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Abbott, Davis debate state issues By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng
Attorney General Greg Abbott swiveled in his seat, put his elbows down on the table and asked State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, with a half-smile, “Do you regret voting for Barack Obama?” Davis ignored Abbott’s
question at Friday’s gubernatorial debate in Edinburg — the first gubernatorial debate ever held in the Rio Grande Valley — and instead focused on her goals as governor instead of her voting past. “I’m running for governor,” Davis said. “I’m working to make sure every hardworking Texan can go
as far as they dream. Texas is at a turning point. That’s what’s important at this election. I believe we need a governor who will fight for all hardworking Texans because their futures depend on this.” Davis and Abbott debated border issues, funding and abortion. Davis repeatedly referenced Abbott’s “third
world” comment from February about South Texas and said she supported the surge of border patrol officers to the Rio Grande Valley region. “I would start by listening to the local law enforcements and officials who know best,” Davis said. “If the federal government does not secure the border,
Texas must. We must be sensitive to the reputation of this community. Comments from [politicians] calling this ‘third world’ are inappropriate.” The two candidates also debated over health care options. Davis said she supports abortion, while Abbott
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Gov. Perry recalls 14-year career By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng
Closing The Texas Tribune Festival on Sunday morning, Gov. Rick Perry reviewed his 14-year tenure as the state’s executive at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, discussing health care, education and the Texas economy. In an interview with Evan Smith, Texas Tribune CEO and editor-in-chief, Perry repeatedly refused to answer any questions about his Travis County grand jury indictment. When Smith jokingly threatened to stop asking questions and sit in silence, Perry said he was fine with that. “It’ll be a long hour,” Perry said. “I had a date like that one time.” Public education has been adequately funded by the state legislature, according to Perry. “I don’t judge progress by how many dollars we spend,” Perry said. “I think it’s simplistic to say you’re not spending enough money. I suggest the result is hard to argue when you look at the number of kids going to college today and when they got a job out of school.”
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Gov. Rick Perry speaks at The Texas Tribune Festival at the AT&T Convention Center on Sunday morning. Perry reviewed his 14-year tenure as the state’s executive and discussed multiple issues such as health care, education and the Texas economy.
Perry also said he still supports providing instate tuition for undocumented students, and it should be no issue for the Texas Legislature to aid students in earning a higher education degree.
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Lt. gov hopefuls discuss education, immigration By Jackie Wang @jcqlnwng
Both candidates vying to become the state’s next lieutenant governor, state Sens. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, and Leticia Van de Putte, D-San Antonio, discussed education, bipartisanship and health care at the 2014 Texas Tribune Festival on Saturday in separate one-on-one interviews. At the event held on campus at the AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center, Patrick said he supports the voucher system and explained his reasoning for wanting students to leave schools if they feel the need to get a better education elsewhere. “No child should be forced to go to a failing school,” Patrick said. “Almost 10 percent
of our schools we rate in the state as failing. Can you imagine sending your child to a school rated as a failure?” According to Patrick, students should not be locked into a school district and should be able to cross district lines if their home district allocates them to a failing school. “You should have the opportunity to go to a charter school,” Patrick said. “If you can’t find a public or charter school, then you can apply for a scholarship from private businesses to go to a Catholic school, Christian school or private school.” Van de Putte spoke more about education after high school. She said she supports paying for Texan
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“I think it’s important for young people to move up, get that certificate or diploma,” Perry said. Perry defended his stance against the Affordable Care Act. “I’ve asked Washington
multiple times for more flexibility to deal with the issue of health care and how we could receive the money from D.C. and restructure these programs so more people could have access,” Perry said. “In 2009,
President Obama said Medicaid was broken, and I agree with him. So why would we want to expand a broken system?” The Veterans Affairs
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Institute for stuttering treatment established By Wes Scarborough @westhemess13
While most treatment for stuttering comes at a high price, the University will now offer free stuttering treatment to people who need it. UT announced in a statement Wednesday that it received a $3 million donation to establish the Michael and Tami Lang Stuttering Institute, a research center devoted to treating children and adults who stutter free of charge. “People get really uncomfortable around people that stutter,” said Courtney Byrd, director of the Lang Stuttering Institute. “They just don’t want to be around it. Nobody knows what to do.” According to Byrd, 97 percent of undergraduate students studying speechlanguage pathology leave their universities with little to no exposure to stuttering. Byrd said most clinicians feel uncomfortable treating the disorder altogether. “People who stutter are not getting proper treatment,” said Elizabeth Cravens, a UT alumna and speech-language pathologist who studied under Byrd. “And because it’s a specialized treatment, [patients] would have to spend a lot of time and money seeking it out.” Treatment is inaccessible because of financial boundaries, such as insurance policies that lack the coverage, according to Byrd. “When insurance doesn’t cover it, there’s so many people we’ve had to say no
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Website gives blank canvas to artists By Kate Dannenmaier @kjdannen
According to Red Throat House, you are dying. The good news is they can help. Red Throat House is a weekly online publication that launched in April and serves as a platform for artists to collaborate and mix mediums. “The nature of this project is to be very social,” cofounder Ben Clancy said. “We’re really just interested in seeing what happens when we put artists together and give them as much freedom as we possibly can.” Clancy, a communications graduate student at Texas State University, wrote the website’s slogan, “You are dying. We can help.” He said it is meant to provoke a feeling of ambiguity, and could be interpreted as both saving artists from death or helping artists along with
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Amyn Kassam, philosophy and anthropology junior, is the co-founder of the art curation blog, RedThroatHouse.com. Red Throat House is a digital platform for local artists to collaborate.
the process of dying. That slightly morbid outlook has become a theme on the website. “I thought that symbolized
the way that I conceptualize a lot of artistic practice,” Clancy said. “Something that helps us either feel as if we are alive in certain
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Courtney Byrd, communication sciences and disorders associate professor, is the executive director of the newly established Michael and Tami Lang Stuttering Institute. A recent donation will increase access to treatment for students who stutter.
to,” Byrd said. “And that still haunts me.” Byrd said the institute would also allow students to have greater exposure to patients who stutter, giving them better understanding of evidence-based practices involved in stuttering treatment. “I think it’s going to be the beginning of more people investing into the communication sciences and disorders department,” said Roderick Hart, dean of the Moody College of Communication. “[The department] has just got a lower profile, but it’s some of the best work being done here at the college.” Byrd said she has established a method of using multimedia, like video games, to implement stuttering treatment for children. “I have three boys myself, and it speaks to them in a
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way you can’t understand,” Byrd said. Byrd has established this and other methods in the University-affiliated Dr. Jennifer and Emanuel
Bodner Developmental Stuttering Laboratory. According to Byrd, the methods will be implemented in the institute along with the development of
clinical training tools and innovative treatment for stuttering patients. A celebratory event for the Lang Stuttering Institute will take place at the
Belo Center for New Media next Monday. Speakers will include donors Michael and Tami Lang, Byrd, Hart and President William Powers Jr.
