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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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According to Emily Mixon, director of the Campus Environmental Center, there are many ways through which students can help reduce the University’s carbon footprint. “There’s a lot of energy waste that could be reduced by campus users. That’s behavior change, and programs like the Energy Water Conservation Unit are helping with that with stuff like the upcoming Green Offices program and the student volunteer-run Longhorn Lights Out initiative,” Mixon said.
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continues from page 1 In 2012, universities and colleges were given a total of $31 billion in charitable gifts to support their missions, according to the Council on Aid to Education. The University broke its record for most money raised in a fiscal year in 2012, raising a total of $396 million, one of the highest in the nation. Kinch said hte business school worked closely with the Zlotnik family — whose sons Kevin and Mitchell are current UT business students
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— to plan the donation. “These gifts do not just fall out of the sky. The Zlotniks have been friends with the school for a very long time,” said Kinch. Mitchell Zlotnik said he believes the new building will be important to the development of the school. “The Robert B. Rowling Hall will open up classroom space and allow undergraduates to maximize their usage of the McCombs School of Business,” Mitchell said. “The ballroom will provide future students [with] a great place to congregate.”
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Although there has not been much student involvement in the “stealth dorm” issue, Student Government plans to develop resolution regarding the issue, according to incoming SG President Kori Rady. Austin City Council took an initial vote to limit the number of unrelated adults who are allowed together in a single-family zoned property on Feb. 14. The council will meet March 20 for a second reading — out of three required to pass. If approved, the limit will be reduced from six people to four. Rady said he is not aware of any specific student groups who have pushed for legislation on the issue, and student body elections have been the major focus in the last several weeks. “With Student Government elections and campaigning, [the proposed city code change] was right in the middle of that,” Rady said. While no SG legislation has so far been proposed or passed, Rady said, in the next several weeks, SG will focus more on the issue. “I think it’s important to a lot of students,” Rady said. “We’ll definitely start working on something in the next couple of weeks.” Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole initially proposed that eight weeks be allotted to conduct an economic study to determine the proposed city code change’s potential effect on affordable housing, but her motion was turned down 3-4 in favor of a sixweek period of study, which passed 6-1. Cole said she thinks the difference in votes between the two amendments was a result of some council members deciding that the economic study was necessary. “[With the second proposed amendment], I think some of us decided we didn’t want to be voting against information,” Cole said. “The first time, we were like, ‘We need to hurry up and finish this.’” Cole said she was surprised students were not engaged in the process to change the city code. “I don’t know why students didn’t get involved in that,” Cole said. “I’d like to see that.” —Alyssa Mahoney
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Congress’ decision to let across-the-board cuts go into effect last year following failed budget negotiations have had dire consequences for the next generation of biomedical researchers, according Andrea Gore, pharmacy and psychology professor. The National Institutes of Health is the largest source of medical research funding in the world. The cuts, known as sequestration, reduced the institute’s budget by 5 percent, which resulted in a $1.6 billion loss. Susan Sedwick, director and associate vice president for research at the Office of Sponsored Projects, said UT labs received fewer grants than usual from the institute last year. Viktoria Topper, cell and molecular biology graduate student, said the institute had to reduce funding for existing grants, as well as reducing the number of available grants altogether. “Fewer grants were rewarded or renewed, culminating in a loss of about 722 grants for the year,” Topper said. “It also cut down the success rate of grant applications to 16.8 percent, the lowest success rate ever.” Gore said graduate programs now have to be
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Andrea Gore, psychology and pharmacy professor, says U.S. budget cuts to biomedical research funding are having major negative effects for researchers, including bringing in fewer students, reducing salaries and underfunding experiments.
