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After 5th Circuit ruling, Fisher seeks to reappeal

By Amanda Voeller @amandaevoeller

UT may continue using its holistic review admissions policy.

While Fisher has said she was willing to take the case back to the Supreme Court, she again requested on July 29 that the 5th Circuit hear the case en banc.

Fisher argues that the three-judge panel failed to follow the Supreme Court’s mandate. The petition argues the University did not

clearly state its critical mass goal, and that the panel disobeyed the Supreme Court’s request for the appeals court not to give any deference to UT. 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, determines four-fifths of an applicant’s personal achievement index. Some of the other factors include essay scores, leadership,

Abigail Fisher talks to press after her attorneys argued her case in front of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday Nov. 13, 2013.

In 2008, Fisher sued the University for discriminating against her admission application based on her race.

extracurricular activities and special circumstances such as the applicant’s socioeconomic status, average SAT or ACT score compared to the student’s high school’s average, family responsibilities and race. That personal achievement score is in turn combined with the applicant’s academic index score to determine University admission.

According to court documents, UT would

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McRaven named sole finalist for System chancellor

By Jacob Kerr @jacobrkerr

Months after delivering what would become a popular commencement speech at the University, Naval Adm. William McRaven is in line to become the UT System’s next chancellor.

The UT System Board of Regents named McRaven, 58, sole finalist to replace Francisco Cigarroa as chancellor in late July. A UT alumnus, he is known for overseeing the operation resulting in the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011 and will retire from his current position as U.S. special operations commander in late August.

“We are pleased that he would agree to forgo a host of gainful private sector employment opportunities in order to lead UT System in a time of exciting transition and unparalleled growth,” board Chairman Paul Foster said during the meeting.

Foster was part of the search committee for the new chancellor along with vice chairmen Steve Hicks and Gene Powell. Although McRaven does not have a background in higher

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U.S. Navy Adm. William H. McRaven, who is credited for leading the mission that resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden, is pictured here at the Champions of Justice Gala Benefitting Veterans in May 2012. Adm. McRaven will be next in line for the UT System’s chancellor position.

SPORTS

COLUMN New head football coach Charlie Strong addresses the media at Big 12 Media Days in Dallas. Strong has quickly deveoped a reputation as a stern disciplinarian at Texas.

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Fall previews: Strong lays down the law

By Stefan Scrafield @stefanscrafield

Football: Strong making his presence felt as new boss It didn’t take new football head coach Charlie Strong long to demonstrate the toughness and discipline that his teams have been

known for. Strong has yet to coach a game at Texas, but given the way he came down on several Longhorns over the past couple weeks, his message is clear: Get on board now or get off the bus.

Despite the loss of several key players to graduation and several more that

Strong has now booted off the team, this year’s edition of the Longhorns is still full of promise.

The defense is loaded with talent, and given Strong’s defensive background, they will be expected to be one

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How to move apartments like a pro

By Samantha Grasso @samjgrasso

Moving into your first apartment is arguably the single greatest moment of adulthood — assuming you will never find a job you love, settle down with a life partner, raise a family or win the Texas Mega Millions. While the process of compressing your life into 1,000 square feet can be frustrating, these steps can help improve your move-in experience.

1. Pack. Everything.

“Too much stuff, not enough space” was a mantra created by quitters. Of course you’ll remember to pack the essentials, but don’t forget about the trinkets that made up your formative years. Nothing gives you that “started from the

Instead of doing the physical work on your move-in day, channel your inner toddler and designate yourself as ‘move-in crew support captain.’ bottom” feeling like bringing your most nostalgia-inducing pieces to your first adulthood apartment. If you even question whether or not you’ll need something from your childhood room back home, bring it.

The art projects you were required to make in elementary school — save ’em. Those neon band tees you haven’t worn since high school — take it all.

Your yearbooks filled with “HAGS,” “2 cool + 2 b = 4 gotten” and that little shit who always signed the crack — those are a given.

Honestly, if Cody Smith’s eighth grade reminder

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that “u r cool” and to “nvr change” won’t keep you humble, what will?

2. Move in with wild, child-like abandon Just because you’re an adult, it doesn’t mean you’re the most qualified adult in the vicinity.

When it comes to moving, your older family members probably have more experience on the subject, so it only makes sense to leave most of the moving up to them. I get it. We all get it. Being a young adult is hard. Instead of doing

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education, Foster said the committee determined the chancellor position does not require one.

“This job is a huge administration job that requires administration skills and leadership skills,” Foster said.

“We felt that the chancellor’s role was more one of management than academia.”

Foster said McRaven will officially be appointed chancellor at the Aug. 20-21 regents meeting. Under state law, the regents must name any finalists for chancellor at least 21 days before an appointment is made. Foster said McRaven’s salary would be finalized at that time as well.

Once officially appointed by the regents, McRaven will begin his tenure as chancellor in January 2015. In a statement, McRaven said he is excited to return to Austin.

“I thank the regents for

their trust and confidence in my leadership, and I look forward to this extraordinary responsibility with enthusiasm and gratitude,” McRaven said.

In May, McRaven delivered the spring commencement address at the University, sharing life lessons he learned from Navy SEAL basic training. The speech has received significant attention online, including more than 2 million views on YouTube.

“If you take some risks, step up when the times are toughest, face down the bullies, lift up the downtrodden and never, ever give up — if you do these things, then next generation and the generations that follow will live in a world far better than the one we have today,” McRaven said in his speech.

A San Antonio native, McRaven graduated from the University in 1977 with a degree in journalism before

joining the Navy. He later received his master’s degree from the Naval Postgraduate School. In 2012, McRaven received a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the Texas Exes alumni association.

Reporting to the board of regents, the chancellor oversees the System, which consists of 15 institutions, and is responsible for its operations.

The transition in leadership comes after the System has been the subject of controversy over the past few years. One of the board’s regents, Wallace Hall, has been the subject of a House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations investigation for more than a year and could be the first nonelected official in Texas history to be impeached. Hall has been accused by state legislators of overstepping his authority as a regent and working to remove Univer-

The value of Adm. McRaven’s service to our state and nation cannot be overstated. I’m confident that he will continues to be a strong leader and dedicated public servant.

—Kirk Watson, State senator, D-Austin

sity President William Powers Jr. from his position.

In July, Cigarroa received negative backlash from University students, faculty and alumni for requesting Powers to resign

by October. Cigarroa cited communication and trust issues with Powers as reasoning for asking him to resign. Cigarroa later agreed for Powers to resign in June 2015, after next year’s legislative session.

Foster said he thinks McRaven will be “wellreceived at all levels.” Since McRaven’s naming as sole finalist, some state legislators have praised the regents’

decision, including Texas House Speaker Joe Straus, RSan Antonio, and state Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin.

“The value of Admiral McRaven’s service to our state and nation cannot be overstated,” Watson said in a statement. “I’m confident that he will continue to be a strong leader and dedicated public servant.”

Cigarroa announced his resignation in February and will remain chancellor through the fall 2014 semester until December. In January 2015, he will return to practicing medicine at UT Health Science Center at San Antonio.

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Thousands gather for ‘Texas Stands with Gaza’

By YoungJee Jung @yjeejung

A group of UT students participated in the “Texas Stands with Gaza” protest of more than 3,000 at the Texas State Capitol on Saturday, Aug. 2.

Saturday’s protest was the most recent of five events that have taken place at the Capitol during the summer. Jauzey Imam, a protester and UT student, said the protesters advocate that Israel to leave the Gaza Strip.

“We’re joining protesters around the world in demanding that Israel end its occupation of the Palestinian territories and immediately cease its collective punishment of the Gaza Strip [which include] aerial bombardment, targeting of water and sewage infrastructure and deliberate strikes in residential areas,” said Imam, who is also a computer engineering and Plan II senior.

