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Second shooting spree within five years leaves four dead, including perpetrator

Federal laws restrict loan information for students

Rampage at Fort Hood

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FORT HOOD — A soldier shot and killed four people, including himself, and injured 16 at the Fort Hood military base, located outside of Killeen, on Wednesday afternoon. The casualties mark the second mass shooting at Fort Hood in five years.

Nine patients are in treatment in the intensive care unit at the Scott & White Hospital in Temple. Three were in critical condition Wednesday night, according to Deontrea Jones, a hospital spokesman.

The soldier, who was identified by U.S. Rep. Michael McCaul, R-Austin, as 34-year-old Ivan Lopez, suffered from “unresolved” mental and behavior health issues and was in treatment, according to Lt. Gen. Mark Milley. Fort Hood officials said they would not confirm Lopez was the shooter.

According to Fort Hood officials, the shooter fired at individuals in the 1st Medical Brigade area of Fort Hood a little after 4 p.m. He died of self-inflicted injuries after a military police officer approached him.

Milley said though the shooter had not been formally diagnosed, he was undergoing the diagnosis process for post-traumatic stress disorder. The shooter served in Iraq for four months in 2011 and had a wife and children who lived near the base.

“That’s a lengthy diagnosis,” Milley said.

Ben Armstrong, director of UT’s Student Veteran Services, said many veterans at UT have served at Fort Hood or have other close connections with the base, although there is no way of tracking

Multimedia Check out our video on Fort Hood at dailytexanonline.com an exact number. Armstrong said he and other members of Student Veteran Services have not yet decided on a course of action or support plan.

“The immediate thing we’re worried about is the families and soldiers that are on base,” Armstrong said.

“Right now I think that all we can do is hope and pray for the people that are on base, and we can go from there once we figure out what the realities of the situation are.”

In 2009, Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army major and psychiatrist, shot and killed 13 people and injured more than

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Top: Lt. Gen. Mark Milley speaks to press after a shooting at Fort Hood.

Charlie Pearce / Daily Texan Staff Above: Staff Sgt. John Robertson (right) waits in a parking lot outside of the Fort Hood military base for updates about the shooting that occurred inside on Wednesday.

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Federal laws that restrict what loans advisers are allowed to mention to students mean that students are not provided with information that could save them money, according to Tom Melecki, director of Student Financial Services.

Federal law currently prevents institutions from recommending, promoting or endorsing private student loans, which are defined broadly enough to include loans offered by the state of Texas. One state loan program, the BOn-Time program, offers a no-interest loan that is fully forgiven if the student graduates on time for their degree with a GPA of at least 3.0. According to Melecki, advisers are not allowed to recommend this loan to students unless they specifically ask to be put on the waiting list.

Melecki said the restrictions on what information an adviser can share means many students never find out about options like the BOn-Time loan. According to Melecki, $32 billion in B-OnTime money went unused in Texas in 2012, though more of the money was accessed in 2013.

“The B-On-Time loan can support students in achieving on time graduation because if we can provide them with B-On-Time money, they wouldn’t necessarily have to go out and work and earn money [during college],” Melecki said, “They’d have more time to work on their studies.”

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Ruling nixes limit on campaign donations

Satirical fetish article draws ire

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A new Supreme Court decision that overturned restrictions on campaign contribution limits could increase wealthy donors’ abilities to influence elections, according to law professor Lucas Powe.

In a 5-4 decision Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that federal limits on the number of candidates and political committees a person could donate to in an election cycle were in violation of rights protected by the First Amendment.

In the case, McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, the court ruled that current aggregate limits, or the amount of

money an individual can give to committees and candidates in a two-year period, also posed an unconstitutional burden.

“The basic idea is that Congress can’t regulate the total amount a person can give to lots of different candidates,” law assistant professor Joseph Fishkin said.

Powe said while the ruling might lead to more transparency in the political system, it could also give wealthy, upper-class donors more ability to influence candidates.

“We might see a little more transparency because contributions to a candidate have to be reported, so contributions to super PACs might be more transparent,”

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By Brett Donohoe @BrettDonohoe1

With April Fools’ Day passing Tuesday, the slew of practical jokes has seemingly ceased, but The Daily Texan once published a much more permanent jest to commemorate the day.

In 1982, The “Deadly” Texan made its way into the newspaper boxes littered around campus. The insert, full of satirical pieces akin to that which the Texas Travesty would publish today, held no punches in terms of content or possible offensiveness.

One of the articles, titled “Fetishes of the deans,” graced the pages of this former gag issue. The article detailed the “objects of extreme or irrational rever-

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John Sutton Jr. (left) was the dean of the law school, whom a satirical article cast as having a leather fetish. James Doluiso, former dean of the pharmacy college, was, jokingly, FETISHES page 3 described as a drug connoisseur.

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U.S. autism diagnoses increase.

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Sorority bible study shows different side of Greek life.

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The two bullpen catchers embrace their role.

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Studies prove practice does not make perfect.

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McCarthy, senior policy analyst at the National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, one option provided to the University is to advertise a list of approved, independent lenders to students, with the hopes that those lenders recommend alternative loans. McCarthy said most universities choose not to use this option because they cannot guarantee the trustworthiness of the independent lenders. “[Universities] are kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place,” McCarthy said.

Melecki said independent lenders can be a risky option.

“Oftentimes, those loans turn out to be more expensive for students and certainly federal student loans,” Melecki said. “We don’t particularly want to be in a position of recommending to our students loans that may not be as good for them as the federal loans that are available to them.”

When the Higher Education Act preventing the information sharing was implemented in 2012,

the state allocated the University more than $6 million in B-On-Time funds, but students only used 59 percent of the allocation. In 2013, more students accessed the loan and used 99 percent of the state allocation. Melecki said he was not sure how students became more educated about the loan but said he appreciated the increased interest.

“What we want to do is be in a position where we can utilize this to the maximum extent every year,” Melecki said. “This is a fabulous loan program for students.”

A bill to amend the Higher Education Act is currently being reviewed by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce. Eight UT Student Government members are working to create an awareness campaign to lobby in support of the bill, H.R. 3371.

