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Obama pays tribute to LBJ Keynote speech addresses past civil rights legislation
Because of the civil rights movement, because of the laws President Johnson signed, new doors of opportunity and education swung open for everybody — not all at once, but they swung open.
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President Barack Obama applauded the legacy of former President Lyndon B. Johnson and emphasized Johnson’s belief that government plays an important role in promoting equality during his keynote address at the Civil Rights Summit on Thursday. Obama discussed challenges he has personally seen as president and said that like Johnson, he believes the presidency provides a rare opportunity to help change the course of history. “Those of us who have had the singular privilege to hold the office of the president know that progress in this country can be hard, and it can be slow,” Obama said. “You are reminded that in this great democracy, you are merely a relay swimmer in the currents of history … but the presidency also affords a unique opportunity to bend those currents by shaping our laws and by shaping our debates, by working within the confines of the world as it is, but also by reimagining the world as it should be.” Obama also praised Johnson’s tenacity in passing legislation and said Johnson’s transition from poverty to presidency embodied America and the ideals of progress. “President Johnson knew that ours, in the end, is a story of optimism, a story of achievement and constant striving that is unique upon this Earth,” Obama said. “He knew because he had lived that story. He believed that together we can build an America that is more fair, more equal and more free than the one we inherited.” Some pieces of Obama’s legislation have received negative feedback from members of Congress, including the Affordable Care Act. Obama said taking a stand for seemingly hopeless or unpopular legislation is what set Johnson apart and is what he hopes to emulate as president today. “What the hell’s the presidency for if not to fight for causes you believe in?” Obama said, referencing Johnson’s response to his staff members who encouraged him not to pursue the Civil Rights Act.
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Former Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings and U.S. Rep. George Miller, DCalifornia, said they believe education reform will not manifest at the federal level during the “Education: The Ultimate Civil Right” panel at the Civil Rights Summit on Thursday. “It’s going to be done, as you lament and as I lament, outside of Washington for awhile,” said Miller, who co-authored the No Child Left Behind Act. At the panel, which was moderated by CBS News reporter Bob Schieffer, Spellings said the role of government in education issues, such as curriculum-setting, will be at the forefront of political debates in the near future. “It’s going to be a political issue, certainly on the role of the federal government in education,” Spellings said. “We have sold that education is the key to the American dream.” In order for any education legislation to pass, both parties must work together, according to Miller. “If you keep this [partisanship] up, I think you lose your democracy,” Miller said. “You can’t get to the remedies because you can’t talk to one another about it. You’ve got to walk across the aisle.”
President Barack Obama celebrated former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s dedication to social change during his keynote address at the Civil Rights Summit on Thursday morning.
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Bush stresses importance of education By Nicole Cobler & Pete Stroud @thedailytexan
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Rev. Jesse Jackson was a major figure of the Civil Rights Movement and Baptist minister who ran for president in 1984 and
Rev. Jackson describes today’s civil inequality By Jacob Kerr & Pete Stroud @thedailytexan
Rev. Jesse Jackson, a major figure of the Civil Rights Movement and Baptist minister who ran for president in 1984 and 1988, sat down with The Daily Texan this morning to discuss the civil rights issues he feels students in the United States are most affected by today. Some answers have been edited for length and clarity. The Daily Texan: What do you think are the most
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important civil rights issues the United States is facing today? Jesse Jackson: We’ve gone from horizontal segregation by race to vertical disparity by race and class … [as
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In his speech Thursday night at the Civil Rights Summit, former President George W. Bush led with the type of joke reminiscent of President Lyndon B. Johnson. “Former presidents compare their libraries the way other men compare their … well …,” Bush said before tailing off. After the laughter died down, Bush focused primarily on education as both a battleground and driver of civil rights progress. “From Little Rock Central High School to the University of Mississippi, the fight for civil rights took place in educational settings,” Bush said. “Education provides the skills necessary to expand horizons and allow for economic success. In so doing, we secure our democratic way of life.” In 2001, three days after taking office, Bush announced the No Child Left Behind Act to reform the national education system. The act increased reliance on standardized measurements for school accountability,
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Students gather around the Main Mall to watch former President George W. Bush give his speech for the 50th Anniversary of The Civil Rights Act on Thursday afternoon.
especially regarding reading proficiency for younger children. Bush praised the act as an example of good bipartisan government. “We found common ground that schools must demonstrate improving results in minority children or face consequences if they don’t,” Bush said. Zach Berberich, finance junior and College
Republicans communication director, said the act was one of Bush’s greatest civil rights achievements. “I feel that his strides were a huge step for children of all races to get a quality education and an equal way to measure performance,” Berberich said. According to Bush, between 1999 and 2008, reading scores for African-American
and Hispanic 9-year-olds increased by two grade levels. “Education in America is no longer legally separate, but it is still not effectively equal,” Bush said. “Quality education for everyone of every background remains the most urgent civil rights issue of our time.” Bush also argued that changing the fact that the
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Spellings and Miller cited K-12 assessment tests as being critical to education progress. “Our students have made more progress in the last decade than they have in a long time,” Miller said. Audrey Sorrells, associate dean of students for research, said her office has launched multiple programs to make sure students from all backgrounds are comfortable on campus, in accordance with former President Lyndon B. Johnson’s desire that all Americans feel welcomed at the schoolhouse door. “We’re identifying students who have, in the past been underrepresented, and in the past have been neglected,” Sorrells said. “I think the major thing is just making sure no one is locked out, and everyone feels part of a community.” Sorrells said education reform is an issue of national importance. “Every time we educate someone, we really in many ways advance our nation
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toward all of those objectives that we have,” Sorrells said. Sorrells said underprivileged students will take advantage of higher education if given the opportunity to do so. “If you really have the will and the courage to open the doors, then provide the support and the network,” Sorells said. “People will take that, and they’ll become not a burden on society, but they’ll become true giving citizens who make a major contribution.” The U.S. has fallen behind other countries in education and education access, and the complacency among the American public must change in order for education reform to become a reality, according to Spellings. “We are standing still — what has changed is the rest of the world is leaping ahead,” Spellings said. Miller said technology offers a potential avenue for education reform. “Technology really has an ability to help us,” Miller said. “I think this is a very rich environment, not just for reform, but for performance.”
