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$20,000 missing from football concession sales By Natalie Sullivan @natsullivan94
About $20,000 in concession sales were unaccounted for after the Aug. 30 football game at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. According to UTPD spokeswoman Cindy Posey, two nonprofit groups arrived
to sell concessions during the game against the University of North Texas but left at the end of the day without submitting their sales. Sam Wells, director of media relations for Sodexo, the company in charge of the stadium’s concession sales, said they follow certain procedures for coordinating with nonprofit groups.
“There’s usually a supervisor who’s responsible for overseeing nonprofit sales groups and making sure sales are turned in at the end of the day,” Wells said. Posey said the theft is still under investigation and did not provide any information on whether UTPD will take precautions to prevent a similar situation from occurring
at future games. According to Wells, the stadium earns about $3 million per year in concession sales from its combined sports. Wells said a range of nonprofit organizations, including church groups and marching bands, staffed concession stands last year and contributed $500,000 to the total earnings.
Girl Scouts concessions coordinator Stacy Knight, who oversees concession sales for the Girl Scouts of Central Texas, said the money her troops earn from selling concessions at University football events is turned directly into a specific room during and after games. “There’s a cash room guarded by a security guard at all times,
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NEW GAME, SAME SHAME
By Garrett Callahan Daily Texan Columnist @CallahanGarrett
Three weeks ago, many people thought Charlie Strong had changed Texas football. But Saturday’s devastating 41-7 loss against BYU proved Strong hasn’t changed much at all. Before the new season, the new head coach took away his players’ privilege to throw up the “Hook ’em Horns” sign and, with it, took the Longhorn decal off the helmet, making the team earn those honors back. And many players did seem to have a more focused, stronger attitude after a tough preseason camp. To top it off, at that time, Strong had already dismissed seven players from the team, proving his commitment to clean up the program. But Saturday, it took a few looks to the sideline to make sure former head coach Mack Brown and former defensive coordinator Manny Diaz weren’t back coaching the Longhorns, as Texas gave up 248 rushing yards against the Cougars, a flashback to last year’s embarrassing contest in Provo, Utah. Strong, who won two national championships as the defensive coordinator at Florida, stressed a revamped Texas defense this year. But Texas, once again, struggled with the
and that’s where we turn sales in after games,” Knight said. Nonprofit groups that help with sales usually take home about 10 percent of their profits, while the rest goes to the University, according to Knight. Knight’s troops set up four stands inside the stadium and typically earn between $1,500 and $2,000 per game.
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The number of yards Texas has given up to BYU in the last eight quarters.
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The last time Texas lost this badly at home. In that game, UCLA beat Texas 66-3.
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In his second game as Texas head coach, Charlie Strong and the Longhorns suffered the worst loss of Strong’s career. The Cougars picked apart the Texas defense en route to 41 points, 28 straight in the third quarter.
fundamentals of tackling, as it missed multiple tackles and failed to wrap up players early. Like last season, BYU junior quarterback Taysom Hill ran for three rushing touchdowns, embarrassing a Texas defender on one of them to start the Cougars’ blowout. The Longhorns lacked energy and motivation from the start of Saturday’s contest. In his postgame press conference, sadly one of the most fired-up parts of Texas’
night, Strong acknowledged his team wasn’t ready to play. “I knew during warm-up we weren’t ready to play,” Strong said. “I said, ‘We’re going to get embarrassed if we don’t watch out,’ and that’s what happened.” While change does take time, it’s difficult to find a reason why Texas has yet to make the adjustments needed to become a prominent football program once again. Since last January, Strong has compiled a new
staff, instilled new rules and tried to create new attitudes. But, as of Saturday, this year’s Longhorns looked almost identical to the last three mediocre teams. Under Shawn Watson, new assistant head coach for offense, the offense, once again, lacked creativity and spark, producing just 82 rushing yards. Even when sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes showed promise, completing his first eight passes
and throwing for Texas’ only touchdown, the Longhorns failed to let him open up. Since he took over at the helm, Strong has emphasized a change in the program, and BYU provided the perfect opportunity to show that. But Texas fans, hoping to witness a return to the national spotlight, have yet to see a renewed football program, generating questions of when that change will actually come.
Number of points BYU recorded off turnovers.
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BYU’s percent efficiency on red zone scoring. The Cougars were 6-for-6 on red zone appearance Saturday.
