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Bike to UT Day riders face police crackdown By Julia Broulliette @juliakbrou
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Year in Review
This school year was a year marked by change. Some of the University’s most recognizable faces — from the chancellor to the football coach — stepped down, while others, such as President William Powers Jr. and men’s basketball coach Rick Barnes, held onto their jobs despite signs indicating long odds. Most students dealt with icy weather, some students voted for a new Student Government administration and one student got stabbed in the face with a fork. From Abigail Fisher to ACL and from protesters to presidents, the 2013-2014 school year featured plenty worth writing about.
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CITY
Food truck ordinance could allow on-site recycling By Wynne Davis @wynneellyn
Customers at food trucks may soon be able to recycle on-site, after the Austin City Council voted Thursday to ask the city manager to create an ordinance enabling food trucks to provide recycling and composting receptacles. The council’s vote, which was in keeping with the Austin Resource Recovery Department’s Zero Waste Master Plan, asked
city manager Marc Ott to present a draft of the ordinance to the council on May 22. The current health code hinders food trucks from providing adequate recycling options for customers, according to Jessica King, division manager for the Austin Resources Recovery department. “Right now, the health code and the new building code do not allow [food
Students Henry Yoo and Philip Cho order food at the Korean Komfort food truck. The food trucks located at the Rio Rancheria currently do not recycle.
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Helen Fernandez Daily Texan Staff
During Parking and Transportation Services’ annual “Bike to UT Day” on Thursday morning, APD issued 47 tickets to cyclists heading to the University as part of a “special assignment bike initiative,” according to APD officer Will Harvey. Harvey said APD did not purposely schedule the initiative to coincide with the event. “I predetermined all of the dates back in January,” Harvey said. “We had no way of knowing. It just happened to fall that way.” APD officers wrote one of the tickets for going the wrong way on a one-way street and issued the rest for running stop signs, according to Harvey. “We get a large number of complaints on a regular basis,” Harvey said. “If you’re out in West Campus or North Campus, it’s just getting more and more populated and congested. When that happens, complaints go up, and we felt we needed to get out and do something.” Harvey said the initiative began in February and focuses not only on enforcing bike safety but also on pedestrian and driving violations in the West Campus and North Campus areas. “Thus far for this operation, from February till now, we have written a total of 175 warnings and 128 tickets to
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The Luci and Ian Family Garden will hold its grand opening Sunday, May 4. The garden provides multiple interactive educational areas for children, such as a maze made of shrubs.
Regent to runoff election: Ongoing news to watch for in the summer By Madlin Mekelburg @madlinbmek
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Family garden opens Sunday By Natalie Sullivan @natsullivan94
Visitors can dig in fake dinosaur tracks, build teepees out of bamboo and explore a spiral hedge maze at the opening of the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center’s new family garden Sunday. The center has been constructing the $5
million Luci and Ian Family Garden since May 2013. According to Samantha Elkington, senior horticulturist at the center, the 4.5 acre garden added a dirt dig and nature build area this year. “The dirt dig will allow kids to get their hands dirty and dig around in the dirt and sand,” Elkington said. “At the
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nature build area, we’ll have different materials like hay and bamboo sticks so kids can build things — teepees, buildings, gnome trails — whatever they want.” The garden’s other features also include a grotto with caves and a waterfall, 10-foot-wide bird nests and
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REGENT CONTROVERSY The almost year-long investigation of UT System Regent Wallace Hall will come to a close on May 12, when the house transparency committee investigating him will vote on whether to recommend his impeachment. Hall is under investigation for potentially overstepping his bounds as a regent and conducting what some legislators have referred to as a “witch-hunt” to oust President William Powers Jr. If the committee decides to recommend impeachment, Hall’s case will go to the full Texas House of Representatives. If a majority of the members of the House approve of the case’s merits, it will go to the Senate, where members will convene as a
Charlie Pearce / Daily Texan Staff
University of Texas System Regent Wallace Hall prepares to leave after a UT System Board of Regents meeting Tuesday.
court to make a final decision. If the Senate concurs with the committee’s recommendation, Hall will be the first nonelected official to be impeached in Texas history. Hall is also facing the possibility of criminal charges. On April 25, the public integrity unit in the Travis
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County district attorney’s office said they will open an investigation into allegations that Hall mishandled private student information, which is protected by federal privacy laws. The investigation is only
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