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Austin soccer could join big leagues By Alyssa Mahoney @TheAlyssaM
Austin may get its first professional sports team by 2020, as the City Council began discussing a possible Major League Soccer team Thursday. Mayor pro tem Sheryl Cole sponsored a resolution, which passed 6-0, that states the city will work with the University, the Austin Aztex — the city’s United Soccer Leagues (USL) semi-professional team — and other
stakeholders to determine whether an MLS team is possible. By 2020, MLS plans to expand from 20 to 24 operating teams, two of which have not yet been determined. Austin and San Antonio are two major contenders for a professional team in Texas, MLS commissioner Don Garber said. “Expanding — that’s likely going to happen,” Garber said in a press conference. “Where that happens, when that happens, is something that remains to be seen.”
According to Garber, the league will conduct research to evaluate whether Austin has the fan demographics, soccer interests, potential ownership groups and stadium plan to successfully support an MLS team. Garber said ideally, a stadium should be located within the urban core of the city. Aztex marketing director Jeffrey Burns said Austin’s high urban density makes the city a
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City Council meets to discuss the possibility of bringing a Major League Soccer team to Austin.
Change ahead for campus creek Waller Creek development to be altered at UT, downtown By Alyssa Mahoney @TheAlyssaM
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Just as surveyor and Austin mayor Edwin Waller considered Waller Creek a beautiful resource in his original 1838 plan for the city, recent University and city master plans are beginning to feature the creek more prominently as an important ecological asset, resulting in drastic changes both on campus and in downtown Austin. While Waller Creek has always figured prominently in UT’s history, only in recent decades did the University begin to embrace the creek’s ecological value. The University’s 2013 Campus Master
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The bridge by San Jacinto Hall is an example of the 2013 master plan’s hope to feature Waller Creek more around the University and downtown. Renovations, such as new bike trails and a possible rail line, will take place in the next 20-30 years.
College Board announced Wednesday that it has revised its SAT, reversing many of the changes made to the test in its last revision in 2005. The new test will be administered in the spring of 2016, and College Board will publish sample sections on its website by April 16, 2014. The major change in the revised test lies in its scoring format. The scale, raised from a 1600 to a 2400-point system in 2005, has been lowered back to its former scale. In addition, College Board will no longer penalize wrong answers with deductions. Kedra Ishop, vice provost and director of admissions, said the University is still weighing the impact of the changes. “How students perform will depend on, as it is for any test, how well students prepare rather than on the qualities of the test itself,” Ishop said. “It’s too early for us to know if or how the changes may affect our admission practices or policies.” The new SAT will leave the essay portion as a separately-scored option for particularly strong writers to take advantage of, though colleges and universities can still request it from applicants. Chemical engineering senior Ishita Madan, an SAT tutor at Austin-based House of Tutors, said she thinks the test will be
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Wendy Davis shares platform, plans
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Wes Draper took the eighth position for University-wide representative in a runoff election Thursday, after an additional week of campaigning since last week’s campus-wide elections. Draper, an undeclared sophomore, and government sophomore John Brown both received 2,080 votes last week. Draper won the runoff election with 54.49 percent of the vote. According to Election Supervisory Board chairman Ryan Lutz, 2,090 students voted Wednesday and Thursday. This is about four times greater than the 507 students who voted in the Graduate Student Assembly election. “We didn’t expect this high of a voter turnout, but we’re absolutely pleased it was that high,” Lutz said. “That means a lot of students cared about
that position.” Lutz said he was surprised there was a runoff election for a representative position. “If there are more than two executive alliances, it will almost always go into a runoff, but for a representative position, something like that has not happened for as long as I can remember,” Lutz said. As an incoming University-wide representative, Draper said he plans to make transferring to colleges more accessible for current students at the University. As a student in the School of Undergraduate Studies, he said he has found it difficult to transfer into another college. “Just because you’re at UT doesn’t mean as much as it used to, which is kind of silly in itself to keep enrolling large masses and just throw them into the feeder
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Democratic gubernatorial nominee and state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Forth Worth, said she wouldn’t raise taxes to fund programs such as education in a discussion hosted by the Texas Tribune on Thursday. Davis said she is not worried about facing a Republican super majority if she is elected governor and she said she believes under her leadership, the legislature will become more nonpartisan. “‘D’ is not a liability,” Davis said. “There are honorable people on both sides of the aisle who really do want to be part of constructive, solution-oriented, futureoriented thinking.” According to Davis, Texas should make education its single most important priority. Davis said she wants to focus on public preschool education and said she proposes a sliding scale to
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Gubernatorial candidate Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, speaks at a discussion with The Texan Tribune at the State Theater Co. on Thursday morning.
determine how much parents should pay. “There will be a tremendous cost to the state of doing nothing,” Davis said. “I don’t think I have all the answers, but I think I have some good ideas.”
Davis said the state already has adequate revenue to fund the programs she proposes. According to Davis, at the next legislative session, the state may have as much as a $5 billion surplus.
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favorable candidate. “We know that the MLS, and basically all soccer leagues, feel that having a stadium tied to an urban core is a very important part,” Burns said. “We know that basically you can get to any part of the city [in] 10, 15 miles. For a city of that size, that’s very reasonable, especially as road improvement projects and light rail improvement projects increase.” James Morgan, a UT alumnus who spoke at the council meeting, said San Antonio may not be the best market for an MLS team because the location of its soccer stadium may not attract enough fans. “The issue with San Antonio is that their stadium is an hour north of San Antonio,” Morgan said. “[Garber] has stated initially that he wants stadiums centrally located in the city. He’s found that there has been significantly higher success with teams.” Morgan said Austin’s fan base is concerned with the city’s available facilities. “[House Park, where Aztex plays,] is a
multi-sport complex, and fans really like to be close to the action,” Morgan said. “They will gladly use the stadium that’s available, but I don’t know that’s necessarily what they want long-term.” Burns said although Aztex will support the creation of a professional team in any capacity, he’s confident the team’s strong fan base and player competitiveness would make it a good MLS team. According to Burns, Aztex sent eight players to the MLS and was in the top-5 list of USL teams with highest game
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attendance in the team’s first two years. “The fans are already here,” Burns said. “We’re just working with the tier and the stadiums that we have, and we’re doing a really good job with that.” Burns said it’s too early to tell if a new soccer stadium should be built and
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high school diploma, and by 2040, that percentage is expected to rise to 30 percent. Davis said a less educated population decreases spending power. Becky Moeller, president of the Texas AFL-CIO union, said Davis’ voting record has demonstrated that she prioritizes education, health care and increasing minimum wage and job opportunities, especially for low-income residents. “When you tout your state as a low-wage state, you don’t get good jobs in the state,” Moeller said. “When you are excited about minimum wage jobs, and Gov. Rick Perry was, there’s something wrong with that. We need jobs that pay a living wage in this state.” Moeller said she supports the Affordable Care Act and expanding Medicaid. “I think that it’s very clear that [Republican gubernatorial nominee Greg] Abbott … does not care about health care for all Texans,” Moeller said. According to Moeller, an educated population is essential to a strong economy. “We do need to have an educated workforce, [so] you need to have access to higher education,” Moeller said. “Tuition costs have gone through the roof … we need to make education affordable again.” Rachel Gandy, public affairs and social work graduate student, asked Davis if she plans to invest in educational programs that would function as effective and cost-efficient alternatives to incarceration. “I’m a huge supporter of Wendy Davis and especially her education plan,” Gandy said. “She spoke so eloquently about breaking from the status quo, and I wanted to see if that only applied to particular issues or to criminal justice as well.” Gandy said the only thing she didn’t agree with was Davis’ response to a question about whether she had experienced sexism in Texas. Davis said she had not. “I was irked … she responded very quickly [that she hadn’t],” Gandy said. “We don’t treat everyone equally in that way, so that was the only moment that I could really disagree with her — that we really haven’t found equality in that way.”
