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International students underreport abuse

By Nicole Cobler @nicolecobler

When it comes to relationship violence, international students and their partners deal with barriers most other students on campus do not even consider.

Many factors may contribute to international students’ reluctance to report abuse they experience, including

language barriers and a fear of being sent back to their home countries, according to Samira Chosh, community resource advocate at Asian Family Support Services of Austin, is a nonprofit organization that primarily helps clients from South Asian countries.

UT’s Counseling and Mental Health Center often refers international students’ spouses to the nonprofit.

International spouses are referred to non-University services when they are in the country on visas that prevent them from enrolling as fulltime students — because they are not students, they cannot utilize on-campus resources.

International students usually come to the United States to enroll in a full-time degree program using the F-1 student status, according to

information provided by UT’s International Office. Those students’ dependents, including spouses or children, often have F-2 visas. Those who hold F-2 visas are not allowed to be employed in the U.S., study full-time or participate in degree programs.

International graduate students, who are more likely to be married than their undergraduate counterparts, are also

more likely than other graduate students to live in on-campus housing. About 75 percent of the residents at University Apartments, which are graduate-student apartment complexes, are international students, according to the Spring University Residence Halls Demographic Report by the Division of Housing and Food Service. According to Chosh, many abuse victims with F-2

status are afraid to report abuse because they are barred from co-signing leases at the graduate student apartments.

“If your spouse is abusive, he or she can basically just throw you out because you’re like a guest in your own house,” Chosh said. “You could become homeless, and the spouse could call immigration to

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Committee proposes guaranteed tuition plan

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Ryan Stanley waxes canoes at the Texas Rowing Center at Lady Bird Lake on Monday afternoon.

In their proposal that recommends increasing tuition for all in-state undergraduate students by 2.6 percent and for all out-of-state undergraduate students by 3.6 percent, the seven student leaders on the committee also proposed an option that would create a guaranteed tuition plan for the first time at UT. The student group submitted its recommendations to the System on Friday afternoon, after the deadline for submitting proposals was extended for all working groups at each System institution. According to Wanda Mercer, associate vice chancellor for student affairs at the System, UT-Austin group is one of the only groups to submit its proposal so far.

“Many of them are taking advantage of our opportunity

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Former speechwriter Students prefer bananas over apples commemorates LBJ

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Next week’s Civil Rights Summit at the LBJ Presidential Library and Museum will draw attention to a president who, until this semester, the University offered a class entirely about — President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Forty-five years after the end of his last term, University classes such as “The Johnson Years” allowed students to look at Johnson’s presidency in depth. Following this semester’s cancelation of the course, there are no longer any classes that focus solely on Johnson’s administration.

Harry Middleton, Johnson’s former speechwriter, taught the course while he was director of the LBJ library.

“I tried to be able to make those years come alive by bringing in as many of my colleagues from my White House days as I could,” Middleton

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said. “I think, modestly, I gave the students something close to a firsthand experience.”

Middleton said he believes legacies will fade no matter what happens, and it’s fortunate that certain events, such as the Civil Rights Summit, bring attention back to President Johnson and what he accomplished.

“I live in this retirement community, and I’m sure everyone here is on Medicare, and I wonder how many of

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Students consume about 77 percent more bananas than they do apples, according to 2013 data from the Division of Housing and Food Service, making them the most popular fruit sold by the University.

In 2013, the University purchased 238,320 bananas, while only purchasing 71,559 apples. Darla Stewart, DHFS assistant director for purchasing and procurement, said the University uses a food management software system to determine how many cases of bananas and other types of fruit should be purchased from the produce vendors who provide shipments daily.

“The [dining hall] managers will go into the system and forecast the number of students or customers they expect to have,” Stewart said. “They say,

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‘OK, for this meal period — say, for lunch in [Jester Second Floor Dining] — we’ll probably have 1,500 people.’ They’ll enter 1,500, and the computer, using its data that has been put in, and historic data, will then come up with an amount

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Stewart said the system, which has been in place for about 20 years, is accurate enough that there is rarely any leftover fruit.

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prised to see the addition of glass as a recyclable.

“I think they just want to make it easier for students to recycle,” Sepulveda said. “UT seems like they’re always trying to make an effort to have a greener campus.”

Because the change to include glass was an amendment to the current contract with the company, Mangrum said there was no additional cost.

Recycling in academic buildings is under a different division and contracted with a different company, Balcones Resources, which also recently included glass in its recycling program, along with single stream recycling, which makes it easier on the group generating waste, facilities services manager Ben Reid said.

“Basically, it’s putting all your recyclable items into one stream versus … source-separating,” Reid said. “Sourceseparating is where you have your plastic, aluminum, etc., and single stream is where you put everything together and give it to the recycler,

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After moving to singlestream recycling, both the Division of Housing and Food Services and the University’s main recycling program began accepting and recycling glass products in the fall 2013 semester.

The DHFS has a contract with Republic Services for its recycling and trash needs.

According to environmental specialist Hunter Mangrum, it was ultimately the company’s decision to include glass in its recycling program.

“Republic gave us a call over the summer saying they would be moving into the area and letting us know, and keeping us posted on the official rollout date when they would be okay with us getting the word out about [recycling glass],” Mangrum said.

Undergraduate studies sophomore Jacquelyn Sepulveda, who has lived in a residence hall for two years, said she was not sur-

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to get more student input,” Mercer said. “We didn’t even give them a deadline [because] we so much wanted to provide them with the opportunity they needed. … It’s very vague.”

The UT student group’s tuition increase proposal would raise the weighted-average tuition for undergraduates taking 15 credit hours from $4,899 to $5,026. Out-ofstate undergraduate tuition would increase from $16,921 to $17,361. In addition to the recommendation, the proposal included a guaranteed tuition rate plan, which allows students to set a tuition rate that will remain unchanged for a four-year period. The plan allows students to have an exact value for how much their tuition will cost over four years, as the rate does not change based on mandated tuition increases.

