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One year in, MOOCs still face issues
Former band director dies, leaves longlasting legacy
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It’s been a year since UT launched its first massive open online courses, or MOOCs, and, despite low completion rates, Steven Mintz, executive director of the UT System’s Institute for Transformational Learning, said they are the learning platform of the future. After looking at data from the University’s first eight MOOCs from the fall 2013 and spring 2014 semesters,
Mintz said a total of about 281,000 people from all over the world enrolled in the courses. Of this number, only about 1-13 percent complete the MOOCs. Mintz, who is also a history professor at the University, said there might be several reasons for the low completion rates, including the age of MOOC students and their motives for taking the free online courses. “Your parents aren’t paying $10,000 for you to be sitting in a class, and they expect
you to finish,” Mintz said. “It’s a very different experience. Also, most MOOC students are older. They often have degrees. They’re doing it either out of interest or because of professional credentialing. They’re not there to get a BA for the most part.” In 2012, the UT System invested $5 million into edX, an online learning platform and provider of MOOCs and pledged an additional $5 million to be used for course development. Founded in 2012,
edX first offered MOOCs created by Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before expanding to offer content from other universities. Mintz said UT is increasing the spread of its international image, and its ability to compete with other top colleges by being one of the first universities to use MOOC technology. “We play football in the big leagues, and, academically, we need to be in the big leagues,” Mintz said. “Faculty members
of the caliber that UT-Austin has need to feel that they have exactly the same opportunities as a Princeton professor or a Harvard professor, and I want to make sure they have those opportunities.” Engineering associate professor Michael Webber, who taught the “Energy 101” MOOC, said teaching these free courses is beneficial for the University because professors become better at teaching
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McEwan presents new novel at HRC By Nidia Cavazos @thedailytexan
Award-winning novelist Ian McEwan presented his new novel, “The Children Act,” at the Harry Ransom Center on Wednesday. McEwan is well known for his short stories and novels for adults and has won various awards for his distinguished works, including “Amsterdam,” “First Love” and “The Child in Time.” The Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at the University, became home to McEwan’s archive in May. The archive includes drafts of his already published novels and some unpublished material from his adolescent career. McEwan said his newest novel was born from his interest in how one makes judgements. “As ethical decisions are to
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Author Ian McEwan signs books after a reading of his new novel, “The Children Act,” on Wednesday evening. McEwan’s archive now resides in The Harry Ransom Center on campus.
By Eleanor Dearman @ellydearman
Vincent DiNino, a retired UT band director, died Tuesday night at age 95. He was with his family members at his home in Bay City, Utah, after being transferred from St. Luke’s Medical Center in Houston. DiNino was hired as the first full-time UT band director in 1955 and served in the position for 30 years. After retirement he remained involved with the program throughout his life. Director of Bands Jerry Junkin said DiNino was generous with the department both financially and as a mentor. “All of our current students knew him, who he was, and loved him,” Junkin said. “They adored as much as the students who were in the band when he was a director.” Junkin said DiNino had an incredible memory and a “flare” about him that came naturally and made people feel like his best friend. “He could remember and could recall, I’m sure to his dying days, the names of virtually every student he ever taught,” Junkin said. “But not only that, where they were from, their their parents names were, what they did for a living, the names of their children and all of that.” According to Robert Carnochan, the current director of the Longhorn Band, when DiNino was first hired the band had only white male
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Chevrolet announces UT-edition truck
UT keeps position in top 20 in Teach for America
By Lauren Velez @thedailytexan
Chevrolet announced its plan to release a UTedition Silverado in October as a part of their longstanding partnership with UT Athletics. Chevrolet’s product specialist Ben Reinke said Chevy wanted to make a special truck for Longhorn fans, when the new truck was announced earlier this month. “The Chevy Silverado is a major part of Texas culture,” Reinke said. “The truck is not only popular among UT students and coaches but also embodies Texas as a whole.” The University has over 20 corporate media and promotional sponsors, who all advertise heavily at UT sporting events. Christine Plonsky, director of UT women’s athletics, said Chevy is considered an integrated partner of Texas Athletics and is proving to be one of UT’s most significant sponsors. Plonsky said she thinks
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Chevy’s new release of the sunset orange metallic Silverado could help to boost Chevy’s image within the University community. “It takes a high level of commitment for a business to be able to call itself an ‘official sponsor,’” Plonsky said. “These partnerships are typically worth up to six or seven
figures. Chevrolet has stepped up significantly with wanting to be a part of Texas athletics. They know the state of Texas is a huge market for this particular product.” According to Plonsky, UT’s marketing team and fan base will play a large role in marketing the truck because of the
collaborative nature of Chevy’s relationship with Texas athletics. “We’re very much a part of these pitches,” Plonsky said. “We approve all the artwork you see, right down to the color. It’s a collaborative partnership. Every single
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For the seventh consecutive year, UT held its position in the top 20 largest colleges and universities whose students join the Teach For America program. This year, 63 graduates from the University joined Teach For America, or TFA, placing fourth among large universities with alumni involved in the organization. TFA is a nonprofit organization, founded in 1990, in which recent college graduates and professionals teach in low-income communities for two years. Since TFA’s establishment, more than 28,000 members have completed their two-year mission to help eliminate educational inequality, according to the nonprofit’s website. TFA employees can become members of AmeriCorps, a federal service organization, and receive student loan forgiveness, educational awards and payment to
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pursue further education after spending two years with TFA. Lexie Heller, national recruitment team manager for TFA, said the University continues to make the list every year because of the energy of its graduating students. “Longhorns are passionate, diverse, service-oriented and high-quality in terms of their academic abilities and leadership potential,” Heller said. According to Heller, TFA provides graduating students with opportunities to help underprivileged children achieve academic success. “My experience with TFA was overwhelmingly positive,” Heller said. “I taught high school social studies in San Antonio, and my students achieved truly unprecedented academic success.” Undeclared freshman Brandon Chan said he did not know much about TFA, but he was skeptical about teaching students who didn’t own a computer.