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New dean reviews Dell Medical School
By Eleanor Dearman @ellydearman
Student Government members will review their updated governing document at the SG meeting Tuesday. The governing document has been in the revisal process since May to remove contradictions and add clarity. Sergio Cavazos, College of Liberal Arts representative, who is in charge of making all proposed edits, said he finished making the changes this weekend and submitted them to the clerk of the assembly. According to Cavazos, the
document will be reviewed at Tuesday’s meeting and then given to the Rules and Regulations Committee to solidify the changes. Cavazos said he expects their review process to take two weeks because of the document’s size and importance. “It’s not just another piece of legislation,” Cavazos said. “It’s something that is going to serve our organization for the future and that we need to ensure is something everybody agrees on.” Cavazos said SG members will vote on the final document once it has been reviewed by the committee.
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By Alex Wilts @alexwilts
Clay Johnston started in March as the dean of the Dell Medical School, which is set to open in fall 2016. Johnston previously served as the associate vice chancellor of research at the University of California, San Francisco, and is a practicing neurologist who specializes in preventing and treating strokes. Some answers in this Q&A have been edited for brevity and clarity. The Daily Texan: What have been some of your duties as dean since you started in March?
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Clay Johnston, dean of the Dell Medical School, started from scratch in March to build up the staff and partnerships for the school.
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UT professor studies museums with new grant. PAGE 3
Internships are vital experience for students. PAGE 4
No. 3 Texas volleyball bests Florida 3-1 in Gainesville. PAGE 6
UT MicroFarm teaches small scale agriculture. PAGE 8 UT students gain popularity as YouTubers. PAGE 8
For more on Clay Johnston, UT’s new Dell Medical School dean, check out our video interview at dailytexanonline.com
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JOHNSTON continues from page 1 Clay Johnston: Well we’re starting from scratch, so it’s a little different than the usual dean job. That means bringing in the team, so a lot of hiring. Tuesday, we added our fourth faculty member, but we’ll go from four to 250 in the fall as we accept faculty members that have been part of UT-Southwestern’s team. And then we’ll hire a couple hundred new positions over the next two years, so it’s a lot of team building. DT: What have been some of your biggest challenges since becoming dean? Johnston: It’s more of a bandwidth issue. More at this stage — the expectations are so high for us, and they continue to grow, such as this Livestrong gift. It’s a wonderful gift, but also with that comes, “Okay, what does this mean for cancer care in Austin?” [It’s] something that we would not have
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DT: When you received the donation from the Livestrong Foundation, they intended for the money to go toward cancer research. What was your original plan for how the new medical school would reinvent health care in Austin? Johnston: It doesn’t distract us from how we will change health care in Austin, but it does bring cancer as an earlier focus than what we otherwise would have chosen. We know Austin wants high-quality cancer care here in Austin, so that’s a priority for us. Cancer is unbelievably complicated in terms
of the number of different practitioners that are involved, the number of health care settings that are involved, and also the way finances flow and the motivations of different groups to keep finances flowing the way they currently are. And so, it’s one of the more challenging areas of medicine, so if we had our choice, we wouldn’t have picked cancer as a early priority, but the community kind of picked it for us. DT: What are some other things that you plan to focus on besides cancer research? Johnston: In general, we are sort of driven by the notion that health care isn’t what it should be. Not just for the underserved, but for people with insurance as well. One example of that is how slow and difficult it’s been to have technologies be integrated within the health care industry. So, one example I like is that I can find a restaurant and, right now, know the quality of it and how it’s rated and be able to book a table anytime today. Now, try to do something even close to that with a physician. That’s true throughout the health care system, and it impacts the way that
we provide care — the physician-focused care. A lot of the problems we have could be dealt with by technology — on email, on the phone and with pharmacists and practitioners. So, it’s trying to take a step back and to say, ‘What’s the health care plan that we would really want if we could blow up our system, and what pieces need to be in place for us to achieve that?’ And it has to do with creating an ecosystem where the money flows based on our values as people. DT: What will the application process for medical students be like? Johnston: We’re put in great position here at the Dell Medical School being able to work within UT-Austin and the great community of Austin, and we are bringing together really creative people excited about this opportunity in a way that’s only possible because of the foundation the community set for us here. So, that means we’re getting fabulous teachers, and we’re going to have a really cutting-edge curriculum. We do recognize that medical education is really expensive, and we need to have diverse people from a variety of socioeconomic
RULES continues from page 1 He said, if it is approved with a two-thirds majority, the policies will be implemented and given to the Office of the Dean of Students for further review. In August, the Office of Legal Affairs ruled that releasing interview notes for internal and external positions is a violation of the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act. Previously, the SG Judicial Court ruled the interview notes needed to be released, invalidating internal and external
appointments made in April. The positions were officially refilled at an SG meeting last Tuesday. Cavazos said SG members decided to leave the current rule requiring the release of interview notes in the document and, instead, address the change in a separate bill. “We agreed that, because this document isn’t made to necessarily change any functions of Student Government — it’s just made to provide us with a foundation to operate properly
— if any changes are going to be made specifically to that process, it’s going to be made [into] its own bill in the future,” Cavazos said. Cavazos said other changes include a more detailed description of the assembly’s role and the addition of an assembly review process. According to Cavazos, the assembly will also change the order of the agenda for SG meetings by moving SG reports to the end and new, unfinished business to the beginning.
