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Students protest tuition proposal By Nicole Cobler @nicolecobler
Students filled the back of the Student Activity Center’s legislative assembly room during three student leadership meetings last week to oppose a proposal that may
recommend an increase in tuition next year. An ad hoc committee including seven student leaders will submit a proposal that may increase tuition by up to 2.6 percent for in-state undergraduate students and 3.6 percent for out-of-state
undergraduate students, which works out to increases of $127 and $609 per long semester, respectively. The proposal will not recommend an increase for graduate student tuition. By Wednesday, the committee must submit a pro-
posal to President William Powers Jr. who will then make his own recommendations to the UT System Board of Regents. The board typically sets tuition for two-year periods every other year and in the past, has announced its decision during its scheduled
May meeting. This time, the board will only set tuition for one academic year. Computer science sophomore Mukund Rathi, who has protested the proposal, said he was disappointed by the
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Radio-television-film graduate student Deepak Chetty directs on set of the University’s first 3-D film Monday night. The movie is a part of UT3D, a program for students interested in 3-D production techniques.
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film will feature a young detective who is at the crossroads of an impending artificial intelligence revolution and is forced to choose between two sides. Because of the large amount of special effects being used in the
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Chetty, who is in his fourth year of graduate school, is using the teachings and technologies that the UT3D program offers to create an action-packed science-fiction thriller for his thesis project. The short
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film, it will not be completed until August. “My original intent was just to shoot it 2-D,” Chetty said. “But, basically, the timing was just right to
Grad student makes UT’s first 3-D film
program, UT3D is not only available to radio-televsionfilm majors. Applying to the program is possible for those with an interest and background in film. Applications for fall 2014 will close Monday.
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Naval Adm. William McRaven will deliver the address at UT’s Spring Commencement on May 18. McRaven, known for his leadership of the military operation that led to the death of Osama bin Laden, graduated from UT in 1977 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and a minor in Middle Eastern Studies. In 2012, McRaven received a Distinguished Alumni Award from the Texas Exes, the University’s alumni organization. The same year, he was a keynote speaker at the Texas Access to Justice Commission’s Champions of Justice Gala Benefiting Veterans, which helped fund legal services for low-income veterans in Texas. “Adm. McRaven is one of the great Americans of our time, a Distinguished Alumnus and a quintessential model of discipline and leadership,” President William Powers Jr. said in a statement from the University. “I’m thrilled that our graduates will have the benefit of his wisdom as they embark on their own journey.” McRaven has served in the Navy for 37 years and has contributed to a variety of projects, including the development of an “Iron Man” advanced combat suit. McRaven currently commands 67,000 special operations forces around the world. “If there is a lesson to be learned from me being
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In the secluded spaces of the CMB, surrounded by bright lights, vibrant green walls and a rolling camera, a solemn moment transpires between a man in black battle gear and a futuristiclooking woman with pink hair. Through the use of special cameras, 3-D glasses and special effects, Deepak Chetty, radio-television-film graduate student, is in the process of making the University’s first 3-D film. In fall 2013, UT’s radiotelevision-film department began UT3D, a program for students interested in learning about 3-D production techniques. Funded by the Moody Foundation to run for at least five years, it is the only 3-D program in the country offered to students. The program is not meant to take attention away from the curriculum students already have planned. It is a sequence of two courses — one introductory and one advanced — and a required internship or special project that can be integrated into a student’s degree plan. With around 40 undergraduate students currently in the
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In annual disagreement, Israel Block Party prompts Palestinian-rights demonstration By Nicole Cobler @nicolecobler
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Students pass by the 23rd Street mural Monday evening. The University Co-op has asked the original artists for their help in restoring the work after it was tagged by vandals in January.
Artists may not be paid for mural restoration By Alyssa Mahoney @TheAlyssaM
The artists of two murals that were vandalized in January will be restoring their original works over a period of 10 weeks, but may not be paid for their time. The University Co-op asked original artists Kerry Awn, Tom Bauman and Rick Turner to renovate the murals after
the city removed the graffiti in the Renaissance Market area, which is located on Guadalupe and 23rd Street. A University Co-op security guard first noticed graffiti on the south wall of the Renaissance Market building Jan. 7 at approximately 6 a.m., according to Brian Jewell, University Coop marketing director.
