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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.

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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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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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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

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continues from page 1 affairs, serves on the task force. Reyes said the members of the task force wanted to develop consistent questions for all institutions to use in their evaluations. “Teaching is really important to the whole System,” Reyes said. “When we accessed that data [from evaluation forms], there was a lot of diversity throughout the campuses … What we decided to do is ask some really great faculty members from across the System, and students as well, to come together and develop a way we could systematically approach this and gain more meaningful information about how students regard their teachers.” UT System spokeswoman Jenny LaCoste-Caputo said while these questions are mandated, institutions are allowed and encouraged to include other questions. In order to accommodate the new questions, Faculty Council’s Educational Policy Committee looked at the existing evaluation forms for questions that could be deleted. Mary

Rose, associate sociology professor and chair of the committee, presented a report to Faculty Council at its meeting Monday and will present a revised report based on feedback from the assembly at its next meeting. Rose said some of the System’s new questions were similar to existing questions in UT’s evaluation form, which the committee has proposed to remove. “I think one of their questions was worded exactly the same as one we had and others were different in wording, but you could argue they were similar in spirit to other questions we had,” Rose said. According to Rose, the content of the form is not altered frequently, despite requests from the UT community.

What we decided to do is ask some really great faculty members from across the System, and students as well, to come together and develop a way we could systematically approach this and gain more meaningful information about how students regard their teachers. —Pedro Reyes, Executive vice chancellor for academic affairs and education professor

“We got [requests] early [last] year, and we took it very seriously and spent a meeting discussing it and also just tried to figure it out,” Rose said. “When we priced that out, it was insanely expensive to do it, so having the System provide us with these mandating changes kind of gave us a nice opportunity to reevaluate the entire form.” Although the mandated

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broadcast journalism senior and communications director for the UT chapter of Young Conservatives of Texas, said the organization doesn’t have an official stance on the issue of same-sex marriage. The increase in social liberalism within young Republican groups also extends to same-sex adoption. The poll reports that 18 percent of conservatives under 30 and 59 percent for conservatives aged 50 and up consider same-sex couples raising children as “bad for society.” Michelle Willoughby, government junior and communications director for University Democrats, said she can see the legalization of same-sex marriage nationwide from her interactions with political groups at UT. “In past debates with College Republicans, we’ve definitely seen them take a more favorable stance towards the LGBT community than their party does as a whole,” Willoughby said. “I think that the fact that young people on both sides of the aisle are finding some common ground of this issue shows that legalizing gay marriage is going to happen sooner or later.”

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Turmoil in Ukraine results in uncertainty for study abroad

By Alex Wilts @alexwilts

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A worker power-washes the exterior of the Harry Ransom Center on Thursday afternoon. Along with the revamping of the exterior, the HRC center plans to renovate its interior.

First renovations for Harry Ransom Center since 2003 By Leila Ruiz @leilakristi

The Harry Ransom Center is currently undergoing exterior renovations, the first outdoor maintenance on the archive and museum building since it was built in the early 1970s. The $400,000 project, which is entirely funded by the UT System’s Library Equipment Repair and Rehabilitation Fund, will clean the building exterior and replace or repair damaged seals, mortar joints and window gaskets. Although the age of the building and time since renovations do not add complications to the project by University standards, the recent cold weather has made the work more difficult, especially when re-pointing joint panels, according to project director Sang Lee. “Compared to other buildings in UT main campus, [the] about 40-year-old HRC

building is a kind of a young building,” Lee said. “Joint material is mortar, and to install mortar, temperature has to be above certain temperature … All those cold days prevented contractors from working, so the schedule is pushed back.” Lee said although the building might look brighter because of power-washing, there will be no other visible changes to the exterior appearance of the building. Jennifer Tisdale, director of public affairs for the center, said staff members monitor the building to assess when renovations are necessary. The center’s first two floors and basement were renovated in 2003, and a roof replacement, sprinkler installation and creation of a cold storage and low humidity vault for acetate film have all been completed in the past decade, Tisdale said. “As with all buildings, maintenance is an ongoing process,” Tisdale said.

“Collection acquisitions have also been supported by [Library Equipment Repair and Rehabilitation Fund] funding, including the acquisition of J.M. Coetzee’s archive and Julia Alvarez’s archive.” Tisdale said upcoming renovations include an upgrade to the Center’s Prothro Theater, as well as the replacement of the building’s heating and cooling system, which will be funded by the University. “The staff is trying to preserve the items by keeping the building to a certain humidity point and temperature so that the items will not be damaged,” said Jim Janknegt, the center’s building manager. The renovations will serve to better insulate the center’s collections, which are valued at about $1.4 billion. The Ransom Center’s tools, such as a clean steam humidifier and the cold storage and low humidity vault, further allow more specific temperatures for preserving artifacts.

