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CIVIL RIGHTS SUMMIT

Students face seat limits at summit

UT baseball game to air in place of Carter talk

By Madlin Mekelburg

dents, guests of UT administrators, participants in each panel, guests invited by the four presidents, current government officials and members of the general public. “When we do an event like this, first of all we’re limited by our numbers because the auditorium holds less than 1,000,” LBJ Library spokeswoman Anne Wheeler said. “We knew this was going to be a challenge for us and

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Although more than 9,000 students applied for tickets to the three-day Civil Rights Summit happening this week, it will be held in an auditorium that seats 967 people. Tickets to the summit, which will be held in the Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium, were distributed to stu-

something we wanted to address early on.” Wheeler said participants in each panel at the summit will have access to all of the other events and are allowed to bring a guest. There are 46 panelists speaking at the summit, not including presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and George W. Bush.

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TICKETS BY THE NUMBERS Of 9,035 students who applied for the student lottery, 640 received tickets.

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1,400 tickets were distributed to members of

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Longhorn Network plans to telecast every event of the LBJ Library’s Civil Rights Summit live this week except former President Jimmy Carter’s speech because of a prior programming commitment. Carter is scheduled to speak with LBJ Library Director Mark Updegrove at the summit on Tuesday from 6-7:30 p.m., but the Longhorn Network will air Texas’ home baseball game against the Rice Owls, scheduled to start at 7 p.m., live instead. Stacie McCollum, Longhorn Network programming and acquisition director, said the baseball game is a live programming commitment in place for months that could not be moved. “The schedule for the Civil Rights Summit was set so we worked with [the LBJ Library] to the best that we could,” McCollum said. “The Civil Rights Summit was already scheduled based on Carter’s commitment. That was the day that worked for him. So it wasn’t a matter of picking and choosing who aired and who didn’t air live.” Members of Carter’s staff could not be reached for comment. Texas baseball head coach Augie Garrido also declined to comment. Kristy Ozmun, Longhorn Network local media contact,

340 tickets were distributed to individuals invited by UT administrators. All 46 speakers have access to all of the other events and are allowed to bring a guest.

CIVIL RIGHTS SUMMIT

Fountains to run despite efforts to conserve By Nicole Cobler @nicolecobler

While Austin is under stage two watering restrictions, the University, which is not required to follow city ordinances, will run the LBJ Fountain through the Civil Rights Summit on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Since 2012, the city has been in stage two, which restricts the owners of multi-family residential, commercial or city municipal facilities to watering one day per week in the early morning or late evening. According to Laurie Lentz, UT business and financial services communications manager, when the city went into watering restrictions, the University decided to adhere to these regulations voluntarily. “UT is considered a state entity and does not have to adhere to city ordinances,” Lentz said. “Nowadays, the state entities go

Marshall Tidrick / Daily Texan Staff

Despite its usual effort to conserve water by keeping the campus fountains off, UT will be running the LBJ Fountain for the duration of the Civil Rights Summit.

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CIVIL RIGHTS SUMMIT

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

Road closures to take place during summit

SG members concerned by lack of diversity

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With this week’s Civil Rights Summit starting on Tuesday at the LBJ Library, students should avoid Red River Street, Robert Dedman Drive and Clyde Littlefield Drive, according to Parking and Transportation Services officials. PTS parking manager Linsey Duett said although the

streets near the LBJ Library are expected to be congested, only one will be closed during the event. “At this point in time, the only traffic closure will be that no vehicles will be allowed to turn eastbound onto Clyde Littlefield Drive from Robert Dedman Drive,” Duett said. Road closures could

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In preparation for the upcoming Civil Rights Summit on Tuesday, barricades are set aside for road closure on the corner of Red River and Clyde Littlefield streets.

By Nicole Cobler @nicolecobler

Of the five nominees for Student Government Executive Board made by SG President Kori Rady and Vice President Taylor Strickland, four are men, and three are members of Tejas Club — a spirit organization to which Rady belongs — leading some SG members to express concerns about the board’s diversity. The SG Judicial Court issued a decision requiring Rady and Strickland to make their appointments for the board public before 7 p.m. Sunday. SG representatives will vote to confirm or deny Rady and Strickland’s nominations for executive board positions Tuesday. These positions include internal financial director and external financial director and are voted on by the assembly. University-wide representative Taral Patel said he was concerned about the lack of diversity on the executive board. “I have a lot of friends in Tejas, but I think the executive

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Student Government President Kori Rady speaks at a debate on Feb. 25. Three of Rady’s male student nominations for the Executive Board are currently in the spirit group, Tejas.

board should be very diverse because they are going to be reflecting not only the platform point of the Rady-Strickland campaign but working on executing those platform points of a very diverse student body,” Patel said. Patel, who is serving his first term on SG, said he is the only non-white University-wide representative

and said he has heard complaints from students who want to see more diversity in the organization. “I want to make sure those concerns are addressed and everyone is included in the conversation, not just folks that have been involved in SG,” Patel said. “We need to broaden our horizons and get more students involved.”