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For the 16th year in a row, students celebrated Israeli culture at a block party on the East Mall on Monday, while, right across Speedway, dozens of students yelled and chanted in protest of the event, as they have almost every year since the block party’s inception. Student leaders at both the Israel Block Party and the protest said they have wanted to exchange dialogue with each other for many years, but attempts at dialogue have never resulted in peaceful resolution. The party, the largest event organized annually by Texas Hillel, had over 100 volunteers and many different booths for students to experience Israeli culture. Six main booths focused on educating event attendees on topics ranging from Israeli technological and medical innovation to the structure of the Knesset,
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Computer science senior Ali Khan speaks at the Palestinian-rights protest of Israel Block Party on Monday afternoon.
the legislative branch of Israeli government. Other booths highlighted food, offered free smoothies and focused on the integration of different
cultures in Israeli society. Across the street, protestors argued that the Palestinian voice is silenced each year at the event.
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dialogue with students about human rights violations associated with the Palestinian conflict — information he said is being left out of the block party. “We need some sort of representation of the Palestinian conflict,” Imam said. “We want people to start taking this seriously.” Imam, who has protested the block party for three years in a row, said the group should do more to acknowledge Palestinian difficulties. “Four and a half million Palestinians are living under occupation in Israel,” Imam said. “That’s a huge portion of the population, and they’re just not represented in things like the Israel Block Party.” Rebecca Hanai, advertising sophomore and co-chair for the block party, said accusations of apartheid — a form of systemic, legal discrimination — are unwarranted.
“I lived in Israel for a year after high school, and I saw firsthand that Israel really believes in human rights and how they believe in equality for all its people,” Hanai said. “You can receive the same benefits and opportunities you get in the United States.” Andrea Hiller, public relations sophomore and the other co-chair for the block party, said she doesn’t like focusing on the protests during a time of celebration and hopes to come to an agreement in the near future. “If anything, we wish there was change only in that we wish we could have a
If anything, we wish there was change only in that we wish we could have a dialogue. We would love to sit down and talk, and I’m sure we’d have more shared opinions than differences. — Andrea Hiller, Isreal Block Party co-chair
dialogue,” Hiller said. “We would love to sit down and talk, and I’m sure we’d have more shared opinions than differences.” Hiller said all students are invited to attend the party, and she hopes the groups can coexist peacefully in the future.
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Chili pepper lecture spices up chemistry By Hayden Clark @HaydenS_Clark
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John Schwartz, UT alumnus and national enviornmental correspondent for The New York Times, gives a talk at the Belo Center for New Media on Monday. Schwartz believes the survival of journalism depends on journalists’ abilities to adapt to the digital revolution.
John Schwartz: Journalism is adapting By Christina Breitbeil @christinabreit
The field of journalism is not dwindling because of the digitalization of media but is instead adapting and thriving, according to John Schwartz, UT alumnus and national correspondent for The New York Times. Schwartz spoke at Belo Center for New Media on Monday about the current state of journalism and the “chaos” of the changes that accompany the consistent introduction of new technology. According to Schwartz, the change is demonstrated by which New York Times story attracted the most readers this
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continues from page 1 invited to speak at this commencement, it is that the University is not only about the strength of your GPA, your class standing or your accomplishments on the field [but] about how it prepares you for life,” McRaven said. Bobby Inman, professor in
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process the student leaders used to court student feedback. “It’s worth pointing out that, while the student leaders have said they want a full discussion of this issue, their only attempt to contact the student body was one email sent out on the Friday before spring break,” said Rathi, who is a former Daily Texan columnist. Typically, an advisory committee is created as early as August and committee members meet for months to hammer out a proposal based on directives issued by the regents. This year, the regents originally issued a directive forbidding tuition increases for all in-state undergraduate students, so the advisory committee recommended in December to increase tuition for only out-ofstate students. On Feb. 25, the regents issued a new directive allowing a maximum of a 2.6
year: “How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk,” which was not a typical “narrative” story but an interactive graphic. Schwartz also said he has become a part of the digital transition by creating web features, writing blog posts and tweeting out quotes. “All of it was journalism,” said Schwartz, who served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Texan in the 1980s. “All of it deepens the story. There’s a mini renaissance going on. I’m the generation that has to give way to the people who know how to do data visualization, and that’s fine. … It’s up to us to reinvent journalism.” The survival of journalism
depends on journalists’ ability to adapt, Schwartz said. Glenn Frankel, journalism professor and director of the school of journalism, who introduced Schwartz at the lecture, said it is a time of transition for journalism, and those involved must learn to change their methods accordingly. “This is such a dynamic, fluid time,” Frankel said. “The digital revolution has changed almost everything about journalism. … It’s both an exciting and scary time. … I do think that young journalists — all journalists — need to develop a curious and inquisitive sensibility about the new media and about how to use the
new media to tell stories.” Sidrah Syed, communication science and disorders freshman who attended Schwartz’s lecture, said she can understand how the change within the field of journalism can fill the public demand for accessible information. “I was editor-in-chief [of the school newspaper] in high school, so stuff in print is valuable to me,” Syed said. “I think it’s becoming a lost art, but I also think it’s great that we’re using so many new techniques and technologies to get stories across to people, because that’s what I think news is supposed to be — tangible to everyone.”