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issues, such as Perry’s actions on the border and the death penalty, she provided no contrast to the Republican stance. I think Davis has realized that the average Texan disapproves of her party’s stance on a wide range of issues.” The two clashed when Davis asked Abbott what he would say about the underfunding of Texas public schools and when he would settle a lawsuit filed by districts around Texas. “There is something between me and settling this lawsuit, and it is a law you voted on in 2011,” Abbott said. “I want to focus creating on as governor a better education system for this state. My goal as governor is to [elevate] the Texas educa-
tion system.” Max Patterson, history senior and University Democrats president, said he thought Davis should have pushed Abbott harder on this issue. “Though Gen. Abbott tried to persuade people in the debate that he cared about our underfunded schools, Sen. Davis is the only candidate in the race that has proven her support for our schools and will be a tireless advocate for public education once elected,” Patterson said in an email. Davis closed by saying she has shown Texas her true self. “I’ve shown it by fighting for every 4 year old to have access to pre-K and for every high school student to have
affordable access to college,” Davis said. “I will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will close loopholes for giant corporations. I am you. I have never forgotten who I am or where I come from, and I will fight for you every single day.” Abbott said he would continue to fight for Texans’ freedom. “As your attorney general, I’ve been fighting for your liberty against an overreaching federal government,” Abbott said. “I want to fight for the future of Texas as your next governor. I will work to fulfill that aspiration. I will keep Texas the land of opportunity, the place where more freedom and less government still matters.”
come back in the terms of block grants in the state of Texas,” Patrick said. “Our hands are tied in many ways. The federal government is heavily involved. We need to continue and try to provide health care for every Texan.” Van de Putte chastised Patrick for his lack of public appearances. She said his first press conference, which happened Friday, was too little, too late. “If voters can’t depend on their leaders to be accessible and accountable to them before they’re elected, then what kind of behavior will that instill when they are elected?” Van de Putte said. Patrick said he has been accessible enough, holding more than 1,300 meetings with individuals and groups across the state, and
stressed his focus on protecting Texans from any dangers across the border and out of the country. “My one responsibility is to protect the public,” Patrick said. “The [Department of Public Safety] estimates we have 100,000 gang members here illegally. We must have legal immigration reform in Washington, but, before that comes, we must secure the border.” Van de Putte said she also supports securing the border, but the topic needed to be approached in a sensible manner. “Just like many people, I am so frustrated at Washington, D.C.,” Van de Putte said. “[Immigrants] need to have a pathway, they need to pay taxes, not be a criminal, be proficient in English, and they need to get in line.” Tanner Long, government
junior and Student Government representative, said he was disappointed the candidates did not address each other directly. “I would have preferred Van de Putte and Patrick,” Long said. “However, I think that Van de Putte definitely stayed on message. She conveyed her ideas that put her in a good light, that show her issues with the Patrick campaign.”
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said he believes life is sacred. “Texas is ensuring we protect more life and ensuring we protect the health of women,” Abbott said. “Women still have 5 months to make a very difficult decision. But, after that, Texas has an interest in protecting innocent life.” In the debate, Davis said that she supports the death penalty. Alexander Parker, a Plan II, business honors and finance sophomore and College Republicans communication director, said he liked Davis’ more conservative answers. “I did appreciate how Republican Davis sounded,” Parker said. “On many
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THE TEXAS TRIBUNE Festival A Texas Tribune Festival panel of educators, including President William Powers, Jr., discuss college completion rates in Texas on Saturday.
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Powers, Johnston deliberate education at Tribune Festival By Alex Wilts @alexwilts
President William Powers Jr. and Clay Johnston, Dell Medical School dean, participated in Texas Tribune Festival education panels Saturday. At a higher education panel on completion rates, Powers said the University is making progress toward its goal of increasing the fouryear graduation rate to 70 percent by 2016. In recent years, four-year graduation rates at the University have been at over 50 percent. Powers said students taking longer to graduate from the University become a resource issue. “If somebody stays longer, there’s not room for other people to come in,” Powers said. “We have students who are taking 145 credit hours. That’s using our resources. That’s using their resources.” When students switch majors, certain courses they have previously taken no longer count in their new degree plan, Powers said, making it more difficult for them to graduate in four years. “Degree plans are too complicated,” Powers said.
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continues from page 1 hospitals around the country exemplify the future of government-run health care, according to Perry. “The VA is a debacle,” Perry said. “I think one of the ways you fix health care is [to] get Washington out of the regulatory side of it and to allow the state to run it.” Although he is largely satisfied with his 14-year run as governor, Perry said he regrets his handling of his 2007 vaccine mandate for HPV. “I would have done it differently,” Perry said. “I would have engaged the public more. I thought the public understood this from the standpoint of a cancer. The execution was wrong. I was thinking out my heart instead of my head, and I want to make the people of Texas be more engaged. We’re not executive order types.”
