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CITY
Ridley raises Longhorns at buzzer
City Council votes to limit occupancy in residences
By Stefan Scrafield @StefanScrafield
Just when it looked like a Jonathan Holmes air ball had Texas and Arizona State bound for overtime, sophomore center Cameron Ridley picked up the loose ball, looked toward the rim and put up a prayer. The ball came off his left hand, sailed over the fingertips of Arizona State’s senior center Jordan Bachynski, kissed off the backboard, bounced around the rim and dropped through the basket,
giving the Longhorns the 8785 victory at the buzzer. For the first time in more than three years, Texas won an NCAA Tournament game, squeaking past the Sun Devils in Milwaukee, Wis. The March Madness victory was the Longhorns’ first since they beat Oakland University on March 18, 2011. After struggling to score throughout the Big 12 tournament, the Longhorns couldn’t miss early on against Arizona State. Texas converted each of its first six
field goal attempts, scoring 13 points in less than three minutes to open the contest. The Longhorns managed to hold on to a lead for most of the game, but the Sun Devils closed the gap late in the second half. The two teams traded leads down the stretch before Ridley’s lay-in sealed the victory for Texas. Ridley’s last second bucket will be what gets remembered, but no individual performance stuck out for Rick
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By Alyssa Mahoney @TheAlyssaM
Morry Gash / Associated Press Cameron Ridley saved Texas’ season on Thursday night, netting the game-winner after the team blew a big lead against ASU.
CAMPUS
Longhorns ballroom dance for charity By Eleanor Dearman @ellydearman
Ballroom dancing can take a lifetime to master, but three UT students have learned it in only a few months. These students will be judged tonight on their newly acquired skills at the secondever “Dancing with the Stars: UT,” an event hosted by Texas Ballroom and Texas 4000. The competition is structured like a scaled-down version of the television show where a celebrity performs with a professional dancer and is then judged by a panel. Each participant must learn a social dance, such as the two-step or swing, and a ballroom dance, such as the foxtrot or cha-cha. All the event’s proceeds will go to Texas 4000 to fund the members’ ride to Alaska for cancer research. In addition to the dance competition, the event will have social dancing and performances by various
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Caleb b. Kuntz / Daily Texan Staff
Senior biological sciences lecturer Dee Silverthorn practices with student Jon Cozart for UT’s own rendition of “Dancing with the Stars.” All event proceeds will go to support Texas 4000’s ride to Alaska.
Austin City Council gave final approval to a city code amendment reducing the number of unrelated adults who can live together in a single-family dwelling from six to four, in a 6-1 vote on Thursday. Without additional public comment, the council heard both the second and third readings required to pass the amendment, which will go into effect for two years, beginning in 10 days, according to the AustinAmerican Statesman. The ordinance will affect greater central Austin in the areas from U.S. 183 to William Cannon Drive. The city code amendment contains a grandfather provision, so those who currently reside in a single-family house will not be affected by the amendment. Councilman Bill Spelman, who is also a professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, said that although the code change is intended to disincentivize developers from building high-occupancy dwellings, the code change will affect students more than developers. “[What] concerns me the most is that any restrictions we put on people being able to live together in singlefamily houses is going to put the biggest restrictions on students, not the people who are building the stealth dorms,” Spelman said.
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SYSTEM
NATIONAL
Task force to revamp course evaluation forms
According to report, majority of young conservatives back same-sex marriage
By Madlin Mekelburg @madlinbmek
Faculty Council is continuing discussion on a mandate from a UT System task force to add five questions to course evaluation forms and may approve the changes at its next meeting in April. The System Office of Academic Affairs established the Task Force on the Evaluation
of Faculty Teaching in the spring of 2012 to assess the student and peer faculty evaluation process. The task force developed a list of five questions all institutions within the System must add to their evaluation forms. Pedro Reyes, education professor and executive vice chancellor for academic
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SYSTEM MANDATED ADDITIONS TO THE COURSE EVALUATION FORM 1. The instructor clearly defined and explained the course objectives and expectations. 2. The instructor was prepared for each instructional activity. 3. The instructor communicated information effectively. 4. The instructor encouraged me to take an active role in my own learning. 5. The instructor was available to students either electronically or in person.
By Justin Atkinson @jusatk
In poll data released last week, the Pew Research Center reported 61 percent of Republicans and those who lean toward the Republican Party aged 18 to 29 favor the legal marriage of same-sex couples, as opposed to the 27 percent aged 50 and older. College Republicans, a conservative student group on campus, adheres to the official ideology of the GOP, according to Zach Berberich, accounting junior and communications director for the organization. Berberich said students coming into UT tend to have a high respect for individual liberty. “College students tend to come in with really libertarian viewpoints,” Berberich
said. “A lot of students think it’s not the government’s job to intervene at all in marriage. A lot of us tend to say ‘it’s not our business. As long as it’s not hurting us, then let it be.’” Steph Salazar, social work sophomore and co-community relations chair of Queer People of Color and Allies, said she hasn’t seen a major shift in conservative opinion. “I’ve noticed a change in my lifetime, but I don’t see the conservative community as a total ally to the LGBTQ community,” Salazar said. “While certain conservative folks are doing a great job as queer advocates individually, overarching legislation about the well-being of queer bodies in this country says otherwise.” Cody Jo Bankhead,
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A lot of students think it’s not the government’s job to intervene at all in marriage. A lot of us tend to say ,‘it’s not our business. As long as it’s not hurting us, then let it be. —Zach Berberich, Accounting junior and communications director for College Republicans