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Court: Ban on affirmative action legal By Amanda Voeller @amandaevoeller
In a 6-2 decision Tuesday, the Supreme Court issued a ruling allowing the state of Michigan to ban the use of race as a factor in its college admissions processes, and, according to a UT law professor, this may open the door for a consti-
tutional ban on affirmative action in Texas. The ruling comes nearly a year after the Court sent Fisher v. Texas, the case determining the legality of the University’s race-conscious admissions policy, back to the Fifth Circuit District Court. Judges on the court have yet to issue their ruling on the Fisher case.
Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the majority opinion of Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, ruling that neither the Supreme Court nor Congress has the authority to prevent state voters from deciding whether to allow affirmative action polices in government decisions, including college
admissions processes. The decision upheld the legality of the Michigan Civil Rights Initiative, also known as Prop. 2, a 2006 ballot initiative that amended the state’s constitution to prohibit discrimination or preferential treatment for any individual or group “on the basis of race, sex, color, ethnicity or na-
tional origin.” Kennedy wrote that the Michigan case, like the Texas case, is not about the constitutionality or merits of race-conscious admission policies. “The question here concerns not the permissibility of race-conscious admis-
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Perry names UT junior student regent By Madlin Mekelburg @madlinbmek
Gov. Rick Perry named UT-Austin government junior Max Richards as the student regent for the UT System Board of Regents on Tuesday. Richards will be the second consecutive student regent from the University, replacing Nash Horne, outgoing student regent and communication studies senior. Richards was not one of the four finalists for the student regent position, according to documents obtained from the governor’s office by The Daily Texan. According to System policy, the selection process for the position requires students to apply directly to their student governments. The applications then go to the president of each institution, who submits up to five applications to the UT System. They are then processed through two UT System offices
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Government junior Max Richards was named the student regent for the UT System Board of Regents on Tuesday and will replace communications studies senior Nash Horne. Richards will serve his one-year term from June 1 to May 31, 2015.
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PRC shuttle line may be switched to MetroRapid By Natalie Sullivan @natsullivan94
Parking and Transportation Services and Capital Metro representatives discussed a proposal that would change the current Pickle Research Campus shuttle route to a MetroRapid route, at a public forum on campus Tuesday night. The PRC shuttle route, which connects the Pickle Research Campus and the main UT campus, currently has stops near the intersection of Dean Keeton and Whitis and the intersection of Dean Keeton and San Jacinto. Blanca Juarez, UT Parking and Transportation spokeswoman, said the route will be transitioned to the existing MetroRapid 803 route, which goes along Burnet Road and Lamar Boulevard. CapMetro transportation planner Lawrence Deeter said the need for greater efficiency and lower costs prompted the shift to a MetroRapid route. “[The new route] will improve reliability and increase days of operations,” Deeter said. “PRC is the lowest performing route right now, and we’ve trimmed it over the years because it has the lowest ridership.” According to Juarez, the new route will run seven days a week, unlike the
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UHS aims to inform students about alcohol amnesty policies By Nicole Cobler @nicolecobler
Nguyen said. In fall 2013, the National College Health Assessment found that only 6 percent of UT students surveyed knew about the amnesty program. Before spring break, UHS distributed a second survey and found 13.9 percent of the 724 students who completed the survey were familiar with the policy. “It’s something that exists and we really want students to know about it,” Nguyen said. “It reduces that barrier that when students call 911, that should be their first re-
action instead of worrying about what the disciplinary action should be.” According to Jason Thibodeaux, director of Student Judicial Services, there were 199 cases involving alcohol on campus, and of those cases, 11 were deemed eligible for the amnesty program. He said most disciplinary action is taken when students in residence halls are left alone because their friends do not report the situation.
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Many students remain unaware of a policy that allows students to report alcoholrelated emergencies without facing disciplinary action. Although there are more students aware of the University Health Services’ alcohol amnesty policy this year than last year, the number of informed students remains low, according to results released from a survey distributed to students before spring break. The Student Amnesty for Alcohol Emergencies program, set up in 2008, is currently being “relaunched” after UHS found that many students were still afraid to report alcohol-related emergencies because of the possibility of getting in trouble. According to Frances Nguyen, health promotion coordinator at University Health Services, many students, when told about the policy, dismissed it as being too good to be true. “A lot of what we found in our research is a lot of students have heard about it but don’t believe it exists,”
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David Tashnick, owner of Easy Rider Pedicabs, believes tricycles are preferred to trailers by pedicabbers. The city is considering banning some pedicab models.
