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Pulitzer finalist surprised by honor By Nicole Cobler @nicolecobler
History professor Jacqueline Jones was named as one of two finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in history Tuesday. Jones said she had no clue her book, “A Dreadful Deceit: The Myth of Race from the Colonial Era to Obama’s America,” was even in contention for the award. Alan
Taylor, author of “The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832,” won the award. “I had no idea I was even under consideration, so it was quite a surprise, and a nice one, I might add,” Jones said. The book researches race as a social invention that has retained its power to harm the lives of Americans.
“The effects of this fiction have been devastating throughout history,” Jones said. “The idea here is that this myth or idea has been a very powerful one in justifying the exploitation of [people of] African descent and other people as well.” Jones said growing up in a small town in Delaware and seeing the inequality AfricanAmericans faced made her
curious about this subject. “There were separate black and white churches — black kids being bused to an all-black school, black kids not being allowed to go into the general store in town — so I was always very curious as a kid why that situation existed,” Jones said. “In a way, my interests in history have kind of grown out of those experiences.”
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Grad students call for affordable housing By Nicole Cobler @nicolecobler
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Alberto Jorge Vazquez Anderson, a graduate student from Mexico, came to the University in 2011 to study chemical engineering and quickly realized Austin is an expensive place to live. Vazquez and his wife put their names on a waitlist more than 800 people long to get into more affordable graduate student housing offered by University Apartments. Some people on the list have been waiting for housing since 2008. University Apartments — Brackenridge, Gateway and Colorado — offer 715 units to all students with at least 30 credit hours. 93.2 percent of its occupants are graduate and professional students, and 74.9 percent of its occupants are international graduate students
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Alberto Jorge Vazquez Anderson and his wife were on a waitlist of more than 800 people before moving into the Colorado University Apartments. Last week, the Graduate Student Assembly passed a resolution requesting new opportunities for graduate housing.
Last year, Americans lost $24.7 billion to identity fraud, but the UT Center for Identity’s new resource center for identity theft, fraud and privacy will offer materials to help prevent more losses. Lauren Willis, Texas State Comptroller’s office spokeswoman, said Comptroller Susan Combs played an integral role in getting funding for the resource center. “[Combs secured] $5 million, which interestingly is the largest state-level investment in this sort of thing in the country,” Willis said. “No other state has anything like this.” Expected to open in summer 2014, the resource center will provide training tactics and packages, iPhone apps, top-10 lists and other materials to help people be more alert to the issue, protect their identities and recover if they have issues, according to Suzanne Barber, the director of the Center for Identity. Barber said the resource center will do research to determine what people’s most valuable assets are in order to figure out how to protect them.. “We’ll be able to tell you what the best practices are or give you the best app to help you monitor, but a lot of the research in this area hasn’t been done,” Barber said. “It’s key before we can give you
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The amount of time you spend reading Facebook posts and skimming web pages could impact one’s ability to read and comprehend longer texts on paper, according to a University professor. School of Information Dean Andrew Dillon said the way online content is formatted leads to breaks in attention span, which can then make it more difficult to return to extended texts, such as novels. “We’re spending so much time touching, pushing, linking, scrolling and jumping through text that, when [you] sit down with a novel, your daily [habit] of jumping, clicking, linking is just ingrained in you,” Dillon said. “We’re in this new era of information behavior, and we’re beginning to see the consequences of that.”
Dillon, who studies reading and human behavior, said the change in reading habits occurs because of increasingly smaller electronic devices and the challenge web publishers face to attract audiences to online content. “As the technology moves, the content providers adjust and, since screen real estate and human attention are at a premium, shorter texts, increased use of animation and color, and a concern with getting the message across quickly all come to the fore,” Dillon said. “This is the new norm, and you probably won’t be seeing too many people reading Proust on their iPhone anytime soon.” According to Dillon, this emphasis on reading in short bursts could have damaging effects on comprehension, especially for younger readers who have grown up in a digital age.
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Sen. Marco Rubio, RFlorida, said the United States should use its influence to intervene in conflicts overseas, in a speech addressing foreign policy topics on campus Tuesday. Rubio, who also addressed topics such as Iran and Edward Snowden, said he believes wherever people are suffering, dying, being invaded and persecuted, there is a tyrannical government behind the conflict. Rubio, who began his political career in the Florida House of Representatives and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 2010, said the U.S. government needs to become more involved. “In the real world, there is only one nation on this planet still capable of rallying the free people of this world for the great causes of our time, and that nation is ours,” Rubio said. “That is not my opinion. That is fact.”
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Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Florida, spoke about topics including Iran, Edward Snowden and the U.S.’ role in international affairs at the Blanton Museum of Art on Tuesday afternoon.
Rubio said he would support the use of force against Iran if diplomacy and economic sanctions fail because he believes Iran to be a serious threat. “Despite these crippling international sanctions, Iran
continues to spend millions of dollars a year supporting terrorism all over the world,” Rubio said. “America, if you want peace and prosperity, one of the best ways to ensure it is to have a military that no one will question.”