backgrounds, and we also need to make it so that the financial burden on students isn’t so great that students feel obligated to go into more lucrative areas of medicine — like procedure-based areas — because we desperately need primary care doctors, and they currently don’t get paid as much. So, given all of that, we also know that we’ve got to keep tuition low and also provide targeted support for students. DT: How do you think the Dell Medical School will select from UT applicants? Johnston: I would say we’re going to be neither negatively nor positively biased. Definitely not negatively biased. We know that there are fabulous students and a ton of pre-med students here at UT. For us, the key is the fit. I suspect that we’ll get a lot of students from UT because there are so many great students here. We do get some pressure from politicians to think about how we really are here in part to train physicians that will work here in Austin primarily — but also more broadly in Texas — and so, we will get more of them if we continue to take Texans and think about them as being critical to our programs.
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A local fast food restaurant chain added a new festivity to UT football games this season — a jetpack landing. The flight, sponsored by Mighty Fine Burgers Fries & Shakes, replaced the ketchup and mustard chase shown on the scoreboard at Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium in previous seasons. In the new promotion, the pilot lands on one of three colored tarps laid out on the field. If fans send a text with the correct color the pilot landed on, they win a free burger at any Mighty Fine location. According to Mighty Fine spokeswoman Allyson Young, the “Mighty Fine Longhorn Liftoff ” will
continue throughout the rest of the home football games this season. She said the cost per flight is about $1,000. Mighty Fine co-owner Ken Schiller said the idea for the stunt was inspired by an NFL game, in which a pilot flew into the stadium using a jetpack to deliver the game ball. Schiller has been trying to introduce a jetpack to the pregame show for several years and worked with JetPack International to organize the event for the 2014 season. The first flight, which took place Aug. 30, before the football game against the University of North Texas, may have set a world record. According to a statement from K&N Management, which owns the Mighty Fine chain, the 93,201 fans in attendance at the game established the world record
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for the number of people to collectively witness a jetpack flight. K&N Management will submit the record to Guinness World Records. Trey Goldsmith, co-coordinator of the flight, said Mighty Fine has been involved with UT Athletics for the past 20 years, and they are looking forward to improving the stunt in future games. Nick Macomber, JetPack International’s performance pilot, who said he has been flying jetpacks for the past three years, piloted the jetpack. In time as a flier, he has held
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flights in the United States, Mexico, Australia, Dubai and several countries in Europe. He said one of his most memorable events was flying in the torch during a relay for the London 2012 Olympics. Even though his flights are short because of how quickly the jetpack runs out of fuel, Macomber said the event has provided more excitement to UT football games. “I am glad to be a part of UT sports,” Macomber said. “It is a cool thing to follow this dream and to know that others have this passion and to show the world what jetpacks are all about.”
Psychology associate professor Cristine Legare received a three-year, $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study how children develop scientific reasoning abilities. Legare — who also serves as the director of the Cognition Culture and Development Lab — will work with David Sobel, cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences professor at Brown University, and Maureen Callanan, psychology professor at University of California-Santa Cruz, on the study. According to an overview of the study, Legare and her team will study the behavior of various families with young children at children’s museums around the United States. Sobel said the team will use multiple museums for the research, but Legare will focus on the Thinkery, a children’s museum in Austin. The experiment seeks to reconcile the seemingly incompatible nature of what the researchers call “exploratory” and “explanatory” learning, according to the overview. Exploratory learning refers to learning through hands-on experience, while explanatory learning refers to instruction from a teacher. “In addition to uncovering patterns of family explanation and exploration, the proposed studies measure children’s causal understanding and build on this knowledge base to develop and test effective interventions,” the overview said. “Children’s museums are ideal environments for this research because they give us access to everyday activity and conversations of families, and they provide a natural laboratory
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for testing the effectiveness of targeted interventions.” Sobel said the experiment seeks to understand how the interactions between parents and children relate to the causal structures in the museum exhibits. “We are looking at how the museums themselves can promote exploratory and explanatory behaviors in parents and children to support the learning opportunities that takes place in children’s museums,” Sobel said. Cybil Guess, director of experience at the Thinkery, said she thinks the experiment will be insightful for both the researchers and the museum staff. Guess said the museum has collaborated with Legare before, but this experiment could improve the museum experience. “This experiment takes her research and brings it to an applicable level,” Guess said. “I think the results of the experiment will allow us to do our job better at the museum.” According to the study overview, the findings of the experiment will produce new strategies for introducing scientific reasoning to children and promote children’s desire to learn more in the fields of science and technology. Sobel said the grant will start in January.
