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Hearings for ex-players postponed By Natalie Sullivan @natsullivan94
The preliminary hearings for former Texas football players Kendall Sanders and Montrel Meander, both of whom were charged earlier this summer with seconddegree felonies for sexual assault, were rescheduled again Tuesday.
Meander’s hearing was reset to 9 a.m. on Oct. 16, and Sanders’ was reset for the same time Oct. 17, according to Anthony Casarez, Travis County district court bailiff. Meander and his attorney did not show in court Tuesday, when the hearing was originally supposed to occur. Sanders’ attorney Brian Roark appeared
before District Judge Mike Lynch to reset the hearing date for Sanders but otherwise declined to comment on the case. This is the second time the preliminary hearings have been rescheduled. They were originally set for Aug. 7 and then delayed to Sept. 2.
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Villarreal steps down from GSA presidency By Eleanor Dearman @EllyDearman
Kendall Sanders
Former Texas football player
David Villarreal has stepped down as Graduate Student Assembly president five months into his term, according to an email from the organization Tuesday. With Villarreal’s decision, Vice President Brian Wilkey was promoted to the presidency. In the email, Wilkey wrote that Villarreal approached him Aug. 21, saying he had made the decision to leave the office. “[Villarreal] is pursuing his own goals right now, and we totally support this,” Wilkey said in an interview. “None of us come to graduate school at UT-Austin, or anywhere for that matter, to be the president or vice president of the graduate student body. That’s not what we’re here for. We’re here for our academics.” Wilkey said he was surprised by Villarreal’s decision. “This is always a possibility when you sign up to be vice president,” Wilkey said. “You hope it’s not because, obviously, [Villarreal] and I ran together, and I thought he was doing a wonderful job.” Wilkey said the platform goals started under Villarreal will remain unchanged, including the creation of an academic database for graduate students, reconstructing GSA’s governing documents and various health initiatives. “Better treatment, better housing and a more efficient GSA — those things are all going to happen regardless
Montrel Meander
Former Texas football player
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A UT student walks through a 21 Pearl hallway Tuesday evening.
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Department renamed after sizable donation
SG appoints students, discusses athletics
By Samuel Tackitt @thedailytexan
By Eleanor Dearman @ellydearman
Tuesday, at the first Student Government meeting of the school year, the SG assembly confirmed internal and external positions, and men’s athletic director Steve Patterson discussed issues facing the athletics department. After the floor was opened for questions, SG assembly members asked Patterson about the Frank Erwin Center’s future and the compensation of college athletes. While no exact demolition date is set for the Erwin Center, Patterson said when the time comes for the center to close to make way for the future Dell Medical School expansion, he would like to see an arena close to campus available to use. “I think that there are a lot of parties that need to be in conversations that come to the table to address
After a $10 million campaign, the Department of Advertising and Public Relations will become the Stan Richards School of Advertising and Public Relations. The school will be named after Stan Richards, the founder of the largest advertising agency in the world, The Richards Group. According to Roderick Hart, outgoing dean of the Moody College of Communication, advertising professor Patricia Stout will be the new director of the school. Isabella Cunningham, advertising professor and outgoing chair of the department, said Richards has always supported the advertising and public relations department at UT. “He wanted [UT] to
When we set out to raise funds five years ago, there wasn’t really a trend in advertising agencies giving to higher education. Stan Richards has changed all that.
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—Isabella Cunningham, Advertising professor
continue to be number one in advertising when it came to faculty and resources,” Cunningham said. “When we set out to raise funds five years ago, there wasn’t really a trend in advertising agencies giving to higher education. Stan Richards has changed all that.
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Graeme Hamilton | Daily Texan Staff
Men’s athletic director Steve Patterson discusses issues facing the athletics department at a Student Government meeting Tuesday evening.
financing issues, location issues, design issues, parking and transportation issues and different conditions with users,” Patterson said. Patterson also said he is
against the compensation of University athletes outside their student benefits. “If you take the benefits that student athletes get — room and board, tuition,
mentoring, tutoring, the basic student benefits — then the value of a student athlete, a football player for instance, is
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