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“Dormitory housing, which is convenient for undergraduates, is more challenging for graduate parents, their families and international students,” Villarreal said. “University Apartments is really the last affordable housing option for [graduate] students.” Mishra said graduate students tend to live in areas such as Far West and Riverside because of their affordability, but these locations tend to make it difficult to get to campus and are not as safe. “Austin is a growing city with housing rents on the rise, and these rents will only continue to become more expensive,” Mishra said. “It
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Prize to finance research of Roman architecture By Hayden Clark @HaydenS_Clark
Architecture associate professor Vincent Snyder received the Rome Prize in early April, becoming the fifth winner from the University’s architecture school. The award, which Snyder applied for in 2013, will allow him to attend the American Academy in Rome for 11 months beginning in September. According to a press release, the prize covers Snyder’s room and board expenses and includes a stipend. At the academy, Snyder said he will study and research Ancient Roman buildings constructed out of wood. Snyder said his research will help tie in Ancient Roman wooden architecture with modern American structures. “It involves [Ancient] Roman timber, but it’s really about its relationship to potentially exploit wood for [modern] American construction,” Snyder said. “There’s new ways to use wood that’s being developed in Europe right now.” Architecture professor
Michael Benedikt said Snyder’s topic of research is unique because of the rare nature of the objects he will study. “He’s going to study Ancient Roman wooden architecture,” Benedikt said. “What’s interesting about that is not much of it survived.” Snyder said wood makes an excellent construction material because of its flexibility and strength. “[Wood] is just fascinating stuff,” Snyder said. “The thing that’s really amazing about it is that it’s one of those materials that is not only expressive and amazingly strong, [but] it’s also really flexible, and it’s easy to manipulate to be able to create architecture that is really inventive.” Snyder said he doesn’t want to copy Roman architecture. Instead, he said he plans to use it in assimilation with modern architecture techniques. “[The research] is not to exactly mimic what the Romans [did] with timber but rather as a point of departure,” Snyder said. “It really is a way to examine many possible new ways we can use wood in this country — trying to
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Architecture professor Vincent Snyder recently received the 2014-2015 Rome Prize awarded by the American Academy, becoming the fifth person from the UT’s School of Architecture to win the prize.
figure out what applications can be learned and applied to today, because the amazing thing about Rome is you get centuries and centuries of
constructions, and the Romans were amazingly inventive.” Frederick Steiner, architecture professor and dean, said Snyder’s insight in multiple
principles of construction allows for more creative designs. “[Snyder] has a background in both architecture and engineering,” Steiner
said. “So one of the things — in addition to being a wonderful designer — is he understands the structural aspects of buildings.”
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University professors presented their research in engim- neering and science Tuesday ca- at the Student Engineering ils, Council’s Research Sympoird sium — in a manner which ect event organizers claim is the who first of its kind. hild The symposium held the discussion in the style e, I of TED Talks, a series of s a lesson-based conferences dn’t intended to spread ideas. of- Jacob Sacks, biomedical enon,” gineering junior and event est organizer, said covering al.” such a wide range of topics — from revisiting Metcalfe’s Law on the equation of the value of a network to researching stealth-hacking attacks on autonomous unmanned vehicles of the future — made this different from any previous research symposiums held at the University. “[There have] been other research symposiums, but this is the first of these presented in a way so it is targeted toward a larger audience,” Sacks said. “It’s applicable to everyone, or at least something they can find interesting.” Brent Iverson, chemistry professor and dean of the School of Undergraduate Studies, said the research he and others are currently working on, which focuses on binding DNA molecules
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Engineering assistant professor Todd Humphreys gives a lecture at a research symposium on Tuesday evening.
by using complimentary charges, has the potential to create uses for DNA in the drug market. “You can think about treating the diseases we can’t treat today,” Iverson said. “You can think about cancer. You can think about retroviral diseases like HIV.” Biomedical engineering professor Stanislav Emelianov also presented on progress in the field of cancer research. Emelianov said he hopes to detect and treat cancer through completely noninvasive procedures. “I’ve seen ‘Star Trek,’” Emelianov said. “They cure diseases without cutting skin. Why can’t we do that? Not only will we detect the diseases at the cellular and molecular level. We will start treating them … [With photoacoustic imaging], we hope to treat it without cutting the skin.”
In addition to highlighting ways research can advance the field of medicine, professors spoke on the potential for defense mechanisms against hackers and how research changed their own personal future. David Laude, chemistry professor and senior vice provost for enrollment and graduation management, said his initial devotion to the research of different topics led to his realization that he desired to live a life full of constant change. “I value the fact that I create error all the time in my life,” Laude said. “When I think about how my life worked out, I realize that, along the way, I was honoring these odd moments of epiphany … I’m no longer a famous scientist, but a guy that loves every day that I live.”
Marketing principles are more likely to help fix problems in the environment than scare tactics used in the past are, according to Laura Huggins, outreach director of the Property and Environment Research Center think tank. Huggins gave a talk, “Escaping 44 years of Gloom and Doom on Earth Day: Free Market Solutions for the Environment,” on Tuesday at the LBJ School of Public Affairs. Huggins said people often misconceive free market environmental practices by thinking those involved in the process would turn national parks into popular exhibits, such as Walt Disney World. She said government regulations have not had the best effects on the issues at hand, like endangered species. “What happened is that, while I’m sure the politicians had good intentions, species became a liability to lots of property owners,”
Huggins said. According to Huggins, regulations regarding endangered species made owners of inhabited areas more likely to remove the species for fear their land would become worthless if the government took action. Changing how these owners react to such instances is where free market principles have succeeded, Huggins said. “We’d like to look at this and see how we can turn this around,” Huggins said. “How we can create positive incentives for the landowner.” According to Huggins, land is not the only place where issues exist. Huggins said when governments tried to regulate fishing in certain bodies of water, the markets were under more pressure. But the fishing communities experienced more success after building a catch system, according to Huggins. Darcia Datshkovsky, public affairs graduate student, said she has experienced
working with fisheries like those Huggins talked about, and the projects need to have financing in order to be successful. “For any solution, you need to be a realist about it,” Datshkovsky said. “You can’t just be idealistic and think that we all just want to [fix] climate change. The only way to really do it is if we can actually show a way that can work and finance itself.” Property rights also present an issue when trying to fix environmental situations, Huggins said. Eugene Gholz, public affairs associate professor, said political support from individuals who want the property rights factors heavily into getting people to sign on to projects. “Somebody else has to pay to create the property rights, so you give the initial allocation of the property right to the polluters,” Gholz said. “But, once it’s a transferable quota, then other people can buy and sell.”