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Liberal arts representative Tanner Long said the fact that a majority of the candidates are in Tejas did not concern him as much as the lack of diversity on the board. “That shows that [Tejas] has something working, and I want to translate what they’re doing into other

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along with what the city entities are doing, but they are not actually bound to that.” Lentz said there are 14 decorative fountains on campus. Three fountains — LBJ Fountain, Littlefield Fountain and East Mall Fountain — operate 24/7 for filtering purposes with no spray features. Lentz said if the University turned on the spray features regularly, it would lose 300,000 gallons of water a month, which would require added water. Jill Mayfield, Austin Water Utility spokeswoman, said the University typically follows city ordinances and conserves water. “UT does a great job of really working with us even though they don’t have to by law,” Mayfield said. “I know the Civil Rights Summit is a huge event, and they want to look nice.” Markus Hogue, UT’s irrigation and water conservation program manager, said his department has also had to do a lot of work on the LBJ Library lawn in preparation for summit. Hogue said new flowers have been planted, beds have

been cleaned out and new mulch has been laid down. Although establishing new turf requires more watering, Hogue said the grass does not require more water than usual. “Now all that mulch [gets] rainfall stores, so when I irrigate that area, I don’t have to run it as long because I don’t have to worry about not [having] the moisture in the ground,” Hogue said. “It holds on to it better.” According to Hogue, in 2012 the University used around 75 million gallons of water to irrigate, which was almost a 100 million gallon reduction after $2.1 million

were used in 2011 to install new nozzles and controllers to regulate how much water was being used. The University now uses a rainwater collection system at the Belo Center for New Media for irrigation. Hogue said half a million gallons of rainwater was collected last year, which allowed the University to use less fresh drinking water to maintain the landscape. According to Hunter Mangrum, Division of Housing and Food Service environmental specialist, the University’s residence halls have even taken steps to

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said the channel will air the Carter speech on tape delay. “Carter is still going to air,” Ozmun said. “It’s just going to air later that evening so it won’t be live but it’ll air as soon as possible and re-air leading into Wednesday’s coverage of the Civil Rights Summit. There will be 14 hours of live programming that will air on Longhorn Network for the summit.” McCollum said the network has aired academic programming since it launched in 2011 and has a franchise on the network called “LBJ Presents,” chronicling events put on by the LBJ Library. She said the network is in contact with the library weekly to discuss programming opportunities and the summit is an extension of that partnership. “They recognize the commitment — the 14 hours of live programming, almost 16 total hours — but I would say they are equally pleased with our partnership and our commitment as we are with working with them,” McCollum said. The LBJ Library, in collaboration with Google and Longhorn Network, will live stream each of the Civil Rights Summit programs on the summit’s website. Anne Wheeler, LBJ Library spokeswoman, said Carter’s speech can be seen live on the live stream. “The Longhorn Network is actually providing live video of president Carter’s program to television networks covering the summit and the live stream in real time,” Wheeler said. “His program is only tape delayed for Longhorn Network subscribers. We don’t have any concerns about that at all.” According to the LBJ Library, the summit will comprise of afternoon panel discussions and evening keynote addresses — from President Barack Obama and former presidents George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Carter — reflecting on the civil rights legislation and examining current issues of civil rights. “This is by far our biggest academic initiative to date and we see this as a great opportunity to be a part of something that is historic and newsworthy,” McCollum said. “So we are very pleased to partner with LBJ in such a big way.”

continues from page 1 student organizations that don’t necessarily have the representation they need in Student Government,” Long said. Long said he plans to thoroughly question the nominees during the Q&A portion of Tuesday’s meeting to determine how he’s going to vote. “It’s really going to come down to how effectively they can communicate their ideas,” Long said. “I don’t think it should be an easy process for them to be appointed and be on the executive board.” Philip Wiseman, former chief justice for the SG Judicial Court, said a rule implemented in 2011 to increase transparency requires SG to make agendas public. According to the court’s decision, Rady and Strickland were advised to make interview questions and application materials public to the assembly. Wiseman said all information was sent in Sunday night except for transcripts of the interviews, and it will be up to the assembly to decide if this affects their ability to make a decision. Rady said he has made an effort to make everything public for the assembly for the benefit of the newly elected representatives. “I think [the judicial court] felt the need to make sure all the representatives who are relatively new [are] able to understand what the entire process was,” Rady said.

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change based on certain circumstances, in which case a notification would be sent to campus through email, according to Duett. “[Road closures are] potentially scheduled to change on Thursday when President Obama is on campus,” Duett said. Duett said PTS was given one month to plan traffic coordination for the summit and will be working with UTPD and the Texas

Department of Public Safety to control traffic conditions on Red River. According to Duett, PTS’ two main goals while preparing for the event are safety and ensuring that traffic flows smoothly with few backups. Duett said summit attendees will park in lots on the East side of campus and Manor Garage. According to Duett, this will temporarily displace UT parking permit holders.

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Sriram Vishwanath (above), engineering associate professor, and graduate student Vidur Bhargava have developed technology that allows smartphones to communicate between one another to maximize Wi-Fi connections.

