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Council votes to limit ‘stealth dorms’

Cloud service UTBox rarely used despite security, cost

By Alyssa Mahoney & Amanda Voeller @thedailytexan

At approximately 2:30 a.m. Friday, Austin City Council took an initial vote to limit the number of adults who are not related to each other allowed to live in a residence built on single-family zoned property.

In a 6-1 vote, council

members approved language to amend the city code to limit “stealth dorms” — groups of adults, often students, living together in a single-family house. The members agreed to reconvene in six weeks so an economic study could be conducted on the amendment’s possible impact on affordable housing, though they rejected a proposal to allow eight weeks for the study.

If the amendment is ultimately approved, the legal limit of unrelated adults living together will be reduced to four.

The measure would only affect homes built in the future, while homes that currently house six unrelated people would be unaffected.

Lorre Weidlich, Hyde Park Neighborhood Association steering committee co-president, said she

believes the city code change is aimed at disincentivizing developers from tearing down historic houses and building large duplexes in their place. Weidlich, who lived in Hyde Park as a graduate student, said she is not against students living in the area, but said when too many students live in a single-family dwelling, issues including noise and limited

parking arise.

“We have students living in apartments here,” Weidlich said. “It’s just that when you get a group of unrelated adults together in a super duplex, the problems multiply. You get a lot of garbage and they aren’t very good neighbors.”

Sheryl Cole, city councilwoman and mayor

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MEN’S BASKETBALL

Ridley helps Texas overcome Mountaineers

By Stefan Scrafield @StefanScrafield

A two-handed alley-oop slam from sophomore center Cameron Ridley late in the second half capped off Ridley’s total dominance of West Virginia on Saturday night.

Ridley, who finished the game with 17 points, six rebounds and a game-high three blocks, led Texas to an easy 88– 71 victory over the Mountaineers at the Frank Erwin Center.

Whether it was blocking a shot into the third row, bounce passing out of a double team to set up an easy layup or the viciously slamming the ball in, Ridley proved once again that he is a much improved player.

“I enjoy blocking shots and dunking on people,” Ridley said. “Whenever I’m able to do those things, it gets the crowd going and gives us an edge because the adrenaline

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Shweta Gulati / Daily Texan Staff

Sophomore guard Javan Felix scored 18 points against West Virginia on Saturday at the Frank Erwin Center. Felix’s offensive production fueled Texas’ 88-71 victory as the No. 19 Longhorns move within one game of Kansas for the Big 12 lead.

By Wynne Davis @wynneellyn

UTBox, a secure cloud storage space provided by Information Technology Services, is offered for free to all 74,000 University students, staff and faculty — but so far, only 11,972 have made use of the service, which costs the University $197,000 annually.

The UTBox service is provided through Box, a privately owned company that provides a cloud sharing platform for individuals, universities, small businesses and Fortune 500 companies. All UTBox users are initially provided with 50 gigabtyes of data, though users can request additional data if necessary.

Chief Information Officer Brad Englert said UTBox provides a more secure storage alternative to Dropbox, which he said is important even if the issue does not concern most UT students.

“UT-Austin needed a secure way to share and store data,” Englert said. “Unlike Dropbox, UTBox fills this need. It would be safe to say that UTBox is widely used by a significant number of faculty and researchers on campus.”

ITS approved funding for UTBox in spring 2013 as a replacement for WebSpace, another online file sharing service. WebSpace will be retired on May 19, after many issues arose with the security liabilities that the provider did not address in a timely manner,

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In the US, parents experience greater unhappiness than people without kids

Feeding the homeless attracts UT volunteers

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Being a parent in the U.S. doesn’t make you any happier in life, according to sociology professor Jennifer Glass.

Glass’s research shows that parents in the U.S. are unhappier than non-parents by the largest margin almost anywhere in the world.

In a talk on campus Friday, Glass spoke about why some parents are happier than others, and how parenthood influences happiness in different countries around the world.

Glass said there is a widespread cultural belief that parenthood improves adult wealth and happiness.

“If you go ask parents, they’ll tell you, ‘Being a parent is great. I love my kids. It’s best thing I’ve ever done,’” said Glass. “Then you go to the empirical data, and find that all types of parenthood have negative effects on happiness and mental health.”

Glass said one reason for

By Nicole Cobler

Jenna VonHofe / Daily Texan Staff

Sociology professor Jennifer Glass speaks on the happiness of U.S. parents in a lecture Friday.

According to her research, parents in the U. S. are statistically unhappier than non-parents.

this difference might be that parents derive fewer emotional benefits from parenting than they do from their other adult social roles.

“Employment and marriage provide you with money and social status,” Glass said.

“Parenthood doesn’t provide

you with either of those and exposes you to more stress, which either cancels out or exceeds the emotional rewards of having children.”

Glass used social surveys to determine levels of selfreported happiness for parents and non-parents around

the world. After comparing these levels to the amount of institutional support each country provides for parents, she found the gap in happiness between parents and non-parents varied in

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While most students’ alarms haven’t even gone off, civil engineering freshman Joshua Garza wakes up at 4 a.m. twice a week to serve breakfast to the homeless.

