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TSM votes to keep the Texan daily By Nicole Cobler @nicolecobler
At its annual budget meeting Friday, the Texas Student Media board voted to keep The Daily Texan on its five-day a week print schedule after Roderick Hart, dean of the Moody College of Communication, promised to ask President William Powers Jr. for transitional funding to prevent TSM bankruptcy. “Moody will have a viable
business plan in place by fall of 2017 that will put TSM on road for success,” Hart said in the meeting. “I am highly optimistic about our ability to turn around the TSM budget proposal.” TSM oversees five properties — The Daily Texan, Texas Travesty, KVRX, TSTV and the Cactus Yearbook — and has faced advertising revenue challenges in keeping with national trends over the last several years. In January, the Texan
reported that TSM properties would be moved from under the domain of the Office of Student Affairs and into Moody college. In his original proposal, Frank Serpas, interim director of TSM, introduced a plan that would cut the Texan’s print schedule to once a week, which he said was the only viable solution if the board wanted to avoid draining TSM reserves.
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Roderick Hart, dean of the Moody College of Communication, speaks at the Texas Student Media board meeting Friday.
By Brooks Kubena @BKubena
Average height and weight for UT linemen
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’83 6’4 250 lbs
’93 6’4 260 lbs
It is rarely quiet for Nicole Thompson Beavers, but she savors silence in her office when she can. Leaning back in her chair, she calmly gazed into the coffee between her hands. Sighing, she raised the cup to her — “BLAM!” Then she set the cup down on the — “BLAM!” Swiveling to her computer, Thompson Beavers, a graduate program coordinator, pushed the disturbance from the weight room above her office out of her consciousness, a practice that took weeks to master. The repetitious pounding continued above in the Bellmont weight
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UT football weight training develops from feared to embraced activity
’73 6’3 224 lbs
CITY
By Natalie Sullivan
CARRYING THE LOAD
Frank Medina ’63 Head trainer 1945-1977
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’03 6’4 292 lbs
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room facility in Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, where UT students and faculty are permitted to exercise in a historic environment. Fifty years ago, Bellmont contained the training facility for the Longhorn football team. But if Thompson Beavers taught all those decades ago, she would never have had an issue with the thuds of heavy iron. Before the 1970s, lifting in football was discouraged — even banned. Now, most
TRAINING
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Illustration by Albert Lee / Daily Texan Staff
Officials from Project Connect, a transportation project designed to reduce traffic congestion and improve transportation methods in Austin, defined and evaluated final alternative modes of transportation for the project and proposed 16 locations for stops — including three by the University — along urban rail or bus routes in an advisory meeting Friday. The Central Corridor Advisory Group, which examines ways to increase transportation service and connectivity around central Austin, focused on defining certain parameters, such as number of stops and system alignments for both urban rail and bus rapid transit, which are the two modes of transportation being considered. John-Michael Cortez, Capital Metro community involvement manager, said the committee surveyed groups around Austin whom the project would affect in order to determine the most beneficial places for route stops. “We are making sure to reach out to diverse communities and get as many different perspectives as we possibly can,” Cortez said. Scott Gross, program manager for Austin urban rail, said the routes would be broken up into three large sections — East Riverside, downtown to UT and Hancock to Highland — with five or six stops in each section.
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BASKETBALL
Longhorns hoops surpass preseason hopes
Men’s program falls, Women nab first tourney win since ’08 but future is bright By Rachel Wenzlaff @RachelWenzlaff
By Chris Hummer Daily Texan Columnist @chris_hummer
Michigan manhandled the Longhorns in a 79-65 loss during the Round of 32 of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday, but the team can still fly home from Milwaukee, Wis., with a few ounces of moxie intact. After all, the future is bright at Texas.
No. 2 seed Michigan proved to be a 3-point shooting buzzsaw against the Longhorns. The Wolverines converted a school tournament-record 14 treys and shot a blistering 50 percent behind the arc. They played almost perfect offensive basketball and stymied a team that’s had issues scoring consistently all season. The Longhorns are a scrappy, young group but they cannot be confused with the most talented bunch. Saturday, the Longhorns
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Many Texas players saw their first collegiate postseason action Sunday afternoon, and the fifthseeded Longhorns were shaky at times before pulling away from No. 12 seed Penn, 79-61 in College Park, Md. Head coach Karen Aston’s team struggled early, repeatedly trading leads with the Quakers early in the first half as neither team led by more than four points. Texas fell behind soon after, as 12 first-half turnovers and poor shooting kept the Longhorns stuck at 17
points for more than nine minutes. Sophomore guard Celina Rodrigo finally broke the drought with a jumper, but the damage had already been done. “They came ready to play and they’re a good basketball team,” Aston said in a statement after the game. “I think we just didn’t know how good they were.” It was Aston’s first time in the tournament since taking over as head coach for the Longhorns, but she had been there before, when she helped lead Texas to the Final Four as an associate head coach in 2003.
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Gail Burton / Associated Press Sophomore center ImanI McGee-Stafford and teammates celebrates a late shot in Texas’ 79-61 win against UPenn.