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DiNino also started the tradition of orange and white western-style band uniforms, said Carnochan. “The uniforms that we currently wear are a design that we’ve modified somewhat since his time, creating this very iconic Texas cowboy look that other people have tried to copy throughout the country,” Carnochan said. Carnochan said DiNino is an iconic members of the
UT community, “We always talk about the people that ‘bleed burnt orange’ in the Longhorn nation,” Carnochan, said. “If there were going to be a president of that organization, he would be at the top of that list. He truly, truly loved The University of Texas and the Longhorn band.” DiNino is survived by his wife Timothy Ann Hardy Sloan.
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developed for MOOCs that can be used in UT classrooms. “Instead of having a textbook, the MOOC might be the textbook,” Mintz said. “A lot of money is being spent to create interactives, virtual laboratories, virtual reality environments and immersive learning experiences. Even if you never take a MOOC, some of the materials we have developed for the MOOC will be used in classes you will take.” Mintz said there is also
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dollar counts for us, and we’re very grateful for them believing in our enterprise and supporting Longhorn sports.” Reinke said he believes Chevrolet gets just as much publicity from the partnership. “We get our name out there to all the students, coaches and fans,” Reinke said. “When they see our brand at games and tailgating events, we’re building up our reputation.” Jaclyn Kachelmeyer, international relations and Plan II senior and director of UT’s Campus Environmental Center, said the Silverado’s release could serve as a platform for initiating a campus-wide conversation on how UT markets itself within Austin. “It would be nice to see UT move towards a more sustainable vehicle,” Kachelmeyer said. “[The vehicle’s release] is a great opportunity to talk about how we choose to market ourselves, and
“It just seems like it might be hard to teach computers to kids that might not even own one,” Chan said. “That might make it all the more rewarding.” Chan said AmeriCorps seemed like an opportunity to pay off
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be made on a daily basis, I began to take an interest in how judgments are made,” McEwan said. “It is not only judges who have to make verdicts.” Virginia Reeves, a former member of the University’s Michener Center for Writers, who attended the presentation, said the McEwan archive is a great opportunity to get a closer look at information that only scholars or students writing their dissertations would be able to access. “You get to see letters and drafts that have not been published, so I think it’s a wonderful thing,” Reeves said. McEwan said the idea of judgements remains a focal point throughout the novel, first making an appearance in the first chapter. McEwan said his book is based on the idea that making judgments and verdicts often carries grave consequences. Following the presentation,
Ransom Center members and students formed long lines to buy copies of the novel and get an autograph from McEwan. Shannon Geison, a finance and government sophomore, said McEwan’s reading gave her a better understanding of his work that she read while she was in high school. “In high school, I read ‘Atonement,’ which is probably regarded as his most famous book, and I absolutely loved it,” Geison said. “I really enjoyed seeing more of his work because I had only read one and was thus really excited to learn more about it and especially him reading it himself.” Michener Center Director James Magnuson said McEwen’s presence was welcome at the Ransom Center as he is one of the most distinguished novelists of his generation. “We are very happy to bring him back to Austin, and certainly any publication of Ian McEwan is reason enough for celebration,” Magnuson said.
potential in the future for MOOCs to be offered for credit, but Harrison Keller, vice provost for higher education policy and research, said there are still problems to be worked out before this can happen. “One of the problems with offering MOOCs for credit center around being able to authenticate who is taking the MOOC,” Keller said. “You don’t know if it’s the same person every time.”
