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BP donates to GeoFORCE program

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BP donated $120,000 to the Jackson School of Geosciences’ GeoFORCE program Tuesday, bringing the total amount the oil and gas company has donated to the program to $1 million since 2007.

GeoFORCE is a selective outreach program through the Jackson School that focuses on at-risk high school students in the South Texas and Houston areas. The program is set up for students to apply in the eighth grade, with the goal that

GeoFORCE can work with them through all four summers of their high school careers.

From the applicants, around 600 students are accepted and taken on a week-long geological trip all over the United States. During the trip, professors, researchers and other professional geologists help students discover what geology is. Along with geoscience courses, students are encouraged to take on the challenges of math and science courses.

According to Eleanour Snow, associate director of the program, 481 students from

GeoFORCE are enrolled in 85 different universities across the nation. Of those students, 97 are currently enrolled at the UT. Through the program, 97 percent of the campers have gone on to college, and 96 percent of those students returned to school the following year.

Four graduates of the GeoFORCE program attended a Tuesday ceremony in which Samuel Moore, director of outreach and diversity for the program, received the donation check from James Dupree,

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James Dupree, BP chief operating officer of reservoir development and technology, presents a check to the Jackson School of Geosciences on Tuesday afternoon.

Recovery school serves as second chance

By Christina Noriega @thedailytexan

Thirteen high school students in search of sobriety started their fall semester at Austin’s first recovery high school.

Located on the third floor of the University Christian Church, University High School opened on Aug. 25 to provide students who want to maintain sobriety with weekly online classes, peer support groups and mentorship from University students who have overcome addiction.

Lori Holleran Steiker, social work associate professor and co-founder of University High School, said research has shown more than 65 percent of students who have undergone treatment for substance addiction relapse promptly after returning to their former

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Co-founder and board president Lori Holleran Steiker and executive director Becky Ahlgrim are part of the driving force behind University High School, a newly founded nonprofit high school that serves students committed to recovering from addiction.

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SG discusses tailgating, urban rail, rule changes

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Student Government approved governing document changes for review by an SG committee Tuesday.

Sergio Cavazos, College of Liberal Arts representative, announced SG’s completion of the governing documents’ revisions. Cavazos said there were not substantial changes made, but noted title changes of officials and committees in the document and minor contradictions and grammatical errors between documents.

“Previously, we had two different sets of governing doctrines,” Cavazos said.

“We had our bylaws and our internal rules and procedures. The problem with these documents is they were amended and revised over several years at different times. So people may have changed them in one document but not in the other document.”

Braydon Jones, speaker of the assembly, said the document will be reviewed by the Rules and Regulations Committee for at least three weeks.

Cavazos also said the handling of interview notes will be done separately from the revising of the governing document. Cavazos said the rule requiring the release of interview notes for internal and external positions will remain in the governing document unless proposed as a bill at a later date.

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UT to announce department to educate in Latina/o culture

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State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, speaks to supporters at a rally celebrating the oneyear anniversary of her filibuster of SB 5 on June 25.

Abbott questions Davis’ book tour

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The University will announce the establishment of the Department of Mexican American and Latina/o Studies on Wednesday, creating an interdisciplinary program to educate students on Hispanic culture.

Under the College of Liberal Arts, MALS will educate students about working with the increasing Hispanic population, according to incoming MALS chair Nicole Guidotti-Hernández.

“Our goal is to prepare young people to be Latinoserving professionals in light of the changing demographics in the state of Texas and the nation,” GuidottiHernández said.

According to Guidotti-Hernández, students from different educational backgrounds can study in the program.

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C.J. Alvarez, Mexican American and Latina/o Studies assistant professor, leads an “Introduction to Mexican American Culture Studies” class.

“If you want a professional edge in the market, you might want to do business and MexicanAmerican and Latino studies because those are the people you are going to be serving, working with and managing,” GuidottiHernández said. “We think there is a tremendous

Wendy Davis, state senator and Democratic gubernatorial candidate, started a promotional tour Tuesday for her new memoir, “Forgetting

to be Afraid.” The release and publicity tour prompted questions from the campaign of Greg Abbott, attorney general and Republican gubernatorial candidate.

Abbott’s campaign manager Wayne Hamilton filed a

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request Monday with the Texas Ethics Commission for an advisory opinion on the legality of her promotional tour for the memoir. Since corporate contributions to a campaign

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academic advantage in having cultural knowledge to be a better professional.”

The program will offer coursework in Hispanic studies as a whole.

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continues from page 1 of Texas, there are also large Central American and Latino indigenous in the state,” Guidotti-Hernández said.

“And, in some way, the program allows us to better account for those populations.”

The department will offer bachelor’s and master’s degrees this fall and — if approved by state higher education officials — doctorate degrees for the 2016-2017 school year.

Guidotti-Hernández said

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continues from page 1 are illegal in Texas elections, Hamilton questioned whether Davis’ tour could count as an in-kind contribution.

While Davis’ camp dismissed the questions, law adjunct professor Ross Fischer said the Abbott campaign has legitimate concerns.

“The timing raises some

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the University has offered Mexican-American studies courses for 44 years. The new department will include the current Center for Mexican American Studies, or CMAS, and a planned Borderlands Research Institute.

CMAS director Domino Perez said the center will host social and academic programs, while the department will offer degrees and coursework. She said the departmentalization benefits both groups, since they will be able to have their own programs and faculty.

“Now that they’ve moved

over into the department, that means that we can have our own faculty,” Perez said.