During Saturday’s event, protesters chanted, “Free, free Palestine. Occupation is a crime. Free, free Gaza.”

Speakers addressed the crowd in front of the Capitol as protesters held signs, as

well as the Palestinian, Texan and American flags.

Imam, a member of the Palestine Solidarity Committee student organization, worked on the rally organizing committee. The Palestine Solidarity Committee has worked with The Interfaith Community for Palestinian Rights to organize the protests along with other groups.

“We’re also demanding that the U.S. government condemn and sanction Israel for its brutal acts of war against civilian populations and its expansion of settlements in direct violation of international law and, furthermore, withdraw its three to four billion dollars per year of aid to Israel,” Imam said.

Texans for Israel was contacted before Saturday’s protest and gave a statement through Tracy Frydberg, former president of Texans for Israel and a senior majoring in Middle Eastern studies and journalism.

“Israel is in Gaza to ensure that Hamas’ numerous sophisticated terror tunnels which lead to the front door of Israel’s homes and schools will not be used to kidnap civilians or

A group of UT students, along with more than 3,000 other protesters, demands that Israel end its occupation of Palestine at the “Texas stands with Gaza” protest on Saturday at the Texas State Capitol.

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commit acts of terror. In this process, Israel is using every means necessary to avoid civilian casualties.

We mourn the tragic loss of life on both sides and hope for an end to the Hamasinstigated crisis.”

Texans for Israel is the largest UT pro-Israel student organization and was not present at the Capitol during the protests. On Friday, the organization’s leaders said they hope the protesters will

also comment on Hamas’ actions.

Sofia Khan, a protester and social work graduate student, said Israel’s actions constitute genocide.

“For me, this is just genocide again,” Khan said. “This is a group of people living in their own country, and [Israel is] oppressing them, and they’re just trying to fight back.”

Biochemistry junior and protester Yasmeen

Opinion A protester from the Aug. 2 “Texas Stands with Gaza” protest shares her experience in a column on dailytexanonline.com Abu-Rezeq said the conflict has affected her personally at a July 16 protest.

“I have family over there, and this is such a personal situation for me. People like my family are scared,” Abu-

Rezeq said. “The killing needs to stop.”

Students on both sides of the issue said that UT students should be proactively educating themselves on the conflict.

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Five issues to watch this fall

By The Daily Texan Editorial Board @TexanEditorial

As we approach the fall semester, several important issues loom large. From University and UT System politics to the November elections, the following issues will be making headlines throughout the fall semester. The commentary below has been prepared by Editor-in-Chief Riley Brands and Associate Editors David Davis Jr. and Noah M. Horwitz.

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Admiral William H. McRaven, pictured here, gives the commencement address at graduation ceremonies in May. McRaven was announced July 29 as the UT System Board of Regents’ sole finalist for the position of UT System chancellor.

The new Search for chancellor president On July 29, the UT System Board of Regents confirmed Admiral William H. McRaven, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, as the sole finalist for the position of UT System chancellor. Under state law, McRaven will have to wait at least 21 days, in this case until the regents’ August meeting, to be officially appointed. McRaven is best known for leading the 2011 operation that took down Osama bin Laden and, more recently, for a rousing commencement address at UT last semester.

The decision didn’t come as a surprise.

News outlets across the state had been reporting the likely selection for days, many with clear signs of boredom and exhaustion.

Since current Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa announced his resignation in February, the board has never once openly discussed his replacement, except to announce the hiring of an executive search firm to assist it.

This sort of secrecy is all too common within the System, not just in the search for a new chancellor, but in its more general operations. Early in July, it was only through a leak to Breitbart Texas and several other outlets that the news of President William Powers Jr.’s potential firing became public. Powers was ultimately “spared” in the sense that Cigarroa accepted his offer to resign in June 2015. And the ongoing drama between Powers and Cigarroa, as well as interloper Wallace Hall, has unfolded largely behind closed doors.

We understand that not all personnel discussions need to be made public. In fact, doing so would encumber both the regents and the public with an unrealistic expectation of openness in the case of the former and attentiveness in the case of the latter.

However, the chancellor is no pencil pusher. As the leader of the 15-campus University of Texas System, he or she serves as the face of a group of universities and health institutions with an operating budget of $14.6 billion. With such a great level of responsibility, the University community and taxpayers deserve more transparency in the selection process.

Unfortunately, the current regents do not seem likely to grant us that basic right. After all, if they exposed all the forces at play in their decisions, the already aggravated tensions between them and the public would likely be strained to the breaking point.

We don’t necessarily dislike the regents’ choice of McRaven, but we can’t fully support a decision whose underpinnings we don’t understand.

McRaven seems to have the nearuniversal support of the UT community, and although he is not an academic, the military has produced such great academic leaders as James Earl Rudder, former president of A&M and the A&M University System.

Thus it remains to be seen how McRaven will perform. He seems to have all the tools at his disposal to succeed, but until the regents and System lift the shroud of secrecy from his appointment, we cannot throw our full support behind it.

The search for the next president of the University can begin in earnest after a finalist for the position of UT System chancellor was named last week. Assuming no truly frightful skeletons emerge from Admiral William H. McRaven’s closet in the three-week waiting period mandated by state law, his ascension to the post is all but certain.

But why does that matter at the University level?

Early last month, news leaked that Francisco Cigarroa, the current chancellor of the 15-campus university system, had given UT President William Powers Jr. an ultimatum: step down or risk being fired. Ultimately, Powers was “spared” in the sense that Cigarroa agreed to let him resign next June. Tensions between Powers; Cigarroa; the regents, who choose the chancellor and president, approve University investments, set tuition rates and oversee contract negations; and Gov. Rick Perry, who appointed the current crop of regents, had long been simmering largely over Powers’ resistance to a number of marketdriven proposals introduced in 2008 to change higher education in Texas.

Since 2008, the feud has at times devolved into farce, as when Regent Wallace Hall embarked on a witch hunt against Powers that saw him pull in hundreds of thousands of pages of documents that cost the University close to $1 million to provide. It still isn’t entirely clear what leverage Cigarroa thought he had last month to deliver the death blow to Powers.

Some have speculated that it may have involved new information regarding Powers’ role in what has been called an admissions “scandal” to admit to the University the underqualified acquaintances of state legislators.

When asked in writing for help in securing such applicants admission to the University, Powers had been known to pass along the letter to the appropriate department and respond with a form letter. Given the lack of any further information, we doubt that any smoking gun actually exists.

Now that Powers has announced his resignation, the regents will begin to search for his replacement, a task that will be made much easier by the presence of a leader at the helm of the System. While the plan all along was for Cigarroa’s replacement to be in place before Powers’, McRaven’s selection will likely do two things: catalyze interest in the position and give it direction. The mere presence of a leader will lend an air of security and stability, while onlookers until now on the fence about applying will begin to self-select as a result of McRaven’s military credentials. Some may appreciate his leadership ability while others of a purely academic bent may turn their noses up at his lack of academic credentials.

It remains to be seen exactly what effect the appointment of McRaven will have, so students should pay close attention this fall.

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Spend any time with your ear to the ground on campus, and you will be sure to hear some griping about Shared Services. The dispute, at its core, revolves around cost-cutting measures currently employed by the University on a pilot basis to weed out redundancies in the system.

This much sounds noncontroversial, but the devil lies in the details, as always. The aforementioned “redundancies” are more than just numbers on an expense sheet — they are people’s jobs. More than 500 jobs could be slashed as a result of this new Shared Services plan, namely in finance, human resources, procurement and information technology. The plan would focus on strenuously consolidating administrative positions into fewer offices. Once again, perhaps on paper this looks like a no-brainer, but faculty and staff have expressed grave concerns with the effectiveness of fewer administrators providing support for such a wide assortment of services. Indeed, “sharing” the services may force many to bite off more than they can chew.