the LBJ School of Public Affairs and former director of the National Security Agency, has known McRaven for the past five years and said he is an exceptional individual. “He is a warrior,” Inman said. “Not only is he incredibly physically fit, [but] he can think fast on his feet. And I can promise you he has not — despite all of the places he
has gone and all of the things he has done — lost any of his affection for UT-Austin.” Andrew Clark, Senate of College Councils president, worked alongside other student leaders and administrators on the committee charged with selecting the commencement speaker. He said McRaven’s status as an alumnus and his extensive
military service contributed to their decision. “He’s a military man,” Clark said. “His sense of integrity will show. That’s something we get a lot of from military leaders. He’ll also bring leadership certainly. He’s been in highstakes and high-profile situations and he’s had to lead under those circumstances.”
percent increase. Andrew Clark, Senate of College Councils president who was a member of both the original and newly formed committees, said that, along with the email, the Senate, Student Government and the Graduate Student Assembly used social media as a way to reach out and inform students of the meetings in addition to the email they sent before spring break. Rathi said he would have preferred to see fliers and announcements made in class to reach out to more students in what became a shortened time frame following the new directives. “There hasn’t really been a serious attempt made to involve students in this very short time frame of discussion,” Rathi said. “These people on the ad hoc committee should demand a longer time frame from the regents.” Rathi also said the
committee should consider asking the regents to allocate money from the Permanent University Fund to the Available University Fund to offset the cost of tuition. The Permanent University Fund is a 137-year-old state endowment that supports the UT and Texas A&M Systems. Though, according to the Texas Constitution, the fund cannot be spent, the fund’s assets are invested and a portion of the profit makes up the Available University Fund. Money from the Available University funds can be used in more flexible ways, including covering university costs. “It’s supposed to be used to maintain UT-Austin, so there is no constitutional reason that the regents should be withholding those funds,” Rathi said. “The amount they need to allocate from the permanent funds is only a fraction of interest, which is generated on the
fund each year.” Linguistics graduate student Adam Tallman said, even though graduate student tuition will not be considered in the revised proposal, he believes the regents could change tuition every year if students do not resist. “If you don’t question them and you give them too much leeway, then they could increase graduate students’ tuition,” Tallman said. The students on the ad hoc committee sent a letter to the Board of Regents on Monday explaining their frustration with the limited time frame they were given to complete the proposal. “I’m personally very frustrated by the lack of time,” Clark said. “If it is clear that this is not just something UT-Austin is unsatisfied with, we’ll definitely be making sure that opinion is heard loud and clear with the Board of Regents.”
Hot wings are a college game day staple, but students don’t often question what brings the heat. Visiting natural history professor Joshua Tewksbury spoke Monday on why chilli peppers are so hot. Tewksbury said the main component to the heat when eating chili peppers is the capsaicin, which is a type of capsaicinoid. According to Tewksbury, heat in peppers is determined by genetics. “Capsaicin is the active ingredient that makes chilies hot. There are about 30 orthologs called ‘capsaicinoids,’ two of which we respond to,” Tewksbury said. A chemical ecologist by trade, Tewksbury said that chemistry is not so essential to his work of understanding why chilies are hot. “You don’t have to be a true chemist to do this work. … I’m an ecologist first and a chemist because that’s where my questions have led me,” he said. Biology assistant professor Shalene Jha said the chemical ecology aspect of plant species and how they interact with one another relates to the development of a protection mechanism in the plants, which occurs over time. In the case of chilies, the protection mechanism is the heat-producing capsaicinoids. “Chemistry governs or is extremely important
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University of Washington professor Joshua Tewksbury discusses the ecology of chili peppers during a talk in the Moffett Molecular Biology Building on Monday afternoon.