New software to allow smartphones to link, maximize Wi-Fi connectivity By Nicole Bueno @itsmorebueno

Smartphones can now increase their Wi-Fi connection speed from the phones around them — even when there is no signal. The technology, developed by UT researchers, may soon be available to the public. Sriram Vishwanath, electrical and computer engineering associate professor, and Vidur Bhargava, a computer science and electrical engineering graduate student, have found a way to give smartphones the ability to communicate and maximize their Wi-Fi connections through one another. Their research has become the basis for startup

software company M87 — funded in part by the investment program UT Horizon Fund. “We thought, ‘Cell phones already talk to a cellular base station, so why can’t phones talk to each other directly?’” Vishwanath said. The software essentially allows smartphones to use the routing software to locate other smartphones in the area. Once located, a smartphone with a better connection can be “piggybacked” off of, giving the smartphone in, for example, the basement of a building the same Wi-Fi connection as someone on the first floor. Matt Hovis, M87 vice president of marketing and communication,

said he would describe the startup company as overturning the topdown power structure of connectivity. “Cellular towers give out bandwidth and connection to phones — that system was designed for when smartphones weren’t smart,” Hovis said. “Now they’re the most aware device of network conditions at any given time.” Cullen Bounds, computer science and Plan II sophomore, said he had no idea Wi-Fi piggybacking was a possibility. “The software will probably be popular on college campuses and encourage more research of the sort,” Bounds said. “It sounds fantastic.” According to Hovis, the

software is smart enough to recognize if its piggybacking will affect the performance speed of either phones and will avoid connection if so. Hovis said the battery life of both phones should not see a significant decrease by any means, and the aggregate benefit of the network is positive. “There is a slight battery tax for the phone that it’s connected to, but there’s also a slight battery gain for the phone who initiates the WiFi connection,” Hovis said. According to Vishwanath, completed software could be coming to the public soon. “It’s a lengthy process to impact the market,” Vishwanath said. “I expect by the next year or so we’ll see it out there.”

According to Wheeler, seating will also be provided for individuals invited by each of the presidents. Wheeler said for security reasons she could not disclose how many guests each president invited. Wheeler said Gov. Rick Perry was invited to the summit, but will be unable to attend. According to Wheeler, Vice President Joe Biden and U.S. Sens. Ted Cruz, John Cornyn, Mitch McConnell and Harry Reid were invited to attend. Wheeler said Speaker of the House John Boehner and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi were also invited. Wheeler said she was unable to confirm which of these individuals have actually RSVP’d to the summit. Douglas Garrard, senior associate dean of students, said 9,035 students applied for tickets via the general lottery, which was organized by the Office of the Dean of Students. According to Wheeler, 640 students received tickets through the lottery.

The LBJ School of Public Affairs distributed 435 tickets through its own lottery system. Wheeler said every student within the school had the possibility of winning a ticket. Wheeler said tickets were for either one of the president’s speeches or for all of the panels for one day of the summit. She said she was unable to say how many tickets were given out for each of the events. Social work freshman Addis Gezahegn said she entered her name in the student lottery directly after it opened but did not receive tickets. “As a black student, I feel like it’s really frustrating to not be able to go,” Gezahegn said. “I would gladly miss class to be in the same room as the first black president of the United States. The only black person on the UT campus like 50 years ago carried a mop and broom. Now, Barack Obama is going to be here, and it’s really frustrating that I won’t be able to go.”

I would gladly miss class to be in the same room as the first black president of the United States. The only black person on the UT campus like 50 years ago carried a mop and broom. —Addis Gezahegn, Social work freshman

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Quotes to Note for April 7: Ft. Hood, civil rights “I truly hated [the way I was treated], but it wasn’t in me to give up. I stayed because we had a right to be there.” — Peggy Holland, former UT student, on her experience as a black student at UT in 1958 “Using an automobile, increasingly in Central Austin, is going to become more and more difficult. There’s just no two ways around that.” — Austin City Demographer Ryan Robinson on the growing congestion in Travis County “What we’re seeing now is that Texas has done extremely well since the recession … we were kind of the only game in town. Now we’re seeing the rest of the U.S. catch up, and the forecast right now is very favorable.” — Pia Orrenius, a senior economist and vice president of the Federal Reserve of Dallas, on the expected widespread job growth across the U.S. “We have very strong evidence that he

had a medical history that indicates unstable psychiatric or psychological condition. We believe that to be a fundamental underlying cause.” — Lt. Gen. Mark Milley speaking at a press conference Wednesday about the suspect in the Fort Hood shooting “When a bird has oil coating its eyes and bill, it’s not capable of getting rid of it. Watching this is like watching them die in slow motion.” — David Newstead, a research scientist at the Corpus Christi-based nonprofit Coastal Bend Bays & Estuaries Program, speaking to The Texas Tribune on the Galveston Bay oil spill that left hundreds of birds oiled “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.” — Blake Mycoskie, founder of TOMS, on the importance of service at the annual Texas Cowboys Lectureship on Wednesday

I truly hated [the way I was treated], but it wasn’t in me to give up. I stayed because we had a right to be there. —Peggy Holland, Former UT student

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Factual truth is too often lost in heated political discourse By Noah M. Horwitz Daily Texan Columnist @NmHorwitz