Philip Wiseman, government senior outgoing chief justice for the SG Judicial Court,

B-On-Time loan allocation and use at UT 2008 — $5,501,309 Used 78 percent of total allocation 2009 — $3,302,400 Used 98 percent of total allocation 2010 — $6,653,341 Used 84 percent of total allocation 2011 — $7,795,397 * Used 60 percent of total allocation 2012 — $6,674,872 * Used 59 percent of total allocation 2013 — $3,559,350 Used 99 percent of total allocation *includes supplemental funds from other universities said he has not heard any opposition to the bill from state representatives with whom SG has discussed the loan.

While the bill is in committee, Wiseman said he plans to inform students about the B-On-Time loan through

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30 others at Fort Hood. In 2010, former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates ordered the military to better identify potential workplace violence, improve information sharing between agencies and review emergency response capabilities at installations.

At a press conference in Chicago, President Barack Obama expressed grief and frustration that another shooting happened on a military base.

“Our thoughts and prayers are with the entire community, and we’re going to do everything we can to make sure Fort Hood has what it needs,” Obama said. “Folks there sacrifice so much on behalf of our freedom. …

They serve with valor and distinction. When they’re at their home base, they need to feel safe. We don’t know what happened tonight, but obviously that sense of safety has been broken again.”

Sociology sophomore Sara Tracy, who attended UT as a freshman and will be returning in the fall, lives in Killeen just a few miles away from the Fort Hood base and has family and friends who work there.

Tracy said she still has vivid memories from the 2009 shooting, which happened when she was a junior in high school.

“The first time this happened, we couldn’t leave school,” Tracy said. “It was just scary, because a lot of my friends couldn’t get ahold of their parents because the cell service is terrible when a lot of people use their phones. People were worried because they have parents who work there, and it’s just like the same thing all over again.”

Tracy said the whole community is affected by the shootings.

“It’s emotional — earlier I just cried,” Tracy said.

“You just don’t expect it to happen again … you want everybody to be safe.”

Veteran John Daywalt, a government junior from Killeen whose father still works at the Fort Hood base, said another shooting at the base was not something he expected to happen.

“Hearing that it happened a second time is even more devastating,” Daywalt said. “I just hope that the families are all OK and they get the proper respect that they deserve. It just kind of hits you by surprise.”

Daywalt, who served as a paratrooper in Afghanistan, said gun regulation on army bases is more stringent than people realize.

“I think there’s definitely a misconception that everyone on base is always carrying a weapon,” Daywalt said. “You think that just because they’re in the military, they’re always carrying a weapon. In reality, you are not allowed to touch a weapon without specific orders … so it’s not like if there was something like that you would be able to just respond immediately.”

For this story, Julia Brouillette and Kate Dannenmaier contributed reporting from Temple and Fort Hood. Additional reporting by Nicole Cobler, Anthony Green, Jacob Kerr, Jordan Rudner and Amanda Voeller from Austin.

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Thor Gudbrandsson, (center), chief operating officer of the Golden Hat Foundation, speaks at a panel discussion about Autism at the School of Social Work on Wednesday.

Autism awareness panel discusses rise in understanding, diagnoses

By Nicole Stiles @nicolestiles42

Autism diagnoses in the U.S. have been increasing, partly because more doctors understand the symptoms, local autism awareness advocates said at an on-campus panel on World Autism Awareness Day on Wednesday.

One in every 68 children is diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, which encompasses a number of social, communicative and behavioral development disorders, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

According to Suzanne

Potts, interim executive director of the Autism Society of Greater Austin, the rise in autism spectrum diagnoses, which is up from 1 in 88 in 2012, is because of an improved understanding of symptoms that occur at a young age.

Potts said she believes diagnosing autism is a challenge in itself because of a lack of distinct medical guidelines regarding diagnosis.

“There is not currently a medical test to diagnose autism,” Potts said. “There are assessment tests, but those become subjective to the person doing the testing.

[Autism] is a spectrum disorder, which means no two

people with autism are the same, making diagnostics even more difficult.”

According to Potts, creating an accepting environment for autistic people allows them to develop socially.

“Social perception is vital in the way they feel about themselves,” Potts said. “People identifying them in ways other than having autism provides support.”

Thor Gudbrandsson, chief operating officer of the Golden Hat Foundation, said understanding an autistic person’s ability for comprehension is often underestimated, leading to a belief that there is nothing that can be done to

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TOMS founder promotes social entrepreneurship, giving back @HaydenS_Clark

Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS, said he attributes his company’s success to its commitment to giving back as part of the Texas Cowboys’ Annual Lectureship on Wednesday.

Mycoskie said TOMS’ “one for one” business approach, which is specific to social entrepreneurship, engages customers more effectively than other business models do. TOMS, founded in 2006, began by selling canvas shoes and donating one pair for each pair purchased and has expanded this system to other products such as eye wear and coffee.

“When I first started this, I had this spontaneous response to helping kids, and I had this amazing feeling about giving, and giving felt really good, and it still feels amazing,” Mycoskie said. “As we were developing more shoes over the last

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The first dean described was Billye Jean Brown, former dean of the nursing school. Brown is described, vividly, as having a distinct fetish toward blood. “There’s nothing like fresh blood in the morning,” the article humorously attributes to Brown. “You walk into that room, where there’s a patient who bleeds a lot. … And there it is. His blood. Dripping into the hemovac. My hand grips the bed rails.”

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continues from page 1 Powe said. “We’ll also probably see much more big money because it gives the wealthy more control of the system. The Republicans are probably dancing in the streets right now.”

The decision still limits the total amount of money a donor can give to any one candidate to $2,600.

“A donor can now give a maximum contribution of $2,600 to as many individuals as he wishes,” Powe

improve the person’s quality of life.

“Despite [the] very odd behaviors that some kids express, they are intellectually capable,” Gudbrandsson said.

“They can be taught. They have dreams and aspirations and hopes for the future like everyone else.”

After doctors told him his son had a mental capacity of a 2-year-old, Gudbrandsson said he had little hope for his

son’s future until he and his wife produced a documentary about autism symptom improvement.

“We realized he was so intelligent and could do so much more than we ever thought,” Gudbrandsson said. “Now he is interested in composing music and we look forward to him debuting his music at Carnegie Hall in December.”

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CAMPUS TOMS founder Blake Mycoskie speaks at Hogg Memorial Auditorium on Wednesday night. Founded on the principle of providing shoes to children in need for every pair sold, the company has since expanded to sell eyewear and coffee.