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Abbott’s higher education plan Student athlete pay should first come in form of scholarships overlooks needs of students Last week, Attorney General Greg Abbott unveiled his higher education reform plan. Part of Abbott’s general education plan, “Educating Texans,” the proposal calls for expanding the use of online courses and tying school funding to performance, essentially aiming to turn universities into degree factories. In announcing his goals, Abbott feigned concern for the financial welfare of students as the cost of a college education continues to soar. But his plan would mainly benefit the state financially and could, in fact, be academically detrimental to students. The Republican gubernatorial candidate outlined many ways to decrease the cost of a degree. One recommendation was to allow students enrolled at four-year universities to take massive open online courses, or MOOCs, for credit. These courses would be much cheaper than if they were taken in a traditional classroom setting. Of course, the state has a vested interest in the increase in the use of MOOCs. In 2012, the University of Texas System invested $5 million in edX, a collaborative MOOC service between Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California at Berkeley. But while the System, an extension of the state government, would gain, students taking these online courses would lose out on the tools that help those who are not yet college-ready succeed academically. Even with advances in educational technology, the use of MOOCs on a massive scale
would deprive students enrolled at fouryear institutions of the benefits of face-toface tutoring, academic advising and office hours with an instructor. With an average completion rate of around 5 percent, MOOCs implemented for course credit on a large scale could also counteract efforts to increase graduation rates. Abbott intends to increase the number of students who graduate in four years through the use of outcomes-based funding. This model would link a certain percentage of funding from the Legislature to school performance, meaning that schools that do not meet certain thresholds would not receive that portion of funding. The problem with this model is that it traps schools in a perpetual cycle that ultimately harms students. Abbott’s plan makes no mention of methods to fix any current problems in existing administrative systems that could prevent certain institutions from meeting any arbitrary standards of performance. Because an underperforming institution would continue to underperform with less funding, the Legislature first must remedy certain issues so that all institutions are judged on a fair plane. Abbott’s plan, though well-intentioned, fails to put the primary focus on students. Along with the System’s interest in recouping the money it has invested in MOOCs, using funding as a threat does little to actually enhance the quality of education for students.
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By Eric Sundlin Guest Columnist
Because of the Northwestern University football team’s recent vote on whether to unionize, momentum both for and against further financial compensation to college athletes has increased dramatically. Citing a need for broader health care as well as fully guaranteed scholarships, supporters of the at least partial unionization of college athletes argue that some college athletes deserve further compensation, “compensation” that extends farther than the reaches of a scholarship as presently constructed. Detractors, on the other hand, find a number of reasons not to compensate. They argue that amateur status paired with sentiments of “love of the game” define our romantic notion of what a volunteer student-athlete ought to represent. And yet both sides of the argument revolve around perceptions of fairness and whether or not we are treating equals equally. The real answer should lie somewhere in the middle, however, where athletes first receive full scholarships before any further compensation is granted. USA Today recently reported that University of Texas athletics amassed $165.7 million in operating revenue in the academic year 20122013, $109.4 million of which arrives directly as a result of the football program. This was the largest revenue-producing year in the history of UT athletics, and when we consider the increasingly profitable Longhorn Network, not to mention the excitement surrounding new head coach Charlie Strong, we can reasonably conclude that that $165.7 million number won’t be a record for long. Further complicating the issue is the Edward O’Bannon case. In O’Bannon v. NCAA, former UCLA basketball standout Ed O’Bannon sued the NCAA over a violation of antitrust laws. He argued that because his UCLA likeness was still being used without compensation, the NCAA was treating him unfairly. In other words, UCLA should not be able to continue profiting from images of Ed O’Bannon in a UCLA uniform without O’Bannon receiving some form of compensation. On Aug. 8, 2014, District Judge Claudia Wilken ruled in favor of O’Bannon. The ramifications of this decision are as yet unknown. Surely, as a result of the O’Bannon decision, instances such as Johnny Manziel’s autographing controversy will eventually become a thing of the past. After all, it seems fair that a popular college athlete ought to make money off his or her own likeness without fear of losing his or her scholarship. Unfortunately, we are dealing with a case wherein presumed equals are not at all equals