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Income segregation poses challenges for Austin In recent years, the so-called “Texas Miracle” has ushered in unprecedented job and population growth in our state. But, according to a report by Richard Florida released last week by The Atlantic’s Cities blog, Texas is struggling when it comes to one crucial measure of economic success: the gap between the rich and the poor. Texas now has the dubious distinction of leading the nation in income segregation, or, as Florida defines it, “the increasing tendency of affluent people to live in neighborhoods where almost everyone else is affluent, and poor people to live in neighborhoods where almost everyone else is poor.” Among large metropolitan cities, which Florida defines as those with more than 1 million people, San Antonio is the nation’s most segregated. Houston clocks in at number four, DallasFort Worth at number eight and Austin at number 10. And among all cities — large and small combined — El Paso tops the list, with Laredo in second, McAllen in third, College Station in sixth, San Antonio in eight and Brownsville in ninth. But what does income segregation actually look like? In Austin, the 10th-most income segregated large metropolitan city in the country, it comes in the form of an imposing, physical barrier between rich and poor: I-35. Last month, the Austin American-Statesman’s Dan Zehr mapped the average income and education levels of each of Austin’s zip codes, with a color code that showed the concentration of a particular income or education level —
income segregation, in other words. There was a bright line along the interstate, where nearly every neighborhood west of it was a dark shade of red, for affluence, and every neighborhood east was dark blue, for low income. Interestingly, the Central Austin ZIP code home to UT — 78705 — was among the least segregated; it was a rare, light shade of blue in a sea of the red, affluent ZIP codes west of the highway. Bill Spelman, a member of the Austin City Council and a professor at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, thinks that Austin’s rapid growth, and the resulting high levels of wage inequality, may have something to do with its high levels of income segregation. “Fast moving economies — adding a lot of jobs — tend to add to wage inequalities,” Spellman said. That wage inequality drives segregation and prevents lower wage workers from living in more affluent areas. Unfortunately, the solution to income segregation is just as complex as its cause. But it is certainly a problem worth solving, since segregated low income neighborhoods have less human capital and, therefore, present less opportunities for the children who grow up in them. Heather Way, the director of the Entrepreneurship and Community Development Clinic at the UT School of Law, said that income segregation “further entraps households in poverty.” On the other hand, there are small steps we can take to get Austin moving in the right
direction. For one, more apartment complexes should accept residents with Section 8 public housing vouchers. If a complex has rents that are below the average for an area, they are eligible to accept the vouchers. However, many of them do not, and the ones that do are mainly concentrated in Rundberg or on the East Side — two of Austin’s lowest income, most economically segregated areas. If more complexes accepted Section 8 vouchers, it “would open up a whole lot of [housing] on the north, south and west sides that [low income renters] can’t get into right now,” Spelman said. “So that would, in a small way, contribute to the mobility of people with very modest means to be able to live all through the city. Right now, they can’t do it.” Second, Texas could also allow local governments to raise the minimum wage, which is currently forbidden by law. Raise the minimum wage could go a long way towards eliminating Austin’s high levels of wage inequality, which could in turn help reduce income segregation. Ultimately, Austin’s segregation problem is the legacy of the city’s racist past. In the early- and mid-twentieth century, the Austin City Council did everything it could to segregate Austin’s black and Hispanic communities on the East Side. Today, this flawed logic of “separate-but-equal” still haunts Austin in the form of its unacceptably high level of income segregation. It’s time we did something about it.
INCOME SEGREGATION AMONG AMERICA’S METROS Large metros only (greater than 1 million residents) 1. San Antonio, TX 2. Memphis, TN 3. New York, NY 4. Houston, TX 5. Washington, D.C. 6. San Francisco, CA 7. Philadelphia, PA 8. Dallas-Fort Worth, TX 9. Denver, CO 10. Austin, TX All metros (including those with less than 1 million residents) 1. El Paso, TX 2. Laredo, TX 3. McAllen, TX 4. Bridgeport, CT 5. Trenton, NJ 6. Bryan-College Station, TX 7. Memphis, TN 8. San Antonio, TX 9. Brownsville, TX 10. Jackson, TN
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Point/Counterpoint: Should undergraduate tuition be increased? UT students oppose tuition hike By Lucy Griswold
Daily Texan Columnist @GriswoldLucy
Calling last Tuesday’s Student Government meeting on tuition issues a “town hall” — as named by the student leaders who organized it, SG President Horacio Villarreal, Senate of College Councils President Andrew Clark and Graduate Student Assembly President Columbia Mishra, all members of the ad-hoc committee assembled by UT administrators to propose a tuition rate — is kind of like calling Jester a luxury dormitory or the “pizza” in the Littlefield Cafe actual pizza. The evening was marked by a series of notably undemocratic proceedings that starkly contradicted the title of “town hall.” First, the agenda was never announced at the beginning of the meeting, prompting many students who were there for the tuition discussion to leave when another topic was brought up. Second, the students who stayed were prohibited from speaking during the presentation of the adhoc committee unless an SG representative would yield to them, although students could speak in a confusing open forum before the presentation. And third, the procedure for recognition was never made public. More disturbing than the false claims to the evening’s inclusive, democratic design, however, was the groups’ embrace of the tired narrative on tuition issues, presented with the aid of a PowerPoint and administrators Dan Slesnick and Don Aleman. The group reminded us that, with appropriations from the legislature on the decline, the University must find a way to offset the loss in revenue. They showed us graphs revealing that UT is relatively inexpensive compared to “comparable” universities. Finally, they recommended tuition increases based on the suggestions of the 2011 Tuition Policy Advisory Committees report, which they cited as the most recent “comprehensive” document in which the student opinion was “adequately surveyed.” Unfortunately, this story is not true. Though state revenues have declined overall in recent years, legislative appropriations to the University have fluctuated greatly in this period, resulting in a “decrease” in funding that is not even statistically significant. The relationship between state appropria-
The evening was marked by a series of notably undemocratic proceedings that starkly contradicted the title of “town hall.”