The group’s proposal requests a 4-percent increase in tuition to be compounded annually for the fall 2014 cohort, meaning a student who opts into the guaranteed tuition rate plan will have a tuition increase

of 4 percent every year his or her tuition is due, no matter what the state dictates. The initial tuition under the plan for fall 2014 will be a 4-percent increase from the tuition in fall 2013. The proposal does not include a guaranteed tuition plan option for graduate and professional students.

In February 2013, the UT System Board of Regents voted to require the implementation of a guaranteed tuition rate plan at all nine academic institutions starting in the fall of 2014. UT-Dallas has been offering a guaranteed tuition rate plan since fall 2007 and is the only System institution to do so on its own, according to System spokeswoman Jenny LaCoste-Caputo. She said a guaranteed tuition plan encourages students to graduate in four years.

“UT-Dallas, which moved

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[who then sorts] it for you.”

Mangrum said the majority of glass products on campus come from offcampus retailers.

“Since we haven’t been able to recycle glass until now … there are only two glass options,” Mangrum

• The guaranteed tuition plan is an option that allows students to set a tuition rate that will remain unchanged over a four year-period. This means a student’s tuition will increase at the same rate every year and it will not change based on mandated tuition increases.

• The group’s proposal requests a 4-percent increase in tuition annually for students who opt into the plan.

• There is no guaranteed tuition plan for graduate and professional students.

• The group estimated a total of 500 students at UT would opt in to the guaranteed tuition plan. Enrollment in fall 2013 was 39,979 undergraduate students.

to a guaranteed tuition plan in the fall of 2007, has already seen positive effects [from its guaranteed tuition plan],” LaCoste-Caputo said.

“The four-year graduation rate for UT-Dallas students who entered college in the fall of 2006 was 44.9 percent, compared to 50.6 percent for students who entered college in the fall of 2008.”

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—Jenny LaCoste-Caputo, UT system spokeswoman

for their four years gives not only the student but whoever is paying for the tuition a safeguard against an even higher increase than any of the years that they will be paying,” Villarreal said.

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continues from page 1 them remember it was Johnson that brought it into effect,” Middleton said. “As we get into modern presidents, their day is coming and will fade and not many will remember — that’s the way life works.”

Johnson, ranked as the 11thbest president by CSPAN, graduated from Southwest Texas State Teachers College in San Marcos, which is now known as Texas State University. After being sworn into office following President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, he signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Social Security Act of 1965.

According to Middleton, Johnson affected people’s lives today more than any other president, and it’s important to continue offering classes on him.

“I wonder how many students at the University of Texas at Austin are in school because of the various educational programs that were passed in the Johnson years,” Middleton said.

“We used to live in a segregated society, and we don’t anymore. … He’s relevant in that regard.”

Religious studies sophomore Alex Gaudio, who tried to get into the class before it was canceled, said he has never had a class that delved into Johnson’s presidency. Gaudio said he believes it’s important for politicians to learn from past administrations.

“Every president uses previous presidents as a precedent,” Gaudio said. “The past matters.”

Government and Plan II senior Ben Mendelson was a student in “The Johnson Years” while it was still available and said it helped him learn about moments of history he would not have been taught otherwise.

“Being in that class and seeing history really come alive — the allure of watching him tell his stories about the man that he knew … was absolutely incredible,” Mendelson said.

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By Nicole Bueno lass @itsmorebueno uld tles Technological fields of study be-have notoriously been domire-nated by men, but the ability to id. connect through technology gives way to a potential era of feminist empowerment.

According to Nada Ismail, computer science junior and president of Women in Computer Science, only 13 percent of computer science graduates are female. Ismail said she’d like to see women pursue careers in the technological fields to develop products appealing to their own gender.

“History has shown that men have been the innovators, and, for most of the developers to be male, that means that a lot of our target audience is going to be missed,” Ismail said.

Business Consultant Carla Franklin spoke at South By Southwest in Austin last month about the benefits and hindrances technology has posed for women and

the feminist movement, introducing her coined “Feminism 2.0” approach.

“Feminism 2.0 is essentially the evolution of feminism now that we have digital and online tools to foster empowerment,” Franklin said.

Franklin said technology has helped women by serving as an information highway of sorts — giving victims of rape, cyberbullying and other predatory cases the opportunity to use the Internet as a form of release and protection as opposed to a negative forum. Furthermore, Franklin said she believes the intimidation women feel when pursuing careers in technology is misplaced, as their natural inclinations reflect skill sets needed in the market.

“You want someone detailoriented and great at multitasking?” Franklin said.

“Pick a woman.”

According to Ismail, our society is in the midst of a technological revolution — one that women should take

advantage of.

“Computer science provides women with tools to use their intuitiveness to benefit society, as well as providing access to the workforce and booming industry,” Ismail said.

Feminism’s growth through technology can only be seen in a positive trajectory, according to Elynn Lee, computer science senior and president of the Turing Scholars Student Association. Lee said, overall, technological advances can be thanked for a new sense of unity among women — making ideas, news and awareness available on virtually every device in the world.

Lee said she thinks being able to see other women go through the successes and failures of life serves as a powerful way to promote female solidarity.

“In the past, women would stay at home, but, with technology, women can still learn and grow at home with online classes,” Lee said. “It’s nice to know you’re not really alone with anything you’re doing.”

cancel your status.”

According to Chosh, Asian Family Support Services has 250 hotline calls each year.

She said the organization receives such a low number of reports — only five to six cases by the Asian population per year — because many immigrants from Asian countries are embarrassed to report domestic abuse and sexual assault.

“Asians do not like to report sexual assault because, culturally, they are supposed to not talk about sex,” Chosh said.

Chosh said the conditions of F-2 visas can themselves be a cause of tension in relationships.

“You can imagine the dependence when you are not allowed to work in this country you are basically stuck in,” Chosh said. “That dependence on somebody to such a great level is a huge problem and it can very soon become an abusive relationship.”

Jane Bost, associate director at the Counseling and Mental Health Center, said the University provides many resources for all students to deal with relationship violence but cannot serve nonstudents. Bost said the University tries to make external resources as widely known as possible to help those they

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According to Scott Meyer, DHFS food service director, besides leftover food items, fruits that sell out are also indicators of how much fruit to purchase.