with regards to their significance to the university as a whole. Particularly, there are 109.4 million reasons — roughly two-thirds of the entire UT athletics revenue production — why UT football players ought to receive more financial compensation for their work as opposed to other UT students and even other UT studentathletes. This is not at all to say that, among UT student-athletes, only UT football players deserve further compensation. Rather UT football players most deserve more compensation. Considering the extreme amounts of money brought to the university directly from the football team, as well as the finding that Northwestern football players expended “50 to 60 hours of football-related work per week” during training camp, not to mention the “40 to 50 hours per week to football” during the regular season, it seems mostly unfair that UT college football players — and student-athletes from high revenue programs across the country — are not further compensated. Which then leads to an even more controversial and complicated issue: What constitutes “further compensation”? Broader health care? Guaranteed, four-year tuition? A four- or fivefigure salary? Or, more relevant to our own football program: Should players be able to accept free dinners from potential sports agents? It is easy to understand why the notion of “pay for play” makes many uncomfortable. At the end of the day, students make a choice whether or not they want to be a student-athlete and are free to quit whenever they want. In this context, the current system seems appropriate, as a scholarship to many is payment in and of itself. But even this thought experiment is too simplistic. What if a player who could not otherwise afford to pay tuition decides to quit football and thereby loses his scholarship? What if a freshman football player on scholarship suffers a career-ending injury and his scholarship is revoked? For many players football is a choice and for many others football is the only choice, the only avenue to a college education and social mobility. For most, only the footballplaying journey ends in college. Among all these gray areas lies one glaring fact: the current system of scholarship-granting with regards to UT football players and college athletes as a whole (who help bring in a giant amount of their school’s financial pie) is inadequate. Instead of derailing what is becoming a more important issue each day with socially and politically charged words like “entitled,” “unionize” and “exploitation,” let us first ask ourselves whether that kind of temporal and physical devotion with that incredibly large amount of money on the line is fair without, at the very least, four years’ guaranteed tuition. Sundlin is an English and radio-televisionfilm senior from San Antonio.
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At the end of each semester I usually have a friend or two who is graduating without a job lined up yet. In fact, many usually ask if I am aware of internships they may be interested in. I later find out they had an excellent grade point average but no experience on their résumé. In each of my semesters at UT, excluding summers, I have worked at different internships related to my field of study. I also served in the military prior to coming to UT. That is to say my résumé is not blank. These internships have provided relevant work experience and networking opportunities that led to a full-time job and career which I will begin in January after graduation. Many of us are raised to believe that our GPA is the only thing that matters, but I am here to say that a blank résumé matters even more, and not in a positive way. In an interview last year, Laszlo Bock, Google’s Senior vice president of people pperations, admitted that the company has found that GPAs are worthless as a hiring criterion and only marginally useful when dealing with recent college graduates. In fact, Google doesn’t even ask for transcripts anymore unless the new hire is essentially fresh out of college. Later, Bock discussed why GPAs do not matter as much as experience. He described academic environments as being artificial environments where students are conditioned to succeed in school, but in the real-world there is not always a correct answer to a problem. Having the ability and experience to identify solutions to complex scenarios and issues far outweighs providing a professor with the answer they are looking for. Just to be clear, I am not saying that stu-
Just to be clear, I am not saying that students should not aim for high GPAs. We should absolutely strive for such, but a perfect GPA without any work experience will not get very far in most majors immediately following graduation.
Longhorns a welcoming bunch “Welcome to Texas,” they said as we entered the gate. We were surprised. “Thank you?” As a trio of blue-shirt wearing Cougars fans, we didn’t expect the sea of burnt orange to so cheerfully part to let us find our seats. “Hook ‘em,” a group of students said with a smile as we passed. The whole game, we were continually impressed with the hospitality
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dents should not aim for high GPAs. We should absolutely strive for good grades, but a perfect GPA without any work experience will not get you very far in most majors immediately following graduation. As UT students, we are given opportunities students elsewhere can only dream of. We live in one of the largest cities in the U.S. with vast internship opportunities in software development, technology, politics, public relations and business. Austin is always topping the charts for one thing or another. Earlier this year, Austin was ranked as the third-best city for jobs in the U.S. and as the second best for job growth by Forbes. We truly have it made here in Austin based on location alone. All of us should take advantage of the opportunities Austin has for us and apply to internships that possibly relate to our field. This tidbit of real-world work experience on our résumé may be just enough to push us past our peers in getting our first job out of college. It’s still early enough in the semester that many employers are still accepting applications, but not for much longer. Daywalt is a government senior from Copperas Cove.