more selective and limited in the number of new students admitted. “That may be one of the biggest long-term negative effects of these long-term budget cuts,” Gore said. “We’re not investing to the same extent in future generations of scientists.” Topper said cuts to existing grants were hardest for her lab. In order to save money, the lab sent fewer people to conferences and used old equipment rather than upgrading. “As a graduate student, them in jail. There’s no space.” According to Sgt. Denise Lozano, when people realize there is an opportunity to pay tickets without being arrested, they typically call the county before the roundup starts. “We’ve already collected about $25,000 since we sent out the notices on Feb. 14th,” Lozano said. For those who cannot afford to pay tickets, Herb Evans, who is justice of the peace for Austin’s Precinct 5, sometimes
these things can cut pretty deeply, as conferences are where we make contacts to find jobs post-graduation, and using older techniques or equipment lessens the impact of a paper,” Topper said. Gore said grant funding not only pays for the experiment but also the salaries of technicians, graduate and undergraduate researchers. “The last thing I want to do is cut my people, but, on the other hand, the longterm cut makes us have to think about how we’re going to be managing personnel,” substitutes community service. “I can be pretty creative with community service, if you qualify,” Evans said. While the county constables focus on traffic-related offenses, APD officers will target people with any misdemeanor warrants. Unlike county officers, APD officers will not accept payment once they have arrived to make an arrest, according to APD officer Jermaine Kilgore. “All the payment is done at the courthouse,” Kilgore said.
Gore said. Gore said, while she thinks the budget cuts have been devastating for the U.S., she remains optimistic. “We just have to keep working harder and harder to [make critical discoveries], and, sometimes, it’s frustrating, but I don’t want people to read about these cuts and completely give up hope,” Gore said. “I have faith in this country, and I think we just need to keep pushing and telling people how important what we do is.” “We just come to pick them up, and then they have to go right then and there to take care of the warrant.” Since Saturday, APD has made 53 arrests as part of the roundup. Dobbins, who partners with Cantu on warrant arrests, said the roundup’s purpose is mainly to bring in revenue for the county. “A lot of people say ‘Well, I just want to sit it out in jail,’ and, for a couple of nights, they get their three meals
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Following natural disasters, the mass media’s focus on celebrities who provide relief instead of the victims of the crises could prevent public policy solutions from being formed, according to research by Dana Cloud, associate professor of communication studies. Cloud said her observations of coverage of the 2010 earthquake in Haiti by “The Oprah Winfrey Show” led her to believe TV talk shows tend to exhibit patterns of “therapeutically” questioning celebrity activists about their own experiences in providing aid. Cloud said she believes this attention placed on celebrities is a diversion that could hinder governmental accountability and progressive political action. “If we keep focusing on ourselves, politicians will not have to respond with resources and attention to disaster,” Cloud said. “In addition, a relentless focus on the self can lead victims and survivors of disaster to blame themselves for their own suffering.” Mary Beltran, associate radio-television-film professor of, said she believes celebrities can occasionally have ulterior motives in appearing on television to discuss situations of disaster and crisis. “Sometimes it’s done
altruistically, when an individual chooses to use her or his fame to shine a light on a social issue in need of attention, without a desire to gain from it,” Beltran said. “At other times, however, celebrities are merely attempting to improve their own public image through performing the role of the good citizen.” Broadcast journalism senior Jordan Cannon said she had not noticed the focus on celebrity experiences as opposed to the state of the situation during the disaster, but upon reconsideration agrees with the assessment. “I think it’s probably because the public is so obsessed with celebrities and what they are doing all the time, so, instead of focusing on hearing from the victims, they focus on hearing the faces and names they already know,” Cannon said. Cloud said her goal is to bring attention to these problems in order to enact structural change within the media, resulting in a tangible response from governments. “I hope that people will consume mass media more critically and, in this instance, look past the personal tragedies to examine the real history of oppression, invasion and neglect as context for the disaster,” Cloud said. “The more informed people are, the more they might ask elected representatives to address some of those deep causes of human suffering.”
and they’re out — tickets are cleared,” Dobbins said. “But [the county] wants the money.” Dobbins said the agency usually resolves all cases by the end of the weeklong roundup, although sometimes officers run into problems locating individuals. “It’s hit or miss,” Dobbins said. “You can’t go out thinking you’ll get everybody you go to.” “Last year, we didn’t have a lot of luck. There was a lot of trouble getting in contact with people.”
Lozano said publicity of the Roundup helps citizens take warrants more seriously. “We tell them we’re coming out, so I think they realize they should take care of it,” Lozano said. Around noon Monday, Dobbins and Cantu arrested Adrian Lama for an outstanding warrant for disregarding a stop sign while on a bicycle. “Aw, man,” Lama said as Cantu put him in the backseat of the squad car.