When is a lie a lie and when is it a political conviction made in good faith? Recent flare ups in Washington and the Texas gubernatorial election show that sometimes the two are interchangeable. Unfortunately, our political system has grown to accept its participants’ fibs, sometimes with strange results. For example, about two weeks ago, the popular crafts chain store Hobby Lobby was in the news after its suit against the federal government reached the Supreme Court. The store was arguing against a provision in the Affordable Care Act , known by some as Obamacare, that requires employers to provide free or reduced-cost contraception to their employees. Citing religious liberty, the owners of the privately held corporation refused to do this, which triggered the lawsuit. At first glance, a suit such as this, about corporate personhood and religious liberty, would appear to be a good-faith dispute made over legitimate political convictions. The problem with this is that Hobby Lobby does not actually cite categorical opposition to contraception as the basis for its lawsuit. Instead, it cites a belief that many forms of contraception, including some pills and intrauterine devices, are tantamount to abortion. Scientifically speaking, this is simply not true, as no evidence exists that indicates these methods end a pregnancy after fertilization. In fact, most evidence decisively shows that IUDs — or the other birth control methods Hobby Lobby cited, such as Plan B — are contraceptives and not abortifacients. “The two companies that challenged the law — Hobby Lobby, a chain of crafts stores, and Conestoga Wood Specialties, which makes furniture — say that some drugs and intrauterine devices are tantamount to abortion,” said Adam Liptak, a Supreme Court correspondent for The New York Times. “Those claims are not generally accepted by scientists.” Another example of these misleading claims has oft been cited in the recent gubernatorial controversy over equal pay for women. Attorney General Greg Abbott, the Republican nominee for governor, recently made headlines when he announced he would veto a bill that would have made it easier for women to sue over wage discrimination in state court.

When we, as a society, accept falsehoods in our political discourse, it cheapens everyone’s argument and lessens the integrity of robust debate. Supporting this bill was the claim that women make 77 cents on the dollar compared to men, which is probably a statistic you have read before. All by itself, that claim is more or less true, but when the phrase “for equal work” is added, the claim loses its factual potency. “The 77-cent figure compares all male and female workers, regardless of their occupation,” PolitiFact ruled in 2012. “Whether due to a historical legacy of discrimination or because of personal choice, women and men are disproportionately represented in certain jobs.” Granted, women still earn less than men for doing the same work, and they should have a wide variety of options at their disposal to fight that injustice through the court system. But the 77 cents statistic is misleadingly exaggerated and does no favors for the movement. Similarly, Hobby Lobby is frankly a terrible plaintiff in this Obamacare case if, indeed, it is really about contraception and religious liberty. Making untrue claims hinders the cause at hand. When we, as a society, accept falsehoods in our political discourse, it cheapens everyone’s argument and lessens the integrity of robust debate. While I may not personally oppose Obamacare’s contraception mandate, I still believe we should address any legal disputes that may arise from it. But American courts are not supposed to humor theoretical cases, so we all lose in cases such as this one, where the Supreme Court must accept false premises in a landmark case. If another store owned by a fundamentalist Christian, who specifically had a categorical opposition to all forms of contraception, wanted to bring the suit, that would be one thing. Hobby Lobby’s strange argument is quite another. These cases should serve as a gentle reminder to dig a little deeper into the details of political debates to see why someone argues what he or she does and what evidence may be used to support those points. Blindly accepting or believing something can sometimes come perilously close to condoning fibbing. Horwitz is a government junior from Houston.

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U.S. President Lyndon Johnson passes out some of the 72 pens he used to sign the civil rights bill in Washington D.C. on July 2, 1964. From left standing are, Rep. Roland Libobati (D-Ill.), Rep. Peter Rodino (D-N.J.), Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., Rep. Emmanuel Celler (D-N.Y.) and Whitney Young, executive director of the National Urban League.

Civil Rights Act’s anniversary calls for celebration, reflection By Jacqueline Jones Guest Columnist

This week’s Civil Rights Summit, sponsored by the LBJ Library, marks the 50th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. That act, together with the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Fair Housing Act of 1968, transformed American law and society by outlawing discrimination in the workplace, in the voting booth and in housing. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 had two main provisions — a ban on discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex and national origin in public accommodations such as restaurants, hotels, theaters and retail stores (Title II), and a ban on discrimination in the hiring, promotion and firing of workers (Title VII). The act also included provisions for enforcing Title VII in the form of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Before this act, employers and the owners of private establishments enjoyed the implicit approval of the federal government when they denied certain groups the privileges enjoyed by white men. During World War II, in some parts of the South, restaurant owners served meals to German prisoners of war who were being transported in the custody of American military officials but refused service to the black GIs who guarded those prisoners. Until 1964, employers routinely ran ads for job openings that said “no Negroes” or “no women” need apply. Many people of color, regardless of their formal education, could not aspire to high-paying jobs in law, business or education. African-Americans and Mexican-Americans remained confined to the most dangerous and disagreeable jobs in certain industries and excluded from whole categories of employment. White women inhabited a “pink collar ghetto” composed of elementary school teachers, nurses and secretaries and other clerical workers. President Lyndon B. Johnson’s role in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 looms large. In the months following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, Johnson committed his formidable legislative prowess to bringing to a vote a measure that Kennedy had proposed in the summer of 1963. Johnson enlisted civil rights activists, journalists and other allies, and he personally cajoled, intimidated, threatened and pleaded with members of Congress, Democrats and Republicans alike. He believed that, as chief executive, he need not apologize for his commitment to legislation that would make the U.S. a more fair and just society: “Well, what the hell’s the presidency for?” he demanded to know. Yet Johnson’s moral convictions, combined with his strong-armed tactics, do not fully account for the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The president and other white Americans were moved by the courage of civil rights activists throughout the South

Today some observers hail what they call a “color-blind” society, one with a level playing field for all workers and voters. Yet the corrosive effects of centuries of slavery, discrimination and segregation remain very much in evidence, with high rates of concentrated poverty among minority populations.