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couple of years, I started to recognize that everyone was calling us a shoe business, but I always thought of TOMS as the ‘one for one’ business.”

Mycoskie said TOMS’ success comes from allowing the customer to experience giving back while buying the product.

“I always thought that the magic of what we were doing wasn’t necessarily just in the shoe,” Mycoskie said. “While I love our shoes … The [customer] gets to experience the brand or experience the idea that they buy something and help somebody at the same time, and that’s the ‘one for one’ business,” TOMS has donated roughly 10 million pairs of shoes to children in need since 2006, according to the company’s website.

“Giving doesn’t just feel good,” Mycoskie said. “It’s actually really good forbusiness.”

Matt Bowman, a mechanical engineering

senior and committee coordinator for Texas Cowboys, said Cowboys looks to inspire students at the University in hopes of developing future entrepreneurs. “[We are] all about giving back to the community, whether it be the University or our philanthropy,” Bowman said. “[Mycoskie] does so much to give back to his community, [through] his ‘one for one’ model, and what we really want to do is bring him to the University and spread his knowledge … Maybe one day we’ll develop the next TOMS.” Tom Rhea, psychology junior and Texas Cowboys Lectureship co-chair, said the Cowboys was not interested in attracting a speaker for the sole purpose of “filling seats.”

“We are meant to serve not only the University, but the entire city of Austin,” Rhea said. “We wanted to bring someone who had that mindset of service and passion to our campus.”

Discussion visits US role in Ukraine crisis

By Wynne Davis @wynneellyn

Ukraine isn’t enough of a U.S. priority to warrant military involvement, although Russia has shown its willingness to use military force, according to government professor Robert Moser in an on-campus roundtable discussion Wednesday.

Slavic and Eurasian studies professors discussed the ongoing situation between Russia and Ukraine as part of “Putin’s Russia and Eastern Europe,” sponsored by the International Affairs Society.

Moser, who also serves as chair of the government department, said the U.S. doesn’t plan to go to war with Russia.

“Ukraine is more important to Russia than it is to the United States and western Europe,” Moser said. “Ukraine has been historically viewed as sort of part of Russia, in its sphere of influence. If you lose Ukraine, from a certain perspective … you lose sort of the heart of the Slavic homeland, and there’s genuine fear that core interests — military, social, political, as well as economic interests — would be violated if Ukraine became part of the [European Union].”

Moser said the U.S. government remains firm in its decision to refrain from taking military action because of the notable effects economic sanctions have had on the Russian economy. He also said each

Brown then begins to treat the patient, who then asks, “Is there anything wrong, Nurse?”

“I look at him, tears welling in my eyes, biting my bottom lip, trying to control myself,” Brown said. “‘No, it’s just my type of blood, OOOh.’” As the article continues to survey the sundry fetishes of the deans, it attributes a leather obsession to John Sutton Jr., who was dean of the law school at the time.

“It started with mah first pair of booties,” said Sutton, who is described as having a noticeable drawl. “Ah

still have ’em. They’re not bronzed, jist well-awled.”

In response to his duties as dean, Sutton responds by invoking his favorite secret, “Once ya git all those straps and snaps and belts tightened up, it’s hard to thing of anything else.”

The article goes on to describe the drug habit of James Doluisio, who was dean of the pharmacy school when this issue was published.

“I try to keep up with the poisons that young people are putting into their bodies these days,” Doluisio said, removing a “vial of pills from his labcoat.” “These

little jewels give you the sensation that you’ve completely left your body and are vacationing at Lake Tahoe.”

Doluisio then “popped a couple of the little pills into his mouth and washed them down with a handy glass of water.” As the drugs kick in, Doluisio said, “If you need to reach me, I’ve left the name of my hotel with my secretary.”

While these fetishes are meant solely for the sake of humor and do not accurately reflect the statements or actions of any of the deans included, the article’s opening disclaimer proves the

said. “So with 33 Senate races and 435 House races, he can now give $2,600 to each and every candidate in that race.”

Under the previous laws, donors could only give to 18 candidates per election cycle, for a total donation limit of $123,200.

In his decision, Chief Justice John Roberts said he had no problem removing some donation limits because he felt most campaign contributions were not made to unfairly influence candidates.

“Spending large sums of money in connection with elections, but not in connection with an effort to control the exercise of an officeholder’s official duties, does not give rise to such quid pro quo corruption,” Roberts said.

Roberts said the decision was based on the fact that aggregate limits infringed on donors’ First Amendment rights of free speech and association.

“The government may no more restrict how many candidates or causes a

donor may support than it may tell a newspaper how many candidates it may endorse,” Roberts said.

Powe said he was concerned about how the new ruling might affect other campaign finance laws. “[The Supreme Court] didn’t strike down all campaign finance legislation, but they’re certainly poised to do so,” Powe said. “This is just the beginning. It has the seeds of knocking everything else out.”

The ruling will formally go into effect in 25 days.

country’s military view of Ukraine differs greatly — with Russia having higher stakes in the region because of its proximity.

Wesley Howard, a government and international and global studies senior and director of programs for the society, said the topic was chosen for the round table in January, before most people knew about the events going on in the region.

“We didn’t expect the crisis to occur in the timely manner it did, but … a lot of interest got spurred … [and] the professors were relatively talkative and wanting to join onto the panel,” Howard said.

“A lot of people pretty interested in the region think it seems difficult for the region to overcome because what precedent does it set for future invasions or future Russian power proliferations?”

Mary Neuburger, professor and chair in the department of Slavic and Eurasian studies, said she thinks reports from and about the situation are lacking perspective from the region where Ukraine used to be part of Russia.

“There’s an easy way to watch the media and go, ‘Yeah, Russia’s evil,’… and I think there’s this story that‘s being fed to Americans — a very uncomplicated narrative of Russia’s evil, Putin’s evil, they’re taking up the Ukraine … and I think part of the problem is a consistency problem for us on foreign policy,” Neuburger said. only veritable paragraph in the piece. “We often forget that deep down inside deans are ordinary people just like ourselves … [and] people are sometimes a little … er, ah, eccentric.”

president and founder of Growing Roots, an organization that empowers and educates children with disabilities, said there is still room for improvement in autism awareness.