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On Monday, UT President William Powers Jr. announced that the University reached another major fundraising milestone, raising $2.75 billion in the Campaign for Texas — the University’s eight-year effort to raise $3 billion. Thus far, more than 257,000 alumni, friends, foundations and corporations have given in this capital campaign. Their contributions not only help UT create scholarships, revamp the curriculum and improve students’ overall educational experience, but they also enable the University to grow and expand — the new Dell Medical Center is a prime beneficiary of such contributions, for example. Reaching this new milestone puts UT well on its way to its $3 billion goal. And in a funding climate where legislative appropriations to higher education are going nowhere but down, the money may also provide a much-needed budgetary cushion in the years to come.
In a funding climate where legislative appropriations to higher education are going nowhere but down, the money may also provide a much-needed budgetary cushion in the years to come. Illustration by Crystal Marie / Daily Texan Staff
HORNS UP: APD ADOPTS STRICTER STANDARDS FOR TASER USE The Austin Police Department is adopting a policy that will treat Tasers as serious weapons “capable of inflicting harm,” according to the Austin AmericanStatesman. Under the new policy, deployment of a Taser will receive the same level of examination within the police department as the use of a baton or a gun. Previously, use of a Taser by an officer received the same level of scrutiny as the use of pepper spray. Though Police Chief Art Acevedo still called Tasers “effective” tools, he also said that the new oversight could eventually suppress the use of the weapon. In November, a 17-year-old student in Bastrop County entered a coma after falling to the floor as a result of a police officer’s use of a Taser. That accident clearly demonstrated the need for more stringent policies surrounding the stun guns, and we’re thankful that the APD has adjusted their policies to, as Police Chief Acevedo put it, take the weapon more “seriously.”
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I would like to congratulate the RadyStrickland campaign on their successful bid for student-body president and vice president: They managed to make some cool Tshirts, not break any Student Government campaign rules and, as only approximately 15 percent of the student body voted and only 51 percent of those votes went to them, receive the mandate to office by a whopping 8 percent of the student body. While some of the points on the duo’s platform are well-intentioned and, ostensibly, even supported by a majority of students, we must stop confusing “extended facility hours” and “renovating the PCL” as advancing notions of a student interest and recognize them for what they are: smallscale and overwhelmingly social measures that superficially engage, at best, with the existing operations of the University, operations which are controlled by administrators and The Board of Regents. In some ways, however, this is not Kori Rady or Taylor Strickland’s fault. By design, SG, as it exists today, is in no way an avenue to meaningfully advocate for the student interest at UT. With no power to pass actionable legislation in major University affairs, a dependence on administration for funding and space and the regents’ veto power over all resolutions passed by the student legislature, there are serious limitations to the system that prevent students from having a true voice in the operations of the University. Students have a common interest in improving the conditions in which our learning takes place on campus. Proposals that address issues relating to the quality of life and University experiences of students — such as creating a University-wide homecoming and expanding the safe ride program, both
SG, as it exists today, is in no way an avenue to meaningfully advocate for the student interest at UT...there are serious limitations to the system that prevent students from having a true voice in the operations of the University.
of which featured on the Rady-Strickland platform — deserve attention and should rightfully be taken up by student organizations. But these are peripheral issues at best and have little to do with our purpose here as learners. The more civically-minded issues proposed by Rady and Strickland, such as their support for the Invest in Texas campaign, a “student-led, non-partisan” group that advocates for student issues at the legislature, likewise fall short in promoting the student interest. Lobbying the legislature is futile when administrators control the small amount of funds the University ultimately receives. As the University System with the thirdlargest endowment in the country and the largest of any public University, students who are supposed to be benefiting from these funds must demand greater control over how the existing budget is attained and allocated, while intensifying the pressure on the legislature to fully fund higher education. Non-voting student “representatives” on decision-making committees and boards, such as the so-called student regent that can “advise” the regents on tuition issues, do not constitute real student involvement. Moreover, though Rady and Strickland are limited by structural barriers, their platform does absolutely nothing to define a vision for the University that differs in anyway from that of the administration. In fact, the second agenda item listed on their platform is titled “We Support Bill Powers.” Rather than proposing a way forward for the University as imagined by students, our student leaders continually fall victim to the false choice we are presented: to side with the lesser-evilism of Powers or deal with recalcitrant regents. There’s no clearer indication of this than Rady and Strickland’s allegiance to our University’s president. Nowhere do Rady and Strickland demand the dignity of professors, adjuncts and graduate students, who, like students, face a multitude of attacks from administrators, including limitations to their academic freedom, demands that they teach larger and larger classes of students and insufficient benefits and salaries. Instead, Rady and Strickland suggest we “light the tower to celebrate academic achievement” in order to “place equal significance on athletics and academics,” as if they should be equal to begin with. Real student power does not involve simply having an “official voice through which student opinion may be expressed” as SG’s constitution dictates. It means cultivating an understanding of our interests as students and ensuring that those interests fundamentally shape the organization of our University. Griswold is a government senior from Indianapolis.