“They’re too specified and narrowed. We’ve got to have a lot more flexibility in that so students can navigate that. Another panelist, State Rep. Dan Branch, R-Dallas, said demographers report about 60 percent of jobs in the future are going to require some form of higher education or certification, making it increasingly important to receive a college degree, even if it may take longer. “We’re not nearly at that level,” said Branch, chairman of the House Higher Education Committee. Johnston discussed the need for more doctors in Texas with three other medical educators and state Sen. Kirk Watson, D-Austin, during a health care panel titled “The State of Medical Education.” During the discussion, Watson said Texas is still below the national average of the number of doctors per 100,000 people. “The national average is around 240 doctors per 100,000,” Watson said. “In Texas, it’s 170, and in the [Rio Grande] Valley, it’s 107. In the area of pediatrics and psychology, we’re below
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Citing his run in the 2012 presidential election, Perry said he has not yet decided about another presidential run. “I went through a very humbling and frustrating process in 2011 and 2012,” Perry said. “I was not prepared. It was obvious. I may or may not run for presidency, but, in order to give myself that option, you have do the work that is required.” Undeclared sophomore Lauren Hodges said she appreciated Perry’s performance. “There were parts where he was being humble, and he’s not known for being humble,” Hodges said. “But when he dodged the whole hypocrisy question, I thought that was kind of pathetic.” Displaying a chart showing job growth in Texas, Perry also spoke about how the Texas Enterprise Fund — an incentive program that encourages businesses to come to
Texas — has aided economic growth for the past decade. Perry said, although the program has benefited Texas, it is up to the legislature to discuss the lifespan of the incentive bill and see whether it should continue. “I think if they want to change them, if they want to unilaterally get out of the economic development business, that’s their call,” Perry said. “But, I would suggest over the last decade, we have been successful in large projects and small projects.” Smith said he thought Perry interviewed especially well Sunday. “I’ve interviewed him many times over the past years, and I thought this was the most relaxed I’ve seen him,” Smith said after the interview. “We’ve had some contentious interviews over the years. I would have liked to talk more about the indictments, but I understand he was constrained by the legal process.”
For more discussions on higher education at The Texas Tribune Festival, check out our video coverage at dailytexanonline.com. 60 percent of the national average.” The doctors on the panel also discussed the need for more primary care doctors, positions that don’t offer as many financial incentives as specialty care, in rural areas. “We need to look at what is drawing people away from rural areas and what is drawing people away from primary care,” Johnston said. Johnston said technological changes in the medical field are significantly changing medical education. “Facts aren’t worth as much as they used to be,” Johnston said. “Human memory is very fallible and a cell phone and Google are much less so. Learning how to find information and synthesize it and how to use that to problem solve with patients is another aspect of how medical education is changing.”
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George P. Bush George P. Bush, Republican candidate for land commissioner, opened the festival by discussing his family’s history and his stance on global warming. Bush, the grandson of President George H.W. Bush and nephew of President George W. Bush, was asked whether the magnetic pull of his surname drew him into politics. “I would describe it more as a desire to serve others,” Bush said. “Always think about others before you think about yourself.” Bush also said he is not sold on the true cause of global warming. “What we can agree is, over the course of human history, is that there are climatic changing,” Bush said. “The bigger debate is if it’s man-made. We need to depoliticize the debate and allow scientists to make a definitive call and look at it through a long-term lens.” — Jackie Wang Joe Straus Joe Straus, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, discussed controversies regarding the UT System Board of Regents on Saturday. Straus said he thinks there is a disproportionate focus on the goings-on at the University. “I’m sick of [UT] being the only campus in the state of Texas that gets this much attention,” Straus said. “It’s crazy. It’s too much focus on UT-Austin — too much turmoil here. It all ties back, I believe, to the dysfunction of the Board of Regents.” Straus called the System’s investigation into legislative influence over the University’s admissions process unnecessary. “There’s no expectation that [a student] will get in because I write a letter,” Straus said. “Every letter I write, I expect to see it on the front page of the newspaper — I’m not embarrassed about it.” Straus said he is hopeful the turmoil on the board is coming to an end. “I think it’s an excellent thing that [retired
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State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, speaks at The Texas Tribune Festival on Saturday evening.
Admiral William McRaven] is coming in,” Straus said. “I think we’re, hopefully, about to work our way through this.” — Madlin Mekelburg John Cornyn U.S. Sen. John Cornyn criticized the inefficiency of Congress on Saturday. Cornyn, the Senate’s minority whip, noted that although President Barack Obama’s approval rating is at a low 17 percent, Congress’ approval rating is much lower. “I agree that Congress is dysfunctional, but largely, it’s the Senate,” Cornyn said. “We’ve been largely relegated to showboats and anticipation of the election and not addressing the problems of our country.” Ted Cruz In discussing foreign policy at the festival Saturday, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz clarified his statement from August about bombing the Islamic State group back to the Stone Age. “The President’s approach is fundamentally unserious,” Cruz said. “Throughout the course of discussion, I have endeavored to ask, ‘How do you distinguish the good guys from the bad guys?’ Consistently, the admin has not been able to give a satisfactory answer.” President Barack Obama signed the measure to arm and train Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State group Friday. Cruz said resolving the Syrian civil war should not be the objective of the United States.