“Every week, [the system is] updating itself,” Meyer said. “[If the system] told

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cannot serve themselves.

“If they’re not enrolled, then they’re not eligible for services here,” Bost said. “That’s why we promote on our website.

They can always call in, and one of our response teams can give them references to local organizations.”

Although Asian Family Support Services offers programs in 12 languages with the help of 12 permanent employees, it does not offer emergency housing. The only place in Austin that offers temporary housing for victims of domestic abuse is the nonprofit SafePlace, which also provides a 24-hour hotline and counseling service.

According to Julia Null Smith, senior director of marketing and communications for SafePlace, the 105-bed shelter and all direct services are wait-listed. SafePlace served more than 5,000 people last year and had 11,247 hotline calls. Null Smith said the shelter provides services to anyone, regardless of whether you to buy four cases of apples, and you used all four of them, you might want to get five cases next time.”

According to Stewart, increased methods of transportation have allowed fruit to be shipped globally, while still maintaining excellent quality.

“In the last 20 years, my bet is that there is more fruit being eaten now than then,” Meyer said.

According to Stewart, the increased education regarding the values of eating fruits may be another

You can imagine the dependence when you are not allowed to work in this country you are basically stuck in. That dependence on somebody to such a great level is a huge problem and it can very soon become an abusive relationship.

—Samira Chosh, Community resource advocate at Asian Family Support Services of Austin

they are U.S. citizens.

“Domestic violence isn’t necessarily something that is labeled and called out,” Null Smith said. “The more removed you are from your own culture, isolation becomes a massive problem for people living in violent relationships.” reason for increased fruit consumption.

Biology senior Cameron Ginnings said he generally eats a banana once a week when he eats the fajitas in Jester City Limits, and that he makes use of the option in JCL to substitute any side with a piece of fruit or small salad.

“Whenever I get the fajitas, I like the beans, but I don’t like the rice, so I get a banana for a side,” Ginnings said. “[Bananas] taste good.

That’s why I choose them over an apple.”

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Why Texas can’t afford to give up property tax Though the upcoming statewide races for positions beyond governor may not have captured student attention, one idea by the leading candidate for state comptroller could have an effect on rent prices and students’ ability to buy a house after graduation.

State Sen. Glenn Hegar, R-Katy — a candidate for state comptroller — recently expressed his unequivocal opposition to state property taxes, indicating he would like to get rid of the tax altogether and replace it, instead, with an increased consumption tax (i.e. sales tax).

Hegar believes property taxes put an unfair burden on citizens. As he said at an event last month, “As long as we pay taxes, we have to ask, ‘Do we really own our property?’”

Eliminating the tax, however, would not only be detrimental to all of the government programs that our tax dollars fund — including the University of Texas. It would also fail to decrease an individual’s tax burden.

According to a 2012 tax policy report, the switch from a property tax to a sales tax would necessitate a 25 percent sales tax to

As long as we pay taxes, we have to ask, ‘Do we really own our property?’

—State Sen. Glenn Hegar, Candidate for state comptroller

earn back the lost revenue.

Our state’s current maximum sales tax rate of 8.25 percent is already on the upper end — we rank 11th in the nation, according to the Tax Foundation. An increase to 25 percent would give us the highest tax rate in the nation, nearly triple Tennessee’s 9.44 percent combined state and average local sales tax rate, which is currently the highest in the nation.

Moreover, funding for cities, counties and schools would be even more vulnerable to economic ups and downs if we switched to a sales tax, since consumption spending is directly tied to our economic well-being: In times of recession, we focus our purchases on non-durables such as food and basic necessities, while, in times of plenty, consumers are more likely to splurge on expensive durables that would rake in more money for the state.

Although under current Texas law, property is only subjected to local taxation. Texans have been paying property taxes from the beginning of the republic. Though voters abolished the statewide tax through an amendment in 1982, local taxes are still allowed. So, since 1979, real and business personal property owners have paid taxes based on the appraised value of their property, according to a 2011 report by the Texas House of Representatives.

Based on figures from current Texas Comptroller Susan Combs, the total property tax levy in Travis County for 2010 was $2,303,173,357 or $2,249 per capita, putting us in the mid range for counties in Texas.

The levy, and others like it, is used to fund day-to-day operational costs of government

activities, as well as to service any debts.

Granted, taxes have grown substantially in the past decade (188 percent from 20022010). But a lot of that increase has been fueled by special purpose districts, i.e. community college or water control districts.

The comptroller’s latest transparency report says that, while the taxes levied by counties and school districts have not changed substantially since 1992, the number of special purpose districts that levy property taxes has increased by more than 45 percent.

These special purpose districts have accounted for 87 percent of the growth in local entities levying property taxes since 1992.

The most common types of special district property taxes are municipal utility districts, emergency services districts, hospital districts, water control and improvement districts and college districts. So the money garnered from many special property districts has literally been going to fund infrastructure projects and services, such as hospitals, libraries and community colleges, at least according to the state’s records.

Hegar’s predecessor in the comptroller’s office, provided he wins the position in the general election, was Susan Combs, who has held the position since 2006 and is retiring this year.

Combs and Hegar are both Republicans.

Yet, it’s sad to think how far the party seems to have fallen since 2006. Combs, a Republican, authorized the transparency reports cited in this article that explain where our property tax dollars are going and underscore how important the tax revenue is for our state. Hegar, also a Republican — albeit

The fact that [Hegar] chooses to campaign on a platform that he cannot even follow through with further takes away from his credibility. Voters should truly think twice before casting a ballot for him in November. perhaps a more current representation of the Republican Party in Texas — advocates for removing property taxes altogether and replacing them with an increased consumption tax, a move meant to increase the sense of ownership we have on our property, but, unsurprisingly, backed by little math whatsoever. (Admittedly, Combs had her own problems with math — her revenue estimates for the last biennium were notoriously off-base — but, unlike Hegar, she seems to grasp the basic principle of less being less.)