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Health center names new director By Hayden Clark @HaydenS_Clark

The new Center for Health Communication at the Moody College of Communication recently named its founding director, Jay Bernhardt, a former marketing director for the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Bernhardt said he is enthusiastic about how the position will allow him to work closely with the new Dell Medical School. “It’s a really exciting time at UT now with the new college of medicine coming online as well as the new Center for Health Communication,” Bernhardt said. “There’s a lot of increase, advancement and emphasis on health at UT. I fully expect for there to be very close collaboration between the new Center for Health Communication and the new [medical school].” Bernhardt said the expanding field of health communication comes down to

how information about medicine and health is shared at a personal and national level. “Health communications is an area of practice and research that’s been around for several decades, but it’s really been growing rapidly in recent years,” Bernhardt said. “In essence, it involves everything from how doctors communicate with patients, to people looking up health information on the Internet, to developing national campaigns to help kids not smoke.” Moody College Dean Roderick Hart said health communication is becoming an important factor in medicine, which may intrigue students. “You can’t really talk about health and medicine anymore without featuring communication,” Hart said. “The most important thing [for students] to realize is ‘Oh my gosh, I thought I knew what the college of communication does: it’s journalism and film and all

these other things…’ [But health communication] is an area that’s so important. I hope [students] turn around and say, ‘Hey, wow, I never thought of that.’” Associate advertising professor Lee Ann Kahlor said the health communication center will help the University benefit from experts in both health and medicine who will join the program. Kahlor said communication is becoming an important factor in medicine. “One of the key things we are gaining with the center is presence as a group of scholars and practitioners who can and will impact health care practice and health outcomes locally and nationally,” Kahlor said. “Communication has the potential to improve health care, whether it’s by helping practitioners to overcome barriers in patient communication or finding ways to harness mass communication to change harmful behaviors.”

to merge [Moscow Plus] with another program, but it just kept getting smaller and smaller.” Garza said his decision to cancel the Moscow Plus Program was affected by the heated relations between the U.S. and Russia over Russia’s intervention in Crimea and Ukrainian politics. “The added complication of the Crimea crisis and the effect that it might have on securing visas this spring certainly weighed on my decision, but it was the low [participation] that persuaded me to postpone this year’s program,” Garza said. “I hope to run the program again in the future.” Zachary Berru, international relations and global studies sophomore who planned to participate in Moscow Plus, said even if the program is held in the future, he is no longer sure if he wants to travel to Russia. “This situation [between the U.S. and Russia] is escalating way too rapidly, and I’m fearful things will get only worse,” Berru said. “I personally don’t feel like it would be safe at this point.” A resident cycles past soldiers in unmarked uniforms standing guard outside the Ukrainian Military Prosecutor’s Office in Simferopol, Crimea, Thursday, March 20, 2014.

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continues from page 1 According to Mayor Pro Tem Sheryl Cole, the council has not sufficiently addressed the concerns of neighborhood associations or University students. “We have not really heard enough with the students involved,” Cole said. “I think we need to reach out to our university students not only at UT but throughout the city in our other colleges and universities more and get their input.” Spelman, who voted against the measure, said the ordinance will negatively affect lower-income individuals, including those who have not come forward to give their input because they are undocumented immigrants. “They just don’t have very

Political conflict in Eastern Europe has not only affected Russia’s relations with the West, but also UT summer study abroad programs in the region. Russian Express, a language and culture program that has students spend four weeks in Kiev, Ukraine, and four weeks in Moscow during the summer, was forced to move the location from Ukraine three weeks ago after political unrest erupted in the country, according to Elliot Nowacky, administrator and resident director for the program. The 11 students participating in Russian Express selected Irkutsk, Russia, located in Siberia, as the new destination, Nowacky said. Nowacky is also the administrator for the Moscow-Texas Connections Program, where students spend 10 weeks in Moscow at the Higher School of Economics. Nowacky said this program will continue as scheduled.

“We’ve gotten no indication from our partners at the Higher School of Economics that it’s going to be a problem getting the visas, which is required for [the students] to go to Russia in order to study,” Nowacky said. The five-week Moscow Plus Program was canceled on March 6 by Thomas Garza, Slavic languages and literature associate professor, mainly because of a low number of participants, according to Betsy Brown, program and outreach coordinator for the Texas Language Center. According to Brown, the summer program had more than six applications this year, but participants kept dropping out for personal reasons or to join another program where they could receive grant support, such as Moscow-Texas Connections. Brown said there eventually ended up being only a few participants who had confirmed enrollment by March 1. “That doesn’t really make a study abroad program,” Brown said. “We thought we would be able

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Austin City Council voted to reduce the number of unrelated adults who can live together in a single-family dwelling, Thursday.

much money and have decided to double and quadruple up to share the cost in single-family houses because it’s the only way that they can live,” Spelman said. Councilman Chris Riley said he does not think the amendment fixes an underlying issue of affordability.

“It’s going to affect those who would like to live in high-occupancy [houses], and it’s going to continue to affect the neighborhoods in central Austin because we’re going to continue to see those development pressures manifested in some other way,” Riley said.

