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Campaign for Texas exceeds goal By Alex Wilts @alexwilts
The University announced Tuesday that it raised $856 million in 20132014 for Campaign for Texas, successfully completing and passing its goal to raise $3 billion in eight years. The campaign, which began in 2006 and officially ended at midnight Sunday, raised a total of $3.1 billion, creating funding for stateof-the-art classrooms, the establishment of 846 new
student scholarships and the construction of new buildings, such as the Belo Center for New Media and the Liberal Arts Building. “Our alumni and supporters have given the greatest gift a university could ever seek: They have helped ensure that future generations of UT students will be able to learn, grow and prepare for the future at a university that remains one of the nation’s premier public research institutions,” President William Powers Jr.
said in a statement. “We are grateful for every gift we received during the Campaign for Texas, many of which will help our faculty change the world through their research and scholarship.” Kenny Jastrow, campaign chairman and a UT alumnus, said the biggest challenge for the University in completing its goal was getting donations after the campaign was officially announced, around the beginning of the
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Judge rules against HB 2, stops clinics from closing By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng
A federal district court judge struck down a state women’s reproductive rights law Friday that places restrictions on abortion clinics in Texas, calling it unconstitutional. Judge Lee Yeakel concluded “the act’s ambulatorysurgical-center requirements places an unconstitutional burden on women throughout Texas.” Yeakel blocked the requirement that raised the required standard of abortion clinics to the level of “ambulatory-surgical-center” standards, or full hospital building standards. The law also required abortion doctors to have hospital admitting privileges within 30 miles of their clinics, banned abortions after 20 weeks of fertilization and added one more required doctor’s appointment when using the abortion pill. The extra doctor’s appointment totaled to four required appointments. The latter three rules went into effect in November 2013. The higher clinic building standards would have gone into effect yesterday, forcing many of Texas’ abortion clinics to close. Without Yeakel’s decision, the only abortion clinics left in Texas would be in the Houston, Austin, San Antonio and the Dallas/Fort Worth areas, making it far more difficult for women not in those areas to obtain an abortion.
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President William Powers Jr. speaks at a press conference in August to announce the $50 million donation from the Livestrong Foundation.
FOOTBALL
Ash sidelined after suffering concussion By Stefan Scrafield @stefanscrafield
It took just one game, and possibly just one hit, for Texas junior quarterback David Ash’s concussion symptoms to return in 2014. Longhorn head coach Charlie Strong announced Monday that Ash, who missed 10 games because of multiple concussions last season, will have to sit out this weekend’s game against BYU after he experienced concussion-like symptoms yet again after Saturday’s 38-7 victory over North Texas. “Ash took a hit in the first quarter,” Strong said. “We are going to evaluate it more with our medical staff. But we just made the decision that he will not play this week.” Strong and his staff believe the injury occurred when Ash fumbled a snap
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After the North Texas game, redshirt junior quarterback David Ash suffered concussion symptoms, which will force him to sit out the Longhorns’ next game against BYU. Sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes will be the starter.
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Oil investments halt tuition rise App users report invasive species By Alex Wilts @alexwilts
Recent increases in oil production in West Texas have also increased the amount of money available to the UT System, according to Scott Kelley, the System’s executive vice chancellor for business affairs. From June 2013 to June 2014, the market value of the Permanent University Fund, or PUF, increased 19.4 percent — from $14.4 billion to $17.2 billion — according to reports from The University of Texas Investment Management Company, the organization that invests money for the UT System. “Our revenues and the values of our assets in West Texas have grown substantially in recent years to allow for a larger endowment,” Chairman Paul Foster said after an August meeting of the Board
of Regents. PUF is an endowment of 2.1 million acres in West Texas that was created to benefit UT and Texas A&M University systems. The proceeds from the sale of oil, gas, sulfur and water royalties are invested in the form of stocks, bonds and equity interest to establish the Available University Fund, or AUF. Two-thirds of these funds go toward the UT System and one-third goes to the Texas A&M system. Kelley said horizontal drilling, a new oil drilling technique used to expose more surface area of oil bearing rock, can explain the increase in the value of the PUF on oil lands that were once thought to be in decline. “Probably 20 years ago it was thought that the Permian Basin in West Texas was a
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By Samuel Tackitt @samueltackitt
Market values of PUF June 30, 2014 $17.2 billion (+8.18 percent) December 21, 2013 $15.9 billion (+10.41 percent) June 30, 2013 $14.4 billion (+3.60 percent) December 31, 2012 $13.9 billion (+6.11 percent) June 30, 2012 $13.1 billion (+6.50 percent) December 31, 2011 $12.3 billion (-3.91 percent)
“TX Invasives,” a new app developed by the University’s LBJ Wildflower Center, could help protect Texas ecosystems and economies. Justin Bush, the invasive species coordinator at the center, said the new app will allow people to take part in protecting their ecosystem by using a feature of the app that reports invasive species on a map of Texas. Bush said the report would then be verified and cataloged. The report would give higher priority to more dangerous invasive species and allow for better response time. “The app is really novel in that it also serves as a digital guide to the plants and wildlife of Texas,” Bush said. “It allows the user to pull up pictures of plants and
The biggest problem Austin lakes face are the Hydrilla. In Decker Lake, they can block up the intakes used by Austin power. —John Clement, Environmental program coordinator
animals found in Texas, along with a fact sheet on that species.” Bush said the creation of the app was a collaboration between members of the LBJ Wildflower Center and members of the University of Georgia Center for Invasive Species. John Clement, the environmental program coordinator in the Watershed Protection Department for the City of Austin, said he found the app useful when out on the lakes in his free time, as well as while working. According to Clement, the app is an
essential tool for tracking invasive species. “Invasive species are non-native organisms that establish themselves in an area they don’t belong and cause health, economic and recreational problems,” Clement said. “The biggest problem Austin lakes face are the Hydrilla. In Decker Lake, they can block up the intakes used by Austin power. Hydrilla have also made an appearance in Lake Austin.” According to Clement, detection is one of the
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