Granted, comptrollers and tax collectors do not write tax laws, so, even if Hegar were to win the election, he would not have the power to put in place his ludicrous new tax scheme. The fact that he chooses to campaign on a platform that he cannot even follow through with further takes away from his credibility. Voters should truly think twice before casting a ballot for him in November.

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By Amanda Almeda Daily Texan Columnist @Amanda_Almeda

It’s hard to summarize dating and relationship trends of graduating seniors here at UT, but, if one had to, dating in that final semester of college would probably be characterized as “whatever fits into one’s long-term plans.”

For some, that means short-term dating only.

For others, no dating at all. And, for a few, it might mean trying for the long-haul — as long as both partners are heading off to the same place. But for everyone, it means deciding what value they place on being in a longterm relationship, and that decision speaks less about our relationships than it does about the way graduating students see themselves.

“The way I view [dating] is as second to post-grad plans,” petroleum engineering senior Dylan Shaw said. “Anything that would happen this semester is short-term and not serious, but I can definitely see how if something serious came about it would be more difficult.”

Shaw said he is still in the process of solidifying his plans after graduation, and the uncertainty adds another factor to dating.

“When you have no structure in life, it’s hard to make long-term plans,” Shaw said.

“Getting a job is one area to build structure.

If you have that set, it’s easier to be uncertain about other things. For me, there are only so many things that can be up in the air. But it’s all about the person too.”

Chemistry senior James Compean said that, even if short-term dating is probably the most feasible for graduating seniors at this point, there is still something to be gained from the dating at all.

“It’s a nice thing to find someone to get close to in and of itself, even if it ends,” Compean said. “Realistically, if you’re going to move to a new city, meet new people, work friends, long-distance can get tricky. I still see us as young. We still have a lot ahead of us.”

Professional accounting graduate student Ryan Wells is hopeful about the twoyear long relationship he has been in. After graduation, he plans on working in Dallas.

His girlfriend has been applying to nursing

If one had to, dating in that final semester of college would probably be characterized as ‘whatever fits into one’s long-term plans.’

schools in Dallas and other cities.

He said that, ultimately, they will choose “whatever’s best. If it happens to work out, it will. If both people are committed, you can make it work.”

Anthropology senior Deidra Perez, on the other hand, started dating someone in her last semester of college.

“A lot of my friends are breaking up,” Perez said. “I don’t have a problem with dating someone right now. If [getting together with someone] is going to happen, it’s going to happen.”

After she graduates, Perez said she will be staying in Austin, and her boyfriend will continue taking classes at UT. Despite this, she said, “It wouldn’t have made a difference if we had ended up in a different city.”

Her friend, history and corporate communication senior Samantha Gonzales, said she just got out of a relationship she was in all throughout college, and she regrets not experiencing more of college while single.

“I don’t have anyone to accommodate to — my schedule with yours,” Gonzales said. “You have more time to find out who you are.”

But Gonzales qualified her statement. “If you meet the right person at the right time, [being single] doesn’t play a role,” she said.

“Some people use it as an excuse — ’I need time to figure myself out’ — when if you wanted it to, you’d say, ‘We’ll figure it out together.’”

Marketing senior Jonathan Van has been with his girlfriend since high school. “I know even some long-term folks feel that it’s important to be single in college,” he said. “That’s valid. Just, personally, I’ve never wanted to be single in light of the fact that I think [my girlfriend] Kimmie is my one.”

For someone who has observed a fair share of college romances, to put it into numerical perspective, marketing professor Raji Srinivasan said, “I would say [I have seen] about 50 percent of relationships succeed and fail in my time at UT.” John Daly, professor of communication studies, management and the IC2 Institute, said the likelihood of success of a college relationship after graduation is dependent on a lot of variables.

“People are constantly changing and the younger you are, the more changes you are likely going through,” Daly said. “Couples often think they will change together, but more often than not, they change in different ways at different times.”

Graduation causes us to re-evaluate our priorities. For seniors who have found a serious relationship, maybe it’s time to make some serious commitment. For others, it’s better to commit to love only to a point. The last semester seems to be a time to cut off the nonsense in favor of what will fit in with the future, and whether that future is one of traditional commitment or self-involvement is a decision each student must make for him or herself.

Almeda is a marketing senior from Seattle.

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“If Texas is serious about implementing high quality pre-K, there is a need for greater transparency of pre-K programs. This will increase districts’ ability to share information and facilitate the diffusion of classroom best practices. Transparency will also enable policymakers to assess the return on taxpayers’ investment in state-funded pre-K by providing the necessary information to hold school districts and private providers accountable for the quality of their pre-K programs. This type of transparency and accountability is sorely lacking under the current model.”

—Greg Abbott on his proposal to reform pre-K education.

“There’s no doubt that we can win, but, in order to do that, we have to let go of the stale tactics of the past. How could a party that uses out-of-date, behind-thetimes technology expect to be competitive with millennials, the very generation that is the most technology-savvy generation to live?”

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Greg Abbott, attorney general and Republican gubernatorial nominee, speaks at his primary night election party on March 4 in San Antonio. Abbott is trying to shift the focus of his campaign message to education.

Abbott shifts focus to education reform WESLACO, Texas — Shifting the Texas governor’s race to education after a turbulent few weeks over equal pay, Republican Greg Abbott on Monday called for getting students out of federal Head Start programs with a classroom vision that borrows from GOP ideas old and new.

The Texas attorney general isn’t ceding the debate over public schools this election to Democrat Wendy Davis, who counts teachers among her biggest backers. The Fort Worth senator filibustered nearly $5.4 billion in classroom cuts in 2011 before her star-making stand over abortion restrictions last year.

Abbott chose an elementary school in the Rio Grande Valley to unveil his early education plan: up to $118 million in pre-K dollars for districts that meet higher standards and the return of a reading initiative

started under former Gov. George W. Bush.

His platform also singles out a favorite personal target — the federal government — by calling for Texas families to turn away from Head Start and toward early education alternatives in their local districts.

“I am laying out an a education plan for the next decade to elevate Texas to a No. 1 ranking in the country,” Abbott said.

