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CORRECTION A guest column on the minimum wage that ran in last week’s print issue misidentified the author’s title. Clay Olsen is the vice president of College Republicans.

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MetroRapid plans to launch a new route to replace the Pickle Research Campus shuttle, and Austin City Council plans to discuss bond language for urban rail. PAGE 6

NEWS

The 5th Circuit rules in favor of the University in Fisher v. UT. PAGE 3 UT researchers use a mutant protein to block intoxication in worms. PAGE 5

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OPINION

Urban rail proposal isn’t ideal, but it’s better than nothing. PAGE 4 Celebration of Fisher decision ignores black enrollment. PAGE 4

SPORTS

The Austin Aces develop a strong following despite rough starting season. PAGE 9

LIFE&ARTS

Local band The Dead Space releases its debut album, and the Quesoff queso competition gets under way. PAGE 10

COVER PHOTO BY MENGWEN CAO MetroRapid will launch route 803, which will run alongside route 801 on Guadalupe Street and continue wto the Pickle Research Center.

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The Opener: See open mic comedy every Monday at 8 p.m. at Hotel Vegas.

Tiki Tuesdays: Relax and cool off with frozen drinks at Hotel San Jose on South Congress.

Surf rock band The Avocados will be there to provide some summer tunes.

The Who’s Tommy: Live through the story of the “deaf, dumb and blind kid,” who became a pinball wizard, at the ZACH Theatre.

It’s perfect for fans of both the 1969 album and the original stage production. Show starts at 7:30 p.m.

National Tequila Day at 508 Tequila Bar: Taste free tequila at 508 Tequila Bar’s happy hour at 4 p.m.

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East Austin Handmade Arts Market: The Vortex Theater joins with Austin artists and artisans to bring this outdoor market to Manor Road every Saturday, starting at 11 a.m.

Cruise Control: The Tom Cruise Marathon: Embrace your love for Tom Cruise and join Tough Guy Cinema for a marathon of five films featuring the star of “Top Gun,” starting at 1 p.m.

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UNIVERSITY

Appeals court rules in favor of UT admissions policy in Fisher case

By Amanda Voeller @amandaevoeller

The affirmative action case Fisher v. University of Texas has been ongoing since 2008, but on July 15, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals determined UT’s holistic review admissions policy meets the strict scrutiny standard, allowing the University to continue using race as a factor in its admissions decisions.

“The backdrop of our efforts here includes the reality that accepting as permissible policies whose purpose is to achieve a desired racial effect taxes the line between quotas and holistic use of race towards a critical mass,” Judge Patrick Higginbotham wrote in the 2-1 majority opinion. “We have hewed this line here, persuaded

by UT-Austin from this record of its necessary use of race in a holistic process and the want of workable alternatives that would not require even greater use of race.”

Abigail Fisher, a rejected undergraduate UT applicant, sued the University in 2008 for discriminating against her based on her race, claiming the admissions policy was in violation of the 14th Amendment.

The case reached the Supreme Court in 2012.

In an unexpected decision, the Supreme Court determined the 5th Circuit court had failed to apply strict scrutiny to the University’s race-conscious admissions policy and sent the case back to the appeals court to determine whether the University’s policies are narrowly tailored and necessary to achieve a “critical mass” of minority students.

In a statement Tuesday, Fisher said she is committed to continuing the lawsuit and will appeal to the Supreme Court.

“It is a shame that for the last six years, hundreds of UT applicants were denied admission because of UT’s racial and ethnic preferences,” Fisher said.

Edward Blum, director of the Project on Fair Representation, a program that has provided funding for Fisher’s case, said in a statement he was not surprised by the ruling.

“While disappointing, this opinion was not unexpected based upon the questioning and comments made by the court during our last hearing in November,” Blum said.

In November, attorneys for both Fisher and the University presented arguments to the appeals court. Representing the University, attorney Greg Garre said although UT does not use specific numbers to determine a critical mass, the University is still able to determine when this mass has been met.

The University uses race as part of an admissions process that determines 25 percent of the student body, and race is one of several factors that, combined, determine 4/7 of an applicant’s personal achievement index. That score is in turn combined with the applicant’s academic index score to determine if the applicant should be admitted to the University.