“It is not our job to turn foreign nations,” Cruz said. “If there are people who pose a clear and present danger to our national security, the objective should be to take out that threat.” Wendy Davis Less than 24 hours after her gubernatorial debate with Attorney General Greg Abbott, state Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, discussed the race Saturday. “I had an opportunity to show, in stark contrast, these two people who are asking to serve Texas as its next governor,” Davis said. “I think I was able to demonstrate that I will be a governor who will fight every single day for the people of this state.” Davis also talked about the importance of higher education and getting students into college. One thing hindering students from college, she said, is the price hike of in-state tuition. “Our tuitions have doubled or more than doubled in some of our universities, and, at the same time, we’ve seen a decline in financial aid,” Davis said. “The legislature made the decision to thin down the amount students could get. If we want to make sure we have the work force for the jobs of tomorrow, we have to invest in our kids.” Davis said she supports giving in-state tuition to undocumented students and would veto a bill that threatened to take away that in-state tuition. — Jackie Wang
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Mayoral candidate Martinez discusses plans to help UT students Editor’s Note: In the run-up to the November election for mayor, the Texan will be running Qand-A’s with the candidates. Voting is open only to those registered to vote in Austin and registration continues through Oct. 6. Early voting starts Oct. 20 and ends Oct. 31. Election Day is Nov. 4. Daily Texan: So what made you decide to run for mayor? Mike Martinez: I’ve served this community for 22 years. I started out as an Austin firefighter, I spent 13 years in the fire department, led the Austin Firefighters Association as its president in the last three years of my career, and then some community folks came to me and said we think you should run for city council. It was an open seat, at the time I told them I thought they were crazy, I would never quit being a firefighter, it’s one of the greatest professions in the world and I loved what I did. But I thought about it, and two weeks later I decided to run for city council and I daresay it’s been the best decision that I’ve ever made in terms of my professional career. You know, I think that experience matters, I think that my service as a firefighter and as a council member speak to the knowledge that I have of how government works, how it can benefit those who need it the most. DT: So if elected mayor, what specifically would you do for UT students? MM: I think there are quite honestly two things that affect you all the most: transportation, public transportation and affordability. Can you rent an apartment and live here and go to school and study without having to work 40-60 hours a week if you don’t want to. Transportation: I’ve chaired Capital Metro. In 2010 I took over as chairman. The agency was on the brink of being dissolved by the state
legislature. We were given 19 state-law mandated marching orders to implement by 2016. We were also told, at that time our reserves had gone down to about $7 million, we were also told, bring your reserves up to $36 million by 2016. I took over as chairman, and by 2013 we implemented every recommendation, and they weren’t easy. It wasn’t ‘paint your busses blue.’ It was serious structural changes. And at the end of this year we will have $102 million in financial reserves so that we now can take this next step of asking you all, whether or not you would consider urban rail. I promise you that urban rail, we would not even be able to have a discussion about urban rail had we not turned the agency around and shored up its finances. We’ve done that, and it’s a testament to the leadership style I brought to the board, but also to our president, CEO, and other board members, I don’t do this alone, but without public transit in Austin, can you imagine what the city would be like? As it relates to affordability: it’s not just about keeping things cheap. If you’ve watched the things we’ve championed in office, I’ve fought to ensure things like the minimum wage are increased, whenever and wherever I can impart that at a city rule, $11 an hour is the minimum. I’ve also begun a study this year that says, what is the new living wage for Austin? Because the living wage of $11 an hour started in 2003 when I was president of the Austin firefighters, so we’re basing today’s living wage on a 10 year old study. We need a new study that says, what is the new living wage for an Austinite today? Is it 13, 14, 15 dollars an hour? Because that’s going to impact affordability. That’s going to help those folks that are out there struggling to make ends meet have a little bit more of an opportunity.
MM: There’s a couple of things, I want Lamar as well. The Federal government just gave us $38 million for Bus Rapid Transit in the Lamar corridor. We have to take those precious dollars and use them wisely. If we were to started a conversation to plan now rail on a corridor where they just gave us $38 million, conventional wisdom was we would not qualify for federal matching grants because we misspent their $38 million by putting BRT and immediately going for rail along the same corridor. The other issue with the alignment has to do with a study on future growth and where that growth will occur. As you see the Airport boulevard corridor transition, as Highland mall transitions, we know exponentially that that is where future growth is going to be. Density already exists on the Lamar/Guadalupe corridor. Density is here on West Campus. We know that if we stuck a rail line on that corridor, it would be wildly successful. But we just put BRT there, and we had to pick an alignment that makes us the most competitive we can be for receiving that federal match.
DT: You’re familiar with the contention about the chosen rail route. A lot of people want the Lamar, Guadalupe corridor. Why is the Central, Eastside corridor the right choice?
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DT: How certain are you that you’re going to get matching funds for the corridor that’s being proposed? MM: We’re not. We’re certain based on what we know, what we’ve been told by FTA to make ourselves as competitive as possible. The assurances that we’re giving you all, the voters, the bond covenant, which is the legal binding agreement between the city and the citizens, the bond covenant will explicitly state if we do not receive a one to one match, we will not spend a penny of your taxpayer dollars on urban rail.
MM: Like many UT students, I came here
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to make a better life for myself and I fell in love with the city. Unlike many UT students I didn’t have the same opportunities. I wasn’t raised in a family that had the financial means to support me through college, so I started attending UT at the age of 40 because it’s a personal goal. I’ve lived two dreams of a lifetime: I got to be a firefighter; I got to be a Council Member. I have a beautiful family, two boys. I don’t necessarily need to finish but I want to because it’s that important to me. It’s important to set an example for my boys. So I guess the commonalities between us, we’re trying to make better lives for ourselves. Get a better education. Love the city that we’re in and be a part of it. Most UT students fall in love with Austin and don’t leave.
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Wage increase will stifle ‘miracle’ Don’t miss opportunity to hear
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Dr. Rick Hodes, a doctor for the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, has diagnosed and found funding and surgeons for many sick Ethiopians. Guillermo Hernandez | Daily Texan File Photo
State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, begins her filibuster of Senate Bill 5, a measure that would enact severe restrictions on abortions in Texas on June 25, 2013.
By David Davis Jr. Associate Editor @daveedalon
Editor’s Note: This is the second in a series of columns by Davis about conservatism on campus. Those who identify with the right wing of the political spectrum are often associated with the image of the “bad guy” — the evil, clever insider who abuses government to protect his friends, his money, his guns and his traditional values. But conservatives, especially in Texas, don’t break a sweat when it comes to discussing jobs and the economy. With Republicans controlling the Texas government, the case for conservative fiscal policy makes itself; no one can deny the “Texas Miracle” phenomenon of economic growth for which quintessentially conservative ideals of low taxes and decreased government regulation are supposedly responsible. Unfortunately, the lack of synergy among fiscal conservatives and social progressives in Texas leaves independent voters with a difficult decision to make in November. Over the course of the gubernatorial election campaigns, both candidates have expressed interest in continuing the successful legacy of the Texas economy, but the economic plan proffered by state Sen. Wendy Davis is not tenable, and conservative fiscal policy, though flawed, makes the most sense for our state. It would be nice if the “Texas Miracle” were the result of growth of high-paying jobs across
the state, but the reality is that this miracle is mainly sustained by low-wage jobs. And although the hope among all is not to have to scramble for a minimum wage job, the reality is that many people have to, or at least do their best to, support their families on $7.25 an hour. The solution to this problem, however, is not to simply increase the minimum wage. Instead, the state fiscal policy should focus on attracting more companies to Texas. Davis, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate, has proposed a minimum wage increase of $10 per hour, which would immediately help many Texans living below the poverty line. Unfortunately, common sense shows that such an immediate increase has clearly negative consequences for the same workers the increase should be helping. If employers’ costs increase immediately, this would force them to decrease the number of people they employ in order to minimize costs and maximize their profits. Increasing the minimum wage could possibly derail the “Texas Miracle” in the long term. Conversely, conservatives and liberals alike should consider the moral implications of sustaining this so-called miracle. Should we pride ourselves on the fact that our economy is growing because an obscene number of grown adults are earning minimum wage, whether it be $7.25 or $10 per hour? Perhaps both gubernatorial candidates should consider the answer to that question when developing state fiscal policy. But for now, the state should continue implementing conservative fiscal policy because I’m certain that to a man trying to support his family, a minimum wage job is better than none at all. Davis is an international relations and French junior from Houston.