In addition to making sure the person who registers for the MOOC is the same person taking their exams, Webber said MOOCs are bad at being able to see whether students have mastered the material. “I don’t think MOOCs should be offered as course credit until assessment in general gets figured out,” Webber said. “This is a solvable problem. We’re just not there yet.”
student loans while helping low-income students. “I’ve taken out some pretty harsh loans for college, but teaching computers to children in poorer communities and paying off my loans, while still earning a steady paycheck, sounds like something I’ll definitely look into,” Chan said.
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In a lecture Wednesday evening, Carly Kocurek, digital humanities and media studies assistant professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology discusses the nostalgia and gender bias surrounding video games.
Visiting professor talks about gaming By Mackenzie Palmer @thedailytexan
Video game enthusiast Carly Kocurek discussed the historical significance of personal gaming consoles and arcades at a public lecture Wednesday. Kocurek, digital humanities and media studies assistant professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology, discussed the world of gaming and the individuals who refer to themselves as “gamers” during the lecture. According to Kocurek, who is in the process of releasing a book covering her recent research of the history and experience of the arcade, the 1970s were the “Golden Era” of arcade gaming. Kocurek said personal
consoles started to rise in popularity following the introduction of the Japanese Nintendo into American gaming culture. Arcades fell in prominence because the cost of personal consoles became significantly cheaper over time than arcade gaming, Kocurek said. “Parents buy these consoles for their children, [and] in return they know where they are, and, as well, aren’t being bothered for more quarters,” Kocurek said. According to Kocurek, arcade gaming and themed bars are rising in popularity in the U.S. One example of this type of establishment is Barcade — a half bar and half arcade with numerous locations. Kocurek said
she believes this is because older generations, who grew up on arcade games, are starting to feel nostalgic for their childhood. Kirsten Ronald, an American studies graduate student, said she has noticed how nostalgia plays a role in people’s interests as they age and has related it to her studies of social dance, specifically the two-step. “Two-stepping and arcade gaming both show an old way of life,” Ronald said. Kocurek said these games may not be easy to preserve, but users often believe it’s worth it. “People just really love games, and this is a way to makes things different,” Kocurek said. Kocurek said gaming cul-
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ture surrounds the theme of “boys becoming men” and typically has poor representation of women and girls. Kocurek said this is because of the false assumption that women don’t like to play or even can’t play video games. Kocurek also said men often think video games need to be protected from women, who play social games, such as those on Facebook. “Men believe it’s a place for men to be men,” Kocurek said. Andrew Gansky, an American studies graduate student who attended the event, said the lecture helped him understand the history of gaming. “[It’s] interesting to hear the historical roots,” Gansky said.
The name Dell may be synonymous with computers, but a younger Dell has his eyes set on online dating. Zach Dell, son of Dell Inc. founder Michael Dell, will launch a new dating app called “Thread” to connect college students. The official release party will be Sept. 20 at the Fiji house, with admission granted to anyone who has downloaded the app. Sebastian Bruce, a computer science and economics senior and founder of StartATX, a UT organization that promotes entrepreneurship, spoke to Dell about creating the app. “He raised a little bit over a half a million and with that was able to find really good developers, designers and a new co-founder, who went to Wharton,” Bruce said. “You can date within your college or university, so it’s very close knit, rather than “Tinder”, where you just meet some random person,” Bruce said. “You have to have a ‘.edu’ email in order to join.” Dell, who is a senior at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School, said he connected with investors in Austin who have contributed more than $600,000 in funding. Dell said his first investor was Robbie Yeager, a friend of both Dell and Bruce. Yeager invested $100,000 in the project in 2013, making him the largest contributor. “At first I wasn’t so sure, but, when I talked to [Dell], I could see how passionate he was about the project,” Yeager said. With its launch, Thread will be joining a host of other apps that foster dating and interactions among specified
No company was going out of their way to create a safe environment, especially for women. —Zach Dell Founder of “Thread”
groups of people. Dell said an important difference between Thread and other apps is the exclusivity that requires all users to be college students. “Thread is 100 percent college exclusive,” Dell said. “You have a filtering mechanism to your college; this increases the safety of using the app.” In narrowing down the pool of community members who access the app, Dell said he intends to increase the degree of safety for users. “With Thread, there are many safety mechanisms — a lot to protect women,” Dell said. According to Dell, he became interested in contributing to the online dating industry when he realized that use by younger generations was increasing. “A lot of people thought people who are younger were interested in online dating, but what I saw was that it turned into a creepy industry,” Dell said. “No company was going out of their way to create a safe environment, especially for women.” Dell said he could see several opportunities for improving existing online dating options. Currently, the app is available exclusively for use at UT, but Dell said in the future, he intends to expand the service to other colleges and universities.