During a press conference Tuesday, President William Powers Jr. said he is glad the ruling upheld the constitutionality of UT’s admissions process and emphasized race is one of many factors involved in

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“The University of Texas will be able to continue using race as one of many factors — one of many factors — in a holistic review in order to shape a diverse student body,” Powers said. “One of our core arguments all along has been the educational value of diversity to all of our students, regardless of their background.”

Law professor David Gonzalez said the ruling means the University’s admissions process does the best job it can do in achieving diversity from a legal standpoint.

Amy Zhang / Daily Texan Staff

President William Powers Jr. speaks to the media alongside student leaders after the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals announced their decision on Fisher v. UT at Austin on Tuesday afternoon.

Student Government President Kori Rady said the ruling is a victory for the University.

“When our admissions policy is held up in a high court of law, it shows that what we’re doing is fair and right,” Rady said.

In a dissent, Judge Emilio Garza said the University does not pass the strict scrutiny test, which includes determining whether the University is using race as little as possible while still meeting its goal of diversity.

“A proper strict scrutiny analysis, affording the University ‘no deference’ in its strict scrutiny claims, compels the conclusion that the University’s race-conscious admissions process does not survive strict scrutiny,” Garza wrote.

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RILEY BRANDS, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF | @TexanEditorial Monday, July 21, 2014

EDITORIAL

COLUMN

Urban rail proposal better than nothing

Diversity goals do not benefit black students

Transportation: It’s an issue that invariably sets the teeth on edge in this town and one for which, until now, no serious solution has been enacted.

As the roads clog up with ever-greater traffic and the public transportation system continues on in mediocrity, grinding along in city traffic or on the Red Line’s freight-train rails, Austinites steam about the lack of high-quality options for getting around town, underscoring the need for some sort of action.

We say “until now” because it is once again possible that urban rail, which notably failed on a Drag route back in 2000, could win the approval of voters this November. The route that has been proposed was recently endorsed by both the Capital Metro Board of Directors and the Austin City Council. Cap Metro will operate the line while the city will own it. If placed on the November ballot (a near certainty) and approved, the line will start on Riverside Drive, cross the river on a newly built bridge, make three stops on campus and then finally end up at the future ACC Highland.

We have established in previous editorials that we do not agree with the currently proposed path, at least in comparison with the alternatives. While we appreciate the fact that UT students will not be left out completely, we also know that they, as well as other potential riders, would be better served by a Guadalupe/Lamar line, which would run through already dense areas, than by a line plotted through areas where density is projected to exist at some future date.

Proponents of the current plan hope that the Federal Transit Administration will fund half of the $1.38 billion price tag and counter density arguments by saying that the agency would be loath to put up money for a project that would run sideby-side with the new MetroRapid bus line. That may well be true, and it is unfortunate that greater planning couldn’t have been exercised to reserve the Guadalupe/Lamar route for urban rail. But given the current state of affairs and keeping in mind that 14 years have passed since the last viable effort at urban rail was put forward, we offer our grudging support for the current plan.

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By David Davis Associate Editor

As the University celebrates what could be considered a victory in the Fisher v. University of Texas case, one has to wonder what there is to celebrate. Sure, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit seemingly gave a stamp of approval to UT’s holistic admissions review process, which allows the University to take race into account, but, unfortunately, the capacity to use race as a decision factor narrowly benefits racial minority groups that are in vogue, while another — black applicants — is disadvantaged by the system.

Let’s be frank. When the term “affirmative action” was first associated with race, the intended beneficiaries were black people who had historically experienced de facto and de jure discrimination based on their skin color. Positive discrimination, or affirmative action, was used to correct legal inequalities that had oppressed the black community for such a long time.

UT, along with many universities in the South, is certainly no stranger to racial controversy concerning admissions. In the case of Sweatt v.

Painter, for example, the Supreme Court ruled that the University could not deny admission to the Law School based on race. Edwin Dorn, the former dean of the LBJ School of Public Affairs, once said, “The University desegregated slowly and reluctantly.” And, while today, admissions numbers do not reflect a university reluctant to accept all minorities, the numbers do show an institution headed in the wrong direction as far as black students are concerned.