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— men, women and children who suffered beatings at the hands of angry mobs, the full force of water cannons deployed by local police and even murder by KKK members and other vigilantes and domestic terrorists. Freedom Riders, participants in lunch counter sit-ins and peaceful demonstrators, prodded Kennedy, and then Johnson and Congress, to act. The effects of the 1964 act were uneven. Well-educated people of color and white women were arguably the most immediate and obvious beneficiaries of the new law. Between 1960 and 1980, the percentage of black women in clerical work tripled, and women of all races had greater access to jobs such as truck driving and coal mining, which were previously all-male positions. Still, employers continued to assign blacks and other minorities to menial jobs, and union seniority and apprenticeship rules continued to work against the interests of job-seekers who weren’t white males. In 1974, the chronically understaffed and underfunded Equal Employment Opportunity Commission was staggering under the weight of 57,000 complaints of discrimination in the workplace. Civil rights legislation also affected the nation’s political landscape. When he signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964 into law, Johnson reportedly told his young Texas aide Bill Moyers something to the effect of, “There goes the South.” He was correct in predicting that the white South would desert the Democratic Party, although that transition did not become fully apparent until the 1980s, and it shows no sign of reversing itself in the near future. Today, some observers hail what they call a “colorblind” society — one with a level playing field for all workers and voters. Yet the corrosive effects of centuries of slavery, discrimination and segregation remain very much in evidence, with high rates of concentrated poverty among minority populations. For many Americans, the place where they live is a signifier of the rights they enjoy, with poor people lacking access to quality public education, safe neighborhoods and decent health care. What lessons does the Civil Rights Act of 1964 hold for us today? First, it is apparent that the 14th and 15th amendments to the constitution granting the former male slaves citizenship and voting rights were insufficient to guarantee them and their descendants those rights in practice. Not until after World War II would the dramatic and peaceful protests of an aggrieved minority pierce the conscience of the nation and lead to decisive action among the executive, legislative and judicial branches of the federal government. Johnson’s bold determination demonstrated what a chief executive could accomplish, with the right combination of moral outrage and legislative arm-twisting. And finally, we are reminded that throughout American history the federal government, albeit haltingly and imperfectly, has initiated some of the most significant measures promoting fairness and justice — the destruction of slavery, the enfranchisement of former slaves and women, the elimination of universal poverty among the elderly and the outlawing of egregious forms of discrimination in the workplace, in voting and in housing. The 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 is without a doubt a cause for celebration among all Americans, and it is most fitting that four presidents are gathering at the LBJ Library to lead us in that celebration. Jones is the Walter Prescott Webb chair in history and ideas and the Mastin Gentry White professor of Southern history.

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TRACK & FIELD / DANIEL CLAY & GRANT GORDON The Longhorn women continued their rampage through the record books this weekend at the Stanford Invitational in Stanford, Calif. Senior distance runner Marielle Hall led the charge for No. 3 Texas, solidifying her position among the top runners in the nation. The senior completed the 5,000 meter in 15 minutes, 19.26 seconds, good for first in her field of 26 athletes, including 14 professionals. Hall’s time set a UT record and ranks 10th all-time for collegiate 5,000-meter performances. Only three women have topped the time in the past five years. Senior middle distance runner Katie Hoaldridge rounded out a strong performance for the Texas senior class with an 800-meter time of 2:07.13, less than a half-second away from her personal best. Hoaldridge’s time placed eighth in a field of 77 runners. Hall and Hoaldridge’s times lie within the range of qualifying for the NCAA West Preliminary Round meet, which serves as the qualifier for the NCAA

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Senior Marielle Hall, pictured here at Texas Relays, dominated in Stanford this weekend. Her 15:19.26 5,000-meter finish clocked in at 10th all-time among collegiate women.

Outdoor Championships. The No. 18 men also logged impressive distance performances in Stanford. Sophomore distance runner David Anamosa won his 800-meter section and was the only Longhorn man to compete on Saturday. His time of 1:51.13 placed him 16th overall in a group of 83 runners. Redshirt freshman Nate

Moore ran the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 8:57.20, a time that last year qualified for the NCAA West Preliminary Round. The top 48 times and marks in the West Region earn automatic berths to the preliminary round meet, which serves as a qualifier for the NCAA Outdoor Championships. Junior distance runner

Mark Pinales put himself in qualifying position with his career-best time of 29:23.26 in the 10,000 meters. The time placed him 14th in his section of 35 runners. The Longhorns will return to competition on Saturday with the single-day Texas Invitational, the second of three home meets this season.

the team in ninth place overall to finish the day. Saturday’s second round featured more of a group effort, with the team collectively scoring its best singleround score of the spring season, a 4-over-par 292. Texas maintained its position on the scoreboard at

ninth place. The team remained consistent during the final round Sunday, finishing its final regular season tournament in the top 10. Texas’ next competition will be the Big 12 Championship, which it will host from April 25-27.