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LAURA WRIGHT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF / @TexanEditorial Friday, March 21, 2014

EDITORIAL

‘Texas Miracle’ leaves out young workers

Gov. Rick Perry has never been shy about singing Texas’ praises — not least since his presidential campaign a few years ago. Perry has spent the past few years traveling around the country trumpeting what he calls the “Texas miracle,” or the relative resilience of our economy in the financial crisis, to lure businesses to the state. In ads and speeches, Perry has touted the state’s low taxes and generally business friendly environment as incentives to set up shop in Texas. It’s impossible to know how many companies have been swayed by Perry’s rhetoric, but the movement of jobs to the state shows that many companies find Texas an attractive place to do business. From January 2013 to January 2014 alone, the state added 322,400 jobs. All those new jobs translate into a low statewide unemployment rate. According to the Texas Workforce Commission, the unemployment rate stood at 5.7 percent in January, the lowest it had been since November 2008. But recent data from the Brookings Institution shows that in many of Texas’ largest metropolitan areas, including Austin-Round Rock, astonishingly high percentages of young people are being left out of the job market. In the Austin metropolitan area, the employment rate for 16- to 19-year-olds stands at 24.1 percent, while the employment rate for 20to 24-year-olds comes in at 64.1 percent. Both of these figures put the city in the bottom half of the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan areas. For purposes of comparison, the San Antonio area had the 50th-highest employment rate for the younger group and 45th highest for the older group. The

Houston area fared even worse, with a 77th-place ranking for the 16- to 19-year-olds and a 56thplace ranking for the 20- to 24-year-olds. What this data shows is that while Perry may be happy with the state of the Texas economy, he’s forgetting about young Texans when he declares the health of the Texas economy a “miracle.” While the state continues to add jobs, it is clearly not reaching young people like it should. Admittedly, the youth employment rate is always lower than the general employment rate, even in a good economy, according to Martha Ross, a fellow at the Metropolitan Policy Program in Washington, D.C., and a co-author of the report. This is especially true in areas with high numbers of college students, like Austin, or high numbers of high school dropouts, like the McAllen area, which posted the lowest employment rate for the 20- to 24-year-old age group. But while the statewide employment rate continues to rise, the youth employment rate has decreased significantly since 2000, particularly in the Austin area. As reported in the Austin AmericanStatesman, from 2000 to 2012, the employment rate for 16- to 19-year-olds in Central Texas fell by 17.8 percentage points, while the employment rate for 20- to 24-year-olds fell by 7.3 percentage points. Both of these decreases put the area dead last among Texas metropolitan areas. But while the youth employment rate has its flaws as a measure of the health of the economy, the downward trends in Austin and disappointing youth labor markets in other major Texas cities cast a definite pall over the job searches

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of both current students and recent graduates of UT. Instead of trumpeting the universal success of the Texas economy, Perry should focus on those who haven’t benefited from the mass influx of jobs and search for ways to bring them into the fold. Luckily, he won’t be starting from square one. While there are no easy solutions to the youth unemployment problem in Texas, several groups are already trying to suss out its causes and bring it under control. In Central Texas, one of those groups is the Austin Chamber of Commerce. Drew Scheberle, senior vice president of education and talent development, said Thursday that the chamber has been tracking the youth employment rate in the region and hasn’t figured out what’s keeping it so low. “[The problem has] been on our radar for the past two years,” Scheberle said. “We

haven’t been able to figure out why it’s happening, but once we figure that out, we can figure out how to address it.” That’s not to say the Chamber of Commerce doesn’t have its theories. As Scheberle noted, the Austin area has created a significant number of jobs in retail and hospitality, but those jobs, which require little education, seem to be largely bypassing young people. Scheberle mentioned this trend in reference to local high school students, but given the local youth employment figures, it could just as well apply to college students. The current state of the youth labor market in Texas defies easy explanations or solutions, but that doesn’t mean it’s a problem worth ignoring. Clearly, Texas has done well at attracting new jobs, but Perry needs to focus more on the problem of youth unemployment in Austin and throughout the state.

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Companies supporting Sudan don’t deserve UT System’s money

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By Ali Breland

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After 11 years of war, human rights violations and genocide, the conflict in the Sudanese region of Darfur persists. A brief cease-fire brought temporary peace to the area, but 2014 has ushered in a flare-up of atrocities in the region. The International Criminal Court has charged Omar alBashir, the current president of Sudan, with three counts of genocide. That genocide has claimed the lives of 400,000 Sudanese and displaced millions more, yet, despite international outcry against the atrocities in Sudan, the UT System continues to maintain its financial holdings in companies involved in Sudan — companies that contribute to the country’s genocide. The University of Texas Investment Management Co., known as UTIMCO, manages the System’s $20 billion endowment. According to a 2011 Texas Observer article, roughly $5 million of the endowment is invested in companies that have directly helped contribute to Sudanese genocide (although that number may have changed since then). Companies on the list include PetroChina, which has bought oil from the Sudanese government, thereby indirectly contributing to the statesponsored slaughter of non-Arabs in the Darfur region, and Dongfeng Motor Co., a company that has sold military equipment to Sudanese militias. UTIMCO’s dirty investments have led me to start Texans Against Genocide, a group founded with the intention of trying to get UTIMCO to draw the line at genocide, an incontrovertibly bad thing. Bruce Zimmerman, the chief executive officer and chief investment officer of

Genocide has claimed the lives of 400,000 Sudanese and displaced millions more. And yet, despite international outcry against the atrocities in Sudan, the University of Texas System continues to maintain its financial holdings in... companies that contribute to the country’s genocide.