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Plan, which outlines goals for how campus will develop in the and next 30 years, set in motion the construction of the Dell Medical e is School and launched a plan to make the creek a more centralized per- feature of campus. Meanwhile, construction projects downdu- town will redirect the southernmost part of the creek in order ases to increase area safety and foster economic growth. Architecture professor Larry Speck, who helped develop esi- the master plan, said the geographical and psychological cenCIO ter of the University has moved east over the past 25 years, as re- UT has constructed new buildings on the east side of campus. that Speck said the new center of campus may begin to shift away ion, from the Student Activities Center and Liberal Arts Building sing and toward San Jacinto Boulevard, where Waller Creek runs op- and where the city may develop a rail line. The University is for also working with the city on plans to create a continuous hikeand-bike trail that connects Lady Bird Lake to the city and our campus, perhaps as far north as Dean Keeton Street. ate, “The center of gravity is definitely moving east once again,” obs Speck said. “The light rail is supposed to go up San Jacinto, aid. and so if you have students coming and going to the campus ited and getting off at San Jacinto and right there, there’s a beauobs, tiful creek, oasis, green space and a place to hang out and was, recreation there. Then that really becomes a kind of center to ong campus, say, 20 or 30 years from now.” that Speck said the University this has not always viewed the creek as an asset or incorpoorts rated the creek into architecand tural designs. In the 1950s and I think that human be1960s, the University neglect- ings and ecosystems lear ed the creek’s ecosystem, at na- times constructing buildings can be compatible Ab- with loading docks directly on if they’re designed out the creekside. ns,” “If you go back and look properly. at the master plan and how —Larry Speck, an they were planning it, the Architecture professor es- car is freaking God,” Speck my. said. “I mean, it’s all about as many parking spaces as close to ave the buildings as possible. Honestly, it was nasty.” rce, The University has moved away from being the car-obac- sessed campus it was in the 1950s, Speck said. on,” “The whole east side over there was just full of parking lots, ion and that’s what people thought was important,” Speck said. ugh “At a certain point people said, you know, ‘that doesn’t make to much of a campus, there’s no sense of community here.’” rd- According to Speck, the Etter-Harbin Alumni Center, or the Texas Exes building, was one of the few buildings constructed af- during the 1960s that incorporated the creek into its design, disdu- playing it in the window of the ballroom. Speck said the building s if demonstrated the creek’s potential as an ecological asset. uca- “You know, it’s just phenomenal just how quickly cultural uld attitudes change,” Speck said. “You could see [the creek] not and as an edge but as a green space that is a positive, you know, ives pleasant place to be in the middle of campus.” With the development of the 1996 Campus Master Plan, rter University administrators decided to improve mobility for pe- pedestrians and bikers and orient buildings toward the creek, an,” Speck said. so The Dell Medical School, which will accept its first class in king 2016, will have all its buildings oriented toward the creek — nd I and as a result, University efforts to improve the creek will only target this area first. is- “[When] you walk into the front door of the teaching hostice pital, you [will] look through a big, glassy lobby,” Speck said. “You will look right out into the creek, front and center.” hing Speck said he thinks the University’s improvements to the was creek may be done piece-by-piece, as new buildings are conues- structed and existing buildings are renovated. had “I think that human beings and ecosystems can be compatTex- ible if they’re designed properly,” Speck said. “It’s just dumot. bass stupid to leave it like a ditch.” re- Farther south along the creek, city planners are constructthat ing the Waller Creek Tunnel, which will reclaim 28 acres, aid. or 11 percent, of the downtown floodplain in order to allow one for area redevelopment. Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole, who is that leading the project, said she would often visit Waller Creek to that reflect when she was a UT student and could not pass up the with opportunity to spearhead the project. en’t “It’s just my passion,” Cole said. “I was captivated by it. I love ay.” being down there, and once I had it as a project, it is hard to resist thinking about it — what could be here, what could go there.” Cole said the development will include adding housing and shops, will improve the water quality in Waller Creek and prevent future erosion. The project is scheduled to be completed in fall 2014 at a total cost of $146.5 million. 1 The Waller Creek Conservancy is responsible for surfacelevel improvements in the area. After hosting a design competition in 2011 and securing initial funding in a 2012 bond election, the conservancy began work on a park in early 2013. Executive Director Stephanie McDonald said as the conservancy implements the park design, securing additional funding from public and private sources will remain a challenge. In addition to cleaning up the creek and adding amenities, McDonald said a major challenge is changing people’s perceptions of the creek so they realize investing in it is a worthwhile endeavor. “I think that [for] most people, if they even know where it is, [the creek is] largely ignored, or they don’t see it as an asset,” McDonald said. “People see it as an area where only unsafe things happen.” Cole said she thinks the Waller Creek Tunnel Project and subsequent projects, such as the conservancy’s, will improve connectivity between different parts of Austin. “As the area is revitalized and you have more people,
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The new Dell Medical School is currently under construction and is the first place where major improvements to the UT portion of the creek will be made.