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By Elan Kogutt Guest Columnist
Dr. Rick Hodes, a CNN Hero and the subject of the HBO documentary, “Making the Crooked Straight”, will be speaking at Texas Hillel (at the northeast corner of 21st and San Antonio streets) at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Hodes, an American doctor who has lived and worked in Africa for over 25 years, is the medical director of Ethiopia for the international nonprofit American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. After training in internal medicine at Johns Hopkins, Dr. Rick, as Ethiopians call him, went to Ethiopia as a relief worker during the 1984 famine and has been there ever since. He has worked with refugees in Rwanda, Zaire, Tanzania, Somalia and Albania. Currently, he is the senior consultant at a Mother Teresa’s Catholic mission helping the impoverished and sick with heart disease, spine disease and cancer. This past summer I had the opportunity to travel to Ethiopia when Liberal Arts Honors awarded me a “Wise Wanderer Scholarship.” There I witnessed Hodes’ amazing work. As I stood in the examination room at the Cure Hospital in Addis Ababa, I was struck with awe while watching Hodes examine patient after
Dr. Rick, as Ethiopians call him, went to Ethiopia as a relief worker during the 1984 famine and has been there ever since. He has worked with refugees in Rwanda, Zaire, Tanzania, Somalia and Albania.
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patient with severe spine and heart disease. The line was endless and in only one day we examined over 70 patients — twice the number of patients a doctor in the U.S. would see, all presenting some of the worst spinal cases an American doctor would see in his lifetime. With such limited access to health care in Ethiopia — one doctor for every 10,000 Ethiopians — and with him personally running the only spine clinic in the country, Hodes feels it is his duty to work at every waking moment. Without any arrogance, he said to me, “If I didn’t help them — all these people (his constant influx of patients) would die.” Hodes works at three different clinics seeing patients for free, sometimes even giving money from his own pocket to pay for expenses such as the patients’ bus fare so they can continue to visit. In a typical day he will see anywhere between 50 and 90 patients, diagnosing a vast variety of illnesses simple and complex. Above all, he is known for helping young people with diseases of the spine, which devastate East African countries. Hodes goes above and beyond to care for his patients, even opening his home for people recovering from surgery and providing them with food and shelter. Hodes works tirelessly to find and diagnose Ethiopians and match them with funding, surgeons and facilities to undergo surgery. When I was there I witnessed the process from start to finish, from patients timidly coming in to meet Hodes and going through intensive medical tests to flying from Addis Ababa to Accra, Ghana, where they would receive life-saving surgeries. As all of the patients stood side by side, I felt as though I could make out a word from the twisted spines. I was incredibly inspired by Hodes; he combines a love for others with practical application. Please do not miss the rare opportunity to hear him speak at UT. Kogutt is a psychology and liberal arts honors junior from Dallas.
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UT professor studies marine current shift By Chris Mendez @thedailytexan
While conducting research along the California coast, Bryan Black, marine science assistant professor, discovered instability among the Californian marine life. Birds and fish native to that region rely heavily on upwelling, or the movement of nutrient-rich water to the ocean’s surface, according to Black. During the winter, however, low occurrences of upwelling resulted in low food supplies and low reproductive success among birds and fish. “The birds and fish were synchronized with one another,” Black said. “They were both responding to the winter environment.” Through Black’s study, the Californian currents have become further understood as highly fluctuating because of the ecosystem’s variability. “Right now, we’re in a highly variable time,” Black said. “It’s stressful on the ecosystem.” Black’s investigation used professors from other universities who each brought different skill sets to the research. In particular, David Stahle, a geosciences professor at the University of
Arkansas, directed the collection of tree ring data from California’s blue oak trees to better understand the region’s ecological history. “[Blue oak trees] can live for more than 500 years, and their ring width time series are exceptionally valuable proxies of precipitation and large-scale climate history,” Stahle said. By collecting this data, Black and his colleagues traced the origins of the current’s high variability back to 1950. Other collaborators, such as Ryan Rykaczewski, a marine science program and biological sciences assistant professor at the University of South Carolina, linked the unsteadiness in California’s currents to the El Niño pattern. “The impacts associated with El Niño events are known to lead to reduced productivity at many trophic levels in the California Current, and the frequency of these El Niño events have been especially high since 1950,” Rykaczewski said. Although the El Niño climate pattern has been attributed to the low occurrence of upwelling during the winter, Black hasn’t claimed global climate change as a factor affecting these upwelling patterns or the variability of the coast’s climate.
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Bryan Black, marine science assistant professor, found that low upwelling occurances in the California Current impacted the reproductive success of birds.
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Stephaine Perrone (left), project manager of the Energy & Water Conservation Program, speaks to UT staff members at the solar panel charging station launch party Friday.