More disturbing than the false claims to the evening’s inclusive, democratic design, however, was the groups’ embrace of the tired narrative on tuition issues, presented with the aid of a PowerPoint. tions and tuition rates is unclear, given that increases in state appropriations have failed to generate reductions in tuition and that tuition cost has increased 27.4 times faster than state appropriations have decreased. Rather than directly supplanting legislative appropriations, as the ad-hoc committee suggested, the money generated from a tuition increase go beyond covering these “losses.” The graph presented on tuition cost at UT relative to other, similar-tier universities is also misleading. The graph, detailing the cost of total appropriations and tuition cost per student, shows UT at the bottom, leading the observer to believe that UT can afford to raise tuition and continue to remain “competitive.” However, this fails to account for cost-of-living considerations and income levels across states, which are undoubtedly tied to tuition rates. Only one of the 11 schools included in the presentation — Indiana University — is in a city where the cost of living is lower than in Austin, and only two schools are in states where the median family income is lower than it is in Texas. Considering these factors, UT’s location on the bottom of this graph has less to do with its relative affordability than it does with socioeconomics. Finally, the suggestion that the $127 increase in tuition per in-state student is marginal fails to account for the already egregiously high tuition rates that have been on the increase during a period of decreasing financial aid and grant support to students. Calling this increase “small” only serves to mask these patterns and muddle the reality that such a measure would disproportionately affect working-class and minority students. If student leaders want to represent the student voice they should look beyond recycled PowerPoint slides and uphold the first and only student referendum on tuition, which showed that students overwhelmingly opposed tuition increases when it was voted on during general SG elections two years ago. Not only is this document more recent than the 2011 TPAC report the committee deferred to, but it is the only isolated measure of the student voice on record. Griswold is a government senior from Indianapolis.
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Raising tuition helps UT’s future By David Davis Jr. Daily Texan Columnist @daveedalon
Recently, I was invited to join a Facebook event titled “Against UT tuition increases.” The group’s goal was to galvanize students against possible tuition hikes that may be suggested by student leaders in a proposal to be sent to the UT System Board of Regents on March 26. The Facebook group creator, computer science junior and former Daily Texan columnist Mukund Rathi, asked students to attend town hall forums held by legislative student organizations to discuss the possible tuition hikes and make their objections heard. I attended one of these forums, but not to voice objections to the proposed tuition rates. Yes, I would prefer not to have to pay more for tuition, but, with the constant decline in state funding, as well as UT’s striving to be a leading research university, the necessity for tuition increases is inevitable. And let’s get one thing straight: Student leaders are not being asked to consider tuition increases just for the hell of it. During the fiscal year 1984-85, the University received 47 percent of its funding from the Texas legislature. This year, state funds have dwindled to only 13 percent of the school’s budget. In the past, substantial aid from the Legislature kept tuition rates artificially low. During the SG public forum held last Tuesday, Rathi said, “Students shouldn’t have to get a part-time job. Students should not have to deal with tuition increases.” Unfortunately, the reality is that we don’t live in a utopia where the cost of everything, including a college education, is equal to everyone’s financial capabilities, and any measure taken by the UT administration is not going to solve income inequality overnight. Also within this reality is a harsh truth: Money rules everything. A key factor in student opposition to the tuition hike is the lack of information students have on the matter. The sentiment that I gathered from attending the forum was that the burden of the bulk of UT’s budget was being placed on students. That’s simply not true, and it wouldn’t be even if tuition were to increase. During the 2012-13 fiscal year, after tuition revenues, there was more than $1 billion left in operating expenses. Even if the University increased in-state tuition rates by 2.6 percent as proposed, the increase would only mean, on average, about $127 more per year per Texas resident student for the University, which would add only approximately $4.5 million to the school’s budget. About $2 million would be added from out-of-state