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A Taiwanese study released online last week by Stroke, a journal produced by the American Heart Association, revealed that insomnia may increase the risk of stroke, especially among young adults. The study randomly compiled health records of more than 21,000 people with insomnia and more than 64,000 without insomnia — none of which had prior diagnoses of stroke or sleep apnea. Researchers followed up with the group four years later and revealed that 2.8 percent of the people with insomnia and 1.5 percent of the people without insomnia were admitted to a hospital. The study found that people between the ages of 18 and 34 who had insomnia were nearly eight times more likely to suffer a stroke than those who didn’t. Thomas Milner, a biomedical engineering professor and cardiologist, said because the study is more focused on the epidemic of insomnia, insomnia may not be the root cause for the higher occurrence of strokes. “The insomnia may be due to an underlying cause such as stress, that may have an even stronger correlation to the incidence of stroke,” Milner said. “I think the findings reported in the paper are very important, especially the finding that stroke has the highest correlation to young insomniacs. However, treating the insomnia may
not have a large impact on reducing stroke.” Milner said he would suggest further investigation of correlations between insomnia and some of the known biochemical and biomechanical mechanisms associated with stroke. Nearly 27 percent of UT students self-reported sleep problems, according to the latest survey data from University Health Services. Every year, UHS administers the National College Health Assessment to random students to collect information on topics like alcohol consumption, drug use, mental and sexual health, sleep, personal safety and violence. The fall 2013 survey had 934 respondents. Health Promotion Coordinator Frances Nguyen said sleep problems have negative impacts on student academics. According to the survey, 22.4 percent of students reported sleep problems negatively impacting their academics, while 2.3 percent reported insomnia. “Getting adequate amount of sleep helps retain memory,” Nguyen said. “Students who do not get enough sleep may find their reflexes not as quick, which may come as a detriment for students who drive or may perform in athletics.” Nguyen said students should prioritize sleep even with their busy schedules because it is an important part of being healthy. She said it is crucial for students to develop regular sleep schedules and sleep for seven to nine hours a night.
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As former unpaid interns take major employers, such as Conde Naste and Fox Searchlight Pictures, to court for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act, UT students must also consider working for free, because for some, internships are a graduation requirement. Many degree plans at UT, including advertising and business, require students to participate in at least one internship in order to graduate. For some students, this means participating in an unpaid internship. According to a 2013 survey from the National Association of Colleges and Employers, 48 percent of all graduating students polled had interned without pay. “When I was looking for internships, I thought, ‘These are awesome — but all of them are unpaid,’” said Amanda Marquette, international relations and global studies freshman. “I felt that I needed to be compensated by money.” Because Marquette could not find a paid internship in her desired field, she chose to look for work at a paid summer job instead. Isabella Cunningham, advertising professor and department chair, said the department works closely with students and employers to ensure that internships give students educational experiences comparable to UT courses. Students are also required to do readings, take quizzes, meet with their advisers and complete evaluations of their experiences. “I don’t like the fact that [students] are not being paid,” Cunningham said. “We try to make sure the students are doing the jobs they want to do and jobs that will help them in the future.” While Cunningham said she discourages students from accepting unpaid internships, she would not turn down course credit for a student interning in a position relevant to his studies. Furthermore, if a student said he was unable to attain his learning goals at his internship in his final evaluation, that internship program will not be eligible to count for credit in the next semester. Robert Vega, director of Liberal Arts Career Services, said while he is unaware of any schoolwide initiatives to financially compensate students completing unpaid internships, he thinks the option of course credit allows students more time flexibility. “The [internship] course provides three credit hours that may count toward the degree, which frees the student from having to complete 15 or more credit hours in a semester plus an internship, all while working and studying,” Vega said.
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We want to open the gates to opportunity, President Johnson said. But we’re also going to give all our people, black and white, the help they need to walk through those gates. Now, if some of this sounds familiar, it’s because today we remain locked in this same great debate about equality and opportunity and the role of government in ensuring each. —Barack Obama, President of the United States
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As time goes by and there’s more public forums like this and people really understand Johnson and what he accomplished, people are going to remember Lyndon Johnson for what his domestic policy was. He really passed the legislation that is the framework and foundation of our government today — you can’t erase that. —Ben Barnes, former LBJ Foundation chairman and Speaker of the Texas House
6. 1. Students gather on the South Mall to watch a livestream of President Barack Obama’s address Thursday morning. Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan Staff 2. The LBJ Library and Presidential Museum featured a new exhibit, “Cornerstones of Civil Rights,” earlier this month. Jonathan Garza / Daily Texan Staff 3. Guests filled the 967-seat Lady Bird Johnson Auditorium to watch Obama’s keynote address Thursday morning. Charlie Pearce / Daily Texan Staff 4. Former NAACP chairman Julian Bond speaks at the “Heroes of the Civil Rights Movement” panel Wednesday afternoon. Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan Staff 5. Protesters advocating immigration reform gather before Obama’s address Thursday. Shelby Tauber / Daily Texan Staff 6. From left: Emily Freeman, Patrick Fierro and Alejandra Gomez were arrested and charged with criminal trespassing Thursday afternoon. Sarah Montgomery / Daily Texan Staff 7. Ben Barnes, former LBJ Foundation chairman and Speaker of the Texas House, addresses the press Wednesday. Jonathan Garza / Daily Texan Staff
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QUOTES TO NOTE
Quotes to note from Civil Rights Summit speakers “You’re reminded daily that in this great democracy, you are but a relay swimmer in the currents of history, bound by decisions of those who came before, reliant on the efforts of those who will follow to fully vindicate your vision. But the presidency also affords a unique opportunity to bend those currents by shaping our laws and by shaping our debates, by working within the confines of the world as it is but also by reimagining the world as it should be.” — President Barack Obama during his keynote speech at the Civil Rights Summit on Thursday “We are genetically 99.5 percent the same. Why are we risking the future of this great experiment, the wide horizons that Lyndon Johnson and his colleagues open to us, by spending 99 and a half percent of our time on that half percent of ourselves that is different?” — Former President Bill Clinton speaking at the Civil Rights Summit on Wednesday “We’ve fallen short in a lot of ways. You know, we still have gross disparity between
black and white people on employment, the quality of education. We kind of accept selfcongratulations about the wonderful 50th anniversary. Which is, which is wonderful, but we feel like, you know, Lyndon Johnson did it. We don’t have to do anything anymore. I think too many people are at ease with the still existing disparity.” — Former President Jimmy Carter speaking at the Civil Rights Summit on Tuesday “There is a difference between reading about something in the history books and listening, yesterday, to President Carter talking about his growing up in a very segregated South. Part of moving civil rights forward is having the next generation of leaders understand where we all have come from.” — UT President William Powers Jr. at the Civil Rights Summit on Wednesday “All great fortunes are amassed with either cheap or slave labor. The NCAA is the one group everybody is focusing on. They have this money machine. To keep it this way, the labor force has to be free or very low wages.” — NBA Hall of Famer Bill Russell, speak-
ing at the Civil Rights Summit, on whether college athletes should be able to unionize “The stupidest thing we can do economically is make [undocumented immigrants] leave. We don’t have anybody to replace them. So the impracticality of sending them home should be obvious to everyone.” — Former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour during a panel discussion at the Civil Rights Summit. “Money should not determine who gets higher education. It should be based upon will and skill and not based upon money. Many students would be good teachers, or doctors, or lawyers, or scientists or researchers cannot afford to go to school. We cannot afford to discard great minds. We can afford to educate our children, and we must. And right now, we’re making education costs prohibitive. Jails for profit and schools for profit do not reign true, but a bright future.” — Rev. Jesse Jackson on whether the cost of higher education is a civil rights issue “I think one of the parallels is that, like the
battle for racial civil rights, for a long time people denied that [same-sex marriage] was a civil rights issue. They defended it on religious grounds, on constitutional grounds, on grounds of tradition, on grounds of protecting the family — all of the ways that we have, over the course of the history of our country, tried to deny one group of our citizens the equal rights that our Declaration of Independence and Constitution promises to everybody.” — Attorney David Boies, one of the attorneys who argued against California’s Proposition 8 in 2013, on whether samesex marriage is a civil rights issue at a panel discussion Tuesday “Citizens who are gay or lesbian are being denied the fundamental right to marriage, and they’re being denied the protection of equal laws in respect to marriage, and that takes away their right to dignity. You’re taking away the person’s decency — their dignity — when you’re calling them different.” — Attorney Theodore Olson, who also fought to overturn California’s Proposition 8, on the constitutionality of limiting same-sex marriage at a panel discussion Tuesday
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“Lemon Day” celebration unites generations of Littlefield residents
Friday Firing Lines: Information technology, Yik Yak, equal rights Every Friday, the Daily Texan editorial board will publish a selection of tweets and online comments culled from the Daily Texan website and the various Daily Texan Twitter accounts, along with direct submissions from readers. Our intention is to continue the tradition of the Firing Line, a column first started in the Texan in 1909, in which readers share their opinions “concerning any matter of general interest they choose.” Just like in 1909, the Texan “will never express its approval or disapproval of opinions given under the [Firing Line] header.” In other words, take your shot. Submissions can be sent to editor@dailytexanonline.com. Submissions are edited for length.