“The center never really had its own faculty in its history, and, so, we would have to work cooperatively with them to get our courses taught. It’s a tremendous opportunity for both our students and the faculty.”

The program has 25 students and six professors, but faculty and staff in the department hope to double enrollment.

“The major things that departmentalization does for

interesting and significant legal questions,” Fischer said. “It may be appropriate in a political sense, but it raises legal issues that haven’t been looked at fully before.”

In the book, Davis reveals she received two abortions for medical reasons in the 1990s.

Fischer said he had no problem with the contents of Davis’ memoir, although he thought the timing of the promotional tour is a potential issue.

“Really, I would’ve preferred to see this book come out before or after the races,” Fischer said. “I don’t think it needs to be part of the debate. I think issues need to be talked about primarily. I don’t think there is a solid legal or ethical issue with what she did.”

Alexander Parker, communications director for the University’s College Republicans chapter and finance and Plan II sophomore, said he understood why the questions were raised but thought they were not that important.

“I think there are some merits to raising some issue to the timing of it,” Parker said. “It is convenient timing but, to some extent, is about raising publicity, and that’s what these races are about.”

Parker said he thought voters would already have their minds made up, regardless of

Davis’ book.

“I would hope what’s going to influence people are the issues on the table,” Parker said. “This background is good, but, at the end of the day, it’s what the candidates have to offer.”

Katie Adams, University Democrats communication director and mechanical engineering senior, said she was sure the ethics commission would come to a decision eventually, but, for now, the story was more important.

“I’m so proud of her for sharing stories — how she struggled as a young mother to her overcoming her family tragedies. She really is a role model for Texans,” Adams said. “One in three women have had an abortion, so, statistically speaking, we all know someone who has had one. So many women hesitate to share. At her filibuster, she was a voice for people who couldn’t share.”

Adams said the timing of the book’s release should have no effect on the election.

“I think it’s important for people to reveal important decisions when they feel it’s right for them to share it,” Adams said. “Who am I to judge that?”

Davis will sign copies of her memoir at BookPeople on Thursday at 12:30 p.m.

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about the program,” Aguilar said. “But, if more people knew about it, I guarantee more would be interested.”

Having started in 2005, the GeoFORCE program just completed its 10th summer.

Dupree said BP’s donation will ensure the program continues to inspire and educate high school students.

students is it provides them with faculty that are 100 percent dedicated to teaching in the field,” GuidottiHernández said.

According to GuidottiHernández, the major will have three tracks — language

and cognition, cultural studies, and policy — which can be combined to suit the student’s particular interests and needs.

Guidotti-Hernández also said the department is also looking to develop a minor program by the end of the year.

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Professors debate US military involvement

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Paul Miller, associate director of the University’s Clements Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft, and Eugene Gholz, public affairs associate professor, presented opposing views on U.S. involvement in Afghanistan at an on-campus debate Tuesday.

In May, President Barack Obama announced the U.S. would end combat operations in Afghanistan in December but will continue to have a small presence in the country. The U.S. first became involved in the country in 2001, following the 9/11 attacks.

At the debate held at Sid Richardson Hall, Miller advocated keeping troops in Afghanistan and emphasized four key points: the threat of al-Qaida, the danger alQaida presents to an unstable Pakistan, democracy and humanitarianism.

“Al-Qaida is uniquely rooted in Pakistan and Afghanistan,” Miller said. “The possibility of civil war in Pakistan could lead to destabilization of this region and, ultimately, will affect the U.S.” In response, Gholz said the U.S. should shift focus away from Afghanistan.

“It’s time to move to other

concerns other than Afghanistan,” Gholz said.

His main argument centered on re-evaluating the national interest, understanding how Afghanistan now has primarily local concerns, and looking at other areas of the world that might require intervention.

“Afghanistan today is tangential to American national interest,” Gholz said.

After their opening remarks, each debater had a six-toseven-minute rebuttal period, followed by a mediator addressing points made by the speakers and ending with questions from the audience. Plan II sophomore Ellen Pennington said she had a particular interest in learning more about Afghanistan.

“I hadn’t heard about our trajectory in Afghanistan,” Pennington said. “I’ve heard about current issues in that region in general, but I didn’t know exactly why we got involved.”

According to Miller, as students acquire further knowledge about past and present foreign issues, these lessons will change how foreign policy gets enacted.

“A deep knowledge of history should affect future policy making,” Miller said. “I hope [students] learn the right lessons from [Afghanistan].”

Rachel Zein | Daily Texan Staff

Dr. Eugene Gholz speaks at a debate about America’s involvement in Afghanistan on Tuesday.

Sarah Montgomery | Daily Texan Staff

Dr. Michael Auslin, director of Japan Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, gave a lecture Tuesday to address economic and social issues in Asia.

Speaker raises concerns on Asian relations

By Aimée Santillán @thedailytexan

Claiming the U.S. faces an era of global disorder, Michael Auslin, director of Japan Studies at the American Enterprise Institute think tank, discussed political and social problems in Asia at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs on Tuesday.

Auslin, who is also a columnist for The Wall Street Journal Asia and a former Yale University history professor, said the U.S. government and governments of other major countries — including China and Japan — should work together to create a strategy that will help resolve political, economic and other types of issues in surrounding countries.

“All the U.S. or the United Nations does has an effect on the outside,”

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Auslin said.

Auslin is currently working on a monograph, or a written study of a specialized subject, called “Ocean of Risks,” which will explain why Asia is globally important. Auslin believes the American government needs to see where the trends of democracy, militarization and economics are going in the region.