Proposed expansion according to UT’s Master Plan
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The new Waller Creek Tunnel is currently under construction at fifth and Sabin streets. The tunnel will reduce the dangers of flooding and damage caused by erosion. Illustration by Stephanie Vanicek / Daily Texan Staff
including housing and students and pedestrians, it’s not so isolated … the safety issues will just kind of melt away,” Cole said. “Activity brings more livelihood and less interest in criminal events.” But the creek’s future could be impacted by future development of large offices and apartment complexes that may detract from the historic feel the area offers. Philip Fry, coauthor of a book about Waller Creek, said he is concerned private area development will conflict with the conservancy’s design of the park. “[The park areas are] tied together by the creek, of course, and you can travel from one to the other,” Fry said. “It’ll be different. It’ll try to incorporate the public space with the private commercial development.”
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Check out the online story with embedded videos at dailytexanonline.com Fry, a longtime Austin resident, said he thinks preserving some of the old bars and buildings downtown is important. “If you go down to Rainey Street right now, you will see some of the foundation work for fairly large condominiums and hotels,” Fry said. “As you go from Waterloo Park along down you’re gonna have open spaces and then sheer walls of buildings, open spaces, more canyons of tall condominiums, and some of those are already in the works.”
Waller Creek Through the Years 1838: Mirabeau B. Lamar, president of the Republic of Texas, requests that the capital of Texas be moved from Houston to Austin.
August 1839: The Texas capital is officially moved to Waterloo, which is renamed Austin. Per Lamar’s request, Edwin Waller travels to Austin to make a city plan.
1883: The University of Texas at Austin opens along Waller Creek.
2004: A UT commission recommends that the University create a new master plan that will plan the construction of future buildings, make sustainability goals and solve campus transportation issues.
1969: In response to the Board of Regents’ move to expand Darrel K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, students chain themselves to trees to protest their removal from the area. The area included parts of Waller Creek along San Jacinto Boulevard and 21st Street.
Summer 2010: The Waller Creek Conservancy is formed to fundraise for and implement plans to preserve the creek’s ecosystem and increase public activity in the creek area.
April 2011: The Waller Creek Conservancy and the City of Austin create a master plan aimed at revitalizing the Waller Creek corridor.
May 2013: The Board of Regents unveils plans for a University Medical School. Per the goals of the 2013 Campus Master Plan, the medical center’s buildings will be oriented toward, instead of away from, Waller Creek.
2013: The Board of Regents approves the 2013 Campus Master Plan, which plans for a continued eastward expansion of the campus. It also describes goals to incorporate Waller Creek as a design asset and a place where visitors can gather.
Fall 2014: Construction of the Waller Creek Tunnel, which starts at Waterloo Park and has an outlet at Lady Bird Lake, begins operation. The city moves forward with its plan to create continuous hike-andbike paths along the creek, which will connect South Austin to downtown and campus.
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We asked: Did you vote in the Texas primaries? Editor’s Note: The 2014 Texas primary election occurred Tuesday, March 4. On Thursday, we hit the West Mall and asked students whether they had voted in the elections. Below are some of the responses. Full video content is available online. Noah Hayden is a radio-television-film junior. Daily Texan: Do you have any thoughts about Tuesday’s primaries? Did you vote? Noah Hayden: I didn’t vote, because I felt that the parties were too strongly divided between conservative and liberal, and in order to vote liberal, you necessarily have to vote democrat. And I agree with the republican party up to an extent, but I’m not so far right that I’m willing to be a registered republican. DT: You know in the primaries you just vote in one party or the other; you’re not voting between the two parties.
NH: I actually didn’t know. DT: So you’re not planning on voting in the general election in the fall? NH: No, I vote in the general elections, but when it comes to the primaries, I just don’t consider myself ... I don’t think that I’m educated enough to make a good decision. Lauren Moore is a speech/language pathology senior. Daily Texan: Did you vote in the primaries Tuesday? Lauren Moore: Like for Austin? DT: Just the primary elections. Moore: No. DT: Why didn’t you vote? What was your thought process? Moore: I really don’t know. I don’t think I even knew it was on Tuesday. I thought you were talking about the UT Student Government ones, but you’re not talking about that
... That was last week. Because that one was all over campus, and that was crazy, so maybe that’s why I didn’t do it. Kevin Yutani is a biology junior. Daily Texan: Did you vote in the primary elections Tuesday? Kevin Yutani: Yes, I did. DT: Why did you vote? KY: I saw on Facebook one of the ads for Kurt and, uh ... what was the other name? Do you remember? It was Kurt and ... It was Kurt and then some girls whose last name starts with an ‘r.’ I saw their video and I really liked what it said. A bunch of people were sharing it and saying why they liked their message and what they were trying to do for the campus. I agreed. It’s not something I’d seen on campus before. They have completely different ideas that I would like to see implemented. So that’s why I voted. DT: What position were they running for?
KY: For president and vice president. DT: Primary elections are not the Student Government elections. KY: Oh ... so like the real ones. I’m confused. I’m sorry. DT: So you didn’t know about that? KY: No, I registered to vote a couple weeks ago, but I’ve been busy and I forgot. DT: Do you know what primary elections are? KY: Yes, like the parties. Like representative for governor. DT: So are you planning on voting in the general election in the fall? KY: Yes. I very much want Perry out. And I know he’s not running, and I want to be part of whoever’s next. DT: Do you know who’s running for governor? KY: Wendy Davis and ... I don’t remember the other guy’s name.
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LIBERAL JUDGES SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM JUSTICE SYSTEM
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State Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, speaks at his election party on March 4.
