhorns face a determined Oklahoma State on Tuesday at the Frank Erwin Center after falling to Kansas State over the weekend. In the AP ranking released Monday, Texas has moved down to No. 19, a fourspot drop in the polls after a 74-57 loss to the Wildcats on Saturday. Since its upset victory against No. 6 Kansas just over a week ago, Texas (18-5, 7-3 Big 12) has had trouble pulling away from its opponents, mostly because of turnovers and lack of energy. The Longhorns overcame 13 turnovers against lowly TCU to pull out a victory. On Saturday, Texas coughed up 18 turnovers against the Wildcats for its third Big 12 loss of the season. “Some of the turnovers we had were ridiculous and so were some of the shots we took,” said head coach Rick Barnes after Saturday’s loss. “I was baffled with some of the things we did, even on the shots that we took. They were getting out
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Freshman guard Damarcus Croaker attempts a shot during Texas’ victory against Kansas. The Longhorns face Oklahoma State on Tuesday after losing to Kansas State on Saturday.
in transition. The turnovers were huge.” In its seven conference wins this season, Texas averaged 11.7 turnovers per game and held its opponents to 65.1 points per game. On the contrary, the Longhorns averaged 16 turnovers per game and allowed their opponents to score 83 points per game in their three Big 12 losses this season. Freshman point guard Isaiah Taylor has led his team since it started 0-2 in the Big 12. Taylor has reached double figures in scoring and averaged 19.5
points per game in the last four games. Against Kansas State, the freshman recorded a team-high 17 points and four rebounds. “It was a big learning process for me taking on a leadership role in the team and just having my teammates around,” Taylor said after his best performance of the year against Kansas. “I had a tough stretch at the beginning of the Big 12. They’ve just been encouraging me on and off the court, just keep it going just keep attacking the basket.” The Longhorns and the Cowboys faced off early last
month in Stillwater, Okla., with Oklahoma State emerging victorious, 87-74. Oklahoma State is coming off a loss against Texas Tech, a game which thrust Cowboy guard Marcus Smart in the middle of controversy. With six seconds left in the game, Smart — who leads his team in scoring with 17.5 points per game and is expected to go early in this year’s NBA Draft — got in an altercation with a Red Raider fan in the stands. As a result of his actions, he received three game suspensions and will miss Tuesday’s game.
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Exhibit showcases rare WWI memorabilia By Eleanor Dearman @EllyDearman
For soldiers during World War I, diary entries, poetry, photos and drawings served as an escape from the horrific events around them. Today, these personal accounts allow insight into the reality of life on the front. The Harry Ransom Center’s exhibit “The World at War, 1914-1918” gives the public a chance to view these documents up close. Rather than showcasing common World War I memorabilia, such as weapons, “The World at War, 19141918” juxtaposes these personal documents with massproduced propaganda and recruitment posters. “[The Ransom center is] not a military museum,” said Elizabeth Garver, a curator for “The World at War, 1914-1918.” “We are basically a literary repository, so that’s what we collect: people’s letters and their manuscripts to themselves. It’s really a personal view, and some of it is quite atrocious. We’ve got letters where [the soldiers] tell you about the front lines and the trenches and seeing people get killed.” “The World at War, 19141918” covers the different
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people and countries involved in World War I. The museum is divided into sections, with each space showcasing a different area of involvement in the war. There is a display for each country involved, as well as various groups of people involved in the war efforts, such as women, children, AfricanAmericans and spies. “When doing an exhibition like this in the gallery that’s broadly themed, you can pull from all of the collections,” said Jean Cannon, a curator for the exhibit. “We have some exhibitions that are maybe just one collection or one topic or one medium, but this is a little bit more challenging.” By attending this exhibit, Cannon said students have the opportunity to learn about the lesser-known history of World War I through the Ransom center’s one-of-a-kind archives. “American audiences in general do not have the best understanding of this war,” Cannon said. “A lot of that is because America entered the war late. We entered in 1917, so, by that time, the French army was almost liquidated. The British and German armies were also exhausted.” James Montgomery Flagg’s iconic “I Want You” Uncle Sam poster that has been duplicated throughout history can also be
Exhibit curators Christina Jones (left) and Elizabeth Garver go over the final steps of setting up “The World At War, 1914-1918” on Monday morning. Jones and Garver have been preparing the exhibit — which will open Tuesday — for the past two years.