UTIMCO, is clearly good at the financial side of his job. He has grown the endowment tremendously, and as of 2011 he has regularly beaten general market returns. Regardless, good business doesn’t make good ethics. Zimmerman declined to comment for this piece. Zimmerman has said in the past that UTIMCO doesn’t “take social or political concerns into account.” He has said that factoring social responsibility into UTIMCO’s investment could lead to a slippery slope of investment restrictions that could potentially hurt the fund. Zimmerman told the Observer in 2011, “What you’ll learn in Econ 101 is any externality has an economic cost. That’s not a presumption. It’s an economic reality.” Zimmerman is right. Taking ethics into account does make investing harder but does not make it impossible. In the last decade, several universities, including Harvard, Stanford and Yale, among others, have divested or eliminated their holdings from companies linked to the genocide in Sudan. These colleges have endowments comparable to UT’s, and show that an endowment can still thrive while making ethically sound investments. Moreover, the logic that a business’ sole responsibility is to make a profit, irrespective of its social or ethical cost, is riddled with problems. Ostensibly, we hold human beings to a general set of normative ethical and social standards. We expect people to respect our autonomy and not to hurt us or do generally bad things. The idea that a group of people working together to make money is somehow exempt from these standards doesn’t make sense. If I personally gave a government committing genocide millions of dollars and military supplies, you could call me a bad person. UTIMCO participating in these sorts of investments for the betterment of the UT System doesn’t absolve it from this. It just makes it opportunistic. Obviously, issues like this aren’t cutand-dried. If UTIMCO is forced to invest in accordance with sound ethics, the group could lose out on potentially lucrative investments. But while investment in morally gray areas, such as tobacco and fossil fuels, is up for debate, an investment in genocide is not. We can avoid Zimmerman’s slippery slope by making it clear that we draw the line at mass murder. Right now, the UT System doesn’t draw the law line anywhere. Until it does, it implicitly supports genocide. Breland is a Plan II senior from Houston and the president of Texans Against Genocide, an organization founded in the interest of getting UT to divest its endowment from corporations that fund or facilitate genocide.

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WE SHOULD ALL WORK HARDER TO LOWER EMISSIONS I found myself concerned after recently reading “University conducts new, comprehensive inventory of greenhouse gases.” It’s upsetting to hear that, although there are recent efforts to collect more information on greenhouse gas emissions, there is nothing being done to combat the problem. What is the point of having all this knowledge if there is a lack of effort to solve this monumental issue? We already know global warming is rising quickly and significantly. Rather than focusing on finding more accurate numbers on the greenhouse gas emissions, it might be more beneficial to look at the bigger picture and take steps to solve the present problem at hand. If the people of Austin were more informed on the information about greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, they might be more willing to take action. It is important to use this information collected by the University Campus Planning and Facilities Management as evidence for the rising effects global warming has on our planet currently and in the future. Steps need to be taken immediately. — Mary Forster, economics sophomore

IN RESPONSE TO OUR CALL FOR ABBOTT TO DEFEND BAG BANS Austin Kinghorn @AustinKinghorn @thedailytexan @TexanEditorial The AG’s job is to construe state statutes, not make a political decision on the propriety of the ban.

INTERNET FEE PROPOSAL NOT AS BAD AS FEARED Even under the new proposal, UT will continue to allow unlimited transfers to other University sites (e.g. www.utexas.edu, Blackboard, etc.). This would only affect access to services not on campus. As more services move to the cloud (e.g. Canvas, Box, UTmail), having Internet bandwidth will become more of a necessity. As for having “no data on the type of bandwidth students use”, that is a bit more complicated. The University does have data on what sites people are accessing, but determining whether or not it is course-related is not really feasible. If someone is watching a Netflix video, it could be class-related, or it could be recreational. There are people who do research on social networking, so accessing Facebook and Twitter for them might be school-related, whereas for most others, it probably is not. Also, as more content is hosted on shared cloud resources (e.g. Canvas is hosted on Amazon Web Services, but so are a number of other sites and services), it gets even more difficult to distinguish what traffic to Amazon is course-related and what is not. Under this proposal, the University would *not* be the ones determining what activity is school-related and what isn’t (and taking measures to limit or block the latter). — Online commenter “Jason,” in response to Amanda Almeda’s opinion column, “Planned fee for campus Internet saddles students with extra cost”

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Offense finally clicking for Horns By Matt Warden

Senior outfielder Mark Payton raised his teamhigh average to .427 after a 2-for-3 and 2 RBI performance against Dallas Baptist on Tuesday evening.

