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Jogger arrested in West Campus

By Julia Brouillette @juliakbrou

City police officers arrested a woman around 10:45 a.m. Thursday for failing to provide identification after she was stopped near the intersection of 24th and San Antonio, outside Big Bite Pizza & Grill.

Advertising senior Chris Quintero, who witnessed the arrest, said Austin Police Department officers were working at the intersection when

the woman jogged across the block.

“I was sitting at the Starbucks at 24th and San Antonio,” Quintero said. “Then I hear a cop shout at an innocent girl jogging through West Campus with her headphones on.”

When the woman did not stop, the officer grabbed her by the arm and quickly placed her in handcuffs, Quintero said.

“She repeatedly pleaded with them, saying that she

was just exercising and to let her go,” Quintero said.

In footage of the incident that Quintero filmed, the woman can be seen attempting to get up from the ground and being kept down by police officers.

“I was doing nothing wrong,” the woman said from her position sitting on the sidewalk. “I was crossing the street.”

When police escorted the

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APD arrested a young woman blocks from campus for failing to provide identification and resisting arrest Thursday morning.

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Candidates found guilty of violation in hearing

By Nicole Cobler @nicolecobler

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Three candidates for University-wide representative positions were found guilty of campaigning in association with each other, and have been banned from campaigning for two days, according to Ryan Lutz, chairman of the Election Supervisory Board and aerospace engineering senior.

Rhetoric and writing sophomore Chandler Foster, nursing sophomore Piper Vaughn and corporate communications junior Adrienne Gamez were reprimanded by the supervisory board after an anonymous tipster filed a complaint that the three students had been campaigning together. In addition to a two-day ban on campaigning, each student will also be fined 10 percent of the total available expenditures for the University-wide representative candidates. Typically, each candidate can spend up to $612 campaigning.

In the anonymous student’s allegation filed Monday, he alleged the three candidates appeared together at the Sigma Chi fraternity house to give a speech encouraging fraternity members to vote for all three candidates as a group.

In a statement issued by the board, each candidate was found guilty of campaigning in a way that did not distinguish the students from each other.

“The candidates made no attempt to distinguish

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Greeks to refrain from New Senate executive officers elected endorsing candidates

By Nicole Cobler

Plan II sophomore David Engleman, international and global studies junior Geetika Jerath, and marketing and sociology junior Yaneli Rubio were elected to the three open positions in the Senate of College Councils on Thursday evening.

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The Interfraternity Council decided not to endorse candidates this year after receiving criticism last year for an email sent to the leaders of the council’s 24 fraternities endorsing current Student Government President Horacio Villarreal and Vice President Ugeo Williams’ executive alliance campaign.

“We got backlash from [last year’s email]. People’s biggest concerns were his use of the word ‘endorse,’” said Edwin Qian, Interfraternity Council president and management information systems and economics senior. “What [the council] meant was for it to be an informational email, not an endorsement.”

The council held a

meeting Wednesday to allow all candidates running for SG positions to discuss their platforms to the leaders of the council’s fraternities.

After the meeting, the council sent an email informing council fraternities about the candidates who spoke at the meeting, but did not endorse any of them, Qian said.

“While the IFC is not endorsing any candidates in this SG election, we appraise these candidates for showing strong pro-Greek interest and thank them for taking the time to speak to IFC leaders,” the email said.

According to Qian, the council’s role in SG elections has been inconsistent in the past. Qian said he will urge candidates running for the

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The Senate of College Councils elected Geetika Jerath as its next president on Thursday.

Along with Jerath, Senate elected Yaneli Rubio as vice president and David Engleman as financial director. Both Jerath and Engleman are in the Liberal Arts Council.

Senate is a legislative student organization representing 20 college councils at the University. Elections are conducted internally, with each council allotted one vote to select the organization’s leaders.

Jerath, an international and global studies junior, has been involved in Senate since her freshman year and is currently in the Liberal Arts Council,

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a role she said makes her qualified to work with external and internal parts of Senate.

“Not only do I have internal experience, but I’m also in a council,” Jerath said. “I know the direction Senate needs to go. I have innovative practices that I would like to see, and I know how

to get us there.”

Jerath said she hopes to develop a branding campaign and a strong presence at the Capitol.

“I have a very unique vision for Senate next year,” Jerath said. “It will definitely be a change that I think the University and Senate needs to see for

NEWS

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ONLINE

Obama sent a UT professor a personal apology.

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Stealth dorm ban ensures quality housing.

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Texas Baseball seeks fourth-straight win.

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WXWC festival is in its last year.

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UT officials say UT has strong database security.

UT climate response team releases first report.

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Firing Line: Toilet paper not a crappy cause.

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Women’s Basketball looks for redemption in Iowa.

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Engineering event introduces girls to the field.

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the future.”

Rubio, a marketing and sociology junior, said her experience in Senate and other organizations qualifies her for vice president.

After spending her last semester studying abroad in Paris, Rubio said she

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Construction of the medical school will begin in midMarch and is projected to cost $334 million. While Seton Healthcare Family will build a teaching hospital on the site of University Medical Center Brackenridge, UT System spokeswoman Karen Adler said the University’s first phase of construction includes a research building, an education and

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returned with a fresh mind.

“I think studying abroad helps me a lot because I was able to step away from university politics, which a lot of university leaders get caught up in,” Rubio said.

Rubio said as vice president she hopes to improve orientation. Her experience as an orientation advisor inspired her to seek feedback from students to help the program grow.

Engleman, a Plan II sophomore, said his experience as financial director of Liberal Arts Council has prepared him for the role of Senate financial director. He said he will guarantee that all councils will receive a fair allocation of Senate funds

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each year.

“A major focus of my position this year and my position next year is to maintain and build strong relationships with the staff that help the financial directors do their job,” Engleman said.

Senate president Andrew Clark said he felt all candidates were qualified for their positions. Clark said serving as both vice president and president during his time in the organization taught him that Senate needs leaders who can handle difficult situations and are able to respond to things quickly.

“There’s no better way to learn how to do something like this than just get in there and do it,” Clark said. “Everybody gets to put their own stamp on the organization, which I think is the best part about it.”

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administrative building, a medical office building and a parking garage.

Adler said the construction of the four buildings and landscaping are scheduled to be completed by May 2016.

Adler said Red River Street will undergo extensive construction, which will result in the road’s closure between 15th Street and the Frank Erwin Center.