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70. He would reach base safely in each of the next two games to push that streak to 72. The Longhorns (26-7, 6-3 Big 12) kept the energy rolling Saturday to claim a 6-3 win to take their second straight Big 12 series after losing their previous one. Junior pitcher Dillon Peters (4-2) went six innings, allowing two earned runs while recording a careerhigh nine strikeouts. Freshman relief pitcher Morgan Cooper came in for three nearly perfect innings to close things out. Eight Longhorns recorded a hit in the game for a balanced Texas offense, including three from senior designated hitter Madison Carter,

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two from freshman first baseman Kacy Clemens and two from freshman catcher Tres Barrera, both doubles to keep his hot streak alive. On Sunday, with senior Nathan Thornhill (5-0) on the mound, the Longhorns completed the sweep of Baylor with a 4-0 win. Thornhill mowed down Baylor, allowing just two hits in eight scoreless inning. The outing helped lower his Big 12-best ERA to .73. Both pitchers silenced the hitters early on, but an RBI single from Marlow in the fifth broke the scoreless tie. Texas later added three in the seventh, sparked by Barrera’s bases-loaded double. Texas will look to keep its five-game win streak alive Tuesday when No. 12 Rice comes to town. Sunday, retiring the first seven batters of the game. Like Friday night, she managed to work her way through tough situations, allowing only two earned runs. Davis said she tried staying more relaxed after giving up a hit. “My teammates did great when somebody did get a hit,” Davis said. “They were like, ‘It’s okay Tiarra. You’re doing fine,’ and I would go to the next pitch.” The offense rebounded as well, striking early and often in the game. Tunning, who had a career night Wednesday night, topped that outing with a three-RBI day, including a home run and a triple. The Longhorns took the game 7-3. Texas moved into a tie with Baylor for second in the Big 12 and will play Iowa State in Ames this weekend.

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The No. 8 Longhorns have dominated nonconference opponents all season long, boasting a 20-4 record and outscoring opponents by 58 runs. But in-conference play has been another story. Entering the weekend series against Baylor, Texas was just 3-3 in the Big 12 and had only outscored opponents by four runs. The season’s theme looked like it would continue Friday night as junior starting pitcher Parker French struggled. The Longhorns trailed 4-2 to Baylor (15-16, 4-8 Big 12) in the bottom of the ninth and down to their last strike against Baylor’s senior closer Josh Michalec, who had been 11-for-11 in save opportunities this year. But the Longhorns have fought until the last out all season long. With the bases loaded and a full count, they did it again, as senior center fielder Mark Payton doubled down the third base line and into the left field corner. Junior second baseman Brooks Marlow, who had walked to load the bases two

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Freshman third baseman Zane Gurwitz connected at the plate in each of three games in Texas’ sweep of Baylor this weekend. After 1-for-4 finishes Friday and Saturday, Gurwitz led the team in hitting Sunday with a 2-for-3 performance and one run.

batters earlier, never stopped, beating Michalec’s throw to send the Longhorns to a 5-4 win and steal momentum in the series.

“Somehow the game knows if you’re committed to the team and playing the game right,” head coach Augie Garrido said. “Then it

rewards you. That’s what’s happening to us right now.” Prior to the ninth, Payton went 0-for-4 in the game, putting his 69-game reached base

streak in jeopardy. But the double won the game and ran his streak to an NCAA-best

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Davis dominates, extends Big 12 series win streak By Jacob Martella @ViewFromTheBox

Since season’s start, freshman starting pitcher Tiarra Davis has improved from an inexperienced collegiate rookie to the ace of the Longhorn staff. In two of Texas’ three games against Texas Tech this weekend — both of which Texas won — Davis combined to allow only two earned runs while striking out 17. Texas finished the weekend 2-1 for its first Big 12 series win of the year. “This is just a good starting point,” Davis said. Friday night, the Longhorn offense picked up where it left off after Wednesday’s win against Texas State, scoring five runs in just two innings. Senior shortstop Taylor Thom belted a

two-run home run in the first and sophomore right fielder Lindsey Stephens added a tworun single in the second. That would be all the runs Davis would need, but she didn’t walk off without some trouble. After Davis retired six of the first seven batters, Texas Tech loaded the bases in the third with one out. Davis sent the next two batters flying out to end the threat. The Red Raiders would pose a threat again in the sixth, getting two on with one out. Davis nearly got out of the inning, but Texas Tech scored its only run of the game on an error by sophomore second baseman Stephanie Ceo. “My defense was there to

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Freshman third baseman Devon Tunning notched a career-best three RBIs Sunday and smashed her second home run in the last four games. Tunning finished the day 2-for-3.

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The No. 6 Longhorns completed their final season at the Penick-Allison Tennis Center on Saturday with a 7-0 victory against TCU. The team sent the arena out on a good note, securing an undefeated 9-0 season at the center. Texas’ last undefeated home regular season was in 2010. “It means a lot to go undefeated at home, especially since it is the final year of this facility,” head coach Michael Center said. “This is one of the more storied tennis facilities in the nation.” Following the match, the

The Longhorns continued their dominance over Kansas State and Kansas this weekend to lift their record above .500 for the first time in two months. No. 25 Texas (10-9, 5-1 Big 12) defeated the Wildcats 7-0 on Saturday, which extended its all-time win streak against the team to 23-0. The win marked the team’s third consecutive shutout, the first time it has done that since 2010. The team snapped that streak Sunday but maintained its sweep of the teams from the Sunflower State. A 6-1 victory against Kansas extended the Longhorns’ un-

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MEN’S TENNIS / BRIANNA HOLT team honored seniors Sudanwa Sitaram and David Holiner in celebration of Senior Day. “I’m going to miss this group of guys and mostly the family-like atmosphere that UT gives off,” Holiner said. Saturday marked the team’s second victory of the season against TCU, to tally eight straight against the Horned Frogs. The Longhorns have won 11 of their last 12 matches and are currently riding a six-match winning streak. The team will continue conference play against No. 7 Baylor on April 16 in Waco.