“I argue that the long run for the United States— for the next two generations or so—is going to be dependent in terms of our standing [in] the status of the world,” Auslin said.

“Our economic health, our political influence and certainly the degree in which we uphold and maintain commitments around the world. And all of this is tied to Asia.”

I believe that the U.S. should be involved in Asia and have a clear goal of what they want to do.

—Jessica Carrillo, Global policy studies graduate student

The lecture was presented by the University’s Clements Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft. After the talk, Jessica Carrillo, global policy studies graduate student, said she believes the U.S. and other nations should be more involved in helping their less politically stable allies.

“It is very important that students understand this conflict for the benefit of the future,” Carrillo said. “I believe that the U.S. should be involved in Asia and have a clear goal of what they want to do.”

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As countries such as Ukraine and Syria face significant conflicts, Auslin believes the U.S. and other global powers should be concerned about the balance in Asia when it comes to power and stability.

“As Dr. Auslin said, there should be a significant presence from the U.S. and other countries in these and other regions,” public policy graduate student Megan Reiss said. “We need to back up our allies and strengthen relationships.”

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Mexican American Studies department long overdue On Tuesday, the University announced that it was creating a new Mexican American and Latina/o Studies department in addition to the existing Center for Mexican American Studies.

The move, which had been expected but previously delayed, is certainly important for personnel reasons, but it stands out more for the new level of recognition that it confers on an academic unit that struggled in the beginning just to get off the ground.

For Americo Parédes, the opening of UT’s Center for Mexican American Studies was the realization of a lifelong dream. During his tenure at UT, Parédes fought tirelessly for and secured the creation of a special Mexican American studies program at the University. This was no small feat, as Parédes had to combat entrenched anti-Mexican sentiment both within the University and within the surrounding community. But in 1970, CMAS was formally established within what is today the College of Liberal Arts, where it has been housed ever since.

Under Parédes’ direction, the center trained a new generation of folklorists, proud of their heritage and unafraid to challenge discrimination in all its rebarbative forms.

Among these was Olga Najera-Ramírez, an anthropology professor at the University of California, Santa Cruz and one of Parédes’ last students.

Najera-Ramírez recently expressed her support

of the decision to the Texan: “As founder and first director of CMAS, I believe [Parédes] would be quite pleased to see that [Mexican American studies will finally have] its own department. This is wonderful news and quite a tribute to [his] legacy.”

Admittedly, MALS will exist separate and apart from CMAS, but the new department couldn’t have been born without the hard work of Parédes and his successors. As Congressman Lloyd Doggett told the Texan on Tuesday, “[The creation of a Mexican American studies department] emphasizes the significance of the Center for Mexican American Studies. Its work recognizing, studying and honoring the contributions of Mexican Americans is about the future of Texas and the future of America.”

Now that Mexican American studies has been given the go-ahead to departmentalize, what tangible changes will it see on campus? Most importantly, it will no longer have to rely solely on the borrowed faculty of CMAS. This lends a certain amount of independence by allowing the department’s faculty to evaluate one another for hiring, promotion and tenure. Additionally, department status comes with a unique budget, and that increased dollar amount gives clout to any academic unit.

The addition of MALS to the campus will hopefully allow the work of early pioneers in the field to be continued and furthered.

COLUMN

Abbott’s policies benefit students

By Alexander Parker Guest Columnist

For students, education needs to be a priority in the upcoming Texas gubernatorial election.

Texas currently ranks 40th in the nation in terms of college graduates with only 27 percent of the population having a college degree compared to a national average of 41 percent. In order to take advantage of enormous opportunities this state has to offer, students need access to quality higher education more than ever. Attorney General and Gubernatorial Candidate Greg Abbott has an education plan to not only improve education in the short run, but also to make an education system sustainable for years to come.

The first step in resolving Texas’ education problems will be ensuring that all Texans have access to quality institutions at every stage of a student’s educational career. As students, we need the tools to adequately prepare for our futures. Greg Abbott recognizes the importance of access to quality institutions and explained his position in an interview after his speech to the Houston Realty Business Coalition. He pointed out that “Texas has four Tier One universities … California has nine. New York has seven… One of my goals as governor is to have more Tier One universities so that Texas is leading the way nationally and internationally in producing students who graduate from our higher education institutions.” Abbott will pursue many other creative options for making education more available at other levels. A grant program will encourage the growth of high quality digital learning in underperforming schools. Other recommendations laid out in Abbott’s education plans will provide students with a wide variety of digital learning programs. All of these initiatives will allow students unprecedented access to the quality education necessary to stay competitive.

Unfortunately, good intentions and money have never been enough to solve education’s many

problems. A system to ensure Texas’ education remains committed to excellence at a reasonable cost is needed as well. A study by the Cato Institute shows spending and educational achievement are unrelated with the academic achievement of students remaining “essentially stagnant … despite a near tripling of the inflation-adjusted cost of putting a child through the K-12 system” since the 1970s. A third variable is missing — accountability.

Senator Wendy Davis — Abbott’s competitor in the gubernatorial race — has a plan with good intentions and certainly plenty of money to go with it. The Houston Chronicle points out that not even Davis knows how much her plans will cost since her educational platform “did not have a cost estimate.” However, even with all that money Davis’ plans still lacks any mechanism to hold Texas education to a standard of excellence. Abbott’s plan includes many mechanisms to do just this.