UT NEEDS TO BETTER EXPLORE ITS TECHNOLOGICAL OPTIONS
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The Littlefield Dormitory on April 10, 2014.
By Lea Konczal Guest Columnist
At 2 p.m. Saturday, Littlefield Residence Hall will host its annual alumni reunion, which is traditionally known as Lemon Day. The building’s Residence Hall Council, of which I am a member, has spent the past few months organizing this event. On Lemon Day, former residents from as recently as last year to as far back as the 1950s will all return to Littlefield to reminisce about their days as so-called “Littlefield Ladies.” Littlefield’s rich history and traditions have always exerted a powerful pull on its residents. Founded in 1927 by Maj. George Washington Littlefield in honor of his wife Alice Littlefield, the residence hall is the oldest on campus and the only one dedicated exclusively to freshmen women. The kindly ghost of Alice Littlefield is said to haunt the building, permanently watching over the girls who live there. Like Alice’s presence, many Littlefield residents have a hard time staying away for good. Lemon Day mainly draws women who have been absent for 50 years or more but still look fondly back on their Littlefield days. Many alumni remain in touch with their Littlefield friends and roommates and often accompany each other to Lemon Day. But Lemon Day is more than just a social get-together. This year, two distinguished
Every Lemon Day brings a chance for former Littlefield Ladies to extend the hall’s line of memory by sharing their stories with the current generation. They speak of having to dress up for Sunday dinner; of living without air conditioning in rooms overflowing with ruffled petticoats.
guest speakers will highlight the important role the event plays in preserving Littlefield’s cultural history. Margaret C. Berry, a 1937 graduate of the University, will share her experiences from a lifetime of involvement with Littlefield and UT. David Gracy II, a historian and great-great-nephew of George Littlefield, will offer an informative talk on Alice Littlefield’s life. Past and present residents will be able to view old scrapbooks, enjoy lemonade and lemon-flavored desserts and, most importantly, exchange tales about their time in the residence hall. It is this last aspect of Lemon Day that makes the event essential to furthering Littlefield’s legacy. Every Lemon Day brings a chance for former Littlefield Ladies to extend the hall’s line of memory by sharing their stories with the current generation. They speak of having to dress up for Sunday dinner and of living without air conditioning in rooms overflowing with ruffled petticoats. One alum met her husband of 50 years at the residence hall — he was a waiter in the downstairs dining hall that has since been converted to office space. Littlefield has such a long history that many of its stories and traditions have gradually become buried over time. This inevitable erosion of memory is what makes Lemon Day so crucial for bridging the gap between Littlefield’s past and present. Without a cultural heritage, the building would simply be a nice place to spend a year away from home. But when Littlefield residents come to see themselves as threads of a tapestry woven from the building’s living history, something changes. They develop pride in their residence hall and cultivate a richer on-campus living experience. The mere dormitory becomes a home. Littlefield is haunted by more than just a purported benevolent ghost. Everything from the Victorian-style furniture to the original hand-painted ceilings has a story to tell. It is in the words of Littlefield alumni that these stories are given voice. And it is in the minds of Littlefield’s current residents that they are kept alive. Konczal is a finance sophomore. This is her second year as a Littlefield Lady.