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continues from page 1 “Studies have shown that there’s a comprehension gap between reading digitally and reading on paper, and, funnily enough, people don’t see it themselves,” Dillon said. “Particularly for a generation raised on largely digital information … I think we have to be conscious of the skill set that’s involved with deep immersion with long extended reading and be conscious of that in order to retain that skill.” Theatre and dance sophomore Kathleen Brown said she prefers reading on paper to reading online because the Internet can be too distracting. “I definitely get easily distracted when I read online,” Brown said. “There’s always this temptation to just open another tab or click on another link. I think I retain a lot more of what I read when I read on paper because I can take notes, and I can’t click on another link and
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Andrew Dillon, dean and professor in the School of Information, has been conducting research that suggests the way people read online impacts their ability to comprehend texts on paper.
get distracted.” English associate professor Matt Cohen said, although digital reading may not match the depth and sustained concentration of extended reading, it also has some benefits. “I do think reading on digital platforms affects reading but perhaps not in a simple negative-or-positive way,” Cohen said. “For instance, it’s way easier to look up things I don’t know — allusions, symbols or myths — than it used to be thanks to
online resources.” Although digital content may be changing how we approach reading, Dillon cautions that the basic skills behind it remain the same. “We [still] have to make a conscious decision to put the necessary effort into reading if we want to fully understand an argument,” Dillon said. “You cannot cheat the basic limitations of your attention and memory system, although the technology often creates the illusion otherwise.”
Laura Huggins, outreach director of the Property and Environment Research Center, talks about free market principles and the environment at the LBJ School of Public Affairs on Tuesday evening.
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In fight over Hall, students were forgotten Monday, the Travis County District Attorney’s office began writing what may be the last chapter in the saga of the battle between UT System Regent Wallace Hall and UT-Austin when they opened an investigation into potential criminal actions committed by Hall during the course of his massive open-records requests to the University. Now, Hall is not only facing impeachment but also possible criminal charges as the result of overstepping the boundaries of his role as a regent and viewing protected documents. We’d celebrate, but the office hasn’t yet determined whether they will pursue criminal charges against Hall. And, given the amount of time we’ve all already wasted speaking about Hall’s transgressions when we should have been discussing the serious challenges facing higher education, it’s hard to see even a potential resolution to this struggle as a positive. Hall’s actions, of course, are only one part of a large ideological battle that began in 2011 when the UT-System Board of Regents appeared to be moving toward a more efficiency-based model for the University. But, since last June, when the Texas House Select Committee on Transparency began investigating Hall after University administrators and legislators raised questions about Hall’s conduct in University affairs, the struggle has largely devolved into a personal battle among
Hall and a few members of the legislature, namely, those on the committee investigating him. University officials claimed that Hall was micromanaging the UT-Austin campus by looking into specific student applications in an effort to uncover unfair student acceptance to the University. Hall also personally investigated UT Law School records after the dean gave himself a forgivable loan, to identify whether anyone else had been involved, specifically UT President William Powers Jr. Hall even began interfering with athletics by starting his own search for a football coach to replace Mack Brown when he contacted Alabama head coach Nick Saben in September. This was despite the fact that hiring a coach falls well with the responsibilities of the University president. Hall is most infamous, however, for his amateur investigative work. Hall’s look into UT’s various departments included an openrecord request to the University amounting to more than 800,000 pages worth of documents. UT eventually denied the request, claiming it was too taxing to accomplish. The investigation concluded in December and has cost the state more than $400,000 in attorney’s fee alone. That’s on top of the $1 million that Hall’s massive open records requests reportedly cost the University. Ultimately, the committee issued a report, made public last week, that stated there were grounds for Hall’s impeachment, as well as potential criminal action by Hall for
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UT-System Regent Wallace Hall faces possible impeachment and criminal charges as a result of his involvement in UT-Austin affairs.
violating student privacy laws. Though the report didn’t make a specific recommendation, on Monday, the committee sent a letter with the report to the Travis County District Attorney’s office. If that office gets involved, Hall might actually face legal consequences for his actions. The committee plans to reconvene April 2324, with the Travis County District Attorney present to help decide on further action.
Unsurprisingly, given his established willingness to waste everyone’s time, Hall has refused to resign from his position, even as the case against him intensifies. In the best-case scenario, the investigation could lead to real consequences and set a precedent for regent conduct going forward. Hopefully, part of that precedent is to behave as if you’re willing to fight for the students before you fight for yourself.