Groups introduce solar power to UT By Ariana Guerra @thedailytexan
Three organizations hosted a party Friday to promote their latest innovation: solar panel charging stations on campus. At the party, the UT Green Fee Committee, Science Undergraduate Research Group and Sol Design Lab celebrated the installation of two solar charging stations intended to promote a greener environment on the University campus. According to Megan Archer, environmental science senior and Green Fee Committee student assistant, the project’s main goal is to inspire conversations about renewable energy, starting with the solar-powered charging station. Both charging stations, which were installed in June, provide 12 110-volt electrical outlets, six USB
charging ports and Wi-Fi. “This solar panel, for example, will still work and provide electricity if there is a blackout. That’s why solar itself is so important. We want to spark environmental initiative.” In 2011, Archer collaborated on the project with Beth Ferguson, founder of Sol Design Lab. Ferguson, who graduated from the University with a master’s in design, first thought of the idea when she was a student. “The idea of solar panel charging stations became my thesis project when I bought an electric scooter and had no place to charge it,” Ferguson said. “That was back in 2008.” Ferguson provided the solar charging stations from her lab in San Francisco, but throughout every step of the process, UT students from different departments were involved in learning how to
The idea of solar panel charging stations became my thesis project when I bought an electric scooter and had no place to charge it. —Beth Ferguson, Founder of Sol Design Lab
design with solar and fabrication model making. “Basically there is a charge controller that acts as the ‘brain’ and is connected to solar panel and battery,” Ferguson said. “Then, the battery is connected to the inverter, and the inverter is connected to the outlet, which provides the DC power.” The two stations are located near the PerryCastañeda Library and the Art Building and Museum. At Friday’s party, which was held at the station near the Art Building and Museum, chemical engineering junior Eddie Zhan
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Texas bests long-time rival Nebraska We challenged them pretty strongly in the locker room between games two and three, and I felt like we slowly got better as the match went on.
By Jacob Martella @ViewFromTheBox
Texas expected a tough battle against former Big 12 volleyball rival Nebraska over the weekend, and it certainly got one. The Longhorns needed five sets Saturday for the first time this season to pull out a 3-2 win over Nebraska. Senior outside hitter Haley Eckerman, Amy Neal, junior libero and outside hitter, and Khat Bell, senior middle blocker and outside hitter, all recorded double-digit kills. “We had a hard time finding our rhythm today,” head coach Jerritt Elliott said. “Nebraska played well, but we just couldn’t get our offensive system going, and we made a lot of errors that we haven’t been making.” The battle started early on in the first set of the match for Texas. Neither side led by more than two points, with 13 ties throughout the set. However, Texas managed to close the set out 25-23 on a 5-2 run behind two kills each from Eckerman and Neal. “We were fortunate to pull out game number one or else this could have been a different match,”
Longhorns didn’t let the Cornhuskers’ run take over the match. Instead, they executed a 7-1 run to win the set 25-19. In the fourth set, Texas found itself in a favorable position to close out the match, leading 14-11. But when Nebraska pulled off a 9-2 run, including seven straight points, to take a 20-15 lead, the Longhorns couldn’t rebound. Eckerman’s three kills elevated the Longhorns to a 23-22 lead, but a late 3-0 run gave the set to the Cornhuskers. In contrast to the first four sets, Texas dominated the fifth set much more smoothly. The Longhorns jumped out to a 10-6 lead and closed with a 5-2 run to take the win. Elliott said the team finally found its rhythm in the last set. “We stayed a little more consistent, and I thought [Nebraska] started making some more errors and gave us some opportunities to widen the gap there,”
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Elliott said. Momentum from the first set victory faded quickly in the second set. The Cornhuskers took an early 12-7 lead and never looked back. Although the Longhorns tied the set at 17 on a 6-2 run eventually, they were outscored 8-4 the rest of the set and fell 25-21. The environment in Lincoln, stands packed with 8,312 fans, shook some of the new players on the court, especially early in the match. “They couldn’t settle down,” Elliott said. “We challenged them pretty strongly in the locker room between games two and three, and I felt like we slowly got better as the match went on.” Texas came out of the intermission break much stronger than it had been in the second set, taking a 9-6 lead before Nebraska fought back to a slim 1311 go-ahead. However, unlike the second set, the
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Elliott said. “When you are a good blocking team and you play good defense, you can wear your opponent down.” The victory marks Texas’ second win against a ranked opponent on the road this season. Eckerman led the Longhorns with 20 kills, while Neal posted a career day with 15 kills and 15 digs. The Longhorns open up conference play We d n e s d a y on the road against West Virginia.
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Longhorns fall to UCLA, rebound vs. Texas State By Daniel Clay @dclay56
It’s clear from the box score that the Longhorns lost their third game in a row 1-0 against No. 1 UCLA on Friday. That being said, Texas gave the defending national champion its best challenge of the season thus far, and a 2-0 win on Sunday over Texas State should quell any fears of a stagnant offense. Texas’ performance against collegiate elite showed this team has the necessary attributes to make a run in the postseason. “If that’s the number one team in the country, I’m really excited about where we are,” head coach Angela Kelly said. “We’re just going to crank up the tempo, crank up the heat and continue to move forward.” As soon as the Longhorns kicked off to start the game, UCLA stole the ball away and hoverd dangerously around the Texas goal. The Longhorn defenders sprinted around the field to pressure the Bruins, but less than three minutes into regulation, Bruin senior midfielder Sam Mewis received a line drive cross right in front of
the Texas net and tapped it in to take an early lead. The Longhorns’ tight press defense continued after conceding the goal, but the offense failed to harness Texas’ energy and hustle. The Longhorns charged forward when they gained possession, but when they rushed the followup passes, UCLA defenders positioned themselves to regain possession. “We were intercepting passes in the first half, and we weren’t having the confidence on the ball to execute a second pass,” Kelly said. “Now we just have to have composure in the mid to the attacking third with the final pass.” The Texas offense settled down in the second half and began stringing together passes for some extended possession. Four of the Longhorns’ five shots in the game came in the second half, as did all three of their shots on goal. Three shots on goal may seem like a disappointing total, but that is the highest total that the smothering UCLA defense had allowed on the season since Pepperdine managed two shots on goal.
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Senior midfielder Sharis Lachapelle slid for a shot against No. 1 UCLA on Friday night with 24 minutes remaining. Lachapelle missed her shot, leaving Texas scoreless in the 1-0 loss.
The Longhorns’ best chance of the night came with 24 minutes remaining, when senior midfielder Sharis Lachapelle slid to meet a cross with only the goalie between her and pay dirt. The shot, however, popped up harmlessly for an easy save by UCLA senior keeper Katelyn Rowland. The Bruins had a flurry of
shots to end the game, but a diving save by junior keeper Abby Smith and high pressure from the Texas defenders held the Bruins scoreless for 87 minutes after their initial goal. “We kept them in front and besides that one opportunity, I think we did well,” Smith said. “We created a new standard for ourselves.”