“Red River likely will be closed by the end of the spring semester to accommodate the utility work and realignment,” Adler said.

To minimize disruption, University officials plan to close the road after the spring semester ends in May until the end of December, according to Stephen Harris, director of facilities

initiatives at the System Office of Facilities Planning and Construction.

Harris said before construction can begin, workers must move the existing facilities, including a parking lot and the tennis center, to new locations.

“The first phase of the real construction involves rerouting Austin utilities and installing University utilities down through the Red River corridor,” Harris said.

A significant challenge in the project involves the complexity of constructing buildings simultaneously, Harris said.

“We’re talking about 22 or 23 acres [that] are going to all be under construction at once,” Harris said. “A lot of times in design, the

tion,” Qian said. “The only thing that’s really changed is that last year’s email didn’t really include any platforms, but this year we want people to know why they’re running and what their plans are.”

Villarreal, a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon, and Williams were endorsed in last year’s email and won with more than 53 percent of the vote.

Villarreal said he did not see last year’s email as a big issue and would expect other organizations to endorse candidates who are members of their organization.

“It’s a tricky thing for someone that is involved in the community such as myself,” Villarreal said. “I didn’t see it as an incredibly big issue, especially if whoever was running was involved in another organization.”

According to Qian, if a member of the council chooses to endorse a candidate, the endorsement would be personal and not a council endorsement. He said individual fraternities are still entitled to endorse anyone they want.

The candidates for the

executive alliance are not a part of a fraternity. Caroline Carter, the vice presidential candidate running with presidential candidate Kenton Wilson, is a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, a sorority in the University Panhellenic Council.

Wilson said he thought it was great the council would not be sending out an email endorsing a particular candidate.

“It will keep us on our game to make sure we reach out to all students instead of just relying on some electronic form of communication,” Wilson said. “We’re getting more of a chance to explain ourselves because [Greek members] know the email is not coming out, so they can’t just sit back and wait on it.”

Taylor Strickland, the vice presidential candidate running alongside presidential candidate Kornel “Kori” Rady, said the change would give students an opportunity to learn about each platform.

“I don’t think it affects the turnout as much, as it will really urge people to go out and be informed voters, which is all we can really hope for as candidates,” Strickland said.

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process is linear. In the short schedule, a lot has to be done at once.”

Harris said the University plans to minimize inconvenience to pedestrians, but he said some restrictions in the area are unavoidable.

“A lot of people park in those state garages,” Harris said. “It’s going to be very difficult, if not impossible, to walk through Centennial Park.”

According to Harris, the University’s master plan establishes that any newly constructed buildings must be certified by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, a federal agency that aims to encourage the construction of buildings that minimize environmental waste.

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continues from page 1 woman into the police car, she began shouting and eventually shrieking unintelligibly.

“I didn’t do anything wrong. I didn’t do anything wrong,” she said. “I didn’t fucking do anything wrong.

I just crossed the street.”

Quintero said two additional officers on bicycles arrived on the scene to assist with the arrest. In footage, the officers can be seen working together to secure the woman in the back of the police car. According to APD spokeswoman Lisa Cortinas, APD officers do not target jaywalking specifically, instead they focus on pedestrian and bike safety overall.

“District representatives were working pedestrian

“We’re definitely committed to the sustainable initiatives,” Harris said. “The University will create a real sense of place on the street, create focus for pedestrian traffic and create an iconic design element there.”

Brina Bui, Plan II and biology junior, said she thinks medical students can benefit from a well-designed environment that not only fosters learning but also allows for relaxation.

“I think that, for me personally, being outside is a stress-reliever,” Bui said. “I feel like if [the University] found a way to incorporate nature with the structure and making things more open — I think med school is stressful enough without being confined to a single room.”

enforcement at 24th Street and Guadalupe,” Cortinas said. “[In this case], the call is titled failure to identify.”

APD spokeswoman Veneza Bremner said as far as she was aware, there was no concerted effort Thursday to ticket jaywalkers.

“I don’t think there’s any initiative going on out By there, but [APD officers] can go write tickets whenever they see a problem out there,” Bremner said.

Bremner said officers occasionally patrol the area even when they have not been called to address a specific crime.

“I’m not sure how often they do it, but I do know that they’re out there every now and then doing that,” Bremner said. “Whenever the call load allows, they’re proactively out there.”

I don’t think there’s any initiative going on out there, but [APD officers] can go write tickets whenever they see a problem out there.

—Veneza Bremner, APD spokeswoman

VIOLATION continues from page 1 themselves as individual candidates besides stating their individual names,” the statement read. “There was no distinction between platform points offered during the event. The candidates admitted to visiting up to nine distinct organizations on [Feb. 17], all as a group.”

Student Government election code prohibits “joint, collaborative campaigning, planning or activities,” and says “all non-executive alliance candidates in the election must campaign separately, without written or verbal endorsements, collaboration, financial or other tangible support from any fellow candidate in any campus-wide election.”

The anonymous student who filed the complaint, the first of the SG election season, did not go to the resultant Election Supervisory

Board hearing because he said he was “put up to” filing the charge.

In an email to the supervisory board and the three accused candidates, the student said he was not aware of the repercussions his complaint would have.

“I will not be [at the hearing] tonight at 10:30 [p.m.],” Vaughn said, reading aloud from the email.

“I was put up to this. I had no idea what it would mean for these girls or for me.”

Lutz said the tipster did not want to pursue his allegations, but the board will investigate the charges anyway.

“Since the complaint has been submitted, we have a duty to follow up with it,” Lutz said.

John Brown, government sophomore and a candidate for University-wide representative, was asked to speak

on behalf of the complainant. Gamez said she thought this was questionable.

“One of my opponents, John Brown, was allowed to represent the plaintiff in his absence when the plaintiff clearly stated that he wanted to withdraw completely,” Gamez said. “This is a clear conflict of interest. Measures need to be put in place so future situations like this do not occur.”

Gamez said the three candidates were not aware that they were not allowed to walk into the house together.

“Any mistakes that were made I can assure you were done unintentionally,” Gamez said in a statement.

“Although I respect the resolution of the Election Supervisory Board, I am unhappy with the way the complaint was filed and the way the proceedings that followedPro were handled.” sial

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Recent report reveals campus bias offenses

By Madlin Mekelburg @madlinbmek

Jonathan Garza / Daily Texan Staff

Cheryl Cooky, sociology and women’s studies associate professor at Purdue University, speaks about the underrepresentation of women in sports media coverage at the Moody College of Communication on Thursday afternoon.