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We will be watching the Faculty Council at its April 14 meeting and how it answers the challenge President Powers presented to the council last September in his State of the University Address: to advise how the UT curriculum should change to take advantage of the ways new information technology permits teaching in interactive ways “pedagogically better” than “large passive lectures.” And how UT students can gain from using e-learning materials offered by others. Powers is right in raising the use of information technology as a major issue in higher education. For the first time since Gutenberg, when movable type began to produce books more efficiently than did dictation and hand-copying, higher education has a chance to apply capital to reduce labor. E-learning materials can improve learning and reduce costs. Using the new technology will greatly change universities. Many subjects taught by the traditional classroom-course-lecture method will be mastered by students who practice in simulated environments until proficiency is gained. Displaced lecturers may engage in more research or render hands-on assistance to students engaged in e-learning. Before reaching its recommendations, the Faculty Council will want a clearer idea of exactly what is happening today with information technology. We might expect each department will be asked to designate a member of its faculty who will be granted the necessary time to gather facts to aid the council. This would include ascertaining: What technology-enhanced learning materials, no matter where developed, are now available for mastering a subject? Which of them are of a quality which meets UT standards? How are students led to these materials? How might success in learning by these means be acknowledged and accredited? What new forms of faculty assistance to online students and joint study by students using technology are evolving? How can a professor who wants to produce technology-enhanced learning materials do so, with what consequences on duties and intellectual property rights? What help should such a professor expect, from his/her department or from a centralized university technology office? How might UT’s future use of technology relate to what other universities are doing? President Powers, last September, expressed pleasure that the Faculty Council was establishing a committee to focus on these issues. But at the up-coming April meeting, seven months later, according to the Faculty Council secretary, we can only expect a report of an “ad hoc committee that was organized to propose the charge for the new committee and the principles for determining its membership.” Information technology and its relationship to higher education are moving at a faster pace. It will take recognition of that fact and the devotion of substantial resources to the work of the committee-to-be-formed, and to those in the departments designated to help, if UT is not to leave these issues to be addressed only by others. —Francis D. Fisher, senior research fellow, LBJ School of Public Affairs, submitted via email
YIK YAK’S NOT TO BLAME HERE Ali Mavrakis @alimavrakis “Encouraging?” Perhaps people up-voting racist or sexist posts is encouraging, but that blame is on users
YIK YAK MAKES BULLYING WORSE People post crass, rude things to get a reaction. If nobody is reading the posts, nobody will react to them and the bullying will stop. Delete the app, y’all. — Online commenter Madeline in response to the column “Yik Yak app encourages racism, sexism at UT” by Alexandra Triolo
LONGHORNS SHOULD WELCOME ALL COMMUNITIES It’s not an issue of comparing race to sexual orientation, but it’s about providing a safe space for the Longhorn community to express themselves and pursue their education while not facing discrimination. — Online commenter Kent Kasischke in response to the Life & Arts article “Gay Liberation Front from 1970s paved way for UT gay rights groups”
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From McKinley to Obama: University boasts long history of presidential visits By Natalie Sullivan @natsullivan94
When President Barack Obama spoke Thursday at the Civil Rights Summit, it was not the first time a U.S. president has visited the University. Since 1900, seven different presidents have given speeches at the University to commemorate events and inspire students — although some of them did it from their carriages rather than being livestreamed on television. The first president who visited the University was President William McKinley, who spoke from his carriage in front of the Tower in 1900, according to the book “The University of Texas Records.” Nearly five years later, President Theodore Roosevelt spoke from his carriage in the same spot, although not very eloquently, the book said. “He is not an easy speaker,” the book said. “His words indeed come with considerable effort, but they are well chosen, and his intense earnestness and sincerity give great force to what he says.” A 1905 editorial in
The Daily Texan gave the students’ opinion of the president’s qualities. “The student body at the University and the people of Texas, as a rule, may not agree with the President in politics, but they are much too broad-minded not to honor the office which he holds,” the editorial said. “Besides, he has some good qualities anyhow.” Two of the four presidents at the summit, Obama and former President Bill Clinton, also previously visited the University. In 1995, Clinton gave a speech on racial harmony and cooperation, quoting Martin Luther King Jr. and urging both black and white Americans to reconcile their differences. “We must clean our house of racism,” Clinton said. “We are one nation, one family — indivisible.” Obama gave a speech in Gregory Gym in 2010, in which he showed students his “Hook ‘em Horns” hand sign and emphasized the importance of prioritizing education. The president closest to the University has always
Civil rights panelists discuss social justice By Nicole Cobler @nicolecobler
At a discussion focusing on social justice at the Civil Rights Summit on Thursday, the diverse group of panelists said they agreed there is still work to be done to improve life for many groups in the United States. David Robinson, an NBA Hall of Famer as a former star center for the San Antonio Spurs, said he tries to remind his sons of the people who fought for equality during the civil rights movement. “They laid their lives down so I could stand on their shoulders,” said Robinson, whose oldest son, David Robinson Jr., is a UT communications studies junior. Maria Shriver, journalist and California’s former first lady, said social justice is not just about racial issues but also means immigration and marriage equality. Shriver said women will decide the next presidential race, so she hopes all women will vote to help affect change. Lex Frieden, UT professor
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continues from page 1 demonstrated by] the radical rise in student loan cost. In the ’50s, when the Russians sent Sputnik up, we thought they might have an advantage on us in science. We passed the National Defense [Education] Act and paid for kids to go to school. In five years, we caught the Russians and surpassed them because we lowered ourselves to scientific development … We should, in fact, have a plan now for student loan debt forgiveness and reach out to that talent pool. That is one of the challenges of our time – radically reducing student loan debt. The other, of course, is that we need an amendment to the Constitution for the fundamental right to vote.
of health informatics who assisted with the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, said the 2010 Affordable Care Act was a landmark achievement for disabled Americans because it ensured they would have access to health insurance. Among other things, the act prohibits insurance companies from denying coverage to people based on their preexisting condition. “[President Barack Obama] has filled the one gap that we regretted the most in the act — that was health care,” Frieden said. “[Before], people with disabilities could be legally discriminated in health care.” Frieden said a major university denied him admission because of a disability caused after he broke his neck. He said this discrimination showed him the challenges people faced before the Civil Rights Act was implemented. “It just struck me — like, maybe this is what people feel like,” Frieden said. “They can’t do anything because of a characteristic they don’t have any control over.”
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been President Lyndon B. Johnson, who visited campus regularly and even attended football games in Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium, although he disliked the sport. One of his staff members was quoted in an ESPN article as saying, “He didn’t pay any attention to the game at all. He cared about as much about football as I would a ladies’ dressing parade.” Johnson was friends with former head football coach Darrell K Royal and many other University staff and faculty, and the LBJ Library was built on campus in 1971 in his honor. His wife, Lady Bird Johnson, who worked
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DT: [Regarding] the costs of higher education, how do you feel students can justify studying certain subjects, such as education, fine arts and the humanities, when high student debt and low pay make it financially impractical? Jackson: Students should be protesting the rising cost of higher education en masse. There should be more focus on protesting the cost of higher education than going to football games … How many students are at the University of Texas?
DT: Some here in Texas have argued that the solution is to have a more affordable, but less substantial, higher education system that focuses on quickly turning out graduates with technical skills — Rick Perry has talked about $10,000 degrees. Jackson: Well, that’s another class strata. There are some people who should learn those technical skills because we always need trade skills. Plumbers and masons and carpenters and glaziers and builders and constructionists — we’ll always need the infrastructure workers. They’re highly valued skills because they’re necessary. Hard to find an unemployed plumber. On the other hand, the humanities and the arts also matter. Getting these high degrees also matter. So why have a cheap degree and an expensive degree, that’s just another class separation.
DT: About 50,000. Jackson: If those students held a mass protest for student debt forgiveness, your legislature would come into a special session … Our power is in marching and civil disobedience.
DT: Do you think there’s a
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racial element to that issue? Jackson: Well, the evidence is fairly obvious that of 2 million-plus Americans in prison, half are AfricanAmerican. A survey [that] came on the topic of education last week showed that black students at the kindergarten level are suspended more than white students. Blacks hit with more time for the same crime … the evidence is there’s a strong racial component that blacks are targeted and steered.
DT: On the subject of higher education, which you have talked a lot about in the past, to what extent do you think the cost of higher education is a civil rights issue? Jackson: Money should not determine who gets higher education. It should be based upon will and skill, and not based upon money. Many students [who] would be good teachers, or doctors, or lawyers, or scientists or researchers cannot afford to go to school. We cannot afford to discard great minds.