“Every year we learn more about autism, and it’s more prominent in the media,” Hernandez said. “But there are still many cultures that don’t have this type of awareness.”

NEWS BRIEFLY Powers endorses final Shared Services report

President William Powers Jr. endorsed the final report and recommendations produced by the Shared Services Steering Committee in a letter dated Monday.

In the letter, addressed to the UT community, Powers said he expects Kevin Hegarty, vice president and chief financial officer, to carry out the change in a “thoughtful manner.”

“I thank the Shared Services Steering Committee, Vice President Hegarty, the campus leaders who have volunteered to participate in this next critical phase of transformation, and all members of the UT staff for the important work they do every day,” Powers said in the letter.

As defined by Hegarty, Shared Services is a plan to centralize University services across campus. The plan outlines the elimination of 500 jobs — primarily through attrition and retirement, according to University officials — to centralize finance, information technology, human resources and procurement services.

The committee’s final report, endorsed by Powers, outlines the findings and recommendations produced by the committee through its exploration of Shared Services implementation at UT. In the report, the committee provided recommendations on how best to conduct a pilot version of implementation. According to the report, the committee will take a closer look at existing forms of Shared Services on campus, particularly those at the College of Liberal Arts and McCombs School of Business, as well as pursue test runs in colleges, schools and units that volunteer and have structures conducive to centralization.

Now that Powers has endorsed the plan, UT spokesman Kevin Almasy said the Shared Services project team will start meeting with pilot participants to begin developing a transition plan.

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Time to rethink role of University’s Tower Last week, a front-page story in The Daily Texan reported that the UT Tower, the grand monument at the center of our campus, is more than half vacant. Moreover, the University plans to empty and repurpose the remaining office space: Seventeen of the building’s 32 floors are formally categorized as “vacant” or “future storage space.” Though the upper floors of the Tower may never be used regularly by UT students and staff again, there is one working plan that may keep them of use to the University: The space may be used to store plant specimens from the plant resource center, which currently occupy six of the Tower’s lower floors. Plants, unlike people, won’t crowd the stairways in the event of a fire, and it is these safety concerns that have led to the emptying of UT’s most prominent building.

The remaining offices in the upper levels of the Tower will soon be vacant as well, as these concerns about evacuation safety — the upper levels of the Tower have only one staircase, and one exit is not nearly enough to allow office workers to safely evacuate in the case of a fire — have led UT to empty them once and for all.

According to UT Fire Marshal James Johnson, the chances that the higher levels of the Tower will ever be safe for occupants are slim.

“There’s no way we are ever going to be able to build another stairwell — it’s impossible,” Johnson told the Texan last week.

Fire code concerns aside, it’s worth asking how UT’s most monumental building became so monumentally empty. The answer, as a consequence of its own architecture, is a keen reminder of the importance of building spaces that are both beautiful and usable in a year in which the University will break ground on the new Dell Medical School.

The Tower is part of a group of buildings built from 1910 to 1942 which, as architecture professor Larry Speck wrote in “The Texas Book,” “demonstrated

palpably to its public the ambitions of an emerging institution.”

In the original designs of Cass Gilbert, the nationally renowned architect employed by the UT-System Board of Regents who began crafting a master plan for the UT campus in 1910, the design of the Main Building was at first a grand dome, then a pillared temple, then, finally, a tall, thin tower situated on a broad base.

Twenty years later, construction began on UT’s new Main Building when FrenchAmerican architect Paul Cret began his contract with the regents in March 1930. In 1931, the Texas Legislature had just authorized the creation of the Permanent University Fund, a pool of money funded by oil income that the regents were afraid the Legislature would quickly snatch away. Scared of this possibility, the regents ordered Cret to put the money toward building quickly, and he did, designing 10 buildings, among them the Main Building, which was built in two phases in 1933 and 1937. The Tower, both in its style and placement, was exactly the way Gilbert had envisioned it more than a decade before.

The Tower was meant to house both administrators and a grand library, the remains of which are still open to students in the form of the Life Science Library.

But despite the Tower’s striking profile, not everyone admired the building. Legendary folklorist and former UT professor J. Frank Dobie once referred to the top of the Tower, with its deeply recessed balconies and proud columns, as a “Greek outhouse.”

Now, trips to the top of the structure are rare, as even current students must buy tickets and reserve a date in advance. The University first closed the Tower after engineering student Charles Whitman took several rifles and a sawed-off shotgun to the top of the building and killed 16 people and wounded 16 others in 1966. The Tower

HORNS DOWN: EXECUTION DRUG RULING OVERTURNED U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore issued a preliminary injunction on Tuesday ordering the Texas Department of Criminal Justice to disclose all information on the process used to procure execution drugs, which includes both the supplier of the drug and any testing involved.

However, that decision was quickly overturned by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, and Thursday’s scheduled execution will proceed as planned. Texas’ criminal justice department has consistently refused to reveal any of the information about the drugs’ origins, arguing that such a disclosure would threaten the manufacturer. Refusing to disclose detailed information about the drug used to execute Texas prisoners on death row seems to be a clear violation of constitutional rights, and Gilmore was right to push the criminal justice department to increase the transparency of the execution process. It’s deeply disappointing that the circuit court has overturned what would have been a step toward greater justice for inmates.

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This May 2008 photo shows the gurney in Huntsville where Texas’ condemned are strapped down to receive a lethal injection. U.S. District Judge Vanessa Gilmore’s injunction to disclose the origins of the state’s newest batch of execution drugs was overturned Wednesday.

HORNS DOWN: CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTION LIMITS STRUCK DOWN On Tuesday, the Supreme Court announced its decision in McCutcheon v. FEC, striking down 40-year-old overall campaign contribution limits in what is the most significant campaign finance ruling since 2010’s Citizens United. It is important to note that the court only struck down the limit on overall contributions made to multiple candidates. The limit on how much an individual can donate to one particular candidate still stands. While the previous overall cap of $123,000 per election cycle was so high that it affected only the wealthiest Americans, this ruling means even more money could find its way into the political sphere. While the relationship between money, politics and corruption is certainly complex, horns down to the fact that the court’s decision could make it easier to buy influence in America’s electoral process.

While the relationship between money, politics and corruption is certainly complex, horns down to the fact that the court’s decision could make it easier to buy influence in America’s electoral process.