Women’s coverage in sports decreasing

mitBy Nicole Bueno tia@itsmorebueno Uninse The underrepresentation eate of women in sports media affic coverage was the subject of sign a talk by Cheryl Cooky, sociology and women’s studies bi- associate professor at Purnks due University, at the Jesse nefit H. Jones Communication nvi- Center on Thursday. fos- The talk, “Framing Silence: ows The Mainstream News Media Coverage of Sports,” was per- sponsored by the Moody s a College of Communication’s . “I Texas Program in Sports and ity] Media and is part of a series rate offered by the radio-televiand sion-film department. The n — series focuses on issues in ess- sports covering topics includeing ing violence, performance.” enhancing drugs and race.

Cooky said the absence of

women’s sports in news media coverage speaks volumes about the current culture.

“Silences are not simply the outcome of oppressive power relations,” Cooky said.

“Sports can still serve as a site for oppression while also a site for empowerment.”

As part of a longitudinal study of men’s and women’s sports coverage in news media, Cooky and her colleagues have been collecting and releasing data on the issue every five years since 1989.

The study has found that 100 percent of the lead stories concerned men’s sports.

Cooky said since Title IX, which prevents discrimination based on sex and gender, was passed in 1972, more women are playing sports, but coverage of women’s sports has decreased.

To say that this is getting better is not right — in fact, it’s getting worse. We’re slicing it at 1.8 percent right now, and that’s just unacceptable.

—Ben Carrington, Sociology associate professor

“The increased participation of girls and women in sports has not been reflected in the news media coverage,” Cooky said. “Coverage of women’s sports is lower now than it was in 1989 when we started the study.”

Sociology associate professor Ben Carrington said he was upset when he learned about the small percentage of coverage for women’s sports.

“To say that this is getting better is not right — in fact, it’s getting worse,” Carrington said. “We’re slicing it

at 1.8 percent right now, and that’s just unacceptable.”

Cooky said that although the objectification of women in sports has decreased since the late 1990s, she still hopes to see less “packaging” of women for men’s sports.

“What puts me to sleep at night is the thought that in getting this work out there and to the people who can bring it to the masses, we could impact a sense of consciousness and bring about some change,” Cooky said.

The Campus Climate Response Team, or CCRT, released its first report Thursday of reported bias-related incidents that occurred from August 2012 to August 2013, which revealed nearly half of the reports filed involved race and ethnicity.

According to the report, 94 complaints were filed with the response team as a result of 82 separate incidents of bias on campus. The report states the most commonly reported incident involving bias was “the use of verbal harassment or slurs,” which constituted 47 percent of all filed reports.

According to Ryan Miller, associate director of Campus Diversity and Strategic Initiatives, the response team acts as a central point of contact for any student who is involved with or witnesses any incident involving bias. “[Bias instances are] any instances against individuals or groups or offense that’s motivated wholly or in part [by] an individual’s or groups’ identity,” Miller said. “We’re talking about the categories that are in the non-discriminatory policy, like disability, gender, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, etc.”

Miller said the report is part of the response team’s efforts to provide “diversity education” to the community.

“For me, I hope that the report itself is an educational opportunity and that all students and staff on campus who aren’t aware of CCRT on campus can become aware,” Miller said.

The response team reports to Gregory Vincent, vice president for diversity and community engagement. Vincent said he thinks the team benefits the entire campus community through their actions.

“The first Campus Climate Trend Report produced by the CCRT offers an opportunity for students, faculty and staff to reflect on our campus climate and culture,” Vincent said. “Creating an inclusive campus is a responsibility for each of us at the University, and we hope this report prompts dialogue and reflection as we work together to achieve this goal.”

According to Miller, when a report is filed, a “lead team” of three administrators — including Miller — reviews the report and discusses possible courses of action.

“Our priority in all cases is reaching out to the individual who filed the report and doing whatever we can to provide and offer support for that individual,” Miller said. “There is not a certain playbook for each incident or even each type of incident. We really evaluate the options in all cases.”

Miller said the response team also tries to provide comprehensive diversity education to individuals who were mentioned in reports and to the campus community.

“We have a lot of educational conversations after reports have been filed because usually it gives us an opportunity to knock on a door or invite someone to come in for a conversation with us about the intent and impact behind a certain incident,” Miller said.

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Obama apology to UT professor prompts dialogue on humanities

By Christina Breitbeil @christinabreit

After President Barack Obama made a comment about majoring in art history, art history professor Ann Johns sent the White House a response refuting his statement. What Johns didn’t expect was to receive a handwritten apology from Obama.

In a speech in January, Obama said people who obtain technical degrees or training might earn more money than people who graduate with art history degrees.

“You folks can make a lot more, potentially, with skilled manufacturing or the trades than they might with an art history degree,” Obama said.

Johns, who posted Obama’s apology letter on her Facebook last week, said she was “stunned” to receive a personal letter from Obama and does not think he was being negative in his remarks.

“I’d like to think of it as the beginning of dialogue

about the value of a degree in the humanities and less as an apology,” Johns said.

“We do emphasize critical thinking, reading and writing skills, and our students become excellent researchers, writers and presenters.

This gives them the skills to pursue a wide variety of career choices.”

The apology letter, in which Obama said, “art history was one of [his] favorite subjects in high school,” was well received by Johns and other professors in the art and art history department. Jack Risley, art history professor and chair of the department, said he was pleased with the president’s response and the positive attention it is bringing the University.

“It’s humbling for anyone to apologize, let alone a president,” Risley said.

“In responding to Dr. Ann Johns, the president draws attention to the unrivaled concentration of art and scholarship that exists at UT and the state of Texas … The arts are going to be part of our future. That is a given.”

Art history sophomore Stephanie Gardea said she does not see degree choice as a major factor in post-graduate success.

“In my eyes, I see it as really however you make it,” Gardea said. “You need to be willing to put yourself out there and get involved to have a better career outcome after graduation, whether you’re in fine arts, engineering or manufacturing.”

Art history students in Johns’ and art history professor Julia Guernsey’s Art Historical Methods classes sent another response to Obama on Friday. The students also listed their post-graduate plans, including law school at Harvard, medical school, Teach for America and an Islamic studies program.

“We feel strongly that our education as art historians prepares us to do a variety of things, many of which are vital to the educational well-being of our country, and some of which are also politically, socially and economically charged,” students told Obama in the response.