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Texas’ sex-ed programs don’t prepare students
By Kallen Dimitroff Daily Texan Columnist
You approach a car dealership. Unable to finance a vehicle, you are turned away. Unfortunately, the dealer failed to mention a loan program that would have allowed you to afford your new car, and, in all 50 states, the dealer would have committed a criminal offense. But this very same practice is being applied to a student’s investment in higher education every day — albeit, legally. Because of an unintended consequence of the Higher Education Reauthorization Act of 1965, universities are unable to give students and their families the full truth about how they can finance a college education. Outside of Federal Direct Lending, a U.S. Department of Education loan program, it is illegal for University advisers to refer students to loans from private companies or loans from state run entities, such as the Texas B-on-Time loan, which forgives student debt (to those who qualify) if you graduate in 4 years with more than a 3.0 GPA. Luckily for students, Rep. Ruben Hinojosa, D-TX Congressional District 15, has put into place efforts to fix the current loan predicament. Hinojosa has crafted proposed amendments which would allow schools the ability to inform students about all of the options available to them and lobbied for the legislation in Washington, D.C. Additionally, Student Government members, including me, are trying to raise awareness of the issue and assist legislative efforts in fixing this problem. In their final months at the University, former SG Administrative Director Joshua Tang and Chief Justice Philip Wiseman are spearheading an effort to garner support for the proposed changes offered by Hinojosa’s office, an effort that I intend to continue after their graduation. Both Tang and Wiseman have traveled to D.C., done countless hours of research on the topic, stayed in close contact with Hinojosa’s office and, most importantly, begun to engage our campus on an issue that could
Students need to be made aware of as many options to finance their education as possible. Federally funded loans shouldn’t have a monopoly on the discussions between students and their advisers.
Allowing college advisers to offer more financial options is a fantastic way to expand student resources without costing the federal government any money at all — particularly in the current fiscal climate. truly impact students across the country. Students need to be made aware of as many options to finance their education as possible. Federally funded loans shouldn’t have a monopoly on the discussions between students and their advisers. Private loans and outside companies often provide services at affordable rates that would allow students to more feasibly pay for college. It is condemnable that students wouldn’t have access to knowledge about these options. The proposed changes to HR 3371, which are set to be brought to the U.S. House floor in the upcoming legislative session, have tremendous bipartisan support. Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle can get behind the bill, particularly since this specific fix wouldn’t impact federal taxpayers, as programs like the Texas B-OnTime loan and others that the University currently cannot make students aware of are funded by the state or private companies. “Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers and skilled professionals,” Hinojosa said. And his efforts are a significant step in that direction. Allowing college advisers to offer more financial options is a fantastic way to expand student resources without costing the federal government any money at all — particularly in the current fiscal climate. As the school year draws to a close, it is easy to think of summer plans and not federal legislation. However, it is important to acknowledge that Hinojosa, Wiseman and Tang’s efforts are gaining steam. As someone who follows national and state politics, I find it rare to see efforts that directly impact the lives of students. But every student needs to get involved. That way, we can call upon the Texas delegation in Washington, D.C., to get behind H.R. 3371 and support giving students and their families all the options in paying for a college education. Dimitroff is a government sophomore from Houston.
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By Amanda Almeda Daily Texan Columnist @Amanda_Almeda
Earlier this month, a much-shared article on Slate.com brought attention to the latest effort to keep unscientific sex-ed courses in public schools. The article told how school districts in Mississippi are adding questionable “purity preservation exercises” to the state-mandated sex-ed curriculum. One such exercise instructed students to “unwrap a piece of chocolate, pass it around class and observe how dirty it became.” This sort of body-shaming curricula isn’t just occurring in Mississippi, however. In Texas, where school districts are just now beginning to teach sex-ed courses that go beyond abstinence, last year, one school district told instructors to teach students that “people want to marry a virgin, just like they want a virgin toothbrush or a stick of gum.” Making this lack of proper sex education even more disturbing, both Mississippi and Texas boasted the dubious distinction of having the second- and third-highest teen pregnancy rates in the U.S., respectively. With this ranking, it should be obvious to policymakers and educators that denial isn’t effective sex ed. This lack of quality sex education, luckily, doesn’t carry over to the UT campus. UT’s University Health Services does its best to ensure that UT students can make more informed decisions about sex. According to UHS Health Promotion Coordinator Gulielma Fager, UT’s rates of contraceptive use, condom use and self-reported STI diagnosis are statistically not different from other institutions. But this hasn’t stopped UT students such as Allison Heinrich, president of the Texas Freedom Network Student Chapter, from working hard to advocate for issues such as medically accurate sex ed in Texas. “Abstinence-only policies completely fail teens in Texas,” Heinrich, a journalism senior, said.
This lack of quality sex education, luckily, doesn’t carry over to the UT campus. UT’s University Health Services does its best to ensure that UT students can make more informed decisions about sex.