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UT’s Tower stands nearly half empty as the last few offices it houses are re-purposed into storage space, because of fire safety concerns of the building.

briefly reopened after the shooting, but seven suicides later, it was closed to the public.

In 1999, it reopened with precautionary rails and set tour times.

Now, enough years have passed that we can look at the Tower without — as John Schwartz, editor-in-chief of the Texan in the 1980s, put it in “The Texas Book” — seeing the top of the Tower as “a perch known mainly for its association with mass murder.”

But we still can’t see it as Willie Morris, another former editor-in-chief of the Texan, saw it when he first came to UT in 1952. In his memoir, Morris wrote the following of his first day at UT: “That first morning I took the elevator to the top, and looked out on those majestic purple hills to the west, changing to

lighter shades of blue or a deeper purple as wisps of autumn clouds drifted around the sun; this, they would tell me, was the Great Balcones Divide, where the South ended and the West began.”

The Tower may now be nearly empty, but the Texas we view from the top is hardly the one Morris saw that morning in 1952 — the country not nearly as mythic and the University not nearly so new. But even if the Tower stays empty, it will certainly always stay grand, and the University must now reflect on what the Tower truly stands for: a proud monument to the campus’ past or a daily, unavoidable reminder of the limitations of working off of a centuries-old University structure.

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Sororities band together through monthly Bible study

By Alexandra Triolo Daily Texan Columnist @allytriolo_06

After Chapter, a Christian event started by the current Chaplains of each Panhellenic sorority, has shown that women of the Greek community are much more than stereotypical “sorority girls” concerned only with partying, booze and boys. With more than a 400-participant turnout on After Chapter’s opening night, Greek women are using their personal time to better themselves through a community built upon strong values. As stated on After Chapter’s Facebook Page, the event is “open to all Panhellenic sororities at UT Austin. It is a night of worship, music, talking, listening and getting to know your sisters.”

After Chapter was designed as a play on After Dark, a Christian event whose purpose was “to expose college students to the person of Jesus so they can decide for themselves if they feel like He is in any way relevant to their lives today.” The difference between After Dark and After Chapter, however, is After Chapter’s emphasis on sisterhood through the relation of similar values and the common ground of good morals and faith. Despite After Chapter’s Panhellenic premise, the Panhellenic Council is not involved in the event. After Chapter, unlike After Dark, is an event only open to women, which is one of its greatest strengths.

And, as a woman who has participated in After Chapter, I can attest to the value of the event’s authentic premise to women in the Greek community.

As an out-of-state student from California, I did not anticipate that part of UT’s culture would include mass participation in worship, especially within the Greek community. The prominence of Christian practices and beliefs is demonstrated through the mass quantity of women who attend After Chapter. It is important that these women be commended for their actions, which are far from the Greek stereotypes perpetuated in movies like Animal House.

At first glance, After Chapter may be perceived as exclusionary toward sorority members with different beliefs, women not affiliated in Greek life and even men. The essence of the event, however, is sisterhood through the foundational religion of most Panhellenic

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sororities: Christianity. Therefore, it is logical to base After Chapter upon the long-standing Christian guidelines upon which these sororities were founded.

But, unlike some group events for women, After Chapter doesn’t aim to be matchmaking 101. On the contrary, it’s a testament to the event’s authenticity that it doesn’t allow males to participate. This truly shows that women using their free time to attend After Chapter have no ulterior motives. They are there strictly to better themselves and create a community of esteemed women who encourage their shared goals and aspirations.

The opportunity that the chaplains of these respective Greek organizations, who collectively organize these events, present their members is much more than a Bible reading.

The values discussed in these events are universal and applicable to women of all religious backgrounds, allowing for group discussion, debate an individualized interpretation of faith.

After Chapter was first proposed by Chi Omega Chaplain Sara Davies during a Panhellenic chaplain meeting organized by Alpha Delta Pi Chaplain Alexa Babin. Davies wanted to create an event not only for worship but to unify all sororities under the universal connector of faith. To prove this universality, the event is housed in everyday places. The first two After Chapter gatherings took place Feb. 15 and March 25 in the Sigma Phi Epsilon Fraternity gymnasium. (Though the event was held in a fraternity gym, no men were present during the event.)

As Delta Delta Delta Chaplain Lauren Gaskill said, “We wanted to show sorority women at UT that Christ is here at UT. He is everywhere, not just church. He can be anywhere; like the Sig Ep gym. After Chapter is designed to remind girls that God is in Greek life, and [Greek life] is not the dark place that some make it out to be.”

But the value of the event is best expressed by the women who participate in After Chapter. With glowing reviews, Greek women view the event as a time that allows them to be united regardless of their affiliation and unite as sisters under their common moral and religious beliefs.

Triolo is a journalism freshman from Hollister, Calif.

Editor’s note: Triolo is a member of a Panhellenic sorority involved in the organization of the event but is not permitted to disclose her particular sorority affiliation to the press. We have included her column in spite of this because we believe it is a valuable viewpoint.

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conducting themselves in a professional manner, like simply showing up on time.

“There will be shows where load-in is at 7, doors at 9, show at 10,” Lawyer said. “Don’t show up at 9:45 with your drum kit.”

Since so many bands are emailing these booking agents on a daily basis, the majority of them will end up getting rejected.

This is often not as harsh as it sounds. Sometimes, Lawyer and Taylor will tell bands to stay in touch and reach back out when they have more experience playing together.

“There are bands that I just don’t think are ready to play Holy Mountain, in which case I try to encourage them to keep at it and touch base at a later date,” Taylor said.

One thing bands can do to improve their chances of booking a show is find a couple of other bands they are friends with and go to the venue with a pre-made lineup. If a band can do this, it benefits the venue because, then, the booking agent doesn’t have to worry about seeking out two or three other bands to flesh out the lineup. Sometimes new bands will also only draw a few fans that leave after the set, but, if all the bands are friends, there’s a greater chance that people will stick around and buy more drinks, which is how venues make money.

Lawyer stressed that venues aren’t always the best places for bands to start. His advice is that a band plays a house show for friends first.

House shows serve as comfortable settings that don’t have the added pressure of being in a venue where the band might be worried about bringing a lot of people out to the show.