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defeated history against the Jayhawks to 26-0. Freshman Pippa Horn and senior Juliana Gajic clinched the doubles point, which set Texas up for singles competition success. After beginning Big 12 play 0-2, senior Elizabeth Begley has rebounded with four consecutive wins. Begley gave up only four games this weekend, winning 6-0, 6-1 Saturday and 6-1, 6-2 Sunday. Freshman Ratnika Batra and sophomore Breaunna Addison improved to 6-0 in conference singles play. Addison

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defeated Kansas State’s No. 56 Petra Niedermayerova 6-3, 6-2 for her second collegiate win over the Wildcat.

MEN’S GOLF/ JAMES GRANDBERRY Texas left Augusta, Ga., this weekend with its third runnerup finish of the season, led by senior Toni Hakula and junior Kramer Hickok, to complete the 3M Augusta Invitational one stroke behind first-place University of Central Florida. Hakula and Hickok were the only two Longhorns to break into the top 10, as Hakula secured a fourth-place tie and Hickok tied for eighth place. Hakula ended the final round only three strokes behind individual champion Greg Eason of UCF, who carded an 11-under weekend to bring his team the win. Eason was one of three UCF golfers who accomplished single-digit finishes. Freshman Beau Hossler nearly joined Hakula and Hickok in the top 10, but fell

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just two strokes short to finish in a tie for 12th place at 2-under. Freshman Gavin Hall and redshirt sophomore Will Griffin carded 3-over and 9-over to come home with ties for 30th and 60th, respectively. Texas will compete in its last regular season tournament Friday in Santa Cruz, Calif.

ARLINGTON — Losses are no easier to stomach in November than in March, Kentucky coach John Calipari makes clear, but they are somewhat easier to accept if they are the byproduct of progress. You see, sometimes you have to take a step or two backward to make giant leaps forward. There is no greater evidence of that than the fact that Kentucky, seeded eighth in the NCAA tournament, will try for its ninth national championship Monday night against Connecticut. It took the preseasonNo. 1 Wildcats a while. Even with a recruiting class of six McDonald’s All-Americans, most of those players had never been tested at a high level. For the first time, they were going against players who could match up with them. Calipari blamed himself throughout the NCAA tournament for letting his team down early in the season. So he changed. He simplified things. And by the time the SEC tournament rolled around, the Wildcats were ready to fly. Kentucky ran roughshod all the way to the title game, and came within a last-second slip of knocking off mighty Florida. The momentum carried right into the NCAA tournament where arguably one of the most mis-seeded teams ever navigated one of the most stacked regionals the tournament has ever seen: Kansas State, Wichita State, Louisville and Michigan. —Associated Press

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Student explores identity through drag By Lauren L’Amie @LameLamie

The first time dance senior Kelsey Rondeau put on a pair of stilettos and transformed into Kalandra Bankhead, he was a 19-year-old freshman. Donning a sparkling gold and brown floor-length dress and a red wig, the glitzy Kalandra Bankhead made her debut lip-syncing to Florence + the Machine’s “Shake it Out” for the Queer People of Color & Allies Drag Ball in the SAC Auditorium. “I just got out on stage and jumped around,” Rondeau said. “I had the time of my life. It was a moment where I realized I wanted to turn this into something.” Since then, Kalandra Bankhead has become what Rondeau describes as an extension of himself. As he speaks, he can seamlessly transition between each persona without skipping a beat. “Kalandra Bankhead was born in her family’s summer trailer home in East Hampton, N.Y.,” Rondeau said. “After dropping out of the Sister Mary Ignatius School of Gratuitous Glitter, she hitchhiked her way to Austin, Texas, searching for stiletto heels that will fit her water ski feet.” Rondeau said a lot of the time, Kalandra Bankhead just makes it up as she goes along. “With Kalandra, she is a character I can slip into and out of,” Rondeau said. “Kalandra is a very exaggerated version of me. She’s cruder, she’s louder

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Dance senior Kelsey Rondeau is a drag artist with a persona named Kalandra Bankhead, whom he describes as a louder, more fabulous extension of himself.