Feed My People, a nonprofit which is part of Foundation for the Homeless, serves breakfast to approximately 300 homeless people every Tuesday and Thursday at First United Methodist Church. The program, which collaborates with 15 religious congregations in Austin, allows any community member to volunteer.

Garza said he began serving breakfast in March and thought it was a good way to make people feel valued.

“There’s no one that’s in more need of self-esteem and value in society than homeless people because we devalue them so much in society,” Garza said.

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Garza said he became involved with the project after volunteering at the breakfast with his twin brother, who now goes to Texas A&M University.

Pam King-Wachholz, communications and events manager at Foundation for the Homeless, said the program began serving breakfast at the church 12 years ago. Twice a week, a different church provides eggs, biscuits, gravy, coffee, milk and orange juice to those in need starting at 5 a.m. and ending when food runs out.

According to Ann Teich, board member of Feed My People, approximately 30 volunteers attend on average.

Ten to 20 of those volunteers are UT students. King-Wachholz said the organization has had to turn down volunteers because of the large number of people who come in to help.

Garza said he has noticed the growing number of student volunteers, many of

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continues from page 1 whom are in fraternities and sororities and earn volunteer hours through the program. The number of people who volunteer dramatically lowers on colder days, especially during the inclement weather last week, Garza said.

“It’s something that I find very important,” Garza said. “Oftentimes, students are there to get the hours, and we need more people that are willing to connect. However, it’s great that they are serving because we really need the people.”

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2010, but Texas transients still account for 5 percent of the population of U.S. transients.

Teich said the number of homeless people coming in for breakfast has steadily declined over the past few years, when it used to be almost 400 people each morning. She said she believes the decline may be because of how many more options are available to help the homeless population.

Although there has been an influx of volunteers and a decline in the amount of homeless people coming in for food, Garza said he plans to continue to serve food at the church throughout his college career.

“I want to stay involved in the community,” Garza said. “That’s just something I’ve been bred to do through my parents.”

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continues from page 1 according to Englert. UT purchased Box services through Internet2, a nonprofit community comprised of 247 U.S. universities. Though the University pays roughly $200,000 annually for Box services, Englert said most students don’t need to use it.

“We don’t actively advertise UTBox to students, since most students use Google Drive for data storage as part of their UTmail account,” Englert said.

Offices around campus use UTBox for work-related matters. Biomedical engineering junior Aydin Zahedivash, said he uses UTBox when working in the McCombs School of Business computer services department as well as school projects.

“I use [it] for storing large

files I need for school that I don’t want to keep on my computer,” Zahedivash said.

“There is quite a lot of space that UT provides so it’s good for this.”

Zahedivash said he likes that he can put files into UTBox and know that they are safe and secure.

Even though the University provides free storage service, many students have not heard of the program. Biology freshman Bharath Lavendra said he had not heard of UTBox before, but felt even though UTBox offered a lot of storage, he may not use it.

“It’s kind of sad that it’s not better publicized because I don’t know anyone that is using it,” Lavendra said. “Sites like Google Drive and Dropbox already fill that need really, so I don’t know how much UTBox is really needed.”

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different countries, with the two biggest factors contributing to parental happiness being the cost of child care and amount of vacation or sick leave provided to employees.

Sociology professor Bob Hummer said he agreed with Glass’s hypothesis.

“When kids are young, [parenting] is stressful and difficult, and the U.S. doesn’t provide a lot of support [for parents],” Hummer said.

“My kids are 21 and 16, and as kids get older, it’s a different kind of stress, but it’s still there.”

Glass said countries such as Norway and Denmark have higher levels of support for parents than the U.S. through benefits like longer maternity leave or cheaper child care.

“Things are terrible in the U.S. relative to other countries,” Glass said.

“The gap would be lessened if we had institutional support intended to reduce parental stress.”

Sociology graduate student Amanda Bosky said Glass’s research wouldn’t affect her personally.

“I don’t think it would have any effect on my personal decision about whether or not to have children,” Bosky said. “It does make me wish I lived in countries like Norway, though.”

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Former U.S. presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton will be among those on campus for a Civil Rights Summit in April to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the LBJ Library and Presidential Museum announced Monday.

The Summit, scheduled for April 8-10, is one of many celebrations of the civil rights movement the University, LBJ Library, LBJ School of Public Affairs and the LBJ Foundation will be hosting in the next several years.

The Summit will also feature presentations from a diversity of individuals ranging from athletes including former NBA center Bill Russell and former NFL running back Jim Brown to former first daugthers including Luci Baines Johnson and Lynda Johnson Robb.

“Fifty years ago, President Johnson’s vision for a more just and honorable America contributed to the passing of the Civil Rights Act, the most transformational civil rights legislation since Reconstruction and a crucial step in the realization of America’s promise,” said Mark Updegrove, director of the LBJ Library said in the release.