Another concern is the consulting firm Accenture, with its notorious mismanagement of aspects of the state’s food stamp and Medicaid programs, representation on the committee that recommended changes to the University and pricey bill for implementation. Millions of dollars later, the plan presented looks to have more holes in it than a piece of Swiss cheese.

Student and faculty support has been almost completely one-sided.

For all except the especially zealous libertarian faction on campus, no one wants to see hundreds of job losses, especially when coupled with possibly inferior services. Some parts of the campus community have even mobilized completely against it. In late April, a protest was held in front of the Tower, followed by a sit-in at the office of UT President William Powers Jr. Considering the major leadership transitions coming to UT in the next academic year, the brouhaha over this dispute will most certainly not be dying down anytime soon. And the conversation will be sure to include a diverse range of topics, as it always has.

Reasonable arguments exist on both sides of this dispute. On one hand, services that are actually duplicative do little to improve the University, and saving jobs just to save jobs appears frighteningly Luddite. And while there are sure to be opponents of this proposition with such a mindset, the dispute runs far deeper. If the savings produced by this program are miniscule once Accenture’s chunk of the profits is garnished, would it still be worth the bad press? And a question that must be repeated once more is whether the allegedly overlapping services are actually capable of providing the same quality of service in the new no-frills environment.

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Municipal Statewide elections elections Election years are wearing enough with the normal crowd of candidates fighting it out to win elected office. Compounding the campaigninduced exhaustion this year is the decision to move city elections to November. In the past, it was hard enough to remember who you had to vote for at the state level, but now, at least in Austin, voters will have dozens more to contend with.

In November 2012, Austin voters approved a plan to create a better representation plan for the City Council.

Until then, Austin had been the largest city in the country with at-large districts only, meaning that the entire voting population had a say in who held every seat. The new plan, known as 10-1, keeps the mayor elected citywide but introduces a system of 10 geographic districts that will each send a representative to City Hall downtown. Since every seat is up for grabs, the free-for-all has begun with more than 60 candidates adding their names to the ballot for one of the district seats.

While many UT students will not register to vote in Austin, it is now more critical than ever that they pay attention to who is vying for their vote, even if the previously cited number of candidates is enough to put them off voting for the rest of their lives. Granted, the district boundaries aren’t ideal – in fact, they separate the majority of campus and residential areas West Campus and North Campus, in District 9, from the eastern part of campus and residential areas to the east, which lie in District 1. And, as one would expect, the more distant student neighborhoods of Riverside and Far West are situated in different districts, 3 and 10, respectively. However, for the first time, students who live in the University area will have more direct access to the halls of power through their locally elected City Council member.

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Students will be affected immeasurably by statewide elections this November. Claims that “this is an election like no other” begin to blend together as useless cliches after a while, but the claim rings true this year. For all the non-judicial state elections, seven in all, no incumbent has been renominated by a major party.

Countless positions, such as the railroad commissioner, lieutenant governor and comptroller are all up for grabs this year in elections that will indubitably prove to be exciting.

But the most fireworks, unsurprisingly, have come from the governor’s race.

State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, is facing off against Republican Attorney General Greg Abbott.

Abbott is highly favored to win, but the political obituary has surely yet to be written on Davis, who has pulled upset victories before. The election is important, not only because every action taken by the State Legislature and officials can affect all Texans, including college students, but because it could affect the University.

Gov. Rick Perry has now been in office for a long time, 14 years in all.

Throughout that extended tenure, he has packed every state office with his loyalists, and the UT System Board of Regents is no exception. As the state moves to a new governor, students would be wise to find a governor who will place individuals with their values on the board.

Whatever students care about, it’s a good bet that some political extension of it will be up for debate in this fall’s campaign.

Petroleum engineering students would be wise to examine how fracking is discussed in the race for railroad commissioner, while accounting students could likely get a kick out of hearing discussions over methods for estimating the state’s revenue in the comptroller’s race.

But none of these debates can be had if the candidates stray from the ambits of the jobs for which they are running and instead thump their chests on issues over which, if elected, they will have no control.

State Sen. Glenn Hegar, R-Katy, the Republican nominee for comptroller, talks ad nauseum about his work in the Legislature combating abortion.

Ryan Sitton, the Republican nominee for railroad commissioner, has had a field day talking up the immigration issue and castigating supporters of so-called “amnesty” along our southern border. Once again, not much to do with the job at hand.

All students with a sagacious interest in politics, Democrat or Republican, owe it to society to pressure these candidates to stay on track. There are honest debates to be had over a plethora of divisive topics, but they will only occur if the politicians stay on topic and in line. Only we can make them do that.

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The McDonald Observatory, located in West, Texas, owned by UT and works with the department of astronomy, is one of the top centers for astronomical research and education. The observatory takes measures to prevent light pollution enabling it to operate under some of the darkest skies found in the country.

UT Observatory works to reduce light pollution

By Mary Huber @marymhuber

The University’s McDonald Observatory rests in a sevencounty light ordinance zone, deep in the Davis Mountains of West Texas, protecting it from the light pollution that plagues most cities and making for some of the darkest skies in the country.

Founded in the 1930s, the observatory is one of the leading centers for astronomical research, education and outreach, boasting more than six advanced telescopes.

Bill Wren, a spokesman for the observatory, said on any

given night you can see thousands of stars there.

“The places you can go to see a naturally dark sky are vanishing,” Wren said. “We are raising people that have never seen a naturally dark sky.”

Wren said this is because light pollution, created when light is shone upward into the sky, interferes with our ability to see clearly.

Irresponsible lighting wastes energy and costs Americans an estimated $2.2 billion a year, according to the International Dark-Sky Association.

The initiative was launched in 2010 to raise awareness about the effects of light pollution.

“This is not an anti-light campaign,” Wren said. “It’s about putting the light where it’s needed.”

Light ordinances encourage shielding light, aiming it downward and using solarpowered, LED lights when possible.

The biggest threat to dark skies at the observatory is the growing oil and natural gas industry in the Permian Basin region, Wren said.

According to the Railroad Commission of Texas, more than 9,000 drilling permits were issued in the Permian Basin in 2012 alone.

“In the spectrum of

environmental concerns, light pollution is probably low on the list for oil and natural gas companies,” said Colt McCarthy, who owns a drilling supply company. “People don’t really pay attention until it affects their pocketbooks.”

Chevron spokeswoman Dolores Vick said McDonald approached the energy company earlier this year to discuss its lighting practices near the observatory.

“We are researching current lighting practices used in our West Texas operations to determine if there are ways to safely reduce light that emanates from our

operations,” Vick said.

In Austin, more than 400 miles away from the observatory, the city set aside $15 million in 2012 to replace the bulbs and fixtures on approximately 70,000 street lamps to combat light pollution in Central Texas.

By 2015, Austin Energy anticipates all the city’s street lamps will be automated, with LED bulbs and flat-glass lenses that focus light downward instead of scattering it toward the sky. The “smart street lights” will conserve energy, as well as reduce light pollution.

“We are one of the few cities in the country that are both automating their street lights and

making them dark sky compliant,” Austin Energy spokesman Carlos Cordova said.

With the observatory more than a six-hour drive away, Wren said the best place to see a dark sky in the Austin area is at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Wren said pilots are particularly opposed to bright lights and use shielded lighting to safely depart and land planes.

The astronomy department also hosts Wednesday night public viewings with its telescope on the roof of Robert Lee Moore Hall, as well as Friday and Saturday night viewings at Painter Hall.

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Students must now buy ‘first-class’ bandwidth

By Sam Limerick @sam_limerick

Use of UT’s fastest wireless system will require students to purchase a bandwidth subscription plan beginning in the fall semester, the University announced in an email to students Wednesday.