Texas deserves better polling By Noah M. Horwitz Daily Texan Columnist @NmHorwitz
As Election Night unfolded, I sat at a watch party glued to my laptop. The first few results rolled in on Tuesday evening, I could not help but be surprised at what I was seeing. Dan Patrick, the ultra-conservative state senator from Houston, was leading incumbent Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst 2-to-1 in the primary for that post, flouting both what had been assumed as gospel by the political establishment and reported as fact from a recent Texas Tribune/University of Texas poll. That same poll showed LaRouche activist (a cabal of conspiracy theorists) Kesha Rogers holding a plurality lead in the Democratic Primary for the U.S. Senate. While she did — somehow — manage her way into a runoff with the establishment candidate, she did so with close to a 20 point deficit to make up, a normally insurmountable task. The unpredictability of a Texas election is not a new concept, but the extent to which this one caught everyone off guard should serve as a wakeup call for all those who care about politics in this state. Currently, national polling firms neglect Texas elections except — every once in a while — during the immediate lead up to a presidential election. The result is that groups inexperienced in reliable election polling, such as the Tribune, are compelled to pick up the slack and ultimately delegate this important polling to unqualified organizations. Some of the confusion about which way Texans would vote could stem from the lessthan-accurate Tribune/UT poll. The poll was
[T]he... methodology used by the UT pollsters and the Texas Tribune may be one of the most black magic of all the polling methods. —RG Ratcliffe, Former Reporter
conducted via the Internet — instead of telephones — and allowed for opt-in responses rather than the pollsters going to the respondents. These conditions make for a poll that is slightly more reputable than no-frills Internet surveys. “[T]he opt-in Internet survey methodology used by the UT pollsters and the Texas Tribune may be one of the most black magic of all the polling methods,” said RG Ratcliffe, a former Houston Chronicle reporter. “It’s a survey methodology so suspect that news organizations such as The New York Times, The Washington Post and Roll Call magazine have refused to use it.” Indeed, Tuesday night’s results have vindicated what Ratcliffe and many others have said about these polls, which have nearly cornered the market when it comes to tracking the horserace in Texas politics. Accordingly, the question is raised of what attentive followers like me should do so as to not stay in the dark on these events. In 2012, like many others, I meticulously followed every last turn along the Presidential election campaigns. In the closing days of the campaign, there were three or four reputable polls coming out in swing states every week, not only for the presidential election but for reputable senate races. While there were surely upsets, the plethora of polls was able to paint a pretty accurate picture of the political landscape. But without any of these accurate polls going into election days, even the most experienced political professionals have no idea what is coming after 7 p.m. The Houston Chronicle wrote Wednesday that Dan Patrick “defies the odds” by winning a plurality, but I am at a loss to understand exactly what odds they speak of. Without consistent and reputable polling, everyone is in the dark. The solution to this issue is twofold. Either national polling firms could enter the marketplace in Texas, and help to illuminate the mystery and suspense behind Texas politics, or the Texas Tribune could adopt a more trustworthy polling method. At a watch party Tuesday night, I sat next to longtime press veterans from the Corpus Christi Caller-Times and CBS. As we gathered around my laptop to view the first returns coming in, each one of us had the same reaction: shock and surprise. We all came to the conclusion that the Tribune poll was woefully unreliable. In fact, I would say the same for all the prognostications ahead of this year’s primaries. Texas deserves — no, it needs — better. Horwitz is a government junior from Houston.
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Question — how can a United State District Judge, such as Orlando Garcia, break the laws of the State of Texas? Answer — By following the lead of President Obama who has determined to disrupt this country by appointing many such judges. As the result, too many liberal judges have completely ignored our morals and family values, ignored the rights of religious faiths, ignored the laws that were created by the majority of the people, and ignored the limits of our Constitution. It is wrong for judges to authorize the slaughter of millions of unborn children, it is wrong to grant any taxpayer funded sex change operations for transgender prison inmates, and it is wrong to eliminate the Marriage Act which has always been the American way of life. The liberal judges who have done these things have completely lost touch with America and should be removed from our justice system as soon as possible. The American people and Congress have the mechanism and power to reverse these destructive acts. Will we do so or will we allow the continued destruction of our nation, our heritage, and our way of life? — Ken Senkow, submitted via mail, in response to U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia’s ruling on the unconstitutionality of Texas’ same-sex marriage ban
ARGUMENTS AGAINST STUDENT GOVERNMENT LACK SUBSTANCE Notably absent in this article (which has some pretty bold claims) is an interview with either Rady or Strickland about their platform, or any evidence on what makes Bill Powers “evil”. But hey, unsubstantiated cynicism is the only way to get readers at this point. — Online commenter “James” in response to Lucy Griswold’s column, “How UT’s Student Government systematically fails UT students, faculty and staff.”
ENDING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION REQUIRES ZERO TOLERANCE Since the amnesty was granted [i]n 1986 illegal immigration skyrocketed and now we have 4 times as many illegals as there were before we tried to fix the problem. This proves that amnesties just encourage more illegal immigration and that they solve nothing. The record is clear. If you want to end illegal immigration then enforce the law and that means no more amnesties and zero tolerance. It is always hard to punish wrongful behavior, especially when the perpetrator is otherwise law abiding. It is not going to get easier by waiting until the problem gets even worse. People will stop coming illegally if they understand that deportation is going to come both swift and sure. They need to understand we are not playing games. — Online commenter “Hacimo” in response to Noah Horowitz’s column, “Dan Patrick’s former employee shows the danger in stereotyping immigrants”
If you want to end illegal immigration then enforce the law and that means no more amnesties and zero tolerance. REGNERUS CRITICISM LADEN WITH IDEOLOGICAL ASSUMPTIONS “UT sociology professor’s research on sex is unscientific and wrong for UT” rightly raised important questions about the methodology and ideological assumptions underpinning “Sexual Economics,” a video produced by Sociology Professor Mark Regnerus and the Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture, a right-wing research institute. The columnist is right when he asks students to skeptically evaluate Regnerus’ claims. The video places the burden on women to be more responsible in demanding a “higher price” for sexual activity. Although some of his evidence questioning the pill’s objectifying side effects appropriates feminist critiques of the Sexual Revolution, and his talk of “sexual economics” bares resemblance to mainstream discussion of “long and short term mating strategies,” his sexist conclusion deserves refutation. However the headline’s implicit suggestion (explicit in the website summary of the article) that Regnerus does not belong at this university mainly because of his antiquated critique of the sexual revolution and alternative sexual practices itself is laden with ideological assumptions. The article assumes “progress,” not academic debate and rebuttal, as the university’s standard and assumes sexual diversity is above academic critique. While students evaluate Regnerus’ views on sex, we shouldn’t forget that dishonesty, not ideological disconformity, is the standard for revaluating a professor’s support amongst his peers. His misuse of his “fundamentally flawed” gay-parenting study in court to stop gay marriage (the study stated explicitly that it could not answer political questions over the “legal legitimacy” of gay marriages) seemed to be the main catalysts for the College of Liberal Arts and Department of Sociology’s distancing. — Travis Knoll, Latin American studies masters student and former Daily Texan columnist, in response to David Davis’ column, “UT sociology professor’s research on sex is unscientific and wrong for UT”
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People really are what they eat, according to epigenetics professor Randy Jirtle of the University of Bedfordshire, Bedford, U.K. At the 2014 Jean Andrews Lecture Series on Thursday, Jirtle discussed how nutrition affects a person’s epigenome, an organism’s record of heritable changes in gene function that do not affect the sequence of the DNA. Jirtle said epigenetics help explain why identical twins may vary in their susceptibility to diseases. “One reason this can occur is because even though they have the same genome, they most likely do not have the same epigenomes,” Jirtle said. According to Jirtle, a deficiency in nutrients during a woman’s first trimester of pregnancy can severely increase her child’s risk of developing schizophrenia or other chronic diseases such as diabetes or obesity. Jirtle said disease research shows the children of mothers who were pregnant during the Dutch famine from 1944-1945 were two to three times more likely to develop schizophrenia. “We have now shown that exposure to environmental
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Students pursuing health professions will now be able to more easily access UTrelated events, lectureships and opportunities related to health care professions because of a website developed by several professors. A task force of professors from five colleges at UT — nursing, social work, pharmacy, medicine and natural sciences — launched the website last month, after working on it for two years. Nursing professor Gayle Timmerman, a member of the development team, said the website’s purpose is to create an easy and central resource for students and educators to be aware of educational opportunities at the University. “The hope is to have a convenient way to connect different health professions’ students and faculty to a variety of interprofessional opportunities,” Timmerman said. “The ultimate goal is improving interprofessional collaborative practice, which is the future of health care.” Timmerman said the University has faced issues in coordinating opportunities for students in the past.