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The attacks 9/11 revisited Don’t generalize fear of Muslims on 9/11 define our generation By Amil Malik
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By William Inboden Guest Columnist
Every generation has its “Where Were You When…?” dates. For my parents’ generation — the most poignant “where were you when” question is the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 21, 1963. The moment that, for each American who heard that awful news, is forever seared in their memories. In my generation’s childhood years, the main such moments were hearing that President Ronald Reagan had been shot, and five years later learning that the space shuttle Challenger had exploded. Those were my generation’s defining dates — until Sept. 11, 2001. That day I was in Washington, D.C. I had just moved back three weeks earlier, returning after a three-year hiatus for graduate school to the city where I had previously lived and worked for several years. My daily commute took me right past the Pentagon, just 200 yards from the spot where the hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 would tear a hideous gash into the building. On that morning I left the house around 6:45 a.m. for a breakfast meeting on Capitol Hill. Never would I have imagined that within three hours of driving by, the Pentagon would become the first Washington building attacked in wartime since the British burned the city almost two centuries earlier. After my breakfast I parked my truck on Capitol Hill and took the Metro to my office at the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank six blocks from the White House. Shortly after arriving at my desk, one of my interns came over with a quizzical look and said that an airplane had just hit the World Trade Center. Curious, I opened the Washington Post website to a headline saying the same thing but offering no details. My immediate guess was that a small private plane must have accidentally collided with the building. Assuming there was nothing more to the story, I resumed work. A few minutes later my intern came running back and said that a second plane had hit the other World Trade Center building. Almost simultaneously, another colleague yelled that “the Pentagon has been hit, we are under attack!” It was simultaneously frightening and surreal as I tried to make sense of the discordance between the possibility that we were in our last minutes of life and the fact that our office felt as comfortable and placid as any other day. There was no smoke or fire, no clanging alarms, no gunshots, no masked men yelling — none of the things that I assumed an attack would bring. All that changed minutes later when a few colleagues and I went outside on the roof of our building. Across the river, a black pillar of smoke buried the Pentagon and stretched miles into the sky, magnitudes larger and more terrifying than any fire I had ever seen. I ran back down to my desk and phoned my parents in Tucson. When my mother answered I quickly blurted, “Mom, I just want you to know that I am OK.” Bewildered, she asked, “What do you mean?” Realizing that Arizona was three hours behind the East Coast and she had just woken up, I told her to “turn on the TV, we’re under attack, I love you and will call back later!” Now chaos and confusion set in. Someone else ran over and reported that the State Department had just been hit. Another person said that a bomb had just been set off at the Washington Monument. Yet another said that gunmen were attacking the White House. None of that was true, yet at the time we did not know, and given the smoke from the Pentagon descending across the rest of the city, any terrible report seemed possible. Nor did we know that in these same moments, the heroic passengers of hijacked United Flight 79 were sacrificing their lives to prevent their plane from decimating another Washington target, perhaps the White House or the Capitol. I ran into the office of another colleague. He and several others were huddled in front of the television, watching live footage from New York. Suddenly we saw the first tower begin to crumble and fall. None of us said a word; tears rolled down several faces. The building manager said it was our choice whether to evacuate the building or stay in place.. Along with many others, a friend and I decided to leave. Outside, a surreal scene confronted us. The streets were packed with thousands of people, deathly quiet, walking with faces pale in collective shock. Uniformed men with assault rifles sternly motioned us down certain streets. We walked for almost three hours until reaching my truck, parked near my church on Capitol Hill. I went inside the pastor’s office where he and several others were watching the news. There we stayed for about six hours, transfixed and horrified. As evening fell the vehicle ban was lifted, so I began to drive home. Minutes later I passed by the Pentagon again, smoke billowing out amid the carnage and rubble. I knew that nothing would ever be the same. Inboden is executive director of the Clements Center for History, Strategy, and Statecraft, and associate professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
On Sept. 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with al-Qaeda hijacked four U.S. airliners to carry out suicide attacks on the East Coast. At 8:45 a.m. that day, a Boeing 767, one of the hijacked planes, crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Eighteen minutes later, a second plane — United Airlines Flight 175 — crashed into the center of the South Tower. As the world watched the twin towers collapse in shock and horror, a third plane collided into the west side of the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., killing 125 military personnel and civilians. In the fourth plane, passengers fought the hijackers and diverted the plane, crashing into rural Pennsylvania. All those aboard died. The attacks as a whole resulted in 2,996 immediate deaths. The 9/11 attacks struck a nerve in the hearts of Americans, not only because of the obvious brutality of the incident, but also because of the way the day changed the shape of global politics. Today, on the 13th anniversary of the attacks, the Forum page opens a space for students and professors to remember where they were when they heard the news of the attacks and what their initial reactions were. Malik is Plan II, business honors and finance junior from Austin.