Among the attorney general’s education proposals are two for the creation of a campus report card and a Texas Achievement School District. A campus report card would give parents and students greater information on their school’s performance in meeting academic standards. The report card would hold schools accountable to the standards of the state and to how similar schools were performing. A Texas Achievement School District would provide a way for consistently underperforming schools to get back on track. The lowest performing schools in the state would be put into this district in order to propel them back to providing quality education. The current Republican administration guided Texas to become the economic powerhouse that successfully weathered a recession and leads the nation in job growth. Another will ensure that students have the knowledge and skills to take advantage of these great opportunities our state has to offer.

Parker is the communications director of the UT College Republicans. He is a Plan II and Business Honors sophomore from Plano.

Kayla Jones / Daily Texan Staff

COLUMN

Militarization of nearby police forces dangerous to community

By Claire Smith Guest Columnist

Leander Police Department and Cedar Park Police Department recently joined the over 13,000 American communities benefitting from the Department of Defense’s 1033 Military Surplus Property Program, which redistributes surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies. Although most communities only receive basic equipment, both the acquisition of military vehicles and the lack of policies governing their use are dangerous.

Redistributing surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies is a good idea. CPPD has been able to take advantage, free of charge, of trauma kits and first-aid supplies that the military could no longer use. Both departments will also be able to use the two former-military Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicles, or MRAPs, that they acquired through the 1033 Program to resolve threatening situations with less risk to their officers and citizens. According to Lieutenant Chanse Thomas of Cedar Park, the vehicle would only be used to safely deliver personnel to emergency settings, such as an incident in Cedar Park involving an active shooter approximately 18 months ago. Lieutenant Derral Partin of Leander said rescue would be the primary purpose of the two armored vehicles under LPD’s jurisdiction, calling it a safer solution to natural disasters such as the 2007 floods in Leander.

Although neither agency has any reason to anticipate the need for such vehicles, both officers said it is the responsibility of law enforcement agencies to have equipment in the event of a threatening situation.

The danger of outsourcing military vehicles is the lack of standard procedures for their use. While most of the agencies benefitting from the 1033 Program only receive basic equipment, such as self-aid trauma kits, rifle optics and binoculars, others receive so-called “special equipment,” such as weaponry, armored vehicles and aircrafts. The problem with the assignment of “special equipment” is that there are no

governing protocols for their use from the U.S. Army, the federal government or the agencies now in possession of them.

Both CPPD and LPD said they would consider using the vehicles on a “case-bycase basis” but could not provide concrete policies. Additionally, CPPD and LPD differed on what they saw as the proper chain of command regarding the use of the vehicles: LPD said that Leander’s Chief of Police was the only person able to implement the vehicles, while CPPD said that the decision would fall to the seven commanding officers of its department. Finally, because MRAPs contain openings at the top, the machines may be used for offensive or defensive purposes; although both agencies only plan to use for the latter, there is no procedure ruling when the switch from defensive to offensive tactics should be made. In short, the use of these vehicles is completely at the discretion of the respective agencies.

The complete lack of standardized procedures is dangerous for communities. Leander and Cedar Park are not the only police departments in Central Texas that have acquired armored vehicles. If a threatening situation had arisen in the last five months, with no concrete regulations, the results could have been catastrophic.

Because both Cedar Park and Leander state that if the circumstances arose, both of their respective agencies would lend the vehicles to a neighboring community in need, the lack of procedures in place are dangerous to all Central Texas communities. The state government is the only body that could create uniform policies, procedures and standard orders for all law enforcement agencies in Texas. In light of recent events in Ferguson, Miss. and the recent militarization of Central Texas police forces, it should be the hope of every citizen in the upcoming elections that candidates aspiring to fill state or municipal offices propose viable solutions to such dangers.

Smith is a history junior from Austin, Texas. Follow her on Twitter @claireseysmith.

COLUMN

Stop Patriarchy protester: Don’t give up the fight for abortion rights

By Adrienne Luendo Guest Columnist

My name is Adrienne Luendo — I am a 23-year-old recent college graduate. More than that, I am an Abortion Rights Freedom Rider and was one of the five people arrested outside of the UT Austin campus on Aug. 27.

I protested because I feel responsible to act on what I know to be true. The closure of abortion clinics nationwide must be stopped because without the right to decide for themselves when and whether to have a child, women cannot be free. This responsibility is heavy, but it is not without great joy and honor to be part of something worth living and fighting for. I protested because I’m angry that college students are being silenced when campuses should be teeming with debate and dissent. This is our future, and we can do better than standing on the sidelines.

I wanted to challenge students, to show that young people have the ability and responsibility to change the trajectory of history, and that means putting our bodies on the line.

On Friday, Aug. 29, just two days after our

protest and arrest, Judge Lee Yeakel blocked — for now — the round of clinic closures that had been scheduled to take place across Texas on Sept. 1. This is great! However, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has already appealed this ruling and a hearing is set for Sept. 12 in New Orleans. In addition, over half of Texas’ abortion clinics already have been closed for the past two years, part of a dangerous pattern nationwide.

Everyone needs to know about this and needs to be part of the fight to change the way people think, talk, and act about abortion. “Abortion on Demand and Without Apology” is what Stop Patriarchy says. Abortion is the first word in the slogan. It’s not an afterthought, not a statement that abortion should be “rare.” It creates the possibility of conversations about why abortion should be unrestricted and spoken about without taboo, shame or stigma. Students are leaders, the future of this world and need to be speaking about abortion on those terms!