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Dr. Randy Jirtle gives a talk on epigenetics and gene imprinting at the Thompson Conference Center on Thursday evening.
agents during pregnancy can alter adult disease susceptibility by modifying the epigenome,” Jirtle said. While schizophrenia may be caused by the lack of food during a mother’s pregnancy, it is possible that nutrition excess may cause a child to be more susceptible to developing autism, Jirtle said. According to a graph Jirtle presented during the lecture, epigenetic research has been doubling every four years since the 1990s. Jirtle said this is because many types of
sciences, such as epidemiology, fit underneath the umbrella of epigenetics. “The field of science is doubling every 10 years, so the field of epigenetics is growing three times faster, basically, than the field of science in general,” Jirtle said. “It enlightened scientists to say that epigenetics is now the hottest thing in bioscience.” Alejandra De Angulo Soriano, a nutritional sciences graduate student who helped coordinate the event, said she wanted Jirtle to give a lecture
for the University because she believes epigenetics is an important field for nutrition. “He is like the godfather of epigenetics,” De Angulo Soriano said. Nutritional sciences graduate student Diana Gutierrez Lopez said she thinks Jirtle’s research on neurological diseases is inspiring to graduate students. “Learning more about the human epigenome will make a great difference in the diagnosis of disease,” Gutierrez Lopez said.
effective ways to increase student involvement. Brown, who is currently a representative for the College of Liberal Arts, said he was glad it was a close race and plans to do what he can to stay active in SG. “Everything happens for a reason,” Brown said. “I can’t complain. I’d rather it be interesting than boring.” Sara LeStrange, communications manager for the Office of the Dean of Students,
said the department worked to make sure there were no problems with the voting website for the runoff election. During last week’s elections, the website crashed 15 minutes before polls closed, resulting in voting being extended for an hour and 45 minutes. “Technical difficulties happen,” LeStrange said. “There was a glitch. It was repaired and it was really an unfortunate issue of timing.”
“One of the main barriers to [interprofessional] education we’ve noticed is the difficulty in coordinating activities and ways to gain experience across campus,” Timmerman said. In a 2013 report, the Institute of Medicine described the health professions landscape as moving toward more demographic diversity and technological advancements. The report recommends that health care educators create new models of teaching that encompass related fields. Another team member, social work associate professor Barbara Jones, said the University has been working in recent years to increase interpersonal education initiatives to prepare students for their future careers. “The future of health care depends upon strong interprofessional teams that are connected to the patient and the community,” Jones said. Biology junior Josh Shandera, who is on the pre-med track, said he recognizes a disconnect between the different health resources at UT. “I feel like the community is really splintered and having a central location for finding information would benefit the community and the students,” Shandera said.
RUNOFF continues from page 1 program — UGS,” Draper said. Draper said he hopes to create a program that would make it easier for students to enroll in their first choice college after they’ve enrolled at the University. “If I had one goal next year, it would be to really make those programs more accessible to students who are at UT,” Draper said. Draper, a member of the Kappa Sigma fraternity and Cru, a ministry for
college students, said he also hopes to bring the student body together outside of student organizations. “Because of the size of the University, it forces people into groups to find some sort of acceptance and unity,” Draper said. Draper cited Student Government’s push for a campus-wide homecoming and tailgating in a specific location before athletic events as
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Chesapeake Energy Arena, home of the Oklahoma City Thunder (46-15), is already a bastion of Longhorn dominance. Former Longhorn and OKC small forward Kevin Durant finished with 42 points, nine rebounds, three assists and two steals at the arena Tuesday night. This weekend, head coach Karen Aston and her team look to channel the Longhorn dominance at Chesapeake in the Phillips 66 Big 12 Women’s Basketball Championship. With its first No. 3 seed since the 20042005 season, Texas (20-10, 11-7 Big 12) faces No. 6 Oklahoma Saturday night at 8:30 p.m. “The fact that we’re now finishing third in the league, that’s significant,” Aston said after Texas trumped No. 18 Oklahoma State 65-58 Monday. “We locked up third place — sole possession of third. It was one our goals.” Upper-tier Big 12 positioning wasn’t the only goal the Longhorns hoped to check off their list. They grabbed their first 20-win season in four years, which Aston said is the “symbol of being a good basketball team.” Senior guard Chassidy Fussell, who finished
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Senior Chassidy Fussell has made the most of her last season as a Longhorn, averaging 10 points per game, which is the third highest total on the team. Fussell also recently earned All-Big 12 Honorable Mention honors.
Monday with 15 points and four rebounds in her final game at the Frank Erwin Center, echoed Aston’s sentiments. “It’s just a really great feeling to get Texas back to where it’s supposed to be — a 20-win season, get back to the NCAA tournament and
be on top,” Fussell said. But the season isn’t over yet. And the Longhorn success that has positioned them well for the post-season will only mean so much if the Longhorns fall this weekend in Oklahoma City. The Red River Rivalry has run deep this year in women’s
basketball, featuring a Texas 79-74 overtime win in Austin followed by a one-point loss (64-63) in Norman, Okla. Oklahoma’s No. 6 seed is almost deceiving, given the two teams appear neck and neck.
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Texas hosts Hawaii, looks to extend win streak By Matt Warden @TheMattWarden5
Strong pitching has been the catalyst for the No. 10 Longhorns, whose offense has started to find its groove during a five-game win streak. Texas (10-3) secured its fifth win in a row Tuesday against Valparaiso behind seven pitchers who allowed just one run on four hits in the 7-1 victory. Freshman pitcher Blake Goins picked up his first collegiate win after throwing three scoreless innings. “Well, Goins looks like he could step into the arena pretty quickly,” said head coach Augie Garrido after the performance. “What I like about it is [the pitchers’]
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overall confidence in themselves and what they contribute to the pitching staff.” The Longhorns’ pitching staff has surrendered just four runs during the winning streak, compiling a 0.77 combined ERA in 47 innings. Texas’ seven runs in the win against Valparaiso gave it 17 in the last five games, but the statistic that jumps out of
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Senior center fielder Mark Payton has carried the Longhorns’ offense this season, and leads the Big 12 with 22 hits, .458 batting average, and a .559 on-base percentage.