By Lee Lueder Guest Columnist
Thirteen years ago today, our nation was shocked by vicious attacks that struck a chord with virtually every American citizen who was old enough to be aware of what was happening. Though most of us were in second or third grade, we remember where we were and what we were doing on that day. From the West Coast to the East Coast, an incredible anger overtook the nation, as U.S. citizens sought justice for the horrific events that had unfolded before their eyes. Unfortunately, for many that anger stopped not at the few who were responsible for the grievous crimes, but extended to every person who looked like them, sounded like them or even had a last name similar to theirs. It is vitally important that we do not let the actions of a very small minority affect how we view an entire group of people. It is important to remember that every group of people has its share of radicals. Just as few Christians would want to be associated with the Crusades or the Ku Klux Klan, we should not judge all Muslims by the actions of a few just because they used parts of their religions’ Holy Book to justify their actions. Recently, I overheard a fellow white UT student telling a friend that it was only a matter of time before the “ragheads” in the Middle East attack the United States again if the United States continues to
support Israel and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza. The two continued to throw around this hurtful term multiple times in the conversation as they debated the feasibility of another large-scale terrorist attack from the Middle East. These statements, needless to say, generalize the actions of a very few to a group of people that makes up 23 percent of the world’s, and a substantial part of UT’s, population. Unfortunately, people with similar antiMuslim feelings sometimes channel their anger into action. There are hundreds of reported anti-Muslim hate crimes every year, but the Department of Justice predicts that the real number is in the thousands. Most of these crimes go unreported for a variety of reasons, namely that victims feel that police will not do much in response. The number of these reports saw a huge spike after the attacks of 9/11. The saddest, most twisted part is that neither the victims nor the perpetrators of these crimes had much to do with the attacks of 9/11, but the generalization of blame for the attacks leads to widespread hatred. Individuals from all religions have committed crimes, and we should not let the sense of violation we feel from the 9/11 attacks taint our perception of the many Muslims throughout the world, especially not at UT. We’re all Longhorns, and we should treat each other that way. Lueder is a Plan II, philosophy, business honors and finance junior from Dallas.
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9/11 taught me a new definition of patriotism By Rachel Huynh Guest Columnist
On Sept. 11, 2001, I was as far removed as an American could possibly be — in more than one sense of the word. I was about 2,000 miles away from the attack, cheerfully working on a handout in my elementary school on the border. I was deeply entrenched in Mexican culture at school, and when class let out, I went home to an Asian household with two immigrant parents. Needless to say, my circumstances left me with a very fragile sense of patriotism. The day was a haze. My second-grade teacher directed the class’ attention to her and told us that we would be leaving a little early today — no other explanation. One by one, all of us went up to the teacher’s desk to call our parents to pick us up early. I remember my mom was one of the last parents to come,
rolling the window down while balancing a cell phone on her shoulder and waving hello to my teacher, probably as unaware as I was of the monumental point in history we were living in. I got home and gleefully jumped on my bed to celebrate the unplanned half-day. I still cringe at the thought. I found out what happened when I went to school the next day. I had only a vague understanding of the attack, but I did begin to grasp the concept of terrorism for the first time. I started to flip to news channels at home, watching horrifying coverage of the devastation 9/11 left behind. I grew up a little faster that year. I’ve visited Ground Zero twice since then, once when a mess of construction and yellow tape took its place in 2008 and again in 2012 when two commemorative deconstructivist pools were nestled there instead. The names of the fallen spanned the walls of the
memorial as far as I could see, and I thought about how the people impacted were more than just the seemingly infinite number of names etched in front of me — not etched in the bronze were the names of their mothers, fathers, siblings, spouses, and friends. Though I didn’t personally know anyone directly impacted by the attack, September 11, 2001, marked a turning point in my sense of identity and cultural belonging. Thirteen years went by and I grew up, learned more about the history of this country and wandered away from the confines of my small border town. I have since reinterpreted my lack of the quintessentially “American” upbringing to define my own understanding of patriotism — one of unity in diversity, hope in devastation and resilience in chaos. Huynh is a Plan II, business honors and supply chain management junior from Laredo.