Some students were deeply inspired by our action on Guadalupe Street because they had never seen or been part of a protest. We

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sounded the alarm about the abortion rights emergency here in the U.S. and abroad — chanting facts, stories and questions. We wore all white and had blood stains on our pants to bring to life the reality that when abortion was illegal, 5,000 women per year died from botched abortions, and currently 47,000 women die each year globally from botched abortions.

“When was the last time someone told you to yell about women’s rights? It feels good to stand up for the lives of women,” Sunsara Taylor, initiator of the movement to End Pornography and Patriarchy: The Enslavement and Degradation of Women, yelled out to students. This is so true! Students and young people have grown up in a culture where talk about abortion is silenced because it’s controversial. But there should be nothing controversial about a woman making the decision of when and whether she will become a mother. It is immoral to force her into motherhood against her will.

Going to jail was an awful experience. We were treated as less than human, our prints taken, and were constantly searched and

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groped. I thought of the women who have to drive hours to the nearest clinic, scrape up money and often childcare, of women who inject themselves with birth control before crossing the border because they know there is a likelihood of rape while traveling, of the lives stolen by illegal and botched abortions, the countless stories of foreclosed lives. I stood for them and it was worth it!

Some students and drivers were angry because of the disruption to their lives. But that’s just a small dose of what it’d be like to be a woman without access to reproductive care. I call on students to stand up for women’s lives. If you don’t want to see the women of the world enslaved to their reproductive system, if you’re angry that some politicians will not stop until abortion is abolished, if you are tired of being silenced, if someone you love had an abortion, join up with StopPatriarchy.org. Listen to women’s stories. Tell your own. Start a chapter where you live. Because if you understand that forcing women into motherhood against their will is immoral and wrong, it’s up to you to do something about it.

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Professors debate US military involvement

By Chris Mendez @thedailytexan

Paul Miller, associate director of the University’s Clements Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft, and Eugene Gholz, public affairs associate professor, presented opposing views on U.S. involvement in Afghanistan at an on-campus debate Tuesday.

In May, President Barack Obama announced the U.S. would end combat operations in Afghanistan in December but will continue to have a small presence in the country. The U.S. first became involved in the country in 2001, following the 9/11 attacks.

At the debate held at Sid Richardson Hall, Miller advocated keeping troops in Afghanistan and emphasized four key points: the threat of al-Qaida, the danger alQaida presents to an unstable Pakistan, democracy and humanitarianism.

“Al-Qaida is uniquely rooted in Pakistan and Afghanistan,” Miller said. “The possibility of civil war in Pakistan could lead to destabilization of this region and, ultimately, will affect the U.S.” In response, Gholz said the U.S. should shift focus away from Afghanistan.

“It’s time to move to other

concerns other than Afghanistan,” Gholz said.

His main argument centered on re-evaluating the national interest, understanding how Afghanistan now has primarily local concerns, and looking at other areas of the world that might require intervention.

“Afghanistan today is tangential to American national interest,” Gholz said.

After their opening remarks, each debater had a six-toseven-minute rebuttal period, followed by a mediator addressing points made by the speakers and ending with questions from the audience. Plan II sophomore Ellen Pennington said she had a particular interest in learning more about Afghanistan.

“I hadn’t heard about our trajectory in Afghanistan,” Pennington said. “I’ve heard about current issues in that region in general, but I didn’t know exactly why we got involved.”

According to Miller, as students acquire further knowledge about past and present foreign issues, these lessons will change how foreign policy gets enacted.

“A deep knowledge of history should affect future policy making,” Miller said. “I hope [students] learn the right lessons from [Afghanistan].”

Rachel Zein | Daily Texan Staff

Dr. Eugene Gholz speaks at a debate about America’s involvement in Afghanistan on Tuesday.

Sarah Montgomery | Daily Texan Staff

Dr. Michael Auslin, director of Japan Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, gave a lecture Tuesday to address economic and social issues in Asia.

Speaker raises concerns on Asian relations

By Aimée Santillán @thedailytexan

Claiming the U.S. faces an era of global disorder, Michael Auslin, director of Japan Studies at the American Enterprise Institute think tank, discussed political and social problems in Asia at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs on Tuesday.

Auslin, who is also a columnist for The Wall Street Journal Asia and a former Yale University history professor, said the U.S. government and governments of other major countries — including China and Japan — should work together to create a strategy that will help resolve political, economic and other types of issues in surrounding countries.

“All the U.S. or the United Nations does has an effect on the outside,”

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Auslin said.

Auslin is currently working on a monograph, or a written study of a specialized subject, called “Ocean of Risks,” which will explain why Asia is globally important. Auslin believes the American government needs to see where the trends of democracy, militarization and economics are going in the region.

“I argue that the long run for the United States— for the next two generations or so—is going to be dependent in terms of our standing [in] the status of the world,” Auslin said.

“Our economic health, our political influence and certainly the degree in which we uphold and maintain commitments around the world. And all of this is tied to Asia.”

I believe that the U.S. should be involved in Asia and have a clear goal of what they want to do.

—Jessica Carrillo, Global policy studies graduate student

The lecture was presented by the University’s Clements Center for History, Strategy and Statecraft. After the talk, Jessica Carrillo, global policy studies graduate student, said she believes the U.S. and other nations should be more involved in helping their less politically stable allies.

“It is very important that students understand this conflict for the benefit of the future,” Carrillo said. “I believe that the U.S. should be involved in Asia and have a clear goal of what they want to do.”