Davis seized on Abbott pivoting his campaign to education before the specifics of his plan were even announced. She has criticized Abbott over his office defending the historic 2011 classroom cuts that led to more than half of the 1,000-plus school districts in Texas to sue. Lawmakers last year restored most of that funding.

Abbott has said his office is obligated to represent the state in court but

hasn’t taken a stance on whether he agreed with the cuts.

“The hypocrisy is astonishing,” Davis said in statement. “It’s completely dishonest for Greg Abbott to be talking about early education at the same time he’s defending deep cuts to Texas pre-K in the courtroom.”

Abbott’s pre-K plan isn’t entirely new: Even materials provided by his campaign call the proposal “similar” in ways to a 2009 bill in the Legislature that garnered wide bipartisan support but was ultimately vetoed by Gov. Rick Perry.

Perry, at the time, cited “limited state resources” to the plan that would have helped schools offer full-day pre-K. Abbott’s proposal doesn’t call for full-day but does mandate higher standards for halfday programs.

“I don’t know the details of that bill,” Abbott said of

Last-minute health care enrollment causes scramble at assistance centers HOUSTON — In San Antonio, a line of lastminute health care consumers stretched a quarter of the way around the Alamodome. In Houston, the search was on for interpreters to help people enroll for insurance.

Those trained to assist with the rush in Dallas prepared to work well past 11 p.m. And, in the Rio Grande Valley, an organizer scurried between stacks of library books, trying to help a half-dozen people get health care.

This is what the final day of open enrollment in President Barack Obama’s health insurance marketplace looked like in Texas, the state with the highest rate of uninsured in the nation and one of the most crucial to the program’s overall success.

“Texans sometimes have a little bit of a Southern sensibility, so it takes these deadlines to get them to get their enrollment completed,” said Mimi Garcia, Texas’ director for Enroll America.

For Texas, where one in four people are uninsured, enrollment is crucial, and the state has lagged behind others that face similar obstacles, including powerful politicians that have vocally opposed the program.

By March 1, about 295,000 Texans had enrolled, fewer than half of the 629,000 that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services had projected would enroll by the deadline.

Azeb Yusuf, 45, a program coordinator at the Somali Bantu Community of Greater Houston, has been working since March 8 with a City of Houston navigator to enroll refugees.

By 8:30 a.m. Monday, more than a half-dozen people from Ethiopia, Nepal, Eritrea, Somalia, Iraq, Iran and other areas waited inside a small room to see the navigator. Many had visited before. On this last day, they took a day off from work, hoping to meet the deadline.

Besides enrollment assistance, they also needed help from interpreters who speak languages such as

Amharic and Tigrigna, the latter being spoken in Eritrea. Yusuf said it can take hours for an interpreter and an Affordable Care Act counselor to help on the phone simultaneously, and, sometimes, one drops off the line. She said a client was on hold for so long last week that the interpreter fell asleep.

“And he started snoring,” Yusuf added, laughing.

—Associated Press

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the 2009 proposal. “What I can tell you is if a bill like the one I’m talking about here is passed, of course I’m signing it into law.”

Davis has also called for higher quality pre-K, expanded eligibility and early childhood reading efforts.

Whoever replaces Perry next year inherits a public school system undergoing a major makeover, including fewer high-stakes standardized tests and more charter schools.

Education is a conversation Abbott is willing to have after Davis spent the past several weeks criticizing Abbott over pay discrimination lawsuits and salary differences between men and women in his office. Abbott has said he would veto a measure to make it easier for women to bring pay discrimination lawsuits in state court, saying legal avenues already exist.

—Associated Press

American studies associate professor Shirley Thompson received a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellowship on March 20. The grant will aid in Thompson’s work and research in writing her book “No More Auction Block for Me.” The book, a culmination of her research, will examine the effects of slavery on the treatment of newly-freed African-Americans in the postCivil War era by examining law and economics during the time period.

“My larger project is about African-Americans’ conceptions of property and ownership, so property is kind of the organizing principle,” Thompson said. “My starting point is that I’m thinking about property from the point of view of this legacy in AfricanAmerican history, having been owned as property as slaves … rather than persons under the Constitution.”

One of the aspects Thompson will look at is the insurance market during the post-Civil War era and the implications it had on African-American lives.

“In the broader insurance industry, African-American lives were deemed risky — certainly too risky for premium life insurance policies, which were kind of emerging as a marker of middle-class status,” Thompson said. “The question is what does it mean to place

value on African-American lives at this moment [when] they’re consistently being devalued in the larger broader American culture?”

Elizabeth Engelhardt, American studies professor and department chair, said the award will allow for Thompson to incorporate other fields into her American studies research.

“What’s really exciting about this fellowship is that it’s a chance for her to really develop her skills in a couple of disciplines that are sometimes further removed from American studies,” Engelhardt said. “So she will be working in economics and law and being able to bring those to our American studies community and our American studies classrooms.”

American studies professor Steven Hoelscher said Thompson’s research branches out from traditional American studies research.

“One of the things that impresses me the most about her is her unwillingness to sit back on her laurels,” Hoelscher said. “She realizes that if she’s going to be studying property and economic resource she needs to learn more about economic models, economic utility and economic interpretations of the world. She is putting herself in the position of learning all these new tools so that she can study and then state authoritatively her central issue of the role of property in African-American life.”

My starting point is that I’m thinking about property from the point of view of this legacy in African-American history, having been owned as property as slaves … rather than persons under the Constitution.

—Shirley Thompson, American studies associate professor

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Last year, Texas mastered the art of losing the one-run game, and it was 11-15 in two-run games.

So the team spent all of fall attacking entitlement and the mental aspect of the game, in hopes that it would help the young Longhorns (22-7, 3-3 Big 12) in close games.

And it has worked.

The Longhorns are 9-2 in games decided in extra innings or by two runs or fewer this season.

Sunday was just another example. Texas took the lead in the top of the 12th on senior utility man Madison Carter’s two-out, tworun single. Carter had only four at-bats on the year, going hitless, but the unlikely hero isn’t something new for the Longhorns this year.