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with s conappichild By Kate Dannenmaier @kater_tot7 vacavided As Brazil prepares for the World Cup this summer and r Bob the Olympics in 2016, the greed country is doing its best to s. oung,show the world an image of l andhappy, healthy citizens — a oesn’tfar cry from life for the black rt [formajority, according to comsaid.munity activists Andreia 6, andBeatriz Silva dos Santos and a dif-Hamilton Borges dos Santos but it’sat a talk Friday.

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“Because [this process] has been going on for many, many years, people involved in the process wanted us to make a decision, but at the same time, that cuts in the direction of ‘Are we making sweeping, citywide impacts?’ and ‘We’re not taking the time to get that [economic analysis]’” Cole said.

Councilman Bill Spelman, who also serves as a professor in the LBJ School of Public Affairs, said he agreed with Cole that an objective economic analysis is necessary because the impact of the change is unclear. Spelman was the only councilman who voted against the ordinance to shorten the analysis period to six weeks.

“We’re flying blind,” Spelman said. “We’re talking about a potentially enormous change in land usage in the city without any analysis, with only qualitative affordability assessments.”

Plan II senior Brooks Naylor said he acknowledges trash and parking issues as valid concerns but said he thinks the code change will not fix the issues.

“Blaming kind of a city problem on the number of people living in a certain house doesn’t seem like it’s going to change that much,” Naylor said.

“Limiting [the number of people] to four may force [students] to live in other places like West Campus and Riverside, which would cause overcrowding in those places.”

Weidlich said the association was happy with the council’s decision.

“We felt like it was a very positive step forward for dia preserving the central Ausng tin neighborhood,” Weig dlich said. “I think that it’s clear that it will pass.”

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Kate Layton, a Latin American studies graduate student, translated the discussion from Portuguese to English.

Hamilton said while Brazil has made many economic strides, these new advances aren’t necessarily good for the people of Brazil. Hamilton said that while people now have access to consumer goods like cars and refrigerators, more important resources like health care and education are still unavailable.

“This development hasn’t changed the systems of inequality in Brazil,” Hamilton said.

“This development has fortified the banks, system of credit, foreign companies and their ex-

ploitation of the country.”

Andreia dos Santos said the Brazilian government imposes many forms of oppression on black Brazilians.

“What they’re talking about here is a conjuncture of actions that have impeded four generations, and in many ways black folks, and she’s talking here of direct or indirect violence, the absence of the state and imprisonment, which has led to an eradication of a people,” Layton said. “Another factor, of course, is the absence of state and the absence of access to appropriate services like education [and] health.”

Christen Smith, assistant professor of anthropology and African and African diaspora studies, said being able to hear

from people involved in this struggle is a rare occurrence because they barely ever get a chance to take a break to talk about their work.

“Both of them have a considerable history of action and struggle in the community that goes from organizing around questions of police brutality and of police violence all the way to organizing in the prison system,” Smith said.

Hamilton and Andreia dos Santos gave the talk in Portuguese — which was then translated into English by Kate Layton, a Latin American studies graduate student — and Hamilton said the main barrier to their campaign right now is language. “[The purpose of this dis-

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Brazilian activists Andreia and Hamilton dos Santos discuss the impact of state violence on Brazil’s black community. The talk they gave extends to police brutality and issues in the prison system.

cussion is] to amplify the voice to these fights that are pretty anonymous and unknown in most parts of the

world and to affirm the importance of this fight of being able to speak for ourselves,” Hamilton dos Santos said.

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HORNS DOWN: CITY COUNCIL RUSHES STEALTH DORM STUDY Last Friday at 2:30 a.m., the Austin City Council made a 6-1 initial vote to limit the number of unrelated persons allowed to live in a single-family home, an attempt to crack down on the “stealth dorms” that many Austin residents find intrusive and which many UT students call home. In six weeks, the council will reconvene to discuss the results of a study on the economic impact the change would have on Austin and to take a final vote on whether to adopt the changes to the city code.

While we appreciate the council’s decision to conduct a study before making a final decision, we’re dismayed that they elected to conduct the study over a period of six weeks, rather than eight, as was suggested by Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole. With an issue as contentious and multi-faceted as stealth dorms, there shouldn’t have been such a push to rush the analysis.

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Quotes to note for February 17: Stealth dorms, marijuana “We have students living in apartments here [in North Campus]. It’s just that when you get a group of unrelated adults together in a super duplex, the problems multiply-you get a lot of garbage and they aren’t very good neighbors.” — Lorre Weidlich, Hyde Park Neighborhood Association steering committee co-president, speaking on the problem of “stealth dorms,” or residential houses with six or more unrelated residents, to The Daily Texan “We’re talking about a potentially enormous change in land usage in the city without any analysis, with only qualitative affordability assessments. We have a wide variety of opinions as to what the impact of this is going to be among the people who have been talking to us here, and there’s no way of sorting that out without somebody to do an objective study.” — Bill Spelman, city councilman and professor in the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, on the need for more research on legislation limiting stealth dorms in Austin

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Allen’s films shouldn’t be banned from classroom for controversy

By Jordan Maney

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As anyone who’s survived sexual abuse can tell you, the problem is far more pernicious than people think. Anxiety, depression, PTSD and a whole host of other mental illnesses can affect a survivor’s future. These interfere with your job, school, relationships, self-esteem, sexuality and every other corner of your life.