Pedicab license freeze extended By Hayden Clark @HaydenS_Clark
The city of Austin’s freeze on issuing new pedicab licenses, which was supposed to expire Wednesday, will remain in place for another three months as the Austin Department of Transportation finalizes recommendations for additional regulations, which may include a ban on certain trailer pedicab models. The moratorium has
been in place since April 2012. Department officials will consider implementing a city-wide cap on the number of pedicab permits in circulation and a requirement that pedicab companies use a threewheeled, fully connected tricycle model, rather than a model in which a brakeless trailer is connected to a normal bicycle. “In 2012, the council approved some regulation,
but those two things were not addressed at that time,” said Carlton Thomas, acting parking enterprise manager for the Austin Department of Transportation. “The Austin Transportation Department was given what amounted to two years to conduct research and look out across the country, to see how other cities are handling the number of pedicabs
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“If the people had reached out for help first, it wouldn’t be a disciplinary issue,” Thibodeaux said. Thibodeaux said the low numbers of reports are due to the lack of students who are aware of the program. “Honestly, when we meet with students they don’t even know about this amnesty policy until we bring it up,” Thibodeaux said. “We would be more than happy to have many situations of the policy. We’re not out to get people.” Student Judicial Services and University Health Services will be working together through the summer to raise awareness of the policy among first year students and will attempt to make the program better known in the fall. Jessica Duncan Cance, assistant professor of kinesiology, said the re-launch of the program would also give the University an opportunity to educate students about the
signs of alcohol overdose. “It’s a very thin yet scary line that takes somebody from being drunk to potentially at risk of an alcohol overdose,” Cance said. Cance, who is a co-chair of UT’s Wellness Network’s High-Risk Drinking Prevention committee, said the students should know the signs of alcohol poisoning. According to Cance, the committee has been working to educate more students about the amnesty policy this semester. Cance said signs of alcohol overdose include mental confusion, gasping for air, paleness of the skin and throwing up.
“Just like you know you should wear a seat belt every time you get in the car, this should be information that is just part of your sub-consciousness,” Cance said. Cance said the amnesty policy should make students more willing to report alcohol related emergencies and make them less worried about the consequences. “It’s better to have a friend be mad at you than to have a friend who has an extreme medical emergency,” Cance said. “That’s a much better thing to have to deal with than to have a death or somebody hospitalized because they had too much to drink.”
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admission because of her race. Four states — California, Florida, Washington and Michigan — currently ban the use of affirmative action in admissions processes. Adjunct law professor David Gonzalez said Tuesday’s decision will likely cause many senators and representatives across the country to draft laws addressing affirmative action. Gonzalez said he believes in the next few years, Texas voters will likely amend the state’s constitution to ban affirmative action. “I would guarantee that someone is going to try and draft a law and say ‘let’s ban this — let’s ban any preferential treatment for race,’” Gonzalez said. In her dissenting opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Michigan’s ban on affirmative action will “uniquely disadvantage racial minorities” and argued that governing boards at individual universities should have the power to determine admissions policies for themselves. Joshua Tang, a representative of We Support UT, a group formed to support the University’s admissions policies, said he thinks the use of race in the admissions process allows universities to fully evaluate an applicant. “Race, in this country, still plays an important role in the experiences that people have, and it’s important that those experiences are recognized when universities are deciding who to admit to their schools,” Tang said.
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APD to partner with mental health agency By Julia Brouillette @juliakbrou
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Lawrence Deeter, Capital Metro transportation planner, discusses the Pickle Research Campus shuttle route at a public forum on campus Tuesday night. Starting in fall 2014, the route will make the transition to a MetroRapid route in order to improve travel times.