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After blanking Dallas Baptist 5-0 on Tuesday night, Texas believes it has found its consistency — again. When the Longhorns (166, 1-2 Big 12) have been able to put multiple runners on base this season, they push across enough runs to win. Following a disappointing opening Big 12 series last weekend, head coach Augie Garrido stressed the importance of getting back to that. “We took some of our better at-bats with runners in scoring position tonight, and that’s the way the team functioned earlier in the year as well,” Garrido said in a statement after Tuesday’s win. “So I thought, coming off what happened on the weekend, put that together with the way they reverted back to … when they were playing best, with a clear mind, aggressive, and confident, was a huge turnaround for a team to do.” Junior pitcher Lukas Schiraldi threw a season-high eight scoreless innings against the Patriots, bringing the team’s combined ERA down to a stellar 2.09 for the year. The Longhorns’ pitching has

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been strong all year, but the way the defense is beginning to play behind its pitchers has made the team tougher to beat. “I was very pleased with tonight,” Garrido said. “Schiraldi was really good, and the team behind him functioned very well.” The thing that has set Texas apart in wins this season is its ability to get lead-off hit-

ters on base. Junior infielder Brooks Marlow went 1-for-2 and drew three walks Tuesday, allowing senior outfielder Mark Payton to drive him in multiple times, a pattern that found its way down the entire lineup card. “That’s what they are capable of doing, and I think we are getting to a point where we can run that down through six or seven guys right now,”

Stellar season still sinking in for Texas before tournament By Jori Epstein @JoriEpstein

Garrido said. “It takes that in this small-ball offense. It takes five guys to score a run a lot of times. There are no home runs.” Against Columbia (5-9), a team that enters this weekend’s series with a combined 5.25 ERA, the Longhorns should continue to thrive. Freshmen Tres Barrera and Zane Gurwitz both had two hits against Dallas Baptist,

which could add an extra gear to the team if the young players can get going consistently. “If they can start to be consistent at the plate, and be a little more aggressive like they were tonight, they can add another element to the team,” Garrido said. If Texas continues to get runners on base for its big hitters, it will be a dangerous team beyond this weekend.

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14, while Holmes, sophomore guard Javan Felix and freshman guard Isaiah Taylor each had 11 points in the game. Defensively, Texas went with a zone for much of the contest in an attempt to clog up the paint and deny Bachynski. The 7-foot-2-inch sophomore was able to post 25 points despite the added attention, but the extra defenders in the paint prevented the Sun Devils’ guards from getting in the lane. The Longhorns’ victory sets them up for a third-round matchup with Michigan on Saturday. The Wolverines are the two-seed in the Midwest bracket.

continues from page 1 Barnes’ squad Thursday night. Ridley led all scorers with 17, but freshman guard Martez Walker was most impressive, posting a career-high 16 points for Texas off the bench. Walker, who was given more playing time than he is used to, attacked the rim throughout the night, drawing several fouls in the lane. Nine of his points came from the free throw line. Each of the Longhorns’ other four starters also scored in double figures. Sophomore guard Demarcus Holland had

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Junior forward Nneka Enempkpali will carry the load for the Longhorns in the NCAA Tournament after leading the team with 12.3 points and 8.8 rebounds per game this season.

when we beat Oklahoma in the [Big 12] tournament,” head coach Karen Aston said. “In less than 24 hours we had to turn around and play again and we didn’t get our motors going. If we’re fortunate enough to win one game, we’ll learn how to better prepare ourselves for the next.” Advancing past Ivy League champion Penn (22-6, 12-2) is among Texas’ goals for its first NCAA postseason game since 2012. The Longhorns hold a 32-25 record in their 26 past tournament appearances, but just one title in 1986 to show for it. Although Texas (21-11,

11-7) faced the 10th-toughest schedule in the nation this year compared to Penn’s 130th, Aston isn’t taking her competition lightly. She said she watched a lot of film over spring break to scout out the competition. “We have talent and really good players,” Aston said. “It’s just a matter of them believing they’re good and putting the chemistry together. The core group is talented enough to go places. I don’t think we’re through yet at all.” Texas faces Penn for the first time in program history at 2 p.m. Sunday in College Park, Md. The game will be televised on ESPN.

TRACK & FIELD / GRANT GORDON & DANIEL CLAY Sategna disagrees. “The sky is really the limit for Ryan,” Sategna said. “And he’s kind of his own toughest critic. So no matter how far he throws, he’ll find something to still be working on and improving.” The women are just one week off of a second-place finish at the NCAA Indoor National Championships, and they expect to continue finishing with the top scores in the nation as they transition to running outdoors. “We had a great indoor season on both the men’s and the women’s side,” head coach Mario Sategna said in a statement. “[The athletes] are going to expect the same type of performances as we head into the outdoor season.” Running outdoors may be a significant boon to

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Freshman pitcher Tiarra Davis has emerged as the ace for the Longhorns this season. Davis currently holds a team-best 2.34 ERA through 89.2 innings pitched.