Believe me, as a survivor of sexual abuse, I should know. The shame that you silently carry is enough to break you, and it often does — repetitively. You find new ways to re-inflict the abuse with drugs, sex, alcohol and anything else you can get your hands on. Living and engaging with other people and ultimately yourself requires a vulnerability you no longer have. You could work to get it back, but that would mean staring the truth in the eyes, and your reflection is the last thing you want to see. You laugh at jokes about sexual abuse so that no one suspects that you’re actually a survivor of it. You stop sleeping so you don’t have to relive it again and again. The suffering is consuming, relentless and exhausting, as is the healing.

So when I read Dylan Farrow’s column alleging that her adoptive father, famed director Woody Allen, molested her as a child, I was immediately empathetic. It was difficult enough when I told my family about the abuse I endured. I cannot imagine disclosing my story, as Farrow did hers, to millions, never mind having its veracity debated all over the U.S. in coffee shops, newspapers’ comments sections, tweets and at dinner tables across the country.

I won’t pick sides in the argument between Farrow and Allen [Allen has publicly disputed Farrow’s claim that he abused her], despite my own experience. Picking sides, forming camps and bashing one another is exactly how to shame other survivors into continued silence. I’d hate to take part in anyone’s suffering. I’m more interested with how this situation forces us to examine his legacy.

Historically, there are countless examples of gifted people who did bad things. Roman Polanski directed many notable films but was accused of statutory rape in 1977. Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most prolific humanitarians of the 20th century but had a documented “weakness for women.”

John Lennon wrote timeless songs about love and life, but his first son Julian claimed he’d abandoned him.

History is filled with stories like these. As humans, we are judged on a polar spectrum

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of good and bad. But if you’re important enough, history has a way of concealing the bad and reinforcing the good. We make angels out of men when instead we should be able to recognize the reality of their indefensible actions.

So how should we look at Allen’s legacy?

Nancy Schiesari, a radio-television-film professor and director of photography of more than 30 acclaimed films and documentaries, described the difficulty of presenting the work of professionals as examples, while maintaining that the professionals themselves are not role models.

“If Woody Allen committed these crimes against his daughter, then my feelings about his films would change,” Schiesari said. “I wouldn’t be able to enjoy them without thinking of the director’s backstory.”

Schiesari compared the situation to that of Leni Riefenstahl, a notorious World War II Nazi propaganda filmmaker.

“One can use [Allen’s] work to illustrate some aspects of cinema language, but I would always tell students about his history, much like the history of Riefenstahl who was an extraordinary director/choreographer of camera placement,” Schiesari said. “But I don’t think her films merit the attention, and in both Riefenstahl and Allen’s case, I would rather show other directors’ work that illustrates the same idea.”

I agree with Shiesari’s point on how to teach his films and commend her for that perspective. How can we teach art without understanding the experiences of the artist? I think it would be ridiculous if professors banned Allen’s films based on these allegations. Not because I’m a fan or because I believe his account of what happened. Even that shouldn’t matter. If we stopped teaching art based on the artist’s misdeeds, we’d have nothing to teach.

If we tried to tiptoe around the truth we’d rob students of an honest understanding.

Experience, both the good and the bad, informs art. That means the good and unfortunately the bad. You cannot separate the painter from the painting nor should you separate the filmmaker from the film. Their intentions, both personal and creative, are just as important as the impact of their work. The discourse we have about them should reflect that.

If we teach art without context, we do a disservice to ourselves as students and professionals. Critical thinking and evaluation are tools we use throughout our lives. Making exceptions in the classroom only reinforces the idea that acknowledging vices are unnecessary if our achievements are loud enough to quiet them. That lesson and its application is not a tool that students use to change the world positively but a weapon that can further divide it.

Maney is a journalism senior.

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personally believe that medical marijuana should be allowed for. I don’t know where the state is on that, as a population. Certainly as governor I think it’s important to be deferential to whether the state of Texas feels that it’s ready for that.” — Wendy Davis, speaking to the Dallas Morning News editorial board Thursday about Texas’ stance on marijuana “It has absolutely nothing to do with whether they’re homeless or not, it has to do with whether they’re an authorized user of the facilities. The University of Texas is a very welcoming campus; we want people to come see what we’re about. But, if you’re here for foul play, we don’t want you here anymore.” — Terry McMahan, assistant chief of police, speaking to the Texan on UTPD’s policy of issuing criminal trespass warnings to persons, including homeless individuals, who are on campus without permission “Having spent the past 14 years in administration for the U. T. System...the time has come for me to return to my lifelong love and passion for the care and treatment of patients full time. I have accepted a position at UTHSC-SA as head of Pediatric Transplant Surgery. This position, offered to me in late 2013, presents an opportunity for me to do what I trained so many years to do, and I view it as an important calling at an ideal time.”

