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UT to survey greenhouse emissions
Tuesday’s primary to determine year’s ballot
By Nicole Stiles @NicoleStiles42
University Campus Planning and Facilities Management is in the midst of conducting its first greenhouse gas emissions inventory since 2009, but the University has no plan in place to reduce those emissions once they are calculated. According to Director of Sustainability Jim Walker, data for this inventory will be collected differently
than they have been in previous years. As always, the inventory will include data from the University’s on-campus power plant, as well as data derived from the University’s energy supply from Austin Energy. This year, for the first time, the University will also track indirect emissions, for which, Walker said, most universities do not account. “Most universities only track two [energy sources],” Walker said.
Walker said indirect emissions come from a wide range of sources, including solid waste and student commuting. “Solid waste and recycling, commuting — how students get to and from school. If a sports team has to fly somewhere for a competition, we add up those miles,” Walker said. “Also, [we track] embodied emissions, so our paper — what kind of
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By Alyssa Mahoney @TheAlyssaM
Tuesday night, the fourway race for the Republican lieutenant governor campaign will be decided and Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott and state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, will presumably become their parties’ gubernatorial candidates. State Sen. Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, is running unopposed to be the Democratic candidate for lieutenant governor. Voting locations in Travis County will open at 11 a.m. because of weather concerns that also delayed classes for the University. According to UT-Texas Tribune polling data, the Republican lieutenant governor race will be a close one. Incumbent David Dewhurst polled at 37 percent, while state Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, polled at 31 percent of the vote. Lagging behind were Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples and Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson. To win, a candidate will need 50 percent of the votes. The general election will take place Nov. 4.
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Steam blows off of the Weaver Power Plant on Monday morning.
POLICE
Warrant roundup targets Class C crimes By Julia Brouillette @juliakbrou
For Travis County deputy constables Charles Dobbins and Robert Cantu, the Great Texas Warrant Roundup began 6:30 a.m. Monday with a cup of coffee and a stack of warrant papers. The day’s mission was to locate and collect money from as many people with outstanding Class C misdemeanor warrants as possible in the downtown Austin area. The yearly roundup dates back to 2001, but became a statewide initiative in 2006, with courts and law enforcement agencies from more than 300 jurisdictions participating in the roundup. Last year, cops cleared 11,000 warrants in Austin alone. Throughout the week, Travis County deputy constables will focus on clearing the warrants of 4,000 citizens. Cantu said the agency notifies individuals two weeks prior to the roundup in order
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Vote in the Texas primary elections today in the FAC. As a result of winter weather, polls will open at 11 a.m. and close at 9 p.m.
Amy Zhang / Daily Texan Staff
Deputy Constable Robert Cantu explains the details of a man’s outstanding warrants Monday morning. The Great Texas Warrant Roundup is a statewide initiative in which Travis County constables clear the warrants of more than 4,000 citizens.
UNIVERSITY
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Family makes donation to new business building
UHS reports fewer influenza cases By Jeremy Thomas @JeremyOBThomas
By Adam Hamze
Despite this year’s flu season affecting younger and middle-aged adults more, officials at University Health Services, better known as UHS, say the number of influenza-related cases they treated this year are lower than last year. Since January 2014, UHS reported 27 influenza-related cases compared to 99 cases reported at the same time last year, according to UHS Medical Director Theresa Spalding. Spalding said she hopes UHS’ flu shot campaign is helping keep the number of cases down. “Hopefully, it’s just more of the students are taking more precautions and being more aware,” Spalding said. At the end of February, the City of Austin reported
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the construction of Rowling Hall is the first of a threephase plan, initiated by McCombs Dean Thomas Gilligan, to improve the business school. Phase one is to build the hall, phase two will involve renovating the two existing business school buildings and the final phase will pull remaining McCombs classes out of the classrooms in the UTC building. Marcie Zlotnik, who founded StarTex Power with her husband, said she hopes the family’s donation will be a catalyst for others to help fund education through donations. “Education is the key to anyone’s success, and, the more of those who can put money back into it, the better everyone is going to be,” Marcie Zlotnik said.
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McCombs alumni Bob and Marcie Zlotnik announced a $5 million donation to aid the construction of a new graduate business building Wednesday. The University announced plans to build Robert B. Rowling Hall, the new graduate building, last year. The building will increase space for teaching and meeting facilities of the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center and add 525 oncampus parking spaces. The building will be connected to the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center with a shared ballroom, which will be named after the Zlotniks. According to Keary Kinch, alumni director for the McCombs School of Business,
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