SHUTTLE continues from page 1 current UT shuttle route, which only runs Monday through Friday. Juarez said it will also run more frequently: about every 10-12 minutes during rush hour. “PRC only operates about 12 hours a day and stops every 60 minutes,” Juarez said. “With the Metro route, there will be a lot more travel options to get to and from the two campuses.” Deeter said the new route will also include features not
found on the UT shuttle buses, such as real-time arrival information, mobile ticketing and free onboard Wi-Fi. Travel time from the research campus to the main campus would remain about the same compared to the PRC Shuttle and would be 20 percent faster than Route 3 Burnet/Manchaca, which also stops by the Pickle Research Campus, according to Deeter. Deeter said one downside
of the transition is that the new MetroRapid route locations require a greater walking distance down Dean Keeton than the old PRC stops did. “The rapid only stops on Guadalupe, and there’s two stations — one by the West Mall, and one by Dean Keeton — which means there’s about a six-minute walk,” Deeter said. Additionally, the new route will eliminate one stop on the north side of the
Pickle campus, which could reduce access for students in that area, Deeter said. Engineering researcher Rick Pastor said the change could prove problematic for some students who take the UT shuttle to get to West Pickle Campus. “We teach a class out at West Pickle in the fall, and some students ride the PRC out there, and now they won’t be able to do that,” Pastor said.
of Easy Rider Pedicabs, said the tricycles are safer and more economical. “It doesn’t make business sense for any pedicab owner to use trailers because the riders prefer tricycles,” Tashnick said. “I’ve lost count of how many drivers I’ve hired that used to drag trailers and wanted something better.”
Tashnick said he is confident that the council will implement the regulations being discussed. “I’m very certain the city council is going to eventually put a sunset on the usage of trailers here in town, and, in a few years, trailers will no longer be permanent in Austin,” Tashnick said.
PEDICAB continues from page 1 that operate in their jurisdiction, and the type of pedicabs that are permitted to operate.” The department is looking at data from cities including New York, Denver and Phoenix, Thomas said. Council member Chris Riley sponsored the original ordinance with Bill Spelman.
Leah Bojo, a policy aide for Riley, said the council approved the extension because they were not prepared to draw conclusions about ideal pedicab regulations. “The staff hadn’t completely worked through the stakeholder process to get the final recommendations,” Bojo said. David Tashnick, owner
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between President William Powers Jr. and the board. “I feel like the System has a whole lot to offer, and I feel confident in the staff and the people that make up UT,” Richards said. “I feel very confident the staff has the best interests of the University in mind.” UT-Austin spokesman Gary Susswein said Richards’ appointment is an achievement for the University. “This is a great accomplishment for [Richards] and a great reflection on the University,” Susswein said. “It’s always exciting when a UT student gets appointed to positions of leadership and authority.”
continues from page 1 and sent to the chancellor, who sends them to the governor. Richards said he applied directly to Perry’s office rather than to UT’s Student Government. According to policies outlined on the System website, the student government from the same institution as the current student regent may not solicit applications for that student regent’s successor. Nicole Collette, graduate student at UT-Arlington, was one of the finalists for the position. She said she was not aware students could apply directly to the governor’s office. “I really don’t have any hard feelings towards the gentleman who was picked,” Collette said. “I wish him the best of luck. I wish UT-Arlington could have gotten some attention because we’re doing some pretty great things here. Maybe [the option of applying to the governor’s office] is something we can address in the future. Hopefully, it won’t be so vague.” The student regent, first created in 2005, is a non-voting position on the board, intended to give students representation in board decisions. Richards will serve a one-year term from June 1 until May 31, 2015. Richards said he appreciates the chance to serve as student regent. “I’m really excited to be able to give back to the UT System,” Richards said. “This System has given so much to me, and I look forward to making a positive impact.” Richards, who attended UT-San Antonio his freshman year, said he wants to visit the various UT institutions during his time as student regent. “I look forward to going to different campuses and exploring issues they face that could be different from UTAustin,” Richards said. Richards said he has always been interested in the board’s activity, but he will use the transition period to update himself on the current issues. He said he is not concerned about the existing tension
Starting May 1, the Austin Police Department will launch a program that will allow Austin Travis County Integral Care, an agency of medical professionals who provide on-site treatment and resources for people facing a psychiatric crisis, to serve as first responders alongside APD officers to assist in potential mental health crises. In certain areas of the city, Integral Care personnel will respond to calls as they happen when a patrol officer is still on the scene. “The goal behind that is to try to offer officers an opportunity to divert somebody with a mental health crisis from arrest — to intervene when someone’s having a crisis and offer the officer different options that we didn’t always have available to us,” APD Sgt. Michael King said. APD’s crisis intervention team receives more than 100 cases per month, many of which may involve people with mental illness. By partnering with Integral Care, the department can refer more serious cases to clinicians who make follow-up visits and referrals for mental health services. “The police department is good at certain things, and our unit does follow-up on the original calls the patrol officers handle on a daily basis,” King said. “But our background is a not as medical professionals, and we’re not as well-trained as the employees of Integral Care. They’re better suited to provide quality care to these individuals, guide them to the right resources and get them proper long-term treatment.”