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found at the exhibit. “It just blows your mind to see the original because it’s something that we’re so familiar with,” Garver said. Cannon and Garver also took donations from the family members of World War I veterans to use in the exhibit. Christina Jones loaned the Ransom center letters, pictures and awards from her father, Heinrich Lerche, who served in the German Military. Lerche enlisted when he was 19
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years old and fought on both the Eastern and Western front. Jones also noted that since her father worked for the German government as a legal clerk, he was required to join the Nazi regime in World War II. After the war finished, however, he did not participate in the party. “It’s important for people to know history and remember it and possibly learn from it,” Jones said. “Maybe at this point they’ll look at it and say, ‘We were enemies and now the
Germans are one America’s best friends, one of our allies,’ and see how things change over the decades.” Jones’ favorite item she put on file with the Ransom center is Lerche’s letter to her son about his time during the war. “My son is his only grandson, and, when he was a little boy, he liked to look at the war picture, so I told my dad about it,” Jones said. “He wrote a letter back to [my son] in Ger-
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Poetry finds more than its voices at renowned Austin Poetry Slam By Sam Hays
ing and the extent to which they emote while performing. When a poet walks up to the mic, the DJ’s music fades into the background. Unlike the aimlessly chattering audiences at music shows, the crowd falls silent once the poets begin speaking. There is a palpable energy that fills the entire room. The crowd acts as a seismograph, reacting to the emotional highs and lows of each poem with snaps and cheers. Jomar Valentin, who was part of Austin Poetry Slam’s 2011 national team, writes personally but also, as he asserts, accessibly. “I write a lot about gay life
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On Tuesday nights, the crowd gathered at the Spider House Cafe & Ballroom isn’t waiting for a band to tune its guitars. They’re not waiting for the sarcastic banter of a comedian to fill the room, either. On Tuesday nights, the crowd gathers to witness a different art form altogether. Poetry slam is competitive poetry. At Austin Poetry Slam at Spider House, poets from all over the city recite their works in front of an eager crowd. The poets are judged by criteria such as presentation, depth of writ-
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man about how horrible war was and how we should all be peaceful and never again have any bad wars like that.” These personal stories, such as the one Jones shared, make “The World at War, 1914-1918” more than just a compilation of facts and dates. “It gives the historical perspective of the war, but it also gives the personal viewpoints of people who actually lived through these years,” Cannon said.
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and gay rights,” Valentin said. “I try not to be preachy; I try to be funny about it. It’s bringing awareness to it, as well as being able to express yourself. It’s a great platform.” Some poets, such as Valentin, come to spread a message. Others, such as Dave Webber, come to sort out their personal troubles. Tim Clark, a retired Austinite who found out about poetry slam through his daughter, wants to accomplish something different with his poetry. “Sometimes, things just happen. I want to see if I can communicate how that made me feel,” Clark said, referencing a poem he wrote about a woman with cerebral palsy. “I want to communicate that to a general audience so they can get something out of it too.” Austin Poetry Slam started in 1994 and, four years later, hosted the National Poetry Slam, which brought national attention to the group. Gloria C. Adams, secretary of Austin Poetry Slam, said Austin has some of the best poets in the country. “We have a really robust crowd full of people who are truly interested in being here,” Adams said. “This is a great place to hear things that will resonate with you.” Adams, a seasoned poet who competed at last year’s national competition, said the basic premise of poetry slamming is not only helpful to poets but also essential to their well-being. “There aren’t that many places in the world where people are interested in hearing the dark truths about yourself,” Adams said. “One thing I really like about the poetry world is this emphasis we put on telling your truth, on telling what’s happening to you and what you’ve experienced.” Austin Poetry Slam takes place weekly and not only showcases local talent but also features touring poets in its lineup, such as award-winning poet Andrea Gibson.