Over the past few years, the percentage of undergraduate students who identify as black has constantly declined from a number that wasn’t so high to begin with despite an increase in the black population in every major city in Texas besides Austin. In 2009, black students comprised 4.9 percent of the undergraduate population, and

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enrollment for the fall semester of 2013 was down to 1,701 students, which is now 4.3 percent of the undergraduate student body. The number of black graduate students is even lower with roughly 300 black students total enrolled in graduate programs. Conversely, Hispanic students, correlating with an increase in the state population of Hispanics, have the second highest representation on campus behind white students, making up 21.7 percent of the population, which is equivalent to more than 8,000 students. The percentage of Asian undergraduates has remained relatively constant.

Certainly, it could be argued that black students have been and will continue to be underrepresented because the number of applications submitted by black students barely exceeds 2,000, but the admissions rate is still lower for black students than it is for the largest minority groups on campus.

The lack of a substantial black population, which includes a faculty of which black teachers make up roughly 3.7 percent, is quite noticeable. Homecoming coronations, probates and step shows are probably foreign ideas to most students who aren’t black. Yet any given student has probably heard of

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the Holi festival held during the spring semester every year, for example. The importance of diversity does not lie within simply increasing the number of non-white students on campus. Diversity fosters understanding between cultures, and black culture is not highly prevalent on UT’s campus, leaving few people aware of what it means to be black. Of course traditions often associated with historically black colleges and universities are not the only aspects of black culture, but they are good introductions to the community on a college campus.

The University should take advantage of the opportunity to increase diversity on campus, but extended opportunities for admission cannot be unique to “buzz minorities.” The decision by the appellate court means nothing if UT continues to maintain a black student quota of just over 2,000 students out of more than 50,000 total students enrolled at the University. With this ruling, the administration has the responsibility to move forward and not just allow the number of black students on campus to dwindle.

Davis is an international relations and French junior from Houston.

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SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

Researchers block intoxication in worms

By YoungJee Jung @yjeejung

Neuroscience researchers at the University reported they successfully prevented mutant worms from becoming intoxicated by alcohol in “The Journal of Neuroscience” in July.

The researchers were able to alter a human alcohol target known as the BK channel and successfully insert it into a species of worms. A human alcohol target is essentially a nerve cell that binds to alcohol. The BK channel is responsible for a wide array of functions, including regulating activity of blood vessels, neurons, bladder and the respiratory tract.

“We are developing our own drugs to target the BK channel, with the hope that some of them may help people overcome alcohol addiction,” Scott Davis, graduate student and lead author of the paper, said.

The research took four years to complete as researchers found the mutation, engineered the human protein into the worm and performed the physiology experiment. Neuroscience professor Jon PierceShimomura, who worked with Davis on the study, said the research could lead to the development of pharmaceutical drugs that prevent intoxication.

“These results provide promising evidence that this portion of the channel may be targeted in the future with drugs to prevent alcohol from having an effect on the BK channel in humans,” Pierce-Shimomura said.

Although the researchers are hopeful that their findings will be valuable to pharmaceuticals, Davis said researchers have much more

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to do before this will happen.

“You have to keep in mind, there are still other proteins involved in the behavioral effects of alcohol, so many more studies need to be done to study the effects of this mutation in a mammalian system,” Davis said. “However, if a drug that solely

targeted the BK channel turns out to be effective, an optimistic model could be 10 years to get through clinical development.”

The mutation discovered does not disrupt any of the BK channel’s other functions and only affects its response to alcohol.

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Amy Zhang | Daily Texan Staff

At its launch in August, MetroRapid 803 will replace the Pickle Research Campus route and run from the Domain to the Westgate Transit Center. MetroRapid 803 will be Capital Metro’s second bus rapid transit route following MetroRapid 801.

With both Capital Metro and Austin City Council endorsing Project Connect’s recommended route for urban rail, the council is expected to discuss bond language in August for the $1.38 billion project connecting East Riverside to ACC Highland.

If Austin residents approve a bond proposal in November, a threeyear environmental assessment and engineering process will determine how to safely construct the rail, the bridge across Lady Bird Lake and the possible tunnel through North Austin.

“Things could change,” project lead Kyle Keahey told The Daily Texan last month. “There’s lots of opportunity for public involvement at this stage.”