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For UT students, T-shirts offer comfort, ease and a sense of self By Olivia Berkeley Daily Texan Columnist @ oliviaberkeley
Of all the objects that have invaded my life since entering college — promotional flyers, on-the-go-meals, and heavy textbooks, for example — T-shirts have been the most invasive and the most uncontrollable. They’re everywhere I turn, especially during the recent Student Government elections. During election season, T-shirts proved their worth as mobile advertising strategies, instead of more than just items that take up space in my closet. But that doesn’t mean they don’t still take up an unnecessary amount of space in my closet. Here at The University of Texas, these inexpensive garments act as cloth documentation of where we’ve been, whom we know and with what we are affiliated. At any given moment, I can infer the basic details of any person on campus, strictly based on the shirt they have on. And, unless you’ve consciously avoided acquiring shirts by living under a rock during your college years, there is no way you don’t own an organization-affiliated T-shirt or two. The cotton-swathed fate is unavoidable and for good reason. T-shirts are the obvious choice in apparel: They hide my freshman fifteen, go with everything, are comfortable and put me in a group with 50,000 other Tshirt-wearing students. Individuality is irrelevant in the face of a perfectly crafted event shirt. The uniform here at UT is strict — forget to wear a T-shirt and you might be cited for “caring too much about your appearance” — God forbid. T-shirts, however, weren’t always such a frequent sight at UT. A picture from the 1980s featured in the book “The Daily Texan: The First 100 Years” shows men of the the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity sitting on their front
The uniform here at UT is strict— forget to wear a T-shirt and you might be cited for “caring too much about your appearance” — God forbid.
lawn wearing button downs and jeans, not Tshirts. My dad, who attended UT in the ’80s and was in a fraternity, still has some of the fraternity T-shirts he wore back then. They are all hand-designed and drawn, and the production level pales in comparison to the carefully branded and crafted organization shirts of today. But the standard of dress here at UT has changed significantly in the last 30 years. Tshirts have become the dominant clothing choice for UT students. Take a candid photo of students today, and the chance that most of them are wearing organization T-shirts is fairly high. This shift makes sense. T-shirts embody the current college social mentality: Let’s all generate hype for each other’s organizations by wearing shirts with various logos and words. And, as ridiculous as it may appear when examined outside of the UT vacuum, T-shirts makes sense when examined up close. As a college student, you make your friends through the organizations and causes in which you involve yourself. T-shirts are just a reminder to the outside world that you affiliate somewhere, and that that “somewhere” has a shirt to prove it. And, for those students who don’t often wear T-shirts, I’m sure there is place for you on campus, too — maybe. Besides the ease and comfort they provide, T-shirts are the most infallible marketing material to which student organizations have access. Whether the shirt sports your organization’s logo, a big “Texas Fight” or a the name of a volunteering event to which you went, the same goal is accomplished: free advertising. During any given walk around campus, the number of symbols, logos, phrases and letters one is subjected to is outrageous. In a way, we are all channeling our fifth grade, Abercrombie and Fitch graphic-tee wearing-selves as we walk around campus in the present day. I am still haunted by elementary and middle school yearbook photos of me wearing tight, neon, “A&Fitch est. 1892” shirts, beaming proudly, completely oblivious of the fashion crime I was committing and the price I should have been charging for advertising space. Hopefully, the T-shirts I wear now will evoke less future embarrassment because they represent things about which I actually care. I’m still abiding by a trend in the same way I did at age nine, but I believe, when looking back, that I’ll know exactly why I wore those oversized frockets and be able to articulate my decision for doing so — after all, it will say just why in bold letters across the front. Berkeley is a Plan II and advertising freshman from Austin.