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EDITORIAL

Stealth dorm vote will help Austin in the long run Last Thursday at 2:30 a.m. the Austin City Council took an initial vote to limit the number of unrelated adults that can live together in a single-family zoned property. Since 2002, that number has been set at six. But Thursday’s 6-1 vote was the first step toward amending the city code and reducing the occupancy limit to four.

To many Austinites and UT students, this amendment seems problematic, especially since the move to reduce the city’s occupancy limit is targeted at “stealth dorms” in the neighborhoods north of campus.

Although it’s hard to define the term with precision, a “stealth dorm” is essentially an apartment-like structure built on a singlefamily zoned lot, intended for co-habitation by unrelated adults and hardly suitable for use as a true single-family residence. And since many UT students call these structures home, it makes sense that the UT community would be skeptical of a plan aimed at combating stealth dorms in central

Although it’s hard to define the term with precision, a “stealth dorm” is essentially an apartment-like structure built on a single-family zoned lot, intended for co-habitation by unrelated adults and hardly suitable for use as a true singlefamily residence.

Austin neighborhoods.

Yes, opponents of the plan have raised valid concerns — namely, that it could limit the availability of affordable housing for UT students and stymie the effort to encourage much-needed, high-density development near Austin’s urban core. But we would do well to take a step back and consider the amendment for what it truly is: a solid plan that addresses a real problem.

One crucial aspect of the plan is often overlooked by knee-jerk opponents: The amendment only applies to new construction. In other words, any structure that already exists and currently houses five or six students would be unaffected. Students who live in these houses would not be forced out, and their landlords could continue to lease the property to up to six unrelated adults for as long as the property exists in its current form. The true goal of the amendment isn’t to force students out of neighborhoods like Hyde Park or North Loop; it’s to preserve the single-family homes that have existed in these neighborhoods for decades, and prevent predatory developers — who often live out-ofstate and lack any ties to Austin — from taking over.

And it’s not just the fact that these developers are young and disconnected from the communities in which they rent their properties. They are also building astonishingly cheap, shoddy structures to replace reliable, decades-old housing stock.

According to Ellie Hanlon, a member of the steering committee for the Hyde Park neighborhood association, one developer in particular builds stealth dorms for $85 per square foot. Which is much less than the average. According to Hanlon, “if you talk to a construction company, [the average] is

HORNS UP: CIGARROA BANS CIGARETTES IN UT SYSTEM BUILDINGS On Wednesday, the Daily Texan reported that all UT System administrative buildings, parking lots and outdoor areas will be smoke and tobacco free starting March 15. The announcement came from System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa, who said employee concerns prompted the new health-conscious policy.

Although this comes a year after the Austin campus became smoke- and tobacco-free, we appreciate the effort to enforce guidelines for keeping system property smoke-free. Horns up to the System employees that pushed for the change and horns up to the administration for listening to those concerns.

$150 per square foot at a minimum. So you think, ‘what are they building?’ It’s the disposable house that they’re building to make a lot of money.” Developers are attracted to the idea of building stealth dorms because they don’t require an investment of millions of dollars like a true, multi-family apartment complex would.

This might be excusable if it were done in the name of creating affordable student housing. But these shoddy structures are often more expensive than the single-family homes they replace. “The developers are coming in and destroying older, single-family structures that are affordable,” Hanlon said. “There’s one duplex on Red River [Street], and each side rents for $3,200. So that whole lot is bringing in $6,400. Whereas the house next door to me, which has three students, rents for $2,500. So a family could move in there. Or students could live there, which is great.”

Sebastian Wren, the chair of the North Loop Planning Team, agreed. “There’s absolutely no doubt,” he explained to the Texan.

“The older structures are cheaper. But the older structures can’t house as many people,” hence the incentive for developers to build stealth dorms.

But all of that is not to say that there aren’t problems with the amendment. Wren admitted that, with 110 people moving to Austin every day, “we do have to create housing” in the city’s urban core, “and we have to create a lot of it to accommodate the need.” Increasing density must be one of the primary goals of Austin’s urban planning efforts, but, according to Wren, building stealth dorms “disguised as single-family housing is not the way to do it. There’s a better way.”

We agree. Right now, it’s cheaper for developers to build stealth dorms on single-family zoned property than to build true, high

Moving forward, we would like to see the city upzone more land in central Austin to allow for the high-density housing that the city’s urban core desperately needs. This way, we can preserve historic neighborhoods... density multi-family housing, which by law must include adequate parking, dumpsters for trash, sprinkler systems and other amenities. This amendment will effectively eliminate the financial incentive to build stealth dorms and will, in turn, encourage developers to invest in building on upzoned properties that are suited for high-density housing. Moving forward, we would like to see the city upzone more land in central Austin to allow for the high-density housing that the city’s urban core desperately needs. This way, we can preserve historic neighborhoods such as Hyde Park while still allowing Austin to move forward as the fastest growing city in America.

Ultimately, this amendment isn’t targeted at pushing college students out of historic neighborhoods for being disruptive neighbors or for not knowing when to take out the trash. The goal of the amendment is to eliminate the incentive to build shoddy multi-family housing, and its adoption could encourage true highdensity development. This would only benefit Austin as the city continues to grow, and it is a plan that we should all get behind.

TAKE YOUR SHOT

Friday Firing Lines: Memorial Museum funding, toilet paper Every Friday, The Daily Texan Editorial Board will publish a selection of tweets and online comments culled from the Texan’s website and the various Daily Texan Twitter accounts, along with direct submissions from readers.

Our intention is to continue the tradition of the Firing Line, a column first started in the Texan in 1909, in which readers share

their opinions “concerning any matter of general interest they choose.” Just like in 1909, the Texan “will never express its approval or disapproval of opinions given under the [Firing Line] header.” In other words, take your shot.

Submissions can be sent to editor@dailytexanonline.com.

TOILET PAPER LEGISLATION WOULD BENEFIT ALL STUDENTS

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UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa announces his resignation on Feb. 10.

HORNS UP: FBI TO INVESTIGATE CEDAR CREEK HIGH TASER INCIDENT On Thursday, the Austin American-Statesman and KVUE-TV confirmed that the FBI is opening an investigation into an incident at Cedar Creek High School last fall where Bastrop County Sheriff’s Deputy Randy McMillan used a Taser on 17-year-old Noe Nino de Rivera. After McMillan fired the weapon, Rivera fell to the ground, hit his head on the floor and has sustained permanent brain damage. In an editorial last week, we condemned the use of Tasers in schools on children, and we support the FBI’s decision to look further into the incident to determine if McMillian used excessive force or abused his power. We hope that the inquiry will help discourage other school resource officers from using potentially deadly force on students in our schools — after all, Tasers can kill.