The urban rail proposal is a part of Project Connect, a collaborative vision for Austin’s transportation system between the city, Cap Metro and other Central Texas planning organizations. The approved route will run along Trinity Street through downtown and travel on San Jacinto Boulevard through the UT campus. Three of the rail’s proposed stops are on campus at the future site of the Dell Medical School, Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium and on the northeast side of campus.

While some have complained about a lack of public engagement in the planning process, Mayor Lee Leffingwell said Project Connect and Capital Metro have hosted more than 200 public meetings to relay information about the rail and hear from the community.

“I believe that this has been one of the most open, transparent and inclusive processes I’ve ever seen,” Leffingwell said.

Cap Metro to launch new MetroRapid route in August

By Kylie Fitzpatrick @mllekyky

Capital Metro will launch MetroRapid 803, the city’s second bus rapid transit route, on Aug. 24, replacing a UT Shuttle at the start of the fall semester.

The new MetroRapid route will run from The Domain to the Westgate Transit Center along Burnet Road and Lamar Boulevard. The route will also make stops near campus along Guadalupe Street via a shared pathway with MetroRapid 801, which launched in January.

“It hits some major destinations in this community,” Cap Metro CEO Linda Watson said.

MetroRapid 803 fleet hit the streets on July 15, ahead of the route’s launch later this month. During the fullscale system test, all 15 buses operated like a regular service day, to make sure the technology and route timing works.

“When we launch on [Aug. 24] we want to be practiced and we want it to be perfect and, so, we just wanna make sure that all the parts and pieces work well together in advance of that,” said Dottie Watkins, Cap

Metro vice president of bus and paratransit services.

The route will replace the Pickle Research Campus route and complement Route 3, running along a similar path. Running every 12-20 minutes, MetroRapid 803 will offer faster transit time by decreasing the number of stops compared to regular bus routes. Route 3 runs every 30-40 minutes.

“One of the key benefits of [more frequent stops] is that, when it’s that frequent, you really don’t have to rely on a schedule anymore,” said Todd Hemingson, vice president of strategic planning and development for Cap Metro. “You, basically, can walk out to the stop and know that, just within just a few minutes, the next bus will be there.”

Anthropology graduate student Sierra Castedo said she took a class at the Pickle campus last year and said service to campus would have benefitted from MetroRapid service because the PRC shuttle runs once an hour.

“I had a class that started right in between those hours, and so I had to arrive more than an hour early and leave more than an hour later,” Castedo said. “It was ridiculous. I spent my entire Friday going out there.”

Just like the 801 route, the new buses will use priority lanes and are equipped with signal priority technology, which can extend a green light to help a vehicle stay on schedule. They also offer free WiFi and run on clean diesel fuel, meeting the latest emission standards from the Environmental Protection Agency.

The concept of rapid transit in Austin began in 2004, with Cap Metro’s “All Systems Go” plan, which was followed by years of planning to determine routes. The Federal Transit Administration awarded Cap Metro a $38 million grant in 2012 to bring that concept to reality. The grant covered 80 percent of the cost of the MetroRapid project. Cap Metro paid for the remaining 20 percent.

Along with the Pickle campus and Barton Springs, Hemingson said the 803 route will also serve popular food destinations, such as Whole Foods Market, Central Market and Wheatsville Co-op.

“We really have tried to include a number of different features and have it go where students actually want to go,” Hemingson said. “If you like food, it’s a great route to ride.”

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“Students are a highly transit-dependent population,” Nalley wrote in his prepared speech, given to the Texan. “This current plan fails to take us into account.”

The Student Government assembly has passed resolutions in recent years calling for an urban rail alignment along Guadalupe Street and Lamar Boulevard instead of the recommended alignment on the east side of campus.

The route on San Jacinto is incorporated into the University’s 2012 Campus Master Plan and was recommended to Project Connect by University officials.

A light rail on Guadalupe and Lamar was proposed in 2000 and lost a bond election by a narrow margin. The city later pursued bus rapid transit along those streets, and the Federal Transportation Administration awarded Austin $38 million in 2012 for the MetroRapid service, which began running in January.

“It would be near impossible to justify additional FTA funding for this corridor so soon,” Leffingwell said.