— Francisco Cigarroa, chancellor of the UT System, on stepping down and returning to the medical field

I personally believe that medical marijuana should be allowed for. I don’t know where the state is on that.

—State Sen. Wendy Davis

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Republicans must stop the “Race to the Right” in primary elections

By Noah M. Horwitz Daily Texan Columnist @NmHorwitz

In mid-January, State Sen. Robert Duncan (R-Lubbock) took the stage at a local meeting of the Lubbock Rotary Club, where he criticized the “Race to the Right” in Republican primaries, where candidates try to appeal to an increasingly extreme conservative voter base by outdoing one another’s political positions. Duncan, who is not up for re-election this year, took the opportunity to criticize many of his colleagues for what he felt was an insane example of political posturing.

“We have dumbed down our elections,” Duncan said in comments first reported by the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal. “It’s a race to say who’s the most conservative.”

Duncan, mind you, is no rogue liberal holdover in the Republican Party. In past legislative sessions, he served as the president pro tempore of the chamber and currently serves as the chairman of the Senate State Affairs Committee. In fact, it was Duncan who served as speaker of the body when Wendy Davis famously filibustered last June.

However, Duncan has received intense criticism from many in his party. In addition to the backlash he received for the aforementioned comments, he has been met with ire for maintaining a working relationship with Democrats that is allegedly too conciliatory.

Duncan believes the government should function as a bright institution with a goal of bettering society, which is evidently no longer acceptable to the Republican Party.

But the criticism is not just directed toward Duncan. Recently, a right-wing PAC named Accountability First, which has received large donations from embattled UT

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Regent Wallace Hall, announced it would be heavily funding Tea Party primary opponents to two more moderate state representatives: Byron Cook (R-Corsicana) and Jim Keffer (R-Eastland). Both men are longtime allies of House Speaker Joe Straus, who has incessantly faced a wary and dubious conservative faction.

“Rep. Keffer voted for in-state tuition for illegal immigrants,” said Cullen Crisp, a businessman and farmer challenging Keffer in the Republican primary. Crisp continually points to alleged bouts of “liberalism” by his opponent. To be fair, the law that Crisp notes, first passed in the 2001 session of the Texas Legislature (the last to include a Democratic majority), was approved nearly unanimously. In fact, of the 150 members of the Texas House, only one dissented.

A similarly illogical sentiment occurs in Corsicana as well.

“As Chairman of the [House] State Affairs Committee, [Cook] has been one of the biggest impediments to passing conservative legislation in the Texas House,” said Jeff Morris, chairman of Young Conservatives of Texas. You may have heard of Young Conservatives following their infamous idea for “Catch an Illegal Immigrant” day at UT. It appears that the YCT has now focused its energy on defeating pro-amnesty Republicans. “Rep. Cook has been especially damaging when it comes to legislation fighting illegal immigration,” Morris said. “That is not a conservative record. That is a liberal one.”

I am at a loss for words to those alleging Cook is a liberal in any way, shape or form. Opponents of last year’s omnibus anti-abortion bill will remember him with scorn, as Cook was the committee chairman who famously ended testimony against the bill with hundreds of speakers still on the wait list. Whether you agree with the bill or not, such behavior is not typically associated with liberal politics in this country.

Individuals such as Duncan, Cook and Keffer are not liberals. What they are is pragmatic and bipartisan. That’s the reason the three men are often admired from individuals on both sides of the aisle, and in the media. It explains why they have been honored with the accolade of “Best Legislator” session after session by Texas Monthly. But it does not make them poor representatives. For the sake of our state, I hope the Republican primary voters in their constituencies see it the same way.

Horwitz is a government junior from Houston.

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The championship game of the Texas Classic summed up the weekend for the Longhorns.

Behind a three-run home run from senior catcher Mandy Ogle, No. 15 Texas battled back to tie No. 7 Kentucky in the fourth inning after falling behind 5-1 early on.

But the Wildcats scored on an error by senior shortstop Taylor Thom with the bases loaded, winning 6-5 to take first place in the tournament. The Longhorns (6-6) finished the weekend with a 2-3 record.

Kentucky took the early lead off of a Ginny Carroll solo home run and an RBI single by Emily Jolly in the second, until Texas cut the deficit in the bottom of the inning to 2-1 after a solo home run from sophomore right fielder Lindsey Stephens.

The Wildcats pulled ahead again in the top half of the third on a three-run home run by Lauren Cumbess only for the Longhorns to return the favor.

With Ogle’s home run and a hit batter with the bases loaded, Texas battled back an inning later and tied the game.

Freshman pitcher Tiarra Davis, who struck out eight but gave up four walks in the losing effort, said the comeback tells a lot about the team’s potential to learn.

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Junior pitcher Gabby Smith connected on two swings at the plate this weekend in the Texas Classic. Smith pitched twice this weekend, relieving sophomore Holly Kern in a 4-6 loss to Kentucky and pitching a complete game for a 10-2 win against IPFW.