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“This becomes even more evident when they leave for college and have heightened amounts of freedom and autonomy, some of them for the first time. These programs do not teach teens about their bodies, about STIs and prevention, about birth control, about how to discuss and engage in healthy relationships and be comfortable with their sexuality, and how to assert their autonomy. Instead, abstinence-only programs perpetuate a climate of fear and stigma, which leads to shaming people who do engage in sexual relations, and people in general being too embarrassed to talk honestly and openly about sex.” UHS does a great job of keeping students informed about sexual wellness and filling any gaps in knowledge that Texas grade schools may be leaving for students entering UT. According to Fager, from 2012-2013, 1,004 students attended a workshop facilitated by the Healthy Sexuality Peer Educators; 102 students attended Methods of Contraception Classes taught by Health Sexuality Peer Educators in UHS; 30 students met with her individually to discuss sexual-health concerns; and approximately 50,000 condoms were distributed to UT students through UHS clinics, the Health Promotion Resource Center, the Gender and Sexuality Center, Voices Against Violence performances, residence halls, student organizations and other on-campus channels. But, while we can applaud UT for its transparency about sex-ed and its facilitation of easy access to sexual wellness resources, we should question why this quality of information is coming so late in the game. Misinformed decisions about sex in high school and middle school can have longlasting effects on future education and career prospects. According to a study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2010, while 94 percent of women who do not give birth as a teen attain a diploma or GED by age 22, only 66 percent of women who have a teen birth attain a diploma or GED by the same age. There is something to be said about the environmental factors that increase a student’s likelihood of finishing high school or going to college. Inadequate sex-ed should not be yet another barrier to opportunity. On a policy level, it should be our duty as beneficiaries of an unequal system not just to address these gaps in knowledge but to address a widening gap in opportunity. UHS and student organizations do a great job at spreading awareness on campus about safe sexual practices, but that level of activism should extend beyond UT. Perhaps, if Texas students were more informed in high school and middle school, UHS wouldn’t have to work so hard to teach students should what they should have learned as teens. Almeda is a marketing senior from Seattle.
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continues from page 8 photographed by her mother that Dale began to appreciate her physical qualities. “[My mom] was really big about being comfortable in yourself, so she would always just help me with my self-image and tell me to love who I am,” Dale said. “She was a big advocate for loving my pictures and what I look like. It helped me a lot just growing into myself.” In college, Dale used her height to her advantage and joined the UT women’s club volleyball team her freshman year. Shortly after, her coach suggested she get into contact with Fleet about modeling. “A lot of people think that modeling is so
shallow, but really it’s helped me a lot,” Dale said. “It helped me love who I am because I used to not really be very confident in myself. It helped me build myself up and almost forced me to be confident because you have to be confident in a picture. It just translated to being confident.” While Dale said modeling is time-consuming with Sunday runway events and magazine shoots for national publications, she’s been able to incorporate modeling into other aspects of her life. In November 2013, Dale hosted a fashion show and silent auction to fundraise for her participation in Texas 4000 and was able to raise $700 toward her goal of $4,500. Dale said she will ride for her friend
[My mom] was a big advocate for loving my pictures and what I look like. It helped me a lot just growing into myself. —Schuyler Dale, Anthropology junior
Makenna Loerwald, who passed away this February after fighting Ewings Sarcoma for five years. “I didn’t know [Loerwald] personally but just seeing Schuyler in the pain that she was in really hurt me and the team,” Texas 4000 teammate Alex Webb said. “We wanted to be a support system for her because that’s what this organization is about. We wanted to be a rock for her because it’s so hard to lose someone.” When she graduates next year, Dale plans to join the
Peace Corps to complete the masters of international public health program. While she doesn’t see modeling as a prominent activity in her future, her time in front of the camera has sparked an interest in the role behind it. “I want to document people’s lives,” Dale said. “I’ve grown up with my mom having a camera in front of her face. When I graduate, I don’t think I’m going to take [modeling] anywhere because I have other ways I want to take my life, but I know that I want to take pictures of other people.”
In Mexico, luxury dog economy expands MEXICO CITY — Camila celebrated her first birthday in a blue-and-white striped dress with tulle appliques, playing with her guests in a room decorated with pink balloons, lilacs and “Hello Kitty” posters. “We’ve never had a female dog, so we wanted to do something special with her,” said Valery Palma, the single 35-year-old lawyer who owns Camila. Over the last decade, the growth of Mexico’s middle class has created a new market for fancy goods and services for dogs including clothing and accessory boutiques, spas, and restaurants with doggie snacks cooked by a pastry chef. It’s a startling cultural shift in a country where a dog’s life has long meant days chained to the roof of the house. The 2000 film “Amores Perros” used the brutal treatment of dogs as a metaphor for the inhumanity of contemporary Mexican society.
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burglar alarms. Last year, the problem gained international attention when authorities said five people were killed by a pack of feral dogs in the Cerro de Estrella park in Iztapalapa, a poor eastern
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Honors College of George Mason University studying psychology and English. “My mom has always been this incredibly inspirational woman for me by her ability to juggle family and work and do it well,” Bleker said. “Not a lot of people know how to function on their own out of high school, and the tools she gave helped me live independently without being terrified.” Simmons said she worked to break the barrier between work and home. She wanted to have a fluid relationship between running Amy’s and parenting.
“I have a lot of male shareholders, and this one would call and say, ‘Now that you’re having kids, who is going to run the company?’” Simmons said. “And I said, ‘I’m going to run the company.’ So I really dug my heels in and said I could do it all.” When offered money to sell Amy’s, Simmons refused and said she would take nothing for it. She said she plans to keep Amy’s a community-driven business and does not consider expansion a goal. “It’s a vehicle, not an end,” Simmons said. “It’s a vehicle to impact people’s lives.”