In past semesters, students had access on UT’s “first-class” network on a data-limited, 500 MB basis, but the new policy will require all users to pay. Those who don’t pay the fee to Information Technology Services will be placed on the slower “second class,” network service. Since the majority of students already purchase bandwidth beyond the basic allocation, the change has been a long time coming, according to William Green, UT’s director of networking and

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telecommunications.

“The current 500 MB allocation and strategy is from 2005, and the goal was to move toward all bandwidth purchased by students,” Green said.

Students will be able to purchase plans starting at the prorated price of $3 per academic semester for a data allocation of 10 GB per week.

High speed Internet access on campus is necessary to the fulfillment of UT’s mission, and thus 95 percent of the cost associated with providing networking services on campus is drawn from sources other than the new fees, Green said.

“That last five percent, through this charge, is freedom to choose: academics, research, Netflix,” Green said.

A great deal of student Internet use is not tied to academics, and the installment of required network fees is not out of the question, Green said.

The plan exempts online University services, including Quest, Blackboard and Canvas, from the data allocation policies, and the University always places these on the “first-tier”

network, even if a student is out of bandwidth.

Some students, such as economics sophomore Elizabeth Vigant, support the change. Vigant said the fee is a practical way to improve the efficiency of on-campus internet andmost students living off campus already have internet access at home. The fee should not view the change as an impedance to public Internet access, Vigant said.

Chemistry junior Munaum Qureshi, who said he has purchased additional bandwidth each semester he has been enrolled at UT, said the University’s fee is significantly less than the amount he pays in his off-campus housing.

“Compared to the $60 a month fee for Internet in my apartment, $3 for a semester is nothing,” Qureshi said.

Not all students support ITS’s new fee system. David Lessenberry, international relations and global studies junior, said he questions whether rates will increase in future semesters.

“What concerns me is that this is just the beginning,” Lessenberry said. “What will future rate increases look like?”

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College of Liberal Arts major to reduce admissions

By Kylie Fitzpatrick @mllekyky

Students will be required to apply for admission to transfer into the international relations and global studies major after Aug. 15.

Currently, all students who meet the minimum eligibility requirements for internal transfer are admitted. According to Megan Conner, the program’s academic advising coordinator, the change became necessary after demand for the major began to exceed the number of students its faculty can accommodate.

“If you want to offer enough [classes] for people to be able to graduate in four years, you have to kind of clamp down on the numbers a little bit,” Conner said. “So, it’s not just to be exclusive. It is more, ‘Oh my gosh, we have to be sure we can teach enough classes for the students we have.’”

The program is a multidisciplinary major, drawing its classes from a number of departments within the College of Liberal Arts, including government, economics, sociology and anthropology.

The program has only three classes and three professors

I think they were up to 2,200 at some point in the late ’90s, and they had the same thing where their faculty said, ‘We cannot teach this many people effectively.’

—Megan Conner, Academic advising coordinator

exclusive to it.

Conner said it is those actual international relations and global studies classes — in particular, the capstone course in which professors give students individual instruction on a thesis — that constrain the number of students the program can accept.

“We were just getting to where, if you want to keep the nature of the class, you can’t have more than 25 [students],” Conner said.

The program has grown rapidly since its inception in the fall of 2009, when it started with 87 students, to 917 students this spring, according to Conner.

Analia Perez-Solis, an international relations and

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Starting this fall, Students who wish to transfer to the international relations and global studies major at the College of Liberal Arts, above, will now have to go through an application process in addition to meeting the minimum transfer requirements.

global studies senior from Mexico, said she originally liked this major because it was smaller than other majors.

“Another reason I liked it is it required you to do a semester abroad, so, you know, who doesn’t love that?”

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Conner said the program’s selective admission process is modeled after the process used by the psychology department, which also grants admission to eligible applicants on a competitive basis.

“I think they were up to 2,200 at some point in the late ’90s, and they had the same thing where their faculty said, ‘We cannot teach this many people effectively,’” Conner said.

After the Aug. 15 deadline, students who apply to

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FISHER continues from page 1 not have admitted Fisher even if she had received a perfect personal achievement score. In 2008, UT offered provisional admission to some students with lower combined academic indexes and personal achievement indexes than Fisher’s. Five of these students were black or Latino, and 42 of them were white.

In 1997, Texas implemented the Top Ten Percent Rule, which automatically admits students in the top ten percent of their graduating class into any public Texas college, although UT-Austin is a slight exception. In 2009, legislators amended the law to allow the University to cap the amount of students it automatically accepts at 75 percent of each freshman class, so sometimes UT-Austin only accepts the top eight or seven percent, depending on

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The law came after the 1996 Hopwood v. Texas decision, in which the 5th Circuit ruled that UT’s law school could not consider an applicant’s race when determining admission.

In 2003, the Supreme Court reversed the Hopwood decision, affirming the constitutionality of a race-conscious admissions process that may favor underrepresented minority groups but also considers other individual factors.

The Court said this is constitutional partly because it does not outline a specific quota of minority students. This contributes to the reason UT hasn’t explicitly defined what a “critical mass” of minority students is.

In the petition filed July 29, Fisher argues that no evidence exists to show that students admitted through holistic review make a more meaningful educational contribution than students admitted automatically. Fisher

also argues that UT failed to prove that the reasons for racial classification are “clearly identified and unquestionably legitimate.”

In November, 5th Circuit Judge Emilio Garza called UT’s articulations of critical mass “subjective, circular or tautological.”

It is unclear when the 5th Circuit will release its decision on whether or not to rehear the case. In 2011, the court declined to an the case about six rehear months after Fisher filed her appeal.

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The biggest news you need to know from this summer President Powers prepares for his resignation in 2015, search for his replacement to begin The 2014-15 school year will be President William Powers Jr.’s last as University president.

In early July, UT System Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa asked Powers to resign by October or he would discuss Powers’ employment with the Board of Regents. Powers declined but was willing to discuss a timetable for exiting after the 2015 legislative session. Once news of the resignation request broke, students, faculty and alumni expressed their support for Powers through statements and letters to System officials.

The Faculty Council called an emergency meeting to rally support for Powers ahead of the regents meeting. Cigarroa and Powers eventually agreed to set Powers’ resignation for June 2, 2015.

Board Chairman Paul Foster said a search committee for Powers’ replacement would be formed in August. Powers said he will return to teaching at the School of Law after his term as president ends.

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System opens UT admissions investigation, Cigarroa limits use of recommendation letters In June, the UT System announced it would launch an external investigation into the University’s admissions process. In May, the System released its findings from a limited investigation into how letters of recommendations from state legislators affect the admissions process, and this raised questions about the admissions process by the public. The System found that although there is no structured system of favoritism or wrongdoing at the University, there were instances in which letters sent from state legislators to either President William Powers Jr. or a dean likely influenced the admissions process.

“With the undergraduate data, there is at least the strong appearance that the letters of recommendation from legislators, regardless of the strength of the substance of the recommendations, count more in admissions decisions than other letters of recommendations,” the report stated.

At a Board of Regents meeting in May, Chancellor Francisco Cigarroa suggested ending the practice of allowing letters not submitted through the prescribed process to be considered in admissions decisions and said he would review System-wide admissions processes by meeting with institution presidents and admissions officials to develop new recommendations for change.

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Implementation of urban rail in Austin begins, and new rapid-transit bus route to open As Austin’s population increases, the city is implementing more methods of public transportation which include urban rail and rapid-transit buses. The urban rail is a $1.38 billion proposal that Austin residents will vote on in November, and the city hopes to finance half of the project with federal funds. The project would also include a bridge across Lady Bird Lake and a possible tunnel through North Austin. The rail would run along the east side of campus, with three stops on campus and twelve stops north and south of campus. Some people argue that the rail should run along Guadalupe and Lamar Boulevard instead of along San Jacinto, but the mayor has said this is impractical because Guadalupe and Lamar already have a rapid-transit bus route, so this would decrease Austin’s likelihood of securing federal funding for the project.