“I think we’re pretty young, but I think we’re figuring some things out,” Davis said.

The Longhorns’ tournament got off to a slow start Friday, scoring only six runs against Kentucky and IPFW. Kentucky pitcher Kelsey Nunley held Texas to only four runs and struck out five while the Wildcats capi-

talized on two errors and a tworun home run to take a 6-4 win.

In the night game, IPFW pitcher Miranda Kramer found similar success against Texas, striking out 12 Longhorn batters and stranding nine runners on base. With the game tied at 1-1, the Mastodons scored twice in the top of the eighth and held

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the Longhorns to only one run in the bottom of the inning to secure a 3-2 win.

Texas came out firing on Saturday, with five straight hits en route to a five-run first inning against Louisiana Tech. Freshman pitchers Lauren Slatten and Davis combined to give up only two runs while striking out

seven batters in the 7-2 win.

The hit parade continued for Texas in the second game of the day against IPFW. The Longhorns scored in every inning to take a 10-2 run-rule win in the semifinal matchup. Junior pitcher Gabby Smith had a complete game two-hitter with no earned runs.

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Dressed in pink, Longhorn head coach Karen Aston was flustered and red as she watched her team struggle against Baylor in the annual Shoot for a Cure game Sunday.

No. 7 Baylor shut down Texas, 72-56, handing the Longhorns their first home loss of the conference season.

Aston and Bears head coach Kim Mulkey mirrored each other on the sidelines — pacing back and forth, squatting on the court, directing their players and shouting at the refs.

Both coaches made sure the officials knew when they disagreed with a call, and Aston even received a technical foul for her actions on the sideline.

“I think I probably earned that foul,” Aston said.

The intensity of the players

on the court was equal to that of their coaches off of it. Aggressive physical play resulted in several trips to the foul line for both teams.

Early in the first, junior forward Nneka Enemkpali, who leads the Big 12 in rebounding, racked up two fouls that sent her to the bench. From there, Enemkpali and replacement Imani McGee-Stafford alternated play time until McGee-Stafford eventually fouled out.

Her teammates’ foul trouble gave freshman Nekia Jones an opportunity to play increased minutes in the second half and she continued to prove her worth as a key player on the team.

“I know that when coach puts me in, she’s confident in me,” Jones said. “And I’m confident in myself, so I just have to be ready.”

Texas’ loss on Sunday was

the Longhorns’ eighth consecutive defeat at the hands of the Bears.

Aston’s team struggled where it has been consistently strong.

Inaccurate shooting and sloppy ball handling — Texas committed 26 turnovers — led to the Longhorns’ downfall.

“I thought we were uncharacteristically frantic offensively,” Aston said. “A little careless with the basketball.”

The Longhorns’ frenzied playing gave Baylor the opportunity to pull away and establish a comfortable lead, seemingly breaking down Texas’ morale.

“They just had a little bit more heart and a little bit more grit in them,” Enemkpali said.

Texas has three days to get its spirits back before traveling to Norman, Okla., to take on Oklahoma at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday.

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TRACK AND FIELD / DANIEL CLAY & GRANT GORDON WOMEN’S When a team secures the top spot in the national ranking, it usually has no place to go but down. But last weekend at the Tyson Invitational in Arkansas and the Iowa State Classic, the top-ranked Longhorn track and field women’s team somehow managed to do just that, improving its national standing in several events.

At the Iowa State Classic, senior Sara Sutherland positioned herself to qualify for indoor nationals in the 5,000 meters with a second place finish of 15 minutes, 53.98 seconds.

The time is good for eighth best time in the nation.

In Arkansas, the 4x400-meter relay team of Kendall Baisden, Briana Nelson, Courtney Okolo and Ashley Spencer continued its recent dominance.

Finishing four seconds ahead of runner-up Texas Tech, Texas snatched a nation-leading time of 3 minutes, 30.12 seconds.

Next weekend, the Longhorns take a well-earned bye in order to prepare for the Big 12 Indoor Championships. The

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championships will be at Iowa State Feb. 28 – March 1.

a top-16 national placement in his event to qualify for the national championships.

The No. 13 Longhorns had several impressive performances, but none more so than that of Zack Bilderback. The sophomore ran a new personal best of 46.47 in the 400 meters, a time that not only placed him third in the race at the Tyson Invitational but also moved him from 27th to No. 12 on the national qualifying list.

With another impressive race at the conference meet, Bilderback may be able to lock in a spot in the national meet.

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MEN’S In its final competition before the Big 12 conference meet in two weeks, the men’s track and field team split up over the weekend, sending distance runners to Ames, Iowa, for the Iowa State Classic while the rest of the team traveled to Arkansas for the Tyson Invitational.

As the regular season comes to a close, the Longhorns aim to solidify their spots on Texas’ final 26-man conference meet roster. From there, each must finish with

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Senior pitcher Nathan Thornhill pitched eight scoreless innings Sunday in Berkeley, Calif. No. 18 Texas won the game 5-0.