HORNS UP: STUDENTS APPROVE POSITIVE SG CHANGES In last Thursday’s campus-wide elections, students voted to approve two new SG referendums that would change the constitution to increase transparency, give the SG President veto power and increase the assembly’s size by changing the method used to determine the number of representatives per college. Right now, colleges receive one representative for every 2,500 students enrolled, yet some colleges choose to only include undergraduates while others include both undergraduate and graduate students in their head counts, skewing the proportions. Though the referendums must be signed by administrative officials including the dean of students, vice president of student affairs, President William Powers Jr. and the members of the UT System Board of Regents to become official, if approved, the change may lead to a more active and representative SG in the future.
Right now, colleges receive one representative for every 2,500 students enrolled, yet some colleges choose to only include undergraduates while others include both undergraduate and graduate students in their head counts, skewing the proportions.
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Senior night results in upset victory By Rachel Wenzlaff @RachelWenzlaff
Tears filled the eyes of senior GiGi Mazionyte as she stepped onto the court squeezing tightly onto her family’s hands. The crowd cheered as the announcer announced that Mazionyte — along with seniors Chassidy Fussell, Helen Tau and Ashley Roberts — was playing in her final regular season game. It seemed fitting that No. 18 Oklahoma State was the regular season finale. The Longhorns opened conference play with a close 6167 loss to the Cowgirls and closed it Monday night with a 65-58 win. The win gives Texas the third spot in the Big 12 ranking going into postseason play but, more impressively, gives the Longhorns their 21st win
of the season. “I’m really proud of our basketball team tonight,” head coach Karen Aston said. “I have always thought, as a coach, that [20 wins] is the symbol of a good basketball team.” Although it was a big game against a ranked opponent, it was important to Aston to honor her seniors. Tau and Roberts, who usually sit firmly on the bench for the majority of games, found their names on the starting roster Monday night. “I think that is something that those players always remember,” Aston said. “Some of them have not had the opportunity to run through that tunnel this year, so it was important to me, and I’m sure it was to them.” Tau returned to the bench at the 17:40 minute mark
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Senior guard Chassidy Fussell drives to the basket during Texas’ contest Monday night. Fussell was one of four seniors honored during Monday night’s senior night.
with a smile stretched across her face and a cheer from the stands while Roberts
trotted back with 16:29 to go in the first. Both eventually jogged back to the court
with Texas in the lead with about 50 seconds left.
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Longhorns look to continue winning streak By Evan Berkowitz @Evan_Berkowitz
Through the first two games of the season, Texas looked a lot like last season’s team that finished last in the Big 12. It pitched well, but that was about all, as it dropped two in a row to an unimpressive Cal team. Since then, it’s been all smiles as the Longhorns have hit their stride, winning nine of their last 10. This past weekend, Texas captured the Houston College Classic
title, beating No. 20 Sam Houston State, previously unbeaten Houston and No. 18 Rice. The polls rewarded them by moving them up to No. 10. The Longhorns look to continue their streak against Valparaiso (4-5), a school they have never faced, 6 p.m. Tuesday at UFCU DischFalk Field to start a home stretch that includes 13 of their next 14 games. Texas has changed its attitude since last year as it has become mentally
tougher. In the words of head coach Augie Garrido, the 2013 Longhorns “mastered the art of losing the one-run game.” Last year they lost 15 games by two runs or fewer, 10 of which were by one run. But, this season, Garrido’s team has been resilient, with five comeback victories and four one-run wins. “The attitude of this team and the will of this team is much stronger,” said Garrido
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Horns lose commit after second 2014 Junior Day By Jeremy Thomas @jeremyobthomas
While Texas may have defeated Texas A&M in the last foreseeable Lone Star Showdown, the rivalry is still far from over on the recruiting trail. Connor Lanfear, an offensive tackle from Hays High School in Buda, withdrew his verbal commitment from the Longhorns and pledged with the Aggies on Friday. The 6-foot-6-inch, 270-pound lineman had committed to Texas back in June with Mack Brown’s staff. “I’m taking my talents to Texas A&M! Excited to join the family and can’t wait to be an Aggie!” Lanfear tweeted Friday. Just three minutes prior to Lanfear’s tweet, Texas A&M head coach Kevin Sumlin tweeted his signature “#YESSIR!”. Lanfear puts A&M on an early track for a top recruiting group for the class of 2015. He is the seventh Aggie commit for 2015 and viewed as a three- or four-star top offensive guard prospect. Lanfear also received offers from Baylor, Florida State, Miami and Oklahoma. Lanfear was in attendance at Texas’ first Junior Day of the year Feb. 22, where he spoke with the new Longhorns coaching staff extensively that day. “I just want to make it clear that Texas did still want me bad,” Lanfear told Gigem 247. “At the junior day, I went into Coach Strong’s office with Coach Wickline and talked with them for a good 30 minutes. They understood with a new coaching staff that I wanted to look around.” The loss of Lanfear leaves the 2015 Longhorn class