HORNS UP: AUSTIN CITY COUNCIL APPROVES INCENTIVES On Thursday, the Austin City Council voted 5-2 to approve incentive packages for two technology firms, Websense and Dropbox. Combined, the companies said they planned to add 640 jobs in the city, according to the Austin American-Statesman. Websense is moving its headquarters from San Diego to Austin and plans to create at least 470 jobs with an average annual salary of $82,000 as a result of the move. Dropbox, which already has a small office in downtown Austin, will create 170 jobs and make a capital investment of $5.5 million. The stateoperated Texas Enterprise Fund has also committed money to both firms and other similar incentive deals are in the pipeline. Though some question the city council’s move to take an active role in Austin’s economic development, we believe the council’s decision is both sensible and farsighted. It’s also one that will benefit UT students. Dropbox has already started to recruit at the University, and we presume that Websense will follow their lead as well.

LEGALESE | Opinions expressed in The Daily Texan are those of the editor, the Editorial Board or the writer of the article. They are not necessarily those of the UT administration, the Board of Regents or the Texas Student Media Board of Operating Trustees.

I’m not actually sure who wrote the OpEd “Student Government Limits Legislation to Toilet Paper” due to the safety of the sign off, “The Daily Texan Editorial Board,” but I can guess that whoever wrote it is probably a boy. I can say this with such confidence because anyone who has to wipe 100% of the time they use the bathroom knows how important something as simple as toilet paper can actually be.

But I don’t feel like this article was an attack on the Charmin, or lack thereof. No, this is an attack on our student government and the people who use their SG reps as a channel to voice their concerns. During my past four years at this University I’ve seen SG pass legislation from banning smoking on campus to the various “in support of ’s” that lack a tangible result. With the toilet paper legislation, however, this is a tangible issue that we can actually feel.

After at least four years of begging our McCombs representatives to address our #1 and #2 issues, our cries are finally being addressed only to be brought down by a lack of quorum and an article that attacks the voices of McCombs students. The Daily Texan Editorial Board calls this issue “bullshit,” but my question is if it’s not SG’s duty to protect our doodies, then whose duty is it? What makes one issue legitimate and the other one crap?

One of the authors of the legislation, finance and government sophomore, Garrett Neville, said “I don’t understand why people are so butt hurt about the issue, because I don’t think it’s sensitive enough for a tissue.

Liam and I are calling this the cry for two-ply.”

I think this legislation really shows that the fact that we have single ply toilet paper is tearable. The University of Texas is an institution that has hosted President Barack Obama, Southwest Airlines CEO Gary Kelly, and PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi. Not to mention the thousands of donors to this University that make our endeavors like the Bill & Melinda Gates Computer Science Complex and Dell Computer Science Hall a reality.

Toilet paper may not be the number one impression they take away from the University, but a scratchy experience probably doesn’t sit well with them either.

The author was kind enough to tell us that we used 133,380 rolls of toilet paper in 2012. With a raw number like that it’s hard to imagine how much that actually is, but without accounting for the thousands of visitors the University receives every year, we’re averaging 1.8 rolls per person each year with a faculty and staff of 24,000 and a student body of 50,000. At $125,044, we average $1.69 per year on toilet paper per person. Let’s not be so quick to flush this issue down the toilet. If the University wants to raise my tuition by a dollar to account for the increase in the Facility Service’s budget, well, I’d say that sounds pretty good on the whole.

This fight might be tough, but hopefully in the end it will mean our toilet paper won’t be.

— Chandler Nunez, marketing senior, in response to “Student Government limits legislation to toilet paper”

MEMORIAL MUSEUM DESERVES ALL THE FUNDING IT CAN GET “This is really pathetic. UT has helped fund Texas Memorial Museum for all of it’s Seventy-five year history on campus. Now UT is abandoning it completely. If UT can’t fund TMM, the State should fund it directly. The State just recently gave the Bullock State History Museum five million dollars.

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It can’t help fund the Texas Memorial Museum? What’s up with that?”

—Online commenter Buck, in response to the news article “Faculty Council pushes to find external funding for Texas Memorial Museum’s outreach activities”

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Place the paper in one of the recycling bins on campus or back in the burnt-orange newsstand where you found it.

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Longhorns prepared for offensive battle

By Matt Warden

Senior outfielder Mark Payton has carried the Texas offense through the first five games of this season, hitting .524 with four RBIs.

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When the offense isn’t scoring, it’s hard to stay on track. But after three straight wins, Texas’ offense looks to be right where it needs to be.

Texas entered Tuesday night’s game on a two-game win streak after dropping its first two games of the season to California. A 10–run eruption against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi put the pop back in the Longhorns’ bats.

Head coach Augie Garrido’s “get on base” mentality has translated into 21 runs and three wins in the last three games for the Longhorns. Garrido is most impressed with the team’s defense to this point, though.

“I think we got better on the defensive side,” Garrido said after the 10-0 win against the Islanders. “Everything in the scheme really is about the pitcher. When we’re on defense, it’s all about getting to the pitcher and getting all the outs we can to protect him.”

After allowing nine runs in its first two games of the season, the Longhorns have given up just two runs during their winning streak, and the pitchers have combined for 17 and one-third consecutive

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scoreless innings, compiling a 0.86 ERA for the entire season.

“We’ve put ourselves into situations where we had to fight our way out,” Garrido said. “I thought it was good for our young pitchers to have the confidence to continue to throw to the mit.”

Almost half of the team’s lineup has been composed of freshman in the first five games of this season, but senior Mark Payton has continued to provide the

star power, hitting .524 with four RBIs to this point. Despite early struggles for the newcomers, Payton feels the Longhorns have the leadership to help them get in the groove of things.

“Just try to keep them positive,” Payton said. “We’re working hard, and this is a young team. If something doesn’t go right, they’re just going to learn from it and get better the next time.”

Texas will enter this

weekend’s series against a Stanford team that has scored 21 runs in its last two games to improve to 2-2 on the season. Stanford has won the last six games against Texas and holds a 31-27-1 record in the all-time series with the Longhorns.