Texas drops two, grabs two wins against Bears

By Evan Berkowitz @Evan_Berkowitz

The starting pitching lived up to the Longhorns’ expectations, allowing just one earned run on the weekend in Berkeley, Calif.

Senior outfielder Mark Payton didn’t disappoint, smacking three extra base hits while hitting .529, but errors doomed the Longhorns in two of their games.

Despite allowing just four earned runs on the weekend, No. 22 Texas won just two of four games against California to start off its season.

The Texas errors began to hurt the Longhorns in the third inning of the first game, after junior starter Parker French threw away a sacrifice bunt, allowing runners at first and third with no outs. French escaped the jam allowing just a sacrifice fly, but the unearned runs began to pile up.

Cal led off until a double before French threw away another sacrifice bunt to push the score to 2-0 and open the floodgates for a big fifth inning.

After an error by freshman first baseman Kacy Clemens, a wild pitch by French and an error by freshman third baseman Andy McGuire, it was a 6-0 game all of a sudden.

Cal added one more in the eighth to win the game 7-0.

The second game of the series Saturday came down to the wire. The Longhorns jumped out to an early lead

in the second inning on a sacrifice fly, before junior second baseman Brooks Marlow committed an error in the third that led to yet another unearned run and a tie game.

The game remained that way for seven innings as junior Dillon Peters allowed just five hits. But in the eighth against junior Justin Peters, Cal pushed across the winning run on a single up the middle to win 2-1.

Payton and McGuire’s bats carried the Longhorns to their first victory in the tail-end of the doubleheader Saturday. The duo accounted for all six of the Longhorns’ runs while junior Lukas Schiraldi went seven innings strong, allowing just one earned run in the 6-2 win.

The Longhorns won the fourth 5-0. After freshman Zane Gurwitz opened up the scoring for the Longhorns in the sixth, Payton helped add some insurance runs with an RBI triple.

Senior Nathan Thornhill carried the Longhorns on the mound, allowing just four hits as he kept the Bears scoreless.

After receiving much praise in the preseason from Garrido, freshman catcher Tres Barerra struggled mightily, striking out in key situations and hitting into a costly double play while recording just one hit on the weekend. Garrido moved him down to eighth in the order, with Clemens replacing him in the four hole.

SPORTS BRIEFLY Obama applauds gay Missouri football player

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — President Barack Obama is praising University of Missouri football player Michael Sam for announcing he is gay before the NFL draft.

Obama says Sam’s attitude is that he knows he can play great football and that he should be judged only on those facts.

Sam could become the NFL’s first openly gay player. The defensive end is scheduled to participate in the league’s scouting camp in Indianapolis later this month. He’s projected to be a mid-round draft pick in May. First lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden sent Sam messages of encouragement over Twitter last week after his announcement. A spokesman had said Obama shared their sentiments.

Obama commented in a taped interview with Charles Barkley that aired during TNT’s pregame coverage of Sunday’s NBA All-Star game.

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Student reflects on childhood in Juarez

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Seated calmly in the sunshine outside the Perry-Castaneda Library, Daniel Ozuna looks perfectly at home in Austin. With his relaxed demeanor and perpetual smile, it comes as a surprise that this UT student grew up in one of the most violent cities in the world.

The reputation of Ciudad Juarez, a northern border city in Chihuahua, Mexico, is something 25-year-old Ozuna has been confronted with since the drug violence rose to an all time high in 2009.

Ozuna was born in El Paso, but grew up in his family’s home of Juarez.

“If I go to Mexico City or anywhere in the South, they know it is my accent, so they tell me ‘Oh, your accent is weird, where are you from?,’ ‘I’m from Juarez.’ ‘Oh, where they kill people?’” said Ozuna, emulating conversation he has shared again and again with people after they discover he is from Juarez.

“So, pretty much we all are used to it.”

Ozuna spoke lightly of his city’s distorted identity in between apologies for what he believes to be sub-par English. His recollection of Juarez is not of a city of violence, but a city of culture.

“I really liked the music scene in Juarez,” Ozuna said.

“There were plenty of music festivals and concerts both local and nationally known.

I remember one ‘[Chihuahua International Festival]’ that took place in Juarez.”

Ozuna remains dedicated to his education, the driving

Shweta Gulati / Daily Texan Staff

Astromnomy senior Daniel Ozuna grew up in Ciudad Juarez, a city in Chihuahua, Mexico, that is notorious for being one of the most violent cities in the world, but Ozuna said his experience is different than how the media portrays the city.

force behind his move from Juarez to Austin. His high school, Centro de Bachillerato Tecnologico industrial y de servicios #114, was where he was first introduced to computer science. He received his bachelor’s degree in computer science from UT-El Paso, and is currently attending UT-Austin for a second bachelor’s degree in astronomy.

As for the future, Ozuna plans to enter the doctorate program for computer science at UT with a specialization in artificial intelligence, which he will use to enter the specialized profession of astroinformatics.

Finding solace in his education was harder with the media’s constant coverage of the violence in Juarez. There were

few sources of information, outside of a textbook, that didn’t stream the city’s tragic news day in and day out.