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continues from page 8 on youth in Austin, and the conclusion the writer seemed to come to was that every young person in Austin has seen Slacker at least once, and it very well may have enticed a lot of people to move here,” Welborn said. While he now has 23 director credits and two Oscar nominations under his belt, the 1994 Linklater, a college dropout from Houston, was giddy over the time he met Aerosmith. “Steven Tyler’s the nicest star I’ve met,” Linklater said. “He’s the nicest guy.” Linklater takes pride in the audience response to his films. He enjoys that “people in Chicago dress in ‘70s clothes and go to the film. They smoke pot in the theater and sneak in beers. It’s turned into a little concert.” One of the hallmarks of Linklater’s films is his tendency to ignore the typical Hollywood format. His films feature small casts
followed over a short period of time. This trend first appeared in his film “Before Sunrise,” released shortly after his interview with the Texan. “The two previous films I did tied in a lot to society and culture,” Linklater said. “But this story is really outside of everything. It’s two people just lost in the night, just passing through.” Linklater said it came together quickly, taking only 11 days to write, 25 to film and three weeks to edit. This film went on to prompt two sequels, both of which were also well-received critically. After the recent release of his film “Boyhood,” filmed over 12 years with the same cast, it is clear that Richard Linklater loves Austin in film. The city features heavily in many of his famous flicks, and he advocates for the city’s relevance to the film industry. Linklater jokes about the effect he’s had on the Austin art scene, saying, “I guess I’ve done my small little part to help ruin Austin.”
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experts with those of laypeople. This became especially important in studies that use autobiographical samples, which contain information about the subject’s personality in the context of the analyzed writing. When looking at studies that had the proper comparison, in addition to quantifiable predictions and decent sample sizes, the
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meta-analysis couldn’t find any merit to graphology. However, it’s still possible to find things that can be inferred from handwriting. About 75 percent of the time, people can predict gender on the basis of handwriting, although this number varies quite a bit from study to study. A computer system did not score as well as humans but still managed about 67 percent accuracy guessing gender from handwriting alone. It also
managed an impressive 85 percent success rate in guessing right- or left-handedness. There is some correlation between gender and legibility, as women tend to write more clearly than men do. Another stereotype labels doctors as notoriously poor penmen, but studies are inconsistent as to whether their writing is any worse than the rest of the population’s. While graphology is not backed by science, there is still a certain science that
comes with handwriting. Forgery analysis has stronger scientific proof. In one study, experts were only tricked by forged signatures about 0.5 percent of the time, compared to a layperson’s 6.5 percent, which, all things being equal, is still very impressive. As for any love notes received in class, the best bet to finding Mr. Right is always to look at what he writes rather than how he writes.
human experience of war. “The question from the beginning has been this: How can we use theater as a catalyst to promote understanding between the 99 percent who do not go to war and the 1 percent who do?” Hamburger said. “Basetrack Live” director Seth Bockley emphasized the production is not about military policy or officers with positions of authority but rather the details of the lives of those who enter at the ground level. He said the three-dimensional nature of the production
allows the audience to see the rich and complex reasons soldiers have for enlisting. The music of “Basetrack Live,” written by Michelle DiBucci, is perhaps one of the most important aspects of the production. The arrangement will feature various electroacoustic instruments, including an amplified violin and cello, an electric drum set and a trumpet. “The challenge in creating the score has been trying to incorporate styles meaningful to the marines,
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Editor’s Note: This is part of a weekly series looking back at past Texas athletes and where they are now. This week features former defensive end Julian “Kiki” DeAyala, who played for Texas from 1979-1982. You can find Julian “Kiki” DeAyala’s name at the top of most Texas pass rush records. He recorded 40.5 sacks in his Longhorn career. The next most, Tony Degrate, has just 31. DeAyala recorded 22.5 sacks his junior year, and the next highest season total record behind him for Texas is 14. He also owns the Texas record for most tackles for a loss in a season and quarterback pressures in a year and season. “You don’t think of it that way until later in life, and history judges you,” DeAyala said. “All I know is I worked hard.” In his time at Texas from 1979-1982, he earned AllSouthwest Conference and was the Southwest Conference Defensive Lineman of the Year in 1982. “I kind of found a niche for what I did,” DeAyala said. “Sometimes, a light goes on, and you figure out how to defeat the pass blocker. I did a lot of film studying and understood his tendencies. I could almost tell exactly when they were going to pass the ball from their formations.” Yet, despite all his accomplishments, he is relatively unknown today as he
took a different path than most dominant college football players. With his college success, DeAyala was drafted in both the NFL and United States Football League (USFL) drafts. So, he had a choice to make: the Cincinnati Bengals or the Houston Gamblers. “At the time, the USFL was paying certain players more than the NFL was offering, so I signed with Houston with a chance to play in my home city, where the money was better,” DeAyala said. He led the Gamblers defensively in their only two years of existence, enjoying success as he was voted to the first All-USFL team. But, after just two years, the USFL folded and DeAyala returned to the Bengals on a two-year deal. After two quiet years, two shoulder surgeries and six knee operations, he chose to follow a different career path. “During the offseason, I started working for a commercial real estate company,” DeAyala said. “When I retired, it was a smooth transition right into commercial real estate.” For eight years, DeAyala worked in commercial real estate, but, in 2000, he started his own company, De Ayala Properties, and began developing real estate. His projects have ranged from the Laredo Entertainment Center, to multiple projects in San Antonio. Now, the
Former Longhorn Julian “Kiki” DeAyala celebrates a tackle against Missouri. More than two decades after graduating, a number of DeAyala’s records still stand.