Although APD’s relationship with Integral Care dates back several years, the two organizations have increased their collaboration this year. In the first four months of 2014, APD has referred 680 cases to Integral Care. “It was kind of on an asneeded basis,” King said. “This has been a great benefit to us because, in the past, with so many cases and only seven officers, a lot of times an officer would read a case for follow-up, look at it and be done with it. But now, we can say, ‘I think this person might benefit if we send this case over to Integral Care.’” According to King, UT’s Counseling and Mental Health Center is part of a large network of agencies that work together on mental health initiatives. Jane Bost, the center’s associate director, said the center rarely works directly with APD. “There are very unusual situations, like when we had the suicide shooting a couple of years ago, where they [clinicians] come to campus and work with victims’ assistance to provide intervention and support,” Bost said. Bost said the center unveiled its newest mental health program April 16. “We are piloting the Mobile MindBody Lab, and, so far, we’re getting some traction on that,” Bost said. The lab, which will be set up in various locations around campus, is aimed at promoting stress management and psychiatric health. “The student reaction we’ve had to the lab really is exciting, and that’s not the end,” Bost said. “We’ll be planning for new initiatives over the summer.”
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Transparency committee hearing canceled By Madlin Mekelburg @madlinbmek
The house transparency committee investigating the actions of UT System Regent Wallace Hall canceled a hearing scheduled for Wednesday. The House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations will still have its scheduled hearing Thursday at 1 p.m. The transparency committee has been investigating Hall
since July 2013 for potentially overstepping his duties as a regent. Some state legislators have accused Hall of overstepping his duties as a regent and conducting a “witch-hunt” to oust President William Powers Jr. According to testimony at a committee hearing in October, Hall filed open records requests for more than 800,000 pages of information from UT. The final report from the special counsel to the
committee indicates Hall likely committed impeachable offenses during his time as regent. The report states Hall manipulated the house investigation and coerced witnesses. The report also alleges Hall mishandled private student information and potentially violated state privacy laws. These claims have been referred to Travis County prosecutors. According to a Texas Ethics Commission report,
originally obtained by the Texas Tribune on Tuesday, State Rep. Charles Perry, a member of the transparency committee, received $2,500 in campaign contributions in December from Accountability First — a political action committee Hall has supported financially in the past. On Monday, 17 college councils at UT signed a letter asking Hall to resign from his position as regent.
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Children have been shown to benefit from attending schools where the student population includes a mix of students from high- and low-income households, but recent enrollment projections have shown that the percentage of low-income students in Austin’s public schools is set to rise, decreasing the economic diversity of Austin’s school system, according to an article published in the Austin American-Statesman on Saturday. Low-income families have fewer options when it comes to school choice, and so it’s crucial that Austin’s public schools provide rigorous learning environments to children from all economic backgrounds. Thoughtful public policy may be able to curb the increasing economic segregation of Austin’s school system, so city leaders should take note and start planning to address the problem sooner rather than later.
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Tabrian Joe, a student at Western Michigan University, and other protestors gathered in support of affirmative action, Oct. 15, 2013. The Supreme Court released a decision on the case Tuesday, without addressing the schools affirmative action policies.