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flawed and that his own work disagrees with Bushman’s conclusions. The better way to test Bushman’s concept is to give people high glucose on some occasions and low glucose on others and see if that makes a difference in actual acts of aggression, he said. But Julie Schumacher, who studies psychology and domestic violence at the University of Mississippi Medical Center, called the study well-designed and said it is reasonable to conclude, as the study did, that “low glucose levels might be one factor that contributes to intimate partner violence.” Still, she and Beedie said it might be a big leap to interpret the results with voodoo dolls as indicating risk for actual physical aggression against a spouse. The study procedure also raised another problem. Bushman had to handle a call from his credit card company, which wanted to make sure it was really he who had spent $5,000 to buy more than 200 voodoo dolls. —Associated Press
continues from page 8 didn’t put any pins in the doll, said study co-author Richard Pond Jr. at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. The average for the whole study was a bit more than one pin a night per person. Three people put all 51 pins in at one time, and one person did that twice, Pond said. Bushman said there’s a good physical reason to link eating to emotion: The brain, which is only 2 percent of the body weight, consumes 20 percent of our calories. The researchers said eating a candy bar might be a good idea if spouses are about to discuss something touchy, but fruits and vegetables are a better long-term strategy for keeping blood sugar levels up. Outside experts gave the study, funded by the National Science Foundation, mixed reviews. Chris Beedie, who teaches psychology at the Aberystwyth University in the United Kingdom, said he thought the study’s method was
neighborhood of Mexico City. Authorities captured some 50 dogs near where the attacks took place and brought them to a pound, prompting demonstrations by animal-rights activists. —Associated Press
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After just one hit through the first two innings, sophomore left fielder Ben Johnson made sure Tuesday night wouldn’t be a repeat for Texas. The sixth-ranked Longhorns (30-8, 9-3 Big 12) knocked off UT-Arlington (16-21) 10-2, extending the team’s win-streak to four games after their sweep of Oklahoma over the weekend. Texas tallied seven hits against the Mavericks, a number that made head coach Augie Garrido happy after his team got just one hit last Tuesday night. “It seemed almost like a minor league professional game,” Garrido said. “There wasn’t a lot of energy, but there was a whole heck of a lot of good plays. They have a spirit and an energy about them that’s called confidence, and I think they’re sticking to the fundamentals of the game, and they’re sticking to the code.” UT-Arlington struck first in the ball game, chasing freshman pitcher Blake Goins after just one inning and taking a 1-0 lead heading to the third. Following a Zane Gurwitz single, Johnson smashed his teamleading fourth home run over the left-field wall to give Texas a lead it would never give up. “I think we captured a lot of the momentum with our pitching, oddly enough,” Garrido said. “I think [sophomore pitcher] Chad Hollingsworth, when he came into the game, turned the game around.”
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Ben Johnson led the Longhorns past UT-Arlington on Tuesday evening with a 2-for-3 effort at the plate, along with three RBIs and four runs scored. Texas had little trouble against the Mavericks in a 10-2 victory.
Texas padded its lead in the fourth inning, showcasing great plate discipline in the process. Johnson singled in another run before backto-back walks, and a sacrifice fly by junior outfielder Collin Shaw added two more to make the Longhorns’ lead 6-1 after four innings. UT-Arlington’s only threat came in the top of the fifth inning when it scored on an RBI single to make the Texas lead
6-2. The Longhorns responded again in the bottom half of the sixth when Johnson came across the plate for the third time on a wild pitch. The Longhorns notched its third three-run outburst of the game when freshman catcher Tres Barrera cleared the bases with a three-RBI triple. With that hit, Barrera eclipsed the 0.300 mark for batting average for the first time this season. “I think we just played really
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consistent throughout and put a lot of runs on the board,” Johnson said. “We did a great job of executing. We’ve been doing that the last couple of weeks and it’s really been paying off for us.” Johnson’s 2-for-3 and threeRBI performance raised his batting average eight points to 0.295, good enough for third-best on the team behind senior outfielder Mark Payton (0.348) and Barrera (0.302). Texas will look to extend
its win streak Thursday when it hosts the first game of its three-game series with TCU. “We’re anxious,” Johnson said. “I mean obviously [The Horned Frogs are] a really good team. [They have a] great pitching staff with Brandon Finnegan, and a bunch of those guys [are] potential first round draft picks. We’re excited. We love facing those kind of pitchers, and we’re really excited for this weekend.”
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Sategna’s trust in staff yields postive results By Grant Gordon @Grant_Gord
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Mark Payton could have left Texas after his junior season to go pro, but he returned to school and is leading the Longhorns with a 0.350 batting average and 24 RBIs.
Payton, Thornhill pace change By Stefan Scrafield Daily Texan Columnist @stefanscrafield
Texas head coach Augie Garrido sat in the Longhorn clubhouse at Disch-Falk Field last Tuesday, fielding questions from the media, just a few minutes after his team had suffered a 7-2 loss at the hands of the Rice Owls. “It’s definitely a learning experience,” Garrido said of his hitters’ inability to make contact. “Because it hasn’t happened to us before.” Of course, Garrido would have rather been sitting there singing his team’s praises after a hard fought win. But his obvious unfamiliarity with this team’s inability to produce base runners and drive in runs was very telling of just how good his ball club has been this year. Halfway through April, the Longhorns have already won 29 games, two more than they did all of last year. Texas has won 13 of its last 15 contests and is preparing for a nine-game home stand. Garrido’s team is on pace to finish the regular season with a record of 42-11.