The city will seek FTA funds to cover half of the project’s cost, with the remaining portion locally funded. The Central Texas Regional Mobility fund has set aside $600 million for urban rail, leaving $100 million unfunded.

Mike McHone, who represents businesses, churches and residential communities near UT on behalf of University Area Partners, said he feels the city has placed MetroRapid where urban rail should be.

“We’ve been given buses instead of light rail. We never thought buses were the right way to go, but we got them,” McHone said. “So we’re going to compound a mistake?”

Thomas Butler, transportation director for the Downtown Austin Alliance, an organization with the goal of improving downtown Austin, said the route is designed for what the city will look like a decade from now. Butler said it will serve a population growing to the east, as well as the future ACC Highland campus, the Dell Medical School and an innovation zone for technology development expected to flourish in the northeast corner of downtown.

Butler emphasized the route’s connectivity to the larger transportation system, including the rapid bus lines and MetroRail. Robert Svoboda, co-director of the Student Government city relations agency, said his main concern was that Project Connect failed to seek input from the student population, and he hopes student government will become more involved in city politics in the future.

“The plan approved is not perfect, but it’s a step toward more options for transportation and all students want that,” Svoboda said. “It’s been a hands-off relationship with city government, and we want to change that.

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Roddick-led Aces amass fan support

By Nick Castillo @Nick_Castillo74

The Austin Aces’ inaugural season hasn’t exactly been a smash hit, but it has provided a new experience for many fans.

The Cedar Park Center, the Aces home arena, is filled with music, cheering and excitement during the nearly four-hour events.

While the team may not sell out its games, Austin coach Rick Leach claims that it has the best fans in the Mylan World TeamTennis league.

“I’ve been so impressed with [the fans’] enthusiasm,” Leach said. “I’ve been seeing the same kids at the autograph line — great response and great crowds.”

Led by Austin resident and former Grand Slam champion Andy Roddick, the Aces have spent the past month participating in the league’s regular season against six other teams.

Unlike conventional tennis, Mylan league matches consist of five different sets — one set of men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles. Each game won gives a team a point, and the first team to win five games wins each set.

The unique scoring system gives every team an opportunity to contend for a championship. The league’s scoring keeps matches from becoming exhibitions by ensuring competitiveness throughout the match.

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on June 10. “The overtime and super tiebreaker always set up an exciting finish.”

The structure of the league is what makes coaching the Aces so enjoyable for Leach.

“I like TeamTennis because you have men and women playing together,” he said. “I just think it’s fun and exciting and fast-paced.

I think they can root for the home team as much as they want.”

The league’s atmosphere is one of the many reasons Roddick and team owner Lorne Abony created the Aces organization.

“It’s kind of fun and funky,” Roddick said about the league. “Most people tell Charlie Pearce | Daily Texan Staff you to be quiet at matches; Led by former Grand Slam champion Andy Roddick, the Austin Aces have generated impreswe tell you to be louder.” sive fan support in their inagural season, despite their struggles on the court. The Aces are While the atmosphere at 4-7 on the season and sit in last place in the Mylan World TeamTennis league standings. games has been exciting, the Aces haven’t had the smaller after a tough loss in with some injuries and best season as they’ve gone to the San Diego Aviators. Treat [Huey] got hurt when through growing pains Although Austin will likely he got here. With only four throughout their first year. miss the playoffs, Leach be- players, it’s pretty tough The Aces are currently in lieves that the team will im- on you.”

The Aces will finish the last place in the Western prove over time.

“I think we’ll keep getting season on the road against Conference with a 4-7 record. Their struggles con- better,” Leach said. “We lost the Texas Wild, Philadelphia close matches.

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Austin band The Dead Space talks about its formative years

By David Glickman @sublimebombast

There is something off-putting about The Dead Space’s debut LP, “Faker”. Released three weeks ago on local label 12XU, the album is not extremely loud or noisy, like expected. What it does have is a quiet intensity — an inescapable sense of tension and bleakness at the core of every track.

According to bassist/ vocalist Quin Galavis, this darkness is deliberate.

“I’ve always been into the darker, the post-punk, since I’ve been old enough to remember,” Galavis said.