“I tried to live my life without fear,” Ozuna said.

“Whenever I hear someone talk about the cartel and things, it reminds me of the news. That’s all they talk about — that’s why I stopped watching television when I was 15, 16.”

It wasn’t the information delivered by the news that displeased Ozuna, but rather, the way it was delivered.

“I don’t watch the news because they sensationalize and exaggerate the facts,” Ozuna said. “People like dark stuff.

There was one specific show, ‘La Mala Nota,’ that literally means ‘The Bad Note.’ Everything inside of that single

show was negative. A whole show, for half an hour, just bad news, bad news, bad news. It was disgusting.”

Ozuna’s sister-in-law Adriana Lopez, who still lives in Juarez along with the rest of Ozuna’s family, understands the violence in a similar way.

“I know a lot of people died, but it wasn’t like in every corner you would see someone murdered,” Lopez said. “I wasn’t scared or anything because I knew I wasn’t involved with any of the cartels and all the drug violence. I knew that I was safe.”

Neither Lopez nor Ozuna have experienced Juarez’s violence personally, but even those who have share their positive view of the city.

Isabel Martinez, a friend of

Ozuna’s who is still living in Juarez and attending college to study literature, believes Juarez to be a special place despite her family falling victim to the violence.

“There are people who work honestly day after day,” Martinez said. “We have a lot of courage, and even though there is violence that is hurting my city, there are people like me who live our lives, have fun and go to school.”

While the violence didn’t personally affect Ozuna, he realized his perspective on campus has been influenced by his lifetime spent in Juarez.

“I was walking to my car the other day and it was dark,” Ozuna said. “I was just listening to my iPod and

stuff and I was thinking, ‘If I was in Juarez, I wouldn’t be walking at night by myself.’ I am able to enjoy little details that people who grew up here wouldn’t appreciate. In that sense, I feel lucky. If you don’t experience bad things you cannot measure happiness.”

The violence in Juarez has curbed considerably in the last three years, which is welcomed news to people from Juarez — known as Juarenses — such as Daniel Ozuna, who believe the drug war to be a smokescreen masking the city they call home.

“Juarez is a good place, Juarez is not a scary place,” Ozuna said. “We all have ideas about different places, but we don’t know for sure until we live it.”

THEATER

Cast relates ‘Dead Man’s Cell Phone’ to today’s digital age

By Eleanor Dearman @ellydearman

“Dead Man’s Cell Phone” is one of the few plays where audience members can expect to hear a phone ringing and not be annoyed by it.

The comedy, which opened Friday and is running through Feb. 23, is about a woman, Jean, who finds a dead man’s cell phone in a cafe. Jean decides to keep the man’s

phone and learns about his life and those close to him as well as herself.

“I feel like a lot of times people get bogged down thinking a show is going to be an intensive thing to invest in, and this is not that kind of show,” said Mackenzie Dunn, theatre and dance and advertising senior, who plays Jean. “I think that the kind of humor in this show is something everyone could enjoy. It’s

really charming.”

Instead of the theater season’s usual faculty directors, “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” features a student director, Jessica Hutchinson, who is a second-year master of fine arts directing candidate.

Hutchinson said UT’s talented undergraduate class of actors and tech students as well as the programs handson instruction drew her to the program.

“It’s one thing to work on

scene work in class for the actors or do paper projects for the designers,” Hutchinson said. “It’s something else entirely to be able to take all of those skills and see a project all the way through.”

Because some of the actors know Hutchinson outside of her directorial role, they had to balance friendship with authority. This resulted in a collaborative and respectful rehearsal environment.

“A lot of people see theater as just a kind of fun thing — and it is fun and I love it for that — but it’s also our job,” said Tasha Gorel, history and theatre and dance senior who plays Gordon’s widow Hermia. “When I go into a rehearsal room there’s a certain demeanor and behaviors I put on. Just like

anyone who would report for their job, I have a different kind of attitude.

As the director, Hutchinson was presented with many challenges, one of which was the style of author Sarah Ruhl’s text. Ruhl was a poet before she was a playwright, so her scripts tend to be written in a poetic style rather than traditional prose.

“One of the things that I love most about the show has also been a challenge for me,” Hutchinson said. “That is balancing Sarah’s beautiful poetry with the deep needs that are driving the scene, and making sure we are meeting leaning into that on both sides and finding a balance that serves the play and allows the actors to really shine.”

The complex wording of “Dead Man’s Cell Phone” helped inspire its set design.

“It’s a pretty simple set,” Gorel said. “Because the language is so heightened, they wanted to make it clear and concise.”

Hutchinson said the play also deals with how people interact in the digital age and hopes their production will challenge students to think about the value of face-toface communication.

“I see a lot of people on this campus — I do it too — buried in our phones and on our emails and Facebook and everything,” Hutchinson said.

“Nothing can replace that experience of being together in a room together in a community with other people.”

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Theatre and dance and advertising senior Mackenzie Dunn (right) plays the role of Jean in the student-directed play, “Dead Man’s Cell Phone.”