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As countries such as Ukraine and Syria face significant conflicts, Auslin believes the U.S. and other global powers should be concerned about the balance in Asia when it comes to power and stability.

“As Dr. Auslin said, there should be a significant presence from the U.S. and other countries in these and other regions,” public policy graduate student Megan Reiss said. “We need to back up our allies and strengthen relationships.”

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Strong trying to get message across

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Last week, head coach Charlie Strong redecorated the Longhorn locker room, filling it with images from the 2013 loss to BYU in Provo, Utah. He posted photos of BYU quarterback Taysom Hill running all over the Texas defense, stats from the record-breaking performance and more — all in an attempt to motivate his players.

But Strong didn’t mean for the decorations to stay up all week.

“Anywhere else I would have been, some player would have ran through there and tore all that down and probably would have burned it in the locker room,” Strong said. “There would have been a fire in the locker room. They would have done something with it, or they would have just balled it up and threw it in the middle of the floor. But nobody did anything.”

The new boss was disappointed. He was testing his players, hoping to see just how badly they wanted to avenge last year’s loss.

“I did it for a reason, just to see what we would do,” Strong said. “I wanted to see if somebody would just get pissed, and somebody would pull it down, and then, the next day, go there and put it up again, somebody walk through there and tear it down again.”

His players, however, didn’t even think about

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touching the new decor — let alone tearing it down.

“We really didn’t know that’s what he wanted us to do,” senior defensive back Quandre Diggs said. “You don’t want to rip it down and be in the pit with Coach Moorer. I did want to rip the stuff down, but I didn’t want to be the guy to get yelled at for ripping them down.

The apparent miscommunication is just one example of several recent incidents that appear to indicate Strong is still having difficulty

getting his message across to the players.

Take, for example, the curious case of junior offensive lineman Desmond Harrison.

Harrison was suspended for the season opener against North Texas for a violation of team rules.

Strong lifted Harrison’s suspension the Monday after the game, and he was to play against BYU. But, less than 48 hours later, Strong suspended Harrison yet again for another violation of team rules.

Clearly, some players are either struggling to understand what Strong expects from them or simply don’t care to conform.

Strong insists that the majority of the team is onboard, but did acknowledge his frustration with persistent issues within the team.

“When you look at it, you have 95 percent of the team that are doing it the right way,” Strong said. “You get frustrated because you look at a talented group of players that you have to suspend that

could really be helping this football team.”

As with all change, there was an expectation that the transition from former head coach Mack Brown to Strong would take some time for players to get used to. But it’s been nine months now, and it still seems as though Strong and his players aren’t on the same page.

How much longer will it take for that to happen? The answer could determine how much this year’s team is capable of accomplishing.

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Men’s soccer hopeful despite lesser budget

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Junior running back Johnathan Gray and the Longhorns averaged just 122.5 rushing yards in their first two games, after averaging 196.2 yards per game on the ground in 2013.

Numbers say Longhorns need greater production from backs

By Peter Sblendorio @petersblendorio

Entering the season, the veteran running back tandem of Malcolm Brown and Johnathan Gray appeared to be the clear strength of the Texas offense.

Through two games, though, the rushing attack has failed to come close to that billing. It is still early in the season, of course, but history indicates the Longhorns need much more production out of their backfield if they hope to contend for a conference title.

In their past two Big 12 championship seasons, the Longhorns thrived behind a dynamic rushing attack.

In 2005, the Texas ground game led the conference with astounding totals of 274.9 rushing yards per game, 5.9 yards per carry and 55 rushing touchdowns en route to the fourth national championship in school history.

In 2009, its most recent Big 12 championship season, Texas once again led the Big 12 with 28 touchdowns on the ground, while finishing fifth in the conference with a respectable 147.6 rushing

yards per game.

The Longhorns’ running game this year has been a far cry from those impressive seasons. Through two contests in 2014, Texas ranks ninth in the conference with a meager 122.5 rush yards per game, and no team in the Big 12 has a worse average than the Longhorns’ 3.3 yards per carry. These struggles are a major part of why the Longhorns rank ninth in the Big 12 with 22.5 points per game and 305.5 yards of total offense.

Texas was especially bad Saturday against BYU, when it managed just 82 rushing yards on 35 carries for a paltry average of 2.3 yards per carry. Still, the Longhorns weren’t exactly a model of consistency in running the ball in the opener against North Texas, either.

Gray led Texas with 82 yards on 16 carries against the Mean Green, but more than half of that came on a single 42-yard run. He averaged just 2.7 yards per attempt on his other 15 carries. Brown had a similar performance, as 26 of his 65 rushing yards came on a single run.

If 2013 is any indicator, the Longhorns will need a greater output from their running backs if they hope to contend for a conference title. Texas averaged 225.1 rush yards per game in its eight wins last season but managed just 150 yards per contest on the ground in its five losses.

This season, however, it may be tough for the Longhorns to turn things around.

Texas is currently down three starters on an already inexperienced offensive line, with senior center Dominic Espinosa out for the season with a broken ankle and tackles junior Kennedy Estelle and senior Desmond Harrison serving indefinite suspensions. Couple that with teams likely to stuff the box with sophomore backup quarterback Tyrone Swoopes under center, and it becomes clear that running lanes could be hard to come by for Gray and Brown.

If Gray and Brown can’t overcome these disadvantages and lead the Longhorns like they have in the past, the numbers suggest it could be a difficult season for the Texas offense.

Earlier this month, the Texas men’s soccer team started it’s season off with bad news.