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MEN’S TENNIS | BY JASMINE C. JOHNSON
Texas swept the competition for the second consecutive time on Friday night at the UTSA Ricardo Romo Classic. Both the men’s and women’s teams boasted first-place finishes in their races, along with a handful of runners cracking the top 10. In the men’s 5,000-meter race, it was sophomore Robert Uhr who led the pack to the finish, followed by freshmen Jacob Pickle and Zach Hamstra, creating a 1-2-3 finish for the team. On the women’s end, Arkansas transfer Sandie Raines lived up to her reputation, finishing five seconds ahead of the second-place runner to win an individual title and position the squad well for a team victory. Freshman Samantha Young, sophomore Mary Beth Hamilton, freshman Kendra Melendez and junior Marissa Pekarek finished fourth through seventh, respectively, to round out the
The men’s tennis team split its squad between events in Louisiana and California over the weekend and racked up 14 wins. Sophomore George Goldhoff, senior Adrien Berkowicz, freshman John Mee and junior Michael Riechmann represented the Longhorns at the Cajun Tennis Classic in Lafayette, Louisiana, while seniors Søren Hess-Olesen, Lloyd Glasspool, Jacoby Lewis and junior Nick Naumann competed in the Porsche Napa Valley Tennis Classic in St. Helena, California. The team started off strong in Lafayette with Mee upsetting No. 57 sophomore Jordan Daigle of LSU (6-3, 7-6) and Goldhoff defeating TCU senior Will Stein in three sets (6-3, 6-7, 6-1). In the quarterfinals, Mee defeated Oklahoma State sophomore Lucas Gerch (6-4, 6-4), but Goldhoff, Riechmann and Berkowicz landed in the consolation
scoring for the women. Texas’ underclassmen dominated the race, which is a good sign for the difficult stretch of the season approaching. “We really controlled the race with confidence,” said Brad Herbster, assistant coach for distance and cross country. “The men and women both got out front and took control of the race early, which was nice to see. Now we get into what I call the regular season next week. All the races from here on are important, and we have got to continue to perform well like we did today.” The “regular season” commences this weekend in Minnesota at the Roy Griak Invitational, the first race that will pit the nation’s topranked teams against the Longhorns. The matchup will give a more accurate litmus test than this weekend’s race as to how the team will fare in the rest of the season’s more competitive races.
round. Goldhoff advanced furthest in the consolation bracket, defeating Daigle (64, 6-4) and LSU junior Tam Trinh (6-1, retired) to set up a rematch against Stein in the finals. Stein advanced in a walkover. In doubles play, Berkowicz and Goldhoff fell 8-6 to the Louisiana-Lafayette duo of redshirt senior Damian Farinola and junior Edgar Lopez. Mee and Riechmann picked up two wins before falling to LSU’s junior tandem of Andrew Korinek and Trinh, 3-6, 7-6 (7-5), 1-0 (6-4), in the semifinals. In St. Helena, the Longhorns struggled throughout, as all four Longhorns dropped their initial sets. Two-time all-American Hess-Olesen, who advanced to the finals of the 2012 Napa Valley Classic, broke the losing streak with a win over No. 63 senior John Morrissey of Stanford (6-1, 6-3). No. 5 Hess-Olesen then
The Longhorns lived up to that new standard Sunday when they defeated Texas State 2-0. Lachapelle and sophomore forward Jasmine Hart provided the scoring and helped Texas unleash 26 shots, including 11 on goal. Texas’ next action comes Friday at 7 p.m. in the Big 12 opener at home against Texas Tech.
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downed No. 23 freshman Ronnie Schneider of North Carolina (6-1, 6-2) to advance to the shootout round, but freshman Sebastian Beltrame of Harvard cut Hess-Olesen’s run short with a 1-0 match. The Longhorns found more success in doubles play against Stanford as Hess-Olesen and Naumann defeated the duo of junior Maciek Ranowicz and Morrissey 8-5. The Longhorns return to action next weekend at the ITA All-American Championship in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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SPORTS BRIEFLY Texas lands 14 on 2015 Special Olympics World Games teams
When the 2015 Special Olympics World Games hit Los Angeles in July, Texas will be well-represented. Team USA features 22 Texas participants, including 14 athletes, four head coaches and two coaches. The bulk of Texas’ competitors will face off on the basketball court, as nine members of the Richardson Roadrunners’ women’s basketball team will enter the events. Other Texas athletes will compete in distance running, kayaking and sailing. The 2015 Special Olympics World Games will welcome 7,000 athletes and 3,000 coaches representing 177 countries. Event coordinators anticipate 500,000 spectators, making it the largest sports and humanitarian event in the world in 2015. ESPN will broadcast the event. —Jori Epstein
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Dancer unifies tech, art with app By Brigit Benestante @BBenestante
Morgan Edgerton is the girl dancing to hip-hop music in the studio across the hall. She is the music blasting through radio speakers on Monday nights. She is the brains behind the design of a student-run website. Edgerton’s passion for dance, art and technology has taken her just about everywhere on the UT campus. Edgerton, a computer science junior, is involved in a multitude of dance programs around Austin. She taught a hip-hop class at TRU Dance Project in North Austin last summer and currently dances with the UT-founded iGotSole company. Edgerton, who started ballet training at age three, dances on a weekly basis with iGotSole. “I did a music video with iGotSole last year and will be in one coming up,” Edgerton said. “That’s one thing I’d love to do in the future — is to be in music videos and keep dancing.” UT alumnus Jonathon “JT” Thomas is the founder of iGotSole and dances with Edgerton in rehearsals. He said she has brought a sense of hard work and enthusiasm to the company. “Morgan is one of my dancers that just commits 100 percent to everything,” Thomas said. “She’s very
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Computer science junior Morgan Edgerton learns a new routine during a dance rehearsal at the Student Activity Center on Saturday afternoon. In addition to dancing, Edgerton has developed an interest in web design and is currently involved with the startup Choreo, a phone app designed for dancers.
supportive when it comes to any of the concepts when we’re working on the production. She’s a great student, and she knows how to take criticism correctly.” Thomas also said Edgerton’s talent is evident during rehearsal. “As far as being a dancer, she is phenomenal,” Thomas said. “She has a style that nobody else in the company necessarily has. She knows how to infuse her personality into dancing, and she doesn’t stop trying until she gets it right.”