Austin currently has one rapid-transit bus, called MetroRapid, but Capital Metro will open a second rapid-transit route on Aug. 24. Rapid-transit buses are different from regular buses because they run more frequently, have fewer stops and have signal-priority technology, which holds traffic lights green for a few seconds longer when the bus is running behind schedule.

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UT Regent Wallace Hall could become the first nonelected Texas official to be impeached Regent Wallace Hall has been the subject of a Texas House committee investigation for more than a year and could be the first nonelected official in the state to be impeached.

During the 2013 legislative session, Hall was accused by state legislators of overstepping his authority as a regent through large records requests and working with other regents to remove Powers from his position as president. In June 2013, the House Select Committee on Transparency in State Agency Operations opened an investigation into him to determine if his actions warranted impeachment. In April, the Travis Country District Attorney’s office opened a criminal investigation into his actions to determine if he violated federal privacy laws.

In May, the transparency committee determined grounds for Hall’s impeachment and began drafting articles of impeachment against him. At the committee’s most recent meeting in July, the members discussed alternative options to drafting impeachment articles, such as a public censure or reprimand. The committee is scheduled to meet again on Aug. 11.

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The University installed solar-powered charging stations, one outside the Art Building and Museum and the other outside the PCL which replaced the temporary charging station that was previously there. The station can charge up to six cell phones, laptops or electrical bikes at a time.

University installs two solar charging stations

By Christina Noriega @crismnoriega

After four years of preparation, the University installed two solar-powered charging stations, one outside the Perry-Castañeda Library and the other outside the Art Building and Museum, in June.

While other campuses, such as Stanford University and Hampshire College, have introduced similar charging stations, these stations are the first solar-powered, permanent fixtures on the UT campus. Powered through a roof composed of three solar panels, each station can charge up to six cell phones, laptops or electrical bikes at a time, among other electronics. Each station’s six batteries allow users to charge their electronics at night and on

cloudy day.

The Green Fee Committee, an on-campus organization made up of students, faculty and staff members, decided in 2010 to fund the student proposal for the charging stations as part of its mission to support environmentallyconscious campus initiatives.

Karen Blaney, program coordinator of the Green Fee Committee, said while the stations may not significantly offset the use of fossil fuelbased energy on campus, they can teach students and community members about solar energy in an interactive way.

“It reminds people that solar energy is an option and that it’s a growing technology,” Blaney said.

During her freshman year, Megan Archer, environmental and biological sciences senior, pushed the original proposal

for a solar-power project on campus as part of a class assignment with now-alumni Eric Swanson and Austin Jorn.

Archer said her team originally had proposed solar panel roofs on University buildings, but budgetary restraints stood in the way. They decided to stick with their idea of solar-powered technology because they wanted to see solar energy on campus for the first time.

“We liked the idea of how restrictive [working with solar power] was,” Archer said.

“UT didn’t have anything that was solar-powered then.”

Archer collaborated with Beth Ferguson, a UT alumna and founder of Sol Design Lab, a design company that has helped create solar charging stations at other universities, to rent a temporary charging station for the PCL plaza in 2012. During

workshops, students in environmental science classes contributed ideas for the final model.

“Solar power is hard to understand, so we wanted the project to be hands-on,” Archer said. “We wanted students to have that hands-on experience with our solar station to create their own and modify [their stations] to meet their needs.”

With funding from the Green Fee Committee and the Science Undergraduate Research Group, the customized charging stations, which cost about $60,000 each, were constructed.

Nicholas Phillips, mechanical engineering senior and president of student group Engineers for a Sustainable World, said he hopes the demand for renewable energy products increases on campus.

“The main hindrance with

The main hindrance with renewable energy advancements is the lack of awareness of the current technologies that are available. By having more projects on campus, we are making sustainability become a staple in our campus and, by extension, our lives.

—Nicholas Phillips, Mechanical engineering senior

renewable energy advancements is the lack of awareness of the current technologies that are available,” Phillips said in an email. “By having more projects on campus, we are making sustainability become a staple in our campus and, by extension, our lives.”

The final phase of the charging station project will include a customized touch screen device, which will display the

station’s available stored energy, according to Blaney. Students are working on a mobile feature, such as a website or phone application, that will allow users to check the station’s available energy, Blaney said.

The University will celebrate the installation of the charging stations on Sept. 19 outside the Art Building and Museum with a series of solar energy workshops.

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CAMPUS Radio-TelevisionFilm majors junior Justin Perez, senior Victoria Prescott and senior Hannah Whisenant stand outside the UT Tower as a part of the memorial service presentation organized for the anniversary of the 1966 Tower shooting. As president of the Students of the World organization, Whisenant organized the event that memorialized victims of the shooting.

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Tower shooting memorial honors those lost

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Current and former University students gathered on the Main Mall on Aug. 1 for a living memorial 48 years after Charles Whitman opened fire from the observation deck of the UT Tower.

The memorial service began at the Littlefield Fountain and moved to where each victim fell, to remember the 16 people who were killed and the 31 wounded after architectural engineering student Whitman’s shooting spree on Aug. 1, 1966.

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Many of the survivors of the shooting were in attendance, including Claire Wilson James, who was one of the first people shot while eight months pregnant. Her boyfriend at the time, Tom Eckman, was killed in the attack, as was their unborn child.

“This is the first time that I’ve been able to be part of a community that was involved in this, and I’ve longed for it.

I’ve longed for it for all of these years, and I’m incredibly touched,” James said.

A group called UT Students of the World organized the event. Hannah Whisenant,

event coordinator and radiotelevision-film junior, learned that an official memorial service had never been held for the victims while working as an intern on an upcoming documentary film on the shooting.

“The turtle pond is built as a memorial, but it’s a very tiny plaque, and a lot of people have been upset about that and with the recent shootings and with mass shootings kind of becoming a recurring problem, it seemed like a good time to revisit that issue,” Whisenant said.

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turtle pond behind the tower, where the memorial ended with a speech from adjunct associate professor Alfred McAlister and a moment of silence. McAlister said less guns in fewer hands and better mental health care for people were the keys to preventing mass shootings.

“Actually, the same way you prevent mass killing is how you prevent suicide,” McAlister said. “It’s exactly the same thing — school psychologists, mental health experts at the grassroots level finding and helping disturbed people.”

This is the first time that I’ve been able to be part of a community that was involved in this, and I’ve longed for it.

I’ve longed for it for all of these years, and I’m incredibly touched.

—Claire Wilson James, Tower shooting survivor

James said she didn’t feel traumatized by the event, but rather that she is a proud survivor and said she thought it was good that people can talk about it.

“Remember how important it is to try your best

to talk to somebody when something like this happens,” James said. “I think it’s better if they didn’t focus so much on the killer, but you know, personally, I just always felt sorry for him.”

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Fall Preview: Longhorns to Watch

Preseason Coaches Poll 1. Florida St. 2. Alabama 3. Oklahoma 4. Oregon 5. Auburn 6. Ohio St. 7. UCLA 8. Michigan St. 9. South Carolina 10. Baylor 20. Texas A&M

By Nick Castillo @Nick_Castillo74

The Longhorn football team is full of big names this year, a few of whom you might see playing on Sundays in the near future. But off the gridiron, there are several other Longhorn athletes who, although you may not hear of them as often, are just as capable at their own respective sports. Here is our look at the top non-football players to watch in burnt orange this season:

24. Texas TOP TWEETS

Jonathan Holmes: Men’s Basketball, Forward, Senior As the only senior playing for Rick Barnes this year, forward Jonathan Holmes has seen Texas at its worst and was also part of the surprisingly successful season the Longhorns enjoyed last year. During the 2013-2014 season, Holmes averaged 12.8 points and 7.2 rebounds per game. As the only senior four year guy on the team, Holmes will have a major leadership role for the young Longhorns this season.