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for The Daily Texan, had degrees in history and journalism from the University. President Johnson gave a commencement speech at the University in 1964, just before he signed the Civil Rights Act. In his speech, he spoke about how increasing population growth meant more responsibility for students to improve the world. “For we are at a turning point in the history of our Nation,” Johnson said. “One road leads to the Great Society … and the other road leads to a legacy of despair and degradation. This is the time for decision. You are the generation which must decide.” challenges ahead. And it was an honor to have the president of the United States on campus.” U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Georgia, introduced Obama and said his status as the first black president was especially poignant in the context of the 50-year anniversary of the Civil Rights Act. Obama was born three years before the act’s passage. “President Barack Obama was born into a dangerous and difficult time in American history, a time when people were arrested and taken to jail just for sitting beside each other on the bus,” Lewis said. “When people say nothing has changed, I say, ‘Come and walk in my shoes, and I will show you change.’”
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continues from page 1 average reading score for 13-year-old white students was the same as those of 17-year-old AfricanAmericans should be a national priority. “In a nation dedicated to equal opportunity, that’s scandalous,” Bush said. “This should be a national scandal demanding action.” Bush’s speech did not include other civil rights issues that had been discussed during the three-day-long event, such as women’s rights, voting restrictions, immigration reform and same-sex marriage. Marketing junior Marisa
University police arrested three people, including one UT student, during an immigration rights protest outside the LBJ Library during President Barack Obama’s address, according to UTPD spokeswoman Cindy Posey. The University has charged three protesters with criminal trespassing. Undeclared freshman Emily Freeman, United We Dream leader Alejandra Gomez and GetEQUAL member Patrick Fierro were protesting as part of several immigration-related demonstrations coordinated by University Leadership Initiative over the course of the week. Diana Morales, linguistics junior and ULI member, said the group members knew there was a chance they would be arrested. “We knew that the three people who were there were willing to take any risk to bring our message to Obama,” Morales said. “His administration has deported over 2 million people. This is something no other president has done, and his term is not even over.” The protest began in front of the Tower, then the group marched to the Martin Luther King Jr. statue, which four ULI members had chained themselves to and slept Wednesday night. After leading more
chants, the group marched to the LBJ Library to try and deliver their message to the President. The arrests were then made and the protest dissipated. Mechanical engineering senior Javier Huamani, who is undocumented, said he immigrated to the U.S. with his family from Peru when he was 8 years old because of financial issues and in search of the “American Dream.” Huamani said he and his family had to work hard to survive, and they experienced constant animosity from their surrounding community. “I would have to be discriminated against in high school … and have to pretend I was not undocumented just so people wouldn’t make fun of me,” Huamani said. “There is no shame in being undocumented, whatsoever.” According to the Pew Hispanic Research Trends Project, there were 11.7 million undocumented immigrants living the United States in 2012, a significant rise from 3.5 million in 1990. Mechanical engineering freshman Michael Rukavina said he thinks the current rate of deportations under the Obama administration is understandable. “Maybe I just don’t know enough, but I don’t see what the problem is,” Rukavina said. “Obama may have deported 2 million people, but if you’re here illegally, you have to be deported — that’s the law.”
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Greisa Martinez of the Harris County Democratic Party speaks into a megaphone during a protest outside the LBJ Library during the Civil Rights Summit.
Kent, Queer Students Alliance president, said Bush’s call on states to ratify an amendment to the U.S. Constitution to define marriage as a strictly heterosexual union in 2004 was disappointing to the queer community. Michelle Willoughby, government and Plan II sophomore and University Democrats communication director, said her organization also took issue with Bush’s policies opposing same-sex marriage. “That’s one very clear example of a way Bush did not further civil rights,” Willoughby said. Berberich said Bush’s views on gay marriage should not be
relevant to his presidency, and the government shouldn’t be involved in that decision. “He’s in line with the Republican Party belief with upholding the traditional view of marriage,” Berberich said. “Whether or not they agree with gay marriage isn’t really relevant.” Bush said that continued progress must be made on civil rights to truly continue the legacies of Lyndon Johnson and Martin Luther King, Jr. “Some are too comfortable with the status quo,” Bush said. “For the sake of America’s children, that is something we cannot allow.” Additional reporting by Leila Ruiz
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Texas fights for Red River, Big 12
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When Texas travels to Oklahoma this weekend, it will be competing for a lot more than Red River bragging rights. The Longhorns will try to continue their recent Big 12 success after dropping a tough game to Rice 7-2 Tuesday night. Texas was held to a season-low one hit against the Owls, but head coach Augie Garrido believes the loss was a valuable learning experience. “Absolutely [it’s a learning experience], because it hasn’t happened to us before,” Garrido said. “The thing we want to do is separate the emotional bad feelings, or embarrassment or whatever you want to call it. Everyone is going to be affected a little differently emotionally. We are going to take that out of it, and we didn’t discuss it tonight. We are going to take from it the positive things that they need to recognize when they are in that state of mind.” Garrido’s squad is 5-1 in its last six conference games and is coming off of a sweep of Baylor last weekend, the team’s first since last season. Prior to the Rice game, Texas had successfully tallied at least six hits in
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Senior outfielder Mark Payton leads the Longhorns’ lineup with a .361 batting average, but has struggled to find his swing in the last few games. Texas will need his bat if it wants to perform well against Oklahoma this weekend.
13-straight games. “I think we were satisfied with a lot of the wins that we had and the two wins we had over [Rice] earlier and took a less than highly competitive frame of mind in the game,” Garrido said. “That is the first time we have done that.
But, I don’t want it to sound like we turned the game over to [Rice].” If the Longhorns want to take control of the Big 12, they can’t walk into Norman, Okla., without a competitive state of mind. The Sooners are 4-2 in the Big 12 this
season, with a combined batting average of .294 and an ERA of 3.05. Senior center fielder Mark Payton, whose .361 batting average has carried the team this season, will need to step
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Shireman exemplifies student-athlete role By Scarlett R. Smith @ScarlettRSmith1
Erin Shireman, a sophomore catcher/third baseman, is perhaps the most interesting player on head coach Connie Clark’s team. Shireman embodies the role of a student-athlete, currently pursuing a degree in aerospace engineering and continuing her family’s legacy. “I have grown up with [aerospace engineering] my entire life,” Shireman said. “My parents got me into it at a young age, especially being from Houston. My dad works at NASA, so I have always been in that atmosphere and learned a lot from him. I have recently started flying, and that has
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Sophomore infielder Erin Shireman has proven to be a model student-athlete, currently pursuing a degree in aerospace engineering while playing a key role in the diamond for Texas.
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Sophomore middle blocker Molly McCage attempts to block a Baylor attack. McCage led the Longhorns with 138 blocks in the 2013 season.
Longhorns gearing up for Texas Invitational By Daniel Clay & Grant Gordon
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The Longhorns are preparing for their second home meet of the outdoor season on Saturday at the Texas Invitational. The one-day home meet will feature teams from all over the state. The Texas men will try to build off a successful Stanford Invitational meet last weekend, a performance that led to the team’s jump from 18th to 16th in the outdoor national ranking. The men will look to the
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Following a shocking exit in the semifinals of the 2013 NCAA Volleyball Championships in December, the Longhorns will play their annual spring match Saturday against New Mexico State at Gregory Gym, where wins are almost a guarantee. The match with New Mexico State will be the fifth for the Longhorns this spring, as the team recently competed in the F.A.S.T. Complex Collegiate Invitational last weekend.