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tuition revenues. With operating expenses of more than $2.4 billion last fiscal year, and tuition covering only about $500 million, the increase in tuition would be a drop in the bucket for the University’s budget. During the public forum, Plan II honors senior Scott Wahl proposed an active protest outside of the Board of Regents office. Although I cannot be sure as to what the Regents will decide, tuition increases for Texas residents are improbable. Last year, when President William Powers, Jr. submitted a recommendation to the Regents for a student-approved tuition increase, the request was denied. The Texas Tribune reported that the Regents Chairman Gene Powell was in favor of freezing in-state tuition in order to reduce the burden on students and their families. Last tuition-setting year, in order to resolve the budget problem and offset tuition increases, the Regents allocated money to the University from the Available University Fund. That money makes up the Permanent University Fund, a public endowment to support certain Texas public higher education institutions. The University cannot depend on this fund as a solution to its financial problems, though. Despite the PUF’s assets totalling nearly $16 billion, only 4.25 to 5 percent of the funds can be used for the Available University Fund. That percentage of money is not just up for taking by the University, as it is shared with the A&M system, as well as between all 15 UT system institutions. And, if students fear that increasing tuition now would set a precedent for future tuition increases, they shouldn’t: the Legislature has mandated a fixed tuition plan for the incoming class of Fall 2014. This plan would allow students to opt into paying the same tuition for a period of twelve consecutive semesters. But the main problem with arguments against tuition increases is the egocentrism of students. We think about the now and how it affects us in this moment. The ire surrounding the tuition debate only came about once the proposal included a 2.6 percent in-state undergraduate tuition increase. The original proposal submitted in December 2013 only called for increases in undergraduate tuition for out-of-state students. I didn’t hear many UT students protesting that increase. Students who are against the increases are simply not considering the situation from the administration’s point of view. The University has to plan for its financial position years from now, even after current students are gone, and the University cannot continue its success without adequate funding. Tuition increases are a necessary evil, and, while student leaders should represent the voice of their constituents, the voices of informed students should carry more weight in the tuition discussion. Davis is an international relations and French junior from Houston.
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Freshman catcher Tres Barrera, along with freshman Kacy Clemens, have propelled the Longhorns’ lackluster offense this season. Both players have combined for 38 hits so far.
WOMEN’S GOLF / CAROLINE HALL The Longhorns sit in sixth place after a strong first round at the SDSU Farms Invitational on Monday. Sophomore Natalie Karcher led Texas with a 2-over 74 on the day, finishing 20th on the individual leaderboard. Trailing right behind Karcher was junior Bertine Strauss (75), who finished one stroke behind Karcher
to tie for 28th place. Behind her was freshman Juila Beck, who carded a 76 to tie for 35th. Freshmen Anne Hakula (77) and Lara Weinstein (79) are tied for 40th and 55th places, respectively. Texas tees off the second round at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday morning alongside No. 4 Arizona State and No. 5 USC.
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continues from page 6 showed accountability in the comeback. The effort helped Texas grab its first NCAA Tournament win since 2008 and advance to the Round of 32. Against No. 11 Maryland (25-6, 12-4 ACC), the Longhorns (22-11, 11-7 Big 12) are the underdogs, as they have been throughout the two teams’ history. Maryland leads the all-time series 3-1 and beat Texas in the teams’ only other NCAA Tournament matchup. But that 79-71 Terp victory was in 1989, when no current player on either team had even born yet, so Texas must take advantage of its newfound drive and a fresh start if it wants to advance to the regionals for the first time in a decade. “Our team is really fortunate to have won the game [against Penn],” head coach Karen Aston said at a press conference following Sunday’s game. “It’s huge. Everything that we set forth to do this year we have checked off. One of those was obviously to make it to the tournament, and we accomplished that. The next one was to win a game. That was a step I feel like this program needed to take.” With all initial goals checked off, Texas has nothing to lose and no reason to slow down. It must capitalize on its strengths, as it did from the free-throw line Sunday, but also realize it’s not playing
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a pushover. While the Longhorns boast a .365 3-point shooting average for the season, the Terps just barely trump them at .366. Texas’ 14.8 assists per game are its most this millennium, but Maryland posted a superior 19.6 average on the season. Even the Longhorns’ +11.7 rebounding margin, which puts them fifth in the nation, trails Maryland’s +12.2 margin. Texas will have its hands full Tuesday night at 6 p.m. CST, as it plays in College Park, Md., which is home court for the Terps. “I think we learned that we just have to stick together through everything,” senior guard Chassidy Fussell said at a press conference Monday. “We are going against the team and the fans that are yelling at us; we just have to communicate and stick together.”
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continue the hitting display against Texas State on Tuesday. The Bobcats will travel to Austin from San Marcos to face the Longhorns, sporting a respectable 15-8 record this season. Texas State is coming off of an impressive series with Western Kentucky, in which it won two of three games while scoring 21 combined runs. But the Bobcats’ 3-4 record on the road and a 3.76 combined ERA plays strongly into what the Longhorns are doing well at the moment. Texas State can score plenty of runs, averaging just over five runs per
contest, but bad pitching against a hot Texas lineup cannot happen. The Longhorns are playing well in all facets of the game as of late, and, if Clemens and other young players can expedite the learning curve, the possibilities are endless for this Texas team.