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Jonathan Holmes Senior forward

Myles Turner: Men’s Basketball, Forward, Freshman Incoming freshman forward Myles Turner has yet to step on the court for Texas, but the hype surrounding him is comparable to that of Kevin Durant when he first arrived on campus. While he may not play the same position as the former Longhorn legend, the expectations Myles Turner Incoming freshman forward for Turner, who was a fivestar recruit coming out of Bedford, are just as high as they were for Durant when he played for Rick Barnes.

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Volleyball, hoops highlight fall schedule

By Nick Castillo @Nick_Castillo74

Every fall, Texas students pack Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium to watch the Longhorn football team.

Football is certainly king in Texas, especially on the 40 Acres, but over the last few years, while the football team has struggled, many other Longhorn teams have continued to excel. If football just isn’t your thing or you’re looking for something to do on a bye week, there are plenty of other ways to get your burnt orange fill this fall. Here is our list of the top non-football games to watch: Volleyball: Arizona vs. Texas, Sept. 12 Coming off of a final four run that ended with a disappointing semi-final loss to Wisconsin, the women’s volleyball team opens up the season with four road games.

Texas’ first home game is against the Arizona Wildcats in the 26 West Longhorn Classic. Also competing in the tournament are Florida A&M and Central Florida. All games will be held at Gregory Gymnasium.

Volleyball: Texas vs. West Virginia, Sept. 24 The Longhorns went undefeated through the Big 12 last season, and Texas will look to extend its conference winning streak when they travel to West Virginia to open Big 12 play against the Mountaineers.

The game will be broadcast on ESPNU on Sept. 24 at 6 p.m.

Volleyball: Zheijiang (Chinese Club Team) vs. Texas, Oct. 27 The Longhorns will welcome Zheijiang, one of the top Chinese women’s club

Shweta Gulati | Daily Texan file photo Senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman returns as the Longhorns look to make yet another run to the Final Four. Texas has made it that far each of the last two season, winning the national championship in 2012 and losing to Wisconsin in the national semi-final game last season.

teams, to America as they meet in the first of back-toback exhibition games in late October. The rare international exhibition matchup will give Texas a chance to play against a talented opponent with a slightly different style of play than what North American volleyball fans are used to.

Women’s Basketball: Texas vs.

Stanford, Nov. 20 Head coach Karen Aston had much more success in her second year at Texas, leading the women’s

basketball team to an impressive 22-12 finish and a second round appearance in the NCAA tournament.

The Longhorns will look to build off of last season’s success with their toughest test coming early on. Texas will play the Stanford Cardinals in a non-conference play as they travel to Palo Alto, Cal., who made yet another Final Four appearance last season.

Men’s Basketball: Texas vs.

Connecticut, Nov. 30 After a surprising 20132014 season where the

Longhorns went 24-11 and made the NCAA tournament, expectations are high for Texas’ 2014-15 season. The already lofty expectations ballooned after highly ranked recruit Myles Turner decided to come to Texas over Kansas, with many touting Rick Barnes’ squad as a preseason top-10 team.

One of the Longhorns first real tests will come early when they play the defending national champion Connecticut Huskies in the 2K Classic in

Storrs, Connecticut. The game will be televised nationally on ESPN2.

full of returning players, the Longhorns have a chance to make a deep run in this year’s NCAA Tournament.

in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. McGee-Stafford and Enemkpali are back and highly-touted freshman Ariel Atkins leads a strong class of newcomers as the Longhorns look to build on last season’s success and make an even deeper NCAA tournament run.

Men’s Basketball: Texas vs.

Kentucky, Dec. 5 Less than a week after taking on the reigning national champions, the Longhorns will take on the national runner-up when Texas travels to play Kentucky in the Big 12/SEC challenge. Fresh off an impressive NCAA tournament run, coach Calipari and his Wildcats will be one of Texas’ biggest challenges throughout a tough

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Women’s Basketball: Texas A&M vs. Texas, Dec. 21 The Longhorns will face long-time rival Texas A&M in the Big 12/SEC Challenge. The Aggies, who made it to the Elite Eight of last year’s NCAA tournament, have continued to grow as a powerhouse in women’s basketball since joining the SEC, so Texas can expect another tough contest when they head to Little Rock for the neutral site game.

NOTEBOOK continues from page 1 of the best units in the Big 12 this year. Led by senior superstars Cedric Reed and Quandre Diggs, the defense will be physical and aggressive, serving as the backbone of this year’s team.

Offensively, the question remains whether junior quarterback David Ash can stay healthy all season.

We know how great running backs Malcolm Brown and Johnathan Gray can be in the Longhorn backfield, but the receiving corps is very thin and the offensive line is relatively

inexperienced. Given the strength of the defense, Ash’s health and the ability to play well consistently will likely determine how successful the Longhorns can be in Strong’s first season at the helm.

Men’s Basketball: Turner, returning starters drive high expectations for Horns After a couple down years that had many Longhorn fans calling for head coach Rick Barnes’ firing, his young Texas team had surprising success last season, finishing 24-11 and making an

appearance in the Round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament.

Every player, including all five starters, from last year’s team is back this season, but the biggest name on this year’s squad is the new guy on campus — incoming freshman Myles Turner. Turner, who came out of Euless-Trinity ranked as the second-best recruit in the nation by ESPN, brings plenty of hype with him to the 40 Acres. Depending on how Barnes is able to fit Turner into a rotation chalk

Women’s Basketball: Aston looks to build on last season’s success Much like Barnes, Karen Aston was in jeopardy of losing her job after her first season at Texas went horribly. But the Longhorn women, led by forwards Imani Mcgee-Stafford and Nneka Enemkpali, bounced back last year, posting a 22-12 record before losing

Volleyball: Eckerman, Horns look to make third consecutive Final Four appearance Expectations were so high for the top-seeded Longhorns last season that their loss to Wisconsin

in the semi-finals of the NCAA Tournament felt like a major disappointment. Star outside hitter Haley Eckerman is back for her senior season while many of the underclassmen who contributed to last year’s success will get an opportunity to assume starting roles. Head coach Jerritt Elliot has reloaded for the 2014 season and, given the success he has had over the past couple seasons, all signs point to another trip to the Final Four in 2014.

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Isaiah Taylor

Sophomore point guard

Isaiah Taylor: Men’s Basketball, Point Guard, Sophomore Sophomore point guard Isaiah Taylor had a tremendous freshman season, averaging 12.7 points and four assists per game last season.

The wily point guard will be expected to produce at a similar level this season as the leader of Texas’ offensive attack.

Nneka Enemkpali Senior forward

Nneka Enemkpali: Women’s Basketball, Forward, Senior As the Longhorn women’s basketball team looks to build on the success of last season’s NCAA tournament run, it will rely on upperclassmen like senior forward Nneka Enemkpali for leadership. Enemkpali, a Pflugerville native, has continued to improve throughout her career at Texas, as she was named to the all-Big 12 first team for the first time this past season. Enemkpali averaged 12 points and 8.6 rebounds per game last year.

Haley Eckerman: Volleyball, Outside Hitter, Senior The Longhorns’ volleyball team will look to make it back to the Final Four yet again in 2014. In doing so, the team will rely heavily on its experienced seniors, including senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman.

Eckerman is a two-time All-American and was named 2013 Volleyball Magazine Player of the Year. She was also named Big 12 Player of the Year for the second consecutive year in 2013 and was a finalist for the 2013 Honda Sports Award for Volleyball.

Cameron Ridley: Men’s Basketball, Center, Junior Junior center Cameron Ridley had a breakout year as a sophomore, highlighted by his put-back to beat the buzzer against Arizona State and push Texas into the Round of 32 in the NCAA Tournament.