Affirmative action decision leaves unanswered questions On Tuesday, the Supreme Court added yet another chapter to the ongoing narrative of race-based admissions processes in U.S. colleges. Announcing its decision in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, the court upheld the state of Michigan’s ban on using race as a factor in university admissions, explaining that nothing in the U.S. Constitution allows judges to set aside popularly decided state initiatives, such as Michigan’s prohibition on race-based admissions. Ultimately, this case does not make a ruling on the constitutionality of race-based admissions policies. As Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote in his opinion, “This case is not about how the debate about racial preferences should be resolved. It is about who may resolve it.” However, the decision will allow state legislatures to potentially ban affirmativeaction policies in public state universities through voter-led initiatives. The decisions is most definitely a blow to
affirmative action policies, but it is far from a final verdict on the constitutionality of affirmative action programs — such as UTAustin’s holistic review process. This case is likely still years away. The possibility that the court’s decision will have an immediate impact on the autonomy of individual universities, however, could become a reality as soon as 2015, when the Texas legislature next convenes. It doesn’t take a stretch of the imagination to assume that some states, such as Texas, could follow Michigan’s suit and pass voterled referendums that ban race-conscious admissions programs. Granted, the entirety of this issue applies only to public schools, and that distinction is an important one. But, while we wait for the dust to settle around a “national consensus” about affirmative action at U.S. universities, we think it best to leave these decisions to the individual schools, who best know their own needs in regard to diversity.
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NCAA should approve new meal plan proposal By Jasmine Johnson Daily Texan Columnist @AllThatJasss
Last week, the NCAA Legislative Council voted to approve unlimited meals and snacks for Division I student-athletes as long as they are participating in their sport, though it must be accepted by the Division I Board of Directors at a meeting Thursday. If the Board of Directors does choose to accept the new plan, it will be a positive step for all student-athletes, especially those who aren’t on scholarship. The decision came weeks after Shabazz Napier, the NCAA men’s basketball tournament’s Most Outstanding Player, alleged that he often went to bed hungry. In a postgame interview, Napier spoke to reporters about the National Labor Relations Board ruling that Northwestern’s fullscholarship football players are University employees and therefore eligible to form a union. “Sometimes, there’s hungry nights where I’m not able to eat, but I still gotta play up to my capabilities,” Napier said. “I don’t see myself as so much of an employee, but when you see your jersey getting sold, to some credit, you feel like you want something in return. … There are hungry nights when I go to bed and I’m starving.” Napier also acknowledged that some student-athletes are financially supported by their scholarships. “We’re definitely blessed to get scholarships to our universities, but, at the end of the day, that doesn’t cover everything,” Napier said. “We do have hungry nights that we don’t have enough money to get food in. Sometimes money is needed.” Napier then referred to this year’s championship UCONN squad as the “hungry Huskies” during his postgame speech on perhaps the NCAA’s biggest stage, and there has since been speculation that the legislative council’s decision was a direct response. Regardless of whether Napier’s allegations are true, they’re definitely plausible in that prior to this ruling student-athletes on scholarship only received three meals a day. While three meals sounds like plenty of food, for athletes who can burn 2,500 calories a practice yet have energy requirements that exceed 4,000 calories a day, it’s insufficient at best. Beyond the insufficient meals offered to student-athletes, players also have to contend with the early closing times of campus dining halls. According to USA Today, the legislative council will allow schools to “determine how to best meet the additional nutritional needs of its student athletes,” which could include a late-night meal. While a lot of emphasis has been placed on Napier in regards to the NCAA’s change in policy, the real winners of this ruling are
No one will deny that the legislative council’s approval of this ruling is beneficial to student-athletes — and especially for walk-ons — but I can’t help but wonder what’s in it for the council? Are they really interested in enhancing the wellbeing of the student-athletes or is this just a scheme to hush increasingly loud talks of college athletes unionizing?