with two offensive linemen — four-star commit Patrick Vahe from Trinity High School in Euless and threestar commit Ronnie Major from Huntsville High School in Huntsville. Both committed during the first Texas Junior Day of 2014 and are part of six commits for 2015. Over the weekend, Texas hosted its second Junior Day to extend offers mainly to members of the 2016 class, who are currently sophomores in high school, which coincided with the University’s open house event of Explore UT. No offers extended from this weekend’s Junior Day produced any commitments. Kirk and Collin Johnson, brothers who play football at San Jose Valley Christian High School in San Jose, Calif., received offers from Texas. Both brothers are sons to former Longhorn two-time consensus All-American and NFL defensive back Johnnie Johnson. Defensive tackle Kendell Jones out of Killeen is another 2016 recruit who received an offer from the Longhorns. Baylor, Houston and Oklahoma have also showed interest in Jones, but Texas is his first offer. It appeared that five-star recruit wide receiver DaMarkus Lodge, from Cedar Hill High School in Cedar Hill and four-star recruit defensive end James Lockhart from Ennis High School in Ennis were invited to attend the Junior Day but did not make it to the 40 Acres. The Longhorns currently have no verbal commitments in the 2016 class, as recruitment has just started. Spring conditioning drills are already underway for the Longhorns as they prepare for the Orange-White Spring game on April 19.
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SPORTS BRIEFLY Jayhawks loses star freshman to back injury
Joel Embiid will sit out the final two regularseason games for No. 8 Kansas so that he can rest a lower back strain that has already caused him to miss a game, and it’s possible the freshman center could be out through the Big 12 tournament. Jayhawks coach Bill Self said Monday that Embiid re-aggravated the injury and that experts have told the team’s training staff that the best remedy is simply rest. An MRI exam taken on his lower back came back negative. The 7-foot Embiid has been a revelation this season, averaging 11.2 points and 8.1 rebounds despite only playing basketball for a few years. Embiid, the Cameroon native, is expected to be a lottery pick if he declares for the NBA draft, though he told The Associated Press in a recent interview that he’s leaning toward returning to Kansas for his sophomore season. The Jayhawks, who have already wrapped up their 10th straight Big 12 championship, play host to Texas Tech on Wednesday night. They finish the regular season Saturday at West Virginia. —Associated Press
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Founder of SLAB BBQ, Mark Avalos, stands with “The Donk,” the name of its food truck. SLAB was founded originally under the name Sugar Shack BBQ but changed the name in 2013.
Sugar Shack BBQ gets new name, keeps flavor By Sarah Montgomery
Local artist knits niche in city Small-business owner creates winter wear for Southern climate By Sarah Montgomery @withalittlejazz
Boxes of multicolored wool, geometric patterns and a giant machine with hundreds of small knitting hooks filled the sun room of Lorraine Murray’s small home. Coming out of the top of the 3-foot-long knitting machine is a tower of wires with wool strings and dryer sheets attached to reduce the static electricity, Murray explained. Murray began knitting after moving to Vermont when her friend gifted her with a knitting set for her birthday. Now that she’s back home in Austin after 11 years, Murray continues to create her custom winter wear and expand her business under the name Sourpuss Knits. “You know, I guess my story is I moved to Vermont and learned how to knit for functional reasons, and I fell in love with it,” Murray said. Though all of Murray’s products are made out of her home, the business has moved from being a crafty hobby to a full-time job, after launching her own shop on Etsy, the online marketplace, in 2011 and investing in a knitting machine. “I just wanted to make money at being creative,” Murray said. Though she is working to include pieces that can be worn all year long, most of Murray’s current products are designed for winter, such as hats and scarves, which are made of American wool. “Since I’ve been focusing on winter, I like natural materials,” Murray said. “When
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Lorraine Murray, local knitter and founder of Sourpuss Knits, leans against her knitting machine, which she uses to produce her wool products. Murray’s knitting products are inspired by her love of color and geometric patterns and are made of 100 percent Americanproduced wool.