Ridley averaged 11.2 points per game and 8.2 rebounds last season. Given the potential for this year’s team to make a tournament run, Ridley will be expected to lead Texas as one of the few upperclassmen on the roster.

Cameron Ridley Junior center

Craig Lutz

Senior runner

Craig Lutz: Cross Country/ Track and Field, Senior Senior runner Craig Lutz enters his last year on the team and is looking to improve after his individual 15th place finish and the cross country team’s 14th place finish at the NCAA Championships last season.

Lutz has been recognized four times as an all-Big 12 runner in both cross country and track and field.

Haley Eckerman

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Barton Springs pool is a man-made swimming pool located on the grounds of Zilker Park. The pool is fed from an underground spring. The temperature is 68-70 degrees all year round, ideal for swimming.

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Mt. Bonnell. is one of the oldest city attractions and is considered to be the highest point of elevation within Austin city limits.

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A girl spray paints a “hook ‘em” on the wall of the HOPE Outdoor Gallery. The abandoned site welcomes artists to create legal street art at the three-story structure overlooking the Austin skyline.

Freshman 15: A guide to the city Welcome, freshman. Your choice is simple: Go out and find yourself among the dozens of local coffee shops and small businesses this town has to offer, or stay in the cold, dark, damp loneliness that is your dorm room.

These are the 15 scenester basics of living in Austin.

Start out with these essentials to find your own favorite spots in the city.

1. Tacos You are now obligated to eat tacos more frequently than you thought possible — some tacos will come to you; thers you will have to find yourself. Taco Deli tacos can be found in coffee shops on campus. Venturing farther into the city, you will find El Chilito and Matt’s El Rancho.

The list goes on.

2. Bats On a good evening, 1.5 million bats fly out from under the South Congress

Bridge. Attend Bat Fest in late August or just go out there on your own time and see the largest urban bat colony headed out for their nightly hunt.

3. Zilker Park and Barton Springs Zilker Park is not only a great day park for picnics, Ultimate Frisbee and yoga, but it is the center of most of Austin’s outdoor festivals, including Austin City Limits and Kite Fest. Right across the street you will find one of Austin’s sacred gems: Barton Springs, which remains a refreshing 68 degrees year round.

4. Spider House Spider House is an allin-one space. Close to campus, it’s a place to get a coffee and study, a restaurant with a pretty outdoor setup and good food, a bar where people under 21 can hang out, and it hosts a variety of

Hit up Hopdoddy, shop the Saturday artist booths and top it off with some treats from Hey Cupcake! or Big Top candy shop.

events and concerts in its connected ballroom. This combination makes it a handy place to hit up for all kinds of occasions.

5. Whole Foods Market at 6th and Lamar Whole Foods Market has become the cornerstone of shopping for the healthconscious, with food bars of international cuisine, a juice cafe and hundreds of local and organic products to shop from. This location is the chain’s flagship and comes with a multi-level parking garage and, in the winter, a rooftop ice rink. Get lost among the hemp soap and kale of this two story health superstore.

6. SoCo Also known as South Congress, this street is a long line of some of the best food and shopping in the city. Hit up Hopdoddy, shop the Saturday artist booths and top it off with some treats from Hey Cupcake! or Big Top candy shop.

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building perched on a hill on Congress Avenue. It’s bigger than the nation’s Capitol in Washington D.C., it’s the home of the Texas legislature, and it was featured on an episode of “Friday Night Lights.”

Explore the halls and rooms of the building any day or sit in on a legislative hearing during a session.

8. Lake Austin Located right next to downtown, Lake Austin is surrounded by a running and bike trail and provides a place to go kayaking, canoeing and paddle boarding — which is like surfing on stagnant water with a paddle — against an urban backdrop.

9. Chinatown Located on North Lamar just past 183 stands a giant red-roofed archway that welcomes you to Austin’s small “Chinatown.” The area includes a large Chinese food market, a French-Chinese fusion bakery and authentic Chinese food restaurants.

Escape your dorm food for an afternoon by taking the MetroRapid going north and getting off at the Chinatown stop.

The wall holds everything from the best street artists in the city to high school scribbles proclaiming things like ‘Lauren and Derek forever.’

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alternative to the PCL. 14. Graffiti Wall Perfect for your new Facebook profile pic. Take your friends and model in front of a gallery of constantly changing legal street art. The wall holds everything from the best street artists in the city to high school scribbles proclaiming things like “Lauren and Derek forever.”

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MOVIE REVIEW | ‘LUCY’

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Scarlett Johannsson stars in “Lucy” as a woman who gains physical and mental powers after a synthetic drug pours into her bloodstream.

Johansson delivers on all fronts

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To call “Lucy” science fiction is a bit of a stretch, since the film’s basic premise — a woman is given a special drug that allows her to access 100 percent of her brain, rather than the usual 10 percent — is based on a profoundly stupid platitude. Even so, the film tackles its premise in creative, unexpected ways, and though “Lucy” is totally daft, it’s a recklessly entertaining ride with undeniable momentum.

The film doesn’t waste a second of its 89 minutes, starting off with Lucy (Scarlett Johansson) being coerced to deliver a briefcase to a hotel by a sketchy man she met in a club. She’s immediately abducted and turned into a drug mule, but the bag of drugs sewn into her stomach springs a leak.

As the mystery drug pours into Lucy’s bloodstream, she unlocks more and more of her brain’s potential, while the film gets dumber

and dumber.

There are plenty of interesting touches of ambition sprinkled throughout “Lucy,” which make the film worthwhile. The film’s opening conversation employs a classical editing style, juxtaposing Lucy’s trip into the hotel with shots of predators hunting their next meal with equal parts of cleverness and sledgehammer subtlety. The film’s final sequence, on the other hand, is out of control, taking Lucy to some very unexpected places and defying the wildest expectations with its audacious imagery.

It’s the last ending you’d expect from this type of film, and it’s a welcome surprise to Luc Besson’s throw-everything-at-the-wall approach to science fiction.

Unfortunately, for every moment where “Lucy” manages to surprise, there’s another that fails to impress.

There are only a handful of memorable action beats throughout the film, but for the most part, Besson’s staging of pivotal set pieces is

unremarkable. The climax of the film is the most disappointing, a muted shootout that unfolds with minimal urgency and distracts from far more interesting things happening elsewhere. Besson’s character work is also very thin, especially for Morgan Freeman’s character, who is relegated to the role of Dr. Exposition, delivering lengthy speeches about the human brain and standing around while action scenes happen.

Johansson is having a genuine moment right now, and this year alone she has done fantastic work in “Her,” “Under the Skin,” and “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.” Though “Lucy” doesn’t ask much of Johansson, she delivers on all fronts, very effective and vulnerable in the film’s opening scenes before becoming increasingly disaffected as her brain capacity extends beyond human empathy. Though Lucy’s increasing disregard for human life as the film goes on is troubling, Johansson

LUCY Director: Luc Besson Genre: Science fiction Runtime: 89 minutes

shoulders difficult material ably, beautifully demonstrating her range and her ability to carry a film.

It’s rare for a film as unapologetically dumb as “Lucy” to be as entertaining as it is. Though action master Besson fails at what he does best, he makes up for it with the fearlessness with which he commits to this incredibly stupid premise and the insanity of the film’s ending.

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ALBUM REVIEW | ‘THEY WANT MY SOUL’

After hiatus, Spoon’s new album succeeds

By David Glickman @sublimebombast

Spoon’s newest album, They Want My Soul, is its first in four and a half years — a long time for a band that used to release an album ever year. There is some merit in wondering whether the band could slip back into its old groove and return to being the kings of tightly wound indie rock.

That was probably the mentality behind releasing “Rent I Pay” as the first single off the album. A taunt and knotty track, with its just fuzzed enough guitar riffs and thunder claps for drum beats, it is already a Spoon classic in the making. It is the biggest recurrence that

Synths are smeared everywhere on They Want My Soul — possibly a result of adding Alex Fischel, the synth player from Britt Daniel’s other band, Divine Fits.