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the walk-ons, or players not on scholarship, who now have access to unlimited meal plans after being denied the three-meal plan before. Shawn Izadi, a pre-med senior linebacker, is excited about the ruling given that he walked on to the UT football team. Izadi, who didn’t receive any free meals before, will now qualify for the unlimited food and snacks that the policy provides. “It is great to finally see walk-ons provided this same benefit,” Izadi said. “They go through the same hard work, practices and meetings without the scholarship and, before this move, without provided meals. It never made sense to me why I wasn’t allowed to eat with the team during certain team meals.” In addition to unlimited meals and snacks, this ruling includes several other provisions, including reduced penalties for first positive drug tests, nationally accredited strength and conditioning coaches, the presence of a CPR-certified staff member at all athletic events, and at least three hours between football practices. No one will deny that the legislative council’s approval of this ruling is beneficial to student-athletes — and especially for walk-ons — but I can’t help but wonder what’s in it for the council? Are they really interested in enhancing the well-being of the student-athletes or is this just a scheme to hush increasingly loud talks of college athletes unionizing? Izadi thinks this compilation of legal matters has forced a response from the NCAA. “If you look at it from the viewpoint of the NCAA, they are under so much criticism from every possible source in recent months,” Izadi said. “[Other cases are] creating waves to compensate players, media is creating their own pressures, Northwestern football is unionizing, and then, on basketball’s biggest stage and the NCAA’s biggest revenue maker, Napier takes multiple shots at the NCAA with reference to the hungry Huskies. It really seems like the NCAA was forced into this move. They had to give the people something in response to everything.” Curtis Riser, physical culture and sports sophomore and offensive guard on UT’s football team, thinks the decision was made to discourage athletes from unionizing. He said he still thinks they should get paid but will gladly accept the meals in the meantime. Following the news of the meal plan legislation, former head football coach Mack Brown tweeted, “Great move by the NCAA giving student-athletes in all sports, including walk-ons, unlimited meals and snacks. This is great for student athlete safety.” UT athletic director Steve Patterson, however, is opposed the idea of unionizing. “The universities, the conferences and the NCAA have done a very poor job of telling our story and we’ve allowed this story to be created by the sports press to focus on the one-half of 1 percent of the student-athletes that go on to play pro sports,” Patterson told ESPN.com “But 99.5 percent of student-athletes would not be in the position they’re in without getting a scholarship.” Although Northwestern football players have been given permission to unionize, they will vote on whether to exercise that privilege Thursday, the same day directors meet to finalize the meal plan proposals. If these adopted proposals are finalized, they will take effect Aug. 1. Izadi said he is not so sure of whether the NCAA had ulterior motives with the meal plan proposal but thinks this move is definitely the first step of hopefully many more in the right direction. “We are about to witness a huge change in the culture of sports and the way it is all around,” Izadi said. Johnson is a journalism junior from DeSoto.
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Alum dedicates life’s work to making science fun By Kat Sampson @katclarksamp
When April Terrazas visits elementary schools, she always begins her presentations by asking the students in the auditorium to raise their hands if they like science — about half of them do. She then tells the other half to raise their hands, promising that they too will like science before the hour is over. Terrazas, a UT biology pre-med alum, writes children’s books for a living. But don’t expect the pages of her five published books to be filled with imaginary characters or talking animals. Terrazas writes and illustrates books about science. “I would like to change the way science is taught in elementary school,” Terrazas said. “At least try to get some change going on in Austin.” During high school, Terrazas, an Austin native, started what she called a “babysitting empire” in the neighborhood where she grew up. When it was time for her to go to UT, she knew that keeping the connections she had created was important, but she needed to refocus her business. Terrazas created Crazy Brainz Tutoring her freshman year. The company, which she still runs today, helps tutor children in the Austin area four days a week. Terrazas eventually decided against attending medical school and, instead, decided to
Name: April Terrazas Occupation: CEO and founder of Crazy Brainz Publishing Graduated: 2010 Quote: “If you tell me it can’t be done, I will tell you in five ways how I can do it.” Pu Ying Huang Daily Texan Staff
create Crazy Brainz Publishing and write children’s books. “Being around kids this long and seeing the potential there taught me that you can do something with a child,” Terrazas said. “They are so primed for knowledge. I wanted to take advantage of that time and make learning fun.” Terrazas’ second book in the Super Smart Science
Series is called “Chemistry: The Atoms and Elements” and is dedicated to UT chemistry professor Brent Iverson. To this day, Terrazas thinks Iverson was one of the best educators she’s ever had. “[Iverson] is the type of professor that made you want to go the extra mile,” Terrazas said. “When I did my chemistry book, I was like, ‘I’m [going to]
dedicate this to him’ because my goal with my books is to make science fun for little kids, and he made science fun for me.” Since graduating from UT, Terrazas has been involved in UT’s alumni network, Texas Exes. Through Exes, she has been able to speak on panels and has been featured in the Texas Exes alumni magazine, Alcade. Kira White, Texas Exes
alumni relations director, met Terrazas after coordinating for her to speak on a panel. “Her books are readerfriendly, and every adult and child can gain something from them,” White said. “It’s funny: When I was going through her cellular biology book, I told her that the book could have helped me when I took Biology C and D.”