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it. Instead, he coached his three kids as they grew up and supported them until they left the nest. “I have very fond memories of football,” DeAyala said. “It’s a lot of work. You look back now, and it’s been close to 30
years, and you realize how you did it — all the work, effort, playing with injuries, the schedule [and] playing against great athletes, and everyone has the same goals. You wonder how you did it. But, no, I don’t miss [football].”
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With a new head coach at the helm, Texas Crew trains for the upcoming season, which will feature a number of challenging competitions.
With new coach, smoother waters ahead for Texas Crew Sweeping. Sculling. Scags. Gunnels. Feathering. Port. Starboard. Stern. Bow. The sport of rowing almost requires a comprehensive guide of its own just for all its maritime expressions. However, the jargon comes as second nature to 20-year-old Ellen Leung, the varsity women’s captain of Texas Crew, which is the club rowing team on campus. Leung, a biology junior, has been a part of crew since fall of her freshman year, when her twin sister, Allison, convinced her to try the sport. Two years later, Leung still rows, having learned enough to become a mentor to the new members who try their hand at crew every year. For many, crew offers a rare opportunity to try something unique that includes less of the prestige and pageantry that may turn away new recruits. “I think that, for crew, we give better opportunities for smaller people — for girls,” Leung said. “And, for guys, it’s the only rowing option.” UT offers only one
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official women’s rowing team, and the rest of the hopefuls are destined for the club team, but that doesn’t mean there is no chance for success. “In the past, like 10 years ago, Texas was one of the fastest teams — people know us for being the fastest,” Leung said. “But over the years since we lost our boathouse three years ago, things have changed. And so we kind of went through this ‘downhill’ thing, but I think we’re going uphill now that we have a new coach. He’s trying to build us back up.” Leung is referring to Peter Rosberg, the new head coach of Texas Crew. Rosberg has extensive experience in the sport. He has rowed since his high school days in Detroit, through his time at Marietta College in Ohio and into a successful post-collegiate career. However, a shoulder injury gave him the opportunity to turn his lifelong sport into a fulltime coaching position. Rosberg’s previous coaching position was at Penn State University, where he encountered a rebuilding situation
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similar to the current state of Texas Crew. Through high school recruiting and a focus on excellence, Rosberg brought new life to Penn State Crew and has similar plans for Texas Crew. The fall season for the sport is a bit more relaxed, with fewer races and more focus on training new recruits for the competitive spring season, when Texas Crew races against local teams, such as Texas Rowing Center and Austin Rowing Club, along with teams from all over the nation. The fall is not all fun and games, however, as Texas Crew has two boats entered in the prestigious Head of the Charles Regatta in Boston, scheduled for October. Texas Crew will face off against hundreds of competitors in dozens of boats to make a name for itself. With a large number of newcomers and only a few veterans on the squad, rebuilding is going to be a big part of the picture. Although, for Leung and the rest of her squad, it is just another challenge they are willing to overcome.
When Texas fans hear the name “McCoy,” most remember Colt McCoy, who led the Longhorns to a Fiesta Bowl victory in 2009 and a national championship game appearance the following year. But, by the time her four years are up on the 40 Acres, freshman libero Cat McCoy hopes she will be the more famous McCoy. “It would be really cool to redefine that name,” McCoy said. So far, McCoy is well on her way to doing that. She has played in each of the Longhorns’ first four matches, digging 50 balls and providing leadership along the back line in the defense. “It’s been so much fun playing in front of big crowds and in a high-level environment,” McCoy said. Success is nothing new to McCoy. She led Southlake Carroll High School to a 44-1 record last year, just missing a state championship. For her efforts, she was named to the Under Armour All-American first team and named one of 30 underclassmen to watch by Volleyball Magazine. “It was a really competitive program,” McCoy said. “There were a lot of great players that taught me a lot.” McCoy was selected to the U.S. Women’s Junior National Team to compete in the North, Central American and Caribbean Volleyball Confederation Women’s U-20 Continental Championship. On the way to the U.S.’s gold medal finish, McCoy said the tournament really helped out with her mental game. “We had triple days, and it was really hard, but the competition level was high,” McCoy said. “Just getting that international experience was really awesome.” But, even with all of her experience, nothing could quite get her ready for the first day of practice at Texas. “I was so nervous,” McCoy said. “They were like, ‘Cat, you need to calm down and
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just play volleyball.’” Once she settled down, McCoy proved she was ready to compete on a collegiate team, emerging from the preseason as the starting libero over junior Kat Brooks. But with the libero spot comes more pressure and responsibility. At the position, McCoy’s job is primarily to dig the ball, make good passes to the setter and control the defense in the backcourt. So far, she’s only proven head coach Jerritt Elliott and the rest of the coaching staff correct in selecting her as the starter. “Sometimes there’s a lot of pressure putting [the libero] jersey on, and she hasn’t flinched since she’s put it on,” Elliott said. “We knew she was talented, but you never know until they get into these types of situations.” McCoy’s 50 digs leads the team early in the young season, and she’s also tallied an assist and an ace. However, Elliott’s been more impressed with her consistency as she continues to learn more about the game. “We’re pleased with her progression,” Elliott said. “There are a lot of things we’re trying to tighten up with her on the defensive side still.” So far, the libero spot is hers for the foreseeable future, but, with as tough a practice gym and as deep a team as the Longhorns have this year, keeping that spot will be a yearlong battle. But, as long as she’s on the court, her goal is to win the championship she didn’t get in high school. “I want to help this team win, especially for the seniors,” McCoy said. “I’m going to come to practice and work the hardest.”