The Longhorns picked up three wins against UTSA, Oklahoma and Texas A&M before falling to Rice in the final match of the tournament. Texas will be buoyed by junior outside hitter and perennial All-American Haley Eckerman, who led the team with 447 total kills during the 2013 season. The middle of the Longhorns’ rotation will be led by junior middle blocker Khat Bell and sophomore middle blocker Molly McCage, who finished third and fourth in total kills with 188 and 154, respectively, during the season.
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kind of changed my mind, or given me a tough decision, as whether to go with space or atmospheric in the future.” Shireman hopes her degree will be a launching pad for her ultimate goal of being an astronaut. “I still want to be an astronaut, but I am being realistic that it may not happen,” Shireman said. “But now, having gotten my pilot’s license, I am really enjoying
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field events to help them score points this Saturday. “Our success on the men’s side is definitely not going to just be with the sprints and the distance, but a lot is going to come from the field events — especially the discus, the
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Texas compiled a 13-0 record at home during the regular season and swept the conference with a perfect 16-0 record. First serve for the match will be Saturday at 4 p.m., and fans can watch the twohour match on the Longhorn Network.
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Junior pole vaulter Kaitlin Petrillose attempts a jump for the Longhorns. Petrillose was an indoor and outdoor Big 12 champion for Texas last season.
Cavaliers center Anderson Varejao will play an NBA game back home in Brazil for the first time when Cleveland takes on the Miami Heat in an exhibition in October. The NBA announced five international preseason games Thursday. The Brooklyn Nets and Sacramento Kings will meet twice in China — Oct. 12 in Shanghai and Oct. 15 in Beijing. The Spurs will also play two Euroleague Basketball teams. San Antonio faces eight-time German champion Alba Berlin in Berlin on Oct. 8 and fivetime Turkish champ Fenerbahce Ulker Istanbul in Istanbul on Oct. 11. The Cavs-Heat matchup is also Oct. 11 in Rio de Janeiro. The NBA will later announce regular-season international games for 2014-2015 as part of its efforts to promote the league around the world.
Strain removes Beltre from Rangers lineup
Adrian Beltre has a mild left quadriceps strain that will keep him out of the lineup for now, but the Texas Rangers plan to wait and see if their third baseman can avoid a trip to the disabled list. “We’re going to kind of play it conservatively. We’re going to give him a few days,” general manager Jon Daniels said Thursday. “We’ve got some flexibility with our roster right now.” Beltre came out of Tuesday’s game at Boston, then returned home for an MRI and exam by team physician Dr. Keith Meister. The Rangers were off Thursday before a 10-day homestand. The Rangers have roster flexibility until they have to activate right-hander Colby Lewis for his first start since July 2012. He has been rehabbing from hip surgery that followed elbow surgery. —Associated Press
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TENNIS / CHRIS CARAVEO The last three matches the Longhorns will play at the Penick-Allison Tennis Center will determine if the team can claim a third-straight conference championship. This weekend, No. 22 Texas (10-9, 5-1 Big 12) hosts No. 18 Oklahoma and No. 23 Oklahoma State. If the Longhorns sweep the Sooners and Cowgirls they will need to either beat Baylor in the season finale or have Oklahoma State lose to secure a top spot. Last year, the Longhorns pulled a double-sweep over the teams from Oklahoma, both in the regular season and in the Big 12 Tournament, which culminated in a title for Texas. Three freshmen — Ratnika Batra, Neda Koprcina and
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continues from page 6 javelin and the hammer throw,” Sategna said. “They’ve shown some great things the last couple weeks in practice. Now they’ve got to do it in a meet.” The No. 3 women’s elite stable of sprinters and field competitors will also return to competition this weekend. “On the women’s side we’ve got two of the very best relays there in the 4x[100-meters] and the 4x[400-meters],” Sategna said. “We are still putting our attack together in some of those individual events, and
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Senior midfielder Tully Moorhead led Texas with 55 goals last season and was named the 2014 WCLA Preseason Player of the Year. The Longhorns are currently 9-8 on the season.
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Pippa Horn — will be key in the final three contests, and their 15-3 combined conference record leaves no doubts as to whether they are ready for the challenge. The Longhorns face the Sooners on Friday at 6 p.m. and the Cowgirls on Sunday at 1 p.m. The statistics are fairly even for the two teams, but the Longhorn pitching staff will be the key to taking down the Sooners, who boast a combined .294 batting average this season. As a staff, Texas pitchers rank No. 5 in the country with a 2.13 ERA this season and are holding opposing hitters to just a .222 batting average. Texas and Oklahoma sit at No. 1 and No. 2 in the conference, respectively, and a strong showing this weekend could go a long way in distancing Texas from the pack. so we will kind of touch on those this weekend.” Junior pole-vaulter Kaitlin Petrillose has been a regular first place finisher for the Longhorns’ individual performers. The last home meet saw Petrillose fall millimeters short of an NCAA record. Marielle Hall, senior distance runner and U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association National Female Athlete of the Week, has helped Petrillose carry the individual events burden recently. Hall hopes to build off a strong performance last weekend at the Stanford Invitational and
Longhorn senior midfielder Tully Moorhead, Lacrosse Magazine’s 2014 WCLA Division I Preseason Player of the Year, has her eyes on the future in her last season as a club lacrosse player at Texas. “Tully is an all-around great player,” head coach Brandie Leach said. “She is dangerous at both ends of the field.” Last season, Moorhead led the team with 55 goals and has already surpassed that total this season with two games left until nationals. Leach suggests that those statistics are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Moorhead’s talent and sportsmanship. “Her internal motivation is very important to the success of our team because she is a captain, leader, and her teammates look up to her,” Leach said. “Every practice and game, she exemplifies this trait.” The team is 9-8 this season, including a blowout 17-0 win against Texas A&M and narrow losses to higher ranked teams. Now in her 11th and impress the home crowd. “It’s my senior year, so I’m always excited to have a meet on this track,” Hall said. “There’s going to be some great competition this weekend.” After a couple season opening meets to get the wheels turning, head coach Mario Sategna is already looking forward to the postseason. “Now we can start to look to the conference meet once again,” Sategna said. Sategna must choose 32 men and 32 women to compete in the conference meet, with the hopes of advancing them to the regional and NCAA Championships.