Terrazas understood what content needed to be included and how it should be presented, but she needed a sound business model. Luckily, she grew up with an entrepreneur as a father and a supportive mother. “They were always feeding that desire to produce
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Artist displays ‘The Many Faces of Humanity’ Festival to feature notable By Carmen Rising @carmen_rising
After retiring in 1977, Austin-based socio-anthropologist Amnon Orent decided to travel the world and visit the places he had only discussed in classes. During his travels, Orent photographed people to tell the stories of their heritage, rituals and culture. His current exhibition, “The Many Faces of Humanity,” is on display at the Gallery at the J on the Dell Jewish Community Campus. Orent photographed individuals from various countries, including Vietnam, Israel and Papua New Guinea. Each set of photographs consists of people from different countries who are linked by a common thread. “He focused on photographing the faces of humanity — ordinary people often being portrayed in their tribal dress acting out rituals of their ancestors,” said Laraine Lasdon, chairwoman of the visual arts committee and the gallery. “What you learn when you look at these photos is the
idea of ritual itself. A ritual might be going to school; it might going for a swim every morning or going to church on Sunday. It can be anything.” In one photograph, a man on South Congress plays a banjo, carrying several other instruments on his back. In the photograph displayed above it, a Native American man from Montana, wearing his own traditional dress, is about to enter a powwow. “What he’s trying to do is break down barriers by showing us how, despite the big differences that you see, his pictures show people performing in situations and [how] the foundation of those rituals is the same,” Lasdon said. “There’s a similarity in humankind that we often overlook.” Orent said his photographs are candid and that he enjoys taking pictures of people engaging in an activity. “The most interesting pictures are always when people are doing something, not just the face,” Orent said. “The thing that interested me the most in the last few years is the subject of devotion. Being
A young Vietnamese woman wearing neck rings weaves cloth.
comedians, screenwriters By David Sackllah @dsackllah
This week marks the third year of Austin’s Moontower Comedy Festival, and, while serious comedy fans will recognize most of the names on the lineup, the average person might be puzzled as to who a lot of the performers are. Many of this year’s headliners can be seen in supporting roles or as writers on popular movies and
television shows. The Daily Texan compiled a guide to where some of these comedians have been spotted. Demetri Martin Martin’s Comedy Central show, “Important Things With Demetri Martin,” was canceled after one year, but he has been featured in movies such as “In A World…,” “Contagion” and Ang Lee’s “Taking Woodstock,” in which he had the
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an anthropologist, I always like to know what people are doing and why they’re doing it.” While following common threads, such as music and devotion, Orent found that people enjoy being photographed and sharing their stories. “There’s a commonality there,” Orent said. “People like to smile, and there’s something about people. They’re proud of themselves. People are expressive and want to be
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known and recognized. My camera is a way to be recognized. People like that. It’s the theme of humanity — that we all are beautiful.” At Thursday night’s reception, Orent will recount the stories of his travels and the context of the photographs. “Wherever you look in the world, you’ll see some sort of immersion philosophy,” Lasdon said. “That’s what these exhibitions show: are we really all that different?”
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Fred Armisen will close this year’s Moontower Festival on Saturday night at the Paramount Theatre.
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