The band formed when Galavis met guitarist Garrett Hadden at McCallum High School.

The two bonded over a shared teenage love of nu-metal.

“Probably one of the first

conversations that Quin and I ever had was, we were in English class together, and he said, ‘Hey, you play guitar, right? You know any Marilyn Manson songs?’”

Hadden said.

The band started to take form in 2008, with Galavis and Hadden playing along to a drum machine. They quickly recruited fellow schoolmate Jenny Arthur to play drums, and the band expanded from there.

“We had Jasmine, who played bass, and at one point we even had a keyboard player,” Hadden said. “Russ moved to Portland and we played with Jasmine for a number of years, to about 2011. Eventually, we ended up with just the stripped down trio of us, and I feel like kind of what we’re doing

now was born out of that.”

Once the band settled on their current configuration as a trio, they started working on recording their album. But it took four years before the band solidified their sound and released the album.

Part of the problem was in the band’s interactions with the Austin scene, and playing with other Austin bands.

“We had this whole dark vibe, and when we were first playing shows, every band was a rock and roll band,” Arthur said. “We would play shows with the OBN IIIs and the Flesh Lights … And that honestly kind of affected our songs somewhat because we were trying to match the energy of the shows we were playing.”

Eventually the band was able to reach a point where they

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The Dead Space members, Quin Galavis, left, Jenny Authur and Garrett Hadden started playing music together in 2008. The Gothic post-punk trio released its debut LP, “Faker” earlier this month.

were happy with their material and finished recording.

What the band made was “Faker,” an album composed of ten knotty and taut Gothic post-punk songs. Opening track “Fall Away” sets the tone with its driving bass lines and restrained drumming,

waiting to give way to some sort of climax but never does. The band creates classic sounding Goth rock with the likes of “Behind The Wall,” buzzing guitar catchiness with “Right Now,” and bleak drone rock with closer “So Long.”

All the while, The Dead Space

holds onto that sense of tension and darkness that is crucial to their sound.

“We were trying to be a band that we weren’t, and I think with this record, we were finally comfortable and said, ‘This is the record we want to make,’” Hadden said.

FOOD

Local teams get cheesy at fourth annual Quesoff

By Sam Limerick @sam_limerick

Photo courtesy of Focus Features

Zach Braff discusses his directorial experience The Daily Texan talked to Zach Braff, actor and director of “Garden State,” about his new release, “Wish I Was Here” and the personal touches he adds to his films.

Read the full interview at dailytexanonline.com.

There are a lot of things Austinites care a little too much about. Local beer and breakfast tacos rank high on the list, but almost nothing beats the fervor for which locals live and breathe for queso. Saturday afternoon, teams of self-claimed queso aficionados came together at the Mohawk to fight for the Best Queso title at the fourth annual Quesoff, Austin’s definitive queso competition.

The Quesoff pitted 20 teams representing Austin restaurants, social clubs and

family recipes against each other in four different categories: meaty, spicy, veggie and wild card. A panel of judges included radio personalities, local journalists and musicians.

Adi Anand, the creative mind behind the Quesoff, together with the Mohawk owner James Moody, had been plotting a queso competition for some time before the duo finally cemented the idea four years ago after a long night of Jameson cocktails.

“Our inspiration was the love for queso we saw amongst our friends and, obviously, our own unending

love for the dish,” Anand said.

Siena Magallanes, third year law student, entered the competition under the moniker “Thunda Fromunan” with her green chile and pineapple Sriracha queso.

Magallanes and friends won the veggie category in 2012, but since the Quesoff attracts large crowds, competition is difficult for independent entrants like Magallanes.

“It only took us an hour to run out of queso,” Magallanes said.

Contestants at this year’s competition brought in a record 100 quarts of queso,

QUESOFF 2014 WINNERS

Freedmen’s: Best Meaty Recipe and Best in Show for their Brisket Queso Queso Beso: Best Spicy Recipe Frank: Best Veggie Recipe Cream Team: Best Wild Card recipe for their ice cream queso and the slow cookers and coolers were scraped clean by the end of the day.

After much deliberation, the panel of judges decided that Freedmen’s Brisket Queso was the absolute best Austin has to offer — at least until next year’s competition.

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