UT starts Big 12 play behind freshman arm By Scarlett R. Smith @ScarlettRSmith1

WEEKEND PREVIEW Fresh off a 20th place finish at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships, the Longhorns will travel to San Antonio this weekend for the start of the outdoor track and field season at the UTSA Invitational. After a successful indoor season full of impressive performances, the men must quickly adjust to the outdoor conditions in order to be prepared for the upcoming meet. The athlete to watch for the entire outdoor season is sophomore shot putter Ryan Crouser. Crouser, who already holds Texas’ indoor and outdoor shot put records, is coming off an individual national championship in shot put last week. It may seem like Crouser has little left to prove, but head coach Mario

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It hasn’t hit sophomore center Imani McGee-Stafford that she’s playing in the NCAA Tournament for the first time. It hasn’t set in that her Longhorn team earned a No. 5 seed, its best since 2005 when Texas was slotted No. 3. “It probably won’t hit us until we lace up our shoes for that first game,” McGeeStafford said. But it has hit her that the team needs to win and break a five-game tournament losing streak dating back to 2008. “We finally get a chance to partake in March Madness and not sit at home watching others teams do what we worked so hard for,” McGee-Stafford said. “It’s [our] reward for running sprints and waking up at ungodly hours.” Coming off a 67-60 semifinal loss in the Big 12 Tournament to No. 7 West Virginia, the Longhorns spent no time moping around. The team focused on preparing for the tournament, building off of Big 12 mistakes as a foundation for improvement. “We got a little too high

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the team’s performance at meets. Because UT does not have an indoor track facility, the team was unable to regularly practice running the tighter curves and shorter distances of an indoor track. This weekend’s meet marks a return to competing outdoors and will prepare the Longhorns for their first big challenge of the season at the Texas Relays held March 26-29.

Texas is set to open Big 12 play Saturday in Waco with the first of a two-game series against the Baylor Bears. The Longhorns are coming off a 5-4 loss to Houston in which they surrendered the winning run in the final inning, abetted by several defensive miscues. When asked if her young team could rebound from the loss heading into conference play, head coach Connie Clark said the loss was suggestive of the team’s youth. “I think they are excited,” Clark said. “We left a lot of people on [base] again tonight and the freshmen have to grow up quick in the circle — that’s all there is to it. I really wanted to stay with [freshmen pitcher Lauren Slatten]. I left a long leash on her tonight because I want to see if they can get it done. Unfortunately, we came up short tonight, but they have to learn and get

through those experiences to make them better.” Despite using three different pitchers Wednesday night, and much speculation about who would take over for Blair Luna coming into the season, Clark believes freshman Tiarra Davis is the frontrunner. “Pitching is one area where we have as many answers as we have now and we will start over with a 0-0 scenario trying to win a Big 12 championship,” Clark said. “Tiarra Davis is the ace and we are going to have to ride her primarily most of the time.” Senior shortstop Taylor Thom captured the career RBI mark at Texas after going 0-3 through her first atbats Wednesday. “It is an amazing feeling to be the RBI record holder here at The University of Texas,” Thom said. “There have been some great players that came before me, and for me to be in the same league with them is just an amazing feeling.”

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After a month without competition, the women’s golf team heads back to the course Monday for the SDSU Farms Invitational. Hosted by San Diego State, the horns will face conference competitor No. 13 Oklahoma State, as well as 15 other top teams from around the country. Among these are USC and UCLA, who are the No. 1 and No. 2 teams nationally. The Longhorns, who have struggled early this season, finishing near the bottom in their first two tournaments, will look to junior Bertine Strauss to lead the team against these tough opponents. The first round of the three-day tournament begins Monday morning. —Caroline Hall

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PUNJABI continues from page 8 and that’s kind of what’s contributed to any accolades that have come.” According to Abhijith Ravinutala, business and history graduate student and founding team member, the team has contributed to changing relations among competing dance teams at UT by making things friendlier through mixers and collaborations. “It definitely used to be more cutthroat, but the Punjabbawockeez are a really social group and they’ve worked to make it different,” said junior Nikunj Govind, co-president of the Indian Students Association and Taal coordinator. Though the Punjabbawockeez take pride in their awards, that won’t be their main focus at Taal. “If people like us and

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and English honors senior and team member. “But we’re just about showing

people what we like doing and bringing that joy to everybody else.”

your most secret and warm feelings, and that’s kind of flipped on its head with this horrifying realization of this hidden past.” According to Mabry, the installation allowed her to present the complex layering of her family in a humanistic and comprehensive way. “I love doing installation sculptures — this basic phenomenal form of experience,” Mabry said. “If you move through it physically and spatially, it’s this allencompassing experience. It’s a different relationship than you would have to a painting. This couldn’t be as simple as a painting or a book.”

The exhibition provides people the opportunity to reflect on their own heritages, Williams said. “I think one of things that someone walking to the space should take away is that hopefully it gets them to, at the very least, question their own construction of their memories and biography,” Williams said. “That it’s very much Randi, but you think about your own personal history and the various stories within the family and complex relationships with how your ancestors ended up in America and their hardships and the insecurities of going through that endeavor.”