“We’ve always had very competitive games, and they’re a very detailed organization,” Garrido said.

“They’ll take advantage of any little thing you’ll give

them. And that’s always good to reveal your weaknesses so that you know what to practice next.”

After surrendering six runs — all unearned — in a loss in his first appearance of the year, ace Parker French will toe the line for Texas in the opening game Friday night.

The two historic programs are set up for an intriguing series, with both offenses rolling into this weekend ready to play.

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Senior Chassidy Fussell is second on the team with 10 points per game this season.

Horns head to Iowa after close loss to OU pressed thin.

The Longhorns narrowly pulled out the win against Iowa State in their last meeting. Texas secured its first lead at the 2:55 mark and managed to hold on to it long enough to walk out with a 71-64 win. On Saturday, Texas won’t be able to take any chances with a slow start. The Longhorns haven’t had the best luck in dealing with dire situations in the final minutes.

Further compromising Texas’ shot at victory is the fact that Saturday’s game is on the road, where the Longhorns are 3-6 on the year. The last time the Longhorns faced off against the Cyclones, Iowa was ranked No. 23 and Texas pulled off the upset. But that was at home in the Frank Erwin Center.

Iowa State is coming out of an upsetting loss as well. On Wednesday, while the Longhorns were heading home with their heads down, so were the Cyclones. Baylor ran over Iowa State, scoring 89 points to the Cyclones’ 51.

With two teams seeking redemption, Saturday’s game is likely to be a close one.

In their upcoming game against the Cyclones, the Longhorns need to whip their defense back into shape and return to the high defensive standards they set earlier in the season.

Texas jumped out to an early lead Thursday during the Mary Nutter Classic tournament, scoring a run in the top of the first inning versus unranked UNLV. The No. 25 Longhorns added another in the third to go ahead 2-1 on a sacrifice fly by Lindsey Stephens that scored Brejae Washington.

Starting pitcher Lauren Slatten threw 4 innings but did not finish the fifth inning before being replaced by first baseman Holly Kern. Slatten gave up three runs on nine hits, while walking two and striking out three – a season high.

Although Texas garnered five hits to the Rebels’ 14, Texas was still in a position to win with the score tied at four heading in the seventh inning. A walk-off base hit for the Rebels handed head coach Connie Clark’s team their second straight loss in a season that has so far been defined by near victories and close misses.

Junior Gabby Smith took the mound for the Longhorns in the second game of the day against another unranked team

Shweta Gulati / Daily Texan Staff Junior Gabby Smith picked up her fourth win of the season Thursday against Cal Poly, allowing seven runs in 4.2 innings pitched.

in Cal Poly. Taylor Thom hit the 30th home run of her career with a two-run blast to right field off freshman Mustang pitcher Sierra Hyland. Thom now ties Loryn Johnson for the eighth-most home runs of all time. Taylor Hoagland — the star third baseman for the Longhorns from 2010-2013 — is the current record holder with a whopping 58 home runs, 22 more than the next best.

Lindsey Stephens extended Texas’ lead to 9-0 with a grand slam in the top of the fourth as part of a seven-run inning.

In the bottom of the fifth, the lead had become 11-0 before

Cal Poly mounted a comeback with a grand slam and seven runs of their own to avoid being run-ruled.

A triple by Stephanie Ceo and sacrifice fly by Washington pushed two more across for Texas, extending their lead to six and what proved to be the final score, 13-7.

Clark’s team stayed at .500 on the season and will look to improve that mark Friday afternoon when they take on undefeated Washington (11-0).

The tournament will continue for Texas into the weekend with play against Fresno State and California.

MEN’S TENNIS / BRIANNA HOLT Penick-Allison Tennis Center at noon. Texas is now nationally ranked in the ITA Rankings at No. 6 after defeating California.

In addition to their upcoming match against UTArlington, the Longhorns

are scheduled to play Texas A&M-Corpus Christi later that evening at 6 p.m.

Just like the match against UT-Arlington, the second match of the day will also be held at the PenickAllison Tennis Center.

MEN’S GOLF / COURTNEY NORRIS The No. 20 Texas men’s golf team will travel to Humble on Friday as the returning champ to play in the annual Bayou City Collegiate Championship, hosted by the University of Houston and Rice.

Tee times for the event start at 10 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, with a shotgun start on

Sunday at 8:30 a.m. The tournament will be held at the Golf Club of Houston (par 72, 6,982 yards).

The Longhorns will face several higher-ranked teams: No. 17 Houston, No. 19 South Florida and No. 25 Arkansas.

Last year, the championship was held at the Redstone Golf Club (par 72, 6,982

yards), where Texas — then No. 2 — came in first with a 21-stroke victory.

Texas came in seventh at its first tournament of the season, The Amer Ari Invitational, which was held on Feb. 8 in Waikoloa, Hawaii.

Live standings of the championship can be found at www.golfstat.com.

WOMEN’S GOLF / MATT WARDEN The women’s golf team managed a season-high 11th place finish in its last competition, the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge. Texas began the tournament shooting a shaky 23-over par, but rebounded in the final two rounds with a

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The Longhorns hope to redeem themselves against Iowa State in Ames, Iowa, on Saturday after a disappointing 1-point loss to Oklahoma Wednesday night.

Junior forward Nneka Enemkpali and senior guard Chassidy Fussell posted solid numbers in Wednesday night’s game.

Enemkpali completed the game with 17 points and four rebounds, while Fussell left the court with 16 points and four rebounds of her own.

According to head coach Karen Aston, the problem wasn’t necessarily the points, but the defense — an area in which the Longhorns typically excel.

“Defensively, we just weren’t good enough down the stretch,” Aston said.

In their upcoming game against the Cyclones, the Longhorns need to whip their defense back into shape and return to the high defensive standards they set earlier in the season.

After a tough loss, Texas needs a decisive win to restore its confidence and get the momentum rolling in the right direction. Ideally, the Longhorns would take on an unimposing team such as Texas Tech, which would give them leeway to play around with changes and make corrections. But the Longhorns will have no such luck with the Cyclones.

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Shooting a team-low 6-over par, junior Bertine Strauss buoyed the charge for the Longhorns. The mark notched her a 15th place finish, which tied for her season-best. Teammate and midseason enrollee

Lara Weinstein finished six strokes behind Strauss to finish tied in 35th place for her debut.

The Longhorns will look to get back into the swing of things this weekend when they head to New Orleans on Sunday for the Allstate Sugar Bowl.