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By Stefan Scrafield Fans watching Saturday’s game might have thought they were seeing a replay of last year’s contest against BYU, as the Cougars trounced Texas for the second consecutive year, picking the Longhorns apart to the tune of a 41-7 blowout victory at Darrell K RoyalTexas Memorial Stadium. BYU junior quarterback Taysom Hill picked up right where he left off last season, rushing for 99 yards and threetouchdowns while also throwing for 181 yards in the contest. “It’s an embarrassment to this program, [and] it’s an embarrassment to this University,” said head coach Charlie Strong in a fiery postgame press conference. “I knew during warm-up we weren’t ready to play. I said, ‘We’re going to get embarrassed if we don’t watch out,’ and that’s what happened.” The Texas defense kept it close in the first half, as the Longhorns went into halftime trailing just 6-0. But, with the offense struggling to sustain any production, the defense spent the majority of the game on the field and ran out of steam in the second half. BYU scored on each of
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its four drives in the third quarter, with Hill running it in three times and redshirt junior running back Adam Hine plunging into the end zone for the other score. “When you give up 28 points in one quarter, you aren’t ready to play — Coach [Strong] is right about that,” defensive coordinator Vance Bedford said. Just as he did a year ago, Hill ran the read-option to perfection Saturday night. He had several clutch carries for first
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downs, but his biggest play of the night came on a 30-yard touchdown run in the third quarter, when he leapt over walk-on redshirt sophomore safety Dylan Haines en route to the end zone. “He reminds me a little bit of Tim Tebow,” Bedford said. “He’s strong, he has a good arm, and — if you sit back there, and you don’t get him down — he’s going to come through there and make some plays, which he
did tonight.” Sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes played decently in his first career start at Texas, throwing for 176 yards, one touchdown and an interception. He completed each of his first eight passes, but quarterbacks coach and play-caller Shawn Watson was reluctant to let Swoopes loose in the first half, choosing to run the ball the majority of the time instead. “I think Coach Watson
was just giving me something I could handle for my first start, knowing that I would be a little nervous and antsy,” Swoopes said. The young gunslinger noted that he did feel some butterflies early on in the contest, but quickly settled into the starting role. “[In] the first couple plays, I was nervous,” Swoopes said. “Then, I got banged up a little bit [and] hit a couple times, and, after that, I was fine.”
advantage with two consecutive kills. Texas eventually took the set 25-17. The Longhorns opened up an early 6-1 lead in the fourth set, but the Gators rallied to get within one before Texas won the set 2516 and the game match 3-1. Texas played a balanced game throughout, as senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman had seven kills, five digs and one ace. Neal finished with eight kills, five digs and two blocks. Junior middle blockers Molly McCage and Sara Hattis combined for 14 blocks and 11 kills. “We played steadily throughout the entire match and made good adjustments,” Elliott said. “It’s great when you have so many new faces on the floor in different positions. We like what we saw tonight.” The Longhorns play their first home game in the 26 West Longhorn Classic on Friday against No. 23 Arizona at 7 p.m.
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Extending Texas’ lead to 2-0, junior forward Chantale Campbell scored in the final minute against Montana.
The Longhorns carried the momentum back home Sunday with a 2-0 win against Montana. The Longhorns launched 23 shots to Montana’s six and kept fantastic possession in their opponent’s territory. A second-half penalty kick by Gilbert and a long goal in the final minute by junior forward Chantale Campbell drove the offense. Texas’ next competition comes this weekend at the USF Soccer Classic in Tampa, Florida, with a game Friday at 3:30 p.m. against Central Florida and a matchup Sunday at 10:30 a.m. against South Florida.
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Head coach Angela Kelly wanted to see her team play at a higher tempo and put the ball in the back of the net against A&M Corpus Christi and Montana. Kelly got what she wanted Friday as the Longhorns (4-0-2) launched a 6-0 barrage against A&M Corpus Christi to remain unbeaten this season. The Longhorns did not get on the scoreboard until a free kick by senior defender Brooke Gilbert found junior midfielder Lindsey Meyer eight yards from goal at 32:58 into the match, but a five-goal second half alleviated any concerns about the Texas attack.
