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APD proposes new booking facility Natalie Sullivan @natsullivan94
The Austin Police Department has proposed plans for a new booking facility near Cameron Road that could save the city money and simplify the current booking process. Brian Manley, Austin Police assistant chief, said citizens arrested in North Austin for minor offenses would go to the center for booking and processing, also known as magistration, and then
either post bail or go to jail. Manley said serious offenders would still go to the Travis County Jail for longterm holding. “[Magistration] requires that a person arrested by a police officer is brought before a judge for the initial hearing, and it has to be done without delay,” Manley said. “In other words, within 48 hours, you have to either magistrate or release somebody, [so] this is an opportunity for a model that will free
up officers’ time.” Austin Police Chief Art Acevedo initially proposed the new booking center at a meeting of the Austin City Council on Aug. 28. At the meeting, Acevedo said his officers spend an average of 58 minutes booking suspects at the Travis County Jail, and APD could eventually achieve a collective gain of 50,000 patrol hours per year by running its own magistration facility.
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HRC now displaying Frida Kahlo self-portrait @thedailytexan
Lauren Ussery | Daily Texan Staff
Austin’s current booking facility, the Blackwell-Thurman Justice Center, is located in downtown Travis County.
Delivery driver starts over in Austin By Brigit Benestante @BBenestante
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By Wes Scarborough
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Nathan Davis is the guy quietly serving customers Thai food out of a West Campus food truck. He is the Favor runner delivering Chipotle to hungover college kids Sunday mornings. He is the guy at the farmer’s market stand down the street on the weekends. Nathan Davis is the guy who started over at 30. After moving from his small South Texas hometown to Austin, Davis started out his college career the way most do — getting an undergraduate degree at Texas State University. From there, it
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Nathan Davis is a Favor runner who has two degrees and has traveled to China, England and Taiwan for his studies. At 30, Davis decided to come back to America to pursue a career creating social solutions through startups.
While not all students can say they have seen the work of Frida Kahlo in person, the Harry Ransom Center will have one of her most popular paintings on display during the 20132014 school year. After being loaned to more than 25 museums around the globe, Kahlo’s “Self-portrait with Thorn Necklace and Hummingbird,” which was created in 1940, will be on display in the Ransom Center from Sept. 5 through March 31. “It is one of Kahlo’s most important self-portaits,” said Peter Mears, curator of art at the Ransom Center. “It is a rare painting, and it’s not going to be [at the center] forever.” The painting has been featured in exhibitions since 1990 and is one of her most frequently borrowed paintings, travelling to countries, such as France, Italy and Australia. Kahlo, the Mexican painter famous for her self-portraits, has influenced many artists postmortem. Her selfportraits have been on display in museums in cities, such as Mexico City, Rome and Paris. Kahlo was born in Mexico City and died there, at her home, known as La Casa Azul. According to the Frida Kahlo Foundation, her career as a
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Innovation Center receives new director By Christina Noriega @thedailytexan
After being appointed managing director of the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Innovation Center on Thursday, Louise Epstein plans to make entrepreneurship a bigger part of the school. The center, launched in 2011, provides support to students and faculty, primarily from the engineering school, through the process of establishing a startup company. The center offers a variety of programs, including seminars, labs and mentorships. “What started out as a class and a lab has grown to [a center with] businesspeople and faculty,” said Epstein, former City Council member. ”I’m just here to take it to the next level.” Bob Metcalfe, engineering professor and faculty director of the Innovation Center, said the center
created the new managing director position to ease the expansion of ongoing programs. Metcalfe, who is also a co-inventor of Ethernet, said Epstein will be responsible for managing staffing, budgeting and fundraising for student and faculty startup projects. “We’re scaling up,” Metcalfe said. “We’re developing new programs, and we need more horsepower, in particular someone who can run things as opposed to someone who is mentoring and teaching students.” Epstein hopes the center helps to turn UT into a major entrepreneurial campus on par with Stanford University or Massachusetts Institute of Technology. According to Epstein, the growing entrepreneurial community in Austin and the support from UT are vital to the success of the center. “South By Southwest
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Amy Zhang | Daily Texan Staff
Louise Epstein, a former Austin City Council member and entrepreneur, was named managing director of the Cockrell School of Engineering’s Innovation Center on Thursday.
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