If the Longhorns continue at that pace, they’ll finish the regular season with a higher winning percentage than the 2002 and 2005 national championship teams, which is fitting because this team might just be the best Garrido has ever coached at Texas. Given that last season’s core of players was responsible for one of Texas’ worst seasons in program history, it’s hard to believe that those same core players are now leading Texas in one of its best seasons. Nathan Thornhill, who passed up on the pros to return for his senior season, has led a Longhorn pitching staff that has been virtually untouchable most of the season. The Cedar Park native has posted a perfect 6-0 record on the season with an incredible 0.78 ERA and an impossible 0.91 WHIP. Thornhill hasn’t been the only ace for Texas this season. Sophomore Travis Duke has yet to give up any runs in 14.1 relief innings and starters Dillon Peters and Parker French both have ERAs below 3.00. As a staff, the Longhorn pitchers have a miniscule 2.12 ERA and have surrendered an average of just 1.7 runs per game in Texas’ 29 victories. Just as the Thornhill has led a resurgence among Texas’ pitchers, senior
outfielder Mark Payton — who also turned down an opportunity to go pro — has led an even more improbable resurrection of Texas’ hitters, many of whom struggled mightily just a year ago. Despite his current 76game on-base streak, Payton’s numbers are actually slightly down from the absurd averages he put up last year. But his consistency has inspired a massive increase in production from a number of his teammates. Senior infielder Madison Carter’s batting average is up more than 100 points from last year while sophomore outfielder Ben Johnson’s slugging percentage has risen by almost 70 points. Most of all, this year’s team has been able to win close games. In a small-ball system like Garrido’s, close games are the rule, not the exception, and this more experienced Longhorn team has proven it can handle the pressure. Texas is 9-2 in games decided by two runs or less, with the victories coming from a combination of clutch late-game hitting and lockdown pitching with the game on the line. More than just an improvement over last year’s last-place team, the 2014 Longhorns look even better than the 2002 and 2005 team’s that won it all in Omaha.
When Texas track and field combined into a joint men’s and women’s program before this season, a monumental effort was needed to form a successful product. Both coaches from the previous year stepped down, but the program was passed to a familiar face. Mario Sategna had been an assistant coach for the Longhorns for the last decade, establishing himself as one of the nation’s top assistant coaches. But he never left for another job, and with the merger, he finally got the offer he desired. “It was a dream come true,” Sategna said. “This is where I always wanted to be,” But how did one man, with no head coaching experience, take over a program that had recently doubled in size? He recruited, arguably, the best staff in the country. “You want to go after people that have similar philosophies that work well,” Sategna said. “My thing was to go out and find the right fit for Texas.” Sategna immediately pitched Tonja Buford-Bailey, a threetime Olympian, to be his associate head coach. She already had a women’s head coaching job at the University of Illinois, but the allure of Texas proved too much to pass up. “I was to the point where I had outgrown my position there,” Buford-Bailey said. “I felt like I would have a
better opportunity in recruiting to be able to get a foot in the door with some of the best athletes in the nation.” When searching for a throwing coach, Sategna looked no further than an old teammate from his days at LSU, Ty Sevin. Sevin was the head coach at University of New Orleans, but, like Buford-Bailey, he couldn’t say no to the opportunity at Texas. To round out his staff, Sategna recruited Kareem Streete-Thompson, another former Olympian. StreeteThompson previously served at the University of Missouri coaching sprints, hurdles and horizontal jumps — the same role he holds at Texas. Sategna assembled a decorated staff, but the team could not function unless Sategna let his coaches work unimpeded. “The main thing for them this year was just to have them recruit and coach and me to take on more of an administration role,” Sategna said. The trust he’s built with his staff has gone a long way. “The greatest thing about it is that he trusts me and my operations on a daily basis,” Buford-Bailey said. “That makes it a lot easier for me.” Sategna understood one man could not handle such a large team by himself, nor could he micromanage his staff once they were in place. For optimal performance, he placed faith in his staff, just like he does with his athletes.
Shabazz Napier and Division 1 college athletes everywhere will never go to bed hungry again after the NCAA”s legislative council approved a proposal to expand the meal allowances for athletes Tuesday. This move comes just days after Connecticut guard Napier said at the Final Four that he sometimes went to bed “starving” because he couldn’t afford to eat. The proposal allows athletes, including walkons, to receive unlimited meals and snacks. The proposal still requires the approval of the NCAA Board of Directors, which meets April 24. It’s a decision that’s been debated for months, but Napier’s comment, along with the attention on the NCAA after the national Labor Relations Board ruled that Northwestern players could unionize, brought national attention to the topic. —Chris Hummer
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Two weeks ago, the Longhorns completed their final season at the PenickAllison Tennis Center, which will be moving because of the construction of the new medical school. No. 7 Texas won all of its final matches played at the center, resulting in a 19-3 record. Texas has won nine consecutive regular-season home finales. After recovering during a long break, the team will compete against Baylor on Wednesday at 6 p.m. in Waco. Following the match against Baylor, Texas will take on Texas Tech on Saturday to conclude the regular season. The team is quickly building momentum as it moves toward the Big 12 Championships.