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Sophomore center Cameron Ridley has greatly improved his all-around game for the Longhorns this season, posting averages of 11.5 points and 8.2 rebounds per game.
UT to confront road woes at Tech By Garett Callahan @CallahanGarett
Almost five months ago, Texas entered its season selected to finish eighth in the Big 12. Now, with one week to go in the regular season, the Longhorns have a chance to finish tied for second in the conference. Texas (22-8, 11-6 Big 12) travels to Lubbock on Saturday to face Texas Tech (13-17, 5-12 Big 12). If the
Longhorns are able to grab a win in their last regular season game, they will finish six spots ahead of their predicted finish in the league. Texas has had little trouble at home this season. However, it has struggled to produce many wins on the road. The Longhorns, who are 5-5 in away games, have lost their last four games hosted by opponents, including a 12-point loss to Oklahoma and a 31-point loss
to Kansas. “We have faced some adversity, and that’s one thing that we just talked about in the locker room looking forward to Tech,” sophomore forward Connor Lammert said. “We know it’s going to be a great crowd there; we just have to handle adversity better and not make stupid turnovers. If we make stupid turnovers we’re taking
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Texas had a great chance to pull off a big win back on Feb. 21 over then No. 3 Washington. Down 3-2 in the bottom of the seventh, the Longhorns had runners at the corners, but failed to bring the tying run across, leaving a bad taste in their mouths. Saturday night, the Longhorns will get their chance at revenge, taking on the Huskies at the end of a three-game stretch against ranked opponents in the Judi Garman Classic.
That game lit a fire under us. We’ve worked a lot on situations with runners in scoring position —Lindsey Stephens, Sophomore
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“It was pretty tough,” sophomore right fielder Lindsey Stephens said. “The job should have been done.” Before getting another shot at Washington, Texas will have to face No. 10 Arizona State on Friday and No. 5 Michigan on Saturday morning. Arizona State comes into the tournament in a bit of a slump, losing two of its last five games. The Sun Devils are led offensively by Cheyenne Coyle who leads the team with six home runs and 22 RBIs. Michigan comes in 14-3 after splitting a double header with UCLA this week. Junior pitcher Haylie Wagner has dominated the circle for the Wolverines, posting a .71 ERA and
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Texas running backs on Hall of Fame ballot
Heisman Trophy winning running backs Rashaan Salaam of Colorado and Ricky Williams of Texas are among the stars making their first appearance on the College Football Hall of Fame ballot this year. Some of the other notable first-timers on the ballot released Thursday are Iowa State running back Troy Davis, a two-time Heisman finalist, Miami linebacker Ray Lewis, Southern California receiver Keyshawn Johnson and Kentucky quarterback Tim Couch. Alabama linebacker Derrick Thomas and Nebraska Heisman winner Eric Crouch are among the holdovers on the 75-player major college ballot. There are also six coaches up for selection, including Mike Bellotti of Oregon. More than 12,000 National Football Foundation members receive ballots. Their votes are tabulated and then given to the NFF’s 17-member honors court, which selects a class of about 14 players and two coaches. Salaam won the Heisman in 1994, leading the nation in rushing and scoring. Williams was the 1998 Heisman winner and finished his career as the leading career rusher in major college football. The 2014 Hall of Fame class will be announced in May and inducted in December at the National Football Foundation’s awards banquet in New York. The new class will be enshrined at the new College Football Hall of Fame in Atlanta in 2015. The new Hall of Fame is expected to open in time for the 2014 college football season. —Associated Press
Sic ’Em Jerseys for Baylor in postseason
Baylor will have more brightly colored jerseys for postseason play this March, with a twist on the lettering. The Adidas-designed postseason uniforms unveiled Thursday will have the front-side number surrounded by “Sic ’Em Bears” — the school’s rally yell. “Sic ’Em” will be across the chest where Baylor would usually be, and Bears will be along the bottom of the short-sleeve jersey. For postseason games as the “home” team, the Bears will wear bright gold jerseys, with lettering and numbers in green. When they are the “visiting” team, the jerseys and shorts will be Baylor green with the letters and trimming in gold. —Associated Press
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MEN’S GOLF / JAMES GRANDBERRY No. 17 Texas heads to Las Vegas this weekend to compete in the Southern Highlands Collegiate Masters tournament. Starting at 10 a.m. Friday, the Longhorns will be in Las Vegas, facing off against 11 of the top 20 ranked teams, including the top three teams: Alabama, Georgia Tech and Oklahoma State. Two other Texas teams, No. 6 Texas A&M and No. 50
Texas Tech, will also be contending in Las Vegas. Texas is coming off of a season-best finish at the Bayou City Intercollegiate Championship on Feb. 21-23, where four Longhorns broke into the top 10 to grasp a second place finish for the team. Texas looks to improve on last year’s 12th place outing, led by junior Kramer Hickok, who fired a 69 in the final.
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Despite a record of just 3-5 this season, freshman pitcher Tiarra Davis has performed well for the Longhorns, posting a 2.63 ERA with a team-leading 48 strikeouts.
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continues from page 6 striking out 40 batters. Texas will get a chance to get back at Washington in the night cap Saturday night. After leaving those runners on base to end the game,
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continues from page 6 Junior forward Nneka Enemkpali led Texas in the Feb. 19 Norman matchup, shooting a perfect 7-for-7 from the floor while finishing with 17 points and four rebounds, so the onepoint deficit at the buzzer hit her hard. “It’s really frustrating,” Enemkpali said. “We knew they had a great leader and we knew in order to win this
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continues from page 6 ourselves out of the game, just like we did in Oklahoma.” Sophomore center Cameron Ridley leads his team into Lubbock with three-straight double-double performances. Jonathan Holmes, who sat out Wednesday’s game against TCU due to injury, is expected to play on Saturday, but Ridley and Lammert will
Stephens said Texas is a different team this time around. “That game lit a fire under us,” Stephens said. “We’ve worked a lot on situations with runners in scoring position.” Despite the tough opposition, head coach
Connie Clark said the team will focus more on what it can do to get better, rather than focusing on its opponents. “We’re really going to try to keep it simple and focus on the little things,” Clark said.
game we had to be strong defensively. In the first half, we missed a lot of box outs and gave up offensive rebounds that kept them in the game.” Each team’s coach recognized that the game could’ve gone either way. Aston noted the Sooners’ resilience, saying Texas was “out of sync and didn’t give the kind of effort necessary to win on the road.” Oklahoma head coach Sherri Coale said the win left her speechless,
but she was focused on the next steps. “It can be [a win to propel them],” Coale said. “It’s what we do with it next. Do you turn it into fire or do you let it sift away?” The Sooners did a little bit of both as they finished their season with two more home wins but dropped the last two road contests. Saturday night, Texas must do its best to make the Sooners’ spark sift away.
have to fill his role if the forward isn’t able to play. Texas looks to keep up its confidence and effort as it nears post-season play. But before it gets ahead of itself, the team is maintaining all focus on a strong regular season finish. “I’m just focused on the Big 12 tournament right now and, besides the Big 12 Tournament, our game in Lubbock this Saturday,” freshman guard
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Isaiah Taylor said. “We’re trying to take it one game at a time and we’re not looking past anybody.”