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final season as a lacrosse player, Moorhead still has the same passion for the game that she had when she first picked up a stick. The Grapevine native immerses herself in the game she loves. After graduation, Moorhead said she would love the opportunity to coach, but is currently planning on going into research to become a commercial developer or international businesswoman in Austin or Miami. “I coached Westlake and Austin High my freshman through junior years. It depends where I end up — looking like Austin
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continues from page 6 the atmospheric part of it. My parents keep me intrigued with that, and we go on family flying trips all the time.” Many student-athletes view sports as their ultimate career destinations, often emphasizing their roles as athletes over being students. But when asked to choose which accomplishment she was most proud of, Shireman was stuck in the middle. “That is a tough question because they are both a big part of my life, and so if I say
or Miami. Both cities have really amazing athletes, just not the most developed lacrosse network,” Moorhead said. With graduation just around the corner, Moorhead is looking for postcollegiate leagues to play in, but the search may prove to be difficult. “To my knowledge there is only one postcollegiate women’s professional team, and only one club player is on the roster — Clayton Crum, a former Texas player who also won Preseason Player of the Year and Player of the Year.” After graduation, Moorhead will have a family
connection to the University: Her sister will also be playing for the Longhorns. Moorhead has a bright future ahead of her, but her love for the lacrosse team here at Texas will never waver. “My favorite memory was the last weekend in February this year,” Moorhead said. “We had played so well all weekend and we were playing Florida — ranked in the top 2 or 3 right now — and I look over on the sideline and see my roommates, family, my friends, my partner and his family. So my favorite memory: playing really well in front of everyone I love.”
I am more proud of one, I am kind of letting down the other part of me,” Shireman said. “I am proud of everything. Softball has given me the opportunity to come to UT and do the school aspect and then school will help me later on in the future, so they are pretty evenly balanced.” Shireman and her teammates have had an up-anddown season thus far, but she has a concise summary for what has happened so far. “Entertaining,” Shireman said. “There is never a dull moment when you have 19 girls on a team, and even
when things are going rough we are always picking each other up and during the good times it is just easy, breezy rolling.” The Longhorns made it to the semifinals of the College World Series last year and hope to reach similar heights this season despite their relative youth. “We have had a lot of games where we have lost by one run, or they have been really close games,” Smith said. “If we can just work on finishing that or getting ahead that will be the key to getting us back to the College World Series.”
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From left: Tori Reading, Taylor Henderson and Brian Bargas of UT’s One Note Stand a capella group practice for Texas Revue at Mezes building on Wednesday evening.
continues from page 10 said. “It gives us a chance to work out all the kinks. This is a controlled environment that we can learn from before expanding.” Everywhere Energy also plans to use this type of technology in Third World countries, such as Uganda, where electricity is not as readily available. According to The World Bank, 70 percent of Ugandans will have cell phone subscriptions by 2015, yet only 9 percent will have access to electricity. Melinda Haghighatian, chief operating officer and electrical and computer engineering senior, said Everywhere Energy could help with these problems. “Our ultimate goal is to get into Third World countries so we can provide them power,” Haghighatian said. “That’s a big market and a big need as well.” Hollander said they are
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continues from page 10 psychological chess game between the mirror’s evil persona and the adult-version heroes. The tale of the first haunting works as a nod to the terror that fueled ghost films such as “The Amityville Horror.” Possession and the mental disintegration of an unlucky family are familiar ground for producer Jason Blum, who has lent his name to similar films, such as “Insidious” and “Paranormal Activity.” Watching the parents suffer under the mirror’s power while their children squirm in terror is suspenseful and agonizingly tense, and the film’s remarkable pacing maximizes the horrific effects of the deadly
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performing a solo hula hooping act. Cahanin became interested in the sport while at a concert with hula hoopers in the crowd. She taught herself tricks using YouTube videos, and then joined hula hooping groups on campus and became a member of UT’s Longhorn Circus. Her act will not be standard waist hula hooping. Instead, it will resemble more of a dancing routine. “If you’ve ever seen a circus performance, often they
have hula hoop dancers who do acrobatic-type tricks with the hula hoop. It’s more like dance. It’s not just around the waist,” Cahanin said. “Its around my legs, my arms, at one point I’m in a headstand doing it on my foot.” Cahanin will be able to share her talent with more people than she ever has before, as the Hogg Memorial Auditorium seats over 1,000 people. “Last semester, me and a friend would hula hoop downtown on Sixth Street, so
spirits lurking in the home. The other half of the film is dedicated to Tim and Kaylie’s attempts to silence the entity inside the mirror. It’s entertaining to watch Kaylie’s master plan and the lengths that she goes to in order to capture any suspicious activity. But the cleverness of the movie comes from the intelligence of the ghosts, evident during the trippy sequences in which both siblings fall victim to the mirror’s influence and lose the ability to separate illusion from reality. Director Mike Flanagan employs seamless editing skills, blending the past and present together beautifully. The film’s climactic scenes, where both versions of the protagonists fight off the apparitions of
the mirror simultaneously, are perfectly balanced. Thwaites and Gillan share excellent chemistry throughout the film. While Thwaites is great as a mentally disturbed man who just wants his life put back together, the real star is Gillan, the obsessed sister. Garrett Ryan and Annalise Basso, who play the young versions of Tim and Kaylie, portray terrified children but give their characters traces of strength when they attempt to destroy the mirror and promise each other to not rest until it’s defeated. “Oculus” is one of the smartest, most frightening horror films made in recent years. It uses manipulation in lieu of cheap jump scares to create genuine psychological terror, with its unsettling
I was hula hooping in front of a crowd there,” Cahanin said. “But it was just people passing by and never more than like 20 people.” Hula hooping and a capella singing are only a small sample of the different talents at Texas Revue. Hogg said there will something there to suit everyone’s interests. “If you like something, you will probably get to see it,” Hogg said. “And you might discover new things that are really cool that you’ve never seen before.”
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continues from page 10 in town that’s remotely exciting for us, anyway.” Angel is a more relaxed and atmospheric companion to the band’s earlier work, which Youngblood attributed to the calm nature of the album’s recording process. Angel was recorded in an old dance hall just outside of Shiner, Texas. “We didn’t have any kind of stress,” Youngblood said. “Our headspace was a big factor. We wanted to do something chill and relaxed.” Comparatively, Pure X’s 2013 album, Crawling Up he Stairs, was recorded during a stressful period for the band. Singer Nate Grace had just suffered a severe leg injury from a skateboarding accident, and that partly led to what Youngblood called the group’s most challenging record. After it was released, Youngblood said the band wanted to return to the studio immediately and show people other aspects of its sound. Another big change in
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the band’s dynamic for the recording of Angel was the addition of multi-instrumentalist Matt Davidson. Davidson had been touring with the band for a few years, playing instruments such as synthesizers and 12-string acoustic guitars, but didn’t become a full member of the band until last year. “When we got home from touring, we all just figured he would stick around because we knew we would need those elements on the next record and tour in the future,” Youngblood said. “It’s nice to have him.”