The team’s alumni association released a statement Friday saying UT RecSports has reduced the team’s budget, pushing head coach Matt Prewett to rely on more than just his team to have a successful season.

While “school comes first” for the team, the players are reaching out to the Longhorn community for support to make sure they have a successful season on and off the field.

Prewett — in his 12th year at the helm of the team — remains confident in his team’s ability after a promising start to the season.

“This should be a breakout year for this group,” Prewett said. “We are fully focused on winning back the [Texas Collegiate Soccer League] conference championship again in 2014.”

The team has won four conference championships previously, with its last TCSL title win coming in 2010.

After official tryouts ended last week, the team won their first match of the season against Sam Houston State, 5-1, in

Huntsville. Prewett said several of the club players had offers from Division I, II and III schools but chose to attend Texas instead.

“This year’s team is the most competitive since I have been involved with coaching this club,” Prewett said. “That says a lot because we’ve had talented groups in the past.”

Senior defender David Cornyn has been on the team for three years.

“There’s a lot of talent on this team,” Cornyn said. “We believe we’re going to be a major threat this season.”

Last year, Texas qualified for the NIRSA national championship after a well-played season, only to have the tournament canceled indefinitely because of bad weather.

The Longhorns want another shot at nationals this year, and Cornyn said more support from the Texas community would boost the team’s morale.

“The club enjoys support from the students,” Cornyn said. “Especially for our rivalry games, such as Texas A&M and Texas Tech.”

The next game kicks off Thursday at 7:30 p.m. against the Lonestars U18. The most anticipated matchup of the season comes Oct. 24, during a home match against Texas A&M.

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SPORTS BRIEFLY Shipley questionable for game vs. UCLA

Texas announced Tuesday that senior wide receiver Jaxon Shipley is questionable for Saturday’s game against No. 12 UCLA, after suffering a head injury this past weekend against BYU. Shipley played into the fourth quarter against the Cougars, making five receptions for 46 yards. He’s second on the Longhorns this season with 11 receptions for 79 yards. No further details about the injury were released.

Texas talking about series with Michigan

According to multiple reports, Texas is negotiating a home-and-home football series with Michigan to take place during the 2020s. The dates have reportedly not yet been decided, but talks are going well. The potential matchup would feature two of college football’s most successful programs. Michigan has the most wins in college football history, with 911, while Texas is tied with Notre Dame for second most, with 876 victories.

The Longhorns won their only game in school history against Michigan, with a 38-37 victory in the 2005 Rose Bowl.

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LAUREN L’AMIE, LIFE&ARTS EDITOR | @DailyTexanArts Wednesday, September 10, 2014

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Art club attracts varied students

By Kate Dannenmaier

Members of Collaborative Artists stand together at a meeting Friday. Collaborative Artists is a social club open to all majors that allows students to express their artistic sides

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After a long week of coding, computer science junior Kevin Hwang just wants to sit down and doodle. Collaborative Artists, a social club open to all majors, provides a space for him to do just that.

Hwang, the club’s webmaster, said most of the members of Collaborative Artists, or CA for short, are natural sciences or engineering students like him. Every Friday night, they get a chance to express their artistic sides.

“You have these math and science intensive courses all week, and it’s very easy to lose sight of your artistic passion when you’re just flooded with math and science stuff all the time,” Hwang said.

“So CA is just a good way to make sure you’re drawing or doing something creative every single week.”

CA’s weekly meetings often have themes. Hwang said members are allowed to draw or make whatever they want, but the club offers optional activities for members who are not working on a project that week. At last week’s meeting, members were asked to scribble for 30 seconds and then hand it to the person sitting next to them to turn the scribble into a work of art.

Club president Will Ripley, a management information systems and computer science senior, said CA is just as much of a social club as it is an art club.

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“I don’t think I’m the greatest artist, but I guess that’s the awesome point at CA,” Hwang said. “There are some people who don’t even do art. I know several people who come here just to hang because we’re that awesome.”

Public relations junior Autumn Taylor wanted to be an artist in high school but decided against it once she came to college. Taylor joined CA to continue pursuing art in college, and she said she made some

of her closest friends in the process.

“We had a Bob Ross night, and, so, we had an entire DVD set of Bob Ross playing on the big screen while people were supposed to be doing landscapes,” Taylor said. “We don’t take ourselves too seriously.”

While some people go to CA to hang out, others take on big projects. Last year, the club’s public relations officer took up ballroom dancing and practiced during

meetings. One of CA’s former presidents made a foam cosplay suit.

“One person last year made antlers out of wire and foil, so you can really bring what you want and do your own thing,” Ripley said. “We don’t have stacks of gold for your gold sculpture, but, if you have stacks of gold and a smelter, you can do it here.”

Ripley said it isn’t in the spirit of CA to charge dues, but the lack of funding

sometimes makes it difficult for the club to pay for some activities. Ripley said they have started to get commissions for artwork.

“We want to make it more stable to essentially have funds, where we can start buying supplies for members,” Ripley said. “It certainly helps when you have a source to rely on.”

Ripley said CA is hoping to coordinate with another University group to build a sculpture for National Cyber

Security Awareness Month.

They plan to build the sculpture out of computer scraps, and they hope to place it in the Flawn Academic Center for the entire month of October.

“When I first joined freshman year, we thought of CA as just a hangout, as a space for art,” Hwang said. “Now, we’re getting more involved in the community. We’re getting commissions, and we’re starting to get out and share our art with the world.”