Being at home is overrated. In the sports world, being at home is supposed to somehow give the host an advantage. That has not been the case for No. 24 Texas, which enters its last two matches of a 10-match home stand with a 4-4 home record. The Longhorns finally broke their six-match losing streak last Friday, but quickly found defeat in a contested meeting against No. 6 USC on Sunday.
This weekend they face No. 17 Michigan and No. 50 Yale. The Wolverines are on a four-match win streak that includes dominating wins over then No. 31 Notre Dame and No. 13 Miami. The following weekend, the Longhorns will start conference play on the road against TCU and Texas Tech. Maybe the road will treat them better. Texas begins play Saturday, March 8 at noon against
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when we are going to do that, I don’t know.” The Longhorns will host the four-game series against a Hawaii team that is 6-6 on the season, coming off of a fourgame series split with Pepperdine. Hawaii’s offense is hitting just .252 as a whole this season, but averages slightly more than five runs per game, which should test the effectiveness of the Texas pitching staff. Senior outfielder Mark Payton has shouldered most of the load for the Texas offense this season as he enters the weekend series with a team-leading .458 average and nine RBIs. Freshman batters like Kacy Clemens and Ben Johnson have come on lately to lend Payton a helping hand, instilling the right mindset into the team. “I think he is playing defense at an extremely high level, and offensively he is playing OK,” Garrido said. “He
continues from page 6 the box scores is the team’s 33 combined hits in the last five games. Hitters are getting on base, forming a confidence that should keep the Longhorns moving forward. Garrido still feels that for the team to truly rise to its potential, it must start making sacrifices to master all of the little things. “I still think the scope of our game is very small,” Garrido said. “What I mean by that, is you don’t see us stealing a lot of bases; you don’t see us running any crash bunt defenses. You don’t see us doing many hit-and-runs or things like that because we are playing the game we know how to play at this moment in time because that is what we know how to do. We need to expand the scope of our game, and
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We need to expand the scope of our game, and when we are going to do that, I don’t know —Augie Garrido Head coach
has one RBI, and it was an RBI that won a game. We have used the model of the Red Sox; we have used the model of UCLA. Don’t worry about the batting average — just make your contribution. Keep battling, keep battling, don’t worry about your batting average.” With confidence soaring and the right mindset finding its way to the surface, the Longhorns will look for their sixth-straight win Friday in Game 1 against Hawaii.
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continues from page 10 professional. As soon as the two of them started reading, I remember turning around to my casting director and saying, ‘OK, this is it.’” Candler balances filmmaking with teaching an advanced narrative production course for radio-television-film students at UT. She got her own crash course in filmmaking at Florida State University, where she studied creative writing. “I worked in a movie theater from age 15 all through college,” Candler said. “It didn’t pay a lot of money, but I’ve gotten used to that in my entire life. But I got to watch movies constantly … So I’ve always been a huge movie fan, but I didn’t know how they were made.” In college, Candler was invited to work on a set for the first time by some film students she knew. “I just watched the whole process of the [director of photography] setting up lights and the director working with the actors. I realized it wasn’t rocket science to make a movie.” Since then, Candler has been working steadily, directing four short films in addition to her feature adaptation of “Hellion” in the six years she’s taught at UT. Her students appreciate having a teacher with hands-on experience in filmmaking. “The biggest benefit of having Kat as a teacher is getting a sense of working with someone who’s from the industry,” said radio-television-film senior Dew Napattaloong. “She’s bringing in all these people who she’s met
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through Sundance, and they provide us with experience and knowledge. When I do stuff in her class, I feel like I have to meet a standard, and that credibility goes into everything we do.” The work ethic that Candler’s students exhibit is an inspiration to her. “I had this story [of ‘Hellion’] for years, and finally wrote it down back in 2009,” Candler said. “So I was teaching at UT, and I see my kids shooting movies all the time, and I’m like, ‘Why am I not shooting movies all the time too?’ So I handed it to Kelly Williams, my producer, and was like ‘Let’s just fucking make something this summer.’ And that’s how it all started, without any expectations or anything. We just wanted to make a movie.” For aspiring filmmakers who aren’t in her class, Candler has three lessons. “Be nice, be professional and work your ass off,” Candler said. “It’s pretty simple, but it’s true. I tell my students, ‘Your job interview started when you started college, because all of us work in the industry. We all know everyone, and it’s a small community. Austin, New York, LA, everybody knows everybody. You want to be the person that we want to work with, and that is a good human being, a professional.” There’s an energy to Candler when she speaks, which is reflected in the energetic metal songs on “Hellion”’s soundtrack. “I kept telling them to turn the whole thing up,” Candler said. “From the very first scene, I just want to punch people in the face.”