The last time the Longhorns faced the Jayhawks the final result was never in question in an 81-69 route. Expect a much different experience Saturday as No. 19 Texas travels to Lawrence to face No. 8 Kansas.

The Jayhawks have only one home loss this season, and head coach Bill Self has more Big 12 championships to his credit during his 11year stint with Kansas than home losses. Allen Fieldhouse is among the most deafening venues in college athletics, and the crowd will add an extra daunting element to Kansas’ already uber-talented team.

Kansas features two likely lottery picks in the 2014 NBA draft — Andrew Wiggins and Joel Embiid — on top of a unit stuffed with topranked recruits. Shooting 50 percent per game, the Jayhawks have the country’s second-best field goal percentage and their length at all five positions makes them a solid defensive unit.

Texas found success against Kansas in the team’s previous meeting because of their quickness on the outside with Isaiah Taylor and Javan Felix, picking their way into the paint consistently. Wiggins also had one of his worst outings of the season, as 6-foot-2 Demarcus Holland held him to seven points.

Containing Wiggins and an up-tempo offensive pace will once again be the points of emphasis for Texas, but the biggest test may be handling the atmosphere.

With just one game separating the teams in the Big 12 standings, this game has significant conference title implications as well. Kansas holds at least a share of the past nine Big 12 regular season titles. Texas needs this game if it wishes to start a streak of its own.

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GIRLS continues from page 8 up less than one-fourth of the population in the Cockrell School of Engineering, giving them the most uneven ratio at UT. This year, the school has more female students than ever before, a trend that Berry believes will continue.

Berry thinks the new push for an emphasis on science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, is spurring

this trend. From presidential support to programs like Girl Day, young women are being encouraged to get involved in fields that are typically male-dominated.

“Engineering is not this foreign entity. You don’t have to be this brilliant science and math person,” Berry said. “You need to be a problem solver, you need to like to explore, you need to

ART Matthew McConaughey acts in a scene from “Mud.” A few years ago, Matthew McConaughey’s career had bottomed out in rom-com mediocrity. He resolved to alter his path, and the rebirth that followed reaches an apogee with his Oscar nomination for his performance in “Dallas Buyers Club.”

The ‘McConaissance,’ inspected film by film NEW YORK — Six years ago, Matthew McConaughey was starring in a movie called “Surfer, Dude,” a film about as good as its title implies. He played a surfer plunged into an existential crisis when his good luck with waves ran out.

McConaughey underwent an existential crisis around that time, but it wasn’t about the surf.

His career had bottomed out into rom-com mediocrity, overly dependent on the charm of his Texas drawl.

What has followed, the so-called “McConaissance,” has been one of the most remarkable mid-career metamorphoses in movies. McConaughey has abruptly shifted to more challenging roles and films in a creative burst that has re-energized him.

It’s been a steady renewal, building part by part.

Here is a film-by-film account of how he got here, a step-by-step guide to the McConaissance: THE LINCOLN LAWYER — This 2011 film came after a twoyear gap in McConaughey’s filmography. Whereas McConaughey was made famous by 1996’s “A Time to Kill” playing an altruistic lawyer defending a black man in the South, in the

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BERNIE — McConaughey’s career was essentially started by Austin filmmaker Richard Linklater with “Dazed and Confused.” The role of David Wooderson has remained for McConaughey not just one role among many, but a guiding ethos. He frequently quotes his “You just gotta keep livin’ man, L-I-V-I-N” and dubbed his production company J.K. Livin. So it makes sense that any restart for McConaughey would include Linklater, whose “Bernie” features McConaughey as district attorney Danny Buck in a comic tale of small-town murder.

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DALLAS BUYERS CLUB — McConaughey’s transformation becomes literal in the story of

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AND BEYOND? Due out in November, McConaughey stars in Christopher Nolan’s time-travelling sci-fi film “Interstellar,” one of the most anticipated movies of the year. The McConaissance continues.

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broaden the understanding of art history.

“The speakers are coming from different backgrounds, so they’re each offering a unique perspective on this broader topic,” Williams said. “It will be an interesting, lively lineup, with strong personalities and backgrounds in the area of collecting and thinking about art.”

Part of the goal of the symposium is to encourage people to consider art collecting as more than a hobby for rich people — anyone can begin to collect art, whether it’s posters or postcards. More serious art collectors often leave their collections to museums and galleries after they pass away, contributing to the kinds of art available to

Who: Women in Engineering Program (WEP) When: Saturday, Feb. 22 Where: UT engineering complex

troubleshoot and figure things out and anybody can really do that.”

It’s the problem with the way in which art history as a discipline was formed and how art has become historicized.

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—Eddie Chambers, art and art history associate professor

the public.

“In New York, the Schomburg Center grew out of one collection of one man,” Chambers said. “His library, art, artifacts, books — all that material is now the Schomburg Center and is now a major resource for so many subjects. So the ways in which individuals have this wonderful potential to make contributions above their own interest, that’s really what we’re exploiting here.”

The symposium will offer guests a comprehensive insight into Green and Christian’s collection, as

well as information on how to explore art collecting for themselves.

“The key message or assertion of the symposium is that people should be encouraged to not be intimidated by the prospect of collecting and to know their contributions are going to make a difference and are going to be worthwhile,” Chambers said.

“One can visit a graduatedegree show at a local school and buy the work of a student. There are all sorts of ways that each of us has the potential to make a contribution.”

FESTIVAL continues from page 8 “We were a little worried,” Salazar said. “Some of us went to different [coop] houses and talked to the members about the festival.

Luckily, people just came through. I guess they realized they really wanted this to happen.”

Hunt said this year’s WXWC features a variety of artists with different levels of experience and only has two returning acts from previous years’ lineups. This year’s lineup also has more rap and hip hop artists than in years past.

“The fact that I don’t know most of the bands is such a good thing,” Hunt said.

“There’s going to be a lot of chiptunes, lots of weird and a lot of hip hop.”

Dacoit, a newly formed Texas band, is one of the many acts performing at the Eden House on Saturday as a part of WXWC. Vocalist Zoe Yin said the

festival has an air of mayhem and mystery to it that few events maintain. “[Band member Jake Hieber and I] both went to high school in Austin and this was one of the first shows we would hear about, and say, ‘Those college kids throwing down grassroots and music,’” Yin said, “It was a cool, mystical thing.”