INSTALLATION continues from page 8 lineage. It’s intimate and slightly uncanny.” Mabry began conceptualizing the installation about eight months ago when she proposed her idea to Pump Project gallery director Rebecca Marino. Marino said she accepted Mabry’s proposal because of the complexity and ambition of the idea. “I really liked the idea of her fitting her family context into the historical context,” Marino said. “I thought conceptually it was very strong and the idea was very strong. When she said she wanted to recreate her family’s kitchen, I just loved it. There’s a real, genuine

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interest, and I was personally intrigued by the idea as a whole.” Mabry’s installation only shows the pieces of the kitchen that she remembers and contains some of her family’s heirlooms, such as an old rocking chair, a drawing of their town in Germany and a refrigerator filled with German sugar cubes that her grandmother used to buy. “There’s this terrifying problem of this family lineage of fighting for Nazi Germany that’s in her letter and this image of Nazi war craft,” said Jeff Williams, an assistant art history professor. “So, it blends this thing that’s comforting and homely, that you identify with,

“Each star has to do two dances, and for each of the dances, they have a Texas Ballroom officer or member who is going to teach them a routine,” said Caroline Suh, one of the professionals and a Texas 4000 alumna. “Dancing with the Stars: UT” will feature four “stars” and seven professionals. The stars are UT students Mina Ghobrial, Jon Cozart and Jennifer Sunshine Garrison, as well as senior biological sciences lecturer Dee Silverthorn. The professionals are officers and members of the UT Texas Ballroom club. Similar to the TV show, most of the UT competitors are ballroom dance novices. “This is my first time doing any kind of real ballroom dancing,” said Garrison, who is also a part of the UT improv group Giggle Pants. “I mean, I have probably faked doing ballroom dancing on the stage during a show at some point, but this is true technique-based ballroom dancing.” The only dancer with real ballroom experience is Silverthorn, who has been dancing since she was a child, and performed with dance companies in Charleston, S.C., and Mobile, Ala. “I grew up in New Orleans and everybody took ballroom dancing,” Silverthorn said. “In the sixth and seventh grade that was the standard thing to do, and I’ve danced other ways — jazz, modern, ballet — a lot my whole life.” Suh said the student stars have natural dancing ability, but even so, it can be a challenge to teach them choreography on top of learning the dances themselves. “What’s really hard is having to teach them all of the basic technique and then

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having a routine on top of that in like four months,” Suh said. “It’s not as bad as the real show where they do a new dance each week.” Grasping the basics of ballroom dance, including steps, rhythm and choreography, can be difficult. Cozart said allowing himself to make errors was a learning process in itself. “Being comfortable with somebody enough to screw up and drop them and understanding that it’s OK to fail, was the biggest challenge for me,” Cozart said. “Just getting over that mindset, I should be perfect.” Contestants on the real “Dancing with the Stars” wear elaborate costumes that are intentionally flashy, and the stars for UT’s version will be no different. They are borrowing competition attire from members of Texas Ballroom for the event. “I just got the dress for [the foxtrot] and it’s way over the top,” Silverthorn said. “It’s hot pink and regular pink with layers in the skirt and big sleeves. The top is totally covered in sequins and rhinestones.” The stars and instructors have been putting in two or three hours of work per week into their routines, but Garrison said learning to dance is worth the effort. “It can be challenging at times. But once you get [the dance] down, you feel so good that you did it, and you see the progress as you’re going along,” Garrison said. “It’s something that I hope I won’t ever forget.

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The Punjabbawockeez rehearse their dance sequence Thursday evening for UT’s Indian Students Association’s fourth annual South Asian showcase, Taal, at the Recreational Center.

Dance team fuses folk and hip-hop By Danielle Lopez @ldlop

In the Quadrangle room of the Union Building, dancers wearing a mix of snapbacks and traditional Indian clothing move quickly around the space, yelling words of encouragement with each step. The performers, members of the UT Indian Students Association, are fusing hip-hop with traditional Indian dance for Taal, UT’s South Asian showcase on March 29. Taal, which means “beat” in Hindi, offers dance teams, singers and a capella groups the chance to be awarded cash prizes by a panel of judges. A variety of UT talents will compete, bringing a

combination of modern and traditional takes on South Asian culture. The Punjabbawockeez — an all-male, bhangra and hip-hop dance team — will perform in Taal. Bhangra is a fast-paced folk style of dance that originates from a northern territory of India called Punjab. The Punjabbawockeez, who have grown in popularity since their start four years ago, have created their own style by mixing hip-hop songs with traditional Indian music. “It has really taken off in the sense that it’s gotten a lot more dance-centric, but we still try to preserve that culture,” said Arpan Amin, co-captain and management information

systems senior. Amin said the team began in 2010 when a group of students, who had no prior dance experience, decided to create a group for the sake of something fun to do. “The original guys, they came in and basically learned Punjabi dance off of YouTube,” Amin said. “They had a little help from existing teams who had knowledge of bhangra.” Punjabbawockeez performances last for about seven minutes. There are no designated choreographers on the team, and every member has the chance to bring in his own ideas and take charge of a song. The team members take moves they learn from videos and make them

their own. “You build off of this existing stuff you watch and then slowly you get the hang of it,” said Suraj Makhija, biomedical engineering senior and co-captain. The Punjabbawockeez have been recognized by UT leadership award committees for best recreational organization and have been awarded best overall at UT talent shows, such as the Texas Revue. “We really pride ourselves not on just dancing, but being a very well-rounded team in terms of doing community service,” Amin said. “We’re into not doing just dance, you know,