but she’s even more fabulous.” While he was able to solidify his interest by watching shows such as “RuPaul’s Drag Race,” Rondeau can’t recall exactly when he first dressed in drag. “I would play dress-up with my sister as a kid, so I kind of considered that to be ‘baby drag,’” Rondeau said. “I never considered it to be a conscious thought — like, ‘I’m going to create this character’ — until I was 19. I met a couple of drag queens downtown and then I decided I really wanted to do this.” Rondeau is one of the founding members of Queens of Texas, the first and only student group dedicated to drag performance, history and technique. Members of Queens of Texas, whom Rondeau fondly calls “the girls” or “drag daughters,” meet every Wednesday to talk about previous and upcoming shows, shop for supplies and check

in on each other’s progress. “Drag, for the most part, is such a solitary thing,” Rondeau said. “I wanted to create a collaborative, supportive environment where everyone can come together and get help for what they need to hone their craft and become better performers.” Philip Karjeker, an art history senior, has been friends with Rondeau for almost four years. He said they are a part of the same “drag family.” Karjeker said that beyond the performance aspect, Queens of Texas is focused on encouraging open discussion about gender, sexuality and culture. “For drag queens, especially for Kelsey, who performs with a beard — you know, what do you say?” Karjeker said. “For a lot of people, when you go to drag shows it’s almost an unconscious switch to refer to drag queens as ‘she.’ It’s really this confusion of what gender

and sexuality mean.” Both Karjeker and Rondeau explained that drag is, in its most basic notion, a chance to embody and be comfortable within a different persona. “Drag is everywhere, drag is everything,” Rondeau said. “I go out on stage with a glitter beard and a hairy chest, and I celebrate the fact that I am a male. I also exaggerate femininity. I am both and neither at the same time. What I want to do is kind of shatter what people’s thoughts and expectations are of gender.” When Kalandra Bankhead takes the stage, she is typically wearing sky-high heels and strutting to power ballads like Chaka Khan’s “I’m Every Woman,” with her glittery beard on full display. The audience dances along with her, with some people handing her dollar bills as she spins past them. While performances are

filled with support, the world outside of shows isn’t always so understanding. “I still face kind of a backlash,” Rondeau said. “Really, anyone in the gay community who displays femininity faces some sort of backlash.” Rondeau is currently a part of the UT Lab Theater series titled “Being/with others,” which is a collaborative performance. Lucy Kerr, a theatre and dance and philosophy senior and the director of “Being/with others,” said that Rondeau’s solo is focused on his relationship to drag and the stigma surrounding gay male femininity. “His performance deconstructs the vulnerabilities of being a drag artist,” Kerr said. “It’s a part of his life and who he is. Because drag is so presentational, so confident, so outward, but this performance reveals the vulnerabilities behind that.” For Rondeau, drag

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TELEVISION REVIEW | ‘GAME OF THRONES’ Charles Dance plays Tywin Lannister in “Game of Thrones.” The fourth season premiered Sunday at 9 p.m. on HBO.

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Fourth season to be darkest yet By Colin McLaughlin @Colin_Mc92

The fourth season of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” confirms the argument for allowing the third book in George R.R. Martin’s massive series to be stretched out over two seasons. Beyond allowing show runners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss twice the run time to adapt the longest — and best — book in the “Song of Ice and Fire” saga to the small screen, the fourth season avoids the pitfalls that the last two seasons saw in their premieres. After the first season saw the dozens of characters spread out in their own isolated story lines, the premiere episodes of the last two seasons have been more concerned with establishing who the characters are than propelling the plot. The fourth season ends that tradition, pushing full speed ahead toward what looks to be the darkest season in the series yet. In the aftermath of the infamous Red Wedding and the apparent end of the War of the Five Kings, new players step up to fill the vacancies left by those factions that are no longer with us. The Lannisters

are reunited at King’s Landing just in time for the impending marriage of King Joffery (Jack Gleeson) to Margaery Tyrell (Natalie Dormer), leaving Roose Bolton (Michael McElhatton), the new Warden of the North, to contend with the armies of the Greyjoys. Across the sea, Daenerys Targaryen (Emilia Clarke) sets her eyes on Meereen, the next on her list of cities to conquer. Jon Snow (Kit Harington) returns to the wall and must fend off accusations of treason while preparing for the impending wildling invasion. The new standout addition to the cast is the provocative Oberyn Martell (Pedro Pascal), younger brother to the prince of the Southern country of Dorne. Oberyn, a fan favorite from the books, arrives under the official pretense of acting as the Dornish emissary to the royal wedding but doesn’t hesitate to announce his plans to resolve a decade-long grudge he has held against the Lannisters. Oberyn’s playful sarcasm hides a barely contained rage, and the character looks to be one of the few that can actually match Tyrion Lannister (Peter Dinklage) for wits. The first three episodes of the fourth season manage to deliver their own shocking twists, while still developing

the numerous story lines “Game of Thrones” juggles, setting up more explosive payoffs for later in the season. Though the war is technically over, Westeros somehow feels even more dangerous. Bandits roam the countryside, wildlings tear across the Northern settlements and, in King’s Landing, characters old and new plan each other’s downfalls. By now, Weiss and Benioff have proven themselves capable of departing from the books to deliver scenes and character moments that surprise fans of the novels as well as fans of the show. With the added time to flesh out all that occurs in the more than 1,200 pages of “A Storm of Swords,” the most recent season may deliver more shocking moments than any of the show’s seasons to date. Perhaps what is most noteworthy about this new season is how exciting everything seems. The war is over and entire factions have been killed off, yet the show is still finding ways to up the ante. “Game of Thrones” has always been uncompromising in its brutal portrayal of Martin’s world. The fourth season wastes little time in dwelling on the past and pushes forward with a confident momentum that is unlikely to subside until the finale.