“If you can pack a house show, you can bring a comfortable crowd to a venue,” Lawyer said.

form, all of the events have common purposes: to challenge barriers, give power back to survivors and ultimately promote prevention. Erin Burrows, prevention and outreach specialist for Voices Against Violence, said two of the most important ways to challenge mindsets toward violence are starting conversations and redefining consent.

“We all come from different cultures and backgrounds where talking about sex at all is taboo and talking about sexual violence is especially taboo,” Burrows said. “I really do believe every time we have a conversation about sexual violence we are moving toward prevention.”

According to Burrows, properly defining consent is also key. Vio-

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But trying to put a number on the importance of practice may be missing the point.

Variance, the number that scientists are trying to use, has a strict mathematical definition but has a hazy meaning when it is applied to actual data.

Variance helps determine the degree of correlation between one particular measurement and another.

Outside of chess, it is much harder to find reasonable measurements of ability to correlate.

For example, the same paper that pooled data from chess studies did the same with music performances. The standards used to compare musicians in the various studies, including counting incorrectly played notes during a sightreading test, could not be completely diagnostic,

lence is not reported out of fear or shame, or because many victims would not define their experience as abuse. According to the Counseling and Mental Health Center, consent is “an active agreement to engage in a certain act or be exposed to a certain situation.”

Clarifying that survivors are not victims is also a significant part of the program. The organization is hosting a workshop a few days before Take Back the Night to help prepare survivors who want to speak and share their stories at the event.

The workshop will help participants process what they experienced and decide what they want others to know. If survivors want to tell their stories but aren’t ready to speak in front of others, they can write on notecards that will be hanging at

since there is always much more to music than reading what is on the page.

The results showed that about 30 percent of the players’ variance in ability could be attributed to deliberate practice. And there are plenty of other factors that make up that other 70 percent.

For example, there’s starting age. The best performers tend to start younger, which is still true when the study is controlled for total hours spent practicing. Additionally, a person’s current age matters. This is even the case for chess, a game in which players tend to peak in their late 30s, though it may be more obvious in other areas. After all, it’s not like a person is going to become an overnight pop sensation when he is 48 years old.

Intelligence also matters.

In order to become an expert chess player, athlete or musician, a person should

the event.

Burrows said the organization has shifted toward a focus on prevention and strives to raise awareness and have conversations now, instead of when it’s too late.

Voices Against Violence was first created in 2001

by Jane Bost, associate director at the Counseling and Mental Health Center, to meet the needs of an ever-growing awareness of on-campus violence. Before the organization was created, the mental health center estimated it only received 10 reports of sexual violence per year. Since it was established, the center has had roughly 900 cases.

Bost said the programs have been successful in creating a more open and friendly environment in which students feel safe to report such crimes.

“We’re trying to reach and prevent these kinds of

We all come from different cultures and backgrounds where talking about sex at all is taboo and talking about sexual violence is especially taboo.

— Erin Burrows, Prevention and outreach specialist for Voices Against Violence

issues way before you get to the point where you’re calling the police,” Bost said.

“So we have conversations now about healthy relationships. We have reached thousands and thousands together with the Theatre for Dialogue and Get Sexy.

Get Consent.”

Burrows, who first wanted to be involved with sexual violence after her close friends was a victim of it, suggests students remember the acronym BLOG when they confront violence. It stands for believe, listen, offer options and get support. Although offering options is

also be smart — unless that person is Derek Paravicini, the brilliant pianist who can’t count to three.

At the end of the day, a person’s genes cannot be ignored — they definitely matter. Twin studies have revealed that even creativity, chess skills and musical ability are at least somewhat affected by a person’s DNA. This is even more true when a talent depends on physicality: No matter how much a person practices, he is not going to make it in the NBA if he is only 5-foot-3.

Not just anyone can be brilliant at everything, or, for that matter, anything.

No one can predict from the outset who will be the next Charlie Parker, Mozart or Lady Gaga. Practice comes with no guarantees, and there is no magic number telling a person how much he will need. The only way to see what you are truly capable of is to give it your all.

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Jeremiah Pyant (left) and Jeff Robertson will get married aboard a hot air balloon taking off from Texas, where same-sex marriage is banned, and flying over the border into New Mexico, where it is legal.

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For all the couples, the fast pace of gay marriage litigation has added some extra excitement to the wedding planning.

“As soon as we entered the contest, the court decisions started coming out,” Jeff Robertson said. “We’re living a civil rights movement right before our eyes.”

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to left. In the second inning, the Longhorns capitalized on three Texas State errors — the biggest being a bobble by Texas State left fielder Lexi Fryar that allowed three runs to score — scoring six runs in the inning.

In the third, freshman third

baseman Devon Tunning hit her first career home run and sophomore right fielder Lindsey Stephens hit a deep shot to dead center.

Thom then added to the home run barrage again with a two-out grand slam to deep

right-center field to put the Longhorns up 18-7.

Despite Texas’ strong offensive output, Texas State battled back, taking advantage of Longhorn mistakes to stay in the game. After only managing two hits through

the first two innings, the Bobcats scored five in the top of the third, forcing out freshman pitcher Tiarra Davis — who had only allowed three runs in her last four starts — after only 2.1 innings.

Bullpen catchers: the warm-up act Despite small roster size,

lacrosse finds way to win

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Junior catcher Grant Martin spends most of his time warming up pitchers in the bullpen, but his ability to throw batting practice has given him the ability to travel with the team.

Longhorns including starting pitcher Parker French, second baseman Brooks Marlow and outfielder Collin Shaw.

“He asked if I wasn’t quite ready to hang up the cleats and be a bullpen catcher,” Martin said. “I said, ‘Absolutely.’”

But once Martin and Barton joined head coach Augie Garrido’s ball club, they realized how difficult the transition from high school baseball to the college game really was.

“I didn’t know everything playing at the University of Texas would entail,” Barton said. “The time commitment and how hard it is.”

They quickly discovered that, scholarship or no scholarship, everyone on the team is treated equally.

“I learned right away you’re not treated any differently,” Martin said. “We do the same amount of running.

Same amount of practice.

The only thing that’s different is that I pay my tuition.”

But knowing that they will never take the field on game days, Martin and Barton make sure to take time to enjoy the little things, such as Barton eating two desserts before every game.

One is his, and the other belonging to a starter.