Weathersby chose the Longhorns over the Aggies and Sooners. Weathersby became Texas’ third offensive line commit of the 2015 class, joining Patrick Vahe and Ronnie Major. Texas also offered highly touted offensive tackle Matthew Burrell from Virginia. Although landing the tackle will be tough, Texas fans should appreciate the
new coaching staff ’s willingness to recruit players from all over the country. A key reason that the previous regime failed was an overreliance on in-state recruits, even in years that the talent wasn’t there. Strong can avoid this problem by continuing to go after top out-of-state talent that indicates interest in playing for Texas.
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OFFSEASON continues from page 6 linebacker never managed to make a significant impact on the field, despite being a highly touted recruit in 2010. Spring practice does not appear to have slowed down Strong and his staff on the recruiting trail, as they landed their eighth and ninth commit for the class of 2015 last week. Last Tuesday, Texas received a commitment from Deshon
Elliot, a three-star linebacker/safety hybrid, who had offers from Texas A&M, Baylor and Oklahoma, among other schools. Landing Elliot was crucial in getting some recruiting momentum back from the Aggies, who were seen as the Longhorns’ biggest competitor for his services. On Saturday, Under Armour All-American Toby
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Sophomore center Imani McGee-Stafford attempts to throw up a shot against TCU in February. The Longhorns are set to take on Maryland in the Round of 32 of the NCAA Tournament in College Park, Md., on Tuesday.
Longhorns set to take on Maryland By Jori Epstein @JoriEpstein
Texas’ perfect 18-for-18 foul-shooting performance, en route to a 79-61 win over 12th-seeded Penn (22-7, 12-2 Ivy League), proved that free throws can make the difference between winning
and losing. “Anytime you go 100 percent from the free-throw line is great,” sophomore center Imani McGee-Stafford said at a press conference following Sunday’s game. “Every time they fouled us, we capitalized.” Motivated by a drive to
prolong its season, Texas rebounded from a first-half deficit to blow out the Quakers. McGee-Stafford led Texas with 20 points on 8-for-11 shooting and 12 rebounds. She scored 15 of her points after the half. “I don’t want to say I freaked about the score, but
it was in my mind,” McGeeStafford said. “I just wanted to come out and give my team what they deserved from me.” The entire Texas team adopted this mentality, as each player stepped up and
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Clemens already standing out in early career By Matt Warden @TheMattWarden5
Despite the team-first approach of head coach Augie Garrido’s small-ball system, freshman infielder Kacy Clemens has already found a way to stand out. Entering his first collegiate season, most of the focus was on Clemens’ name. As the son of Roger Clemens, former MLB all-star and Longhorn legend, expectations were very high, with the spotlight fixed on his every move. While Clemens is just starting to find his rhythm at the plate, currently hitting .224 with just three RBIs through 25 games, his ability to do the small things has made him stand out in Garrido’s mind. “He is another example of not bringing any fear into this game from that other game, and that is what
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Freshman infielder Kacy Clemens bats against Dallas Baptist last week. Clemens, who is the son of former Longhorns’ star Roger Clemens, is hitting .224 and has become a vital part of head coach Augie Garrido’s team.
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Spring practice begins with Ash behind center By Drew Lieberman @DrewLieberman
Texas moved a little bit closer to the 2014 regular season last week with the start of spring practice. This marks the second of new head coach Charlie Strong’s five phases of college football. Strong recently outlined his cycle as follows: winter conditioning, spring practice, summer conditioning, preseason camp and the regular season. During Texas’ first practice, senior quarterback David Ash practiced with the rest of the quarterbacks, an indication that he should be cleared to play once the
season begins. The Longhorns appear to have attempted to bolster their quarterback depth by moving senior Miles Onyegbule to quarterback, a position he played in high school but has yet to try at the collegiate level. At the moment, it appears Texas’ offense will rely on the health of Ash, considering his backups will enter the fall without having proven their ability to succeed at the college level. Last week, just a couple days after dismissing two players, the Longhorn football program lost two more who decided to leave the sport. Seniors Bryant Jackson and Aaron Benson have both opted to forgo their final year of eligibility. Jackson’s career ends for
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Senior quarterback David Ash drops back against New Mexico in August. Ash, who was injured early in the 2013 campaign, practiced with his team on the first day of spring practice.