In the team’s walk-off win against UTPA, it was senior catcher Jacob Felts’ RBI single that won the game.

Felts had just one at-bat before that. Head coach Augie Garrido thinks that is a testament to the involvement of the bench. “[The bench] has been on the rail rooting every inning of every game,” Garrido said after Texas’ walk-off win against UTPA. “They are committed.”

But, for the guys on the bench, winning is all that matters. They hope they can contribute, but a win is a win.

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Senior catcher Jacob Felts swings during an at-bat against Columbia. Felts, along with other Longhorns, has helped Texas off the bench this season as it has started 22-7, its best start since 2005.

“It always feels good [to be the hero],” Felts said. “As long as we win, it doesn’t matter who gets us there.”

And winning is exactly what the Longhorns have done this year. They are 22-7, their best start since 2005 — a national championship year. They have climbed their way back from a disastrous 2013 and stand at No. 8.

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said after a win against Dallas Baptist.

Unlike that of last season, Texas’ offense this season is starting to spark. In the series against Texas Tech, they had 44 hits — the most in over two years. And that was against a team that had the second-best ERA in the Big 12. Over the last eight games, Texas is averaging 6.75 runs per game and hitting .336.

“When you have the pitching staff we have, it’s nice

only having to put up two or three runs to the win,” Johnson said.

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Texas held its Pro Timing Day on Wednesday, and, with representatives from all 32 NFL teams in attendance, it was one of the last opportunities for the team’s seniors to show off their skills and impress scouts before the draft on May 8-10.

For defensive lineman Jackson Jeffcoat and wide receiver Mike Davis, it is not a question of whether they will have an opportunity to realize their NFL dream but, instead, a question of when they will hear their names on draft day.

For the other Longhorn draft hopefuls, the question is a little more up in the air.

Cornerback Carrington Byndom impressed scouts with his blazing 4.37 40yard dash time, a showing that should definitely help his case in the later rounds of the draft. Byndom hopes that his name is called during the draft but is prepared to work for an NFL roster spot if he goes undrafted.

“Just trying to make it on somewhere — that’s my goal.” Byndom remarked, “I can only control what I can.

I can’t control where people draft me or call me. So I just got to try to get a shot and try to make it in some

kind of way and, once I get there, show them what I’m capable of.”

Defensive tackle Chris Whaley was shooting up draft boards before suffering a season-ending injury against West Virginia in November.

Whaley appears to be about a month ahead of schedule in rehabilitating his knee but will have to overcome both his injury and skeptics in order to realize his dream.

“I’m willing to fight,” Whaley said. “I’ve had to for a long time. Coming from running back to [defensive] tackle, I had to fight for that job. So the fight is nothing new.”

Defensive end Reggie Wilson came to Texas as a heralded recruit whom almost everyone wanted out of high school. But, because of Texas’ glut of NFL caliber talent at the position throughout his career, Wilson never made much of an impact on the field. Still, he remains positive, encouraged that he can fight for his dreams as they now rest solely on his performance.

“At the end of the day, if I go out and don’t perform, then I have nobody to blame but myself,” Wilson said.

“That’s how I look at it.”

Offensive guard Trey Hopkins, who hopes to be

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It all started at recess.

Ariel Atkins dribbled the basketball up and down the concrete with spunk, like she always did at home, when the school’s coach approached her.

“Do you want to be on the team?” the coach asked.

Atkins told her first scout that she needed to ask her mom. After all, she was only 4. The Atkins family had no idea she would one day become the No. 4 recruit in the country.

Atkins has continued to pose a threat on the basketball court during the last 14 years. During her junior year last year, the Duncanville High School guard averaged 16.8 points, 5.5 steals and 6.1 rebounds per game while shooting 55.4 percent from the field and 49.2 percent behind the arc. She led her team, the Pantherettes, to an undefeated season that culminated in a state championship.

Texas head coach Karen Aston was impressed. “[Atkins] is a dynamic scorer and a tremendous defender,” Aston said. “She is a player that demands so much from her teammates; another high-motor player that fits our style perfectly.

[Atkins] is a throwback player who is best described as simply special.”

Her standout resume even led to an offer from Texas.

“It’s a blessing,” Atkins said. “My mom told me she was always thinking about a scholarship, but I wasn’t. I was just having fun. When I realized I could actually play basketball for four more years, I was pretty hyped.”

Coming to Texas, Atkins joins a legacy of players with dual Pantherette-Longhorn loyalties. The line of succession begins with Duncanville head coach Cathy Self-Morgan, who averaged

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Most recently, Texas welcomed sophomore guard Empress Davenport from Duncanville.

But, as she joins the legacy, Atkins stands out. It’s not just because she led her team to a 105-game win streak, which was only snapped in a devastating championship loss this season after Atkins fouled out. And it’s not just because she upped her impressive stats to 17.9 points, 5.8 rebounds, 4.8 steals and 3.9 assists her senior season.

It’s not even because she did all this while maintaining a GPA above 3.5 and she will soon graduate in the top-8 percent of her class. It is because of Atkins’ character.

A November matchup with Manvel High School

— the team that downed Duncanville 58-53 in the championship on March 1 — epitomizes Atkins’ style.

At half-time, the scrappy Manvel team led 32-18.

Self-Morgan was furious.

“We don’t play fearful,” Self-Morgan said during the break. “With my finger pointing at their chest, I refused to ever let any one of my Pantherettes be afraid of anyone.”

She threw a water bottle to get the girls’ attention.

“In Pantherette ball, we play hard,” Self-Morgan said. “We play hungry. We go after the loose balls, and we score.”

Duncanville reclaimed its lead with a 25-point third quarter. Atkins and Texas signee Tasia Foman, the two players who Self-Morgan

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“That’s one good thing,” Hopkins said. “I have a plan for outside of football. But football is definitely what I want to do right now.”

ATKINS continues from page 6 said did not show fear, acted as team role models.

“People were asking me [whether] was I scared that game — no, I wasn’t scared,” Atkins said. “That’s not cockiness. It’s just knowing what my team is capable of. We weren’t Duncanville Pantherettes the first half of the game.”