Spoon is back, great as ever.

It is also a massive fake out. They Want My Soul is actually the album where Spoon stretches their legs out, less concerned with keeping their songs in a perfectly compacted form, instead experimenting with added atmosphere and letting sounds carry on a little longer if they feel like it.

Synths are smeared everywhere on They Want My Soul — possibly a result of

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adding Alex Fischel, the synth player from Britt Daniel’s other band, Divine Fits.

The instrument’s presence is not engulfing, but it does add a new dimension to Spoon’s sound, which, with the help of space-rock producer David Fridmann, the band is more than happy to explore.

Just listen to the second track, “Inside Out.” On this synth-filled track, the band is more atmospheric than ever.

It hasn’t been a great summer for big movies, with plenty of mediocreto-terrible fare clogging the GUARDIANS multiplex. Though “Planet of the Apes” and “Edge of OF THE GALAXY Tomorrow” provided select bright spots, “Guardians of Director: James Gunn the Galaxy” comes along Genre: Science fiction at the tail end of the sum- Runtime: 121 minutes mer movie season to liven things up in a big way. It’s enormously fun, juggling a Han Solo and Chewbacca fantastic ensemble of char- of the motley crew and help acters, and co-writer/direc- to cement the unabashed tor James Gunn acquaints weirdness of this particular himself beautifully with the franchise. Rounding out the Marvel cinematic palette, ensemble are Gamora (Zoe producing an easy highlight Saldana), a lackey of generic of a dreary summer. but intimidating villain, The film opens on an Ronan the Accuser, (Lee unexpectedly sad note, as Pace) who is sent to retrieve young Peter Quill watches Quill’s MacGuffin, and Drax his mother’s last minutes (Dave Bautista), a permaon Earth and is immedi- nent resident of the prison ately whisked away to space. who has a personal thirst for Years later, he’s better known revenge on Ronan. as Starlord and played by Once the gang teams up to an unusually muscly Chris break out of the high-securiPratt. After Quill steals the ty space prison, they end up sort of ancient, powerful making up the best ensemble MacGuffin that most Mar- cast of any Marvel film to vel movies thrive on, he date, and the real appeal of finds himself thrown into a “Guardians of the Galaxy” high-security space prison is how every scene is up for along with a handful of grabs, letting every actor get his pursuers. at least one great moment in Among these pursuers are the spotlight. Saldana gets bounty hunters Rocket Rac- to be appropriately badass, coon (Bradley Cooper) and and Pratt has an enormously Groot (Vin Diesel), a talk- charming wounded puppy ing, machine gun-wielding demeanor, but the biggest raccoon and a monosyllabic tree that functions as the GUARDIANS page 21

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The only indication that it’s a Spoon song comes from the always right rhythm section.

It could not be more different from “Rent I Pay,” but it serves to better showcase the undercurrent of sound on this album. Or look to the

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GUARDIANS continues from page 19 showstoppers are Rocket, Groot and the hilariously deadpan Bautista.

Centering many of the film’s most emotional and funniest moments around Rocket and Groot, its least human characters, is a bold gambit by Gunn, who has never worked on a film of this scale before. His last film, “Super,” was an incredibly barbed take on the superhero film, but he proves just as adept at a straightforward take on the genre. “Guardians of the

Galaxy” is propulsive and entertaining, full of memorable lines of dialogue and sharp comedic timing. The film’s action beats are roundly exciting, and though the film concludes with the stock Marvel finale — a giant object falling from the sky and destroying a city while our heroes fight around it — it’s got a strong enough handle on the characters that the fight carries more weight than your typical destructionheavy climax.

“Guardians of the Galaxy” has its share of problems — namely the weak villain and its tendency to fall into the cliches of other superhero films — but when it’s letting the central cast bounce off each other, it’s absolutely sublime.

James Gunn brings an absurd amount of fun to the proceedings, and his sharp jokes and perfect cast make “Guardians of the Galaxy” a stand-out of a weak summer and one of the best Marvel films to date.

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Originally from Austin, indie rock band Spoon’s latest release, They Want My Soul, is a solid addition to the band’s discography.

SPOON continues from page 19 likes of “Outlier,” which is filled with bubbling synths and a groovy beat and could have easily been a Divine Fits song in another time.

Not that Spoon has up and discarded its old sound.

“Do You,” with its instantly

catchy acoustic guitar riffs, and “Let Me Be Mine,” with its start-and-stop momentum, could have fit on any of Spoon’s other albums.

Spoon did not come roaring back. Instead, they choose to expand their sonic pallet

and to dive into new territory where they had only previously dabbled. They Want My Soul might not be Spoon’s greatest work, but it is an immensely enjoyable one, a properly solid record in a line of consistently solid releases.

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Alcohol may assist creativity, study suggests

By Robert Starr @RobertKStarr

“Write drunk; edit sober” is often attributed to Ernest Hemingway, even though he never said it. Still, there may be something to the sentiment.

Hemingway was certainly known for his indulgences in libations, as were Faulkner, Poe and Shakespeare, and that’s

just the tip of an iceberg that extends well past the written page and into other fields. This has left many struggling artists wondering whether the secret to overcoming a creative block may only be a few drinks away.

A 2012 study from the journal “Consciousness and Cognition” attempted to answer this question using the Remote Associates Test, in which subjects are given three words and asked to find another word they all connect to. For example, the words “motion,” “poke” and “down” all connect to the word “slow”: “slow motion,” “slowpoke” and “slow down.”

The researchers discovered that the subjects who received a few cranberry-vodka drinks actually did better on this test.

While most problem-solving

tests involve focused thinking, it’s best to let your mind wander a bit for the Remote Associates Test. The belief is that, by impairing your concentration, alcohol actually improves your ability to find solutions on this test.

So does that mean that you should down a few shots before beginning that essay for your comparative literature class? Probably not.

For the sake of this study, the scientists only brought the subjects up to a bloodalcohol content of around .07 — buzzed to be sure, but still below legal intoxication. Ethics prevented the researchers from finding out how subjects would do if they were riproaring drunk, but it’s likely that there’s a limit to this effect.

Ethical considerations also prevented women from participating in the study, on the off chance that they may have been unknowingly pregnant, so, while it’s unlikely, it’s possible that only men receive this “creative boost” from alcohol.

Additionally, while the Remote Associates Test does require creative solutions, a strong performance doesn’t necessarily mean that the person is more creative. Quickly coming up with a word to connect three unrelated terms is a far cry from writing “A Farewell to Arms.”

The point is that this is one study with severe limitations, and although there are certainly implications, they may not be meaningful.

Other research has used

surveys to look at connections between alcohol use and creativity in a broader sense without any significant results.

Alcohol doesn’t fuel creativity, and, similarly, it doesn’t appear that creative individuals flock toward alcohol or drugs.

There’s no shortage of famous names associated with alcoholism, but, unfortunately, that’s probably just a result of the prevalence of alcohol abuse in our society. Alcoholism also exists in non-famous people who fight their inner demons less publicly.

But this is a tricky subject to nail down scientifically, and all these studies can do is look at correlations, or lack thereof. For that reason, it’s impossible to tell whether, for instance, Amy

Winehouse could have made her two studio-produced albums without alcohol. But it is undeniable that alcohol is responsible for her inability to record a third.

As with all things, enjoy your alcohol in moderation. If it seems to help you creatively or socially, then enjoy its advantages. However, if the relationship turns from assistance into reliance, seek help. Whatever benefits alcohol may have, it’s not worth risking your life for.

But if you happen to let your friends Jack and Johnny write that paper with you, be sure to edit it once they’re out of your system. After all, plenty of “creativity” takes place Friday nights on Sixth Street, but it doesn’t mean you’re proud of it Saturday morning.

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