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Alumna captures her dreams, Students kayak, eat cake to de-stress takes professional head shots

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By Danielle Lopez @ldlopz

Every morning, Korey Howell strolls down her block, past her neighborhood’s gate and arrives for work at the doors of her brightly lit studio, Korey Howell Photography.

When Howell graduated from UT in 1990 with an organizational communications degree, she aspired to be a hair and makeup artist. Instead, she found a passion for photography that led her to open her photography studio in North Austin. This year, she is nominated for the Texas Women in Business’ Woman Entrepreneur of the Year award.

“I have fun because I picked something I really enjoy,” Howell said.

“Every client quickly becomes my new best friend, and the photos are just a memento.”

In 1987, Howell left her home in Corpus Christi to begin studying at UT. With her sights set on beauty school, Howell worked to graduate in 3 years.

“There weren’t many things I was involved with,” Howell said. “All I did was study, go to class, exercised occasionally and that was probably the extent of it.”

Howell spent her last semester working as a makeup artist for Headshots, the studio where she picked up her photography skills. After four months with Headshots, Howell was asked to stay with the company to open new studio locations.

“Under them, I ended up traveling across the country, including Hawaii and Puerto Rico,” Howell said. “I did that up until 1999 when I got burned out.”

But it was not until 2006

Photo courtesy of Olympia Sobande

UT graduate Korey Howell founded Korey Howell Photography, a studio specializing in business portraits.

that Howell found the need to return to photography.

That year, Howell’s parents died, her husband and sister were both diagnosed with cancer, and her brother was involved in a drunken driving accident.

“I spent a bunch of time taking care of everybody else,” Howell said. “I realized that I hadn’t been taking care of myself. So I opened up a teeny, tiny studio, no more than 100 square feet.”

Over the next eight years, Howell moved to her current location, added three members to her team and created a brand that specializes in business headshots and portraits for corporations.

“It was pretty easy,” Howell said. “I know that to the outside world and to some of my other friends they think, ‘Oh, you take such risks,’ but I really don’t. I only do sure things.”

Freelance photography, events and family portraits do not appeal to Howell. She enjoys the structured nature of photographing businessmen and businesswomen in controlled settings.

“She’s more businessminded,” studio manager Victoria VanOsselaer said.

“Her brain just goes, goes and goes.”

Howell has made a name for herself, partially through her studio’s involvement with different charities and organizations, including St. David’s Medical Centers, the American Heart Association and Austin Pets Alive.

“We’ve found that the more we give to the community, the more the community gives back to us,” Howell said.

Howell remembers her friends leaving Austin once they graduated. She said she made her own jobs where she wanted to be. “[Howell] likes to do things her own way,” said Olympia Sobande, the on-location team photographer and retoucher.

“She definitely couldn’t do it any differently, that’s for sure.”

Howell said her life has turned out better than she ever expected.

“You can enjoy your work,” Howell said. “But try not to put all your expectations into one. Don’t just assume that, if you do what you love, it’ll all work out. You have to work hard, too. The harder I work, the luckier I get.”

For the past few months, architecture juniors Joanne Koola and Zoe Brown have been recruiting students for their new student-run club — Canoeing and Kayaking Enthusiasts, better known as C.A.K.E. Koola and Brown said members will go kayaking and canoeing with groups for about an hour every other week and share a few desserts along the way.

During an architecture class their freshman year, Koola and Brown discovered they shared a love for kayaking and wanted to get involved in a kayaking club on campus. Unfortunately, UT did not have any such club for them join because, Brown said, UT doesn’t have a dock to provide to students.

“I think this could be a really big part of UT,” Koola said. “Because of its location and the culture of Austin, there are a lot of enthusiastic people that are willing to commit, and we’re excited about it.”

Jessica Sadasivan, vicepresident of C.A.K.E. and an architecture junior, will

be one of the floaters leading the members.

“I really love kayaking,” Sadasivan said. “I don’t know how many times I’ve gone kayaking, but it’s something that’s fun and relaxing. This is one of the few clubs at UT that gets involved with the rest of Austin. We’re kind of like a social leisure club.”

Since the club’s first meeting announcement, 50 students have joined, and the number keeps growing. Koola said, because of the amount of interest the group has received, the kayaking outings will be split into biweekly groups led by officers. At each outing, cake will be provided to the members.

“We’re creating another social environment through cake,” Sadasivan said.

Sadasivan intends to get involved in kayaking for sport and to meet new people.

“For architecture students, we live in a small hole on campus, and we’re sucked into it,” Koola said. “We never get to meet anyone, so I think it’s a great opportunity for us to meet other people.”

In order to accommodate busy students, meetings will

I think this could be a really big part of UT. Because of its location and the culture of Austin, there are a lot of enthusiastic people that are willing to commit, and we’re excited about it.

—Joanne Koola, Architecture juniorr

be held on campus in a more laid-back atmosphere.

Koola said she’s approaching her hardest semester in architecture, and this club will be serve as a way to destress and meet new people outside of her major.

“We know that, once the school year starts, people aren’t going to want to leave campus for like an hour to go kayaking,” Sadasivan said. “So, because the whole acronym C.A.K.E. fit, we figured we’ll just provide a few meetings where everyone can take a break from studying and eat some cake.”

Amy Zhang| Daily Texan Staff

Architecture juniors Jolene Byford, Joanne Koola, Zoe Brown and Jessica Sadasivan are officers of Canoeing and Kayaking Enthusiasts, or C.A.K.E.

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