Atkins translates that mentality to every game.

She said the 105-game winning streak was a blessing rather than pressure.

“If you put pressure on yourself, it means you get stressed out; you get anxious,” Atkins said. “Anxious means fear of the unknown.

We have to be confident.”

But Atkins and her team tempered that confidence

with a sense of reality.

“You can’t just expect a win when we walk on the floor because of the name on our jersey,” she said. “We don’t work like that.”

Walking onto the court at the McDonald’s All-American Game on Wednesday night, Atkins won’t expect a win, either. But the AllAmerican Player of the Year will live up to her standards, playing with focus, motivation and heart.

“We’ve got to play hard, want to win and hustle,” Atkins said. “That’s what [Duncanville] represents.”

Atkins will play in the McDonald’s All-American Game at 6 p.m. Wednesday night in Chicago. The game will be televised on ESPNU.

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Cycling groups in Austin were previously seen as exclusive. As the scene grew, cycling groups started to open and shift from a competitive view to an open community.

Since 2009, the Social Cycling Austin group has been calling together bikers of all skill levels to go on rides ranging from five to 15 miles. Since then, Social Cycling Austin has expanded to eight cycling events during the week, with the biggest turnout on their Thursday Night Social Ride.

Hundreds of cyclists ride through Austin, passing through streets lit with holiday lights and lined with food carts, residential areas that hide lesser-known parks and the downtown night scene.

The sights immerse the rider as they’re surrounded by different kinds of music coming from the stereos of cyclists.

Each week, the ride leaders change.

Terry Schreck has been riding with the group for three years and now helps lead the groups.

“The first one was kind of funny,” Schreck said. “I didn’t know what it was about, so I found out where the ride started and went down. Immediately, I was welcomed into the group.”

Social Cycling meets weekly at Festival Beach on Thursday nights at 7 p.m. Prior to takeoff, cyclists meet for an hour of socializing. The group starts with about 10 people showing up promptly, but, as the time for departure nears, the number of cyclists grows to about 100300 people.

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Members of the Social Cycling Austin group line up for the Thursday Night Social Ride last week. The group meets at Festival Beach off Lady Bird Lake at 7 p.m. and can have as many as 300 riders.

and love bikes, then this is a great group for that,” Schreck said. “This is a very diverse group with just about every cycling there is; we accommodate everyone.

We try to be really inclusive and get really involved in the community.”

A number of cyclists dress up for the ride, styling their hair with neon gel and wearing outfits to match the theme of the month.

Bill Murray was the theme for March.

For those individuals who prefer a smaller group setting, there are other rides available throughout the week during the afternoon and evenings.

On Wednesday nights, cyclists meet for Queer Ride, a ride co-created by Zachary Settle. This group ride creates a welcoming environment for LBGTQ individuals, as well as anyone else who wants to join.

“Before I started Queer ride, I would go on some of the bigger ones, like the Thursday social ride,” Settle said. “I rode that a lot, but I wanted to form a group that caters to our

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community more. I know gays and lesbians like to ride bikes in Austin, and they didn’t feel comfortable in big groups, so we started with a few friends, and it kind of became its own social ride.”

One event Queer Ride is known for is the dragthemed rides in which cyclists gear up in dresses and high heels and ride through downtown.

Tuesday nights are reserved for the yoga ride.

This allows the cyclist to cruise around Austin and then unwind for a yoga lesson at the midpoint of the ride. Melissa Hagen, one of the ride leaders, has participated in the yoga ride for four years.

“It’s so beautiful,” Hagen said. “I lie on the ground, on my back, doing the yoga, reaching towards the sky, and

the stars start to come out. It’s really pretty, especially when we’re by the water.”

This ride is shorter than most but makes up for the lack in distance by offering a free yoga lesson taught by various instructors joining the ride that day. The yoga lessons are primarily taught in parks, but sessions have been held all over, even on building rooftops.

For all rides, cyclists of all skills levels are encouraged to join any of the events held during the week. Ride leaders ensure that all cyclists make it to the destination, and the safety and well-being of all riders is a priority.

“We help folks get their butts on bicycles and keep them there,” Schreck said.

“That’s the way we like to see it.”

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in India to be “both amazing and definitely a little bit more dangerous,” and said that some people will use homemade rang and oil instead of store-bought rang and water, or celebrate with “bhang,” otherwise known as a cannabis milkshake.

“In India, it’s crazy — no matter what your religion is, everyone’s doing it,” Sreerama said.

“People are in houses throwing [color] into the streets. People on the streets are throwing it onto each other. The shops are closed. Usually, a couple hours are spent running around with color, and the rest [of Holi] is spent having fun and playing different games with your family.”

Hindu families also celebrate a “puja,” or prayer, in the morning, specifically for Holi.

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“We think that college campuses are the ideal places for this [movement] and real pertinent places because there are always new people moving in from their home towns and new circumstances where people may be apprehensive to opening up,” Barshop said. “With this movement, we thought it’d be the most receptive place.”

A few UT students are part of the Inkuire team and are involved in spreading the word of the brand on campus. Economics junior Chris Omenihou, Inkuire’s marketing and engagement director, wears Inkuire shirts around campus and said he’s trying to make sure students know about the movement.

“I try to drop a seed when I talk to a new person — an Inkuire seed,” Omenihou said.

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Ayushi Agarwala, Plan II and finance senior and festival attendee, said Holi is a huge cultural tradition in her family and that she never thinks to miss the festival. Agarwala said that, while some students who celebrate Holi may not completely understand the cultural or religious aspects behind it, hosting Holi at UT is still beneficial for educating others on the Hindu religion.

“Once they come out, they always ask the question, ‘What’s going on,?’” Agarwala said. “They gain a bit of understanding. If you didn’t do anything at all they would have no idea. Even if they don’t know the full significance, they know something now.

T-shirts and into other apparel, such as hats. The two partners also said they want the brand to become a vessel for throwing events that center around bringing strangers together to produce something positive.

“We want to throw events, and we want to be a brand that brings people together,” Hamad said. “Our vision with Inkuire and with this network of people is that you can get people in a room to create something and use their talents and interests to get some cool things off the ground.”