They’ll never hear their names called in the MLB Draft, but being a

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bullpen catcher isn’t exactly a dead-end job. For Martin, it could be just the beginning. He’s already been approached by a family friend to gauge his interest in being a bullpen catcher at the professional level.

“Not many people get the chance to choose whether to be an investment banker or a bullpen catcher,” Martin said.

So, while their teammates are taking batting practice and fielding grounders in preparation for this weekend’s series against Baylor, Martin and Barton are worried about their intermediate finance homework and a test they have coming up.

“As they teach you in finance, it’s all about maximizing your return on your investment,” Martin said. “We have to make our dollar go further. We are still paying for school, all while playing baseball on the side.”

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Not many people know who junior Grant Martin or sophomore James Barton are outside the doors of the home locker room at UFCU Disch-Falk Field.

The two finance majors walk through the halls of the McCombs School of Business unrecognized by even the biggest Texas baseball fans.

While Martin’s teammates spent the majority of their vacation on the baseball diamond, he sat at a desk, crunching numbers as an intern at Blue Sage Capital, a private equity fund in Austin.

For the two walk-on bullpen catchers, playing ball is not about the glory or the prospect of going pro.

“I love being a bullpen catcher,” Barton said. “I love being out there with the guys, warming them up and feeling like I am contributing to the game while it’s going on.”

Their role is different than most. They aren’t expected to fill up the box score; in fact, they know they will never get into a game.

On game day, they sit in the Texas bullpen waiting to warm up any pitcher, knowing they will be there from the first pitch to the last out.

But, as the only bullpen catchers, they have built a bond, taking pride in their inglorious role.

“We have had some great bullpen guys before us, and we are excited to continue the legacy,” Barton said.

Both were exceptional catchers at the high school level. Martin earned alldistrict first team honors three times at Burnet High School. Barton was all-state at Hyde Park Baptist School.

Both passed up smallschool baseball opportunities to focus on academics and pursue degrees at Texas, thinking they were leaving the game they loved behind.

But Longhorn pitching coach Skip Johnson found out Martin was coming to Texas. He knew the catcher from his select days with the Austin Wings, where he played with current

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Sophomore outfielder Lindsey Stephens rounds the bases after hitting a home run against Texas State. After riding the bench much of last season, Stephens is having a breakout year, having smashed 11 home runs — more than twice as much as any other Longhorn.

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Senior shortstop Taylor Thom had a career night Wednesday, launching two home runs, including a grand slam, and plating seven RBIs in a 19-7 win against Texas State.

After a stellar junior season, this year hasn’t been as kind to Thom, who had just three home runs and 21 RBIs on the season entering Wednesday night’s game.

“It felt like my old self,” Thom said. “I have been struggling this year, so for me to put together a game like that going into Big 12 — that’s a great feeling.”

With a weekend off from Big 12 play, the threat of a slow start seemed like a real possibility for the Longhorns, especially with an offense that at times has struggled to take advantage of run-scoring opportunities.

But Texas got things going early in the game against Texas State. After the first two runners reached base, Thom belted a three-run home run

SIDELINE

For this year’s men’s club lacrosse team, the toughest challenge has been dealing with a small roster after several players left the team.

Josh Francis, economics senior and the team’s president, said this year’s recruiting class was one of the largest in a while, but many of the players were unable to perform because of school and work-related priorities.

“Even with the small numbers, the core of the team has remained intact, and we’ve worked really well with what we have,” Francis said.

Because they have such a small team, the Longhorns have to make sure they continue to stay healthy throughout the rest of the season and into playoffs. The team struggled with injuries last year and knows a repeat of that would cause even greater problems for this year’s undermanned team.

“Our team isn’t necessarily as deep as it has been in the past few years,” said Turner Kerr, senior captain and architectural engineering senior. “But I am more than confident that everything will work out.”

Despite being shortstaffed, the Longhorns have been impressive in their quest to defend their 2013 Lone Star Alliance division title. Texas (83, 3-0 LSA) already has eight wins on the season and has scored more than 20 points in all three of its divisional contests.

“Our main objective is just to go out there, have fun and keep winning,” Kerr said.

Even with the small numbers, the core of the team has remained intact, and we’ve worked really well with what we have.

—Josh Francis, Senior captain

The team has won the Lone Star Alliance championship in each of the past three years, but each year, Texas was seeded lower than it had expected. This year, the Longhorns scheduled tough non-conference games against ranked opponents in an attempt to improve their seed heading into the national tournament.

“Right now we’re just focused on getting to the playoffs and winning one game,” Francis said. “Once we move past the first game, I have no doubt we will succeed.”

One benefit of having a smaller roster is that it brings the players closer.

The team has been on the road playing two or three games every weekend since Jan. 31. The travel time has given the players a lot of time to bond, which has proven to be beneficial on the field.

Andy Garrigan, who is in his second year as head coach, said the best part of coaching the team has been observing the maturity level his players have demonstrated.

“They don’t have to be here,” Garrigan said. “But they all are, every practice, and with that kind of dedication, it really shows they care.”

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Sophomore Mac Maguire attacks sophomore Bryce Arden in a practice at Clark Field. Despite a smaller roster, the Longhorns are 8-3 on the year.

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NEW YORK — With two famous names on the sideline, the NIT championship has a New York feel.

One coach is a rising young star, while the other is in the twilight of his Hall of Fame career, both with boyhood ties to the Big Apple.

Richard Pitino leads Minnesota into the title game Thursday night against 73-year-old Larry Brown and SMU at Madison Square Garden, a building both basketball junkies revere.

SMU (27-9) and Minnesota (24-13) were both disappointed to be left out of the NCAA tournament on Selection Sunday, but each squad received a No. 1 seed in the NIT and made the most of it.

“I think really the only tough game, honestly, was the first game. I think that was where everybody was kind of let down a little bit,” said Richard Pitino, in his first season at Minnesota. “We’ve got three seniors who don’t want their college career to be over, and then we have got some younger guys who have an opportunity to win a championship.”

SMU is looking for its first NIT title.

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How to book local venues for young bands

By David Sackllah @dsackllah

Austin has more than 200 venues that put on multiple shows a week. For young bands trying to book their first shows, figuring out how and where to start can be overwhelming. Venue calendars are often full with national touring acts and established local acts, making it difficult for smaller local bands to break into the schedule.