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Baseball Hall of Famer Ty Cobb plays in his last baseball game for the Detroit Tigers against the New York Yankees. Cobb finished his career as the all-time leader in hits and stolen bases, both of which were later broken, and was a member of the first baseball Hall of Fame class.
SPORTS BRIEFLY ESPN2 picks up two women’s basketball games
The Longhorn women’s basketball team will appear on national television at least twice this coming season, the Big 12 announced Wednesday. ESPN2 will air the home game against Baylor on Feb. 8 and a road game at West Virginia on March 1. The games will likely be significant in determining how the Big 12 will shake out this season. Baylor, Texas and West Virginia were the top three teams in the conference last year. The Longhorns had a bounce-back season last year, finishing with a 2212 record and a spot in the NCAA tournament, a year after missing out on the postseason. The Longhorns will appear on national television five more times this season, with those announcements coming at a later date. —Jacob Martella
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Linklater not dazed, confused about city’s film culture
By Fred Tally-Foos @fredtallyfoos
Since the release of his Texas-centric film “Boyhood,” director Richard Linklater has become much more famous. When The Daily Texan reporter Leah Welborn spoke with him in 1994, he was riding on the success of his first two films, “Slacker” and “Dazed and Confused.” “Austin’s right on the verge of being the big film town,” Linklater said. “There are a
lot of people shooting a lot of high-profile films here because people like Austin, they like filming here.” The idea that Austin is anything but a film town is hard to believe for most residents in 2014. It seems that there is a festival devoted to a different sect of the film watching community every other weekend. When South By Southwest added film to its schedule in 1994, the capital city drew attention from film industry professionals from around the world. Welborn discussed the extent to which audience members connect with Linklater’s films. “Last week’s Austin-American Statesman ran a story
Richard Linklater strongly features Austin in his films. His latest project, “Boyhood,” follows the maturation of an Austin boy over the course of many years. In 1994, he spoke with the Texan about his love for the city.
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Graphology: enticing yet lacks scientific merit Basetrack Live gives taste
By Robert Starr @RobertKStarr
From love letters hesitantly passed across middle school classrooms to cryptic prescriptions scrawled by doctors, handwriting has long been overanalyzed. Statements like, “Look at the way he loops his O’s; he’s a pathological liar,” or, “Is that a droopy ‘a?’ That’s a sign of fear,” are proclaimed with little questioning.
The idea that handwriting reveals our personality and other character traits is the premise of graphology. If a large company needs a way to see beyond the résumés of job applicants, graphologists can offer up their services. These same experts also use handwriting to tell engaged couples whether their marriage has the potential to last. Unfortunately, couples are going to need to find out for themselves the old-fashioned way because graphology’s claims of deep, personal insight typically don’t hold up against testing the theory. To test the validity of graphology and the studies surrounding it, two researchers in Israel put together an analysis and carefully vetted which
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studies to include. The researchers looked at the best of these studies and combined the results to gain a more accurate picture as to whether handwriting reveals anything about ourselves.
It is possible to predict certain personality attributes by chance alone. To combat this, a study needs to compare predictions made by
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of military life, hardships Artistic director Edward Bilous’ mission for the last few years has been to bring a collection of photographs to life through theater. Live electroacoustic music, Skype interviews, stage acting and photographs from the war in Afghanistan all make up his latest project, “Basetrack Live.” When Bilous was first introduced to Basetrack, a photo gallery based on the lives of American soldiers in Afghanistan, at a Google Expo in 2010, he was inspired to create “Basetrack Live.” The multimedia production, which premiers at 8 p.m. Thursday at McCullough Theatre, attempts
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