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looking into making more products like the shoe insert that will harness energy effortlessly. “The shoe insert is really just the first step,” Hollander said. “We really just need to continue to harness that energy that we exert everyday, in terms of consumer electronics.” The company also has plans to make its products wireless. According to Tatum, this technology is not available yet, but it is something they’d like to explore. Gergen and Hollander plan to join Everywhere Energy full time once they graduate, and the rest of the team also plans to contribute part time after leaving UT. Whether it’s a college campus or a village in Uganda, Hollander said she is trying to give people access to energy they don’t currently have. “It’s sustainable and convenient,” Hollander said. “It’s a more global solution to an energy crisis.”
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Student startup talks phone-charging shoe By Brigit Benestante @BBenestante
Thanks to a group of students on campus, charging your phone may be as easy as taking off your shoe. Electrical and computer engineering senior Darla Hollander and her team at Everywhere Energy are attempting to harness the kinetic energy students exert as they walk to create a way for students to charge their phones with a shoe insert. Hollander, the CEO of Everywhere Energy, said it was her fascination with sustainable energy that inspired her to create the company in October 2011. “It’s energy that is already here,” Hollander said. “We’re moving around, so we might as well capture the energy we create with walking.” Hollander gathered a team of five other UT students to help her with Everywhere Energy in April 2013. They began exploring the idea of creating a type of wearable technology that could harness energy and be used later to charge devices. Rory Tatum, chief technology officer and electrical and computer engineering senior, began researching technology that would allow them to make this possible. He stumbled across a shoe insole project that the Stanford Research Institute had abandoned almost 10 years earlier. Tatum then contacted the institute and was given not only permission to
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The Everywhere Energy team has developed a way for kinetic energy to charge a cell phone as part of the Longhorn Startup Lab at UT. Energy from walking would be harnessed into a shoe insert that would allow people to charge their phones.
continue with the project, but assistance to carry it out. The team enrolled in the Longhorn Startup Lab, a class offered on campus, in order to pursue Everywhere Energy while gaining school credit at the same time. Through the class, they
were assigned a mentor who helped them make a plan for creation and distribution of the insoles. “We decided that since we’re making a shoe insert and that it is a consumer product, it could easily land in the hands of people,”
Hollander said. “Our first target market is college students. They walk more than the average American and use their phones a lot.” The team pitched the idea at two competitions, the South By Southwest Longhorn Startup Showcase and
the Delta Sigma Pi Startup Showcase, and was picked as the best pitch at both. By 2015, Everywhere Energy hopes to capture 5 percent of the student population at UT and A&M. Jane Gergen, marketing junior and Everywhere Energy marketing
director, said these college campuses will help them learn what needs to be fixed with the product. “UT is great because we can walk around campus and talk with students,” Gergen
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Local psych band Pure X is an enigma. The band has almost no involvement in the Austin music scene, but has managed to find success nationwide. Pure X recently signed to Fat Possum Records and released its third album, Angel, earlier this month. The band receives considerable coverage from alternativefocused music websites and just finished a Northeast tour opening for Real Estate. The band’s upcoming show at Empire Control Room on Saturday night is its first local show in six months. Outside of the occasional appearance at South By Southwest, Pure X only plays about two shows in Austin every year. “Austin is what it is,” drummer Austin Youngblood said. “I like to live there, but we don’t really like playing the game in Austin. There are just too many people playing, so we stay out of that.” For Youngblood and the rest of the band, Austin is a good place to relax from touring and work on new music. While they enjoy playing for their friends in town, there isn’t a lot of local support beyond that.
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TEXAS REVUE TALENT SHOW
There are not many opportunities to see hula hooping and an a capella performance at the same event, but Texas Revue will make that happen this weekend when it brings the different talents of UT together for one night. The Texas Revue talent show will feature 12 acts composed of individuals and various student organizations. At the end of the night, the best act will receive a $1,000 prize and the best technical act — the act with the best staging and costumes — will receive a $750 prize. “Any student organization or any student can audition,” said Kelly Hogg, marketing and business honors senior and event coordinator for Texas Traditions. “There’s no limit on what type of talent or who can audition. It’s really open. What that means is, we’ve got this really diverse group of really talented people performing.” One of the groups performing is UT’s One Note Stand a capella group. They will sing “Happy” by Pharrell Williams and “The Dog Days
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Pure X is from Austin, but enjoys playing in bigger cities like New York and Los Angeles to their hometown.
“As far as doing the circuit and keeping your name out in Austin, there’s not a lot of reasons for us to spin those wheels,” Youngblood said. Youngblood said part of the reason the band doesn’t play in Austin often is because it finds more success touring and playing shows in larger cities. According to Youngblood, the band can play a show in Los Angeles or San Francisco to a crowd three to four times the size of a crowd in Austin and make three to four times as
much money. “We can fly to New York and play three shows in three days and play to more people than a year of doing a show a month in Austin,” Youngblood said. “No one wants to pay us. We go where people pay.” Youngblood said the band first found success from touring around the country, distributing its early recordings and making friends and connections in those cities. One local event that Pure X enjoys playing is Austin
PURE X When: Saturday, April 12, 9 p.m. Where: Empire Control Room Cost: $8 - $12 Admittance: 21+ Only
Psych Fest, which it will play in a few weeks. The band plays the festival every other year. “Psych Fest is cool,” Youngblood said. “It’s like the one thing that happens
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are Over” by Florence and the Machine. Glen Miglin, engineering and plan II senior and One Note Stand vice president, has been in One Note Stand since his freshman year. He became interested in a capella music in high school when Rice University’s a capella group came and performed for his school. “I was instantly taken by the layers of the sound and the beatboxing and just the novelty of it, really,” Miglin said. “Ever since then, I’ve been looking up a capella music on iTunes and YouTube. Then I came to UT and one of my first goals was to find an a capella group and join them.” One Note Stand has auditioned for Texas Revue four times since they were established five years ago. “Texas Revue has been a
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MOVIE REVIEW | ‘OCULUS’
‘Oculus’ stands a clever, terrifying ghost film with complex narrative By Alex Pelham @TalkingofPelham
Haunted house films have become so common in mainstream horror that they have their own sub-genre, but the notion of a haunted mirror is new to the world of cinematic terror. “Oculus” is a fantastic example of a smart haunted house movie. It presents a chilling scenario that adds new aspects to the genre while also paying homage to the familiar tropes that serve
as the foundation of horror flicks. The film uses playful narrative to create a tense atmosphere that features clever scares at every moment. After Tim Russell (Brenton Thwaites) is released from a mental institution after supposedly killing his father, he reunites with his sister, Kaylie (Karen Gillan), who is determined to prove that he wasn’t responsible for the crime. She tracks down an ancient mirror, whose sinister power tormented their family when they were
children by possessing their parents, and sets up an elaborate experiment to reveal the evil force hidden in the mirror and destroy it. “Oculus” blends two effective ghost stories into one stellar, disorienting narrative. One part of the film deals with the original haunting of the mirror, when the protagonists were children, and how it eventually obliterated the family’s sanity. The other part plays out like a
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Karen Gillan and Brenton Thwaites star in Relativity Media’s “Occulus”.
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