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continues from page 10 out of Tenn. His sister-inlaw, a photographer familiar with local Nashville artists, helped him get plugged into the local music scene. He later joined the Ten out of Tenn troupe and was invited to perform with the group on its national tours. “They really helped me launch my Nashville touring presence,” said Belle, who eventually moved back to Chicago in 2011. “All of a sudden, I went from no tour experience to performing on stage in front of hundreds of people, and playing in cities I’d never even been to before.” With two albums behind him, The Ladder (2010) and Black Bear (2013), Belle is currently working on a stripped-down version of Black Bear. “It’s going to have a similar feel,” Belle said. “But it’s going to be less ambitious. We will be reinterpreting the songs so that people who were fans of The Ladder and who
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continues from page 10 and “Talking the Talk: Sports Lingo in Pop Culture” will be available to attendees. “We’re really happy with the broad range of topics we’ve covered,” McNeill said. “We’ve done a good job covering bases.” For attendees who are not big fans of sports, Feferman and McNeill said the program is still enticing. “There is a lot of influence
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of sports on culture that people don’t realize,” Feferman said. “Sports can affect people universally and be unifying.” SXsports booked a number of panels that focus on the implications, issues and future of sports. Prevalent issues will be addressed in sessions like “Heads Up:
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inspiration for me. My family and relationships are the most meaningful to me. Those are things that constantly appear in my music.” Belle said he always approaches songwriting from an emotional standpoint. “That’s kind of what attracts me to music in the first place,” Belle said. “I just love having an autobiographical approach to writing lyrics. I’m a typical guy who is not super dramatic, but when I write, I feel a little more dramatic and emotional than I normally am.” Belle’s songs have been featured in the television dramas, “One Tree Hill,” “Castle” and “Grey’s Anatomy.” “I didn’t really know how to handle that success,” Belle said. “I had decided to keep living the way I was living, but then I realized with success comes responsibility. I’ve learned that I need to find my identity, which can be possible only through my faith in God. I’m learning to not put my identity into what I do for a living, because the minute it starts to go away, you don’t have a self anymore. You don’t know who you are anymore.”
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singer-songwriter, Greg Laswell, who was a big influence on me and my writing at that time. I would go into work and I would be playing in bars for a couple of hours. I would use that time to work on new material and song ideas. I would strum these ideas, piece together the lyrics and would just play around.” Belle’s interest in music developed in school when he first heard the band Counting Crows, but it wasn’t until college that he decided to do more songwriting and singing. “One of my first stage performances was an open mic in college,” Belle said. “I didn’t perform very well because I got very nervous. I do wrestle with a mild case of nerves now and then since I’m not really a natural performer. I love songwriting, and performance is just a consequence of that.” Most of Belle’s inspiration to write is borrowed from his personal relationships. “Romantic relationships have been an inspiration,” Belle said. “I got married last year, and my marriage holds endless amounts of
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weren’t fans of the Black Bear record will be able to listen to music that’s somewhere between the two albums.” Belle said the Black Bear album title is derived from a personal experience he went through a couple of years ago. “I had a very real, impactful experience with God and in my relationship with God,” Belle said. “I didn’t want to be confronted by the way I was living my life, and I felt like God was sort of pursuing me, much like an animal pursues its prey. So when I was writing lyrics for the song ‘Black Bear,’ the name just came to me.” After discovering artists such as Radiohead and Washed Out between 2008 and 2012, Belle began dabbling in electronic musical instruments and found that alternative and electronic music presented him with more opportunities to experiment. During this time, he also continued to play in Chicago bars and restaurants, trying to make a living playing cover songs. “I had a lot of new inspirations to draw from,” Belle said. “I discovered a
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HANNAH SMOTHERS, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR / @DailyTexanArts Friday, March 7, 2014
SXsports brings fresh ideas to playing field By Brigit Benestante @BBenestante
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Kat Candler, UT professor and videographer, has taught film production since 2008. So far, three of Candler’s films have been shown at the Sundance Festival, and she will be showing her new film, “Hellion,” during SXSW this year.
New movie raises a little hell By Alex Williams @alexwilliamsdt
The raging guitar of a heavy metal song blasts as fire crackles in a burning pickup truck. A gaggle of teens smash the windows, gleefully basking in the warming glow of their destruction. As the truck’s owner runs toward his car, screaming profanities, the hell-raisers sprint off, giggling until they see the flashing lights of police cars speed into view. This is the energetic opening of UT professor Kat
Candler’s feature film, “Hellion,” which is playing at this year’s South By Southwest Film Festival. One might expect such a vivid snapshot of teen rebellion to come from a younger, angrier voice than Candler — whose appearance and demeanor couldn’t be friendlier — but the inspiration for “Hellion” came from an authentic place: Candler’s own family history. “All three of my uncles were hell-raisers when they were kids,” Candler said. “My Uncle Frank tells a story of how him and his
two brothers set fire to my grandfather’s Jeep when they were very little … That idea of this father and these unruly boys — I loved that dynamic and that father’s struggle with these kids.” Her uncles’ childhood antics formed the basis for “Hellion,” a 2012 short film that was expanded into a feature and premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. The film stars newcomer Josh Wiggins as Jacob, a teen struggling to get over his mother’s death. Candler discovered Wiggins on YouTube after
South By Southwest programmers are attempting to score by introducing a new twist to the SXSW 2014 lineup. Holders of interactive, film, gold or platinum badges will be able to partake in a new event — SXsports. Running March 7-9, SXsports will converge between the Interactive and Film festivals by holding panels on sports-related issues and topics as well as screening sports-related films. Rebecca Feferman, head of media relations for film and a programmer for SXSW, spearheaded SXsports. According to Feferman, SXSW has had sportsrelated programming for a number of years. “Following last year we identified that [sports] was a natural growth spot,” Feferman said. “We essentially found the opportunity to expand it,
repackage it and rebrand it.” Andrew McNeill was also a part of the small team that made SXsports possible. He said the idea came about from both his and Feferman’s personal interest in sports and the indication that sports was a popular topic in past festivals. “We came together with this idea,” McNeill said. “[Feferman] then ran with it and gave this thing its shape.” When the program was announced, according to Feferman, major companies and sports brands got on board to sponsor. SXsports, held over three days, will feature sports personalities, doctors and athletes. Some of the most wellknown attendees include wrestler John Cena, film producer Peter Guber and sports writer Bill Simmons. Sessions such as “Drones in Sports: The Sky’s the Limit”
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a fellow producer recommended his videos. All that was left was to make sure he had good onscreen chemistry with costar Aaron Paul. “I sent Aaron this one callback that Josh did, the pizza scene, he just breaks your heart,” Candler said. “So it came down to Josh and this kid from LA who was great in his own right. Josh walked into the room with Aaron, in his shorts and T-shirt, just totally cool and collected and
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Singer-songwriter Andrew Belle will play at SXSW this year as a part of Nashville-based group Ten out of Tenn.
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Andrew Belle returns to Austin GRADUATE PROGRAMS Now accepting applications for summer summeerenrollment enrollment By Kritika Kulshrestha @kritika88
Chicago-based singer-songwriter Andrew Belle returns to South By Southwest this year as part of his tour with Ten out of Tenn, a group of 10
singer-songwriters from Nashville, Tenn. Belle will perform on two separate days, beginning Mar. 14 at The Listening Room at Winflo and Rowdy’s Saloon. Belle said he hopes his presence at SXSW will allow him to reconnect with
old friends, listen to some good music and have a great time. Ever since his move to Nashville, Tenn., in 2009, Belle had secretly always wanted to be a part of Ten
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