Edgerton also hosts a radio show with her boyfriend on KVRX every Monday at 10 p.m. called “The Cat’s Pajamas,” which they’ve done for two years. Edgerton plays funk music on the show, and her boyfriend plays electronic music. “[Radio] is definitely a hobby. It’s something I never thought I would do, but it’s just one of those things that the campus offered, and I had to try it,” Edgerton said. Edgerton is also involved with web design. Unlike her
love of dance, she said she didn’t discover her interest in technology until she got to college. “I have always been interested in art and dance,” Edgerton said. “When I started college is when I found technology and how much I loved technology. Throughout college I’ve been joining activities in both of those areas — dance and technology.” She is currently working on web design for a new student-run magazine, “Middle Class White Girls,” and is a
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Documentary brings together ‘Austin Six’ @mkcant
Project ATX6 began on a whim. Six singer-songwriters and Chris Brecht, an Austin-based documentary filmmaker and Project ATX6 producer, set off from Austin to perform music and share their stories in Toronto at the North by Northeast Music Festival. This experience is the first episode in a series of six episodes that will document the artists’ travels to various festivals across the globe. The six artists Brecht chose to feature in the documentaries are Dana Falconberry, Mrs. Glass, Aisha Burns, Leo Rondeau, Carson McHone and Jesse Moore. This group of artists, or the “Austin Six,” knew little of each other before the beginning of this project. Some of the artists are members of well-established local bands, such as Burns of Balmorhea and Moore of East Cameron Folkcore, but Brecht showcases each of the
Choreo is a very strong group, and I can see they are doing all the right things to solidify their idea.” Edgerton said she cofounded the app after noticing there was not a social platform geared toward dancers. “It’s a social networking platform as well as a lot of tools dancers need,” Edgerton said. “I’ve been wanting to find a way to combine those things. I am finding a way to combine art and technology.”
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certain energy that neither of us had ever felt when we were working alone before, and we wanted to bring that to other people.” Kassam and Clancy often ask their artist friends to contribute to the website, but they also receive submissions from people who have discovered Red Throat House on their own. “People will submit individual poems to us or individual stories or just ideas, and we will pair them with other artists with the intention of having them produce something more integrative,” Clancy said. Kassam’s friend Daniel Regueira, a photojournalism senior, was given a poem and asked to take a picture to go along with it for Red Throat House. Regueira said that after working to figure out the perfect photo to pair with the poem, his appreciation for poetry deepened. “Obviously, when you’re exposed to something, you have a little bit more of an appreciation for it,” Regueira said. “I was not only exposed to it, but I had to digest it and come up with something based on it. When you do that, it totally helps you understand the medium.”
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Project ATX6 documents six Austin singersongwriters as they travel the world.
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part of the startup Choreo, a phone app designed for dancers and dance enthusiasts. Choreo, which is set to launch in November, is one of the startups in this year’s Longhorn Startup Lab. Ben Dyer, the program’s entrepreneur in-residence, is a mentor for Morgan and her group. “Morgan and her team came highly recommended to me back in August by another one of our students,” Dyer said. “I encouraged her to apply for [the program].
artists in solo performances. “The solo performance is most revealing of their character,” Brecht said. “It has to be a very naked feeling. I know because I performed solo myself for a very long time.” Project ATX6 is funded partially by the Austin Music Office, a music marketing company, and local music venues. So far, the group has performed in Toronto and Germany, at North by Northeast and Reeperbahn Festival, respectively. Brecht plans to bring them to Denmark, Iceland and other locations in the upcoming year. R adio-television-film sophomore Lara Ksiazek assists in filming Project ATX6. Ksiazek said, as an aspiring documentary filmmaker, she has learned how to shoot artist footage from Brecht. “His style is like a documentary style but even more raw than that,” Ksiazek said. “It’s a raw style with shaky and smooth shots.” Falconberry has lived in Austin for 10 years and has
It really brings to light the idea that there are many ways to tour and get your music out there. It doesn’t have to be the traditional model, and, in fact, that doesn’t even really exist anymore. —Dana Falconberry, Musician
established herself as a wellknown local artist, playing at South by Southwest last year. “It really brings to light the idea that there are many ways to tour and get your music out there.” Falconberry said. “It doesn’t have to be the traditional model, and, in fact, that doesn’t even really exist anymore.” Falconberry said the behind-the-scenes work of the music scene often goes unrecognized. “It’s always so different than it looks on the surface,” Falconberry said. “You can’t see the struggle and hardship behind the tour posters and event posts, and I think that shouldn’t be hidden
because it is very real.” Brecht hopes the series shows insight into the lives and struggles of these six artists. The first episode is on the project’s website, projectatx6.com. The second episode’s release date has not been determined. “[It offers] transparency into what it means to be an musician in Austin who puts it all on the line,” Brecht said. “I want to create something that benefits these independent artists on a level that is hard for them to reach on their own. As a group performing and traveling together, they bring in a widespread interest into the project.”
Clancy and philosophy senior Amyn Kassam were first inspired to create Red Throat House after collaborating on an e-book that combined Clancy’s poems with Kassam’s photography. With the e-book, Clancy said he felt his work would become more accessible to potential readers who are more likely to be drawn in by pictures than by writing. “We’re really interested in whether [collaboration] creates tension between the two media or whether they compliment each other nicely,” Clancy said. “We’re really interested in the idea that by having people mix genres of media, it presses the boundaries of both of those things.” Kassam said when they finished the book, Clancy had the idea of creating an online place for other people to collaborate the way they had. “We don’t like the idea that artists are solitary creatures, who write in their bedrooms and drink coffee and are lonely,” Clancy said. “When Amyn and I were initially working together on that poem book, we felt a
MULTIMEDIA UT houses more than 1,200 student-run organizations. Among that 1,200 is one you have probably never heard of: Longhorn Lockpicking. They seem to like it that way. Check out our video on the organization at www.dailytexanonline.com.