medical purposes, after he suffered a foot injury that cost him the 2013 season and may have been what ended his career. Jackson came to Texas as
a defensive back out of high school before moving to receiver in 2011. Benson, the younger cousin of former standout running
back Cedric Benson, decided to end his career to focus on academics. The senior
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SPORTS BRIEFLY New evidence shown in Oscar Pistorius trial
PRETORIA, South Africa — Oscar Pistorius and Reeva Steenkamp argued fiercely in the turbulent weeks before he killed her, and the athlete’s girlfriend told him she was sometimes scared by his behavior, which included jealous outbursts in front of other people, according to phone messages revealed at the Olympian’s trial Monday. “I’m scared of u sometimes and how u snap at me and of how u will react to me,” Reeva Steenkamp texted Pistorius, in a message read out in court by police Capt. Francois Moller. In another message, Steenkamp wrote to the double-amputee runner: “I can’t be attacked by outsiders for dating u AND be attacked by you, the one person I deserve protection from.” The court adjourned with Moller expected to return to the witness box on Tuesday. He has not yet revealed whether police recovered any phone messages or communications from the night of the killing. In Steenkamp’s message about being scared of the athlete, she also added: “You make me happy 90% of the time and I think we are amazing together.” She goes on to talk about Pistorius snapping at her for chewing gum and talking in an accent, and then writes, “I just want to love and be loved. Be happy and make someone SO happy. Maybe we can’t do that for each other. Cos right now I know u aren’t happy and I am certainly very unhappy and sad.” The long message was sent after the two attended a friend’s engagement party and apparently had left early because she said he had gotten upset and jealous. As Moller read the message, Pistorius, who had been looking at a book of the compiled messages, closed his eyes. Tears fell to his lap. —Associated Press
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Lavaca Street Bar seems like a standard sports bar at first glance. Most of it is occupied by friends sitting around crowded tables, talking over each other and watching March Madness, but around the corner in its dimly lit back room sit four vintage skeeball machines. Age has worn the machines. Occasionally, they break down. Some have holes in the nets, and, in other places, there is chipped paint, adding to its character. On Wednesday and Sunday evenings, the machines are brought to life by members of the Austin Skeeball League, a group of mostly young professionals looking for a way to hangout with friends and drink. The league was created by co-founders Brandon Greer, Paige Powell and Correy Reiling and has grown from 42 members to more than 150. “A buddy of mine and I — I guess three years ago — went out golfing and started talking about doing our own league,” Greer said. “It was kind of an odd thing when he presented me with it, but we started thinking about it, and we all said, ‘Let’s do this as a group of friends,’ and it just kind of spread from there.” The rules of Skeeball are simple. A team of three players signs up for the league and picks a day to roll: Wednesday or Sunday. At each match there are 10 rounds per game with nine rolls per turn. This repeats eight times per season, with the top-10 overall teams from each day making it to playoffs. This year’s playoffs begin Wednesday. “It’s an old-school game,” Greer said. “Anybody can be good at it, but you don’t have to be good at it. You can go and break up your week and hang out with fun people.” Alexia Sanchez, who plays for Skee3PO, had not played skeeball since her childhood when she heard about the league from her aunt and joined. “I’d played skeeball at Chuck E. Cheese’s as a kid, but I never thought it was this ‘skeerious,’” Sanchez said. While there is a competitive side to the league, it operates more as a social outlet. “It gives me the opportunity to get out of the house midweek, have a couple beers with friends, be competitive and get some skeeball in,” Sanchez said. The league has been meeting at Lavaca Street Bar for the past year. While the bar doesn’t directly profit from the league, they have seen an increase in traffic early Wednesdays and Sundays. “They invest a lot in promoting it, and it draws a great crowd,” said Chad Taylor, general manager at Lavaca Street Bar. “Not just a lot of people but a good quality of people. It’s a lot of the same people who would come to the bar anyway, so it’s a really good match.” The league owns the skeeball machines. Greer and his co-founders bought them on websites such as Craigslist and eBay for around $2,000 apiece. Greer said each machine is at least 60 years old. Time has warped them slightly, giving each one its own quirks and changing how players must roll on each machine. Adam Fortner, a member of Skee3PO’s rival team How Ball Are You?, said there is a certain
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Top: Beth Gibson, right, plays a game of skeeball at Lavaca Street Bar on Sunday evening. Bottom Left: Brandon Greer is a co-founder of the Austin Skeeball league at Lavaca Street Bar. The games are usually played on Wednesday and Sunday evenings and have seen an increase from 42 members to over 150. Bottom Right: Alexia Sanchez plays for Skee3PO team, and it serves as a social outlet for her while being competitive at the same time.
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important thing about Austin Skeeball League is the camaraderie it provides. “I think it’s more of meeting the new people and making new friends,” Greer said. “That’s the biggest thing I’ve gotten out of it. Most of my friends are actually ones that I have met through skeeball.”
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