Hamad said he is not looking to criticize social media sites, such as Facebook, through Inkuire, and that he recognizes the limitations of the Inkuire shirts but thinks they will help alleviate some of the hesitation that comes along with meeting new people.

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Shaya Mehdibeigi, international relations and global studies junior, celebrates the annual Hindu festival Holi on Sunday afternoon. Holi is an annual Hindu springtime festival celebrating the triumph of good over evil.

Colored powder and water are thrown as Hindu devotees take part in Holi celebrations, the Hindu festival of colors, at the Baldev Temple in Dauji, India, on Tuesday, March 18.

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Abhi Sreerama, UT alumnus and Holi co-chair, said he did not expect this year’s Holi to attract 7,500 people, an attendance that nearly doubled from 2013.

“We definitely had a major increase in attendance from last year,” Sreerama said. “I guess, logistically, we did not anticipate such a turnout in our wildest imaginations, yet it is a great credit to our officer group and staff for being able to adjust on the fly.”

Holi is an annual religious Hindu festival celebrating the victory of good over evil on the day of the full moon, as well as the arrival of color in spring. It is observed in India by participants holding prayer, playing games and throwing colored powder, or rang, at each other.

Mrinalini Vijalapuram, Holi co-chair and international relations and global studies senior, said that, in hosting Holi at UT for 11 years, the Hindu Students Association also focuses on celebrating ethnic diversity through the festival.

“We feel that Holi brings

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together people of all ethnicities, especially when you’re throwing color at each other,” Vijalapuram said. “The significance of different colors being on your skin is really important to signify that it doesn’t matter what race you are. We’re all here to learn and have fun.”

Vijalapuram said, while the organization attracts thousands of people to Holi each year, the event at UT is of a smaller scale than that of the celebration of Holi in India. Sreerama recalled his time celebrating Holi

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Group promotes face-to-face interaction

By Brigit Benestante @bbenestante

Six months ago, Sam Hamad and Noah Barshop came up with a way to challenge what they thought was a problem among the current generation of students: face-to-face interactions — or a lack thereof — between strangers. Hamad and Barshop created Inkuire, a clothing brand devoted to facilitating real-life interactions between people who don’t know each other.

Inkuire is attempting to increase in-person student interactions with a T-shirt.

The T-shirt, which currently comes in four variations on inkuire.org, displays the word “Ask” in bold cursive across the front.

Inkuire, which the founders brand as “The Human Social Network,” is based on one recurring question: Why do we hesitate to talk to strangers?

Inkuire is run out of Hamad and Barshop’s apartment in South Austin. The idea for the brand developed a few months ago and has since flourished into a website, a motivational video and the start of a movement, marketed specifically toward students on the UT campus.

“I thought to myself, ‘What if there was a way to know that I won’t get rejected, or what if it was easier to talk

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Inkuire co-founders (from left) Noah Barshop and Sam Hamad, along with Chris Omenihou, marketing and engagement director and economics junior, hope to increase face-to-face interactions between strangers through their clothing brand.

to someone I don’t know?’”

Hamad said. “We decided to make a shirt that does that which everybody wears and says, ‘We can meet. I’m open to interaction.’”

According to Barshop, this generation of students is missing out on the experience of holding meaningful conversations with strangers, in part because of the rise of social media and the introduction of mobile devices. Barshop and Hamad said social media is great at facilitating certain aspects of communication but may be contributing to the decline in real-life interest

between strangers.

“No one seems to be interested [in one another] because it’s so easy for us to be self-contained within our own affairs anywhere we go,” Barshop said.

This idea is being approached by other groups as well. Thirteen University of Washington graduate students created the exhibit “Advice: Give it, Get it, Flip it, Fuck it,” where the sole purpose was getting strangers at an art exhibit to talk to each other.

The shirts are intended for people on board with the Inkuire movement to

recognize one another.

“We do intend to be recognized as a clothing brand in terms of the products we sell, but it’s really more about the culture outside of the clothes,” Hamad said. “We want to show people what we can do to encourage them to break out of their comfort zones. The shirts and the video were our first step.”

Inkuire launched two weeks ago by releasing a video that explains the brand’s movement and message.

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Feminist organization discusses social issues

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Every Wednesday, a group of UT students meets to create a safe, comfortable environment in which to discuss activism, social justice and day-to-day experiences.

The group, called the Feminist Action Project, was started roughly three years ago and aims to provide a space for likeminded people to come together to discuss social justice. In collaboration with the Gender and Sexuality Center, the Feminist Action Projects organizes discussions, programs and events centered on feminism.

The organization recently put together a conference titled “Redefining Our Place at the Table: Finding Feminism Through Authentic Conversations.” The conference held discussions and panels on a diverse range of topics within feminism. Cora Cook, women’s and gender studies senior and group member, said the conference covered topics ranging from issues around the transgender community to those around body image and self-love.

In addition to an annual conference, the organization puts out a zine every semester called “Musings of a #lonelyfeminist.”

The name came from the idea that being a feminist can feel like an isolating and lonely journey. The group accepts submissions from anyone — as long as

the piece aligns with the group’s values.

“We don’t ever focus on just one issue or just one topic to talk about,” said Margaret Johnson, Plan II freshman and a member of the group. “We really talk about everything and [are] supportive of all areas of feminism. With the zine, we mostly take submissions from outside of the group so that they can share their thoughts and feelings about feminism and just existing.”

On a regular basis, the organization hosts weekly discussions called Feminist Fridays that anyone can attend.

Similar to the organization’s other projects, Feminist Fridays cover a diverse range of topics, such as “The Politics of Black Women’s Hair” and “Men and Feminism.”

Johnson said, because many people may not know how broad and complex feminism is, discussions and the zine help facilitate those conversations in the community.

“I think people have a narrow view of feminism,” Johnson said. “There are so many different levels to social injustices, and I think, when people hear the word feminism, they get this image of women-versus-men, and that’s not all what it is. It’s just so complicated, and those conversations are important, and people may feel they already know enough, but there’s so much to know.”

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