With Hunt and Wittenmyer adamant about the festival being in its last year, members of the arts community are concerned with the loss.

R a d i o - tel e v i s i on - f i l m sophomore Daniel Abramson is the director of “David,” one of the eight films selected to play at the WXWC film portion. Abramson said WXWC helps to showcase student talent that would otherwise be undiscovered, and shouldn’t be taken away from the community.

“If it’s already an established thing, please, just find

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someone to give us an excuse to chill out for an evening and view other people’s work,” Abramson said. “If someone can keep [WXWC] going, by all means, please keep it going. There aren’t enough of these opportunities to go around.”

Hunt said while there was speculation over whether they would continue the festival after last year, both she and Wittenmyer agree it’s time to move on, and encourage other students to start their own festival.

“On the back of the shirts this year it has the date and says, ‘Start your own,’” Hunt said. “I know it’s easy to join West By because the brand has been established, but start your own thing. It’s not like West Campus has too much culture going on. There’s plenty of room for lots of different things.”

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To expose more girls to the male-dominated field of engineering, a UT student organization – Women in Engineering Program (WEP) – is hosting its 13th annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day on Saturday. The event will offer first through eighth graders the opportunity to meet engineers, build structures and learn more about the field.

Girl Day is a national event that serves as the finale of “Engineers Week,” a weeklong attempt to spread awareness and celebrate the field. The first year UT hosted the event, 92 students were in attendance.

This year, WEP expects more than 2,000 attendees.

Although most participants come from Central Texas, girls from all over the state are invited.

More than 800 students volunteer along with local companies to guide and help the girls throughout the day.

Jordan Keller graduated from UT with a degree in chemical engineering in 2013 and is now returning to volunteer at the event.

“This will be my first year volunteering as a graduate, and I am beyond excited that my company is coming to volunteer,” Keller said. “Girl Day is my favorite day of the year. I think it’s great for these young girls to see so many women engineers and realize that they could grow up to be engineers, too.”

The afternoon will be spent with a variety of engineering-themed activities coupled with demos and

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interactive displays. Girls will be split based on their grade level for hands-on creativity. Projects range from building domes with gumdrops to building roller coasters, offering girls of all ages an introduction to

the possibilities engineering presents.

Mechanical engineering sophomore Allison Rich participated in Girl Day as a high school student. As a Girl Scout, she hosted a robotics booth at the event

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and let the girls drive her 5-foot robot creations. Now, as a UT student, she gets to be on the other side of Girl Day and engage with girls who could be in her shoes in just a few years.

“Our biggest goal is to

have girls realize that engineering is everywhere, that it is perhaps a possibility for them and that math and science and engineering is fun,” WEP director Tricia Berry said. “We’re not necessarily trying to

make all of them be engineers, but just to have heard that word engineer and to have met a lot of female engineers.”

Right now, women make

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West By West Campus organizers take last bow with final festival

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Dean Fleming skyped into the Visual Arts Center to discuss his gouache paintings Thursday evening. Fleming said that his Greece travels inspired his art style.

Symposium to discuss role of art collecting in art history

By Carmen Rising @carmen_rising

Collecting art is more than a hobby or financial investment — personal collections often contain works by underrepresented artists. When diverse private collections are displayed in museums and galleries, they broaden people’s understanding of art history by providing access to works of various styles and backgrounds.

Local art collectors Rudolph Green and Joyce Christian collect AfricanAmerican and African diaspora art. Pieces from their collection are currently on display at the Visual Arts Center and are open to the public until March 8. On Saturday, the center will host a symposium with guest lecturers who will discuss how to collect art and why collecting art affects art history.

The Green-Christian Collection of Art of the

Caribbean and African DiGREEN-CHRISTIAN aspora consists of works COLLECTION spanning from the 1940s to the turn of the 21st century. When: Saturday, Feb. 22 The collection features artists Where: UT Visual Arts from the U.S. and the Carib- Center bean. Eddie Chambers, art and art history associate professor and the symposium’s “It’s the problem with the organizer, explained that the way in which art history as portrayal of the artists and a discipline was formed and their communities in the me- how art has become histodia is a prominent subject in ricized,” Williams said. “Art the exhibition. has always been produced “It reflects the images of by all kinds of people, so the people and artists them- collection is important for selves,” Chambers said. bringing those voices into “That tends to be a wonder- the conversation because ful manifestation of culture. our culture is more pluralIt means a lot when an art- ized, and it should be.” ist visualizes him or herself Saturday’s symposium and their communities. You will host professors from have artists who give explic- around the country who it social narratives.” will discuss their personal Robin K. Williams, cura- experiences as curators torial fellow and graduate and scholars. Each speakstudent, said the collection er specializes in Africanis important because Euro- American or African diaspean artists dominate the pora art and will address mainstream art world, while the topic of how these African-American and Af- kinds of collections help rican diaspora artists tend ART page 7 to be sidelined.

This is the last year for West By West Campus according, to founders and organizers Waldo Wittenmyer and Tessa Hunt — and they mean it this time.

While the organizers originally weren’t going to host another West By West Campus this spring, they’ve decided to run the festival for a fifth and final year.

WXWC is an annual local music and film festival that began in spring 2010.

The event is free to the public and does not have age restrictions.

“It’s not that we want the sentiment to die,” Wittenmyer said. “[The founders are] not in that scene as much anymore. The whole point of West By is to empower the true nature of West Campus.”

Wittenmyer said the idea to put on a festival originally

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came from the live bands constantly performing at the different West Campus co-ops, including 21st Street Co-op and former co-op House of Guise.

“We just had this idea to combine everything into one giant show,” Wittenmyer said. “I don’t know if there was any reason at the time for that, but it seemed like we should get as crazy as possible with music in West Campus.”

Wittenmyer said WXWC 2014 is different from previous years in its physical layout, with all three music venues located on 21st Street

If it’s already an established thing, please, just find someone to give us an excuse to chill out for an evening and view other people’s work.

—Daniel Abramson, Radio-television-film sophomore

for a stronger block-party feel. The funding for WXWC also changed, with the organizers hosting a Kickstarter campaign with a $3,000 goal instead of relying heavily on company sponsors. While the Kickstarter goal was reached in the last 15 hours of the campaign, organizer William Salazar said they were anxious about reaching the goal.

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A guitarist perfroms during West By West Campus 2013 last year at 21st Street Co-Op. This is the last year for WXWC, an annual local music and film festival that began in spring 2010.