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Faded family portraits hang off of white wallpaper covered in pictures of strawberry plants. Letters from a father at war are strung across half-built walls on the other side of the room. A soft voice speaks in German, and a wooden cuckoo clock chimes in the background. The poorly lit kitchen is the architecture of philosophy and studio art senior Randi Mabry’s childhood memory. It is also her latest art piece and installation. At the age of 18, Mabry’s mother received a letter her grandfather wrote in 1941 that revealed he was a German sergeant in World War II. The letter intimately details his time spent in Normandy, where he was shot and cared for at a French sickbay. Roughly a year ago, Mabry’s mother gave her the letter, which Mabry had someone translate into English. To cope with the weight of the knowledge of her heritage, Mabry turned to her favorite medium of expression —

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installation art — to create a full-scale model of her grandmother’s kitchen. The exhibition, titled “meine karten sind durchlochert: my maps are full of holes,” is currently on display at Pump Project’s Flex Space. The exhibition’s closing reception with traditional German food and discussion will be held on March 29. “It just seemed natural to create a space and tell a narrative, a narrative that was beyond writing another letter or story in words,” Mabry said. “I wanted to create a space and invite people back into my memory of my grandmother, who is really my strongest connection to that

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Randi Mabri, studio art and philosophy double major, sits in her senior art display that was inspired by her family history.

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Austin-based performer presents one-man cabaret show By Kritika Kulshrestha @kritika88

The challenge of portraying dark, complicated and seductive characters is what Josh Wechsler craves in every stage show. He is interested in scripts that embrace the elements of magic, mystery, love and spirituality. Wechsler, an Austinbased musical theater performer, combines all of these elements in his one-man cabaret show “Here With You! Unexpected Songs from Sondheim to Zeppelin,” which he will perform at City Theatre this Sunday. According to Wechsler, cabaret is a complex, entertaining hybrid of song, music, drama and

personality that explores common themes such as love, jealousy and hope, providing the audience a personal glimpse into the characters in the show. In his performance, Wechsler sings 17 songs from different eras and styles, and the title for the show, ‘Here With You!,’ is taken from the lyrics of one of the songs. Wechsler, who has performed in concerts and cabarets in Oklahoma City, Okla., and Dallas, said a cabaret show is not about the spectacle but about the interaction with the audience. “I’ll be directly addressing the audience, creating an intimate musical experience for them,” Wechsler said. “‘Here With You!’ also

represents the theme of the show, of just being present with the people that you’re with. You’re alive in a room with people having a good time.” Wechsler, originally from Dallas, moved to Austin in 2009 after graduating from Oklahoma City University with a bachelor’s of music in 2008. Since then, he has sung, performed and acted in a series of theatrical productions in Austin, such as “Spring Awakening,” “Falsettos” and “Corpus Christi.” When Wechsler’s grandmother took him to see a touring production of “The Phantom of the Opera” when he was 9 years old, Wechsler realized musical theater was

what he wanted to pursue. “My grandmother was the one to help me experience theater,” Wechsler said. “She exposed me to the theater that I’ve grown up loving.” Wechsler is now the vocal director for the pre-professional company in ZACH Theatre’s education department. His first professional job was in 2011 with ZACH Theatre, when he performed in “Spring Awakening.” “I like the idea of archetypes,” Wechsler said. “So the character I played in ‘Spring Awakening’ was dark and seductive, and he was a little bit of a troublemaker. When I set out to do a role like this, I think of an archetype. I think about how what those characters have in common, and how I relate to them.” It was while performing at ZACH Theatre that Wechsler met Jennifer Young, the preprofessional program coordinator, who gave him the vocal director job.

I like the idea of archetypes ... The character I played in ‘Spring Awakening’ was dark and seductive, and he was a little bit of a troublemaker. —Josh Wechsler, Musical theater performer

“His most defining qualities are his voice and his commitment to his characters,” Young said. While working on the 2012 production of “Corpus Christi,” Wechsler met Jeff Hinkle, director-in-residence at Austin Theatre Project. “Musicals are his strength, and he shines in that theatrical genre,” Hinkle said. “He has a charismatic stage presence and really knows how to bring emotion to the songs he sings.” Wechsler said his performances are not for personal glory, but instead a way to reach out to the audience through well-told stories of

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love and hope. “The most important thing for me is to put out a show that means something to my audience,” Wechsler said. “With the cabaret show I’m doing now, there are no restrictions by a script or a pre-set score. The whole music means something to me, and I wish to share it with my audience.”

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Josh Wechsler, musical theater performer and vocal director, will perform his one-man cabaret show this weekend, in which he will sing 17 songs from different eras and styles.