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Leading the Cougars’ rush game, BYU junior quarterback Taysom Hill rushed for 99 yards and three touchdowns in Saturday’s contest. The Cougars recorded 292 total yards.
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The Longhorns fell to BYU 41-7 Saturday, a score that marks their worst home loss since 1997. The defeat was Texas’ second embarrassing loss to the Cougars in two years — its first under head coach Charlie Strong. Here are some key takeaways from Saturday’s loss: Offensive line woes: Texas entered the game with one of the least experienced offensive lines in the country, boasting a combined four starts under its belt. This inexperience showed, as BYU held the Longhorns to only 82 yards on the ground through 35 carries. The line was unable to open up holes and failed to properly protect sophomore quarterback Tyrone Swoopes. With junior offensive tackle Kennedy Estelle’s and senior offensive tackle Desmond Harrison’s suspension lengths still undecided, the Longhorn offense may continue to struggle this season. The upside: Now the line will enter the UCLA game with 10 combined starts, doubling the experience it brought to BYU. Swoopes shows promise: Not only did Texas have an inexperienced line for this game, it was also the first start of Swoopes’ career. Swoopes responded with a solid performance,
He took his opportunity and took advantage of it. He just came out there and played how he wanted to play. He looked great starting off. Hopefully, we can see more of that the rest of the way through the season. —John Harris, Senior wide receiver
completing 20 of 31 passes for 176 yards and a touchdown. He threw one interception and rushed seven times for 25 yards. Swoopes threw eight straight completions to start the game, and, as the running game continued to struggle, he played a major role in moving the chains. “He did a great job,” fifthyear senior wide receiver John Harris said. “He took his opportunity and took advantage of it. He just came out there and played how he wanted to play. He looked great starting off. Hopefully, we can see more of that the rest of the way through the season.” Texas keeps kicking itself: Junior placekicker Nick Rose missed his only field goal attempt Saturday night from 43 yards out, which would have given Texas a 3-0 lead to start the game. Rose is now only 1-for-3 on field goals for the season. Placekicking continues to be a major concern for the Longhorns, who lost starting kicker Anthony Fera after last season.
Third quarter woes doom the Longhorns: Texas entered halftime trailing 6-0 but fell behind 34-0 after BYU’s first four possessions of the second half. The Longhorns surrendered a 75-yard touchdown drive to start things off in the third quarter, after BYU’s junior quarterback Taysom Hill hurdled redshirt sophomore safety Dylan Haines for the touchdown. Things just got worse for Texas from there, as the Longhorns’ next three drives consisted of six plays for a loss of three yards and a lost fumble. This allowed BYU to score touchdowns on four straight possessions and turn a competitive game into a blowout that even surpassed the 2013 debacle in Provo, Utah. For the entire quarter, the Longhorns only forced the Cougars to third down twice and failed to get them off the field both times. Texas managed to finally put points on the board late in the quarter, but, by then, the game had already been decided.
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SPORTS BRIEFLY McGee-Stafford undergoes surgery
After having surgery on her left tibia Friday, junior basketball center Imani McGee-Stafford began rehabilitation, said Associate Athletics Director Allen Hardin. Stafford, a dominant presence on the court, finished the 2013 season with 20 starts, averaging 21.1 mintues per game. Ranking in the top 10 for numerous program records, McGee-Stafford is second in blocks per game (2.3), seventh in rebounds per game (8.3) and seventh in total blocks (147). She also shot nearly 50 percent from the field last season, in addition to finishing 4-for-7 from behind the arc. The Longhorns open the season with consecutive home games against Oklahoma City on Nov. 9 and UTSA on Nov. 15. Officials did not predict whether McGee-Stafford will be cleared to play. —Jori Epstein
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A few blocks east of I-35, surrounded by tailgates and University office buildings, lies a little piece of farmland where students grow tomatoes, sweet potatoes and lavender. Since it was established in 2012, the UT Microfarm has grown from a Green Fee project with potential to a sanctuary for students. Development assistant Stephanie Hamborsky, a Plan II and biology junior, said working on the farm helps her relax. “It provides a lot of stress relief to come out here, take a break from being indoors and studying, and connect with nature,” Hamborsky said. “And do something that a lot of kids in our generation have no experience with.” Development director Dominique Vyborny, a supply chain management senior, said, when the farm was founded in 2012, its main purpose was to give students an opportunity to learn about where their food comes from. Before she became a student at UT, Vyborny started a community garden in her backyard and worked at the Natural Gardener, an organic garden center in southwest Austin. “The ability to learn how to garden was given to me freely, and so I truly try to influence a culture of passing that on here at the farm,” Vyborny said. Before working on the farm, Katie Lewis, the farm manager and biology sophomore, had never tried to garden organically. While the
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A student works at the UT Microfarm on Saturday morning. The farm serves various purposes, including providing research opportunities to students and donating to a local food shelter.