I was hand-knitting, I was using acrylic, and it’s just an inferior material, and it’s synthetic. I just don’t want to use acrylic.” Each piece takes about one-and-a-half to three hours to produce, which includes the washing and drying of the wool, the handseaming and the addition of pom-poms on the top of hats. “When you’re buying things on Etsy, store front has a lot to do with it; I saw that first,” Sourpuss Knits customer Hannah Johnson said about first looking at the online store. “When I looked more into her custom pieces, the workmanship was just amazing. They are really well made.” Johnson is from Ohio and purchased a cowl — a small neck scarf — from the Etsy store a month ago.
Murray admits that, because she makes winter products, she doesn’t sell a lot locally. “I feel so silly doing what I’m doing in Austin,” Murray said. “I’m like hats and scarves, and no one can really wear them here. I definitely don’t sell a lot in Texas.” But Melissa Taylor, close friend and fellow Etsy shop owner, said Murray’s products are perfect, even for Texas’ climate. “It’s perfect for Austin, and it’s really versatile to wear in the spring and early into the fall,” Taylor said. “The wool is a fabric that really helps your body to adapt to whatever temperature it is.” Taylor and Murray, who met originally through Etsy a year ago, frequently meet up and discuss the future of their small businesses and expansion.
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Steam escapes from the smoker as SLAB BBQ employee Rance Simpson takes out a piece of seasoned chicken and begins chopping it up with speed inside the small food truck. The SLAB employees are busy preparing dozens of sandwiches for the Intercollegiate Tennis Tournament, one of the many events the business has served. SLAB BBQ, originally called Sugar Shack BBQ, has been a campus commodity since its opening on the corner of 24th and San Antonio streets. The business began in 2006 as an experiment out of founder Mark Avalos’ home kitchen. Since its inception, SLAB has changed its name and expanded its business, which anticipates the addition of a new restaurant location sometime this year. “When I bought my house, the first thing I bought was a smoker, and I learned how to smoke on it and I got hooked,” Avalos said. “All the sauces I make are from scratch. It’s all trial and error that I’ve done from back in the day.” Because the business had been known as Sugar Shack since 2008, Avalos was apprehensive toward rebranding, afraid that students would not recognize the new face of the food trailer. But, in 2013, the name was changed to SLAB BBQ, which stands for “slow, low and banging,” a description Avalos said correlates with the methods of making barbecue. “I never actually went to the place when it was called the Sugar Shack, but I remember being surprised when I saw the SLAB trailer where the Sugar Shack was supposed to be,” computer science junior Aila Enos said. “It didn’t stop me from going there. I was on the hunt for some good barbecue close to campus.” Besides being based out of a food truck, SLAB’s
barbecue is different in a number of ways from the traditional Texas style staple. The meats are a fusion of Texas-, Memphis- and Carolina-style barbecue, and all the meat is served sandwich style rather than on a plate, after being smoked for 12 hours. “When I started off in 2006, I wanted to not be like every other barbecue with plates,” Avalos said. “I wanted to focus on the sandwich and so that’s what I did. We lowsmoke all the meats, but we focus more on the sandwich, and what we can create.” With two trailers and a food truck capable of producing 1,500 pounds of smoked meat already in use, Avalos is looking to move into a restaurant before summer. “The great thing about what we’re doing now in the order that we’re doing it is that we’re building a clientele with the truck and with the trailer,” Avalos said. “When we open up the doors to the restaurant, we already have a following. We, at least, have people who know us and will support us.” Chip Gourley, Avalos’ business partner, is excited for the options a restaurant location will be able to give customers that are not currently available out of the truck and trailer. “I’m really excited about moving into a restaurant because I feel like we can broaden the menu,” Gourley said. “You can pick your meat, pick your sauce, pick your side. Build your own barbecue. That was the dream.” Since its beginnings on campus, the truck has catered events for people such as Norah Jones, Dell, The Ying Yang Twins, among others, and has also been featured on the Travel Channel, Food Network and eHow. Despite SLAB’s success, Avalos remains grateful to his original clients: students. “I want the students to know that they built what we are now,” Avalos said. “It all started on campus.”
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