The barrier between these bands and the stage is typically a booking agent or club manager.

“I probably get 10 submissions a day,” said Max Meehan, a booker at Beerland. “In a whole week, maybe two or three are worthwhile. Most of them are either terrible fits or just plain terrible.”

Booking agents are looking for fairly basic requirements from submissions they get from new bands.

James Taylor, manager of Holy Mountain, explained that what most young bands need to work on is simply being able to write a

coherent email with links to music or live videos. Some booking agents, such as Taylor, require some sort of recording from prospective bands, while others prefer live clips to get a feel for the band’s stage presence.

“It’s so easy to get a cheap recording these days, [that] there’s really no excuse,” Taylor said.

There are plenty of venues in town including Beerland and Holy Mountain that mostly book local bands. There are also larger companies, such as Transmission Events, which handle the booking for Mohawk, Red 7, Fun Fun Fun Fest and occasional shows at venues such as The Parish, The Belmont, Hotel Vegas and ACL-Live. While Transmission focuses on booking and promoting touring acts, it also books local acts to support those touring acts, and sometimes to headline its own shows.

Marcus Lawyer, a talent buyer associate for Transmission, books the local bands for those shows.

While other Transmission employees book the

Illustration by Albert Lee / Daily Texan Staff

national touring acts that come through Austin, Lawyer’s job is almost entirely focused on finding and breaking local bands. Bands have to work their way up,

though, as Lawyer typically won’t book a local band to open for a touring act or play a festival slot unless he already has a relationship with them.

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By Courtney Runn @courtney_t_runn

Voices Against Violence, a student organization, will be hosting multiple events throughout April to promote Sexual Assault Awareness Month.

Take Back the Night, the biggest event of the month, will take place on Wednesday on the Main Mall and will offer the public a chance to hear from keynote speaker Luz Guerra, a human rights activist who has worked against violence for the past 30 years. Participants can also watch performances, enjoy art installments and take advantage of free food, while learning about various resources the University offers.

Observed by different groups around the country, Take Back the Night serves as a protest and rally against sexual violence.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Studies show practice hardly makes perfect

By Robert Starr @robertkstarr

The jazz legend Charlie “Bird” Parker once told an interviewer that he put in at least 11 to 15 hours a day on his saxophone for more than three years. That is more than the 10,000 hours writer Malcolm Gladwell said are essential to become an expert in his popular book “Outliers.” But it took more than just practice for Parker.

Scientists often look to chess to get an idea of the influence of practice, since the game has no physical restrictions but does have objective rankings that can be used to compare players.

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By pooling the results of six studies with a total of roughly 1000 participants, a paper published in 2013 showed that “deliberate practice” only accounted for about 34 percent of the variance between chess players’ abilities.

This means that practice is essential, but not sufficient, for a person to master something. It can only partially explain why some people are grandmasters and others are not. Contrary to Gladwell’s hypothesis, plenty of the chess

players accumulated more than 10,000 hours and didn’t receive more than an intermediate ranking, yet half of the masters in one study reached that skill level without spending nearly

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“I usually have to work with the band a few times before I add them as support because I want to know they’re the right band for the bill,” Lawyer said.

In order to work their way up to that point, bands have to prove themselves by playing slots on local bills and

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Contest advocates same-sex marriages NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union’s primary work is litigation, but this month it is moonlighting as a wedding planner as part of its role in the campaign to legalize same-sex marriage nationwide.

The beneficiaries are five gay and lesbian couples from across the U.S. who, out of a field of some 400 entries, were announced Wednesday as winners of ACLU’s My Big Gay (Il)legal Wedding contest.

Each couple lives in a state where same-sex marriage is outlawed. They will get logistical and financial help — up to $5,000 — from the ACLU to get married the week of April 28 in one of the 17 states, plus Washington D.C., which do allow gay marriage.

The contest, launched in December, has coincided with a surge of court victories for supporters of samesex marriage in several states that currently ban it. Federal judges have struck down bans in Michigan, Utah, Texas, Oklahoma and Virginia, and ordered Kentucky and Tennessee to recognize out-of-state gay marriages, though stays have been issued pending appeals.

James Esseks, director of the ACLU’s Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Project, said the wedding contest highlights the type of problems faced by gay couples in the nearly 30 states where marriageequality lawsuits have been filed.

“We live in this crazy time, with a patchwork of protections, where you can go across the border and get married,” Esseks said.

“The problem is that when you turn around and go back, you’re not going to be considered married by your home states. That’s not the way it should work in America.”

The winners were selected by contest organizers from a total of 25 couples who received the most votes in online balloting. The ACLU said nearly 200,000 votes were cast. The winners: — Jeromy Manke and Brian Jensen of Reno, Nev. Jensen, a hair stylist, and Manke, a human resources consultant, have been engaged since June 2012 and plan a California wedding at

The problem is that when you turn around and go back, you’re not going to be considered married by your home states. That’s not the way it should work in America.

—James Esseks, ACLU project director

nearby Lake Tahoe.

— Tamara Sheffield and Maryja Mee of Salisbury, N.C. They’ve been a couple since meeting in college 24 years ago and have become activists in the quest to legalize same-sex marriage in North Carolina.

— Humberto Niebla and Rafael Vasquez of Paradise Valley, Ariz. The couple, who have been dating for six years, expressed hope of having a 1920sthemed beachfront wedding in California.

— Jeff Robertson and Jeremiah Pyant of Houston.

Pyant, a flight attendant, and Robertson, an ad executive, met four years ago aboard a plane that Pyant was working on. They got engaged in December and hope to marry aboard a hot air balloon taking off from Texas, where same-sex marriage is banned, and flying over the border into New Mexico, where it is legal.

— Megan and Lindsey Smith of Chattanooga, Tenn. Megan Smith, a real estate agent and insurance broker, and Lindsey Smith, a nurse, met three years ago.

Since then they have founded an advocacy group called Tennessee Marriage Equality. Lindsey Smith recently changed her last name as a show of commitment; she had entered the contest as Lindsey Wagoner.

The couple had a wedding celebration in Chattanooga on Sunday, even though Tennessee does not recognize gay marriages. They plan to be legally wed in a few weeks in Washington, D.C., outside the U.S. Supreme Court building.

“It was beautiful,” Megan

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