UT Microfarm isn’t certified organic, it rarely uses pesticides and implements organic gardening techniques Vyborny learned at the Natural Gardener. “It’s a lot of improvisation,” Lewis said. “Dominique [Vyborny] tells us what she knows, and she knows a lot. But, basically, we’re just figuring it out for ourselves. It’s exciting because I don’t know everything, but I’m still learning, and every day I get better.” Hamborsky said the most surprising thing she learned at the farm was how much work goes into growing food. “Even on this fifth-of-anacre piece of land, there’s so much work to be done,” Hamborsky said. “It’s just amazing to think about these large-scale agricultural systems that require so much work and how little we really appreciate our food.” The UT Microfarm also provides research opportunities for students. The shed
on the farm was a student architecture project, and the farm’s entire irrigation system was a project by a student investigating different irrigation techniques. “I’m really interested in building a rainwater collection system here,” Hamborsky said. “I think that’s a really integral part of having a sustainable system.” The farm sells most of its produce at its on-site farm stand, Hope Farmer’s Market and to the University dining halls. It also donates to a local food shelter. Lewis said it is important for people to see where their food is coming from. “It’s not coming from some huge commercial thing way out in California, where you don’t know what’s going into it or how it was grown,” Lewis said. “You can see where plants are grown, and you can see them on the vine, and you can see them being harvested, and then you can buy them and take them home.”
The most popular YouTubers tend to rely on high-tech devices to record their videos, bringing in millions of views with highdefinition cameras and studio lighting. But for radiotelevision-film sophomore Michael Westlake, a strict college budget only allows him access to his iPhone camera. Despite that, Westlake started filming and posting comedy sketches over the summer under the username “Spike Westlake.” “People tend to overlook the creative content that YouTubers post because they think it’s really simple to make and not really worth looking at,” Westlake said. “While a video may be two minutes, it takes a lot more than two minutes to make, edit and come up with it.” Westlake is one of a growing number of students on campus who identify as YouTubers. In one of his videos, “How to be Healthy,” Westlake satirically explains the steps needed to live a healthy lifestyle. This idea took only days to come up with, but it ended up being Westlake’s most viewed
video to date. Business sophomore Evan Chen, known as “koolasianguy1,” is another YouTuber on campus. “There are a lot of people who are shy and sit in the back of the class, and this is a way to show people about yourself,” Chen said. “It’s a way to express yourself through social media.” Chen said his success came from the idea of entertaining his group of friends. Initially, the videos were a small project, but his song covers and exercise videos ended up getting more attention than expected. Before freshman year even started, Chen was immersed in the UT Facebook community under the moniker “Big Chen.” Keely Danielle, a health promotion and allied health professions senior, makes video blogs with lifestyle tips as “Dani Austin.” Within four years, Danielle has managed to get over three million views and 109,000 subscribers. “The response I started to get after I started was totally unexpected,” Danielle said. “People were super supportive [and] always encouraging me. Sometimes, they would give me
constructive criticism, but it was like they really wanted me to do well, and they were actually trying to help.” Danielle said she did not receive too much attention at first, but then, suddenly, she received more than 100 friend requests on Facebook and saw that her videos were trending. With this influx of attention, she started to reach out more to her viewers. “You actually build a connection with these people, even though you don’t know them in real life,” Danielle said. “I honestly had no idea what to expect, but I never thought I’d be doing this. I feel really lucky.” From the success of her channel, Danielle has been approached by companies like Target for product promotion. She has even started up her own online business, which was something she didn’t see herself doing. “I feel like YouTube has opened so many doors for me,” Danielle said. “What I plan on doing in the future is completely different than what I thought I’d be doing, and I think it’s crazy because YouTube is still pretty new, but people are starting to catch on.” Radio-television-film sophomore Michael Westlake creates satirical YouTube videos with his iPhone. Westlake is one of many student YouTubers making films and videos on a budget.
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