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Name: Amy Simmons Occupation: CEO and founder, Amy’s Ice Creams Graduated: 1992 Staff Quote: “I can’t explain what ice cream is. It’s not a food. It’s just this opportunity to take part in great moments of humanity.” Pu Ying Huang Daily Texan Staff
Ice cream CEO has inside scoop By Sarah Montgomery @withalittlejazz
Walking into an Amy’s Ice Creams is an experience. In each location, an old photo booth sits in the corner, and numerous cow figurines line the brightly colored walls. Employees, or “scoops,” effortlessly toss ice cream and toppings into the air, catching the finished product in cups and collecting tips from an audience of customers. Austinites have become familiar with Amy’s, but the eclectic business did not originate on a farm in the South or on the streets of Austin. Rather, it started when Amy Simmons, a premed student from Michigan, fell in love with ice cream.
While studying pre-medicine at Tufts University in Boston, Simmons, the CEO and founder of Amy’s Ice Creams, started working at an ice cream shop called Steve’s Ice Cream to help pay for college expenses. She quickly learned that the business of ice cream was much more than a simple treat. “I can’t explain what ice cream is,” Simmons said. “It’s not a food. It’s just this opportunity to take part in great moments of humanity.” It was superb customer service that compelled one customer to write Simmons a note. The customer’s husband had recently been diagnosed with cancer and, upon returning from the hospital, the woman and her stepsons,
made a stop at their local ice cream shop to try and escape the stress. “The employee engaged them, there was a dialogue that started, and they ended up having a really good time,” Simmons said, wiping forming tears from her eyes. “They had just come from the hospital, and it was horrible for everybody, and that moment in the ice cream shop just changed their relationship.” These types of moments and human interactions, Simmons said, are a part of what drove her to open her own ice cream shop with a small, community-driven business model. After finishing college in Boston, she moved to Austin
because of the similarities it had to her home city of Ann Arbor, Mich., and its ideal climate for selling ice cream. In 1984, she wrote a check for her first location on Guadalupe. She has since opened 14 other locations. While Simmons’ emphasis on positive customer service dictates how the business is run, the decoration of the stores and creation of ice cream flavors are decided on and carried out by her staff. “My skill is really creating an environment where people can contribute,” Simmons said. “I believe humility is one of the most important qualities of excellence because humility is that you’re constantly learning that other people can do it better
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Anthropology junior Schulyer Dale finds confidence and the inspiration for philanthropy through modeling. While she does not intend on becoming a professional model, Dale believes modeling has shaped her life in a positive manner.
Student combines modeling and charity @SamJGrasso
At 21, anthropology junior and Austin-based model Schuyler Dale is older than the average model and keeps a busy schedule that prevents her from being fully immersed in the profession, but she doesn’t feel edged out. The Austin modeling scene is more relaxed and supportive in comparison to those of bigger cities,
she faced.” Simmons’ greatest inspiration and mentor throughout her life has been her mother, whom Simmons said is highly academic and intelligent but keeps her family her top priority. “None of my peers’ moms worked, and my mom felt a lot of guilt,” Simmons said. “But I felt pride. I was so proud of her and I was so happy she raised us for independence.” Simmons, a mother of three, tried to use this philosophy of independence and work ethic when raising her own children. Her oldest daughter, Emma Bleker, is now a freshman at the
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than you.” After running the business for six years, Simmons decided to attend graduate school at McCombs, both to catch up with the business world and to network. She said that the critical thinking she learned at UT was vital to her success. One of the classes Simmons cites as being crucial in developing her critical thinking skills was a negotiations class taught by management and accounting senior lecturer Gary Cadenhead. “She was not hesitant to express her opinions, and her opinions were good,” Cadenhead said. “The experience she had was invaluable. She could speak knowledgeably about the real life situations
according to Dale. “You’re not just disposable like how it is in New York and LA and other big cities,” Dale said. “Everybody really does care about everybody. It’s fun going to a [modeling] event because you know the people in the crowd want you to succeed. None of the other models want to see you fall on your face.” Dale models in photo shoots and walks in runway events, and is managed
under ButterFly Entertainment, an event production company created by UT alum Brianna Fleet. “I was introduced to [Dale] at one of our events by a mutual friend,” Fleet said. “She was supportive and worked well with the other models in a competitive atmosphere.” After being signed to the production company in December 2012, Dale participated independently in the Top Austin Model 2013
competition. She ended up making the top 10 and was chosen as a Top Austin Model All Star. As an All Star, she helped train inexperienced models participating in Top Austin Model 2014. Dale said she had low selfesteem while growing up because she thought she was the “tall, lanky kid” in comparison to her peers. It was through constantly being
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WASHINGTON — A quick candy bar may stave off more than hunger. It could prevent major fights between spouses, at least if a new study that used voodoo dolls is right. That’s because low blood sugar can make spouses touchy, researchers propose. In fact, it can make them “hangry,” a portmanteau of hungry and angry, said Brad Bushman, Ohio State University psychology researcher. “We need glucose for selfcontrol,” said Bushman, lead author of the study, which was released Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. “Anger is the emotion that most people have difficulty controlling.”
The researchers studied 107 married couples for three weeks. Each night, they measured their levels of the blood sugar glucose and asked each participant to stick pins in a voodoo doll representing his or her spouse, which revealed levels of aggressive feelings. The researchers found that, the lower the blood sugar levels, the more pins were pushed into the doll. In fact, people with the lowest scores pushed in twice as many pins as those with the highest blood sugar levels, the researchers said. The study also found that the spouses were generally not angry at each other. About 70 percent of the time, people
VOODOO page 5 A quick candy bar may stave off more than hunger. Psychology researchers monitored the nightly blood sugar levels of 107 married couples for three weeks, asking them to stick pins in a voodoo doll, representing their spouses, to measure aggression.
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